2000 European Athletics Indoor Championships

2000 European Athletics Indoor Championships
Dates	25 – 27 February
Host city	Ghent Belgium
Venue	Flanders Sports Arena
Events	28
Participation	546 athletes from 44 nations
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The 2000 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held from Friday, 25 February to Sunday, 27 February 2000 in Ghent, Belgium. This edition marked the return of relay races to European Indoor Championships, having been held for the last time in 1975.

Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres details	Jason Gardener   Great Britain	6.49	Georgios Theodoridis   Greece	6.51	Aggelos Pavlakakis   Greece	6.54
200 metres details	Christian Malcolm   Great Britain	20.54	Patrick Stevens   Belgium	20.70	Julian Golding   Great Britain	21.05
400 metres details	Iliya Dzhivondov   Bulgaria	46.63	David Canal   Spain	46.85	Marc Raquil   France	47.28
800 metres details	Yuriy Borzakovskiy   Russia	1:47.92	Nils Schumann   Germany	1:48.41	Balázs Korányi   Hungary	1:48.42
1,500 metres details	José Antonio Redolat   Spain	3:40.51	James Nolan   Ireland	3:41.59	Mehdi Baala   France	3:42.27
3,000 m details	Mark Carroll   Ireland	7:49.24	Rui Silva   Portugal	7:49.70	John Mayock   Great Britain	7:49.97
60 metres hurdles details	Staņislavs Olijars   Latvia	7.50	Tony Jarrett   Great Britain	7.53	Tomasz Ścigaczewski   Poland	7.56
4 × 400 metre relay details	Czech Republic Jiří Mužík Jan Poděbradský Štěpán Tesařík Karel Bláha	3:06.10	Germany Ingo Schultz Ruwen Faller Krause Lars Figura	3:06.64	Hungary Péter Nyilasi Attila Kilvinger Zétény Dombi Tibor Bédi	3:09.35
High jump details	Vyacheslav Voronin   Russia	2.34	Martin Buss   Germany	2.34	Dragutin Topić   Yugoslavia	2.34
Pole vault details	Aleksander Averbukh   Israel	5.75	Martin Eriksson   Sweden	5.70	Rens Blom   Netherlands	5.60
Long jump details	Petar Dachev   Bulgaria	8.26	Bogdan Tarus   Romania	8.20	Vitaliy Shkurlatov   Russia	8.10
Triple jump details	Charles Friedek   Germany	17.28	Rostislav Dimitrov   Bulgaria	17.22	Paolo Camossi   Italy	17.05
Shot put details	Timo Aaltonen   Finland	20.62	Manuel Martínez   Spain	20.38	Miroslav Menc   Czech Republic	20.23
Heptathlon details	Tomáš Dvořák   Czech Republic	6,424	Roman Šebrle   Czech Republic	6,271	Erki Nool   Estonia	6,200
WR world record | ER European record | CR championship record | NR national record | WL world leading | EL European leading | PB personal best | SB seasonal best

