European Athletics Championships 1998/1500 m women

17th European Athletics Championships
discipline	1500 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	18 athletes from 12 countries
venue	Budapest
Competition location	Népstadion
Competition phase	August 21 (preliminary) August 23 (final)
Medalists Svetlana Masterkowa ( RUS )   Carla Sacramento ( POR )   Anita Weyermann ( SUI )

Népstadion in Budapest

The women's 1,500-meter run at the 1998 European Athletics Championships was held on August 21 and 23, 1998 in the Népstadion in the Hungarian capital, Budapest .

The European champion was the Russian Olympic champion in 1996 Svetlana Masterkova . Second place went to the Portuguese world champion from 1997 and World Cup third from 1995, Carla Sacramento . Bronze went to Anita Weyermann from Switzerland, who was third in the 1997 World Cup .

Existing records

World record	3: 50.46 min	Qu Yunxia	Beijing , People's Republic of China	September 11, 1993
European record	3: 52.47 min	Tatiana Kasankina	Zurich , Switzerland	August 13, 1980
EM record	3: 57.80 min	Olga Dwirna	EM Athens , Greece	September 11, 1982

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

Preliminary round

August 21, 1998

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

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Elena Buhaianu	Romania	4: 08.11
2	Carla Sacramento	Portugal	4: 08.33
3	Anita Weyermann	Switzerland	4: 08.34
4th	Lidia Chojecka	Poland	4: 08.54
5	Judit Varga	Hungary	4: 08.83
6th	Maite Zúñiga	Spain	4: 08.93
7th	Olga Koryagina	Ukraine	4: 09.81
8th	Luminita Zaituc	Germany	4: 10.08
9	Patricia Djaté-Taillard	France	4: 17.29
DNS	Malin Ewerlöf	Sweden

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Svetlana Masterkova	Russia	4: 08.62
2	Violeta Szekely	Romania	4: 08.88
3	Anna Jakubczak	Poland	4: 09.36
4th	Andrea Šuldesová	Czech Republic	4: 09.54
5	Sinead Delahunty	Ireland	4: 09.62
6th	Olena Gorodnicheva	Ukraine	4: 10.21
7th	Olga Nelyubova	Russia	4: 11.79
8th	Brigitta Tusai	Hungary	4: 12.11
9	Frédérique Quentin	France	4: 17.00

final

Lidia Chojecka finished sixth

August 23, 1998

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Svetlana Masterkova	Russia	4: 11.91
2	Carla Sacramento	Portugal	4: 12.62
3	Anita Weyermann	Switzerland	4: 13.06
4th	Anna Jakubczak	Poland	4: 13.33
5	Violeta Szekely	Romania	4: 14.66
6th	Lidia Chojecka	Poland	4: 15.00
7th	Andrea Šuldesová	Czech Republic	4: 15.04
8th	Maite Zúñiga	Spain	4: 15.10
9	Sinead Delahunty	Ireland	4: 15.38
10	Elena Buhaianu	Romania	4: 15.48
11	Olga Koryagina	Ukraine	4: 15.73
12	Judit Varga	Hungary	4: 18.25

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1998 at european-athletics.org, accessed October 16, 2019
• Women 1500m European Championship 1998 Budapest on todor66.com, accessed October 16, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1998 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on October 16, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 1500m European Championship 1998 Budapest, p. 476 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 16, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1998, 1500 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on October 16, 2019
• 17th European Athletics Championships 1998 in Budapest, Hungary from ifosta.de, accessed on October 16, 2019

Video

• Women's 1500m Final European Champs Budapest 1998 on youtube.com (English), accessed on October 16, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 1500m women , accessed October 16, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 1500 m Women , Spanish / English, p. 53 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on October 16, 2019