European Athletics Championships 1998 / 10,000 m women

17th European Athletics Championships
discipline	10,000 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	17 athletes from 13 countries
venue	Budapest
Competition location	Népstadion
Competition phase	August 19th
Medalists Sonia O'Sullivan ( IRL )   Fernanda Ribeiro ( POR )   Lidia Șimon ( ROM )

Népstadion in Budapest

The women's 10,000-meter run at the 1998 European Athletics Championships was held on August 19, 1998 in the Népstadion in the Hungarian capital, Budapest .

The European champion was the Irish 3000 meter European champion from 1994 and 5000 meter world champion from 1995 Sonia O'Sullivan , who also won the title over 5000 meters four days later . The Portuguese defending champion, Olympic champion in 1996 , world champion in 1995 and vice world champion in 1997 Fernanda Ribeiro won the silver medal. Bronze went to the Romanian Lidia Șimon .

Existing records

World record	29: 31.78 min	Wang Junxia	Beijing , People's Republic of China	September 8, 1993
European record	30: 13.74 min	Ingrid Kristiansen	Oslo , Norway	5th July 1986
Championship record	30: 23.25 min		EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 30, 1986

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

execution

As usual on the longest track, there was no preliminary round, all seventeen participants started in a joint final.

final

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

August 19, 1998

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Sonia O'Sullivan	Ireland	31: 29.33
2	Fernanda Ribeiro	Portugal	31: 32.32
3	Lidia Șimon	Romania	31: 32.64
4th	Olivera Jevtić	Yugoslavia	31: 34,26 NO
5	Paula Radcliffe	Great Britain	31: 36.51
6th	Julia Vaquero	Spain	31: 46.47
7th	Annemari Sandell	Finland	32: 22.50
8th	Irina Mikitenko	Germany	32: 30.67
9	María Luisa Larraga	Spain	32: 37.10
10	Lyudmila Biktasheva	Russia	32: 37.64
11	Maria Guida	Spain	32: 39.16
12	Anikó Kálovics	Hungary	33: 09.87
13	Hilde Hovdenak	Norway	33: 11.88
14th	Helena Javornik	Slovenia	33: 16.40
DNF	Alla Shilyayeva	Russia
	Lidija Vasilevskaya	Russia
	Maria Abel	Spain

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  The silver medal went to defending champion Fernanda Ribeiro, 1996 Olympic champion, 1995 world champion and 1997 vice world champion

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  Bronze medalist Lidia Șimon

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  Olivera Jevtić came fourth over 5000 meters , as she did later

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  Paula Radcliffe - in the years to come one of the leading long-distance runners worldwide, including European champion on this route in 2002 - finished fifth

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  Irina Mikitenko finished eighth in this final

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  Anikó Kálovics reached number twelve

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  Helena Javornik was fourteenth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1998 at european-athletics.org, accessed October 17, 2019
• Women 10000m 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 10000m 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, 10,000 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 10,000m European Champs Budapest 1998 on youtube.com (English), accessed October 17, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 10,000m women , accessed October 17, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 10000 m Women , Spanish / English, p. 54 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on October 17, 2019