18th European Athletics Championships
Dates	6 August – 11 August
Host city	Munich, Germany
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	46 (men: 24; women: 22)
Participation	1162 athletes from 47 nations
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The 18th European Athletics Championships were held from 6 August to 11 August 2002 in the Olympic Stadium of Munich, Germany.

Men's results

Track

1994 | 1998 |2002 | 2006 | 2010 |

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Francis Obikwelu   Portugal	10.061	Darren Campbell   Great Britain	10.15	Roland Németh   Hungary	10.27
200 m details	Konstantinos Kenteris   Greece	19.85	Francis Obikwelu   Portugal	20.21	Marlon Devonish   Great Britain	20.24
400 m details	Ingo Schultz   Germany	45.14	David Canal   Spain	45.24	Daniel Caines   Great Britain	45.28
800 m details	Wilson Kipketer   Denmark	1:47.25	André Bucher    Switzerland	1:47.43	Nils Schumann   Germany	1:47.60
1500 m details	Mehdi Baala   France	3:45.25	Reyes Estévez   Spain	3:45.25	Rui Silva   Portugal	3:45.43
5000 m details	Alberto García   Spain	13:38.18	Ismaïl Sghyr   France	13:39.81	Serhiy Lebid   Ukraine	13:40.00
10,000 m details	José Manuel Martínez   Spain	27:47.65	Dieter Baumann   Germany	27:47.87	José Ríos   Spain	27:48.29
Marathon details	Janne Holmén   Finland	2:12:14	Pavel Loskutov   Estonia	2:13:18	Julio Rey   Spain	2:13:21
110 metres hurdles details	Colin Jackson   Great Britain	13.11	Staņislavs Olijars   Latvia	13.22	Artur Kohutek   Poland	13.32
400 metres hurdles details	Stéphane Diagana   France	47.58	Jiří Mužík   Czech Republic	48.43	Paweł Januszewski   Poland	48.46
3000 metres steeplechase details	Antonio David Jiménez   Spain	8:24.34	Simon Vroemen   Netherlands	8:24.45	Luis Miguel Martín   Spain	8:24.72
20 kilometres walk details	Paquillo Fernández   Spain	1:18:37	Vladimir Andreyev   Russia	1:19:56	Juan Manuel Molina   Spain	1:20:36
50 kilometres walk details	Robert Korzeniowski   Poland	3:36:39 WR	Aleksey Voyevodin   Russia	3:40:16	Jesús Ángel García   Spain	3:44:33
4x100 metres relay details	Ukraine Kostyantyn Vasyukov Kostyantyn Rurak Anatoliy Dovhal Oleksandr Kaydash	38.531	Poland Ryszard Pilarczyk Łukasz Chyła Marcin Nowak Marcin Urbaś	38.71	Germany Ronny Ostwald Marc Blume Alexander Kosenkow Christian Schacht	38.88
4x400 metres relay details	Great Britain Jared Deacon Matthew Elias Jamie Baulch Daniel Caines	3:01.25	Russia Oleg Mishukov Andrey Semyonov Ruslan Mashchenko Yuriy Borzakovskiy	3:01.34	France Leslie Djhone Ahmed Douhou Naman Keïta Ibrahima Wade	3:02.76

¹ Dwain Chambers originally won the 100 m in 9.96 and was part of the British team (with Christian Malcolm, Darren Campbell and Marlon Devonish) that won the 4 × 100 m relay in 38.19, but he was disqualified with the British team in August 2003 after he admitted to using THG between 2000 and 2002.

Field

1994 | 1998 | 2002 | 2006 | 2010

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Yaroslav Rybakov   Russia	2.31	Stefan Holm   Sweden	2.29	Staffan Strand   Sweden	2.27
Long jump details	Olexiy Lukashevych   Ukraine	8.08	Siniša Ergotić   Croatia	8.00	Yago Lamela   Spain	7.99
Pole vault details	Aleksandr Averbukh   Israel	5.85	Lars Börgeling   Germany	5.80	Tim Lobinger   Germany	5.80
Triple jump details	Christian Olsson   Sweden	17.53	Charles Friedek   Germany	17.33	Jonathan Edwards   Great Britain	17.32
Shot put details	Yuriy Bilonoh   Ukraine	21.37	Joachim Olsen   Denmark	21.16	Ralf Bartels   Germany	20.58
Discus throw details	Róbert Fazekas   Hungary	68.83	Virgilijus Alekna   Lithuania	66.62	Michael Möllenbeck   Germany	66.37
Javelin throw details	Steve Backley   Great Britain	88.54	Sergey Makarov   Russia	88.05	Boris Henry   Germany	85.33
Hammer throw details	Adrián Annus   Hungary	81.17	Vladyslav Piskunov   Ukraine	80.39	Alexandros Papadimitriou   Greece	80.21
Decathlon details	Roman Šebrle   Czech Republic	8800	Erki Nool   Estonia	8438	Lev Lobodin   Russia	8390

