1998 European Athletics Championships – Women's 800 metres

Events at the 1998 European
Athletics Championships

Track events
100 m   men   women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m men women
1500 m men women
5000 m men women
10,000 m men women
100 m hurdles women
110 m hurdles men
400 m hurdles men women
3000 m
steeplechase
men
4×100 m relay men women
4×400 m relay men women
Road events
Marathon men women
10 km walk women
20 km walk men
50 km walk men
Field events
Long jump men women
Triple jump men women
High jump men women
Pole vault men women
Shot put men women
Discus throw men women
Javelin throw men women
Hammer throw men women
Combined events
Heptathlon women
Decathlon men

The women's 800 metres at the 1998 European Athletics Championships was held at the Népstadion on 18, 19 and 20 August.

Medalists

Gold Yelena Afanasyeva
 Russia
Silver Malin Ewerlöf
 Sweden
Bronze Stephanie Graf
 Austria

Results

KEY: qFastest non-qualifiers QQualified NRNational record PBPersonal best SBSeasonal best

Round 1

Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) advance to the Semifinals.

Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes
1 1 Violeta Szekely  Romania 1:59.98 Q
1 2 Yelena Afanasyeva  Russia 1:59.98 Q
3 1 Malin Ewerlöf  Sweden 2:00.17 Q
4 3 Stephanie Graf  Austria 2:00.25 Q
5 1 Aleksandra Dereń  Poland 2:00.31 Q
6 2 Viviane Dorsile  France 2:00.31 Q
7 2 Natalya Dukhnova  Belarus 2:00.33 Q
8 1 Diane Modahl  Great Britain 2:00.52 q
9 3 Natalya Tsyganova  Russia 2:00.84 Q
10 2 Irina Krakoviak  Lithuania 2:01.04 q
11 3 Ludmila Formanová  Czech Republic 2:01.13 Q
12 3 Maria Akraka  Sweden 2:01.32 q
13 2 Petya Strashilova  Bulgaria 2:01.42 q
14 3 Pilar Barreiro  Spain 2:01.60
15 2 Ana Menéndez  Spain 2:01.63
16 4 Larissa Mikhailova  Russia 2:02.03 Q
17 4 Heike Meißner  Germany 2:02.20 Q
18 1 Sandra Stals  Belgium 2:02.34
19 3 Yelena Buzhenko  Ukraine 2:02.36
20 4 Tsvetelina Kirilova  Bulgaria 2:02.37 Q
21 4 Anita Brägger   Switzerland 2:02.50
22 4 Patricia Djaté-Taillard  France 2:02.60
23 2 Iryna Lishchynska  Ukraine 2:02.78
24 4 Ella Kovacs  Romania 2:02.85
25 3 Judit Varga  Hungary 2:03.05
25 4 Monica Lundgren  Sweden 2:03.05
27 2 Claudia Gesel  Germany 2:03.20
28 3 Elena Buhăianu  Romania 2:04.01
29 1 Brigitte Mühlbacher  Austria 2:04.02
30 1 Virgie Fouquet  France 2:04.20
31 1 Nuria Fernández  Spain 2:04.89
32 4 Stella Jongmans  Netherlands DNS

Semifinals

Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the Final.

Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes
1 2 Yelena Afanasyeva  Russia 1:59.22 Q
2 1 Larissa Mikhailova  Russia 1:59.33 Q
3 2 Malin Ewerlöf  Sweden 1:59.44 Q, NR
4 1 Stephanie Graf  Austria 1:59.50 Q
5 2 Violeta Szekely  Romania 1:59.71 Q
6 1 Tsvetelina Kirilova  Bulgaria 1:59.77 Q, PB
7 2 Heike Meißner  Germany 1:59.92 q
8 1 Natalya Dukhnova  Belarus 1:59.95 q, SB
9 1 Diane Modahl  Great Britain 2:00.08
10 2 Viviane Dorsile  France 2:00.26 SB
11 1 Ludmila Formanová  Czech Republic 2:00.88
12 1 Maria Akraka  Sweden 2:01.13
13 2 Petya Strashilova  Bulgaria 2:01.54
14 1 Natalya Tsyganova  Russia 2:01.96
15 2 Aleksandra Dereń  Poland 2:02.22
16 2 Irina Krakoviak  Lithuania 2:06.29

Final

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st Yelena Afanasyeva  Russia 1:58.50
2nd Malin Ewerlöf  Sweden 1:59.61
3rd Stephanie Graf  Austria 2:00.11
4 Violeta Szekely  Romania 2:00.56
5 Tsvetelina Kirilova  Bulgaria 2:00.66
6 Heike Meißner  Germany 2:01.36
7 Natalya Dukhnova  Belarus 2:02.14
8 Larissa Mikhailova  Russia DNF

References

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