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
Jan Doležal (athlete) Jan Doležal (athlete) Jan Doležal (born 6 June 1996) is a Czech track and field athlete who competes in the decathlon. He represented his country at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in 2018. Born in Třebechovice pod Orebem, he competed in athletics from a young age and was the bronze medallist at the 2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics in the octathlon. He moved up to the decathlon at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Athletics, then took a gold medal in that event at the 2015 European Athletics Junior Championships. He won his first senior national title in the