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2002 European Championships in Athletics

The 18th European Championships in Athletics
European Championships in Athletics

The European Championships in Athletics is an event organized by the European Athletic Association. It is organised every four years, the same year as the Commonwealth Games and between the summer Olympic Games cycle....
were held from August 6 to August 11, 2002 in the Olympic Stadium

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Men's Results

Track

1994

1994 European Championships in Athletics

The 16th European Championships in Athletics were held from August 7 to August 14, 1994 in the Helsinki Olympic Stadium of Helsinki, Finland....
|1998

1998 European Championships in Athletics

The 17th European Championships in Athletics were held from August 18 to August 23, 1998 in Budapest, the capital city of Hungary....
|2002 |2006

2006 European Championships in Athletics

The 19th European Championships in Athletics were held in Gothenburg, Sweden, between August 7 and August 13, 2006. The competition arena was the Ullevi and the official motto "Catch the Spirit"....
|2010

2010 European Championships in Athletics

The 20th European Championships in Athletics will be held in Barcelona, Spain, on the 27 July - 1 August 2010.External links*...
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100 m	Francis Obikwelu Francis Obikwelu Francis Obiorah Obikwelu, born 22 November, 1978 in Nigeria and a Portugal citizen since 2001, is a former Sprint Athletics specializing in 100 metres and 200 metres....	10.06	Darren Campbell Darren Campbell Darren Andrew Campbell is a retired England Sprint Athletics . He competed in the 100 metres and 200 metres, as well as the 4 x 100 metres relay....	10.15	Roland Németh Roland Nemeth Roland N?meth is a Hungary athlete specializing in the 100 metres.He won the bronze medal at the 2002 European Championships in Athletics. Participating in the 2004 Summer Olympics, he achieved third place in his 100 metres heat, thus making it through to the second round....	10.27
200 m	Konstantinos Kenteris Konstantinos Kenteris Konstantinos Kenteris, also spelled as Konstadinos Kederis is a Greece athletics . He won the gold medal in the 200 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics but withdrew from the 2004 Summer Olympics held in his home country after a Doping violation....	19.85	Francis Obikwelu Francis Obikwelu Francis Obiorah Obikwelu, born 22 November, 1978 in Nigeria and a Portugal citizen since 2001, is a former Sprint Athletics specializing in 100 metres and 200 metres....	20.21	Marlon Devonish Marlon Devonish Marlon Ronald Devonish is an England Sprint Athletics .He is a member of the Coventry Godiva Harriers athletics club and is coached by Tony Lester....	20.24
400 m	Ingo Schultz Ingo Schultz Ingo Schultz is a Germany sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.He took up athletics in 1997, and ran his first 400 metres race in 1998, clocking in 49.45 seconds....	45.14	David Canal David Canal David Canal Valero is a Spain sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres....	45.24	Daniel Caines Daniel Caines Daniel Stephen Caines is an England athlete who mainly competes in the 400 metres. He was educated at Solihull School. In addition to winning medals in individual contests, he has been a fairly successful relay race runner....	45.28
800 m	Wilson Kipketer Wilson Kipketer Wilson Kipketer is a former Denmark Middle distance track event running. He holds the current world records at both indoor and outdoor 800 m and the indoor 1000 m metre distances....	1:47.25	Andre Bucher André Bucher Andr? Bucher is a retired Swiss 800 metres runner. He is mostly known for winning the gold medal at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics in Edmonton in his event....	1:47.43	Nils Schumann Nils Schumann Nils Schumann is a Germany Athletics , winner of the 800 m at the 2000 Summer Olympics.Schumann, born in Bad Frankenhausen, unexpectedly won a gold medal over 800 m at the European Indoor Championships 1998....	1:47.60
1500 m	Mehdi Baala Mehdi Baala Mehdi Baala is a France middle-distance athlete of Algerian origin competing mainly at 1500 m. Baala has won numerous major medals, including two European titles....	3:45.25	Reyes Estévez Reyes Estévez Reyes Est?vez L?pez is a Spain 1500 metres runner, who won the 1998 European Championships in Athletics' final 1998 in Budapest. In addition, he won bronze medals at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics, 1999 World Championships in Athletics and 2005 European Indoor Athletics Championships and silver medals at the 2001 IAAF World Indoo...	3:45.25	Rui Silva Rui Silva Rui Silva is a Portuguese athlete, who represents Sporting Clube de Portugal. As a distance runner, he specializes at the 1500m and 3000m events although he has at times run the 800 metres as well....	3:45.43
5000 m	Alberto Garcia	13:38.18	Ismaïl Sghyr Ismaïl Sghyr Isma?l Sghyr is a France runner who won a bronze medal at the over 3000 metres at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships. In 5000 metres he finished fourth at the World Championships the same year, as well as winning a bronze medal at the 2002 European Championships in Athletics....	13:39.81	Serhiy Lebid	13:40.00
10 000 m	José Manuel Martínez José Manuel Martínez Jos? Manuel Mart?nez is a Spain long-distance runner. He is married to Spanish field hockey player Nuria Moreno....	27:47.65	Dieter Baumann Dieter Baumann Dieter Baumann is a former Germany Athletics and winner of 5000 m at the 1992 Summer Olympics.Born in Blaustein, Germany , Dieter Baumann was one of the few non-African athletes who were able to seriously challenge the African dominance of Middle distance track event during the 1990s....	27:47.87	José Ríos José Ríos Jos? R?os Ortega is a Spain runner who specializes in the 10,000 metres and Marathon ....	27:48.29
Marathon	Janne Holmén Janne Holmén Janne Sven-?ke Holm?n is a Finland Long-distance track event runner.Holm?n's biggest achievement to date is winning the marathon event in the 2002 European Championships in Athletics in Munich, Germany, finishing in 2:12:04....	2: 12:14	Pavel Loskutov Pavel Loskutov Pavel Loskutov is an Estonian long-distance runner who specializes in marathon races.He won the silver medal at the 2002 European Championships in Athletics in 2:13:18 hours....	2: 13:18	Julio Rey Julio Rey Julio Rey is a Spain long-distance runner who mostly concentrates on the marathon race. He was banned from competition for 2 years after testing positive for Mesterolone at the 1999 Rotterdam Marathon....	2: 13:21
