1997 European Cup (athletics)

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
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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

Main article: 1997 European Cup Super League

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

Team standings

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

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
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

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

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

Men

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

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

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

Men

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

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

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. 2010 Italian almanach Archived 2021-08-28 at the Wayback Machine (p469–470)

Results

• European Cup results (Men) from GBR Athletics
• European Cup results (Women) from GBR Athletics
• Results from sport-olympic.gr