European Athletics Championships 1998 / women's high jump

17th European Athletics Championships
discipline	high jump
gender	Women
Attendees	26 athletes from 18 countries
venue	Budapest
Competition location	Népstadion
Competition phase	August 20 (qualifying) August 23 (final)
Medalists Monica Iagăr-Dinescu ( ROM )   Donata Jancewicz ( POL )   Alina Astafei ( GER )

Népstadion in Budapest

The women's high jump at the 1998 European Athletics Championships was held on August 20 and 23, 1998 in the Népstadion in the Hungarian capital, Budapest .

The European champion was the Romanian Monica Iagăr-Dinescu . She won ahead of Donata Jancewicz from Poland . Bronze went to Alina Astafei , now starting for Germany , who was second in the Olympics in 1992 - then for Romania - and in 1995 - now for Germany - had won silver at the World Cup .

Existing records

World record	2.09 m	Stefka Kostadinova	Rome , Italy	August 30, 1987
European record
EM record	2.02 m	Ulrike Meyfarth	EM Athens , Greece	September 8, 1982

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

qualification

August 20, 1998

26 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 1.93 m. Seven athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the five athletes placed next to twelve jumpers (highlighted in light green). So finally 1.90 m had to be achieved for the final.

Group A

The later very successful Kajsa Bergqvist dropped out with 1.90 m with too many unsuccessful attempts

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Wita Stjopina	Ukraine	1.93
	Elena Gulyayeva	Russia	1.93
3	Victoria Feodorova	Russia	1.93
4th	Donata Jancewicz	Poland	1.93
5	Wenelina Wenewa	Bulgaria	1.90
	Alina Astafei	Germany	1.90
7th	Pia Zinck	Denmark	1.90
8th	Kajsa Bergqvist	Sweden	1.90
9	Tazzjana Scheutschyk	Belarus	1.90
10	Olga Bolshova	Moldova	1.87
11	Thóra Győrffy	Hungary	1.87
12	Monika Gollner	Austria	1.87
13	Francesca Bradamante	Italy	1.83

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Sigrid Kirchmann	Austria	1.93
2	Monica Iagăr-Dinescu	Romania	1.93
	Julia Lyakova	Russia	1.93
4th	Zuzana Kováciková	Czech Republic	1.90
5	Niki Bakogianni	Greece	1.90
6th	Iryna Mychaltchenko	Ukraine	1.90
7th	Khristina Kalcheva	Bulgaria	1.87
8th	Nelė Žilinskienė	Lithuania	1.87
9	Daniela Rath	Germany	1.83
	Cigdem Arslan	Turkey	1.83
11	Ina Gliznuța	Moldova	1.83
	Tatyana Gulevich	Belarus	1.83
13	Mimi Storm-Hansen	Norway	1.78

final

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  Bronze medalist Alina Astafei, 1992 - then for Romania - Olympic runner-up and 1995 - now for Germany - World Cup runner-up

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  Wita Stjopina came in seventh

August 23, 1998

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Monica Iagăr-Dinescu	Romania	1.97
2	Donata Jancewicz	Poland	1.95
3	Alina Astafei	Germany	1.95
4th	Sigrid Kirchmann	Austria	1.92
5	Wenelina Wenewa	Bulgaria	1.92
6th	Elena Gulyayeva	Russia	1.92
7th	Wita Stjopina	Ukraine	1.92
8th	Pia Zinck	Denmark	1.89
9	Niki Bakogianni	Greece	1.89
10	Victoria Feodorova	Russia	1.85
11	Zuzana Kováciková	Czech Republic	1.85
12	Julia Lyakova	Russia	1.85

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1998 at european-athletics.org, accessed October 19, 2019
• European Championship 1998 Budapest, Women High 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 High Jump European Championship 1998 Budapest, p. 477 (PDF, 13.363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 19, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1998, high 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. High jump women , accessed October 19, 2019