1997 European Cup (athletics)

International athletics championship event

1997 European Cup

Dates| 21–22 June (Super Leagues)
7–8 June (First Leagues)
28–29 June (Second Leagues)
Host city| Munich, Germany
Venue| Olympic Stadium
Level| Senior
Type| Outdoor
Events| 39

← 1996 Madrid

1998 St. Petersburg →

The 1997 European Cup was the 18th edition of the European Cup of athletics.[1]

Beginning with this edition athletes in throws and horizontal jumps were limited to only four attempts instead of the usual six. It was also the first edition to feature women's pole vault and hammer throw.

The Super League Finals were held at the Olympic Stadium in Munich, Germany.

## Super League

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Main article: 1997 European Cup Super League

Held on 21 and 22 June in Munich, Germany.[2]

### Team standings

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Men  | Pos.  | Nation  | Points

|
|

1  |  Great Britain | 118
2  |  Germany | 105
3  |  Russia | 104
4  |  Italy | 96
5  |  Spain | 78
6  |  France | 75
7  |  Norway | 72.5
8  |  Greece | 71.5
Women  | Pos.  | Nation  | Points

|
|

1  |  Russia | 127
2  |  Germany | 113
3  |  Great Britain | 86
4  |  Italy | 77
5  |  France | 77
6  |  Ukraine | 76
7  |  Romania | 72
8  |  Belarus | 55

### Results summary

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#### Men's events

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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|
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100 m
(Wind: +0.2 m/s) | Linford Christie
Great Britain | 10.04
=CR | Geir Moen
Norway | 10.18  | Andrey Fedoriv
Russia | 10.19
200 m
(Wind: +0.7 m/s) | Linford Christie
Great Britain

* * *

Georgios Panayotopoulos
Greece | 20.56  | Not awarded  | Geir Moen
Norway | 20.60
400 m | Roger Black
Great Britain | 45.63  | David Canal
Spain | 46.28  | Marco Vaccari
Italy | 46.40
800 m | Vebjørn Rodal
Norway | 1:47.54  | Nico Motchebon
Germany | 1:47.89  | Mark Sesay
Great Britain | 1:48.11
1500 m | Fermín Cacho
Spain | 3:37.79  | Gennaro Di Napoli
Italy | 3:37.81  | Vyacheslav Shabunin
Russia | 3:38.14
3000 m | Dieter Baumann
Germany | 7:41.08
CR | Manuel Pancorbo
Spain | 7:41.60  | Panagiotis Papoulias
Greece | 7:45.65
5000 m | Gennaro Di Napoli
Italy | 13:38.33  | Anacleto Jiménez
Spain | 13:39.42  | Panagiotis Papoulias
Greece | 13:40.02
3000 m steeplechase | Rob Hough
Great Britain | 8:35.03  | Alessandro Lambruschini
Italy | 8:36.15  | Vladimir Pronin
Russia | 8:36.94
110 m hurdles
(Wind: +0.2 m/s) | Florian Schwarthoff
Germany | 13.20  | Colin Jackson
Great Britain | 13.28  | Andrey Kislykh
Russia | 13.53
400 m hurdles | Fabrizio Mori
Italy | 48.93  | Stéphane Diagana
France | 49.15  | Ruslan Mashchenko
Russia | 49.74
4 × 100 m |  Italy
Nicola Asuni
Giovanni Puggioni
Angelo Cipolloni
Sandro Floris | 38.80  |  Norway
Fernando Ramirez
John Ertzgaard
Per Ivar Sivle
Geir Moen | 38.96
NR |  Great Britain
Jason Gardener
Marlon Devonish
Doug Walker
Ian Mackie | 38.97
4 × 400 m |  Great Britain
Roger Black
Jamie Baulch
Iwan Thomas
Mark Richardson | 2:59.46
CR |  Italy
Marco Vaccari
Alessandro Aimar
Fabrizio Mori
Ashraf Saber | 3:02.60  |  Russia
Innokentiy Zharov
Dmitriy Kosov
Dmitriy Golovastov
Dmitriy Bey | 3:03.09
High jump | Arturo Ortiz
Spain | 2.30  | Sergey Klyugin
Russia | 2.30  | Martin Buss
Germany | 2.30
Pole vault (indoor)  | Maksim Tarasov
Russia | 5.95  | Jean Galfione
France | 5.75  | Tim Lobinger
Germany | 5.70
Long jump | Kirill Sosunov
Russia | 8.00  | Kostas Koukodimos
Greece | 7.88  | Emmanuel Bangué
France | 7.86
Triple jump | Jonathan Edwards
Great Britain | 17.74  | Denis Kapustin
Russia | 17.24  | Charles Friedek
Germany | 16.71
Shot put | Oliver-Sven Buder
Germany | 20.41  | Corrado Fantini
Italy | 19.72  | Manuel Martínez
Spain | 19.29
Discus throw | Lars Riedel
Germany | 63.36  | Robert Weir
Great Britain | 61.62  | Sergey Lyakhov
Russia | 59.72
Hammer throw | Heinz Weis
Germany | 81.42  | Vadim Khersontsev
Russia | 78.48  | Alexandros Papadimitriou
Greece | 74.12
Javelin throw | Steve Backley
Great Britain | 86.86  | Kostas Gatsioudis
Greece | 86.10  | Boris Henry
Germany | 85.42

WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

#### Women's events

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

|
|
|

100 m
(Wind: +0.8 m/s) | Natalya Voronova
Russia | 11.18  | Andrea Philipp
Germany | 11.23  | Natalya Safronnikova
Belarus | 11.41
200 m
(Wind: -0.2 m/s) | Christine Arron
France | 22.89  | Andrea Philipp
Germany | 22.98  | Marina Trandenkova
Russia | 23.16
400 m | Grit Breuer
Germany | 50.38  | Donna Fraser
Great Britain | 51.51  | Olga Kotlyarova
Russia | 51.53
800 m | Yelena Afanasyeva
Russia | 1:59.93  | Irina Lishchinskaya
Ukraine | 2:00.71  | Linda Kisabaka
Germany | 2:01.07
1500 m | Kelly Holmes
Great Britain | 4:04.79  | Gabriela Szabo
Romania | 4:06.25  | Irina Biryukova
Russia | 4:07.98
3000 m | Roberta Brunet
Italy | 8:51.66  | Kristina da Fonseca-Wollheim
Germany | 8:52.20  | Paula Radcliffe
Great Britain | 8:52.79
5000 m | Gabriela Szabo
Romania | 15:02.68
CR | Roberta Brunet
Italy | 15:02.87  | Luminita Zaituc
Germany | 15:52.95
100 m hurdles
(Wind: +0.7 m/s) | Svetlana Laukhova
Russia | 12.94  | Patricia Girard
France | 13.03  | Angie Thorp
Great Britain | 13.16
400 m hurdles | Sally Gunnell
Great Britain | 54.57  | Silvia Rieger
Germany | 55.23  | Yekaterina Bakhvalova
Russia | 55.66
4 × 100 m |  Russia
Yekaterina Leshchova
Galina Malchugina
Natalya Voronova
Marina Trandenkova | 43.05  |  France
Frédérique Bangué
Christine Arron
Patricia Girard
Sylviane Félix | 43.21  |  Germany
Shanta Ghosh
Gabi Rockmeier
Birgit Rockmeier
Andrea Philipp | 43.25
4 × 400 m |  Russia
Yekaterina Bakhvalova
Yekaterina Kulikova
Natalya Khrushcheleva
Olga Kotlyarova | 3:24.10  |  Germany
Anke Feller
Uta Rohländer
Silvia Rieger
Anja Rücker | 3:26.12  |  Great Britain
Allison Curbishley
Donna Fraser
Michelle Thomas
Sally Gunnell | 3:26.48
High jump | Heike Balck
Germany | 1.94  | Tatyana Motkova
Russia | 1.92  | Antonella Bevilacqua
Italy | 1.88
Pole vault | Anzhela Balakhonova
Ukraine | 4.25  | Andrea Müller
Germany | 4.20  | Janine Whitlock
Great Britain | 4.10
Long jump | Fiona May
Italy | 6.61  | Nina Perevedentseva
Russia | 6.60  | Susen Tiedtke-Greene
Germany | 6.57
Triple jump | Inna Lasovskaya
Russia | 14.91  | Rodica Mateescu
Romania | 14.53  | Ashia Hansen
Great Britain | 14.52
Shot put | Astrid Kumbernuss
Germany | 20.64  | Irina Korzhanenko
Russia | 18.18  | Mara Rosolen
Italy | 17.28
Discus throw | Natalya Sadova
Russia | 67.72  | Franka Dietzsch
Germany | 61.72  | Yelena Antonova
Ukraine | 60.16
Hammer throw | Olga Kuzenkova
Russia | 73.10  | Mihaela Melinte
Romania | 69.76  | Lyudmila Gubkina
Belarus | 68.24
Javelin throw | Oksana Ovchinnikova
Russia | 67.16  | Felicia Tilea
Romania | 64.98  | Tanja Damaske
Germany | 64.72

WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

## First League

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The First League was held on 7 and 8 June[2]

### Men

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Group A
Held in Prague, Czech Republic

| Pos.  | Nation  | Points

|
|

1  |  Czech Republic | 117
2  |  Poland | 114
3  |  Hungary | 98
4  |  Romania | 92
5  |  Ukraine | 83
6  |  Latvia | 80.5
7  |  Yugoslavia | 68.5
8  |  Bulgaria | 64

Group B
Held in Dublin, Ireland

| Pos.  | Nation  | Points

|
|

1  |  Finland | 102
2  |  Sweden | 100
3  |  Belgium | 99.5
4  |  Switzerland | 90
5  |  Netherlands | 88
6  |  Portugal | 85.5
7  |  Ireland | 85
8  |  Austria | 68

### Women

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Group A
Held in Prague, Czech Republic

| Pos.  | Nation  | Points

|
|

1  |  Czech Republic | 113
2  |  Poland | 113
3  |  Greece | 95
4  |  Spain | 90.5
5  |  Hungary | 87
6  |  Bulgaria | 77
7  |  Yugoslavia | 57
8  |  Lithuania | 51.5

Group B
Held in Dublin, Ireland

| Pos.  | Nation  | Points

|
|

1  |  Slovenia | 103.5
2  |  Finland | 103
3  |  Switzerland | 97.5
4  |  Portugal | 96
5  |  Sweden | 82.5
6  |  Norway | 74
7  |  Austria | 60.5
8  |  Belgium | 60

## Second League

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The Second League was held on 28 and 29 June[2]

### Men

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Group A
Held in Odense, Denmark

| Pos.  | Nation  | Points

|
|

1  |  Slovenia | 125
2  |  Denmark | 115
3  |  Israel | 115
4  |  Cyprus | 107
5  |  Lithuania | 84
6  |  AASSE | 71
7  |  Iceland | 62
8  |  Armenia | 30

Group B
Held in Riga, Latvia

| Pos.  | Nation  | Points

|
|

1  |  Belarus | 86
2  |  Slovakia | 71
3  |  Estonia | 54
4  |  Turkey | 53
5  |  Moldova | 26

### Women

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Group A
Held in Odense, Denmark

| Pos.  | Nation  | Points

|
|

1  |  Netherlands | 100
2  |  Denmark | 93
3  |  Iceland | 62
4  |  Israel | 57
5  |  Cyprus | 53
6  |  AASSE | 30

Group B
Held in Riga, Latvia

| Pos.  | Nation  | Points

|
|

1  |  Latvia | 74
2  |  Slovakia | 59
3  |  Turkey | 57
4  |  Estonia | 56
5  |  Moldova | 23

## References

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1. ^ "The SPAR European Cup: Memories of Europe's premier team athletics event". European Athletics. Archived from the original on 6 October 2013. Retrieved 3 November 2012.
2. ^ a b c 2010 Italian almanach Archived 2021-08-28 at the Wayback Machine (p469–470)

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