1998 European Cup (athletics) explained

1998 European Cup
Host City:	St. Petersburg, Russia
Dates:	27–28 June (Super Leagues) 5–7 June (First & Second Leagues)
Level:	Senior
Type:	Outdoor
Events:	39
Previous:	1997 Munich
Next:	1999 Paris

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

See 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		111
2		108.5
3		102
4		101
5		89.5
6		87
7		67.5
8		52.5

Women
Pos.	Nation	Points
1		124
2		108
3		93
4		89
5		81
6		78
7		64
8		45

Results summary

Men's events

100 m (Wind: -0.4 m/s)	Stéphane Cali	10.32	Aleksandr Porkhomovskiy	10.40	Colin Jackson	10.41
200 m (Wind: +1.4 m/s)	Douglas Walker	20.42	Christophe Cheval	20.61	Alessandro Attene	20.69
400 m	Mark Richardson	45.81	Jan Podebradský	46.10	Dmitriy Golovastov	46.50
800 m	Andrea Longo	1:45.40	Lukáš Vydra	1:45.92	Andy Hart	1:46.19
1500 m	Giuseppe D'Urso	3:44.58	Reyes Estévez	3:44.91	John Mayock	3:45.09
3000 m	Dieter Baumann	7:41.92	Manuel Pancorbo	7:42.24	Anthony Whiteman	7:43.61
5000 m	Alberto García	13:37.45	Mustapha Essaïd	13:37.79	Stéphane Franke	13:38.90
3000 m steeplechase	Alessandro Lambruschini	8:32.96	André Green	8:34.21	Mohamed Bélabbès	8:35.12
110 m hurdles (Wind: 0.0 m/s)	Colin Jackson	13.17	Falk Balzer	13.22	Jean-Marc Grava	13.63
400 m hurdles	Ruslan Mashchenko	48.49	Fabrizio Mori	48.57	Steffen Kolb	49.43
4 × 100 m	Allyn Condon Darren Campbell Doug Walker Julian Golding	38.56	Emmanuel Bangué Frédéric Krantz Christophe Cheval Stéphane Cali	38.90	Sergey Bychkov Aleksandr Porkhomovskiy Andrey Grigoriev Andrey Fedoriv	39.13
4 × 400 m	Roger Black Jamie Baulch Iwan Thomas Mark Richardson	3:00.95	Walter Pirovano Marco Vaccari Edoardo Vallet Fabrizio Mori	3:03.45	Bruno Wavelet Marc Foucan Marc Raquil Fred Mango	3:03.57
High jump	Sergey Klyugin	2.28	Ben Challenger	2.28	Tomáš Janku	2.25
Pole vault	Yevgeniy Smiryagin	5.60	Javier García Heikki Vääräniemi	5.50
Long jump	Kirill Sosunov	8.38	Milan Kovár	8.14	Nathan Morgan	7.85
Triple jump	Jonathan Edwards	17.29	Jirí Kuntoš	16.91	Hrvoje Verzi	16.74
Shot put	Mika Halvari	20.79	Oliver-Sven Buder	19.97	Manuel Martínez	19.86
Discus throw	Dmitriy Shevchenko	65.14	Jürgen Schult	64.37	Diego Fortuna	62.49
Hammer throw	Heinz Weis	79.68	Ilya Konovalov	79.68	Enrico Sgrulletti	78.13
Javelin throw	Boris Henry	84.77	Sergey Makarov	84.37	Aki Parviainen	84.33

