The men's triple jump event at the 1978 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 12 March in Milan.[1][2][3]
Results edit
| Rank | Name | Nationality | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | Result | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Anatoliy Piskulin |  Soviet Union |
16.16 | 15.58 | 16.82 | 16.22 | 16.34 | 16.64 | 16.82 | |
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Keith Connor |  Great Britain |
16.53 | |||||||
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Aleksandr Yakovlev | Soviet Union |
16.47 | |||||||
| 4 | Carol Corbu |  Romania |
16.41 | |||||||
| 5 | Paolo Piapan |  Italy |
16.25 | |||||||
| 6 | Ramón Cid |  Spain |
16.20 | |||||||
| 7 | David Johnson | Great Britain |
16.13 | |||||||
| 8 | Janoš Hegediš |  Yugoslavia |
16.12 | |||||||
| 9 | Eugeniusz Biskupski |  Poland |
16.06 | |||||||
| 10 | Pentti Kuukasjärvi |  Finland |
15.80 | |||||||
| 11 | Gennadiy Kovtunov | Soviet Union |
15.76 | |||||||
| 12 | Georgios Kaperonis |  Greece |
15.73 | |||||||
| 13 | Temel Erbek |  Turkey |
15.20 |