European Athletics Championships 1998/400 m women

17th European Athletics Championships
discipline	400 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	27 athletes from 17 countries
venue	Budapest
Competition location	Népstadion
Competition phase	August 19th (preliminary) August 20th (semi-finals) August 21st (final)
Medalists Grit Breuer ( GER )   Helena Fuchsová ( CZE )   Olga Kotlyarova ( RUS )

Népstadion in Budapest

The women's 400-meter run at the 1998 European Athletics Championships was held from 19 to 21 August 1998 in the Népstadion in the Hungarian capital, Budapest .

European champion was the German European champion from 1990 and vice world champion from 1991 Grit Breuer . She won ahead of the Czech Helena Fuchsová . Bronze went to the Russian Olga Kotlyarova .

Existing records

World record	47.60 s	Marita Koch	Canberra , Australia	October 6, 1985
European record
EM record	48.16 s		EM Athens , Greece	September 8, 1982

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

Preliminary round

August 19, 1998

The preliminary round was held in four runs. The first three athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the four fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Uta Rohländer	Germany	52.37
2	Irina Rossichina	Russia	52.97
3	Fabienne Ficher	France	53.05
4th	Mariana Florea	Romania	53.22
5	Maria Carmo Tavares	Portugal	53.32
6th	Virna De Angeli	Italy	53.42
DNF	Dijana Kojic	Bosnia and Herzegovina

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Grit Breuer	Germany	51.60
2	Patrizia Spuri	Italy	51.82
3	Jitka Burianová	Czech Republic	52.62
4th	Otilia Ruicu	Romania	52.66
5	Ekaterina Kulikova	Russia	52.83
6th	Hanna Kosak	Belarus	53.30
7th	Kristina Perica	Croatia	53.93

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Olga Kotlyarova	Russia	51.62
2	Donna Fraser	Great Britain	52.20
3	Annamária Bori	Hungary	52.69
4th	Lana Jekabesone	Latvia	52.84
5	Alina Râpanu	Romania	53.35
6th	Francesca Carbone	Italy	53.72
DNF	Dora Kyriacou	Cyprus

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Helena Fuchsová	Czech Republic	51.61
2	Allison Curbishley	Great Britain	52.05
3	Karen Shinkins	Ireland	52.13
4th	Olena Rurak	Ukraine	52.49
5	Hristina Panagou	Greece	52.89
6th	Barbara Petráhn	Hungary	53.43

Semifinals

August 20, 1998

From the two semi-finals, the first four athletes - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Grit Breuer	Germany	50.79
2	Allison Curbishley	Great Britain	51.43
3	Patrizia Spuri	Italy	51.74
4th	Olena Rurak	Ukraine	52.36
5	Karen Shinkins	Ireland	52.40
6th	Jitka Burianová	Czech Republic	52.41
7th	Lana Jekabesone	Latvia	52.76
8th	Irina Rossichina	Russia	53.62

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Helena Fuchsová	Czech Republic	50.87
2	Uta Rohländer	Germany	51.04
3	Olga Kotlyarova	Russia	51.08
4th	Donna Fraser	Great Britain	52.05
5	Fabienne Ficher	France	52.95
6th	Annamária Bori	Hungary	53.11
7th	Otilia Ruicu	Romania	53.17
8th	Ekaterina Kulikova	Russia	53.25

• 

  Grit Breuer (front) became European champion for the second time in eight years

• 

  Donna Fraser reached number six

final

August 21, 1998

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Grit Breuer	Germany	49.93
2	Helena Fuchsová	Czech Republic	50.21
3	Olga Kotlyarova	Russia	50.38
4th	Uta Rohländer	Germany	50.48
5	Allison Curbishley	Great Britain	51.05
6th	Donna Fraser	Great Britain	51.54
7th	Olena Rurak	Ukraine	51.92
8th	Patrizia Spuri	Italy	51.94

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1998 at european-athletics.org, accessed October 2, 2019
• Women 400m European Championship 1998 Budapest on todor66.com, accessed October 15, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1998 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on October 15, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 400m European Championship 1998 Budapest, p. 475 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 15, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1998, 400 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on October 15, 2019
• 17th European Athletics Championships 1998 in Budapest, Hungary from ifosta.de, accessed on October 15, 2019

Video

• Women's 400m Final European Champs Budapest 1998 on youtube.com (English), accessed October 15, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 400m women , accessed October 15, 2019