Women's events

100 m (Wind: +1.2 m/s)	Irina Privalova	11.04	Christine Arron	11.14	Andrea Philipp	11.26
200 m (Wind: -0.9 m/s)	Erika Suchovská	22.96	Sylviane Félix	22.96	Melanie Paschke	22.98
400 m	Helena Fuchsová	51.33	Irina Rosikhina	51.48	Allison Curbishley	51.48
800 m	Larisa Mikhaylova	1:58.01	Irina Lishchinskaya	1:59.15	Ludmila Formanová	1:59.44
1500 m	Olga Komyagina	4:05.88	Paula Radcliffe	4:05.92	Andrea Šuldesová	4:06.25
3000 m	Olga Yegorova	9:04.03	Blandine Bitzner-Ducret	9:06.74	Luminita Zaituc	9:10.18
5000 m	Paula Radcliffe	15:06.87	Kristina da Fonseca-Wollheim	15:10.33	Joalsiae Llado	15:17.58
100 m hurdles (Wind: 0.0 m/s)	Brigita Bukovec	12.89	Patricia Girard	12.89	Tatyana Reshetnikova	13.06
400 m hurdles	Tatyana Tereshchuk	54.15	Yekaterina Bakhvalova	54.72	Silvia Rieger	54.93
4 × 100 m	Yekaterina Grigoryeva Galina Malchugina Natalya Voronova Irina Privalova	42.49	Melanie Paschke Gabi Rockmeier Birgit Rockmeier Andrea Philipp	42.59	Linda Khodadin Christine Arron Patricia Girard Sylviane Félix	42.61
4 × 400 m	Tatyana Chebykina Natalya Khrushchelyova Yekaterina Bakhvalova Irina Rosikhina	3:25.52	Jitka Burianová Ludmila Formanová Hana Benešová Helena Fuchsová	3:28.05	Michelle Pierre Donna Fraser Michelle Thomas Allison Curbishley	3:28.07
High jump	Zuzana Kováčiková	1.98	Alina Astafei	1.95	Yelena Gulyayeva	1.95
Pole vault	Daniela Bártová	4.35 CR	Janine Whitlock	4.30	Nicole Rieger	4.20
Long jump	Fiona May	7.08	Lyudmila Galkina	6.84	Linda Ferga	6.75
Triple jump	Fiona May	14.65	Šárka Kašpárková	14.63	Yelena Govorova	14.13
Shot put	Irina Korzhanenko	20.65	Judy Oakes	18.38	Stephanie Storp	18.38
Discus throw	Natalya Sadova	64.18	Anja Möllenbeck	60.80	Yelena Antonova	59.28
Hammer throw	Olga Kuzenkova	65.89	Kirsten Münchow	64.86	Cécile Lignot	61.12
Javelin throw	Tanja Damaske	62.30	Nikola Tomecková	60.82	Oksana Makarova	58.38

First League

The First League was held on 5 and 6 June^[2]

Men

Group A
Held in Budapest, Hungary

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		120.5
2		107.5
3		105
4		88
5		88
6		74
7		68.5
8		63.5

Group B
Held in Malmö, Sweden

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		125.5
2		106.5
3		97.5
4		96.5
5	Belarus	86
6		74
7		70
8		63

Women

Group A
Held in Budapest, Hungary

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		135
2		102.5
3		94
4		89
5		82
6		74
7		69.5
8		37

Group B
Held in Malmö, Sweden

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		117
2	Belarus	108
3		95
4		88
5		78
6		69
7		68
8		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		89
2		83.5
3		79.5
4		68
5	Lithuania	62
6	AASSE	38

Group B
Held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		129
2		110
3		107
4		101
5		99
6		75
7		46
8		37

Women

Group A
Held in Kaunas, Lithuania

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		105
2		98
3	Lithuania	89
4		79
5		76
6		57
7	AASSE	25

Group B
Held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		136
2		125
3		95
4		92
5		89
6		62
7		41
8		16

External links

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

Notes and References

Web site: The SPAR European Cup: Memories of Europe's premier team athletics event . european-athletics.org . 3 November 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131006060426/http://www.european-athletics.org/event-archive.html?id=98 . 6 October 2013 .
http://asdpedaggio-castiglionetorinese.com/files/annuario-fidal.pdf 2010 Italian almanach