2000 European Cup (athletics)

2000 European Cup
Dates	15–16 July (Super Leagues) 8–9 July (First & Second Leagues)
Host city	Gateshead, United Kingdom
Venue	Gateshead International Stadium
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	39
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The 2000 European Cup was the 21st edition of the European Cup of athletics. ^[1]

The Super League Finals were held in Gateshead, Great Britain.

Super League

Main article: 2000 European Cup Super League

Held on 15 and 16 July in Gateshead, United Kingdom ^[2]

Team standings

Men Pos. Nation Points 1   Great Britain 101.5 2   Germany 101 3   France 97 4   Italy 96.5 5   Russia 88.5 6   Greece 88.5 7   Sweden 75 8   Hungary 62

Women Pos. Nation Points 1   Russia 124 2   Germany 111 3   France 87 4   Italy 79 5   Great Britain 78 6   Romania 72 7   Ukraine 71 8   Greece 56

Results summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (Wind: +2.3 m/s)	Darren Campbell   Great Britain	10.09w	Roland Németh   Hungary	10.19w	Andrea Colombo   Italy	10.23w
200 m (Wind: 0.0 m/s)	Christian Malcolm   Great Britain	20.45	Alessandro Cavallaro   Italy	20.48	Konstantinos Kenteris   Greece	20.48
400 m	Jamie Baulch   Great Britain	46.64	Alessandro Attene   Italy	46.71	Jimisola Laursen   Sweden	46.93
800 m	Mehdi Baala   France	1:47.90	Nils Schumann   Germany	1:47.94	Balázs Korányi   Hungary	1:48.52
1500 m	Mehdi Baala   France	3:41.75	John Mayock   Great Britain	3:42.32	Vyacheslav Shabunin   Russia	3:42.44
3000 m	Driss Maazouzi   France	7:58.7	Vyacheslav Shabunin   Russia	7:59.0	Anthony Whiteman   Great Britain	8:01.0
5000 m	Mustapha Essaïd   France	13:47.44	Dmitriy Maksimov   Russia	13:48.43	Sebastian Hallmann   Germany	13:49.95
3000 m steeplechase	Bouabdellah Tahri   France	8:27.28	Damian Kallabis   Germany	8:29.16	Giuseppe Maffei   Italy	8:34.47
110 m hurdles (Wind: +1.4 m/s)	Falk Balzer   Germany	13.52	Emiliano Pizzoli   Italy	13.54	Robert Kronberg   Sweden	13.67
400 m hurdles	Chris Rawlinson   Great Britain	48.84	Ruslan Mashchenko   Russia	49.19	Fabrizio Mori   Italy	49.98
4 × 100 m	Great Britain Christian Malcolm Darren Campbell Marlon Devonish Dwain Chambers	38.41	Greece Yeóryios Theodorídis Konstadínos Kedéris Alexiós Alexópoulos Ággelos Pavlakákis	38.67	Italy Marco Torrieri Maurizio Checcucci Alessandro Cavallaro Andrea Colombo	39.17
4 × 400 m	France Bruno Wavelet Marc Foucan Dimitri Demonière Marc Raquil [3]	3:04.50	Great Britain Richard Knowles Sean Baldock Chris Rawlinson Jamie Baulch [4]	3:05.24	Hungary Zétény Dombi Zsolt Szeglet Attila Kilvinger Tibor Bédi [5]	3:05.88
High jump	Stefan Holm   Sweden	2.28	Wolfgang Kreissig   Germany	2.25	Sergey Klyugin   Russia Lambros Papakostas   Greece	2.20
Pole vault	Yevgeniy Smiryagin   Russia	5.85	Tim Lobinger   Germany	5.75	Patrik Kristiansson   Sweden	5.70
Long jump	Vitaliy Shkurlatov   Russia	8.22	Kofi Amoah Prah   Germany	8.15w	Peter Häggström   Sweden	8.08w
Triple jump	Larry Achike   Great Britain	17.31w	Fabrizio Donato   Italy	17.17w	Stamatios Lenis   Greece	17.01
Shot put	Paolo Dal Soglio   Italy	19.99	Michael Mertens   Germany	19.71	Jimmy Nordin   Sweden	19.46
Discus throw	Lars Riedel   Germany	63.30	Róbert Fazekas   Hungary	62.15	Vitaliy Sidorov   Russia	60.91
Hammer throw	Christophe Épalle   France	78.51	Alexandros Papadimitriou   Greece	77.64	Karsten Kobs   Germany	77.55
Javelin throw	Sergey Makarov   Russia	89.92	Kostas Gatsioudis   Greece	84.56	Boris Henry   Germany	82.83
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: +2.9 m/s)	Ekaterini Thanou   Greece	10.84w	Christine Arron   France	11.02w	Manuela Levorato   Italy	11.13w
200 m (Wind: -0.3 m/s)	Muriel Hurtis   France	22.70	Natalya Voronova   Russia	22.81	Andrea Philipp   Germany	22.88
400 m	Svetlana Pospelova   Russia	50.63	Donna Fraser   Great Britain	51.78	Uta Rohländer   Germany	52.17
800 m	Irina Mistyukevich   Russia	2:02.52	Linda Kisabaka   Germany	2:03.88	Patricia Djaté   France	2:04.44
1500 m	Helen Pattinson   Great Britain	4:12.05	Yelena Zadorozhnaya   Russia	4:12.20	Kristina da Fonseca-Wollheim   Germany	4:13.11
3000 m	Gabriela Szabo   Romania	8:43.33	Galina Bogomolova   Russia	8:43.45	Hayley Tullett   Great Britain	8:45.39
5000 m	Tatyana Tomashova   Russia	14:53.00	Irina Mikitenko   Germany	14:54.30	Yamna Belkacem   France	14:57.05
100 m hurdles (Wind: +0.2 m/s)	Linda Ferga   France	12.93	Maya Shemchishina   Ukraine	12.95	Yuliya Graudyn   Russia	13.08
400 m hurdles	Tatyana Tereshchuk   Ukraine	54.68	Ulrike Urbansky   Germany	56.10	Monika Niederstätter   Italy	56.33
4 × 100 m	France Katia Benth Muriel Hurtis Fabé Dia Christine Arron [3]	42.97	Russia Marina Kislova Marina Trandenkova Irina Khabarova Natalya Voronova	43.38	Germany Sina Schielke Esther Möller Andrea Philipp Marion Wagner	43.51
4 × 400 m	Russia Olesya Zykina Irina Rosikhina Yekaterina Kulikova Yuliya Sotnikova [6]	3:25.50	Germany Shanta Ghosh Ulrike Urbansky Birgit Rockmeier Uta Rohländer [6]	3:27.70	Great Britain Natasha Danvers Sinead Dudgeon Allison Curbishley Donna Fraser [6]	3:28.12
High jump	Monica Dinescu   Romania	1.93	Yuliya Lyakhova   Russia	1.91	Jo Jennings-Steele   Great Britain	1.86
Pole vault	Svetlana Feofanova   Russia	4.35	Yvonne Buschbaum   Germany	4.30	Francesca Dolcini   Italy	4.20
Long jump	Olga Rublyova   Russia	6.87	Yelena Shekhovtsova   Ukraine	6.79	Fiona May   Italy	6.74w
Triple jump	Tatyana Lebedeva   Russia	14.98	Yelena Govorova   Ukraine	14.31	Barbara Lah   Italy	13.86
Shot put	Astrid Kumbernuss   Germany	18.94	Kalliopi Ouzouni   Greece	18.16	Judy Oakes   Great Britain	18.08
Discus	Nicoleta Grasu   Romania	63.35	Ilke Wyludda   Germany	62.45	Anastasia Kelesidou   Greece	62.30
Hammer	Olga Kuzenkova   Russia	70.20	Kirsten Münchow   Germany	68.31	Manuela Montebrun   France	67.73
Javelin	Ana Mirela Termure   Romania	63.23	Tatyana Shikolenko   Russia	60.41	Mirela Tzelili   Greece	57.84
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 8 and 9 June ^[2]

