1978 UK Athletics Championships below also competed at the 1978 AAA Championships. Sonia Lannaman defended her 100 metres/200 metres sprint double from 1977. Allan Wells took his first sprint double on the men's side and Jane Colebrook managed a double in the 400 metres and 800 metres. Athletes to retain their titles from 1977 included Lannaman, sprint hurdlers Berwyn Price and Sharon Colyear, Geoff Capes (men's shot put), Meg Ritchie (women's discus) and Tessa Sanderson (women's javelin). The main international track and field competition for the United Kingdom that year was the 1978 European Athletics Championships. Two athletes at the UK event won individual
André Theuriet (athlete) André Theuriet (athlete) André Armand Godefroy Theuriet (30 March 1887 – 21 March 1965) was a French athlete and grandson of the novelist André Theuriet. He competed nationally in a wide range of sports, and internationally in swimming and rugby. In swimming he failed to reach the final of the 1500 m freestyle event at the 1908 Summer Olympics. In rugby he played five international matches as a scrum-half between 1909 and 1913. Nationally Theuriet competed in motorcycling, shooting, walking, boxing, football, cycling, running, field hockey and water polo. He won the national university titles in running, 5000 m and