European Athletics Championships 1998 / women long jump
| 17th European Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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| discipline | Long jump | ||||||||
| gender | Women | ||||||||
| Attendees | 27 athletes from 14 countries | ||||||||
| venue |
 Budapest
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| Competition location | Népstadion | ||||||||
| Competition phase | August 21 (qualifying) August 22 (final) |
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The women's long jump at the 1998 European Athletics Championships was held on August 21 and 22, 1998 in the Népstadion in the Hungarian capital, Budapest .
For the fourth time in a row, the German Heike Drechsler became European Champion. She had previously since 1993 as well as two world championship titles ( 1983 / 1993 ) and an Olympic gold medal ( 1992 won). Second place went to the Italian Olympic runner-up from 1996 and World Champion from 1995, Fiona May . Bronze went to the Russian world champion from 1997 Lyudmila Galkina .
Existing records
| World record | 7.52 m |
 Galina Chistjakova
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Leningrad (today St. Petersburg ), Soviet Union (today Russia ) | June 11, 1988 |
| European record | ||||
| EM record | 7.27 m |
 Heike Drechsler
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EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany | August 27, 1986 |
The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.
Wind conditions
In the following summary of results, the wind conditions for the best jumps are named. The permitted limit is two meters per second. With stronger wind support, the distance will be counted for the competition, but will not be included in the lists of records and the best.
qualification
August 20, 1998
27 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 6.65 m. Seven athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the five next-placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 6.56 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.
Group A
| space | Surname | nation | Width (m) | Wind (m / s) |
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| 1 | Heike Drechsler |
 Germany
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6.79 | +1.1 |
| 2 | Johanna Halkoaho |
 Finland
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6.79 | +0.2 |
| 3 | Erica Johansson |
 Sweden
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6.74 | +2.1 |
| 4th | Linda Ferga |
 France
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6.69 | k. A. |
| 5 | Magdalena Hristova |
 Bulgaria
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6.60 | +1.1 |
| 6th | Susen Tiedtke |
Germany
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6.58 | +0.3 |
| 7th | Zita Ajkler |
Hungary
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6.57 | +0.7 |
| 8th | Valentina Gotovska |
 Latvia
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6.47 | +1.5 |
| 9 | Olga Rublyova |
 Russia
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6.45 | +0.5 |
| 10 | Dorota Brodowska |
 Poland
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6.40 | +1.3 |
| 11 | Christina Athanassiou |
 Greece
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6.34 | +2.5 |
| 12 | Anja Valant |
 Slovenia
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6.19 | +2.6 |
| NM | Olga Vasdéki |
Greece
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ogV | |
Group B
| space | Surname | nation | Width (m) | Wind (m / s) |
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| 1 | Lyudmila Galkina |
Russia
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6.83 | +2.2 |
| 2 | Fiona May |
 Italy
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6.73 | -0.4 |
| 3 | Do Vaszi |
Hungary
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6.70 | +1.1 |
| 4th | Nadine Caster |
France
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6.58 | +1.9 |
| 5 | Sarah Gautreau |
France
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6.56 | +3.1 |
| 6th | Camilla Johansson |
Sweden
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6.53 | +1.7 |
| 7th | Nina Perevedentseva |
Russia
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6.52 | +0.7 |
| 8th | Olena Schechowzowa |
 Ukraine
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6.46 | +0.6 |
| 9 | Agata Karczmarek |
Poland
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6.38 | +0.2 |
| 10 | Éva Miklós |
 Romania
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6.29 | +1.3 |
| 11 | Sofia Schulte |
Germany
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6.28 | +0.7 |
| 12 | Heli Koivula |
Finland
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6.23 | +0.5 |
| NM | Paraskevi Tsiamíta |
Greece
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ogV | |
| Iwa Prandschewa |
Bulgaria
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final
August 21, 1998
Note: The symbol "x" means "invalid".
| space | Surname | nation | Width (m) | Wind (m / s) | Trial series of the first six | |||||
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| 1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | |||||
| 1 | Heike Drechsler |
Germany
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7.16 | +1.0 | x | 7.16 | 7.16 | x | x | x |
| 2 | Fiona May |
Italy
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7.11 NO | +0.8 | 6.85 | 6.76 | 7.01 | 7.11 | 7.04 | 6.61 |
| 3 | Lyudmila Galkina |
Russia
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7.06 | +3.1 | x | x | 6.74 | 7.06 | 6.82 | x |
| 4th | Do Vaszi |
Hungary
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6.82 | +2.9 | 6.51 | 6.82 | 6.53 | x | 6.51 | 6.55 |
| 5 | Erica Johansson |
Sweden
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6.75 | +2.1 | 6.54 | 6.57 | 6.75 | 6.59 | 6.49 | x |
| 6th | Zita Ajkler |
Hungary
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6.64 | +1.8 | 6.43 | 6.64 | x | 6.42 | x | 6.39 |
| 7th | Linda Ferga |
France
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6.64 | +0.7 | ||||||
| 8th | Susen Tiedtke |
Germany
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6.62 | +1.1 | ||||||
| 9 | Nadine Caster |
France
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6.55 | +3.3 | ||||||
| 10 | Johanna Halkoaho |
Finland
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6.54 | +1.6 | ||||||
| 11 | Sarah Gautreau |
France
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6.29 | +1.4 | ||||||
| NM | Magdalena Hristova |
Bulgaria
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ogV | |||||||
Zita Ajkler came in sixth place
Johanna Halkoaho took tenth place
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Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1998 at european-athletics.org, accessed October 19, 2019
- European Championship 1998 Budapest, Women Long Jump 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 High Jump European Championship 1998 Budapest, p. 478 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 19, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1998, long jump 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
Videos
- 1998 Budapest Heike Drechsler 7 16m on youtube.com (English), accessed on October 19, 2019
- 1998 Budapest Fiona May 7 11m on youtube.com (English), accessed on October 19, 2019
- 1998 Budapest Lyudmila Galkina 7 06m on youtube.com (English), accessed on October 19, 2019
- 1998 Budapest Susen Tiedtke on youtube.com (English), accessed on October 19, 2019
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. Long jump women , accessed October 19, 2019