European Athletics Championships 1998/200 m men

17th European Athletics Championships
discipline	200 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	31 athletes from 22 countries
venue	Budapest
Competition location	Népstadion
Competition phase	August 20 (preliminary) August 21 (semi-finals / finals)
Medalist Douglas Walker ( GBR )   Douglas Turner ( GBR )   Julian Golding ( GBR )

Népstadion in Budapest

The men'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 .

In this competition, all three medals went to the sprinters from Great Britain. Douglas Walker was European champion ahead of Douglas Turner and Julian Golding .

Existing records

World record	19.32 s	Michael Johnson	Olympic Games Atlanta , USA	August 1, 1996
European record	19.72 s	Pietro Mennea	Mexico City , Mexico	September 12, 1979
Championship record	20.11 s	John Regis	EM Split , Yugoslavia	August 30, 1990

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

Preliminary round

August 20, 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: −1.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Julian Golding	Great Britain	20.39
2	Troy Douglas	Netherlands	20.55
3	Christophe Cheval	France	20.59
4th	Yeóryios Panayiotópoulos	Greece	21.05
5	Daniel Bittner	Germany	21.09
6th	Martín Morkes	Czech Republic	21.14
7th	Piotr Balcerzak	Poland	21.22
8th	Martin Plesničar	Slovenia	21.35

Forward 2

Wind: −0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Prodomos Katsontonis	Cyprus	20.76
2	Alessandro Attene	Italy	20.96
3	Erik Wijmeersch	Belgium	21.02
4th	Manuel Milde	Germany	21.08
5	Tamás Mezei	Israel	21.09
6th	Harri Kivelä	Finland	21.14
7th	Martin Briňarský	Slovakia	21.32
8th	Kevin Widmer	Switzerland	21.37

As sixth of his heat, Panayiótis Sarrís did not qualify for the next round

Marcin Urbaś did not reach the finish line in his run-up

Wind: −0.8 m / s

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Douglas Turner	Great Britain	20.63
2	Anninos Marcoullides	Greece	20.74
3	Gary Ryan	Ireland	20.76
4th	Patrick van Balkom	Netherlands	20.88
5	Resat Oguz	Turkey	21.10
6th	Panayiótis Sarrís	Greece	21.24
7th	Mario Bonello	Malta	21.65
DNF	Marcin Urbaś	Poland

Forward 4

Wind: −0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Rodrigue Nordin	France	20.52
2	Geir Moen	Norway	20.64
3	Douglas Walker	Great Britain	20.67
4th	Torbjörn Eriksson	Sweden	20.85
5	Petko Yankov	Bulgaria	20.89
6th	Francisco Javier Navarro	Spain	21.22
7th	Paul Brizzel	Ireland	21.25

Semifinals

August 21, 1998

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

Run 1

Erik Wijmeersch (right) was disqualified in the first semi-final run

Wind: −0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Julian Golding	Great Britain	20.61
2	Troy Douglas	Netherlands	20.65
3	Prodomos Katsontonis	Cyprus	20.80
4th	Christophe Cheval	France	20.87
5	Torbjörn Eriksson	Sweden	21.00
6th	Alessandro Attene	Italy	21.04
7th	Yeóryios Panayiotópoulos	Greece	21.15
DSQ	Erik Wijmeersch	Belgium

Run 2

Wind: −1.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Douglas Walker	Great Britain	20.74
2	Douglas Turner	Great Britain	20.89
3	Rodrigue Nordin	France	21.00
4th	Geir Moen	Norway	21.01
5	Patrick van Balkom	Netherlands	21.04
6th	Petko Yankov	Bulgaria	21.08
7th	Anninos Marcoullides	Greece	21.14
8th	Gary Ryan	Ireland	21.28

final

Troy Douglas reached the final and was disqualified there

August 21, 1998

Wind: −0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Douglas Walker	Great Britain	20.53
2	Douglas Turner	Great Britain	20.64
3	Julian Golding	Great Britain	20.72
4th	Geir Moen	Norway	20.78
5	Rodrigue Nordin	France	20.83
6th	Christophe Cheval	France	20.91
7th	Prodomos Katsontonis	Cyprus	21.24
DSQ	Troy Douglas	Netherlands

Douglas initially took fourth place just behind Golding. The decision was made based on the target photo. When Douglas protested this ruling violently, he was eventually disqualified.

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1998 at european-athletics.org, accessed October 2, 2019
• Men 200m European Championship 1998 Budapest on todor66.com, accessed October 7, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1998 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed October 7, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 200m European Championship 1998 Budapest, p. 470 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 7, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1998, 200 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on October 7, 2019
• 17th European Athletics Championships 1998 in Budapest, Hungary from ifosta.de, accessed on October 7, 2019

Video

• Men's 200m Final European Champs Budapest 1998 on youtube.com (English), accessed October 7, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 200 m men , accessed October 7, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 200 m Men , Spanish / English, p. 9 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on October 7, 2019