1998 European Athletics Championships / women's marathon

17th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's marathon
city	Budapest
place	Circuit through Budapest
Participants	47 athletes from 15 countries
Competition phase	August 23, 1998
Medalists
gold	Maria Manuela Machado ( PRT )
silver	Madina Biktagirowa ( BLR )
bronze	Maura Viceconte ( ITA )
Marathon Cup (team ranking) without counting in the medal table
Rank 1	Russia
Rank 2	Italy
Rank 3	Germany

Panoramic view of Budapest

The women's marathon at the 1998 European Athletics Championships took place in Budapest , Hungary on August 23, 1998 .

The Portuguese Maria Manuela Machado won the race with a new championship record of 2:27:10 h. Vice European champion was the Belarusian Madina Biktagirowa ahead of the Italian Maura Viceconte .

As in 1994 , there was a team classification, the so-called Marathon Cup. For this, the times of the three best runners per nation were added up. However, the evaluation was not part of the official medal table. The team from Russia won ahead of Italy and Germany.

Existing records / best performances

Before the European Championships, the following best performances / records were valid:

World best	Tegla Loroupe	2:20:47 h	Rotterdam marathon 1988	April 19, 1998
European best	Ingrid Kristiansen	2:21:06 h	1985 London Marathon	April 21, 1985
Championship record	Pink Mota	2:28:38 h	EM in Stuttgart	August 26, 1986

Note:
At that time, records were not kept in marathon running and street walking because of the different track conditions with the exception of championship records.

Result

Lyubov Morgunova, Russia - seventh place

Claudia Dreher, Germany - tenth place (with her trainer Bodo Unger)

Constantina Diță, Romania - seventeenth place

Halina Karnazewitsch, Belarus - 29th place

Nuța Olaru, Romania - 34th place

Erika Csomor, Hungary - 36th place

space	Athlete	country	Time (h)
	Maria Manuela Machado	Portugal	2:27:10 CR
	Madina Biktagirova	Belarus	2:28:01
	Maura Viceconte	Italy	2:28:31 SB
04th	Franca Fiacconi	Italy	2:28:59
05	Marleen Renders	Belgium	2:29:43
06th	Rocío Ríos	Spain	2:29:53 SB
07th	Lyubov Morgunova	Russia	2:30:07
08th	Jelena Rasdrogina	Russia	2:30:09 SB
09	Lyudmila Petrova	Russia	2:30:26 SB
10	Claudia Dreher	Germany	2:31:10 SB
11	Renata Paradowska	Poland	2:32:18
12	Sonja Oberem	Germany	2:32:36
13	Maria Polyzou	Greece	2:33:40 NR
14th	Judit Földing-Nagy	Hungary	2:34:00
15th	Sylvia Renz	Germany	2:34:05
16	Christine Mallo	France	2:34:19
17th	Constantina Diță	Romania	2:34:35 SB
18th	Irina Timofeeva	Russia	2:34:44
19th	Gigliola Borghini	Italy	2:35:25 SB
20th	Maria Munoz	Spain	2:35:53
21st	Natalja Galuschko	Belarus	2:36:26
22nd	Nicole Lévêque	France	2:36:52 SB
23	Aurica Buia	Romania	2:36:55
24	Francesca Zanusso	Italy	2:37:19
25th	Manuela Veith	Germany	2:37:32
26th	Adrana Barbu	Romania	2:37:58 SB
27	Alena Masouka	Belarus	2:38:01
28	Yelena Viniskaya	Belarus	2:38:08
29	Halina Karnazewitsch	Belarus	2:38:50
30th	Paola Vignati	Italy	2:38:56 SB
31	Josetta Colmb-Janin	France	2:39:20 SB
32	Spyridoula Souma	Greece	2:39:51 SB
33	Evelyne Mura	France	2:41:31 PB
34	Nuța Olaru	Romania	2:42:44 SB
35	Maryse le Gallo	France	2:43:47
36	Erika Csomor	Hungary	2:48:37
37	Ágnes Kiss	Hungary	2:49:23
38	Ida Kovács	Hungary	2:49:23
39	Katerina Pratsi	Cyprus	2:59:24 PB
40	Eniko Feher	Hungary	2:59:50 PB
	Grete Kirkeberg	Norway	DNF
	Alina Gherasim	Romania
	Muickle Linsolas	France
	Agnes Jakab	Hungary
	Ana Isabel Alonso	Spain
	Vilija Birbalaitė	Lithuania
	Patrizia Ritondo	Italy

Result marathon cup

space	country	Athletes	Time (h)
1	Russia	Madina Biktagirowa Lyubow Wassiljewna Morgunowa Jelena Rasdrogina	7:28:17
2	Italy	Maura Viceconte Franca Fiacconi Gigliola Borghini	7:32:55
3	Germany	Claudia Dreher Sonja Oberem Sylvia Renz	7:37:51
4th	Romania	Constantina Diță Aurica Buia Adriana Barbu	7:49:28
5	France	Christine Mallo Nicole Lévéque Josette Colomb-Janin	7:50:31
6th	Belarus	Natalja Galuschko Alena Masouka Yelena Viniskaya	7:52:35
7th	Hungary	Judit Földing-Nagy Erika Csomor Ágnes Kiss	8:12:00

Web links and sources

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1998 at european-athletics.org, accessed February 15, 2019
• Women Marathon Athletics XVII European Championships 1998 Budapest on todor66.com, accessed February 15, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF records. Women's marathon , accessed February 15, 2019
2. ↑ IAAF records. Eternal European marathon leaderboard , accessed on September 13, 2015