European Athletics Championships 1998 / women's high jump
17th European Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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discipline | high jump | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 26 athletes from 18 countries | ||||||||
venue | Budapest | ||||||||
Competition location | Népstadion | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 20 (qualifying) August 23 (final) |
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The women's high jump at the 1998 European Athletics Championships was held on August 20 and 23, 1998 in the Népstadion in the Hungarian capital, Budapest .
The European champion was the Romanian Monica Iagăr-Dinescu . She won ahead of Donata Jancewicz from Poland . Bronze went to Alina Astafei , now starting for Germany , who was second in the Olympics in 1992 - then for Romania - and in 1995 - now for Germany - had won silver at the World Cup .
Existing records
World record | 2.09 m | Stefka Kostadinova | Rome , Italy | August 30, 1987 |
European record | ||||
EM record | 2.02 m | Ulrike Meyfarth | EM Athens , Greece | September 8, 1982 |
The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.
qualification
August 20, 1998
26 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 1.93 m. Seven athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the five athletes placed next to twelve jumpers (highlighted in light green). So finally 1.90 m had to be achieved for the final.
Group A
space | Surname | nation | Height (m) |
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1 | Wita Stjopina | Ukraine | 1.93 |
Elena Gulyayeva | Russia | 1.93 | |
3 | Victoria Feodorova | Russia | 1.93 |
4th | Donata Jancewicz | Poland | 1.93 |
5 | Wenelina Wenewa | Bulgaria | 1.90 |
Alina Astafei | Germany | 1.90 | |
7th | Pia Zinck | Denmark | 1.90 |
8th | Kajsa Bergqvist | Sweden | 1.90 |
9 | Tazzjana Scheutschyk | Belarus | 1.90 |
10 | Olga Bolshova | Moldova | 1.87 |
11 | Thóra Győrffy | Hungary | 1.87 |
12 | Monika Gollner | Austria | 1.87 |
13 | Francesca Bradamante | Italy | 1.83 |
Group B
space | Surname | nation | Height (m) |
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1 | Sigrid Kirchmann | Austria | 1.93 |
2 | Monica Iagăr-Dinescu | Romania | 1.93 |
Julia Lyakova | Russia | 1.93 | |
4th | Zuzana Kováciková | Czech Republic | 1.90 |
5 | Niki Bakogianni | Greece | 1.90 |
6th | Iryna Mychaltchenko | Ukraine | 1.90 |
7th | Khristina Kalcheva | Bulgaria | 1.87 |
8th | Nelė Žilinskienė | Lithuania | 1.87 |
9 | Daniela Rath | Germany | 1.83 |
Cigdem Arslan | Turkey | 1.83 | |
11 | Ina Gliznuța | Moldova | 1.83 |
Tatyana Gulevich | Belarus | 1.83 | |
13 | Mimi Storm-Hansen | Norway | 1.78 |
final
August 23, 1998
space | Surname | nation | Height (m) |
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1 | Monica Iagăr-Dinescu | Romania | 1.97 |
2 | Donata Jancewicz | Poland | 1.95 |
3 | Alina Astafei | Germany | 1.95 |
4th | Sigrid Kirchmann | Austria | 1.92 |
5 | Wenelina Wenewa | Bulgaria | 1.92 |
6th | Elena Gulyayeva | Russia | 1.92 |
7th | Wita Stjopina | Ukraine | 1.92 |
8th | Pia Zinck | Denmark | 1.89 |
9 | Niki Bakogianni | Greece | 1.89 |
10 | Victoria Feodorova | Russia | 1.85 |
11 | Zuzana Kováciková | Czech Republic | 1.85 |
12 | Julia Lyakova | Russia | 1.85 |
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1998 at european-athletics.org, accessed October 19, 2019
- European Championship 1998 Budapest, Women High Jump on todor66.com, accessed October 19, 2019
- Track and Field Statistics, EM 1998 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on October 19, 2019
- European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women High Jump European Championship 1998 Budapest, p. 477 (PDF, 13.363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 19, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1998, high jump women on sportschau.de, accessed on October 19, 2019
- 17th European Athletics Championships 1998 in Budapest, Hungary from ifosta.de, accessed on October 19, 2019
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. High jump women , accessed October 19, 2019