European Athletics Championships 1998/400 m men

17th European Athletics Championships
discipline	400 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	31 athletes from 16 countries
venue	Budapest
Competition location	Népstadion
Competition phase	August 19th (preliminary) August 20th (semi-finals) August 21st (final)
Medalist Iwan Thomas ( GBR )   Robert Maćkowiak ( POL )   Mark Richardson ( GBR )

Népstadion in Budapest

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

The British runners won two gold and bronze medals in this competition. Iwan Thomas became European champion . The Pole Robert Maćkowiak won silver. Mark Richardson was third.

Records

Existing records

World record	43.29 s	Harry Reynolds	Zurich , Switzerland	17th August 1988
European record	44.33 s	Thomas Schönlebe	World Cup Rome , Italy	3rd September 1987
EM record	44.72 s	Roger Black	EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 29, 1986

Record improvement

European champion Iwan Thomas improved the existing EM record in the final on August 21 by twenty hundredths of a second to 44.52 seconds.  

Preliminary round

August 19, 1998

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

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Tomasz Czubak	Poland	45.96
2	Dmitri Golovastov	Russia	46.16
3	Jan Poděbradský	Czech Republic	46.16
4th	Solomon Wariso	Great Britain	46.27
5	Marcel Lopuchovský	Slovakia	46.49
6th	Fred Mango	France	46.88
7th	Edoardo Vallet	Italy	47.03
8th	Eugene Farrell	Ireland	47.56

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	David Canal	Spain	45.20 NU20R
2	Ivan Thomas	Great Britain	45.44
3	Marc Foucan	France	45.59
4th	Ashraf Saber	Italy	45.64
5	Stilianós Dimótsios	Greece	46.69
6th	Bostjan Horvat	Slovenia	47.17
7th	Jan Štefja	Czechoslovakia	43.63
DNF	Mikhail Vdovin	Russia

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Robert Maćkowiak	Poland	46.17
2	Marco Vaccari	Italy	46.60
3	Innokenti Zarow	Russia	46.73
4th	Stefan Letzelter	Germany	46.73
5	Štefan Balošák	Slovakia	46.87
6th	Evripides Demosthenous	Cyprus	47.15
7th	Andrij Twerdostup	Ukraine	47.28
8th	Johan Lannefors	Sweden	47.72

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Mark Richardson	Great Britain	46.05
2	Piotr Haczek	Poland	46.26
3	Pierre-Marie Hilaire	France	46.27
4th	António Andrés	Spain	46.27
5	Konstantinos Kenteris	Greece	46.30
6th	Matija Šestak	Slovenia	46.57
7th	Péter Nyilasi	Hungary	47.16

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	Tomasz Czubak	Poland	45.22
2	Mark Richardson	Great Britain	45.41
3	Piotr Haczek	Poland	45.68
4th	Ashraf Saber	Italy	45.78
5	Dmitri Golovastov	Russia	45.93
6th	Jan Poděbradský	Czech Republic	46.01
7th	Pierre-Marie Hilaire	France	46.26
8th	António Andrés	Spain	46.59

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ivan Thomas	Great Britain	44.82
2	Robert Maćkowiak	Poland	45.08
3	David Canal	Spain	45.29
4th	Solomon Wariso	Great Britain	45.59
5	Konstantinos Kenteris	Greece	45.74
6th	Marco Vaccari	Italy	45.86
7th	Innokenti Zarow	Russia	45.92
8th	Marc Foucan	France	46.52

final

Vice European Champion Robert Maćkowiak

August 20, 1998

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ivan Thomas	Great Britain	44.52 CR
2	Robert Maćkowiak	Poland	45.04
3	Mark Richardson	Great Britain	45.14
4th	Tomasz Czubak	Poland	45.43
5	Piotr Haczek	Poland	45.46
6th	Ashraf Saber	Italy	45.67
7th	David Canal	Spain	45.93
DSQ	Solomon Wariso	Great Britain

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  In fourth place, Tomasz Czubak only missed the bronze medal by three hundredths of a second - in 1994 he was eliminated in the semi-finals

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  Piotr Haczek came in fifth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1998 at european-athletics.org, accessed October 2, 2019
• Men 400m European Championship 1998 Budapest on todor66.com, accessed October 7, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1998 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed October 7, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 400m European Championship 1998 Budapest, p. 470 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 7, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1998, 400 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on October 7, 2019
• 17th European Athletics Championships 1998 in Budapest, Hungary from ifosta.de, accessed on October 7, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 400m men , accessed October 7, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 400 m Men , p. 10 (PDF, 271 kB), Spanish / English, accessed on October 7, 2019