2002 European Athletics Championships

18th European Athletics Championships
Host city	Munich, Germany
Date(s)	6 August – 11 August
Main stadium	Olympic Stadium
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Participation	1162 athletes from 47 nations
Events	46 (men: 24; women: 22)
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The 18th European Athletics Championships were held from 6 August to 11 August 2002 in the Olympic Stadium of Munich, Germany.

Men's results

Track

1994 |1998 |2002 |2006 |2010 |

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Francis Obikwelu  Portugal	10.06	Darren Campbell  Great Britain	10.15	Roland Németh  Hungary	10.27
200 m	Konstantinos Kenteris  Greece	19.85	Francis Obikwelu  Portugal	20.21	Marlon Devonish  Great Britain	20.24
400 m	Ingo Schultz  Germany	45.14	David Canal  Spain	45.24	Daniel Caines  Great Britain	45.28
800 m	Wilson Kipketer  Denmark	1:47.25	André Bucher   Switzerland	1:47.43	Nils Schumann  Germany	1:47.60
1500 m	Mehdi Baala  France	3:45.25	Reyes Estévez  Spain	3:45.25	Rui Silva  Portugal	3:45.43
5000 m	Alberto García  Spain	13:38.18	Ismaïl Sghyr  France	13:39.81	Serhiy Lebid  Ukraine	13:40.00
10,000 m	José Manuel Martínez  Spain	27:47.65	Dieter Baumann  Germany	27:47.87	José Ríos  Spain	27:48.29
Marathon	Janne Holmén  Finland	2:12:14	Pavel Loskutov  Estonia	2:13:18	Julio Rey  Spain	2:13:21
110 metres hurdles	Colin Jackson  Great Britain	13.11	Staņislavs Olijars  Latvia	13.22	Artur Kohutek  Poland	13.32
400 metres hurdles	Stéphane Diagana  France	47.58	Jiří Mužík  Czech Republic	48.43	Paweł Januszewski  Poland	48.46
3000 metres steeplechase	Antonio David Jiménez  Spain	8:24.34	Simon Vroemen  Netherlands	8:24.45	Luis Miguel Martín  Spain	8:24.72
20 kilometres walk	Paquillo Fernández  Spain	1:18:37	Vladimir Andreyev  Russia	1:19:56	Juan Manuel Molina  Spain	1:20:36
50 kilometres walk	Robert Korzeniowski  Poland	3:36:39 WR	Aleksey Voyevodin  Russia	3:40:16	Jesús Ángel García  Spain	3:44:33
4x100 metres relay	Ukraine Kostyantyn Vasyukov Kostyantyn Rurak Anatoliy Dovhal Oleksandr Kaydash	38.53	Poland Ryszard Pilarczyk Łukasz Chyła Marcin Nowak Marcin Urbaś	38.71	Germany Ronny Ostwald Marc Blume Alexander Kosenkow Christian Schacht	38.88
4x400 metres relay	Great Britain Jared Deacon Matthew Elias Jamie Baulch Daniel Caines	3:01.25	Russia Oleg Mishukov Andrey Semyonov Ruslan Mashchenko Yuriy Borzakovskiy	3:01.34	France Leslie Djhone Ahmed Douhou Naman Keïta Ibrahima Wade	3:02.76

• Performances by Dwain Chambers in the 100 m race (9.96) and the 4 × 100 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, Darren Campbell and Marlon Devonish.

Field

1994 | 1998 | 2002 | 2006 | 2010

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump	Yaroslav Rybakov  Russia	2.31	Stefan Holm  Sweden	2.29	Staffan Strand  Sweden	2.27
Long jump	Olexiy Lukashevych  Ukraine	8.08	Siniša Ergotić  Croatia	8.00	Yago Lamela  Spain	7.99
Pole vault	Aleksandr Averbukh  Israel	5.85	Lars Börgeling  Germany	5.80	Tim Lobinger  Germany	5.80
Triple jump	Christian Olsson  Sweden	17.53	Charles Friedek  Germany	17.33	Jonathan Edwards  Great Britain	17.32
Shot put	Yuriy Bilonoh  Ukraine	21.37	Joachim Olsen  Denmark	21.16	Ralf Bartels  Germany	20.58
Discus throw	Róbert Fazekas  Hungary	68.83	Virgilijus Alekna  Lithuania	66.62	Michael Möllenbeck  Germany	66.37
Javelin throw	Steve Backley  Great Britain	88.54	Sergey Makarov  Russia	88.05	Boris Henry  Germany	85.33
Hammer throw	Adrián Annus  Hungary	81.17	Vladyslav Piskunov  Ukraine	80.39	Alexandros Papadimitriou  Greece	80.21
Decathlon	Roman Šebrle  Czech Republic	8800	Erki Nool  Estonia	8438	Lev Lobodin  Russia	8390

