European Athletics Championships 1998 / women's triple jump

17th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Triple jump
gender	Women
Attendees	27 athletes from 16 countries
venue	Budapest
Competition location	Népstadion
Competition phase	August 19 (qualifying) August 20 (final)
Medalists Olga Vasdéki ( GRE )   Šárka Kašpárková ( CZE )   Teresa Marinowa ( BUL )

Népstadion in Budapest

The women's triple jump at the 1998 European Athletics Championships was held on August 19 and 20, 1998 in the Népstadion in the Hungarian capital, Budapest .

The European champion was the Greek Olga Vasdéki . She won ahead of the reigning world champion and Olympic third party from 1996 Šárka Kašpárková from the Czech Republic. The Bulgarian Teresa Marinowa won the bronze medal.

Existing records

World record	15.50 m	Inessa Krawez	World Cup Gothenburg , Sweden	August 10, 1995
European record
Championship record	14.89 m	Anna Biryukova	EM Helsinki , Finland	August 8, 1994

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

Wind conditions

In the following summary of results, the wind conditions for the best jumps are named. The permitted limit is two meters per second. With stronger wind support, the distance will be counted for the competition, but will not be included in the lists of records and the best.

qualification

August 19, 1998

27 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 14.20 m. Eight athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the four next-placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 14.08 m had to be achieved for the final.

Group A

13.77 m were too little for Connie Henry to make it to the finals

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)	Wind (m / s)
1	Šárka Kašpárková	Czech Republic	14.59	k. A.
2	Olga Vasdéki	Greece	14.59	+1.6
3	Jelena Lebedenko	Russia	14.18	+2.0
4th	Adelina Gavrilă	Romania	14.10	+2.8
5	Iwa Prandschewa	Bulgaria	14.08	+1.6
6th	Betty Lise	France	14.06	+0.6
7th	Gundega Sproge	Latvia	14.02	-0.2
8th	Barbara Lah	Italy	13.91	+0.8
9	Anja Valant	Slovenia	13.85	+1.1
10	Virge Naeris	Estonia	13.85	± 0.0
11	Connie Henry	Great Britain	13.77	+0.8
12	Cosmina Boaje	Romania	13.72	-0.9
13	Vera Bitanji	Albania	11.44	+0.1

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)	Wind (m / s)
1	Jelena Donkina	Russia	14.45	+1.2
2	Teresa Marinova	Bulgaria	14.43	+0.1
3	Rodica Mateescu	Romania	14.41	-0.4
4th	Olena Howorova	Ukraine	14.31	+0.8
5	Natallja Safronawa	Belarus	14.24	+1.3
6th	Paraskevi Tsiamíta	Greece	14.23	+1.5
7th	Tatiana Lebedeva	Russia	14.08	+0.8
8th	Maria Costanza Moroni	Italy	13.89	+0.6
9	Dorthe Jensen	Denmark	13.78	+1.1
10	Heli Koivula	Finland	13.75	+2.0
11	Jeļena Blaževiča	Latvia	13.62	+0.7
12	Sylvie Borda	France	13.55	+0.1
13	Ilona Pazoła	Poland	13.52	+0.2
14th	Maria Dimitrova	Bulgaria	13.40	+1.3

Silver medalist Šárka Kašpárková

Tatyana Lebedeva reaching here in fifth place - later she had great successes, including Olympic gold in 2004 , three World Cup -Titel ( 2001 /
2003 / 2007 ) and the EM -Titel 2006

final

August 20, 1998

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

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)	Wind (m / s)	Trial series of medalists
					1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt
1	Olga Vasdéki	Greece	14.55	-0.1	14.25	14.42	14.55	14.48	x	x
2	Šárka Kašpárková	Czech Republic	14.53	-1.0	14.53	14.26	14.49	x	14.09	14.52
3	Teresa Marinova	Bulgaria	14.50	-1.6	14.29	14.33	x	14.36	x	14.50
4th	Rodica Mateescu	Romania	14.46	-0.6
5	Tatiana Lebedeva	Russia	14.25	-0.7
6th	Olena Howorova	Ukraine	14.24	-0.6
7th	Natallja Safronawa	Belarus	14.01	-0.2
8th	Jelena Donkina	Russia	13.92	-1.1
9	Paraskevi Tsiamíta	Greece	13.90	-0.5
10	Jelena Lebedenko	Russia	13.82	-0.3
11	Adelina Gavrilă	Romania	13.28	-1.5
NM	Iwa Prandschewa	Bulgaria	ogV

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1998 at european-athletics.org, accessed October 19, 2019
• European Championship 1998 Budapest, Women Triple Jump on todor66.com, accessed October 19, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1998 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on October 19, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Triple Jump European Championship 1998 Budapest, p. 478 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 19, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1998, triple jump women on sportschau.de, accessed on October 19, 2019
• 17th European Athletics Championships 1998 in Budapest, Hungary from ifosta.de, accessed on October 19, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Triple jump women , accessed October 18, 2019