110 m H 110 metres hurdles The 110 metre hurdles are an Olympic Games Athletics discipline run by men. As part of a racing event, ten hurdles of 1.067 metres in height are placed evenly spaced along a straight course of 110 metres....	Colin Jackson Colin Jackson Colin Ray Jackson Order of the British Empire is a Welsh people former Sprint and hurdling Athletics of Jamaican, Jamaican Maroons, Taino, and Scottish people ancestry, who now works as a Sportscaster for athletics and television presenter predominantly for the BBC....	13.11	Stanislavs Olijars Stanislavs Olijars Stanislavs Olijars is a Latvian athlete mainly competing in the hurdling. He is the 2000 European indoor champion, and in 2002 he won European indoor and outdoor medals....	13.22	Artur Kohutek Artur Kohutek Artur Kohutek is a Poland 110 m hurdles.He won the bronze medal at the 2002 European Championships in Athletics in Munich in a time of 13.32 seconds....	13.32
400 m H 400 metres hurdles The 400 m Hurdles are an Olympic Games athletics discipline. On a standard outdoor track 400 meters is the length of the inside lane once around the stadium....	Stéphane Diagana Stéphane Diagana St?phane Diagana is a former French athlete who won the gold medal at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics in Athens over 400 metres hurdles....	47.58	Jirí Mužík Jirí Mužík Jir? Mu??k is a Czech Republic 400 metres hurdles.His personal best time was 48.27 seconds, achieved during the heats of the 1997 World Championships in Athletics in Athens....	48.43	Pawel Januszewski Pawel Januszewski Pawel Januszewski is a retired hurdler from Poland, who is best known for winning the gold medal at the 1998 European Championships in Athletics....	48.46
3000 m St.	Antonio David Jiménez Antonio David Jiménez Antonio David Jim?nez is a Spain long-distance runner.He won the gold medal in the 3000m steeplechase at the 2002 European Athletics Championships in Munich....	8:24.34	Simon Vroemen Simon Vroemen Simon Frans Vroemen is a Netherlands runner, specialising in the Steeplechase .Vroemen has a degree in molecular sciences from the Wageningen University....	8:24.45	Luis Miguel Martin Luis Miguel Martín Luis Miguel Mart?n is a Spain runner who specializes on the 3000 metres steeplechase. He took up the event in 1998....	8:24.72
20 km Walk Race walking Racewalking is a long-distance Track and field athletics event. Although it is a foot race, it is different from running in that one foot must appear to be in contact with the ground at all times....	Francisco Javier Fernández Francisco Javier Fernández Francisco Javier Fern?ndez Pel?ez is a Spain race walking, he has specialised in 20 km race walk. He was born in Guadix....	1: 18:37	Vladimir Andreyev Vladimir Andreyev Vladimir Vasilyevich Andreyev is a Russian race walking.AchievementsSee also*List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping offences...	1: 19:56	Juan Manuel Molina Juan Manuel Molina Juan Manuel Molina is a Spain race walking.AchievementsReferences...	1: 20:36
50 km Walk Race walking Racewalking is a long-distance Track and field athletics event. Although it is a foot race, it is different from running in that one foot must appear to be in contact with the ground at all times....	Robert Korzeniowski Robert Korzeniowski Robert Korzeniowski is a former Polish Racewalking. He has won four gold medals at the Summer Olympics and has won three world championships....	3: 36:39 WR	Aleksey Voyevodin Aleksey Voyevodin Aleksey Nikolayevich Voyevodin is a Russian race walking mainly competing over the 50 km distance. He has one World Championships silver medal, and won a bronze medal at the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's 50 km Walk....	3: 40:16	Jesús Ángel García Jesús Ángel García Jes?s ?ngel Garc?a is a Spain race walking.AchievementsReferences...	3: 44:33
4 x 100 m	Konstantin Vasyukov Konstantin Rurak Anotoliy Dovgal Aleksandr Kaydash	38.53	Ryszard Pilarczyk Lukasz Chyla Lukasz Chyla Lukasz Chyla is a track and field Sprint who competes internationally for Poland.Chyla represented Poland at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.... Marcin Nowak Marcin Urbas Marcin Urbas Marcin Urbas is a Poland Athletics . Urbas's season best over 60 metres indoor is 6.80s and his 200 metres season best is 20.84s. He is coached, by Mr....	38.71	Ronny Ostwald Ronny Ostwald Ronny Ostwald is a Germany sprint athlete.He finished 8th in the 100m final at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg.He has had more success as a relay runner for Germany, winning a bronze medal in the 4 x 100m relay in the 2002 European Athletics Championships and competing in the relay team in the 2004 Olympics.... Marc Blume Marc Blume is a Germany sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres.He is the twin brother of Holger Blume. Both represent the sports club TV Wattenscheid.... Alexander Kosenkow Alexander Kosenkow Alexander Kosenkow or Aleksandr Kosenkov is a Germans sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres. He represents the sports club TV Wattenscheid.... Christian Schacht Christian Schacht Christian Schacht is a retired Germans sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres.Schacht won a bronze medal in 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2002 European Championships in Athletics, with teammates Ronny Ostwald, Marc Blume and Alexander Kosenkow....	38.88
4 x 400 m	Jared Deacon Matt Elias Jamie Baulch Jamie Baulch Jamie Steven Baulch is a British Sprint Athletics . He won the 400 metres gold medal at the 1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships in 1999, and silver medals in the 4x400m relay at both the Olympic Games and IAAF World Championships in Athletics.... Daniel Caines Daniel Caines Daniel Stephen Caines is an England athlete who mainly competes in the 400 metres. He was educated at Solihull School. In addition to winning medals in individual contests, he has been a fairly successful relay race runner....	3:01.25	Oleg Mishukov Andrey Semyonov Ruslan Mashchenko Ruslan Mashchenko Ruslan Mashchenko is a retired hurdler from Russia, who is best known for winning two silver medals at the European Championships in Athletics during his career .... Yuriy Borzakovskiy Yuriy Borzakovskiy Yuriy Mikhailovich Borzakovskiy is a Russian Federation Middle distance track event athlete specializing in the 800 metres....	3:01.34	Leslie Djhone Leslie Djhone Leslie Djhone is a France athlete. Competing mainly in the 400 metres event, he placed 5th at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics and 2007 World Championships in Athletics and 7th at the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's 400 metres.... Ahmed Douhou Ahmed Douhou Ahmed Douhou is a France sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres. He switched nationality from his birth country C?te d'Ivoire in 2002.He won the bronze medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2002 European Championships in Athletics, together with teammates Leslie Djhone, Naman Keita and Ibrahima Wade.... Naman Keita Naman Keita Naman Ke?ta is a track and field athlete, competing internationally for France. He was a bronze medalist in the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's 400 metres Hurdles at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece.... Ibrahima Wade Ibrahima Wade Ibrahima Wade is a France sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres. He switched nationality from his birth country Senegal in 2000.His personal best time is 45.05 seconds, achieved in August 1998 in Dakar....	3:02.76

