European Athletics Championships 1998 / 10,000 m men

17th European Athletics Championships
discipline	10,000 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	21 athletes from 14 countries
venue	Budapest
Competition location	Népstadion
Competition phase	18th of August
Medalist António Pinto ( POR )   Dieter Baumann ( GER )   Stéphane Franke ( GER )

Népstadion in Budapest

The men's 10,000-meter run at the 1998 European Athletics Championships was held on August 18, 1998 in the Népstadion in the Hungarian capital, Budapest .

With silver and bronze, the German long-distance runners won two medals in this competition. European champion was the Portuguese António Pinto . Second place went to Dieter Baumann , who became Olympic champion in 1992 and European champion in 1994 over 5000 meters . As in 1994, Stéphane Franke won the bronze medal.

Existing records

World record	26: 22.75 min	Haile Gebrselassie	Hengelo , Netherlands	June 1, 1998
European record	27: 13.81 min	Fernando Mamede	Stockholm , Sweden	2nd June 1984
Championship record	27: 30.99 min	Martti Vainio	EM Prague , Czechoslovakia	August 29, 1978

The European Championship record, which has existed since 1978 , was not touched at these European championships either.

execution

As usual on the longest track, there was no preliminary round, all 21 participants started in a joint final.

final

For the first time, Dieter Baumann became vice European champion over 10,000 meters - he repeated this success again in 2002 after his doping ban had expired

August 18, 1998

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Antonio Pinto	Portugal	27: 48.62
2	Dieter Baumann	Germany	27: 56.75
3	Stéphane Franke	Germany	27: 59.90
4th	Jon Brown	Great Britain	28: 02.33
5	Bruno Toledo	Spain	28:15, 17
6th	Enrique Molina	Spain	28: 19.54
7th	Rachid Berradi	Italy	28: 22.32
8th	Kamiel Maase	Netherlands	28: 26.37
9	Carsten Jørgensen	Denmark	28: 31.44
10	Róbert Štefko	Slovakia	28: 31.59
11	Keith Cullen	Great Britain	28: 34.34
12	Simone Zanon	Italy	28: 43.23
13	Metin Sazak	Turkey	28: 48.66
14th	Paulo Guerra	Portugal	28: 52.66
15th	Mickaël Thomas	France	29: 01.96
16	Zoltán Káldy	Hungary	29: 09.63
17th	Stéphane Schweickhardt	Switzerland	29: 18.42
18th	Claes Nyberg	Sweden	29: 28.88
19th	Viktor Röthlin	Switzerland	29: 37.52
DNF	Julio Rey	Spain
	Jan Pešava	Czech Republic

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  Kamiel Maase finished eighth

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  Viktor Röthlin came in nineteenth - he celebrated his greatest success in 2010 as European marathon champion

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1998 at european-athletics.org, accessed October 8, 2019
• Men 10000m European Championship 1998 Budapest on todor66.com, accessed October 8, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1998 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed October 8, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 10000m European Championship 1998 Budapest, p. 471 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 8, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1998, 10,000 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on October 8, 2019
• 17th European Athletics Championships 1998 in Budapest, Hungary from ifosta.de, accessed on October 8, 2019

Video

• European Champs 10,000m final - Budapest 1998 on youtube.com (English), accessed October 8, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 10,000 m men , accessed October 8, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 10000 m Men , Spanish / English, p. 14 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on October 8, 2019
3. ↑ Dieter Baumann: Chronology of a doping case , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / faz.net, April 2, 2002, accessed on October 8, 2019