1998 European Taekwondo Championships

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The 1998 European Taekwondo Championships took place from October 23-25, 1998 in Eindhoven , the Netherlands . 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 three gold, three silver and two bronze medals ahead of Denmark and Turkey . Germany won a total of two silver and two bronze medals, and Switzerland won silver once.

Medalist

Women

Weight class gold silver bronze
- 47 kg SpainSpain Brigitte Yagüe HungaryHungary Eszter Horvölgyi RussiaRussia Julia Demchenkova
United KingdomUnited Kingdom Louise Gill
- 51 kg DenmarkDenmark Hanne Poulsen TurkeyTurkey Döndü Güvenç SpainSpain Sabina Gaspar
CroatiaCroatia Eva Politeo
- 55 kg RussiaRussia Ekaterina Nazarova SwitzerlandSwitzerland Christiana Bach ItalyItaly Pamela Agostinelli
TurkeyTurkey Serap Öztürk
- 59 kg NetherlandsNetherlands Virginia Lourens RussiaRussia Olga Michalyova IsraelIsrael Elia Madar
PolandPoland Agnieszka Skaradzińska
- 63 kg DenmarkDenmark Karin Schwartz SpainSpain Luisa Arnanz BelarusBelarus Yulia Sukhavitskaya
RussiaRussia Ekaterina Noskova
- 67 kg SpainSpain Elena Benítez GermanyGermany Leslie-Ellen Lanz FranceFrance Audrey Maurice
BelarusBelarus Alesja Chernyavskaya
- 72 kg RussiaRussia Natalia Ivanova GreeceGreece Ekaterina Bassi CroatiaCroatia Iva Gavez
PolandPoland Justyna Talan
+ 72 kg CroatiaCroatia Nataša Vezmar RussiaRussia Maria Konjachina GermanyGermany Bettina Hipf
BelgiumBelgium Laurence Rase

Men

Weight class gold silver bronze
- 54 kg TurkeyTurkey Mert Tuncer FranceFrance Christophe Civiletti ItalyItaly Andrea Di Girolamo
SpainSpain Juan Antonio Ramos
- 58 kg TurkeyTurkey Sedat Bekdemir SpainSpain Gabriel Esparza RussiaRussia Andrei Prtyukov
GermanyGermany Alexander Seethaler
- 62 kg SwedenSweden Stefan Santos SpainSpain Iván Ron DenmarkDenmark Shirwan Hasan
United KingdomUnited Kingdom David Thompson
- 67 kg DenmarkDenmark Jesper Røsen GermanyGermany Özgür Güneş GreeceGreece Georgios Ionas
TurkeyTurkey Bahri Tanrıkulu
- 72 kg Yugoslavia Federal Republic 1992Yugoslavia Zoran Krajčinović TurkeyTurkey Ertan Baştuğ IsraelIsrael Loik Laloum
Cyprus RepublicRepublic of Cyprus Giorgos Mikellis
- 78 kg SpainSpain José Jesús Marquez AzerbaijanAzerbaijan Fagan Umudov TurkeyTurkey Bekir Aydın
SloveniaSlovenia Dragoslav Zarič
- 84 kg BelgiumBelgium Zoran Prerad TurkeyTurkey Yasin Yağız FranceFrance Mickaël Borot
GreeceGreece Michalis Tolios
+ 84 kg FranceFrance Pascal Gentil NorwayNorway Ken Holter PolandPoland Paweł Nowak
SwedenSweden Marcus Thorén

Medal table

space country gold silver bronze total
1 SpainSpain Spain 3 3 2 8th
2 DenmarkDenmark Denmark 3 - 1 4th
3 TurkeyTurkey Turkey 2 3 3 8th
4th RussiaRussia Russia 2 2 3 7th
5 FranceFrance France 1 1 2 4th
6th CroatiaCroatia Croatia 1 - 2 3
7th BelgiumBelgium Belgium 1 - 1 2
SwedenSweden Sweden 1 - 1 2
9 Yugoslavia Federal Republic 1992Yugoslavia Yugoslavia 1 - - 1
NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 1 - - 1
11 GermanyGermany Germany - 2 2 4th
12 GreeceGreece Greece - 1 2 3
13 AzerbaijanAzerbaijan Azerbaijan - 1 - 1
NorwayNorway Norway - 1 - 1
SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland - 1 - 1
HungaryHungary Hungary - 1 - 1
17th PolandPoland Poland - - 3 3
18th ItalyItaly Italy - - 2 2
IsraelIsrael Israel - - 2 2
United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom - - 2 2
BelarusBelarus Belarus - - 2 2
22nd SloveniaSlovenia Slovenia - - 1 1
Cyprus RepublicRepublic of Cyprus Cyprus - - 1 1
total 16 16 32 64

Web links

  • Podium placements on taekwondodata.com (English)