European Athletics Championships 1998/400 m hurdles for women
17th European Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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discipline | 400 meter hurdles | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 24 athletes from 18 countries | ||||||||
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Competition location | Népstadion | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 19th (preliminary) August 21st (final) |
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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 |
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Gothenburg , Sweden | August 11, 1995 |
European record | 52.74 s |
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WM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany | 19th August 1993 |
EM record | 53.32 s |
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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
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
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1 | Silvia Rieger |
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54.50 |
2 | Tetiana Tereshchuk |
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54.65 |
3 | Ester Goosens |
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54.85 |
4th | Petra Söderström |
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56.23 |
5 | Tatiana Kurochkina |
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57.05 |
6th | Meta Mačus |
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57.28 |
7th | Julia Pechonkina |
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58.26 |
8th | Orsolya Dóczi |
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58.76 |
Forward 2
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
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1 | Ionela Târlea |
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54.89 |
2 | Guðrún Arnardóttir |
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55.21 |
3 | Ulrike Urbansky |
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55.63 |
4th | Ekaterina Bachvalova |
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55.69 |
5 | Frida Svensson |
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56.55 |
6th | Ann Mercken |
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57.39 |
7th | Lara Rocco |
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57.51 |
8th | Rikke Ronholt |
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58.55 |
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/DanversTasha.jpg/180px-DanversTasha.jpg)
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) |
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1 | Susan Smith |
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55.65 |
2 | Anna Knoros |
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55.68 |
3 | Judit Szekeres |
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55.86 |
4th | Gesine Schmidt |
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56.40 |
5 | Monika Niederstätter |
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56.74 |
6th | Tasha Danvers |
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57.19 |
7th | Mari Bjone |
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58.13 |
8th | Florence Delaune |
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59.01 |
final
August 21, 1998
space | Surname | nation | Time (s) |
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1 | Ionela Târlea |
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53.37 NO |
2 | Tetiana Tereshchuk |
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54.07 |
3 | Silvia Rieger |
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54.45 |
4th | Guðrún Arnardóttir |
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54.59 NO |
5 | Ester Goosens |
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54.62 NO |
6th | Ulrike Urbansky |
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55.38 |
7th | Anna Knoros |
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55.47 |
8th | Susan Smith |
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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
- ↑ IAAF world records. 400 m hurdles women , accessed on October 18, 2019
- ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 100 m Women , Spanish / English, p. 56 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on October 18, 2019