Performances by Dwain Chambers
Dwain Chambers

Dwain Anthony Chambers is an English Sprint of British African-Caribbean community descent. He has won medals on the international stage numerous times and is one of the fastest European sprinters in the history of recorded track and field athletics....
in the 100 m race (9.96) and the 4x100 m relay (38.19) have been disqualified by the IAAF since Chambers admitted the use of performance enhancing drugs. Other members of the British relay team included Christian Malcolm
Christian Malcolm

Christian Sean Malcolm is a United Kingdom Athletics , specialising in the 200m.Malcolm was born in Cardiff and resides in Newport, Wales. He won the title of World Junior Athlete of the Year in 1998 and in the 1998 World Junior Championships, he won the 200m in 20.44 seconds....
, Darren Campbell
Darren Campbell

Darren Andrew Campbell is a retired England Sprint Athletics . He competed in the 100 metres and 200 metres, as well as the 4 x 100 metres relay....
and Marlon Devonish
Marlon Devonish

Marlon Ronald Devonish is an England Sprint Athletics .He is a member of the Coventry Godiva Harriers athletics club and is coached by Tony Lester....
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Field

1994

1994 European Championships in Athletics

The 16th European Championships in Athletics were held from August 7 to August 14, 1994 in the Helsinki Olympic Stadium of Helsinki, Finland....
| 1998

1998 European Championships in Athletics

The 17th European Championships in Athletics were held from August 18 to August 23, 1998 in Budapest, the capital city of Hungary....
| 2002 | 2006

2006 European Championships in Athletics

2010 European Championships in Athletics

The 20th European Championships in Athletics will be held in Barcelona, Spain, on the 27 July - 1 August 2010.External links*...