Women's results

Track

1994 | 1998 | 2002 | 2006 | 2010

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Ekaterini Thanou   Greece	11.10	Kim Gevaert   Belgium	11.22	Manuela Levorato   Italy	11.23
200 metres details	Muriel Hurtis   France	22.43	Kim Gevaert   Belgium	22.53	Manuela Levorato   Italy	22.75
400 metres details	Olesya Zykina   Russia	50.45	Grit Breuer   Germany	50.70	Lee McConnell   Great Britain	51.02
800 metres details	Jolanda Čeplak   Slovenia	1:57.65	Mayte Martínez   Spain	1:58.86	Kelly Holmes   Great Britain	1:59.83
1500 metres details	Süreyya Ayhan   Turkey	3:58.79	Gabriela Szabo   Romania	3:58.81	Tatyana Tomashova   Russia	4:01.28
5000 metres details	Marta Domínguez   Spain	15:14.76	Sonia O'Sullivan   Ireland	15:14.85	Yelena Zadorozhnaya   Russia	15:15.22
10,000 metres details	Paula Radcliffe   Great Britain	30:01.09	Sonia O'Sullivan   Ireland	30:47.59 (NR)	Lyudmila Biktasheva   Russia	31:04.00
Marathon details	Maria Guida   Italy	2: 26:05	Luminita Zaituc   Germany	2: 26:58	Sonja Oberem   Germany	2: 28:45
100 metres hurdles details	Glory Alozie   Spain	12.73	Olena Krasovska   Ukraine	12.88	Yana Kasova   Bulgaria	12.91
400 metres hurdles details	Ionela Târlea   Romania	54.95	Heike Meißner   Germany	55.89	Anna Olichwierczuk   Poland	56.18
20 kilometres walk details	Olimpiada Ivanova   Russia	1: 6:42	Yelena Nikolayeva   Russia	1:28:20	Erica Alfridi   Italy	1:28:33
4x100 metres relay details	Delphine Combe Muriel Hurtis Sylviane Félix Odiah Sidibé   France	42.46	Melanie Paschke Gabi Rockmeier Sina Schielke Marion Wagner   Germany	42.54	Natalya Ignatova Yuliya Tabakova Irina Khabarova Larisa Kruglova   Russia	43.11
4x400 metres relay details	Florence Ekpo-Umoh Birgit Rockmeier Claudia Marx Grit Breuer   Germany	3:25.10	Natalya Antyukh Natalya Nazarova Anastasiya Kapachinskaya Olesya Zykina   Russia	3:25.59	Zuzanna Radecka Grażyna Prokopek Małgorzata Pskit Anna Olichwierczuk   Poland	3:26.15

Field

1994 | 1998 | 2002 | 2006 | 2010

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Kajsa Bergqvist   Sweden	1.98	Marina Kuptsova   Russia	1.92	Olga Kaliturina   Russia	1.89
Pole vault details	Svetlana Feofanova   Russia	4.60	Yelena Isinbayeva   Russia	4.55	Yvonne Buschbaum   Germany	4.50
Long jump details	Tatyana Kotova   Russia	6.85	Jade Johnson   Great Britain	6.73	Tünde Vaszi   Hungary	6.73
Triple jump details	Ashia Hansen   Great Britain	15.00	Heli Koivula   Finland	14.83	Yelena Oleynikova   Russia	14.54
Shot put details	Irina Korzhanenko   Russia	20.64	Vita Pavlysh   Ukraine	20.02	Svetlana Krivelyova   Russia	19.56
Discus throw details	Ekaterini Voggoli   Greece	64.31	Natalya Sadova   Russia	64.12	Anastasia Kelesidou   Greece	63.92
Hammer throw details	Olga Kuzenkova   Russia	72.94	Kamila Skolimowska   Poland	72.46	Manuela Montebrun   France	72.04
Javelin throw details	Mirela Manjani   Greece	67.47	Steffi Nerius   Germany	64.09	Mikaela Ingberg   Finland	63.50
Heptathlon details	Carolina Klüft   Sweden	6542	Sabine Braun   Germany	6434	Natallia Sazanovich   Belarus	6341

Medal table

  *   Host nation ( Germany)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	7	9	8	24
2	Spain	6	3	6	15
3	Great Britain	5	2	5	12
4	France	4	1	2	7
5	Greece	4	0	2	6
6	Ukraine	3	3	1	7
7	Sweden	3	1	1	5
8	Germany*	2	9	8	19
9	Hungary	2	0	2	4
10	Poland	1	2	4	7
11	Finland	1	1	1	3
	Portugal	1	1	1	3
13	Czech Republic	1	1	0	2
	Denmark	1	1	0	2
	Romania	1	1	0	2
16	Italy	1	0	3	4
17	Israel	1	0	0	1
	Slovenia	1	0	0	1
	Turkey	1	0	0	1
20	Belgium	0	2	0	2
	Estonia	0	2	0	2
	Ireland	0	2	0	2
23	Croatia	0	1	0	1
	Latvia	0	1	0	1
	Lithuania	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
28	Belarus	0	0	1	1
	Bulgaria	0	0	1	1
Totals (29 entries)		46	46	46	138

Participating nations

Notes

Differences to competition format since the 1998 European Championships

New event added:

Women's 20 km walk replaces the 10 km walk.

References

Specific

General

• European Athletic Association