European Athletics Championships 1998/200 m women

17th European Athletics Championships
discipline	200 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	32 athletes from 19 countries
venue	Budapest
Competition location	Népstadion
Competition phase	August 20 (preliminary) August 21 (semi-finals / finals)
Medalists Irina Priwalowa ( RUS )   Shanna Pintusevich ( UKR )   Melanie Paschke ( GER )

The women's 200-meter run at the 1998 European Athletics Championships was held on August 20 and 21, 1998 in the Népstadion in the Hungarian capital, Budapest .

The European champion was the Russian defending champion and runner-up in 1997, Irina Priwalowa , who had finished second over 100 meters two days earlier . She won in front of the reigning world champion Shanna Pintussewytsch from Ukraine. Bronze went to the German Melanie Paschke .

Existing records

World record	21.34 s	Florence Griffith-Joyner	Olympic Games Seoul , South Korea	September 29, 1988
European record	21.71 s	Marita Koch	Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz ), GDR (now Germany )	June 10, 1979
			Potsdam , GDR (now Germany )	July 21, 1984
		Heike Drechsler	Jena , GDR (now Germany )	June 29, 1986
			EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 9, 1986
EM record	21.71 s	Heike Drechsler	EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 9, 1986

Népstadion in Budapest

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved. In almost all races, the sprinters had to struggle with strong headwinds, so that it was impossible to improve records.

Preliminary round

August 20, 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.

Manuela Levorato was eliminated as fifth in her preliminary run

Johanna Manninen could not qualify for the semi-finals as sixth of the first heat

Forward 1

Wind: −2.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Natalia Voronova	Russia	23.32
2	Sabrina Mulrain	Germany	23.53
3	Erika Suchovská	Czech Republic	23.56
4th	Dolphins Combe	France	23.82
5	Manuela Levorato	Italy	24.01
6th	Johanna Manninen	Finland	24.10
7th	Sarah Wilhelmy	Great Britain	24.11
8th	Tamara Shanidze	Georgia	24.91

Forward 2

Wind: −1.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Shanna Pinusevych	Ukraine	23.02
2	Katharine Merry	Great Britain	23.23
3	Lucrécia Jardim	Portugal	23.24
4th	Gabi Rockmeier	Germany	23.29
5	Monika Gachevska	Bulgaria	23.50
6th	Natallja Salahub	Belarus	23.54
7th	Hana Benešová	Czech Republic	24.04
8th	Rahela Market	Croatia	24.77

Forward 3

Wind: −1.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Natallja Safronnikawa	Belarus	23.29
2	Irina Privaleova	Russia	23.34
3	Melanie Paschke	Germany	23.43
4th	Kinga Leszczynska	Poland	23.59
5	Katia Benth	France	23.69
6th	Pavlína Vostatková	Czech Republic	23.98
7th	Vukosava Djapic	Yugoslavia	24.33
8th	Enikő Szabó	Hungary	24.39

Forward 4

Wind: −0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Nora Ivanova	Bulgaria	22.91
2	Svetlana Goncharenko	Russia	23.06
3	Katerína Kóffa	Greece	23.24
4th	Kim Gevaert	Belgium	23.27
5	Alenka Bikar	Slovenia	23.32
6th	Fabé Dia	France	23.43
7th	Tetjana Bonenko	Ukraine	23.51
8th	Sanna Kyllönen	Finland	23.70

Semifinals

August 21, 1998

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

Run 1

Kim Gevaert - over 100 meters she was eliminated in the preliminary run, here she reached the semi-finals

Wind: −1.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Natalia Voronova	Russia	23.09
2	Nora Ivanova	Bulgaria	23.26
3	Sabrina Mulrain	Germany	23.39
4th	Erika Suchovská	Czech Republic	23.43
5	Svetlana Goncharenko	Russia	23.44
6th	Lucrécia Jardim	Portugal	23.47
7th	Fabé Dia	France	23.66
8th	Kim Gevaert	Belgium	23.74

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  Katharine Merry (here as a reporter in 2013) missed the final by one place

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  Alenka Bikar finished sixth in the second semifinals and was eliminated

Run 2

Wind: -1.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Shanna Pinusevych	Ukraine	22.92
2	Irina Privaleova	Russia	23.02
3	Melanie Paschke	Germany	23.14
4th	Gabi Rockmeier	Germany	23.36
5	Katharine Merry	Great Britain	23.38
6th	Alenka Bikar	Slovenia	23.42
7th	Natallja Safronnikawa	Belarus	23.60
8th	Katerína Kóffa	Greece	23.68

Vice European champion Shanna Pintussewytsch

final

August 21, 1998

Wind: −0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Irina Privaleova	Russia	22.62
2	Shanna Pinusevych	Ukraine	22.74
3	Melanie Paschke	Germany	22.78
4th	Natalia Voronova	Russia	22.80
5	Nora Ivanova	Bulgaria	23.02
6th	Sabrina Mulrain	Germany	23.04
7th	Gabi Rockmeier	Germany	23.08
8th	Erika Suchovská	Czech Republic	23.18

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1998 at european-athletics.org, accessed October 2, 2019
• Women 200m European Championship 1998 Budapest on todor66.com, accessed October 15, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1998 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on October 15, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 200m European Championship 1998 Budapest, p. 475 (PDF, 13.363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 15, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1998, 200 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on October 15, 2019
• 17th European Athletics Championships 1998 in Budapest, Hungary from ifosta.de, accessed on October 15, 2019

Video

• Women's 200m Final European Champs 1998 on youtube.com (English), accessed October 15, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 200m women , accessed December 29, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 200 m Women , Spanish / English, p. 50 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on December 29, 2019