High Jump High jump The high jump is an athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of any devices....	Jaroslav Rybakov	2.31	Stefan Holm Stefan Holm Stefan Christian Holm is a retired Sweden high jumper. He has won an Olympic Games gold medal, four gold and a silver medal in the World Championships in Athletics, and a gold, two silver medals and a bronze medal in the European Championships in Athletics....	2.29	Staffan Strand Staffan Strand Staffan Bo Strand is a Sweden former high jumper. He currently lives in Norrmalm in Stockholm with his wife since 2004 Tiffany.His personal best jump is 2.32 metres, achieved in July 2000 in Nice and in September 2000 at the Olympic Games in Sydney....	2.27
Long Jump Long jump The long jump is an athletics event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far from the take-off point as possible....	Aleksey Lukashevich	8.08	Siniša Ergotic Siniša Ergotic Sini?a Ergotic is a Croatian long jumper.He won the gold medal the 2001 Mediterranean Games in Tunis and the silver medal at the 2002 European Championships in Athletics in Munich....	8.00	Yago Lamela Yago Lamela Santiago Lamela Tob?o is a Spain athlete competing in the long jump. His greatest year was 1999, when he jumped 8.56 during the indoor season to win the silver medal at the 1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships....	7.99
Pole Vault Pole vault Pole vaulting is an athletic athletics event in which a person uses a long, flexible pole as an aid to leap over a #bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greece, as well as the Crete and Celts....	Aleksandr Averbukh Aleksandr Averbukh Aleksandr Averbukh is an Israeli athlete competing in the pole vault. He was formerly a decathlon competing for Russia, but in 1999 he became an Israeli citizen and rose to top level in pole vault....	5.85	Lars Börgeling Lars Börgeling Lars B?rgeling is a Germany pole vaulter.His personal best is 5.85 metres, achieved in July 2002 in Leverkusen. This ranks him sixth among German pole vaulters, behind Tim Lobinger, Andrei Tivontchik, Michael Stolle, Danny Ecker and Richard Spiegelburg....	5.80	Tim Lobinger Tim Lobinger Tim Lobinger is a Germany pole vaulter.His discipline is pole vault and he has been an elite competitor since the 1990s. His best results came in 1997 and 1999 when he jumped over 6.00 meters....	5.80
Triple Jump Triple jump The triple jump is a track and field sport, similar to the long jump, but involving a ?hop, step and jump? routine, whereby the competitor runs down the track and performs a hop, a step and then a jump into the sand pit....	Christian Olsson Christian Olsson \|- bgcolor="#cccccc" align=center! colspan="3" \| EAA European ChampionshipsChristian Olsson is an Athletics competing in high jump and triple jump....	17.53	Charles Friedek Charles Friedek Charles Michael Friedek is a German triple jumper who became world champion in 1999 World Championships in Athletics with a jump of 17.59 metres....	17.33	Jonathan Edwards Jonathan Edwards (athlete) Jonathan David Edwards, Order of the British Empire, is a former British triple jumper. He is a former Summer Olympics, Commonwealth Games, European Championships in Athletics and IAAF World Championships in Athletics champion, and has held the world record in the event since 1995....	17.32
Shot Put Shot put The shot put is an athletics event involving "putting" a heavy metal ball as far as possible. It is common to use the term "shot put" to refer to both the shot itself and to the throwing motion....	Yuriy Bilonoh Yuriy Bilonoh Yuriy Bilonoh is a Ukraine shot putter. Born in Bilopillya, Sumy Oblast, he began athletics at a Children and Youth Sports School in Bilopillya, where his first trainer was Vladimir Belikov....	21.37	Joachim Olsen	21.16	Ralf Bartels Ralf Bartels Ralf Bartels is a German shot put. He became European Champion at the 2006 European Championships in Athletics in Gothenburg, Sweden after beating Belarusian Andrei Mikhnevich with a final put of 21.13 metres, two centimetres ahead of the Belarusian....	20.58
Discus Discus throw The discus throw is an event in track and field competition, in which an athlete throws a heavy disk ???itself called a discus???in an attempt to mark a farther distance than his or her competitors....	Róbert Fazekas Róbert Fazekas R?bert Fazekas is a Hungary discus thrower, who won gold in the 2002 European Championships and silver in the 2003 World Championship. He finished first in the 2004 Summer Olympics, but was later List of stripped Olympic medals for failing to provide a drug sample, and the gold medal was awarded to Virgilijus Alekna....	68.83	Virgilijus Alekna Virgilijus Alekna Virgilijus Alekna is a famous Lithuanian athlete....	66.62	Michael Möllenbeck Michael Möllenbeck Michael M?llenbeck is a Germany discus thrower.His greatest achievements are two World Championship bronze medals, and his bronze at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics - Men's Discus was especially welcome as Germany struggled to win medals....	66.37
Javelin Javelin throw The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the Javelin , a spear-like object made of metal, Glass-reinforced plastic and, in some cases, carbon fiber....	Steve Backley Steve Backley Stephen James Backley Order of the British Empire is a former Athletics from United Kingdom specialising in the javelin throw. Although he is ranked among the great javelin throwers of the modern era, Backley never won a gold medal in a major World athletics event....	88.54	Sergey Makarov	88.05	Boris Henry Boris Henry Boris Henry is a Germany javelin thrower. He has won the bronze medal in the World Championships twice, in 1995 and again in 2003.His personal best throw was 90.44 metres, achieved in July 1995 in Linz....	85.33
Hammer Hammer throw The modern or Olympic Games hammer throw is an athletic throwing event where the object is to throw a heavy metal ball attached to a wire and handle....	Adrián Ánnus Adrián Annus Adri?n Annus is a Hungary hammer thrower who was List of stripped Olympic medals of his gold medal at the 2004_Summer_Olympics in Athens for a doping violation in a highly publicized scandal....	81.17	Vladislav Piskunov	80.39	Alexandros Papadimitriou Alexandros Papadimitriou Alexandros Papadimitriou is a Greece hammer thrower. His personal best throw is 80.45 metres, achieved in July 2000 in Athens. This is the current Greek record. He was born in Larissa....	80.21
Decathlon Decathlon The decathlon is an athletic event consisting of ten track and field events. Events are held over two consecutive days and the winners are determined by the combined performance in all.... Details 2002 European Championships in Athletics - Men's Decathlon These are the official results of the Decathlon competition at the 2002 European Championships in Athletics in Munich, Germany....	Roman Šebrle Roman Šebrle Roman ?ebrle is an athlete from the Czech Republic. Originally a high jumper, he competes in decathlon and heptathlon for team TJ Dukla Praha and is a world record holder in the decathlon....	8800	Erki Nool Erki Nool Erki Nool is an Estonian decathlete and politician.Nool is a winner of the gold medal for Decathlon in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Although Nool did not place first in any individual event, his total score was the highest....	8438	Lev Lobodin Lev Lobodin Lev Alekseyevich Lobodin is a decathlete from Russia, having changed nationality from Ukraine at the end of 1996. His best achievement was the silver medal at the 2003 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Birmingham....	8390

Women's Results

Track

1994

1994 European Championships in Athletics

The 16th European Championships in Athletics were held from August 7 to August 14, 1994 in the Helsinki Olympic Stadium of Helsinki, Finland....
| 1998

1998 European Championships in Athletics

The 17th European Championships in Athletics were held from August 18 to August 23, 1998 in Budapest, the capital city of Hungary....
| 2002 | 2006

2006 European Championships in Athletics

2010 European Championships in Athletics

The 20th European Championships in Athletics will be held in Barcelona, Spain, on the 27 July - 1 August 2010.External links*...

