1998 European Athletics Championships / Women's Shot Put

17th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot put
gender	Women
Attendees	18 athletes from 13 countries
venue	Budapest
Competition location	Népstadion
Competition phase	August 18 (qualifying) August 20 (final)
Medalists Wita Pawlysch ( UKR )   Irina Korschanenko ( RUS )   Janina Karoltschyk ( BLR )

Népstadion in Budapest

The shot put women at the 1998 European Athletics Championships was on 18 and 20 August 1998 Népstadion the Hungarian capital Budapest discharged.

The Ukrainian defending champion and vice world champion in 1997 Wita Pavlysch became European champion . She won ahead of the Russian Irina Korschanenko . Bronze went to Janina Karoltschyk from Belarus .

Records

Existing records

World record	22.63 m	Natalia Lisovskaya	Moscow , Soviet Union (now Russia )	June 7, 1987
European record
EM record	21.59 m	Ilona Slupianek	EM in Athens , Greece	September 6, 1982

Record improvement

European champion Wita Pawlysch improved the existing EM record in the final on August 20 by ten centimeters to 21.69 m.  

qualification

August 18, 1998

Eighteen participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 18.00 m. Ten athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the two next-placed athletes to twelve shot putters (highlighted in light green). So finally 17.68 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Wita Pavlysch	Ukraine	19.99
2	Svetlana Kriweljowa	Russia	18.55
3	Nadine Kleinert	Germany	18.38
4th	Lieja Koeman	Netherlands	18.01
5	Janina Karoltschyk	Belarus	18.00
6th	Krystyna Zabawska	Poland	17.80
7th	Daniela Curovic	Yugoslavia	17.50
8th	Mara Rosolen	Italy	17.08
9	Margarita Ramos	Spain	16.41

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Irina Korschanenko	Russia	19.18
2	Corrie de Bruin	Netherlands	18.36
3	Stephanie Storp	Germany	18.08
4th	Katarzyna Zakowicz	Poland	18.01
5	Tatiana Khorchulyova	Belarus	18.01
6th	Karoliina Lundahl	Finland	17.68
7th	Katarina Sederholm	Norway	16.83
8th	Linda-Marie Mårtensson	Sweden	16.79
9	Natasha Erjavec	Slovenia	16.43

final

August 20, 1998

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)	Trial series of medalists
				1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt
1	Wita Pavlysch	Ukraine	21.69 CR / NO	20.65	21.69	20.46	20.80	20.56	20.91
2	Irina Korschanenko	Russia	19.71	19.33	x	19.71	19.41	x	19.49
3	Janina Karoltschyk	Belarus	19.23	17.55	18.24	18.31	18.15	18.24	19.23
4th	Svetlana Kriweljowa	Russia	19.08
5	Katarzyna Zakowicz	Poland	18.77
6th	Nadine Kleinert	Germany	18.48
7th	Corrie de Bruin	Netherlands	18.28
8th	Tatiana Khorchulyova	Belarus	18.17
9	Stephanie Storp	Germany	18.16
10	Lieja Koeman	Netherlands	17.99
11	Krystyna Zabawska	Poland	17.69
12	Karoliina Lundahl	Finland	17.33

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  Nadine Kleinert came in sixth place - she later became vice world champion four times, European champion 2012 and Olympic runner-up in 2004

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  Krystyna Zabawska reached eleventh place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1998 at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 21, 2019
• European Championship 1998 Budapest, Women Shot Put on todor66.com, accessed October 21, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1998 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on October 21, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Shot Put European Championship 1998 Budapest, p. 478 (PDF, 13.363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 21, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1998, women's shot put on sportschau.de, accessed on October 21, 2019
• 17th European Athletics Championships 1998 in Budapest, Hungary from ifosta.de, accessed on October 21, 2019

Video

• DT-Dietzsch-EC 1998-best.mpg on youtube.com, accessed on October 21, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put women , accessed October 21, 2019