European Athletics Championships 1998 / men's discus throw
17th European Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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discipline | Discus throw | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 31 athletes from 19 countries | ||||||||
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Competition location | Népstadion | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 22nd (qualification) August 23rd (final) |
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The men's discus throw at the 1998 European Athletics Championships was held on August 22nd and 23rd, 1998 in the Népstadion in the Hungarian capital Budapest .
In this competition, the German discus throwers achieved a double victory. European champion was the 1996 Olympic champion and four-time world champion (1991 to 1995) Lars Riedel . He won before the Olympic champion in 1988 , Olympic second in 1992, world champion in 1987 , European champion in 1990 and world record holder Jürgen Schult . Bronze went to the 1997 vice world champion Virgilijus Alekna from Lithuania.
Existing records
World record | 74.08 m |
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Neubrandenburg GDR (now Germany ) | June 6, 1986 |
European record | ||||
EM record | 67.08 m |
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EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany | August 31, 1986 |
European champion Lars Riedel missed the existing EM record of 67.08 m in the final on 23 August by just one centimeter.
qualification
August 22, 1998
31 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 63.00 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). In the end, 60.59 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.
Group A
space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
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1 | Jürgen Schult |
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63.63 |
2 | Uladsimir Dubrouschtschyk |
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63.12 |
3 | Andreas Seelig |
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61.96 |
4th | Romas Ubartas |
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61.81 |
5 | Robert Weir |
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61.36 |
6th | Virgilijus Alekna |
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60.81 |
7th | Libor Malina |
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60.69 |
8th | Nick Sweeney |
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60.36 |
9 | Olav Jenssen |
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57.78 |
10 | Timo Tompuri |
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57.52 |
11 | Ottó Benczenleitner |
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56.54 |
12 | Jean Pons |
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55.80 |
13 | Kristian Pettersson |
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54.02 |
14th | Ercüment Olgundeniz |
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53.23 |
NM | Dmitri Shevchenko |
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Group B
space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
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1 | Róbert Fazekas |
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64.07 |
2 | Lars Riedel |
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62.03 |
3 | Diego Fortuna |
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61.80 |
4th | Vaclovas Kidykas |
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61.05 |
5 | Leonid Cherewko |
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60.59 |
6th | Vitaly Sidorov |
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60.34 |
7th | Glen Smith |
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58.97 |
8th | Igor Primc |
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58.90 |
9 | Andrzej Krawczyk |
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58.09 |
10 | Mattias Borrman |
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58.06 |
11 | Aleksander Tammert |
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57.62 |
12 | Zoltán Kővágó |
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56.89 |
13 | Harri Uurainen |
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56.78 |
14th | Jean-Claude Retel |
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55.44 |
15th | Dragan Mustapic |
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54.73 |
16 | Perris Wilkins |
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53.16 |
final
August 23, 1998
Note: The symbol "x" means "invalid".
space | Surname | nation | Result (noun) | 1st attempt (m) | 2. attempt (m) | 3rd attempt (m) | 4th attempt (m) | 5th attempt (m) | 6th attempt (m) |
1 | Lars Riedel |
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67.07 | 67.07 | 66.79 | 66.27 | 66.16 | 66.01 | x |
2 | Jürgen Schult |
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66.69 | 65.81 | x | x | 66.69 | x | 66.53 |
3 | Virgilijus Alekna |
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66.46 | 66.18 | 63.93 | x | 66.46 | x | x |
4th | Róbert Fazekas |
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65.13 | 62.79 | x | 62.97 | 65.13 | 64.14 | x |
5 | Diego Fortuna |
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64.26 | 61.64 | 62.86 | 63.19 | 62.37 | 64.26 | x |
6th | Uladsimir Dubrouschtschyk |
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63.96 | 62.82 | 56.10 | 61.30 | 63.96 | x | 60.10 |
7th | Andreas Seelig |
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63.15 | 61.98 | x | x | 62.65 | x | 63.15 |
8th | Robert Weir |
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61.92 | 61.74 | 61.92 | x | 61.84 | x | 59.44 |
9 | Romas Ubartas |
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61.66 | 56.78 | 61.66 | 60.74 | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
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10 | Libor Malina |
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60.58 | 58.88 | 60.49 | 60.58 | |||
11 | Vaclovas Kidykas |
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60.21 | 59.29 | 60.21 | x | |||
12 | Leonid Cherewko |
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59.13 | 54.86 | 59.13 | x |
European champion Lars Riedel, 1996 Olympic champion and four-time world champion (1991 to 1995)
Bronze medalist Virgilijus Alekna, 1997 vice world champion
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1998 on european-athletics.org, accessed October 13, 2019
- European Championship 1998 Budapest, Men Discus Throw on todor66.com, accessed October 13, 2019
- Track and Field Statistics, EM 1998 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on October 13, 2019
- European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Discus Throw European Championship 1998 Budapest, p. 473 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 13, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1998, discus throw men on sportschau.de, accessed on October 13, 2019
- 17th European Athletics Championships 1998 in Budapest, Hungary from ifosta.de, accessed on October 13, 2019
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw men , accessed October 13, 2019