European Athletics Championships 1998/110 m hurdles of men

17th European Athletics Championships
discipline	110 meter hurdles
gender	Men
Attendees	20 athletes from 14 countries
venue	Budapest
Competition location	Népstadion
Competition phase	August 21 (preliminary) August 22 (semi-finals / finals)
Medalist Colin Jackson ( GBR )   Falk Balzer ( GER )   Robin Korving ( NED )

Népstadion in Budapest

The men's 110-meter hurdles at the 1998 European Athletics Championships took place on August 21 and 22, 1998 in the Népstadion in the Hungarian capital, Budapest .

The European champion was the British world champion from 1993 for the third time in a row , vice world champion from 1997 , Olympic runner-up in 1988 and world record holder Colin Jackson . He won ahead of the German Falk Balzer . The Dutchman Robin Korving took third place .

Records

Existing records

World record	12.91 s	Colin Jackson	WM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 20, 1993
European record
Championship record	13.04 s		EM Helsinki , Finland	August 12, 1994

Record improvement / setting

European champion Colin Jackson improved his own EM record by two hundredths of a second to 13.02 seconds:  

• in the first semi-final on August 22nd
• in the final on August 22nd (record equalized)

Preliminary round

August 21, 1998

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

Forward 1

Wind: k. A.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Mike Fenner	Germany	13.52
2	Jonathan Nsenga	Belgium	13.53
3	Guntis Peders	Latvia	13.66
4th	Vincent Clarico	France	13.68
5	Mauro Rossi	Italy	13.83
6th	Krzysztof Mehlich	Poland	13.89
7th	Sergey Khodanovich	Belarus	14.36
8th	Zoran Miljuš	Croatia	14.48

Forward 2

Wind: k. A.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Falk Balzer	Germany	13.47
2	Artur Kohutek	Poland	13.48
3	Sébastien Thibault	France	13.65
4th	Andy Tulloch	Great Britain	13.81
5	Peter Coghlan	Ireland	14.00
6th	Ivan Bitzi	Switzerland	14.01
7th	Dimítrios Siatoúnis	Greece	14.38

Forward 3

Elmar Lichtenegger missed a place in the next round

Wind: -1.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Colin Jackson	Great Britain	13.31
2	Florian Schwarthoff	Germany	13.64
3	Dan Philibert	France	13.78
4th	Elmar Lichtenegger	Austria	13.96
5	Igors Kazanovs	Latvia	14.04
6th	Gaute Gundersen	Norway	14.17
7th	Zhivko Videnov	Bulgaria	14.44

Forward 4

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Tony Jarrett	Great Britain	13.51
2	Robin Korving	Netherlands	13.61
3	Staņislavs Olijars	Latvia	13.62
4th	Sven Pieters	Belgium	13.85
5	Raphal Monachon	Switzerland	13.98
6th	Balázs Kovács	Hungary	14.22
7th	Hipólito Montesinos	Spain	14.30
8th	Ronald Mehlich	Poland	14.44

Semifinals

August 22, 1998

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

Run 1

Staņislavs Olijars did not reach the goal - in 2002 he became vice European champion and 2006 European champion

Wind: +1.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Colin Jackson	Great Britain	13.02 CR
2	Florian Schwarthoff	Germany	13.19
3	Jonathan Nsenga	Belgium	13.25 NO
4th	Mike Fenner	Germany	13.29
5	Dan Philibert	France	13.43
6th	Vincent Clarico	France	13.53
7th	Mauro Rossi	Italy	13.62
DNF	Staņislavs Olijars	Latvia

Run 2

Sven Pieters missed the final as fifth in his semi-final race

Wind: –2.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Falk Balzer	Germany	13.24
2	Robin Korving	Netherlands	13.31
3	Tony Jarrett	Great Britain	13.31
4th	Artur Kohutek	Poland	13.47
5	Sven Pieters	Belgium	13.69
6th	Guntis Peders	Latvia	13.78
7th	Andy Tulloch	Great Britain	13.79
8th	Sébastien Thibault	France	13.86

final

Third EM -Titel in a row for Colin Jackson, who in addition also twice world champion ( 1993 / 1999 ), Olympic silver ( 1988 ) and other medals won

August 22, 1998

Wind: +1.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Colin Jackson	Great Britain	13.02 CRe
2	Falk Balzer	Germany	13.12
3	Robin Korving	Netherlands	13.20
4th	Florian Schwarthoff	Germany	13.23
5	Artur Kohutek	Poland	13.29
6th	Tony Jarrett	Great Britain	13.32
7th	Mike Fenner	Germany	13.38
8th	Jonathan Nsenga	Belgium	13.54

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  Vice European Champion Falk Balzer (left)

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  Artur Kohutek came in fifth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1998 at european-athletics.org, accessed October 2, 2019
• Men 110m Hurdles 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 110m Hurdles European Championship 1998 Budapest, p. 472 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 8, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1998, 110 m hurdles 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

• Men's 110m Hurdles Final European Champs Budapest 1998 on youtube.com (English), accessed October 8, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Men's 110-meter hurdles , accessed October 8, 2019