European Athletics Championships 1998 / women's pole vault

17th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Pole vault
gender	Women
Attendees	29 athletes from 18 countries
venue	Budapest
Competition location	Népstadion
Competition phase	August 18th (qualification) August 21st (final)
Medalists Anshela Balachonowa ( RUS )   Nicole Humbert ( GER )   Yvonne Buschbaum ( GER )

Népstadion in Budapest

The women's pole vault at the 1998 European Athletics Championships was held on August 18 and 21, 1998 in the Népstadion in the Hungarian capital, Budapest .

For women, the pole vault was on the competition catalog of a major international championship for the first time. This brought the women's program into line with that of the men in the jumping disciplines.

In this competition, Germany's female pole vaulters won two medals, silver and bronze. The Ukrainian Anzhela Balachonowa became the European champion . Silver went to Nicole Humbert , bronze to Yvonne Buschbaum . The bronze medalist Yvonne Buschbaum has meanwhile undertaken a gender reassignment and from then on was called Balian Buschbaum.

Existing records

World record	4.59 m	Emma George	Brisbane , Australia	March 21, 1998
European record	4.51 m	Daniela Bártová	Bratislava , Czech Republic	June 9, 1966
Championship record	Competition for the first time in the program of European championships

First, in the qualification on August 18, a total of six jumpers set a championship record of 4.15 m. The three medal winners, Anshela Balachonowa , Nicole Humbert and Yvonne Buschbaum, improved this record, which was to last for four years, in the final on August 21st to 4.31 m.   

doping

There was a doping case in this competition. Dana Cervantes , who initially came in eleventh , was proven to have violated the doping regulations. The disqualification ensued and the athletes ranked after her moved one place forward.

qualification

August 18, 2002

29 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 4.15 m. Six athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled up to fifteen jumpers with the nine next-placed athletes who all had crossed 4.00 m with the same number of failed attempts (highlighted in light green).

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Zsuzsanna Szabó	Hungary	4.15
2	Monika Pyrek	Poland	4.15
3	Nastya Ryzih	Germany	4.10
4th	Monique de Wilt	Netherlands	4.10
	Francesca Dolcini	Italy	4.10
6th	Mari Mar Sánchez	Spain	4.00
7th	Caroline Ammel	France	4.00
8th	Doris Auer	Austria	4.00
9	Daniela Bártová	Czech Republic	4.00
	Marie Rasmussen	Denmark	4.00
11	Thórey Edda Elísdóttir	Iceland	3.80
12	Yeoryía Tsiliggíri	Greece	3.80
13	Teja Melink	Slovenia	3.40
NM	Emma Hornby	Great Britain	ogV
	Elena Belyakova	Russia

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Anshela Balachonova	Ukraine	4.15
2	Vala Flosadóttir	Iceland	4.15
3	Nicole Humbert	Germany	4.15
4th	Yvonne Buschbaum	Germany	4.10
5	Gabriela Mihalcea	Romania	4.00
	Svetlana Abramova	Russia	4.00
	Eszter Szemerédi	Hungary	4.00
	Pavla Hamáčková	Czech Republic	4.00
9	Janine Whitlock	Great Britain	4.00
	Teija Saari	Finland	4.00
11	Anna Wielgus	Poland	4.00
12	Tatiana Polnova	Russia	3.80
NM	Amandine Homo	France	ogV
DOP	Dana Cervantes	Spain	admitted to the finals

final

Bronze medalist Yvonne Buschbaum, who has meanwhile become a
man named Balian Buschbaum through a gender change

August 21, 2002

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Anshela Balachonova	Ukraine	4.31 CR
2	Nicole Humbert	Germany	4.31 CR
3	Yvonne Buschbaum	Germany	4.31 CR
4th	Nastya Ryzih	Germany	4.15
	Gabriela Mihalcea	Romania	4.15
	Monique de Wilt	Netherlands	4.15
7th	Monika Pyrek	Poland	4.15
8th	Zsuzsanna Szabó	Hungary	4.15
9	Vala Flosadóttir	Iceland	4.15
10	Mari Mar Sánchez	Spain	4.05
11	Eszter Szemerédi	Hungary	3.95
	Pavla Hamáčková	Czech Republic	3.95
13	Francesca Dolcini	Italy	3.95
DNS	Svetlana Abramova	Russia
DOP	Dana Cervantes	Spain

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  Monika Pyrek reached fourth place - later multiple medal winner at world and European championships

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  Zsuzsanna Szabó came in eighth

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  Pavla Hamáčková finished in eleventh place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1998 at european-athletics.org, accessed October 19, 2019
• European Championship 1998 Budapest, Women Pole Vault on todor66.com, accessed October 19, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1998 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on October 19, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Pole Vault European Championship 1998 Budapest, p. 477 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 19, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1998, pole vault women on sportschau.de, accessed on October 19, 2019
• 17th European Athletics Championships 1998 in Budapest, Hungary from ifosta.de, accessed on October 19, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Pole vault women , accessed October 19, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, Pole Vault Women , p. 59 (PDF, 271 kB), Spanish / English, accessed on October 19, 2019
3. ↑ Sports section, SHORT , Hamburger Abendblatt February 18, 1999, accessed on 19 October 2019