1998 European Athletics Championships

17th European Athletics Championships
Dates	18–23 August 1998
Host city	Budapest, Hungary
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	46
Participation	44 nations
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The 17th European Athletics Championships were held from 18 August to 23 August 1998 in Budapest, the capital city of Hungary.

Men's results

Track

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Darren Campbell Great Britain	10.04	Dwain Chambers Great Britain	10.10	Haralabos Papadias Greece	10.17
200 m	Douglas Walker Great Britain	20.53	Douglas Turner Great Britain	20.64	Julian Golding Great Britain	20.72
400 m	Iwan Thomas Great Britain	44.52	Robert Maćkowiak Poland	45.04	Mark Richardson Great Britain	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 Estévez Spain	3:41.31	Rui Silva Portugal	3:41.84	Fermín 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 metres hurdles	Colin Jackson Great Britain	13.02	Falk Balzer Germany	13.12	Robin Korving Netherlands	13.20
400 metres hurdles	Paweł Januszewski Poland	48.18	Ruslan Mashchenko Russia	48.25	Fabrizio Mori Italy	48.71
3000 metres steeplechase	Damian Kallabis Germany	8:13.10	Alessandro Lambruschini Italy	8:16.70	Jim Svenøy Norway	8:18.97
20 kilometres walk	Ilya Markov Russia	1:21:10	Aigars Fadejevs Latvia	1:21:29	Paquillo Fernández Spain	1:21:39
50 kilometres walk	Robert Korzeniowski Poland	3:43:51	Valentin Kononen Finland	3:44:29	Andrey Plotnikov Russia	3:45:53
4 × 100 metres relay	Allyn Condon Darren Campbell Douglas Walker Julian Golding Great Britain	38.52	Thierry Lubin Frédéric Krantz Christophe Cheval Needy Guims France	38.87	Marcin Krzywański Marcin Nowak Piotr Balcerzak Ryszard Pilarczyk Poland	38.98
4 × 400 metres relay	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 David Canal Spain	3:02.47

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 Ţăruş Romania	8.21	Petar 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 throw	Lars Riedel Germany	67.07	Jürgen Schult Germany	66.69	Virgilijus Alekna Lithuania	66.46
Javelin throw	Steve Backley Great Britain	89.72	Mick Hill Great Britain	86.92	Raymond Hecht Germany	86.63
Hammer throw	Tibor Gécsek Hungary	82.87	Balázs Kiss Hungary	81.26	Karsten Kobs Germany	80.13
Decathlon	Erki Nool Estonia	8667	Eduard Hämäläinen Finland	8587	Lev Lobodin Russia	8571

Women's results

Track

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

Field

1990 |1994 |1998 |2002 |2006 |

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

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Hungary)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain	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	Hungary*	1	1	0	2
12	Bulgaria	1	0	3	4
13	Greece	1	0	2	3
14	Estonia	1	0	0	1
15	Czech Republic	0	2	1	3
	Finland	0	2	1	3
17	Switzerland	0	1	1	2
18	Latvia	0	1	0	1
	Slovenia	0	1	0	1
	Sweden	0	1	0	1
21	Belarus	0	0	2	2
22	Austria	0	0	1	1
	Lithuania	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
	Norway	0	0	1	1
Totals (25 nations)		44	46	45	135

See also

• 1998 in athletics (track and field)

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

References

• Athletix