European Athletics Championships 1998 / men's hammer throw
17th European Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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discipline | Hammer throw | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 36 athletes from 18 countries | ||||||||
venue | Budapest | ||||||||
Competition location | Népstadion | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 18 (qualifying) August 19 (final) |
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The men's hammer throw at the 1998 European Athletics Championships was held on August 18 and 19, 1998 in the Népstadion in the Hungarian capital, Budapest .
In this competition the Hungarian hammer throwers achieved a double victory. European champion was the World Cup -Third of 1995 Tibor Gécsek . Second place went to the 1996 Olympic champion, Balázs Kiss . The German Karsten Kobs won the bronze medal.
Existing records
World record | 86.74 m | Yuri Sedych | EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany | August 30, 1986 |
European record | ||||
EM record |
The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.
qualification
August 18, 1998
36 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 77.00 m. Seven athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the five next-placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 75.75 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.
Group A
space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
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1 | Adrian Annus | Hungary | 79.52 |
2 | Christos Polichroniou | Greece | 77.99 |
3 | Heinz Weis | Germany | 77.46 |
4th | Ihar Astapkovich | Belarus | 77.43 |
5 | Szymon Ziółkowski | Poland | 76.66 |
6th | Wladyslaw Piskunow | Ukraine | 76.24 |
7th | Vasily Sidorenko | Russia | 75.60 |
8th | Andrij Skwaruk | Ukraine | 75.56 |
9 | Loris Paoluzzi | Italy | 75.00 |
10 | Enrico Sgrulletti | Italy | 74.91 |
11 | Sergei Kirmasov | Russia | 74.50 |
12 | Gilles Dupray | France | 73.92 |
13 | Andras Haklits | Croatia | 73.41 |
14th | Pavel Sedláček | Czech Republic | 72.68 |
15th | Vítor Costa | Portugal | 72.28 |
16 | Ivan Zichan | Belarus | 71.50 |
17th | Paddy McGrath | Ireland | 66.25 |
NM | Marko Wahlman | Finland | ogV |
Group B
space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
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1 | Tibor Gécsek | Hungary | 79.44 |
2 | Ilya Konovalov | Russia | 78.09 |
3 | Baláz's Kiss | Hungary | 78.06 |
4th | Karsten Kobs | Germany | 76.57 |
5 | Oleksandr Krykun | Ukraine | 75.90 |
6th | Christophe Épalle | France | 75.75 |
7th | Nicola Vizzoni | Italy | 74.65 |
8th | Vladimír Maška | Czech Republic | 74.12 |
9 | Holger Klose | Germany | 74.05 |
10 | David Chaussinand | France | 73.30 |
11 | Olli-Pekka Karjalainen | Finland | 73.13 |
12 | Jan Bielecki | Poland | 72.48 |
13 | Alexandros Papadimitriou | Greece | 72.47 |
14th | Maciej Pałyszko | Poland | 72.03 |
15th | Mikalai Aulasevich | Belarus | 69.11 |
16 | Per Karlsson | Sweden | 67.20 |
17th | Dorian Çollaku | Albania | 64.88 |
18th | Roman Linscheid | Ireland | 63.75 |
final
August 19, 1998
space | Surname | nation | Result (noun) | 1st attempt (m) | 2. attempt (m) | 3rd attempt (m) | 4th attempt (m) | 5th attempt (m) | 6th attempt (m) |
1 | Tibor Gécsek | Hungary | 82.87 | 80.64 | x | 81.66 | x | 82.87 | 82.25 |
2 | Baláz's Kiss | Hungary | 81.26 | 80.96 | 80.71 | x | 78.87 | 80.38 | 81.26 |
3 | Karsten Kobs | Germany | 80.13 | x | 77.83 | 75.22 | x | 80.13 | x |
4th | Heinz Weis | Germany | 80.04 | 76.89 | 80.04 | 78.79 | x | 77.28 | 77.15 |
5 | Szymon Ziółkowski | Poland | 78.16 | x | x | 77.38 | x | x | 78.16 |
6th | Christos Polichroniou | Greece | 77.97 | x | 77.97 | x | 74.95 | 77.43 | x |
7th | Ihar Astapkovich | Belarus | 77.81 | x | x | 77.81 | x | x | 76.93 |
8th | Adrian Annus | Hungary | 77.29 | 75.77 | 76.19 | x | 77.29 | 76.43 | 76.09 |
9 | Ilya Konovalov | Russia | 76.11 | 76.11 | 75.66 | 75.33 | not in the final of the eight best throwers |
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10 | Wladyslaw Piskunow | Ukraine | 75.10 | x | 74.30 | 75.10 | |||
11 | Oleksandr Krykun | Ukraine | 74.34 | 74.34 | 73.41 | x | |||
12 | Christophe Épalle | France | 74.00 | 70.33 | 74.00 | 72.82 |
Bronze medalist Karsten Kobs - a year later he became world champion
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1998 on european-athletics.org, accessed October 13, 2019
- European Championship 1998 Budapest, Men Hammer 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 Hammer 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, men's hammer throw 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. Hammer Throw Men , accessed October 13, 2019