1998 European Athletics Indoor Championships
Dates	27 February – 1 March
Host city	Valencia Spain
Venue	Palace of Luis Puig
Events	26
Participation	484 athletes from 39 nations
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Host venue in Valencia

The 1998 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held from Friday, 27 February to Sunday, 1 March 1998 at the Palace of Luis Puig, Valencia, Spain.^[1]

Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres	Angelos Pavlakakis  Greece	6.55	Jason Gardener  Great Britain	6.59	Stéphane Cali  France	6.60
200 metres	Serhiy Osovych  Ukraine	20.40 NR	Anninos Marcoullides  Cyprus	20.65	Allyn Condon  Great Britain	20.68
400 metres	Ruslan Mashchenko  Russia	45.90	Ashraf Saber  Italy	45.99	Robert Maćkowiak  Poland	46.00
800 metres	Nils Schumann  Germany	1:47.02	Marko Koers  Netherlands	1:47.20	Vebjørn Rodal  Norway	1:47.40
1500 metres	Rui Silva  Portugal	3:44.57	Abdelkader Chékhémani  France	3:44.89	Andrey Zadorozhniy  Russia	3:44.93
3000 metres	John Mayock  Great Britain	7:55.09	Manuel Pancorbo  Spain	7:55.23	Alberto García  Spain	7:55.24
60 m hurdles	Igors Kazanovs  LAT	7.54	Tomasz Ścigaczewski  Poland	7.56	Mike Fenner  Germany	7.58
High jump	Artur Partyka  Poland	2.31	Vyacheslav Voronin  Russia	2.31	Tomáš Janků  Czech Republic	2.29
Pole vault	Tim Lobinger  Germany	5.80	Michael Stolle  Germany	5.80	Daniel Ecker  Germany	5.75
Long jump	Alexey Lukashevich  Ukraine	8.06	Carlos Calado  Portugal	8.05	Emmanuel Bangué  France	8.05
Triple jump	Jonathan Edwards  Great Britain	17.43	Charles Friedek  Germany	17.15	Serge Hélan  France	17.02
Shot put	Oliver-Sven Buder  Germany	21.47	Mika Halvari  FIN	20.59	Arsi Harju  FIN	20.53
Heptathlon	Sebastian Chmara  Poland	6415	Dezső Szabó  Hungary	6249 NR	Lev Lobodin  Russia	6226

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres	Melanie Paschke  Germany	7.14	Frederique Bangue  France	7.18	Odiah Sidibé  France	7.22
200 metres	Svetlana Goncharenko  Russia	22.46	Melanie Paschke  Germany	22.50	Ekaterini Koffa  Greece	22.86
400 metres	Grit Breuer  Germany	50.45	Ionela Târlea  Romania	50.56	Helena Fuchsová  Czech Republic	51.22
800 metres	Ludmila Formanová  Czech Republic	2:02.30	Malin Ewerlöf  Sweden	2:03.61	Judit Varga  Hungary	2:03.81
1500 metres	Theresia Kiesl  Austria	4:13.62	Lidia Chojecka  Poland	4:14.93	Violeta Szekely  Romania	4:15.54
3000 metres	Gabriela Szabo  Romania	8:49.96	Fernanda Ribeiro  Portugal	8:51.42	Marta Domínguez  Spain	8:57.72
60 m hurdles	Patricia Girard-Léno  France	7.85	Svetlana Laukhova  Russia	8.01	Diane Allahgreen  Great Britain	8.02
High jump	Monica Iagar  Romania	1.96	Alina Astafei  Germany	1.94	Yelena Yelesina  Russia	1.94
Pole vault	Anzhela Balakhonova  Ukraine	4.45 WR	Daniela Bártová  Czech Republic	4.40	Vala Flosadóttir  Iceland	4.40
Long jump	Fiona May  Italy	6.91	Tatyana Ter-Mesrobyan  Russia	6.72	Linda Ferga  France	6.67
Triple jump	Ashia Hansen  Great Britain	15.16 WR	Šárka Kašpárková  Czech Republic	14.76	Yelena Lebedenko  Russia	14.32
Shot put	Irina Korzhanenko  Russia	20.25	Vita Pavlysh  Ukraine	20.00	Corrie de Bruin  Netherlands	18.97
Pentathlon	Urszula Włodarczyk  Poland	4808	Irina Belova  Russia	4631	Karin Specht  Germany	4523

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	5	4	3	12
2	Russia (RUS)	3	4	4	11
3	Poland (POL)	3	2	1	6
4	Great Britain (GBR)	3	1	2	6
5	Ukraine (UKR)	3	1	0	4
6	Romania (ROM)	2	1	1	4
7	France (FRA)	1	2	5	8
8	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	2	2	5
9	Portugal (POR)	1	2	0	3
10	Italy (ITA)	1	1	0	2
11	Greece (GRE)	1	0	1	2
12	Austria (AUT)	1	0	0	1
	Latvia (LAT)	1	0	0	1
14	Spain (ESP)	0	1	2	3
15	Finland (FIN)	0	1	1	2
	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	1	2
	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	1	2
18	Cyprus (CYP)	0	1	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
20	Iceland (ISL)	0	0	1	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (21 entries)		26	26	26	78

Participating nations

See also

• 1998 in athletics (track and field)

References

External links

• Results - Athletix