European Athletics Championships 1998 / men's high jump

17th European Athletics Championships
discipline	high jump
gender	Men
Attendees	24 athletes from 17 countries
venue	Budapest
Competition location	Népstadion
Competition phase	August 19 (qualification) 1921 August (final)
Medalist Artur Partyka ( POL )   Dalton Grant ( GBR )   Sergei Kljugin ( RUS )

Népstadion in Budapest

The men's high jump at the 1998 European Athletics Championships was held on August 19 and 21, 1998 in the Népstadion in the Hungarian capital Budapest .

European champion was the Polish EM -Second of 1994 , Olympic bronze medalist of 1992 / 1996 , Vice World Champion 1993 / 1997 and WM -Third of 1995 Artur Partyka . He won ahead of the British Dalton Grant . Bronze went to the Russian Sergei Kljugin .

Existing records

World record	2.45 m	Javier Sotomayor	Salamanca , Spain	July 27, 1993
European record	2.42 m	Patrik Sjöberg	Stockholm , Sweden	June 30, 1987
EM record	2.35 m	Dragutin Topić	EM Helsinki , Finland	August 10, 1994

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

qualification

August 19, 1998

24 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 2.26 m. After it was clear that 2.24 m would be enough for participation in the finals because no more than twelve athletes had jumped this height, the qualification was not continued. All twelve high jumpers who had mastered 2.24 m (highlighted in light green) contested the final two days later.

Group A

Wilbert Pennings jumped eight feet and was eliminated

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Staffan beach	Sweden	2.24
	Tomáš Janků	Czech Republic	2.24
	Dragutin Topić	Yugoslavia	2.24
	Artur Partyka	Poland	2.24
	Martin Buss	Germany	2.24
6th	Dimítrios Kokótis	Greece	2.24
7th	Dalton Grant	Great Britain	2.24
8th	Elvir Krehmic	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2.20
9	Ramon Kaju	Estonia	2.20
10	Alexei Krysin	Russia	2.20
	Wilbert Pennings	Netherlands	2.20
12	Itai Margalit	Israel	2.15

Group B

Note: The athletes listed in the table below from rank nine are taken from the presentation of the source todor66.com below. These four high jumpers are missing on the EAA website and the Statistics Handbook - both of which go back to www.european-athletics.org.

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)	annotation
1	Steinar Hoen	Norway	2.24
	Stefan Holm	Sweden	2.24
3	Sergei Kljugin	Russia	2.24
4th	Christian Rhoden	Germany	2.24
5	Brendan Reilly	Great Britain	2.24
6th	Oskari Frösén	Finland	2.20
7th	Hennadzi Maroz	Belarus	2.15
	Konstadínos Liápis	Greece	2.15
9	Ignacio Perez	Spain	2.15	These four athletes are not listed at the EAA or in the Statistics Handbook . They were taken from the illustration at todor66.com.
10	Isik Bayraktar	Turkey	2.10
NM	Jan Janků	Czech Republic
	Konstantin Matusevich	Israel

Legend

Brief overview of the meaning of the symbols - also commonly used in other publications:

-	left out
O	skipped
x	cracked

final

Artur Partyka won his first big title here after many Olympic, World Cup and European Championship medals

August 21, 1998

space

Surname

nation

Result (noun)

2.15 m

2.20 m

2.24 m

2.27 m

2.30 m

2.32 m

2.34 m

2.36 m

2.38 m

1

Artur Partyka

Poland

2.34

O

-

O

-

O

-

O

xxx

2

Dalton Grant

Great Britain

2.34

xo

O

-

x–

xo

x–

xo

-

xxx

3

Sergei Kljugin

Russia

2.32

-

O

O

O

O

O

xx–

x

4th

Martin Buss

Germany

2.32

-

O

O

O

O

xo

xxx

5

Dimítrios Kokótis

Greece

2.30

-

O

-

O

O

xxx

6th

Steinar Hoen

Norway

2.30

-

xo

xo

O

xo

x–

xx

7th

Stefan Holm

Sweden

2.27

-

O

xo

O

x–

xx

8th

Staffan beach

Sweden

2.27

-

O

-

xxo

xx–

x

9

Brendan Reilly

Great Britain

2.24

-

-

O

xx–

x

Dragutin Topić

Yugoslavia

2.24

-

O

O

-

-

xxx

11

Christian Rhoden

Germany

2.24

O

xo

O

xxx

12

Tomáš Janků

Czech Republic

2.24

O

O

xo

xxx

• 

  Defending champion Steinar Hoen reached sixth place

• 

  Stefan Holm came in seventh place

• 

  The 1990 European Champion Dragutin Topić finished in tied ninth place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1998 at european-athletics.org, accessed October 10, 2019
• European Championship 1998 Budapest, Men High Jump on todor66.com, accessed October 10, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1998 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on October 10, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men High Jump European Championship 1998 Budapest, p. 472 (PDF, 13.363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 10, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1998, high jump men on sportschau.de, accessed on October 10, 2019
• 17th European Athletics Championships 1998 in Budapest, Hungary from ifosta.de, accessed on October 10, 2019

Video

• Men's High Jump European Champs Budapest 1998 on youtube.com (English), accessed October 10, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. High jump , accessed October 10, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, High Jump Men , p. 21 (PDF; 271 kB), Spanish / English, accessed on October 10, 2019