100 m Sprint (race) Sprints are short running races in athletics . They are roughly classified as events in which top runners will not have to "pace themselves", but can run as fast as possible for the entire distance....	Ekaterini Thanou Ekaterini Thanou Ekaterini Thanou is a Greece sprinter.Thanou won the silver medal in the women's 100 metres at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. With Marion Jones admitting to steroid use prior to and during the Sydney Olympics and having her gold medal withdrawn by the International Olympic Committee, Thanou may have her silver medal upgraded to gold de...	11.10	Kim Gevaert Kim Gevaert Kim Gevaert is a former Belgium Sprint Athletics .Her closest brush with a world title came in running 4/100 of a second behind three-time champion Gail Devers at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics....	11.22	Manuela Levorato Manuela Levorato Manuela Levorato is an Italy sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres and 200 metres. At the 2002 European Championships in Athletics she won a bronze medal in both these events....	11.23
200 m Sprint (race) Sprints are short running races in athletics . They are roughly classified as events in which top runners will not have to "pace themselves", but can run as fast as possible for the entire distance....	Muriel Hurtis Muriel Hurtis Muriel Hurtis-Houairi is an track and field from France.She specialises in the 200 metre sprint and 4x100 metre relay events. In the 2004 Summer Olympic Games she failed to qualify for the semi-finals of the 200 metres....	22.43	Kim Gevaert Kim Gevaert Kim Gevaert is a former Belgium Sprint Athletics .Her closest brush with a world title came in running 4/100 of a second behind three-time champion Gail Devers at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics....	22.53	Manuela Levorato Manuela Levorato Manuela Levorato is an Italy sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres and 200 metres. At the 2002 European Championships in Athletics she won a bronze medal in both these events....	22.75
400 m Sprint (race) Sprints are short running races in athletics . They are roughly classified as events in which top runners will not have to "pace themselves", but can run as fast as possible for the entire distance....	Olesya Zykina Olesya Zykina Olesya Nikolaevna Zykina is a Russian athlete who mainly competes in the 400 metres. In addition to winning medals in individual contests, she has been a very successful relay race runner, winning the silver medal at the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 4 x 400 metres relay....	50.45	Grit Breuer Grit Breuer Grit Breuer is a former East Germany athlete, who competed in the women's 200m, 400m, 4x100m, and 4x100m events.She has received injuries as a result of her sports competition, including a slipped disk in her back and a ligament in her knee....	50.70	Lee McConnell Lee McConnell Lee McConnell is a Scotland athlete who competes in the 400 metres. She attended Holyrood R.C. Secondary School in Glasgow before graduating from Loughborough University in 2000 with a degree in Sports Science....	51.02
800 m Middle distance track event Middle distance track events are track races longer than sprints up to 3000 metres....	Jolanda Ceplak Jolanda Ceplak Jolanda Ceplak is a Slovenian Middle distance track event Athletics .She was born in Celje, Slovenia and lived in Velenje until recently when she moved to Monaco....	1:57.65	Mayte Martínez	1:58.86	Kelly Holmes Kelly Holmes Dame Kelly Holmes, Order of the British Empire is a retired English Middle distance track event Athletics . She won gold medals in the 800 and 1500 metre race events respectively at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens....	1:59.83
1500 m Middle distance track event Middle distance track events are track races longer than sprints up to 3000 metres....	Süreyya Ayhan	3:58.79	Gabriela Szabo Gabriela Szabo Gabriela Szabo is a Romanian Athletics athlete, winner of the gold medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics in 5000 m and winner of bronze and silver medals in 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics in 1500 m, respectively....	3:58.81	Tatyana Tomashova Tatyana Tomashova Tatyana Ivanovna Tomashova is a Russian middle distance runner. At the 2000 Summer Olympics she competed in 5000 metres, but she has participated in shorter races since, now competing mainly in the 1500 metres....	4:01.28
5000 m Middle distance track event Middle distance track events are track races longer than sprints up to 3000 metres....	Marta Dominguez Marta Domínguez Marta Dom?nguez Azpeleta is a Spain runner who currently mainly competes in 5000 metres and 10000 metres. In 2002 she won these events at the European indoor and outdoor championships, and won her second straight title in 2006 in the 5000 metres at the European outdoor championship ....	15:14.76	Sonia O'Sullivan Sonia O'Sullivan Sonia O'Sullivan is an Republic of Ireland runner from Cobh, County Cork. She was one of the world's leading female 5000m runners for most of the 1990s and early 2000s....	15:14.85	Yelena Zadorozhnaya Yelena Zadorozhnaya Yelena Zadorozhnaya is a Russian runner who specializes in the 3000 metres, 5000 metres and 3000 metres steeplechase.She has not competed on top level since the 2005 season....	15:15.22
10 000 m Long-distance track event Long-distance track event track running require runners to balance their energy. Because these types of races are very energy-consuming, one requires mental determination and aerobic conditioning, since stamina is a bigger factor than speed....	Paula Radcliffe Paula Radcliffe Paula Jane Radcliffe, Order of the British Empire is a British Long-distance track event and currently holds several world records.Radcliffe's distinctive "nodding" action while running has made her instantly recognisable to British viewers....	30:01.09	Sonia O'Sullivan Sonia O'Sullivan Sonia O'Sullivan is an Republic of Ireland runner from Cobh, County Cork. She was one of the world's leading female 5000m runners for most of the 1990s and early 2000s....	30:47.59	Lyudmila Biktasheva	31:04.00
Marathon	Maria Guida Maria Guida Maria Guida is an Italy long-distance runner....	2: 26:05	Luminita Zaituc Luminita Zaituc Luminita Zaituc-Zelaskowski is a Germany long-distance Running of Romanian descent. She has lived in Germany since 1990, and, since 1996, she has been a German citizen....	2: 26:58	Sonja Oberem Sonja Oberem Sonja Oberem, n?e Krolik is a Germany athlete who specialized in the marathon races. In her younger days she was a successful triathlete....	2: 28:45
100 m H Hurdling Hurdling is a type of track and field athletics race. There are sprint hurdle races and long hurdle races. The standard sprint hurdle race is 110 metres hurdles for men and 100 metres hurdles for women....	Glory Alozie Glory Alozie Glory Alozie Oluchi is a Spain athlete competing mostly in hurdling. The world junior champion from 1986, she went on to have a successful senior career, although she has never won a major international event....	12.73	Yelena Krasovskaya	12.88	Yana Kasova	12.91
