European Athletics Championships 1998/5000 m women

17th European Athletics Championships
discipline	5000 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	21 athletes from 13 countries
venue	Budapest
Competition location	Népstadion
Competition phase	August 23
Medalists Sonia O'Sullivan ( IRL )   Gabriela Szabo ( ROM )   Marta Domínguez ( ESP )

Népstadion in Budapest

The women's 5000-meter run at the 1998 European Athletics Championships was held on August 23, 1998 in the Népstadion in the Hungarian capital, Budapest .

For the first time, the distance of the second longest railway line at European Championships was 5000 meters for both women and men and no longer as before 3000 meters.

The European champion was the Irish 3000 meter European champion from 1994 and 5000 meter world champion from 1995 Sonia O'Sullivan , who had already won the 10,000 meter title four days earlier . She won in front of the Romanian Olympic champion from 1996 , world champion from 1997 and European Championship third in the 3000 meters from 1994 Gabriela Szabo . Bronze went to Marta Domínguez from Spain .

Existing records

World record	14: 28.09 min	Jiang Bo	Shanghai , People's Republic of China	October 23, 1997
European record	14: 36.45 min	Fernanda Ribeiro	Hechtel , Belgium	July 22, 1995
EM record	Competition for the first time in the program of European championships

European champion Sonia O'Sullivan set the first European Championship record in the race on August 23 with 15: 06.50 minutes , which should be valid for eight years.  

execution

There was no preliminary round for only 21 participants. All runners entered the final together.

final

Double European champion over 5000 and 10,000 meters Sonia O'Sullivan, 1995 world champion and 1994 3000 meter European champion

August 23, 1998

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Sonia O'Sullivan	Ireland	15: 06.50 CR
2	Gabriela Szabo	Romania	15: 08.31
3	Marta Domínguez	Spain	15: 10.54
4th	Olivera Jevtić	Yugoslavia	15: 16.61 NO
5	Annemari Sandell	Finland	15: 20.87
6th	Blandine Bitzner	France	15: 38.61
7th	Valerie Vaughan	Ireland	15: 39.99
8th	Teresa Recio	Spain	15: 40.54
9	Kristina da Fonseca-Wollheim	Germany	15: 42.07
10	Anikó Javos	Hungary	15: 53.18
11	Olga Yegorova	Russia	15: 54.82
12	Dorte Vibjerg	Denmark	15: 57.56
13	Estíbaliz Urrutia	Spain	16: 02.81
14th	Una English	Ireland	16: 03.62
15th	Dorota Gruca	Poland	16: 05.68
16	Jeļena Čelnova	Latvia	16: 21.75
17th	Yelena Kopytova	Russia	16: 26.41
DNF	Helena Javornik	Slovenia
	Éva Dóczi	Hungary
	Joalsiae Llado	France
	Svetlana Bajgulowa	Russia

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  Vice European Champion Gabriela Szabo. she was Olympic champion in 1996 , world champion in 1997 and in 1994 European Championship third over 3000 meters

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  Bronze medalist Marta Domínguez - she was European champion on this route in 2002 and 2006 , later she was suspended from doping, results between August 5, 2009 and January 4, 2013 were revoked

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  Olivera Jevtić came fourth, just like over 10,000 meters

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  Jeļena Čelnova (here at the 2007 Boston Marathon ) came in sixteenth

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  Helena Javornik - here at the marathon in Zagreb 2011 - did not finish this race

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1998 at european-athletics.org, accessed October 17, 2019
• Women 5000m European Championship 1998 Budapest on todor66.com, accessed October 17, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1998 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on October 17, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 5000m European Championship 1998 Budapest, p. 476 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 17, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1998, 5000 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on October 17, 2019
• 17th European Athletics Championships 1998 in Budapest, Hungary from ifosta.de, accessed on October 17, 2019

Video

• Women's 5000m European Champs Budapest 1998 on youtube.com (English), accessed October 17, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records, 5000 m women , on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on October 17, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 5000 m Women , Spanish / English, p. 54 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on October 17, 2019
3. ↑ Marta Dominguez loses her world title , Spiegel Online January 20, 2015, accessed on October 17, 2019