European Athletics Championships 1998 / Women's discus throw

17th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Women
Attendees	29 athletes from 19 countries
venue	Budapest
Competition location	Népstadion
Competition phase	August 19 (qualification) August 21 (final)
Medalists Franka Dietzsch ( GER )   Natalja Sadowa ( RUS )   Nicoleta Grasu ( ROM )

Népstadion in Budapest

The women's discus throw at the 1998 European Athletics Championships was held on August 19 and 21, 1998 in the Népstadion in the Hungarian capital, Budapest .

The German thrower Franka Dietzsch became European champion . Silver went to the Russian Olympic runner-up from 1996 and Vice World Champion from 1997 Natalja Sadowa . The Romanian Nicoleta Grasu came in third place.

Existing records

World record	76.80 m	Gabriele Reinsch	Neubrandenburg , GDR (now Germany )	July 9, 1988
European record
EM record	71.36 m	Diana Sachse	EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 28, 1986

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

qualification

August 19, 1998

29 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 64.00 m. Three athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the nine next placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 61.46 m had to be achieved for the final.

Group A

Mélina Robert-Michon had no chance of reaching the final with 47.88 m

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Elina Swerava	Belarus	66.55
2	Nicoleta Grasu	Romania	64.25
3	Ilke Wyludda	Germany	62.97
4th	Iryna Yatchanka	Belarus	61.55
5	Anastasia Kelesidou	Greece	61.55
6th	Stylianí Tsikoúna	Greece	61.46
7th	Valentina Ivanova	Russia	59.67
8th	Anna Söderberg	Sweden	59.57
9	Jacqueline Goormachtigh	Netherlands	59.52
10	Eha Rünne	Estonia	58.28
11	Katarzyna Żakowicz	Poland	56.99
12	Agnese Maffeis	Italy	55.08
13	Daniela Curovic	Yugoslavia	54.57
14th	Oksana Mert	Russia	53.77
15th	Mélina Robert-Michon	France	47.88

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Franka Dietzsch	Germany	65.61
2	Natalia Sadova	Russia	62.94
3	Anja Möllenbeck	Germany	62.48
4th	Ekaterini Vongoli	Greece	62.33
5	Olena Antonova	Ukraine	62.17
6th	Teresa Machado	Portugal	61.70
7th	Marzena Zbrojewska	Poland	60.70
8th	Manuela Tîrneci	Romania	59.42
9	Zdeňka Šilhavá	Czech Republic	58.39
10	Tiina Kankaanpää	Finland	58.22
11	Lyudmila Filimonova	Belarus	57.41
12	Renata Gustaitytė	Lithuania	55.37
13	Shelley Drew	Great Britain	53.12
14th	Hüsniye Keskin	Turkey	51.55

final

European champion Franka Dietzsch

August 21, 1998

Note: The symbol "x" means "invalid".

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)	Trial series of the first six
				1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt
1	Franka Dietzsch	Germany	67.49	65.91	65.83	64.84	x	65.66	67.49
2	Natalia Sadova	Russia	66.94	63.08	x	64.81	62.69	x	66.94
3	Nicoleta Grasu	Romania	65.94	65.94	52.45	62.75	62.88	64.08	65.70
4th	Elina Swerava	Belarus	65.92	61.78	64.59	64.15	65.92	63.29	63.85
5	Ekaterini Vongoli	Greece	63.56	61.16	x	59.52	59.51	63.56	x
6th	Ilke Wyludda	Germany	63.46	61.38	63.46	61.59	61.71	x	61.72
7th	Anastasia Kelesidou	Greece	62.95
8th	Iryna Yatchanka	Belarus	61.20
9	Teresa Machado	Portugal	60.90
10	Anja Möllenbeck	Germany	60.78
11	Olena Antonova	Ukraine	60.26
12	Stylianí Tsikoúna	Greece	57.07

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  Bronze medalist Nicoleta Grasu

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  The Olympic champion in 1996 , two-time European champion ( 1990 / 1994 ) and two-time World silver medalist ( 1991 / 1995 ) ilke wyludda had to settle for sixth place

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  Iryna Yatchenko finished eighth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1998 at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 22, 2019
• European Championship 1998 Budapest, Women Discus Throw on todor66.com, accessed October 22, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1998 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on October 22, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Discus Throw European Championship 1998 Budapest, p. 478 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 22, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1998, discus throw women on sportschau.de, accessed on October 22, 2019
• 17th European Athletics Championships 1998 in Budapest, Hungary from ifosta.de, accessed on October 22, 2019

Video

• DT-Dietzsch-EC 1998-best.mpg on youtube.com (English), accessed on October 22, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw women , accessed October 22, 2019