{{Short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is already sufficiently detailed; see [[WP:SDNONE]] --> The 1st [[European Acrobatics Championships]] was held in [[Riga]], [[Latvia SSR]], [[Soviet Union]] 19–21 May 1978.<ref>[http://www.sportwales.org.uk/media/1054240/history_of_sport_acrobatics.pdf Gymnastics Wales]</ref>
Only five countries competed: [[Soviet Union]], [[Poland]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Great Britain]] and [[Hungary]].<ref name = results>[https://www.sportsacrobatics.info/results/1978EuCh.pdf Results]</ref>
==Results== <ref name = results /> {| {{MedalistTable|type=Event}} |- bgcolor="DFDFDF" | colspan="4" align="center"| '''Men''' |- |Men's Jumps |{{flagathlete|[[Vadim Bindler]]|URS|1955}} |{{flagathlete|[[Plamon Yevtimov]]|BUL|1971}} |{{flagathlete|[[Andrzej Garstka]]|POL}} |- |Men's Pairs |{{flag|Soviet Union|1955}}<br /><small>[[Vladimir Alimanov]]<br />[[Vladimir Nazarov (gymnast)|Vladimir Nazarov]]</small> |{{flag|Bulgaria|1971}}<br /><small>[[Dimitr Rusanov]]<br />[[Petko Petkov (gymnast)|Petko Petkov]]</small> |{{POL}}<br /><small>[[Adam Klisz]]<br />[[Krzysztof Olendrziski]]</small> |- |Men's Groups |{{flag|Soviet Union|1955}}<br /><small>[[Yuri Derepo]]<br />[[Yuri Koshuba]]<br />[[Nikolai Artemchik]]<br />[[Vladimir Malyutin]]</small> |{{POL}}<br /><small>[[Slavomir Halada]]<br />[[Bogdan Zając (gymnast)|Bogdan Zając]]<br />[[Woitech Swiecik]]<br />[[Leszek Antonowicz]]</small> |{{flag|Bulgaria|1971}}<br /><small>[[Dimitr Dimitrov]]<br />[[Vicho Kolev]]<br />[[Emil Angelov (gymnast)|Emil Angelov]]<br />[[Yuri Indzhov]]</small> |- |- bgcolor="DFDFDF" | colspan="4" align="center"| '''Women''' |- |Women's Jumps |{{flagathlete|[[Valentina Chuhareva]]|URS|1955}} |{{flagathlete|[[Grazyna Kosmola]]|POL}} |{{flagathlete|[[Ludmila Tsyganova]]|URS|1955}} |- |Women's Pairs |{{flag|Soviet Union|1955}}<br /><small>[[Nadezhda Tishchenko]]<br />[[Margarita Kuharenko]]</small> |{{POL}}<br /><small>[[Ewa Anderszewska]]<br />[[Ewa Rucka]]</small> |{{flag|Bulgaria|1971}}<br /><small>[[Stefka Gencheva]]<br />[[Tanya Hristova]]</small> |- |Women's Groups |{{flag|Soviet Union|1955}}<br /><small>[[Tatyana Isayenko]]<br />[[Galina Korchemnaya]]<br />[[Galina Udodova]]</small> |{{POL}}<br /><small>[[Agata Ostrovska]]<br />[[Beata Borowec]]<br />[[Alicia Lah]]</small> |{{flag|Bulgaria|1971}}<br /><small>[[Maria Dimitrova (gymnast)|Maria Dimitrova]]<br />[[Bonka Yencheva]]<br />[[Valentina Staneva]]</small> |- |- bgcolor="DFDFDF" | colspan="4" align="center"| '''Mixed''' |- |Mixed Pairs |{{flag|Soviet Union|1955}}<br /><small>[[Tatyana Krivtsova]]<br />[[Vyacheslav Kuznetsov (gymnast)|Vyacheslav Kuznetsov]]</small> |{{POL}}<br /><small>[[Maria Noga]]<br />[[Josef Radon]]</small> |{{flag|Bulgaria|1971}}<br /><small>[[Cvetomira Yordanova]]<br />[[Emil Kristev (gymnast)|Emil Kristev]]</small> |- |}
=== Medal table === {{Medals table | caption = | host = | flag_template = Flagcountry | event = | team = | gold_URS = 7 | silver_URS = 0 | bronze_URS = 1 | name_URS = {{flagteam|URS|1955}} | gold_POL = 0 | silver_POL = 5 | bronze_POL = 2 | gold_BUL = 0 | silver_BUL = 2 | bronze_BUL = 4 | name_BUL = {{flagteam|BUL|1971}} }}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://www.ueg.org European Union of Gymnastics]
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