European Athletics Championships 1998/400 m hurdles for women

17th European Athletics Championships
discipline	400 meter hurdles
gender	Women
Attendees	24 athletes from 18 countries
venue	Budapest
Competition location	Népstadion
Competition phase	August 19th (preliminary) August 21st (final)
Medalists Ionela Târlea ( ROM )   Tetjana Tereshchuk ( UKR )   Silvia Rieger ( GER )

Népstadion in Budapest

The women's 400 meter hurdles at the 1998 European Athletics Championships took place on August 19 and 21, 1998 in the Népstadion in the Hungarian capital, Budapest .

The European champion was the Romanian Ionela Târlea . The Ukrainian Tetiana Tereschchuk won the silver medal. Bronze went to Silvia Rieger, the German EM runner-up in 1994 .

Existing records

World record	52.61 s	Kim Batten	Gothenburg , Sweden	August 11, 1995
European record	52.74 s	Sally Gunnell	WM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	19th August 1993
EM record	53.32 s	Marina Stepanova	EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 30, 1986

European champion Ionela Târlea missed the existing EM record in the final on August 21 by just five hundredths of a second.  

Preliminary round

August 19, 1998

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

Forward 1

Julija Petschonkina's successes were yet to come - here she was eliminated as seventh of her preliminary run

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Silvia Rieger	Germany	54.50
2	Tetiana Tereshchuk	Ukraine	54.65
3	Ester Goosens	Netherlands	54.85
4th	Petra Söderström	Finland	56.23
5	Tatiana Kurochkina	Belarus	57.05
6th	Meta Mačus	Slovenia	57.28
7th	Julia Pechonkina	Russia	58.26
8th	Orsolya Dóczi	Hungary	58.76

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ionela Târlea	Romania	54.89
2	Guðrún Arnardóttir	Iceland	55.21
3	Ulrike Urbansky	Germany	55.63
4th	Ekaterina Bachvalova	Russia	55.69
5	Frida Svensson	Sweden	56.55
6th	Ann Mercken	Belgium	57.39
7th	Lara Rocco	Italy	57.51
8th	Rikke Ronholt	Denmark	58.55

Tasha Danvers (here with Olympic bronze 2008 ) did not reach the final as sixth of her preliminary run

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Susan Smith	Ireland	55.65
2	Anna Knoros	Russia	55.68
3	Judit Szekeres	Hungary	55.86
4th	Gesine Schmidt	Germany	56.40
5	Monika Niederstätter	Italy	56.74
6th	Tasha Danvers	Great Britain	57.19
7th	Mari Bjone	Norway	58.13
8th	Florence Delaune	France	59.01

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  Ulrike Urbansky (right, in 2007) reached sixth place

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  Susan Smith, later Susan Smith-Walsh, finished eighth in this final

final

August 21, 1998

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ionela Târlea	Romania	53.37 NO
2	Tetiana Tereshchuk	Ukraine	54.07
3	Silvia Rieger	Germany	54.45
4th	Guðrún Arnardóttir	Iceland	54.59 NO
5	Ester Goosens	Netherlands	54.62 NO
6th	Ulrike Urbansky	Germany	55.38
7th	Anna Knoros	Russia	55.47
8th	Susan Smith	Ireland	55.61

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 18, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1998 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on October 18, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 100m European Championship 1998 Budapest, p. 476 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 18, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1998, 400 m hurdles women on sportschau.de, accessed on October 18, 2019
• 17th European Athletics Championships 1998 in Budapest, Hungary from ifosta.de, accessed on October 18, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 400 m hurdles women , accessed on October 18, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 100 m Women , Spanish / English, p. 56 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on October 18, 2019