Women

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 m details	Ekaterini Thanou  (GRE)	7.05	Petya Pendareva  (BUL)	7.11	Irina Pukha  (UKR)	7.11
200 m details	Muriel Hurtis  (FRA)	23.06	Alenka Bikar  (SLO)	23.16	Yekaterina Leshchova  (RUS)	23.20
400 m details	Svetlana Pospelova  (RUS)	51.66	Natalya Nazarova  (RUS)	51.69	Helena Fuchsová  (CZE)	52.32
800 m details	Stephanie Graf  (AUT)	1:59.70	Natalya Tsyganova  (RUS)	2:00.17	Sandra Stals  (BEL)	2:01.34
1500 m details	Violeta Szekely  (ROM)	4:12.82	Olga Kuznetsova  (RUS)	4:13.45	Yuliya Kosenkova  (RUS)	4:13.60
3000 m details	Gabriela Szabo  (ROM)	8:42.06	Lidia Chojecka  (POL)	8:42.42	Marta Domínguez  (ESP)	8:44.08
60 m hurdles details	Linda Ferga  (FRA)	7.88	Patricia Girard  (FRA)	7.98	Olena Krasovska  (UKR)	8.03
4 × 400 m details	Russia Olesya Zykina Irina Rosikhina Yuliya Sotnikova Svetlana Pospelova	3:32.53	Italy Francesca Carbone Carla Barbarino Patrizia Spuri Virna De Angeli	3:35.01	Romania Georgeta Lazar Anca Safta Otilia Ruicu Alina Ripanu	3:36.28
High jump details	Kajsa Bergqvist  (SWE)	2.00 m	Zuzana Hlavoňová  (CZE)	1.98 m	Olga Kaliturina  (RUS)	1.96 m
Pole vault details	Pavla Hamáčková-Rybová  (CZE)	4.40	Yelena Belyakova  (RUS)   Christine Adams  (GER)	4.35
Long jump details	Erica Johansson  (SWE)	6.89 m	Heike Drechsler  (GER)	6.86 m	Iva Prandzheva  (BUL)	6.80 m
Triple jump details	Tatyana Lebedeva  (RUS)	14.68 m	Cristina Nicolau  (ROM)	14.63 m	Iva Prandzheva  (BUL)	14.63 m
Shot put details	Larisa Peleshenko  (RUS)	20.15 m	Nadine Kleinert  (GER)	19.23 m	Astrid Kumbernuss  (GER)	19.12 m
Pentathlon details	Karin Ertl  (GER)	4671 pts	Irina Vostrikova  (RUS)	4615 pts	Urszula Włodarczyk  (POL)	4590 pts

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia  (RUS)	6	5	4	15
2	Czech Republic  (CZE)	3	2	2	7
3	Germany  (GER)	2	6	1	9
4	Bulgaria  (BUL)	2	2	2	6
5	Romania  (ROM)	2	2	1	5
6	France  (FRA)	2	1	2	5
	Great Britain  (GBR)	2	1	2	5
8	Sweden  (SWE)	2	1	0	3
9	Spain  (ESP)	1	2	1	4
10	Greece  (GRE)	1	1	1	3
11	Ireland  (IRL)	1	1	0	2
12	Austria  (AUT)	1	0	0	1
	Finland  (FIN)	1	0	0	1
	Israel  (ISR)	1	0	0	1
	Latvia  (LAT)	1	0	0	1
16	Poland  (POL)	0	1	2	3
17	Belgium  (BEL)	0	1	1	2
	Italy  (ITA)	0	1	1	2
19	Portugal  (POR)	0	1	0	1
	Slovenia  (SLO)	0	1	0	1
21	Hungary  (HUN)	0	0	2	2
	Ukraine  (UKR)	0	0	2	2
23	Estonia  (EST)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands  (NED)	0	0	1	1
	Serbia and Montenegro  (SCG)	0	0	1	1
Totals (25 entries)		28	29	27	84

Participating nations

•   Andorra (2)
•   Armenia (1)
•   Austria (10)
•   Azerbaijan (1)
•   Belarus (3)
•   Belgium (29)
•   Bosnia and Herzegovina (2)
•   Bulgaria (11)
•   Croatia (2)
•   Cyprus (4)
•   Czech Republic (13)
•   Denmark (2)
•   Estonia (3)
•   Finland (13)
•   France (50)
•   Germany (50)
•   Great Britain (28)
•   Greece (22)
•   Hungary (20)
•   Iceland (4)
•   Ireland (7)
•   Israel (5)
•   Italy (36)
•   Latvia (4)
•   Lithuania (5)
•   Luxembourg (1)
•   Macedonia (1)
•   Malta (1)
•   Moldova (1)
•   Netherlands (11)
•   Norway (5)
•   Poland (18)
•   Portugal (9)
•   Romania (18)
•   Russia (53)
•   San Marino (2)
•   Slovakia (6)
•   Slovenia (12)
•   Spain (22)
•   Sweden (20)
•   Switzerland (8)
•   Turkey (8)
•   Ukraine (21)
•   Yugoslavia (2)

See also

• 2000 in athletics (track and field)

References

• Athletix ^[usurped]