1998 European Championships in Athletics

The 17th European Championships in Athletics were held from August 18 to August 23, 1998 in Budapest, the capital city of Hungary.

[edit] Men's Results

[edit] Track

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Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
100 m	Darren Campbell  United Kingdom	10.04	Dwain Chambers  United Kingdom	10.10	Charalambos Papadias  Greece	10.17
200 m	Doug Walker  United Kingdom	20.53	Doug Turner  United Kingdom	20.64	Julian Golding  United Kingdom	20.72
400 m	Iwan Thomas  United Kingdom	44.52	Robert Maćkowiak  Poland	45.04	Mark Richardson  United Kingdom	45.14
800 m	Nils Schumann  Germany	1:44.89	André Bucher  Switzerland	1:45.04	Lukáš Vydra  Czech Republic	1:45.23
1500 m	Reyes Estevez  Spain	3:41.31	Rui Silva  Portugal	3:41.84	Fermin Cacho  Spain	3:42.43
5000 m	Isaac Viciosa  Spain	13:37.46	Manuel Pancorbo  Spain	13:38.03	Mark Carroll  Ireland	13:38.15
10 000 m	António Pinto  Portugal	27:48.62	Dieter Baumann  Germany	27:56.75	Stéphane Franke  Germany	27:59.90
Marathon	Stefano Baldini  Italy	2:12:01	Danilo Goffi  Italy	2:12:11	Vincenzo Modica  Italy	2:12:53
110 m H	Colin Jackson  Great Britain	13.02	Falk Balzer  Germany	13.12	Robin Korving  Netherlands	13.20
400 m H	Paweł Januszewski  Poland	48.18	Ruslan Mashchenko  Russia	48.25	Fabrizio Mori  Italy	48.71
3000 m St.	Damian Kallabis  Germany	8:13.10	Alessandro Lambruschini  Italy	8:16.70	Jim Svenøy  Norway	8:18.97
20 km Walk	Ilya Markov  Russia	1:21:10	Aigars Fadejevs  Latvia	1:21:29	Francisco Javier Fernández  Spain	1:21:39
50 km Walk	Robert Korzeniowski  Poland	3:43:51	Valentin Kononen  Finland	3:44:29	Andrey Plotnikov  Russia	3:45:53
4 x 100 m	Allyn Condon, Darren Campbell, Doug Walker, Julian Golding  Great Britain	38.52	Thierry Lubin, Frederic Krantz, Christophe Cheval, Needy Guims  France	38.87	Marcin Krzywański, Marcin Nowak, Piotr Balcerzak, Ryszard Pilarczyk  Poland	38.98
4 x 400 m	Mark Hylton, Jamie Baulch, Iwan Thomas, Mark Richardson  Great Britain	2.58.68	Piotr Rysiukiewicz, Tomasz Czubak, Piotr Haczek, Robert Maćkowiak  Poland	2:58.88	Antonio Andres, Juan Trull, Andrés Martinez (athlete), David Canal  Spain	3:02.47

[edit] Field

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Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
High Jump	Artur Partyka  Poland	2.34	Dalton Grant  Great Britain	2.34	Sergey Klyugin  Russia	2.32
Long Jump	Kirill Sosunov  Russia	8.28	Bogdan Ţărus  Romania	8.21	Petko Dachev  Bulgaria	8.06
Pole Vault	Maksim Tarasov  Russia	5.81	Tim Lobinger  Germany	5.81	Jean Galfione  France	5.76
Triple Jump	Jonathan Edwards  Great Britain	17.99	Denis Kapustin  Russia	17.45	Rostislav Dimitrov  Bulgaria	17.26
Shot Put	Oleksandr Bagach  Ukraine	21.17	Oliver-Sven Buder  Germany	20.98	Yuriy Bilonoh  Ukraine	20.92
Discus	Lars Riedel  Germany	67.07	Jürgen Schult  Germany	66.69	Virgilijus Alekna  Lithuania	66.46
Javelin	Steve Backley  Great Britain	89.72	Mick Hill  Great Britain	86.92	Raymond Hecht  Germany	86.63
Hammer	Tibor Gecsek  Hungary	82.87	Balázs Kiss  Hungary	81.26	Karsten Kobs  Germany	80.13
Decathlon Details	Erki Nool  Estonia	8667	Eduard Hämäläinen  Finland	8587	Lev Lobodin  Russia	8571