400 m H Hurdling Hurdling is a type of track and field athletics race. There are sprint hurdle races and long hurdle races. The standard sprint hurdle race is 110 metres hurdles for men and 100 metres hurdles for women....	Ionela Târlea	54.95	Heike Meissner Heike Meissner Heike Mei?ner is a retired Germany athlete. She competed mainly in the 400 metres hurdles, but also spent two seasons specializing in the 800 metres....	55.89	Anna Olichwierczuk	56.18
20 km Walk Race walking Racewalking is a long-distance Track and field athletics event. Although it is a foot race, it is different from running in that one foot must appear to be in contact with the ground at all times.... Details 2002 European Championships in Athletics - Women's 20 km Walk These are the official results of the Race walking event at the 2002 European Championships in Athletics in Munich, Germany....	Olimpiada Ivanova Olimpiada Ivanova Olimpiada Vladimirovna Ivanova is a Russian race walking. She has 4 medals from the major events. She was born in Munsjuty, Chuvashia.Her first gold medal was won in the 2001 World Championships in Athletics, where she beat the rest of the world with the time 1.27:48....	1: 6:42	Yelena Nikolayeva Yelena Nikolayeva Yelena Nikolayeva is a Russian race walking.Her first international achievement was a fifth place at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics, something which happened again at the 1991 IAAF World Indoor Championships....	1:28:20	Erica Alfridi Erica Alfridi Erica Alfridi is an Italy race walking.AchievementsExternal links...	1:28:33
4 X 100 m Relay race During a relay race, members of a team take turns running, orienteering, swimming, cross-country skiing, biathlon, or skating parts of a circuit or performing a certain action....	Delphine Combe Delphine Combe Delphine Combe is a France Sprint . She won a bronze medal in 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics and a gold medal in the same event at the 2002 European Championships in Athletics.... , Muriel Hurtis Muriel Hurtis Muriel Hurtis-Houairi is an track and field from France.She specialises in the 200 metre sprint and 4x100 metre relay events. In the 2004 Summer Olympic Games she failed to qualify for the semi-finals of the 200 metres.... , Sylviane Felix Sylviane Felix Sylviane Felix is a athletics sprint athlete, competing internationally for France, who won the bronze medal in the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece.... , Odiah Sidibe Odiah Sidibé Odiah Sidib? is a France sprint athlete of Guinean descent....	42.46	Melanie Paschke Melanie Paschke Melanie Paschke is a retired German sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres, 200 metres and 4x100 metres relay.Her personal best time in the 100 metres is 11.04 seconds, achieved in June 1995 in Bremen.... , Gabi Rockmeier Gabi Rockmeier Gabrielle Rockmeier is a Germany sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres and 200 metres.Her personal best time is 22.68 seconds, achieved in July 2001 in Stuttgart.... , Sina Schielke Sina Schielke Sina Schielke is a Germans Sprint , often praised for her looks as well as her sprinting ability. Her personal bests are 11.16 seconds in the 100 metres dash, 22.78 in the 200 metres dash, and 7.19 seconds in the indoor 60 metres dash.... , Marion Wagner Marion Wagner Marion Wagner is a Germany sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres. Her personal best time is 11.31 seconds, achieved in July 2003 in Malles....	42.54	Natalya Ignatova, Yuliya Tabakova Yuliya Tabakova Yuliya Gennadiyevna Tabakova , is a Russian track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for Russia.She has won the silver medal in the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece.... , Irina Khabarova Irina Khabarova Irina Sergeyevna Khabarova is a Russian Sprint .She won the silver medal in Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 4 x 100 metres relay at the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics and a bronze medal in the same event at both the 2002 European Championships in Athletics and 2006 European Championships in Athletics.... , Larisa Kruglova Larisa Kruglova Larisa Nikolayevna Kruglova is a Russian sprinter who mainly competes in the 100 metres.Her greatest success has come in relay races, where she has Olympic silver medal to her name....	43.11
4 X 400 m Relay race During a relay race, members of a team take turns running, orienteering, swimming, cross-country skiing, biathlon, or skating parts of a circuit or performing a certain action....	Florence Ekpo-Umoh Florence Ekpo-Umoh Florence Ekpo-Umoh is a Nigerian-Germany sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.She last competed for her birth country Nigeria at the 1994 World Junior Championships in Athletics.... , Birgit Rockmeier Birgit Rockmeier Birgit Rockmeier is a Germany sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres.Her personal best time is 22.90 seconds, achieved in July 2001 in Stuttgart.... , Claudia Marx Claudia Marx Claudia Marx, born September 16, 1978, in Berlin, is a Germany sprint athlete. She runs in the 400 metres and the Hurdling . She also competes in the German team in the 4 by 400 metres relay.... , Grit Breuer Grit Breuer Grit Breuer is a former East Germany athlete, who competed in the women's 200m, 400m, 4x100m, and 4x100m events.She has received injuries as a result of her sports competition, including a slipped disk in her back and a ligament in her knee....	3:25.10	Natalya Antyukh Natalya Antyukh Natalya Nikolayevna Antyukh is a Russian athlete who primarily competes in the 400 metres.In addition to winning medals in individual contests, she has been a very successful relay race runner, winning a silver medal at the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 4 x 400 metres relay.... , Natalya Nazarova Natalya Nazarova Natalya Viktorovna Nazarova is a Sprint Athletics .She was born in Moscow.Following a personal best time of 49.65 seconds run a fortnight earlier, Natalya had lost form by the start of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, and only just made the final finishing 8th.... , Anastasiya Kapachinskaya Anastasiya Kapachinskaya Anastasiya Alexandrovna Kapachinskaya is a Sprint Athletics .At the International Association of Athletics Federations IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics in 2004 she won the 200 m, but was stripped of the title after testing positive for the banned anabolic steroid stanozolol.... , Olesya Zykina Olesya Zykina Olesya Nikolaevna Zykina is a Russian athlete who mainly competes in the 400 metres. In addition to winning medals in individual contests, she has been a very successful relay race runner, winning the silver medal at the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 4 x 400 metres relay....	3:25.59	Zuzanna Radecka, Grazyna Prokopek Grazyna Prokopek Grazyna Prokopek is a Poland sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres and 4x400 m relay.... , Malgorzata Pskit, Anna Olichwierczuk	3:26.15

