1996 European Cup (athletics)

1996 European Cup
Dates	1–2 June (Super Leagues) 28–29 June (First Leagues) 29–30 June (Second Leagues)
Host city	Madrid, Spain
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	37
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The 1996 European Cup was the 17th edition of the European Cup of athletics. ^[1]

It was the last edition to allow athletes six attempts in the throws and horizontal jumps, as this number was reduced to four from the next edition. The Super League Finals were held in Madrid, Spain.

Super League

Main article: 1996 European Cup Super League

Held on 1 and 2 June in Madrid, Spain ^[2]

Team standings

Men Pos. Nation Points 1   Germany 142 2   Great Britain 125 3   Italy 110 4   Spain 106 5   Russia 103 6   France 93.5 7   Ukraine 84 8   Sweden 75.5 9   Finland 53

Women Pos. Nation Points 1   Germany 115 2   Russia 97 3   Belarus 79 4   Ukraine 78 5   France 75 6   Great Britain 73 7   Spain 49 8   Bulgaria 46

Results summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (Wind: +0.8 m/s)	Linford Christie   Great Britain	10.04 CR	Marc Blume   Germany	10.25	Vladislav Dologodin   Ukraine	10.26
200 m (Wind: +2.5 m/s)	Linford Christie   Great Britain	20.25w	Vladislav Dologodin   Ukraine	20.39w	Torbjörn Eriksson   Sweden	20.45w
400 m	Uwe Jahn   Germany	45.64	Du'aine Ladejo   Great Britain	45.72	Jean-Louis Rapnouil   France	45.96
800 m	Roberto Parra   Spain	1:44.97 CR	Giuseppe D'Urso   Italy	1:45.27	Nico Motchebon   Germany	1:45.98
1500 m	Fermín Cacho   Spain	3:40.24	Rüdiger Stenzel   Germany	3:40.53	Anthony Whiteman   Great Britain	3:41.21
3000 m	Dieter Baumann   Germany	7:57.19	Isaac Viciosa   Spain	7:57.80	Alessandro Lambruschini   Italy	7:58.44
5000 m	Gennaro Di Napoli   Italy	13:52.34	Manuel Pancorbo   Spain	13:55.18	Abdellah Béhar   France	13:57.15
3000 m steeplechase	Steffen Brand   Germany	8:30.09	Angelo Carosi   Italy	8:32.50	Justin Chaston   Great Britain	8:33.59
110 m hurdles (Wind: -0.3 m/s)	Florian Schwarthoff   Germany	13.20	Colin Jackson   Great Britain	13.63	Yevgeniy Pechonkin   Russia	13.64
400 m hurdles	Fabrizio Mori   Italy	49.45	Jon Ridgeon   Great Britain	49.84	Sven Nylander   Sweden	50.18
4 × 100 m	Ukraine Kostyantyn Rurak Sergiy Osovich Oleg Kramarenko Vladyslav Dologodin	38.53	Italy Giovanni Puggioni Ezio Madonia Angelo Cipolloni Sandro Floris	38.66	Great Britain Kevin Williams Darren Braithwaite Jason John Darren Campbell	38.67
4 × 400 m	Great Britain Mark Richardson Jamie Baulch Mark Hylton Du'aine Ladejo	3:03.38	Germany Uwe Jahn Karsten Just Kai Karsten Rico Lieder	3:03.53	France Pierre-Marie Hilaire Marc Foucan Willy Migerel Jean-Louis Rapnouil	3:05.05
High jump	Arturo Ortiz   Spain	2.27	Leonid Pumalainen   Russia	2.27	Dalton Grant   Great Britain	2.27
Pole vault	Pyotr Bochkaryov   Russia	5.70	Tim Lobinger   Germany	5.60	José Manuel Arcos   Spain	5.50
Long jump	Simone Bianchi   Italy	8.25	Jesús Oliván   Spain	7.97	Bakri Darouèche   France	7.96
Triple jump	Jonathan Edwards   Great Britain	17.79w	Vladimir Kravchenko   Ukraine	17.29w	Gennadiy Markov   Russia	17.12w
Shot put	Paolo Dal Soglio   Italy	20.72	Oliver-Sven Buder   Germany	20.08	Yuriy Bilonog   Ukraine	19.86
Discus throw	David Martínez   Spain	62.38	Sergey Lyakhov   Russia	62.20	Jürgen Schult   Germany	61.96
Hammer throw	Karsten Kobs   Germany	78.18	Marko Wahlman   Finland	77.72	Enrico Sgrulletti   Italy	77.44
Javelin throw	Raymond Hecht   Germany	88.86	Sergey Makarov   Russia	84.96	Harri Hakkarainen   Finland	81.44
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