[edit] Women's Results

[edit] Track

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Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
100 m	Christine Arron  France	10.73 ER	Irina Privalova  Russia	10.83	Ekaterini Thanou  Greece	10.87
200 m	Irina Privalova  Russia	22.62	Zhanna Pintusevich-Block  Ukraine	22.74	Melanie Paschke  Germany	22.78
400 m	Grit Breuer  Germany	49.93	Helena Fuchsová  Czech Republic	50.21	Olga Kotlyarova  Russia	50.38
800 m	Yelena Afanasyeva  Russia	1:58.50	Malin Ewerlöf  Sweden	1:59.61	Stephanie Graf  Austria	2:00.11
1500 m	Svetlana Masterkova  Russia	4:11.91	Carla Sacramento  Portugal	4:12.62	Anita Weyermann  Switzerland	4:13.06
5000 m	Sonia O'Sullivan  Ireland	15:06.50	Gabriela Szabo  Romania	15:08.31	Marta Domínguez  Spain	15:10.54
10 000 m	Sonia O'Sullivan  Ireland	31:29.33	Fernanda Ribeiro  Portugal	31:32.42	Lidia Simon  Romania	31:32.64
Marathon	Manuela Machado  Portugal	2:27:10	Madina Biktagirova  Russia	2:28:01	Maura Viceconte  Italy	2:28:31
100 m H	Svetla Dimitrova  Bulgaria	12.56	Brigita Bukovec  Slovenia	12.65	Irina Korotya  Russia	12.85
400 m H	Ionela Târlea  Romania	53.37	Tetyana Tereshchuk  Ukraine	54.07	Silvia Rieger  Germany	54.45
10 km Walk	Annarita Sidoti  Italy	42:49	Erica Alfridi  Italy	42:54	Susana Feitor  Portugal	42:55
4 X 100 m	Katia Benth, Frederique Bangue, Sylviane Felix, Christine Arron,  France	42.59	Melanie Paschke, Gabi Rockmeier, Birgit Rockmeier, Andrea Philip  Germany	42.68	Olga Ekk, Galina Maltchouguina, Natalya Voronova, Irina Privalova  Russia	42.73
4 X 400 m	Anke Feller, Uta Rohländer, Silvia Rieger, Grit Breuer,  Germany	3:23.03	Natalya Khrushchelyova, Svetlana Goncharenko, Yekaterina Bakhvalova, Olga Kotlyarova,  Russia	3:23.56	Donna Fraser, Vikki Jamison, Katharine Merry, Allison Curbishley,  Great Britain	3:25.66

[edit] Field

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Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Monica Dinescu  Romania	1.97	Donata Jancewicz  Poland	1.95	Alina Astafei  Germany	1.95
Long jump details	Heike Drechsler  Germany	7.16	Fiona May  Italy	7.11	Lyudmila Galkina  Russia	7.06
Pole vault details	Anzhela Balakhonova  Ukraine	4.31	Nicole Humbert (Rieger)  Germany	4.31	Yvonne Buschbaum  Germany	4.31
Triple jump details	Ólga Vasdéki  Greece	14.55	Šárka Kašpárková  Czech Republic	14.53	Tereza Marinova  Bulgaria	14.50
Shot put details	Vita Pavlysh  Ukraine	21.69	Irina Korzhanyenko  Russia	19.71	Yanina Karolchik  Belarus	19.23
Discus throw details	Franka Dietzsch  Germany	67.49	Natalya Sadova  Russia	66.94	Nicoleta Grasu  Romania	65.94
Javelin throw details	Tanja Damaske  Germany	69.10	Tatyana Shikolenko  Russia	66.92	Mikaela Ingberg  Finland	64.92
Hammer throw details	Mihaela Melinte  Romania	71.17	Olga Kuzenkova  Russia	69.28	Kirsten Münchow  Germany	65.61
Heptathlon details	Denise Lewis  Great Britain	6559	Urszula Wlodarczyk  Poland	6460	Natalya Sazanovich  Belarus	6410

[edit] Medals Table

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Position:	Nation:	Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:	Total:
1.	United Kingdom	9	4	3	16
2.	Germany	8	7	8	23
3.	Russia	6	9	7	22
4.	Poland	3	4	1	8
5.	Romania	3	2	2	7
6.	Ukraine	3	2	1	6
7.	Italy	2	4	3	9
8.	Portugal	2	3	1	6
9.	Spain	2	1	4	7
10.	France	2	1	1	4
11.	Ireland	2	0	1	3
12.	Hungary	1	1	0	2
13.	Bulgaria	1	0	3	4
14.	Greece	1	0	2	3
15.	Estonia	1	0	0	1
16=	Czech Republic	0	2	1	3
16=	Finland	0	2	1	3
18.	Switzerland	0	1	1	2
19=	Sweden	0	1	0	1
19=	Slovenia	0	1	0	1
19=	Latvia	0	1	0	1
22.	Belarus	0	0	2	2
23=	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
23=	Norway	0	0	1	1
23=	Austria	0	0	1	1
23=	Lithuania	0	0	1	1

[edit] Notes

Differences to competition format since the 1994 European Championships

New events added:

• Women's 5000 m replaces the 3000 m
• Women's Pole Vault
• Women's Hammer Throw

[edit] See also

• 1998 in athletics (track and field)

[edit] References

• Athletix

v • d • e 1998 EAA European Championships in Athletics in Budapest, Hungary
Men's Competition
100 m | 200 m | 400 m | 800 m | 1,500 m | 5,000 m | 10,000 m | 110 m Hurdles | 400 m Hurdles | 3,000 m Steeplechase | 4x100 m relay | 4x400 m relay | Marathon | 20 km walk | 50 km walk | Long Jump | Triple Jump | High Jump | Pole Vault | Shot Put | Hammer | Discus | Javelin | Decathlon
Women's Competition
100 m | 200 m | 400 m | 800 m | 1,500 m | 5,000 m | 10,000 m | 100 m Hurdles | 400 m Hurdles | 4x100 m relay | 4x400 m relay | 10 km walk | Marathon | Long Jump | Triple Jump | High Jump | Pole Vault | Shot Put | Discus | Javelin | Heptathlon