1998 European Athletics Championships

International athletics championship event

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.

## Men's results

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### Track

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1990 |1994 |1998 |2002 |2006 |

Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100 m
details | Darren Campbell
Great Britain | 10.04  | Dwain Chambers
Great Britain | 10.10  | Haralabos Papadias
Greece | 10.17
200 m
details | Douglas Walker
Great Britain | 20.53  | Douglas Turner
Great Britain | 20.64  | Julian Golding
Great Britain | 20.72
400 m
details | Iwan Thomas
Great Britain | 44.52  | Robert Maćkowiak
Poland | 45.04  | Mark Richardson
Great Britain | 45.14
800 m
details | Nils Schumann
Germany | 1:44.89  | André Bucher
Switzerland | 1:45.04  | Lukáš Vydra
Czech Republic | 1:45.23
1500 m
details | Reyes Estévez
Spain | 3:41.31  | Rui Silva
Portugal | 3:41.84  | Fermín Cacho
Spain | 3:42.43
5000 m
details | Isaac Viciosa
Spain | 13:37.46  | Manuel Pancorbo
Spain | 13:38.03  | Mark Carroll
Ireland | 13:38.15
10,000 m
details | António Pinto
Portugal | 27:48.62  | Dieter Baumann
Germany | 27:56.75  | Stéphane Franke
Germany | 27:59.90
Marathon
details | Stefano Baldini
Italy | 2:12:01  | Danilo Goffi
Italy | 2:12:11  | Vincenzo Modica
Italy | 2:12:53
110 metres hurdles
details | Colin Jackson
Great Britain | 13.02  | Falk Balzer
Germany | 13.12  | Robin Korving
Netherlands | 13.20
400 metres hurdles
details | Paweł Januszewski
Poland | 48.18  | Ruslan Mashchenko
Russia | 48.25  | Fabrizio Mori
Italy | 48.71
3000 metres steeplechase
details | Damian Kallabis
Germany | 8:13.10  | Alessandro Lambruschini
Italy | 8:16.70  | Jim Svenøy
Norway | 8:18.97
20 kilometres walk
details | Ilya Markov
Russia | 1:21:10  | Aigars Fadejevs
Latvia | 1:21:29  | Paquillo Fernández
Spain | 1:21:39
50 kilometres walk
details | Robert Korzeniowski
Poland | 3:43:51  | Valentin Kononen
Finland | 3:44:29  | Andrey Plotnikov
Russia | 3:45:53
4 × 100 metres relay
details | 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
details | 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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1990 |1994 |1998 |2002 |2006 |

Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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High jump
details | Artur Partyka
Poland | 2.34  | Dalton Grant
Great Britain | 2.34  | Sergey Klyugin
Russia | 2.32
Long jump
details | Kirill Sosunov
Russia | 8.28  | Bogdan Ţăruş
Romania | 8.21  | Petar Dachev
Bulgaria | 8.06
Pole vault
details | Maksim Tarasov
Russia | 5.81  | Tim Lobinger
Germany | 5.81  | Jean Galfione
France | 5.76
Triple jump
details | Jonathan Edwards
Great Britain | 17.99  | Denis Kapustin
Russia | 17.45  | Rostislav Dimitrov
Bulgaria | 17.26
Shot put
details | Oleksandr Bagach
Ukraine | 21.17  | Oliver-Sven Buder
Germany | 20.98  | Yuriy Bilonoh
Ukraine | 20.92
Discus throw
details | Lars Riedel
Germany | 67.07  | Jürgen Schult
Germany | 66.69  | Virgilijus Alekna
Lithuania | 66.46
Javelin throw
details | Steve Backley
Great Britain | 89.72  | Mick Hill
Great Britain | 86.92  | Raymond Hecht
Germany | 86.63
Hammer throw
details | Tibor Gécsek
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

## Women's results

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### Track

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1990 |1994 |1998 |2002 |2006 |

Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100 metres
details | Christine Arron
France | 10.73
ER  | Irina Privalova
Russia | 10.83  | Ekaterini Thanou
Greece | 10.87
200 metres
details | Irina Privalova
Russia | 22.62  | Zhanna Pintusevich
Ukraine | 22.74  | Melanie Paschke
Germany | 22.78
400 metres
details | Grit Breuer
Germany | 49.93  | Helena Fuchsová
Czech Republic | 50.21  | Olga Kotlyarova
Russia | 50.38
800 metres
details | Yelena Afanasyeva
Russia | 1:58.50  | Malin Ewerlöf
Sweden | 1:59.61  | Stephanie Graf
Austria | 2:00.11
1500 metres
details | Svetlana Masterkova
Russia | 4:11.91  | Carla Sacramento
Portugal | 4:12.62  | Anita Weyermann
Switzerland | 4:13.06
5000 metres
details | Sonia O'Sullivan
Ireland | 15:06.50  | Gabriela Szabo
Romania | 15:08.31  | Marta Domínguez
Spain | 15:10.54
10,000 metres
details | Sonia O'Sullivan
Ireland | 31:29.33  | Fernanda Ribeiro
Portugal | 31:32.42  | Lidia Șimon
Romania | 31:32.64
Marathon
details | Manuela Machado
Portugal | 2:27:10  | Madina Biktagirova
Russia | 2:28:01  | Maura Viceconte
Italy | 2:28:31
100 metres hurdles
details | Svetla Dimitrova
Bulgaria | 12.56  | Brigita Bukovec
Slovenia | 12.65  | Irina Korotya
Russia | 12.85
400 metres hurdles
details | Ionela Târlea
Romania | 53.37  | Tetyana Tereshchuk
Ukraine | 54.07  | Silvia Rieger
Germany | 54.45
10 kilometres walk
details | Annarita Sidoti
Italy | 42:49  | Erica Alfridi
Italy | 42:54  | Susana Feitor
Portugal | 42:55
4 × 100 metres relay
details | 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
details | 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

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1990 |1994 |1998 |2002 |2006 |

Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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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
Germany | 4.31  | Yvonne Buschbaum
Germany | 4.31
Triple jump
details | Olga Vasdeki
Greece | 14.55  | Šárka Kašpárková
Czech Republic | 14.53  | Tereza Marinova
Bulgaria | 14.50
Shot put
details | Vita Pavlysh
Ukraine | 21.69  | Irina Korzhanenko
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 Włodarczyk
Poland | 6460  | Natallia Sazanovich
Belarus | 6410

## Medal table

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* Host nation (Hungary)

Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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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

## See also

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* 1998 in athletics (track and field)

## Notes

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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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