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

Track

1990 | 1994 |1998 | 2002 | 2006 |

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
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

1990 | 1994 |1998 | 2002 | 2006 |

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
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

Track

1990 | 1994 |1998 | 2002 | 2006 |

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
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

1990 | 1994 |1998 | 2002 | 2006 |

Event	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   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

  *   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

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