European Athletics Championships 1998/100 m women

17th European Athletics Championships
discipline	100 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	30 athletes from 20 countries
venue	Budapest
Competition location	Népstadion
Competition phase	August 18th (preliminary) August 19th (semifinals / final)
Medalists Christine Arron ( FRA )   Irina Priwalowa ( RUS )   Ekateríni Thánou ( GRE )

Népstadion in Budapest

The women's 100-meter run at the 1998 European Athletics Championships was held on August 18 and 19, 1998 in the Népstadion in the Hungarian capital, Budapest .

The European champion was Christine Arron from France . In the final she set a new European record with 10.73 seconds. Second place took the Russian defending champion and World Championship -Third of 1995 Irina Priwalowa that on the title over two days 200 meters gained. Bronze went to the Greek Ekateríni Thánou .

Records

Existing records

World record	10.49 s	Florence Griffith-Joyner	Indianapolis , USA	July 16, 1988
European record	10.77 s	Irina Privaleova	Lausanne , Switzerland	July 6, 1994
EM record	10.89 s	Katrin Krabbe	EM Split , Yugoslavia	August 28, 1990

Record improvement

European champion Christine Arron improved the existing EM record twice:  

• 10.81s - 1st semi-final on August 18
• 10.73 s - final on August 18

With her winning time in the final, Christine Arron set a new European record at the same time.

Preliminary round

August 18, 1998

The preliminary round was held in four runs. The first three athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the four fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals.

Forward 1

Wind: -0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Shanna Pinusevych	Ukraine	11.06
2	Oksana Ekk	Russia	11.39
3	Frédérique Bangué	France	11.41
4th	Lucrécia Jardim	Portugal	11.47
5	Birgit Rockmeier	Germany	11.50
6th	Aksel Demirtaş-Gürcan	Turkey	11.68
7th	Éva Baráti	Hungary	11.92
8th	Tamara Shanidze	Georgia	12.04

Forward 2

Kim Gevaert missed the semifinals by one place

Wind: -0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Irina Privaleova	Russia	11.22
2	Petya Pendareva	Bulgaria	11.24
3	Odiah Sidibé	France	11.49
4th	Kim Gevaert	Belgium	11.53
5	Marit Nyberg-Birknes	Norway	11.67
6th	Irina Pukha	Ukraine	11.74
7th	Agnė Eggerth	Lithuania	11.85
8th	Vukosava Djapic	Yugoslavia	11.95

Forward 3

Johanna Manninen was eliminated as seventh of her preliminary run

Wind: -0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Christine Arron	France	11.12
2	Natallja Safronnikawa	Belarus	11.55
3	Anshela Kravchenko	Ukraine	11.59
4th	Natalia Ignatova	Russia	11.73
5	Pavlína Vostatková	Czech Republic	11.80
6th	Silke Lichtenhagen	Germany	11.85
7th	Johanna Manninen	Finland	11.94

Forward 4

Wind: +0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ekateríni Thánou	Greece	11.04
2	Melanie Paschke	Germany	11.17
3	Nora Ivanova	Bulgaria	11.25
4th	Joice Maduaka	Great Britain	11.35
5	Sanna Kyllönen	Finland	11.42
6th	Saša Prokofjev	Slovenia	11.65
7th	Rahela Market	Croatia	11.85

Semifinals

August 19, 1998

From the two semi-finals, the first four athletes - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Run 1

Joice Maduaka (here with No. 4 in a race of the UK Championships 2010) did not reach the final as seventh of her semi-final race

Wind: +1.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Christine Arron	France	10.81 CR
2	Shanna Pinusevych	Ukraine	11.00
3	Petya Pendareva	Bulgaria	11.16
4th	Frédérique Bangué	France	11.20
5	Oksana Ekk	Russia	11.21
6th	Sanna Kyllönen	Finland	11.45
7th	Joice Maduaka	Great Britain	11.49
8th	Birgit Rockmeier	Germany	11.50

Run 2

Wind: +0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ekateríni Thánou	Greece	10.92
2	Irina Privaleova	Russia	11.02
3	Melanie Paschke	Germany	11.16
4th	Anshela Kravchenko	Ukraine	11.23
5	Nora Ivanova	Bulgaria	11.23
6th	Natallja Safronnikawa	Belarus	11.32
7th	Odiah Sidibé	France	11.33
8th	Lucrécia Jardim	Portugal	11.49

• 

  Christine Arron - European champion with a European record

• 

  Fourth place for Shanna Pinusevych, 1994 Vice European Champion as Shanna Tarnopolskaja

August 19, 1998

final

Wind: +2.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Christine Arron	France	10.73 ER
2	Irina Privaleova	Russia	10.83
3	Ekateríni Thánou	Greece	10.87 NO
4th	Shanna Pinusevych	Ukraine	10.92
5	Melanie Paschke	Germany	11.07
6th	Petya Pendareva	Bulgaria	11.12
7th	Anshela Kravchenko	Ukraine	11.16
8th	Frédérique Bangué	France	11.27

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1998 at european-athletics.org, accessed October 2, 2019
• Women 100m European Championship 1998 Budapest on todor66.com, accessed October 14, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1998 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on October 14, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 100m European Championship 1998 Budapest, p. 475 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 14, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1998, 100 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on October 14, 2019
• 17th European Athletics Championships 1998 in Budapest, Hungary from ifosta.de, accessed on October 14, 2019

Video

• Women's 100m Final European Champs Budapest 1998 on youtube.com (English), accessed October 14, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 100m women , accessed October 14, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 100 m Women , Spanish / English, p. 48 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on October 14, 2019