European Athletics Championships 1998 / Men's Shot Put

17th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot put
gender	Men
Attendees	28 athletes from 16 countries
venue	Budapest
Competition location	Népstadion
Competition phase	August 18 (qualification / final)
Medalist Oleksandr Bahatsch ( UKR )   Oliver-Sven Buder ( GER )   Jurij Bilonoh ( UKR )

Népstadion in Budapest

The shot put men at the 1998 European Athletics Championships was on 18 August 1998 in Népstadion the Hungarian capital Budapest discharged. Qualification and final took place on the same day.

In this competition, the Ukrainian shot putters won two medals, gold and bronze. The European champion was the Olympic third in 1996 and Vice European champion in 1994 Oleksandr Bahatsch . He won ahead of the German runner-up in 1997, Oliver-Sven Buder . Bronze went to Jurij Bilonoh .

Existing records

World record	23.12 m	Randy Barnes	Los Angeles , USA	May 20, 1990
European record	23.06 m	Ulf Timmermann	Chania - Crete , Greece	May 22, 1988
EM record	22.22 m	Werner Günthör	EM Stuttgart , Germany	August 28, 1986

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

qualification

August 18, 1998

28 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 20.00 m. Three athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the nine next-placed athletes to twelve athletes (highlighted in light green). So finally 19.20 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Oliver-Sven Buder	Germany	20.33
2	Jurij Bilonoh	Ukraine	19.76
3	Arsi Harju	Finland	19.76
4th	Paolo Dal Soglio	Italy	19.75
5	Gheorghe Guşet	Romania	19.32
6th	Timo Aaltonen	Finland	19.28
7th	Fernando Alves	Portugal	19.20
8th	Oliver Dück	Germany	19.12
9	Pavol Pankúch	Slovakia	18.95
10	Henrik Wennberg	Sweden	18.48
11	Pétur Guðmundsson	Iceland	17.89
NM	Stéphane Vial	France	ogV
	Viktor Bulat	Belarus
	Mark Proctor	Great Britain

Andrej Michnewitsch retired with 18.88 m in the qualification

Mika Halvari finished sixth in the final

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Oleksandr Bahach	Ukraine	20.47
2	Dragan Peric	Yugoslavia	20.44
3	Mika Halvari	Finland	19.76
4th	Manuel Martínez	Spain	19.54
5	Michael Mertens	Germany	19.28
6th	Vasily Wirastyuk	Ukraine	19.15
7th	Attila Pintér	Hungary	18.94
8th	Andrei Michnewitsch	Belarus	18.88
9	Corrado Fantini	Italy	18.64
10	Mikuláš Konopka	Slovakia	18.63
11	Saulius Kleiza	Lithuania	18.57
12	Milan Haborák	Slovakia	18.10
13	Shaun Pickering	Great Britain	17.80
NM	Soeren Tallhem	Sweden	ogV

final

August 18, 1998

Note: The symbol "x" means "invalid".

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	Oleksandr Bahach	Ukraine	21.17	20.02	20.26	20.99	20.98	21.10	21.17
2	Oliver-Sven Buder	Germany	20.98	20.47	20.69	20.55	20.44	20.98	20.82
3	Jurij Bilonoh	Ukraine	20,, 92	20.05	20.31	20.45	x	20.45	20.92
4th	Dragan Peric	Yugoslavia	20.65	20.28	20.46	x	20.37	x	20.65
5	Paolo Dal Soglio	Italy	20.50	19.91	20.50	x	x	19.45	x
6th	Mika Halvari	Finland	20.33	19.91	20.29	20.33	19.64	20.14	19.94
7th	Manuel Martínez	Spain	20.02	20.02	19.21	19.35	18.50	19.23	x
8th	Michael Mertens	Germany	19.67	19.45	19.25	19.67	19.21	19.37	19.38
9	Arsi Harju	Finland	19.54	19.54	19.33	x	not in the final of the eight best athletes
10	Gheorghe Guşet	Romania	18.87	18.68	18.87	18.73
11	Fernando Alves	Portugal	18.84	18.84	x	18.54
12	Timo Aaltonen	Finland	18.59	18.03	18.27	18.59

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1998 on european-athletics.org, accessed October 11, 2019
• European Championship 1998 Budapest, Men Shot Put on todor66.com, accessed October 11, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1998 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on October 11, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Shot Put European Championship 1998 Budapest, p. 473 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 11, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1998, men's shot put on sportschau.de, accessed on October 11, 2019
• 17th European Athletics Championships 1998 in Budapest, Hungary from ifosta.de, accessed on October 11, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put men , accessed October 11, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, Shot Put Men , p. 28 (PDF, 271 kB), Spanish / English, accessed on October 11, 2019