European Athletics Championships 1998/800 m men

17th European Athletics Championships
discipline	800 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	34 athletes from 23 countries
venue	Budapest
Competition location	Népstadion
Competition phase	August 21 (preliminary) August 22 (semi-finals) August 23 (final)
Medalist Nils Schumann ( GER )   André Bucher ( SUI )   Lukáš Vydra ( CZE )

Népstadion in Budapest

The 800-meter run for men at the 1998 European Athletics Championships was held from August 21 to 23, 1998 in the Népstadion in the Hungarian capital, Budapest .

European champion was the German Nils Schumann . He won ahead of the Swiss André Bucher . Bronze went to the Czech Lukáš Vydra .

Existing records

World record	1: 41.11 min	Wilson Kipketer	Cologne , Germany	August 24, 1997
European record
Championship record	1: 43.84 min	Olaf Beyer	EM Prague , Czechoslovakia	August 31, 1978

The European Championship record, which had existed since 1978 , remained unchanged at these European championships.

Preliminary round

August 21, 1998

The preliminary round was carried out in five runs. The first two athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the six fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Balázs Korányi	Hungary	1: 47.32
2	Andrea Longo	Italy	1: 47.32
3	Nico Motchebon	Germany	1: 47.40
4th	Andy Hart	Great Britain	1: 47.90
5	Duarte Ponte	Portugal	1: 48.65
6th	Urmet Uusorg	Estonia	1: 49.42
7th	Víctor Martínez	Andorra	1: 50.54

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	James McIlroy	Ireland	1: 46.81
2	Giuseppe D'Urso	Italy	1: 46.82
3	Roberto Parra	Spain	1: 46.91
4th	Viktors Lācis	Latvia	1: 47.58
5	Sergei Koshevnikov	Russia	1: 47.71
6th	Balázs Tölgyesi	Hungary	1: 48.29
7th	Vanco Stojanov	Macedonia	1: 49.00

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Nathan Kahan	Belgium	1: 47.02
2	André Bucher	Switzerland	1: 47.05
3	Wilson Kirwa	Finland	1: 47.10
4th	Ivan Komar	Belarus	1: 47.14
5	Wojciech Kałdowski	Poland	1: 47.17
6th	David Matthews	Ireland	1: 47.39

Gert-Jan Liefers missed the semi-finals by one place

Paweł Czapiewski was eliminated as sixth of his preliminary run

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Nils Schumann	Germany	1: 46.12
2	Wilson Kipketer	Denmark	1: 46.19
3	Gert-Jan Liefers	Netherlands	1: 47.57
4th	Panagiotis Stroubakos	Greece	1: 47.70
5	Aliaksandr Trutsko	Belarus	1: 48.19
6th	Paweł Czapiewski	Poland	1: 49.24
7th	Rizak Dirshe	Sweden	1: 49.76

Forward 5

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Lukáš Vydra	Czech Republic	1: 48.20
2	James Nolan	Ireland	1: 48.36
3	Giacomo Mazzoni	Italy	1: 48.74
4th	Miklós Árpási	Hungary	1: 49.41
5	Tarik Bourrouag	Germany	1: 49.56
6th	José Antonio Redolat	Spain	1: 49.86
7th	David Divad	France	1: 50.87

Semifinals

August 22, 1998

In each of the two semi-finals, the first three athletes - highlighted in light blue - and the two fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

Run 1

Wilson Kirwa was sixth in his semi-final race and was eliminated

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Nils Schumann	Germany	1: 47.28
2	Lukáš Vydra	Czech Republic	1: 47.62
3	James McIlroy	Ireland	1: 47.66
4th	Andrea Longo	Italy	1: 47.67
5	Wojciech Kałdowski	Poland	1: 48.10
6th	Wilson Kirwa	Finland	1: 48.19
7th	Nathan Kahan	Belgium	1: 48.39
8th	David Matthews	Ireland	1: 49.65

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	André Bucher	Switzerland	1: 47.68
2	Balázs Korányi	Hungary	1: 47.70
3	Wilson Kipketer	Denmark	1: 47.79
4th	Ivan Komar	Belarus	1: 48.14
5	Nico Motchebon	Germany	1: 48.19
6th	James Nolan	Ireland	1: 48.50
7th	Giuseppe D'Urso	Italy	1: 48.95
8th	Roberto Parra	Spain	1: 49.26

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  Nils Schumann (here in third position in a race in 2008) surprisingly became European champion

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  Wilson Kipketer (on the photo after his world record the year before) finished eighth in this final after a collision with Schumann in the finish curve

final

August 23, 1998

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Nils Schumann	Germany	1: 44.89
2	André Bucher	Switzerland	1: 45.04
3	Lukáš Vydra	Czech Republic	1: 45.23
4th	James McIlroy	Ireland	1: 45.46
5	Balázs Korányi	Hungary	1: 45.78
6th	Wojciech Kałdowski	Poland	1: 46.60
7th	Andrea Longo	Italy	1: 46.66
8th	Wilson Kipketer	Denmark	1: 50.13

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1998 at european-athletics.org, accessed October 7, 2019
• Men 800m 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 800m European Championship 1998 Budapest, p. 471 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 7, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1998, 800 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

Video

• Men's 800m Final European Champs Budapest 1998 on youtube.com (English), accessed October 7, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 800m men , accessed October 7, 2019