1998 European Cup (athletics)

1998 European Cup
Dates	27–28 June (Super Leagues) 5–7 June (First & Second Leagues)
Host city	St. Petersburg, Russia
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	39
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The 1998 European Cup was the 19th edition of the European Cup of athletics. ^[1]

The Super League Finals were held in St. Petersburg, Russia. The first two teams qualified for the 1998 IAAF World Cup

Super League

Main article: 1998 European Cup Super League

Held on 27 and 28 June in St. Petersburg, Russia ^[2]

Team standings

Men Pos. Nation Points 1   Great Britain 111 2   Germany 108.5 3   Russia 102 4   Italy 101 5   France 89.5 6   Czech Republic 87 7   Spain 67.5 8   Finland 52.5

Women Pos. Nation Points 1   Russia 124 2   Germany 108 3   France 93 4   Czech Republic 89 5   Great Britain 81 6   Italy 78 7   Ukraine 64 8   Slovenia 45

Results summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (Wind: -0.4 m/s)	Stéphane Cali   France	10.32	Aleksandr Porkhomovskiy   Russia	10.40	Colin Jackson   Great Britain	10.41
200 m (Wind: +1.4 m/s)	Douglas Walker   Great Britain	20.42	Christophe Cheval   France	20.61	Alessandro Attene   Italy	20.69
400 m	Mark Richardson   Great Britain	45.81	Jan Podebradský   Czech Republic	46.10	Dmitriy Golovastov   Russia	46.50
800 m	Andrea Longo   Italy	1:45.40	Lukáš Vydra   Czech Republic	1:45.92	Andy Hart   Great Britain	1:46.19
1500 m	Giuseppe D'Urso   Italy	3:44.58	Reyes Estévez   Spain	3:44.91	John Mayock   Great Britain	3:45.09
3000 m	Dieter Baumann   Germany	7:41.92	Manuel Pancorbo   Spain	7:42.24	Anthony Whiteman   Great Britain	7:43.61
5000 m	Alberto García   Spain	13:37.45	Mustapha Essaïd   France	13:37.79	Stéphane Franke   Germany	13:38.90
3000 m steeplechase	Alessandro Lambruschini   Italy	8:32.96	André Green   Germany	8:34.21	Mohamed Bélabbès   France	8:35.12
110 m hurdles (Wind: 0.0 m/s)	Colin Jackson   Great Britain	13.17	Falk Balzer   Germany	13.22	Jean-Marc Grava   France	13.63
400 m hurdles	Ruslan Mashchenko   Russia	48.49	Fabrizio Mori   Italy	48.57	Steffen Kolb   Germany	49.43
4 × 100 m	Great Britain Allyn Condon Darren Campbell Doug Walker Julian Golding	38.56	France Emmanuel Bangué Frédéric Krantz Christophe Cheval Stéphane Cali	38.90	Russia Sergey Bychkov Aleksandr Porkhomovskiy Andrey Grigoriev Andrey Fedoriv	39.13
4 × 400 m	Great Britain Roger Black Jamie Baulch Iwan Thomas Mark Richardson	3:00.95	Italy Walter Pirovano Marco Vaccari Edoardo Vallet Fabrizio Mori	3:03.45	France Bruno Wavelet Marc Foucan Marc Raquil Fred Mango	3:03.57
High jump	Sergey Klyugin   Russia	2.28	Ben Challenger   Great Britain	2.28	Tomáš Janku   Czech Republic	2.25
Pole vault	Yevgeniy Smiryagin   Russia	5.60	Javier García   Spain Heikki Vääräniemi   Finland	5.50
Long jump	Kirill Sosunov   Russia	8.38	Milan Kovár   Czech Republic	8.14	Nathan Morgan   Great Britain	7.85
Triple jump	Jonathan Edwards   Great Britain	17.29	Jirí Kuntoš   Czech Republic	16.91	Hrvoje Verzi   Germany	16.74
Shot put	Mika Halvari   Finland	20.79	Oliver-Sven Buder   Germany	19.97	Manuel Martínez   Spain	19.86
Discus throw	Dmitriy Shevchenko   Russia	65.14	Jürgen Schult   Germany	64.37	Diego Fortuna   Italy	62.49
Hammer throw	Heinz Weis   Germany	79.68	Ilya Konovalov   Russia	79.68	Enrico Sgrulletti   Italy	78.13
Javelin throw	Boris Henry   Germany	84.77	Sergey Makarov   Russia	84.37	Aki Parviainen   Finland	84.33
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: +1.2 m/s)	Irina Privalova   Russia	11.04	Christine Arron   France	11.14	Andrea Philipp   Germany	11.26
200 m (Wind: -0.9 m/s)	Erika Suchovská   Czech Republic	22.96	Sylviane Félix   France	22.96	Melanie Paschke   Germany	22.98
400 m	Helena Fuchsová   Czech Republic	51.33	Irina Rosikhina   Russia	51.48	Allison Curbishley   Great Britain	51.48
800 m	Larisa Mikhaylova   Russia	1:58.01	Irina Lishchinskaya   Ukraine	1:59.15	Ludmila Formanová   Czech Republic	1:59.44
1500 m	Olga Komyagina   Russia	4:05.88	Paula Radcliffe   Great Britain	4:05.92	Andrea Šuldesová   Czech Republic	4:06.25
3000 m	Olga Yegorova   Russia	9:04.03	Blandine Bitzner-Ducret   France	9:06.74	Luminita Zaituc   Germany	9:10.18
5000 m	Paula Radcliffe   Great Britain	15:06.87	Kristina da Fonseca-Wollheim   Germany	15:10.33	Joalsiae Llado   France	15:17.58
100 m hurdles (Wind: 0.0 m/s)	Brigita Bukovec   Slovenia	12.89	Patricia Girard   France	12.89	Tatyana Reshetnikova   Russia	13.06
400 m hurdles	Tatyana Tereshchuk   Ukraine	54.15	Yekaterina Bakhvalova   Russia	54.72	Silvia Rieger   Germany	54.93
4 × 100 m	Russia Yekaterina Grigoryeva Galina Malchugina Natalya Voronova Irina Privalova	42.49	Germany Melanie Paschke Gabi Rockmeier Birgit Rockmeier Andrea Philipp	42.59	France Linda Khodadin Christine Arron Patricia Girard Sylviane Félix	42.61
4 × 400 m	Russia Tatyana Chebykina Natalya Khrushchelyova Yekaterina Bakhvalova Irina Rosikhina	3:25.52	Czech Republic Jitka Burianová Ludmila Formanová Hana Benešová Helena Fuchsová	3:28.05	Great Britain Michelle Pierre Donna Fraser Michelle Thomas Allison Curbishley	3:28.07
High jump	Zuzana Kováčiková   Czech Republic	1.98	Alina Astafei   Germany	1.95	Yelena Gulyayeva   Czech Republic	1.95
Pole vault	Daniela Bártová   Czech Republic	4.35 CR	Janine Whitlock   Great Britain	4.30	Nicole Rieger   Germany	4.20
Long jump	Fiona May   Italy	7.08	Lyudmila Galkina   Russia	6.84	Linda Ferga   France	6.75
Triple jump	Fiona May   Italy	14.65	Šárka Kašpárková   Czech Republic	14.63	Yelena Govorova   Ukraine	14.13
Shot put	Irina Korzhanenko   Russia	20.65	Judy Oakes   Great Britain	18.38	Stephanie Storp   Germany	18.38
Discus throw	Natalya Sadova   Russia	64.18	Anja Möllenbeck   Germany	60.80	Yelena Antonova   Ukraine	59.28
Hammer throw	Olga Kuzenkova   Russia	65.89	Kirsten Münchow   Germany	64.86	Cécile Lignot   France	61.12
Javelin throw	Tanja Damaske   Germany	62.30	Nikola Tomecková   Czech Republic	60.82	Oksana Makarova   Russia	58.38
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 5 and 6 June ^[2]

