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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Anatoliy Piskulin |  Soviet Union | 16.16 | 15.58 | 16.82 | 16.22 | 16.34 | 16.64 | 16.82 | |
 | Keith Connor |  Great Britain | 16.53 | |||||||
 | 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 |