European Athletics Championships 1998 / men's long jump

17th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Long jump
gender	Men
Attendees	37 athletes from 23 countries
venue	Budapest
Competition location	Népstadion
Competition phase	August 18 (qualifying) August 19 (final)
Medalist Kirill Sossunow ( RUS )   Bogdan Țăruș ( ROM )   Petar Datschew ( BUL )

Népstadion in Budapest

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

The European champion was the Russian World Cup third in 1997 Kirill Sossunow . He won before the Romanian Bogdan Țăruş . The Bulgarian Petar Datschew won the bronze medal.

Existing records

World record	8.95 m	Mike Powell	World Cup Tokyo , Japan	August 30, 1991
European record	8.86 m	Robert Emmijan	Zaghkadzor , Soviet Union (now Armenia )	May 22, 1987
Championship record	8.41 m		EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 29, 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 18, 1998

37 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 8.05 m. Two athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the ten next-placed athletes to twelve jumpers (highlighted in light green). In the end, 7.77 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

The later sports journalist Peter Häggström retired with 7.59 m in the qualification

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)	Wind (m / s)
1	Kirill Sossunov	Russia	8.14	-0.2
2	Kofi Amoah Prah	Germany	7.95	-0.1
3	Paolo Camossi	Italy	7.90	k. A.
4th	Petar Datschew	Bulgaria	7.83	-1.5
5	Konstandinos Koukodimos	Greece	7.82	-0.5
6th	Tomas Bardauskas	Lithuania	7.74	-0.9
7th	Oleksiy Lukashevytsch	Ukraine	7.72	-1.0
8th	Alexei musician	Russia	7.69	-0.5
9	Thorsten Heide	Germany	7.68	-1.2
10	Mickaël Loria	France	7.68	-0.1
11	Nathan Morgan	Great Britain	7.67	+0.2
12	Bogdan Tudor	Romania	7.66	+0.1
13	Danial Jahic	Yugoslavia	7.63	-0.8
14th	Martin Löbel	Austria	7.62	-0.5
15th	Peter Häggström	Sweden	7.59	+0.6
16	Siniša Ergotić	Croatia	7.57	+0.1
17th	Raúl Fernández	Spain	7.56	-2.3
18th	Otto Karki	Finland	7.48	+0.9
19th	Carlos Castelbranco	Portugal	6.68	-0.9

Group B

The European champion from 1986 , vice world champion from 1987 and European
record holder Robert Emmijan did not reach the final with his 7.43 m

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)	Wind (m / s)
1	Gregor Cankar	Slovenia	8.07	-0.5
2	Simone Bianchi	Italy	7.91	-1.0
3	Emmanuel Bangué	France	7.88	-1.1
4th	Squad Klouchi	France	7.86	+0.8
5	Mattias Sunneborn	Sweden	7.84	+0.1
6th	Bogdan Țăruş	Romania	7.81	-0.4
7th	Yago Lamela	Spain	7.77	+0.7
8th	Aljaksandr Hlawazki	Belarus	7.76	-0.1
9	Stanislaw Tarassenko	Russia	7.76	-0.4
10	Roman Shchurenko	Ukraine	7.75	+0.1
11	Milan Kovář	Czech Republic	7.74	-0.4
12	Konstantin Krause	Germany	7.74	+0.3
13	Dimitrios Hatzópoulos	Greece	7.72	-0.1
14th	Grzegorz Marciniszyn	Poland	7.56	-0.5
15th	Steve Phillips	Great Britain	7.51	+0.2
16	Robert Emmijan	Armenia	7.43	+0.1
17th	Galin Georgiev	Belarus	7.30	-0.4
18th	Dimítrios Filíndras	Greece	7.29	+0.4

final

August 19, 1998

Note: The symbol "x" means "invalid".

space	Surname	nation	Result (noun)	Wind (m / s)	1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	Kirill Sossunov	Russia	8.28	+2.0	8.14	8.12	8.28	7.98	8.03	7.79
2	Bogdan Țăruş	Romania	8.21	+1.6	7.96	7.85	8.21	8.14	8.13	8.04
3	Petar Datschew	Bulgaria	8.06	+0.7	8.06	x	x	7.95	x	5.32
4th	Simone Bianchi	Italy	8.02	+0.7	7.67	7.92	x	x	7.97	8.02
5	Mattias Sunneborn	Sweden	8.01	+1.6	7.75	7.72	8.01	7.73	7.88	7.83
6th	Gregor Cankar	Slovenia	8.00	+1.1	7.83	7.64	8.00	7.90	7.90	x
7th	Paolo Camossi	Italy	7.98	+1.5	7.71	7.66	7.82	x	7.98	x
8th	Yago Lamela	Spain	7.93	+0.7	7.93	7.92	x	7.89	7.68	7.93
9	Emmanuel Bangué	France	7.79	+1.0	x	7.79	x	not in the final of the eight best jumpers
10	Konstandinos Koukodimos	Greece	7.77	+0.7	7.77	x	x
11	Kofi Amoah Prah	Germany	7.76	+1.8	x	x	7.76
12	Squad Klouchi	France	7.61	-0.1	x	7.61	x

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  Mattias Sunneborn was fifth

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  Yago Lamela came in eighth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1998 on european-athletics.org, accessed October 11, 2019
• European Championship 1998 Budapest, Men Long Jump on todor66.com, accessed October 11, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1998 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on October 11, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Long Jump European Championship 1998 Budapest, p. 472f (PDF, 13.363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 11, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1998, long jump men on sportschau.de, accessed on October 11, 2019
• 17th European Athletics Championships 1998 in Budapest, Hungary from ifosta.de, accessed on October 11, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Long jump , accessed October 11, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, Long Jump Men , p. 25, Spanish / English (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on October 11, 2019