European Athletics Championships 1998/800 m women

17th European Athletics Championships
discipline	800 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	31 athletes from 17 countries
venue	Budapest
Competition location	Népstadion
Competition phase	August 18th (preliminary) August 19th (semi-finals) August 20th (final)
Medalists Jelena Afanassjewa ( RUS )   Malin Ewerlöf ( SWE )   Stephanie Graf ( AUT )

Népstadion in Budapest

The 800-meter run for women at the 1998 European Athletics Championships was held from August 18 to 20, 1998 in the Népstadion in the Hungarian capital, Budapest .

European champion was the Russian vice world champion from 1997 Jelena Afanassjewa . The Swede Malin Ewerlöf took second place . The Austrian Stephanie Graf won the bronze medal.

Existing records

World record	1: 53.28 min	Jarmila Kratochvílová	Munich , FR Germany	July 26, 1983
European record
EM record	1: 55.41 min	Olga Mineeva	EM Athens , Greece	September 8, 1982

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

Preliminary round

August 18, 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.

Forward 1

Nuria Fernández was eliminated in eighth place in her run

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Violeta Szekely	Romania	1: 59.98
2	Malin Ewerlöf	Sweden	2: 00.17
3	Aleksandra Dereń	Poland	2: 00.31
4th	Diane Modahl	Great Britain	2: 00.52
5	Sandra Stals	Belgium	2: 02.34
6th	Brigitte Mühlbacher	Austria	2: 04.02
7th	Virginie Fouquet	France	2: 04.20
8th	Nuria Fernández	Spain	2: 04.89

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  Seventh place in her preliminary run was not enough for Iryna Lishchynska to take part in the semi-finals

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  Claudia Gesell could not qualify for the next round as eighth of the second heat

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Jelena Afanassjewa	Russia	1: 59.98
2	Viviane Dorsile	France	2: 00.31
3	Natallja Duchnowa	Belarus	2: 00.33
4th	Irina Krakoviak	Lithuania	2: 01.04
5	Petya Strashilova	Bulgaria	2: 01.42
6th	Ana Menéndez	Spain	2: 01.63
7th	Iryna Lishchynska	Ukraine	2: 02.78
8th	Claudia Gesell	Germany	2: 03.20

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Stephanie Graf	Austria	2: 00.25
2	Natalia Zyganova	Russia	2: 00.84
3	Ludmila Formanová	Czech Republic	2: 01.13
4th	Maria Akraka	Sweden	2: 01.32
5	Pilar Barreiro	Spain	2: 01.60
6th	Olena Buschenko	Ukraine	2: 02.36
7th	Judit Varga	Hungary	2: 03.05
8th	Elena Antoci	Romania	2: 04.01

Ella Kovacs finished sixth in her preliminary run and was eliminated

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Larissa Mikhailova	Russia	2: 02.03
2	Heike Meissner	Germany	2: 02.20
3	Tsvetelina Kirilova	Bulgaria	2: 02.37
4th	Anita Brägger	Switzerland	2: 02.50
5	Patricia Djaté-Taillard	France	2: 02.60
6th	Ella Kovacs	Romania	2: 02.85
7th	Monica Lundgren	Sweden	2: 03.05
DNS	Stella Jongmans	Netherlands

Semifinals

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  As in 1994 , Diane Modahl was eliminated in the semi-finals

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  Ludmila Formanová was sixth in her semi-final run and was eliminated

Maria Akraka did not reach the final as the seventh of her semi-final race

August 19, 1998

In each of the two semi-finals, the first three athletes - highlighted in light blue - as well as the two fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Larissa Mikhailova	Russia	1: 59.33
2	Stephanie Graf	Austria	1: 59.50
3	Tsvetelina Kirilova	Bulgaria	1: 59.77
4th	Natallja Duchnowa	Belarus	1: 59.95
5	Diane Modahl	Great Britain	2: 00.08
6th	Ludmila Formanová	Czech Republic	2: 00.88
7th	Maria Akraka	Sweden	2: 01.13
8th	Natalia Zyganova	Russia	2: 01.96

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Jelena Afanassjewa	Russia	1: 59.22
2	Malin Ewerlöf	Sweden	1: 59.44
3	Violeta Szekely	Romania	1: 59.71
4th	Heike Meissner	Germany	1: 59.71
5	Viviane Dorsile	France	2: 00.26
6th	Petya Strashilova	Bulgaria	2: 01.54
7th	Aleksandra Dereń	Poland	2: 02.22
8th	Irina Krakoviak	Lithuania	2: 06.29

final

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  Vice European Champion Malin Ewerlöf

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  Bronze medalist Stephanie Graf

August 20, 1998

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Jelena Afanassjewa	Russia	1: 58.50
2	Malin Ewerlöf	Sweden	1: 59.61
3	Stephanie Graf	Austria	2: 00.11
4th	Violeta Szekely	Romania	2: 00.56
5	Tsvetelina Kirilova	Bulgaria	2: 00.66
6th	Heike Meissner	Germany	2: 01.36
7th	Natallja Duchnowa	Belarus	2: 02.14
DNF	Larissa Mikhailova	Russia

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1998 at european-athletics.org, accessed October 16, 2019
• Women 800m 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 800m 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, 800 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

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 800m women , accessed October 16, 2019