Men

Group A Held in Oslo, Norway Pos. Nation Points 1   Spain 116 2   Finland 101 3   Norway 98 4   Czech Republic 93 5   Portugal 87 6   Switzerland 85 7   Belgium 82 8   Denmark 54

Group B Held in Bydgoszcz, Poland Pos. Nation Points 1   Poland 134 2   Ukraine 111 3   Netherlands 108 4   Bulgaria 86 5   Slovenia 78.5 6   Romania 77.5 7   Austria 63 8   Croatia 59

Women

Group A Held in Oslo, Norway Pos. Nation Points 1   Czech Republic 108 2   Sweden 106 3   Spain 96 4   Finland 89 5   Hungary 83 6   Portugal 72 7   Norway 71 8   Switzerland 59

Group B Held in Bydgoszcz, Poland Pos. Nation Points 1 Belarus 118 2   Bulgaria 116 3   Poland 103 4   Slovenia 94 5   Netherlands 71 6   Austria 69 7   Ireland 63 8   Croatia 44

Second League

The Second League was held on 8 and 9 June ^[2]

Men

Group A Held in Kaunas, Lithuania Pos. Nation Points 1 Belarus 132 2   Ireland 125 3 Lithuania 108 4   Estonia 100 5   Latvia 94 6   Moldova 74 7   Luxembourg 43 8   Armenia 37

Group B Held in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia Pos. Nation Points 1   Slovakia 140 2 Yugoslavia 136 3   Turkey 132 4   Cyprus 127 5   Israel 116.5 6   Iceland 70 7 AASSE 69 8   Bosnia and Herzegovina 53 9 Georgia 50.5

Women

Group A Held in Kaunas, Lithuania Pos. Nation Points 1 Lithuania 129 2   Belgium 115 3   Denmark 106 4   Estonia 100 5   Latvia 94 6   Moldova 64 7   Luxembourg 41 8   Armenia 28

Group B Held in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia Pos. Nation Points 1   Turkey 149.5 2 Yugoslavia 136 3   Slovakia 120 4   Israel 116 5   Iceland 85 6   Cyprus 83 7   Albania 64.5 8 Georgia 42 9 AASSE 37

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 28 August 2021 at the Wayback Machine (p470)
3. "L'athlétisme". gallica.bnf.fr (in French). August 2000. Retrieved 9 November 2016.
4. Mike Rowbottom (17 July 2000). "Depleted Britain achieve dream win" . independent.co.uk. Archived from the original on 1 May 2022. Retrieved 9 November 2016.
5. "Lista Anno". digilander.iol.it. Retrieved 9 November 2016.
6. "All-time Women's best 4x400m relay". www.alltime-athletics.com. 21 August 2016. Retrieved 9 November 2016.

Results

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