European Athletics Championships 1998 / men's javelin

17th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Javelin throw
gender	Men
Attendees	25 athletes from 17 countries
venue	Budapest
Competition location	Népstadion
Competition phase	August 21 (qualifying) August 23 (final)
Medalist Steve Backley ( GBR )   Mick Hill ( GBR )   Raymond Hecht ( GER )

Népstadion in Budapest

The men's javelin throw at the 1998 European Athletics Championships was held on August 21 and 23, 1998 in the Népstadion in the Hungarian capital, Budapest .

In this competition the British javelin throwers achieved a double success. His third EM -Titel won the defending champion, Olympic silver medalist from 1996 and two-time runner-up ( 1995 / 1997 ) Steve Backley . Mick Hill took second place . Bronze went to the German Raymond Hecht .

Records

Existing records

World record	98.48 m	Jan Železný	Jena , Germany	May 25, 1996
European record
Championship record	87.30 m	Steve Backley	EM Split , Yugoslavia	August 28, 1990

Record improvement

European champion Steve Backley improved the existing European Championship record in the final on August 23 by 2.42 m to 89.72 m.  

qualification

August 21, 1998

25 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 82.00 m. Four athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the eight athletes placed next to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 79.63 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

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  77.54 m were not enough for Pål Arne Fagernes to take part in the final

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  Ēriks Rags scored 74.27 m and was eliminated

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Peter Blank	Germany	87.48
2	Sergei Makarov	Russia	80.98
3	Aki Parviainen	Finland	80.65
4th	Gregor Högler	Austria	80.47
5	Dariusz Trafas	Poland	79.86
6th	Mark Roberson	Great Britain	79.63
7th	Carlo Sonego	Italy	77.74
8th	Pål Arne Fagernes	Norway	77.54
9	Gergely Horváth	Hungary	75.66
10	Voldemārs Lūsis	Latvia	75.14
11	Dejan Angelovski	North Macedonia	71.78
12	Gaëtan Siakinou-Schmidt	France	69.95

Group B

In the final, Dariusz Trafas made 11th place

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Steve Backley	Great Britain	87.45
2	Juha Laukkanen	Finland	83.71
3	Raymond Hecht	Germany	83.32
4th	Patrik Bodén	Sweden	81.01
5	Matti Narhi	Finland	80.94
6th	Mick Hill	Great Britain	80.14
7th	Uladzimir Sassimovich	Belarus	79.14
8th	Andreas Linden	Germany	78.98
9	Dimítrios Polimérou	Greece	77.49
10	Arūnas Jurkšas	Lithuania	77.37
11	Ēriks Rags	Latvia	74.27
12	Yuri Rybin	Russia	72.86
13	Terry McHugh	Ireland	72.82

Legend

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

-	left out
x	invalid

final

August 23, 1998

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	Steve Backley	Great Britain	89.72 CR	89.72	x	83.03	85.69	84.87	84.17
2	Mick Hill	Great Britain	86.92	83.80	79.07	83.41	85.77	86.92	85.72
3	Raymond Hecht	Germany	86.63	85.68	83.51	86.63	-	-	-
4th	Sergei Makarov	Russia	86.45	86.45	80.47	80.86	-	-	79.83
5	Juha Laukkanen	Finland	84.78	x	x	x	x	x	77.72
6th	Mark Roberson	Great Britain	84.15	80.41	79.38	83.64	84.15	77.42	x
7th	Peter Blank	Germany	83.66	83.66	78.65	x	77.20	76.87	x
8th	Matti Narhi	Finland	82.59	82.59	x	80.33	79.77	x	x
9	Aki Parviainen	Finland	82.30	x	82.30	81.84	not in the final of the eight best throwers
10	Gregor Högler	Austria	81.75	81.44	81.75	73.72
11	Dariusz Trafas	Poland	79.79	79.53	79.79	79.77
12	Patrik Bodén	Sweden	79.73	79.73	x	-

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1998 on european-athletics.org, accessed October 13, 2019
• European Championship 1998 Budapest, Men Javelin Throw on todor66.com, accessed October 13, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1998 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on October 13, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Javelin Throw European Championship 1998 Budapest, p. 473f (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 13, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1998, javelin men on sportschau.de, accessed on October 13, 2019
• 17th European Athletics Championships 1998 in Budapest, Hungary from ifosta.de, accessed on October 13, 2019

Video

• Men's Javelin European Champs Budapest 1998 on youtube.com (English), accessed October 13, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Javelin Men , accessed October 31, 2019