European Athletics Championships 1998/100 m hurdles for women

17th European Athletics Championships
discipline	100 meter hurdles
gender	Women
Attendees	19 athletes from 14 countries
venue	Budapest
Competition location	Népstadion
Competition phase	23 August (preliminary / final)
Medalists Svetla Dimitrova ( BUL )   Brigita Bukovec ( SLO )   Irina Korotja ( RUS )

Népstadion in Budapest

The women's 100-meter hurdles at the 1998 European Athletics Championships was held on August 23, 1998 in the Népstadion in the Hungarian capital, Budapest .

The Bulgarian defending champion and vice world champion in 1997, Svetla Dimitrova , became European champion . She won Brigita Bukovec before the Slovenian Olympic runner-up in 1996 . Bronze went to the Russian Irina Korotja .

Existing records

World record	12.21 s	Jordanka Donkova	Stara Sagora , Bulgaria	20th August 1988
European record
EM record	12.38 s		EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 29, 1986

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

Preliminary round

August 23, 1998

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

Forward 1

Seventh place was not enough for Johanna Halkoaho to take part in the finals

Wind: +0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Svetla Dimitrova	Bulgaria	12.62
2	Nicole Ramalalanirina	France	13.03
3	Heike Blaßneck	Germany	13.07
4th	Julie Baumann	Switzerland	13.16
5	Anna Leszczynska-Lazor	Poland	13.25
6th	Sandra Turpin	Portugal	13.58
7th	Johanna Halkoaho	Finland	13.69

Forward 2

Susan Smith-Walsh was eliminated as fifth in their preliminary run

Wind: -0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Irina Korotja	Russia	13.09
2	Patricia Girard	France	13.18
3	Caren Sonn	Germany	13.29
4th	Nadezhda Bodrova	Ukraine	13.47
5	Susan Smith-Walsh	Ireland	13.51
6th	Anita Trump	Latvia	13.65

Forward 3

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Brigita Bukovec	Slovenia	12.94
2	Linda Ferga	France	13.34
3	Olena Krassowska	Ukraine	13.43
4th	Tatiana Reshetnikova	Russia	13.48
5	Andrea Novotná	Czech Republic	13.51
6th	María José Mardomingo	Spain	13.66

final

August 23, 1998

Wind: +1.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Svetla Dimitrova	Bulgaria	12.56
2	Brigita Bukovec	Slovenia	12.65
3	Irina Korotja	Russia	12.85
4th	Nicole Ramalalanirina	France	12.87
5	Patricia Girard	France	12.89
6th	Heike Blaßneck	Germany	13.02
7th	Julie Baumann	Switzerland	13.15
8th	Linda Ferga	France	13.22

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1998 at european-athletics.org, accessed October 2, 2019
• Women 100m Hurdles 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 100m Hurdles European Championship 1998 Budapest, p. 477 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 17, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1998, 100 m hurdles 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 100m Hurdles Final European Champs Budapest 1998 on youtube.com (English), accessed October 17, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 100 m hurdles women , accessed on October 17, 2019