Men

Group A Held in Budapest, Hungary Pos. Nation Points 1   Greece 120.5 2   Hungary 107.5 3   Ukraine 105 4   Romania 88 5   Switzerland 88 6   Slovenia 74 7   Portugal 68.5 8   Slovakia 63.5

Group B Held in Malmö, Sweden Pos. Nation Points 1   Poland 125.5 2   Sweden 106.5 3   Norway 97.5 4   Netherlands 96.5 5 Belarus 86 6   Belgium 74 7   Latvia 70 8   Denmark 63

Women

Group A Held in Budapest, Hungary Pos. Nation Points 1   Romania 135 2   Greece 102.5 3   Hungary 94 4   Spain 89 5   Bulgaria 82 6   Switzerland 74 7   Portugal 69.5 8   Slovakia 37

Group B Held in Malmö, Sweden Pos. Nation Points 1   Poland 117 2 Belarus 108 3   Finland 95 4   Sweden 88 5   Netherlands 78 6   Denmark 69 7   Latvia 68 8   Norway 58

Second League

The Second League was held on 6 and 7 June ^[2]

Men

Group A Held in Kaunas, Lithuania Pos. Nation Points 1   Ireland 89 2   Austria 83.5 3   Croatia 79.5 4   Estonia 68 5 Lithuania 62 6 AASSE 38

Group B Held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia Pos. Nation Points 1 Yugoslavia 129 2   Cyprus 110 3   Turkey 107 4   Israel 101 5   Bulgaria 99 6   Moldova 75 7   Albania 46 8   Armenia 37

Women

Group A Held in Kaunas, Lithuania Pos. Nation Points 1   Belgium 105 2   Ireland 98 3 Lithuania 89 4   Austria 79 5   Estonia 76 6   Croatia 57 7 AASSE 25

Group B Held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia Pos. Nation Points 1 Yugoslavia 136 2   Turkey 125 3   Moldova 95 4   Israel 92 5   Cyprus 89 6   Albania 62 7 Macedonia 41 8   Armenia 16

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 (p470)

External links

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