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (Wind: +0.3 m/s)	Marina Trandenkova   Russia	11.14	Melanie Paschke   Germany	11.19	Irina Pukha   Ukraine	11.25
200 m (Wind: +1.6 m/s)	Marie-José Pérec   France	22.34	Melanie Paschke   Germany	22.55	Katharine Merry   Great Britain	22.88
400 m	Grit Breuer   Germany	50.22	Anna Kozak   Belarus	50.94	Sandra Myers   Spain	51.10
800 m	Svetlana Masterkova   Russia	1:57.87	Kelly Holmes   Great Britain	1:58.20	Natalya Dukhnova   Belarus	1:59.70
1500 m	Olga Churbanova   Russia	4:09.57	Sylvia Kühnemund   Germany	4:10.22	Frédérique Quentin   France	4:10.49
3000 m	Blandine Bitzner-Ducret   France	8:59.82	Petra Wassiluk   Germany	9:02.91	Marta Domínguez   Spain	9:06.27
5000 m	Kathrin Wessel   Germany	15:40.36	Julia Vaquero   Spain	15:41.99	Farida Fatès   France	15:47.72
100 m hurdles (Wind: +2.7 m/s)	Nadezhda Bodrova   Ukraine	12.89w	Lidiya Yurkova   Belarus	12.99w	Angie Thorp   Great Britain	13.09w
400 m hurdles	Sally Gunnell   Great Britain	56.84	Silvia Rieger   Germany	57.07	Nelli Voronkova   Belarus	57.39
4 × 100 m	Russia Natalya Merzlyakova Galina Malchugina Marina Trandenkova Oksana Dyachenko	42.55	Germany Andrea Philipp Melanie Paschke Silke-Beate Knoll Silke Lichtenhagen	42.59	France Sandra Citté Odiah Sidibé Delphine Combe Marie-José Pérec	43.13
4 × 400 m	Germany Uta Rohländer Silke-Beate Knoll Linda Kisabaka Grit Breuer	3:26.19	Ukraine Viktoriya Fomenko Lyudmila Koshchey Olga Moroz Olena Rurak	3:27.74	Russia Tatyana Chebykina Natalya Sharova Yuliya Sotnikova Olga Kotlyarova	3:28.54
High jump	Alina Astafei   Germany	1.98	Stefka Kostadinova   Bulgaria	1.94	Yelena Topchina   Russia	1.90
Long jump	Iva Prandzheva   Bulgaria	6.84	Yelena Sinchukova   Germany	6.81	Claudia Gerhardt   Russia	6.76
Triple jump	Ashia Hansen   Great Britain	14.57 CR	Yelena Govorova   Ukraine	14.42	Lyudmila Dubkova   Russia	14.14
Shot put	Astrid Kumbernuss   Germany	20.05	Judy Oakes   Great Britain	19.00	Svetlana Krivelyova   Russia	17.70
Discus throw	Ilke Wyludda   Germany	65.66	Olga Chernyavskaya   Russia	65.06	Irina Yatchenko   Belarus	60.68
Javelin throw	Oksana Ovchinnikova   Russia	65.72	Natalya Shikolenko   Belarus	62.52	Tanja Damaske   Germany	58.80
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

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

Men

Group 1 Held in Lisbon, Portugal Pos. Nation Points 1   Greece 111 2   Czech Republic 98.5 3   Portugal 88 4   Hungary 80 5   Ireland 78 6   Slovenia 72 7   Turkey 32.5

Group 2 Held in Bergen, Norway Pos. Nation Points 1   Norway 112 2   Poland 107 3   Switzerland 97 4   Romania 91 5   Latvia 90 6   Austria 76 7 Belarus 72 8   Denmark 71

Women

Group 1 Held in Lisbon, Portugal Pos. Nation Points 1   Italy 110 2   Czech Republic 98 3   Portugal 94 4   Hungary 79 5   Slovenia 73 6   Greece 68 7   Netherlands 64 8   Croatia 26

Group 2 Held in Bergen, Norway Pos. Nation Points 1   Romania 101 2   Switzerland 92 3   Poland 89 4   Finland 88 5   Sweden 77 6   Norway 69 7   Denmark 56 8   Iceland 40

Second League

The Second League was held on 29 and 30 June ^[2]

Men

Group 1 Held in Oordegem, Belgium Pos. Nation Points 1   Belgium 93.5 2   Netherlands 92.5 3   Cyprus 91 4   Israel 64 5   Iceland 52 6 AASSE 37

Group 2 Held in Tallinn, Estonia Pos. Nation Points 1 Yugoslavia 96 2   Bulgaria 92 3   Slovenia 88 4   Croatia 87 5   Estonia 83 6 Lithuania 60 7   Moldova 55

Women

Group 1 Held in Oordegem, Belgium Pos. Nation Points 1   Austria 103 2   Belgium 91 3   Ireland 77 4   Cyprus 62 5   Albania 51 6   Israel 50 7 AASSE 42

Group 2 Held in Tallinn, Estonia Pos. Nation Points 1 Lithuania 90 2 Yugoslavia 84 3   Latvia 80 4   Estonia 73 5   Turkey 64 6   Slovenia 54 7   Moldova 30

References

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

External links

• European Cup results (Men) from GBR Athletics
• European Cup results (Women) from GBR Athletics