European Taekwondo Championships 1996

The 1996 European Taekwondo Championships took place from October 26-27, 1996 in Helsinki , Finland . The title fights were organized by the European Taekwondo Union (ETU). A total of 16 competitions took place, eight each for women and men in different weight classes.

The most successful nation was Spain with six gold, one silver and three bronze medals. Spain thus won the most medals at the same time. The Netherlands and Sweden placed in the following ranks , both with two gold medals each. Germany was the fourth most successful nation with two golds, one silver and three bronze medals. Fadime Helvacioglu and Aziz Acharki became European champions, Bettina Hipf lost her final fight and took silver. Bronze went to Sonja Schiedt , Sabine Collin and Marcus Nitschke .

Medalist

Women

Weight class	gold	silver	bronze
- 43 kg	Cristina Atzeni	Amelia Calabria	Pailina Pastene
			Valeriya Sombkova
- 47 kg	Fadime Helvacioglu	Venera Sanatulova	Anna Jonsson
			Kadriye Selimoğlu
- 51 kg	Gill Aringaneng	Aylin Yazıcı	Nina Pikkarainen
			Marijeta Željković
- 55 kg	Eva Wallner	Tanja Grubor	Laura Salonen
			Elisonda Tobau
- 60 kg	Luisa Vecina	Jo-Anne Nash	Rent Filipović
			Agnieszka Skaradzińska
- 65 kg	Elena Benítez	Mirjam Müskens	Sonja Schiedt
			Kirsimarja Koskinen
- 70 kg	Irene Arevalu	Margarita van der Hoeven	Sabine Collin
			Hatice Metin
+ 70 kg	Natalia Ivanova	Bettina Hipf	Dubravka Boškov
			Abbe Kıvrık

Men

Weight class	gold	silver	bronze
- 50 kg	Juan Sánchez	Paul Green	Carlos Chamorro
			Vyacheslav Neschitschkin
- 54 kg	José Blanca	Harun Ateş	Sven Kim
			Ludovic Vo
- 58 kg	Gabriel Esparza	Sedat Bekdemir	Gianluca Attanasio
			Achmed Boumrah
- 64 kg	Jesper Røsen	Ekrem Boyalı	Mika Tarhanen
			Francisco Zas
- 70 kg	Aziz Acharki	Youssef Lharraki	Hrvoje Bregeš
			Aitor Rodríguez
- 76 kg	Nico Davis	Mario de Meo	Alekper Imamaliev
			Olcay Toprak
- 83 kg	Mikaël Meloul	Ivan Brljevic	Erol Bayrakçı
			Marcus Nitschke
+ 83 kg	Alan Pinontoan	Pascal Gentil	Eurypodes Costa
			Jan Glerup

Medal table

space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Spain	6th	1	3	10
2	Netherlands	2	2	-	4th
3	Sweden	2	1	4th	7th
4th	Germany	2	1	3	6th
5	France	1	1	2	4th
	Russia	1	1	2	4th
7th	Denmark	1	1	1	3
	Italy	1	1	1	3
9	Turkey	-	4th	4th	8th
10	United Kingdom	-	2	-	2
11	Yugoslavia	-	1	1	2
12	Finland	-	-	4th	4th
13	Croatia	-	-	3	3
14th	Azerbaijan	-	-	1	1
	Belgium	-	-	1	1
	Poland	-	-	1	1
	Portugal	-	-	1	1
total		16	16	32	64

Web links

• Podium placements on taekwondodata.com (English)