1998 European Athletics Championships

17th European Athletics Championships
Dates	18–23 August
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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

  *   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	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
	Finland	0	2	1	3
18	Switzerland	0	1	1	2
19	Latvia	0	1	0	1
	Slovenia	0	1	0	1
	Sweden	0	1	0	1
22	Belarus	0	0	2	2
23	Austria	0	0	1	1
	Lithuania	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
	Norway	0	0	1	1
Totals (26 entries)		46	46	46	138

• 1998 in athletics (track and field)

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

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