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1994 European Championships in Athletics

The 16th European Championships in Athletics were held from August 7 to August 14, 1994 in the Helsinki Olympic Stadium of Helsinki, Finland....
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1998 European Championships in Athletics

The 17th European Championships in Athletics were held from August 18 to August 23, 1998 in Budapest, the capital city of Hungary....
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2006 European Championships in Athletics

2010 European Championships in Athletics

The 20th European Championships in Athletics will be held in Barcelona, Spain, on the 27 July - 1 August 2010.External links*...

High Jump High jump The high jump is an athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of any devices....	Kajsa Bergqvist Kajsa Bergqvist Kajsa Margareta Bergqvist is a retired Sweden high jumper. She has won one bronze medal in the Olympic Games, one gold and two bronze medals in the World Championships in Athletics and one gold and one bronze in the European Championships....	1.98	Marina Kuptsova Marina Kuptsova Marina Kuptsova is a Russian high jumper who won a silver medal at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics. She is also a former European indoor high jump champion....	1.92	Olga Kaliturina Olga Kaliturina Olga Kaliturina is a Russian high jumper. Her personal best jump is 1.98 metres, achieved in August 2004 in Moscow....	1.89
Pole Vault Pole vault Pole vaulting is an athletic athletics event in which a person uses a long, flexible pole as an aid to leap over a #bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greece, as well as the Crete and Celts....	Svetlana Feofanova Svetlana Feofanova Svetlana Yevgenyevna Feofanova is a Russian pole vaulter. She won the silver medal in women's pole vaulting at the 2004 Summer Olympics behind compatriot Yelena Isinbayeva, and won the bronze in the 2008 Summer Olympics....	4.60	Yelena Isinbayeva Yelena Isinbayeva Yelena Gadzhievna Isinbaeva is a Russian pole vaulter. She is a two-time Olympic Gold Medalist , was named Female Athlete of the Year by the IAAF in 2004, 2005 and 2008, and World Sportswoman of the Year by Laureus....	4.55	Yvonne Buschbaum	4.50
Long Jump Long jump The long jump is an athletics event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far from the take-off point as possible....	Tatyana Kotova Tatyana Kotova Tatyana Vladimirovna Kotova is an athlete who competes for Russia in the long jump. Her statistics are listed as:Her personal best was a jump of 7.42 m at Annecy in 2002....	6.85	Jade Johnson Jade Johnson Jade Linsey Johnson is an England athlete.Specialising in long jump, she came second in the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Later she won the silver medal at the 2002 European Championships in Athletics and finished fourth at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics....	6.73	Tunde Vaszi	6.73
Triple Jump Triple jump The triple jump is a track and field sport, similar to the long jump, but involving a ?hop, step and jump? routine, whereby the competitor runs down the track and performs a hop, a step and then a jump into the sand pit....	Ashia Hansen Ashia Hansen Ashia Hansen, Order of the British Empire was a United Kingdom triple jumper who competed internationally from 1994-2008.Although born in the USA, Hansen was adopted at the age of 3 months by a Ghanaian father and a British mother and grew up in the UK after spending a few years in Ghana....	15.00	Heli Koivula Heli Kruger Heli Maarit Kruger is a former Finnish people track & field sportsperson. She was born in Kauhajoki and represented Kauhajoen Karhu throughout her career....	14.83	Yelena Oleynikova	14.54
Shot Put Shot put The shot put is an athletics event involving "putting" a heavy metal ball as far as possible. It is common to use the term "shot put" to refer to both the shot itself and to the throwing motion....	Irina Korzhanyenko	20.64	Vita Pavlysh Vita Pavlysh Vita Pavlysh is a former Athletics who specialised in the shot put.Pavlysh was stripped of her 1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships gold medal after she had tested positive for anabolic steroid stanozolol at the event in Maebashi, Japan....	20.02	Svetlana Krivelyova Svetlana Krivelyova Svetlana Vladimirovna Krivelyova is an Athletics who specialises in the shot put.In a long and distinguished career Krivelyova's highlights were the Summer Olympics gold medal in 1992 whilst representing the Unified Team where she beat the reigning world champion Huang Zhihong of China and her IAAF World Championships in Athletics victory...	19.56
