1998 European Athletics Championships – Women's javelin throw

The Women's javelin throw event at the 1998 European Championships was held on Wednesday August 19, 1998, in Budapest, Hungary. There were a total number of 20 participating athletes. The qualification round was staged on Tuesday August 18, with the mark set at 61.00 metres. All results were made with a rough surfaced javelin (old design).

Medalists

Gold	Tanja Damaske Germany (GER)
Silver	Tatyana Shikolenko Russia (RUS)
Bronze	Mikaela Ingberg Finland (FIN)

Schedule

• All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

Qualification Round
Group A	Group B
18.08.1998 – 10:00h	18.08.1998 – 11:40h
Final Round
19.08.1998 – 18:00h

Abbreviations

• All results shown are in metres

Q	automatic qualification
q	qualification by rank
DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
WR	world record
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 1998 European Athletics Championships
World Record	Petra Felke (GDR)	80.00 m	September 9, 1988	Potsdam, East Germany
Event Record	Fatima Whitbread (GBR)	77.44 m	August 28, 1986	Stuttgart, West Germany

Qualification

Group A

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance
			1	2	3
1	3	Mikaela Ingberg (FIN)				64.49 m
2	4	Trine Hattestad (NOR)				62.55 m
3	5	Tatyana Shikolenko (RUS)				62.01 m
4	8	Nikolett Szabó (HUN)				60.64 m
5	10	Ewa Rybak (POL)				60.34 m
6	11	Rita Ramanauskaitė (LTU)				60.26 m
7	14	Taina Uppa (FIN)				58.01 m
8	16	Dorte Barby (GER)				57.12 m
9	19	Nadine Auzeil (FRA)				52.21 m
—	—	Aysel Taş (TUR)				NM

Group B

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance
			1	2	3
1	1	Steffi Nerius (GER)				66.04 m
2	2	Mirela Manjani-Tzelili (GRE)				65.14 m
3	6	Felicia Ţilea-Moldovan (ROM)				61.96 m
4	7	Heli Rantanen (FIN)				60.90 m
5	9	Tanja Damaske (GER)				60.63 m
6	12	Claudia Coslovich (ITA)				59.85 m
7	13	Nikola Tomečková (CZE)				59.65 m
8	15	Nadiya Kobrin (UKR)				57.70 m
9	17	Agnes Preisinger (HUN)				55.92 m
10	18	Evfemija Štorga (SLO)				53.73 m

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Tanja Damaske (GER)	69.10	X	62.24	—	X	64.51	69.10 m
	Tatyana Shikolenko (RUS)	65.66	58.33	64.04	61.10	63.93	66.92	66.92 m
	Mikaela Ingberg (FIN)	58.77	62.32	64.92	X	63.10	X	64.92 m
4	Trine Hattestad (NOR)	63.16	X	X	X	61.06	62.77	63.16 m
5	Heli Rantanen (FIN)	57.38	62.34	61.90	61.55	—	X	62.34 m
6	Steffi Nerius (GER)	60.53	X	62.08	60.01	X	X	62.08 m
7	Claudia Coslovich (ITA)	60.73	58.33	X	55.77	X	X	60.73 m
8	Nikolett Szabó (HUN)	58.95	X	59.05	X	59.76	60.56	60.56 m
9	Mirela Manjani-Tzelili (GRE)	58.65	56.53	56.13				58.65 m
10	Felicia Ţilea-Moldovan (ROM)	58.30	X	X				58.30 m
11	Rita Ramanauskaitė (LTU)	55.53	55.32	57.11				57.11 m
12	Ewa Rybak (POL)	56.65	53.08	X				56.65 m

See also

• 1996 Women's Olympic Javelin Throw (Atlanta)
• 1997 Women's World Championships Javelin Throw (Athens)
• 1999 Women's World Championships Javelin Throw (Seville)
• 2000 Women's Olympic Javelin Throw (Sydney)

References

• Results
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