1978 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The women's long jump at the 1978 European Athletics Championships was held in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, at Stadion Evžena Rošického on 29 and 30 August 1978.^[1]

Gold	Vilma Bardauskienė  Soviet Union
Silver	Angela Voigt  East Germany
Bronze	Jarmila Nygrýnová  Czechoslovakia

30 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Vilma Bardauskienė	Soviet Union	6.88
	Angela Voigt	East Germany	6.79
	Jarmila Nygrýnová	Czechoslovakia	6.69
4	Brigitte Wujak	East Germany	6.60
5	Gina Panait	Romania	6.52
6	Sue Reeve	Great Britain	6.48
7	Karin Antretter	West Germany	6.48
8	Heidemarie Wycisk	East Germany	6.44
9	Jacky Curtet	France	6.24
10	Doina Anton	Romania	6.22
11	Lidiya Gusheva	Bulgaria	6.20
12	Maroula Lambrou	Greece	6.12

29 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Vilma Bardauskienė	Soviet Union	7.09	CR, WR, Q
2	Brigitte Wujak	East Germany	6.65	Q
3	Gina Panait	Romania	6.61	Q
4	Jacky Curtet	France	6.54	Q
5	Jarmila Nygrýnová	Czechoslovakia	6.48	Q
6	Sue Reeve	Great Britain	6.47	Q
7	Karin Antretter	West Germany	6.46	Q
8	Angela Voigt	East Germany	6.44	Q
9	Heidemarie Wycisk	East Germany	6.40	Q
10	Lidiya Gusheva	Bulgaria	6.40	Q
11	Maroula Lambrou	Greece	6.31	Q
12	Doina Anton	Romania	6.31	Q
13	Lidiya Alfeyeva	Soviet Union	6.29
14	Margit Papp	Hungary	6.28
15	Teresa Marciniak	Poland	6.26
16	Susan Hearnshaw	Great Britain	6.25
17	Sandra Vlad	Romania	6.19
18	Isabella Keller	Switzerland	6.15
19	Sylvia Barlag	Netherlands	6.12
20	Anke Weigt	West Germany	6.08
21	Dorthe Rasmussen	Denmark	5.85
	Eva Šuranová	Czechoslovakia	NM

According to an unofficial count, 22 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.