Discus Discus throw The discus throw is an event in track and field competition, in which an athlete throws a heavy disk ???itself called a discus???in an attempt to mark a farther distance than his or her competitors....	Ekaterini Voggoli Ekaterini Voggoli Ekaterini Voggoli is a retired Greece discus thrower.She is the 2002 European champion and 2003 World Championship bronze medallist. In June 2004 she beat Anastasia Kelesidou's Greek record by 2 centimetres, throwing 67.72 metres in Athens....	64.31	Natalya Sadova Natalya Sadova Natalya Ivanovna Sadova , n?e Koptyukh is a Russian discus thrower who has competed in many Summer Olympic Games.She won the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics held in Athens, Greece in 2004, as well as a silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, and placed fourth in 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia....	64.12	Anastasia Kelesidou Anastasia Kelesidou Anastasia Kelesidou is a retired Greece discus thrower best known for winning silver medals at the Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics and Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics....	63.92
Hammer Hammer throw The modern or Olympic Games hammer throw is an athletic throwing event where the object is to throw a heavy metal ball attached to a wire and handle....	Olga Kuzenkova Olga Kuzenkova Olga Sergeyevna Kuzenkova is a Russian athlete, the first woman to throw the hammer more than 70 meters.She won gold in the women's hammer throw event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens....	72.94	Kamila Skolimowska Kamila Skolimowska Kamila Skolimowska was a Polish people hammer thrower. She was known for her Olympic gold medal in 2000 Summer Olympics, which made her the youngest Olympic hammer champion, as well as for her two medals from the European Championships in Athletics....	72.46	Manuela Montebrun Manuela Montebrun Manuela Montebrun is a France hammer thrower. Her personal best throw is 74.66 metres, achieved in July 2005 in Zagreb....	72.04
Javelin Javelin throw The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the Javelin , a spear-like object made of metal, Glass-reinforced plastic and, in some cases, carbon fiber....	Mirela Manjani (Tzelili) Mirela Manjani Mirela Manjani is a retired Greece javelin thrower. Prior to 1997 she represented Albania.She won the silver medal at the Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics#Women.27s_events with a personal best of 67.51 m, and the bronze medal in Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's Javelin....	67.47	Steffi Nerius Steffi Nerius Steffi Nerius is a Germany athlete competing in the javelin throw. She won silver at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.Initially playing volleyball in school, she was too short for a career in this sport and switched to athletics instead....	64.09	Mikaela Ingberg Mikaela Ingberg Mikaela Ingberg is a Finland javelin thrower.Her achievements include bronze medals at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics, 1998 European Championships in Athletics and 2002 European Championships in Athletics....	63.50
Heptathlon Heptathlon A heptathlon is a track and field athletics combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek hepta and athlon ....	Carolina Klüft Carolina Klüft Carolina Evelyn Kl?ft is a Swedish Track and field athletics competing in triple jump, long jump and formerly in heptathlon and women's pentathlon....	6542	Sabine Braun Sabine Braun Sabine Braun is a Germany Olympic games athlete in track and field. Because she had talents in several disciplines, Sabine Braun competed in the heptathlon and had a number of successes....	6434	Natalya Sazanovich	6341

Medals Table

Position:	Nation:	Gold:	Silver:	Bronze:	Total:
1.		7	9	7	23
2.		6	3	6	15
3.		5	2	5	12
4.		4	1	2	7
5.		4	0	2	6
6.		3	1	1	5
7.		2	9	8	19
8.		3	3	2	8
9.		2	0	2	4
10.		1	2	4	7
11.		1	1	1	3
12=		1	1	0	2
12=		1	1	0	2
12=		1	1	0	2
15.		1	0	3	4
16=		1	0	0	1
16=		1	0	0	1
16=		1	0	0	1
19.		1	1	1	3
20=		0	2	0	2
20=		0	2	0	2
20=		0	2	0	2
22=		0	1	0	1
22=		0	1	0	1
22=		0	1	0	1
22=		0	1	0	1
22=		0	1	0	1
27=		0	0	1	1
27=		0	0	1	1

2002 European Championships in Athletics

Men's Results

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Field

Women's Results

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Medals Table

See also