European Athletics Championships 1998 / women's javelin

17th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Javelin throw
gender	Women
Attendees	20 athletes from 15 countries
venue	Budapest
Competition location	Népstadion
Competition phase	August 18 (qualifying) August 19 (final)
Medalists Tanja Damaske ( GER )   Tatjana Schikolenko ( RUS )   Mikaela Ingberg ( FIN )

Népstadion in Budapest

The women's javelin at the 1998 European Athletics Championships was held on August 18 and 19, 1998 in the Népstadion in the Hungarian capital, Budapest .

The old spear was thrown here for the last time at a major international championship. From 1999 a throwing device with a center of gravity shifted further forward was used, which left clearer impact marks. The distances achieved with it were also shorter than with the previous spear.

European champion was the German World Cup third in 1997 Tanja Damaske . The Russian Tatyana Schikolenko won the silver medal. Bronze went to Mikaela Ingberg, who was third in the Finnish World Cup in 1995 .

Existing records

World record	80.00 m	Petra Felke	Potsdam , GDR (now Germany )	September 9, 1988
European record
EM record	77.44 m	Fatima Whitbread	EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 29, 1986

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved. The spear, which was used from 1999 onwards, with a focus further forward, resulted in new spear throwing records after these European championships.

qualification

August 18, 1998

Twenty participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 61.00 m. Six athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the six next-placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 59.85 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Mikaela Ingberg	Finland	64.59
2	Trine Hattestad	Norway	62.55
3	Tatiana Schikolenko	Russia	62.10
4th	Nikolett Szabó	Hungary	60.64
5	Ewa Rybak	Poland	60.34
6th	Rita Ramanauskaitė	Lithuania	60.26
7th	Taina Uppa	Finland	58.01
8th	Dörte Barby	Germany	57.12
9	Nadine Auzeil	France	52.21
NM	Aysel Tas	Turkey	ogV

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Steffi Nerius	Germany	66.04
2	Mirela Manjani	Greece	65.14
3	Felicia Țilea-Moldovan	Romania	61.96
4th	Heli Rantanen	Finland	60.90
5	Tanja Damaske	Germany	60.63
6th	Claudia Coslovich	Italy	59.85
7th	Nikola Tomecková	Czech Republic	59.65
8th	Nadiya Kobryn	Ukraine	57.70
9	Agnes Preisinger	Hungary	55.92
10	Eufemija Štorga	Slovenia	53.73

Legend

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

-	left out
x	invalid

final

Steffi Nerius reached sixth place - later she won numerous international medals and titles, in the photo after her World Cup victory in  2009

August 19, 1998

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)	Trial series of medalists
				1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt
1	Tanja Damaske	Germany	69.10	69.10	x	62.24	-	x	64.51
2	Tatiana Schikolenko	Russia	66.92	65.66	58.33	64.04	61.10	63.93	66.92
3	Mikaela Ingberg	Finland	64.92	58.77	62.32	64.92	x	63.10	x
4th	Trine Hattestad	Norway	63.16
5	Heli Rantanen	Finland	62.34
6th	Steffi Nerius	Germany	62.08
7th	Claudia Coslovich	Italy	60.73
8th	Nikolett Szabó	Hungary	60.56
9	Mirela Manjani	Greece	58.65
10	Felicia Țilea-Moldovan	Romania	58.30
11	Rita Ramanauskaitė	Lithuania	57.11
12	Ewa Rybak	Poland	56.65

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  Claudia Coslovich came in seventh place

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  Felicia Tilea-Moldovan finished tenth - after a two-year doping ban in the wake of the European Championships in 1990 she was in 1994 Championship -Third and 1995 World Cup -Second

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1998 at european-athletics.org, accessed October 24, 2019
• European Championship 1998 Budapest, Women Javelin Throw on todor66.com, accessed October 24, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1998 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed October 24, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Javelin Throw European Championship 1998 Budapest, p. 479 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 24, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1998, javelin women on sportschau.de, accessed on October 24, 2019
• 17th European Athletics Championships 1998 in Budapest, Hungary from ifosta.de, accessed on October 24, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Javelin women , accessed October 24, 2019
2. ^ Doping and sports - 1991 on medicosport.eu, accessed on October 24, 2019