Women's results

Track

1994 | 1998 | 2002 | 2006 | 2010

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Ekaterini Thanou  Greece	11.10	Kim Gevaert  Belgium	11.22	Manuela Levorato  Italy	11.23
200 metres	Muriel Hurtis  France	22.43	Kim Gevaert  Belgium	22.53	Manuela Levorato  Italy	22.75
400 metres	Olesya Zykina  Russia	50.45	Grit Breuer  Germany	50.70	Lee McConnell  Great Britain	51.02
800 metres	Jolanda Čeplak  Slovenia	1:57.65	Mayte Martínez  Spain	1:58.86	Kelly Holmes  Great Britain	1:59.83
1500 metres	Süreyya Ayhan  Turkey	3:58.79	Gabriela Szabo  Romania	3:58.81	Tatyana Tomashova  Russia	4:01.28
5000 metres	Marta Domínguez  Spain	15:14.76	Sonia O'Sullivan  Ireland	15:14.85	Yelena Zadorozhnaya  Russia	15:15.22
10,000 metres	Paula Radcliffe  Great Britain	30:01.09	Sonia O'Sullivan  Ireland	30:47.59 (NR)	Lyudmila Biktasheva  Russia	31:04.00
Marathon	Maria Guida  Italy	2: 26:05	Luminita Zaituc  Germany	2: 26:58	Sonja Oberem  Germany	2: 28:45
100 metres hurdles	Glory Alozie  Spain	12.73	Olena Krasovska  Ukraine	12.88	Yana Kasova  Bulgaria	12.91
400 metres hurdles	Ionela Târlea  Romania	54.95	Heike Meißner  Germany	55.89	Anna Olichwierczuk  Poland	56.18
20 kilometres walk	Olimpiada Ivanova  Russia	1: 6:42	Yelena Nikolayeva  Russia	1:28:20	Erica Alfridi  Italy	1:28:33
4x100 metres relay	Delphine Combe Muriel Hurtis Sylviane Félix Odiah Sidibé  France	42.46	Melanie Paschke Gabi Rockmeier Sina Schielke Marion Wagner  Germany	42.54	Natalya Ignatova Yuliya Tabakova Irina Khabarova Larisa Kruglova  Russia	43.11
4x400 metres relay	Florence Ekpo-Umoh Birgit Rockmeier Claudia Marx Grit Breuer  Germany	3:25.10	Natalya Antyukh Natalya Nazarova Anastasiya Kapachinskaya Olesya Zykina  Russia	3:25.59	Zuzanna Radecka Grażyna Prokopek Małgorzata Pskit Anna Olichwierczuk  Poland	3:26.15

Field

1994 | 1998 | 2002 | 2006 | 2010

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump	Kajsa Bergqvist  Sweden	1.98	Marina Kuptsova  Russia	1.92	Olga Kaliturina  Russia	1.89
Pole vault	Svetlana Feofanova  Russia	4.60	Yelena Isinbayeva  Russia	4.55	Yvonne Buschbaum  Germany	4.50
Long jump	Tatyana Kotova  Russia	6.85	Jade Johnson  Great Britain	6.73	Tünde Vaszi  Hungary	6.73
Triple jump	Ashia Hansen  Great Britain	15.00	Heli Koivula  Finland	14.83	Yelena Oleynikova  Russia	14.54
Shot put	Irina Korzhanenko  Russia	20.64	Vita Pavlysh  Ukraine	20.02	Svetlana Krivelyova  Russia	19.56
Discus throw	Ekaterini Voggoli  Greece	64.31	Natalya Sadova  Russia	64.12	Anastasia Kelesidou  Greece	63.92
Hammer throw	Olga Kuzenkova  Russia	72.94	Kamila Skolimowska  Poland	72.46	Manuela Montebrun  France	72.04
Javelin throw	Mirela Manjani  Greece	67.47	Steffi Nerius  Germany	64.09	Mikaela Ingberg  Finland	63.50
Heptathlon	Carolina Klüft  Sweden	6542	Sabine Braun  Germany	6434	Natallia Sazanovich  Belarus	6341

Medals table

  Host nation (Germany)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	7	9	8	24
2	Spain	6	3	6	15
3	Great Britain	5	2	5	12
4	France	4	1	2	7
5	Greece	4	0	2	6
6	Ukraine	3	3	1	7
7	Sweden	3	1	1	5
8	Germany	2	9	8	19
9	Hungary	2	0	2	4
10	Poland	1	2	4	7
11	Finland	1	1	1	3
11	Portugal	1	1	1	3
13	Czech Republic	1	1	0	2
13	Denmark	1	1	0	2
13	Romania	1	1	0	2
16	Italy	1	0	3	4
17	Israel	1	0	0	1
17	Slovenia	1	0	0	1
17	Turkey	1	0	0	1
20	Belgium	0	2	0	2
20	Estonia	0	2	0	2
20	Ireland	0	2	0	2
23	Croatia	0	1	0	1
23	Latvia	0	1	0	1
23	Lithuania	0	1	0	1
23	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
23	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
29	Belarus	0	0	1	1
29	Bulgaria	0	0	1	1
30	Total	46	46	46	138

Participating nations

Notes

Differences to competition format since the 1998 European Championships

New event added:

Women's 20 km walk replaces the 10 km walk.

References

Specific

General

• European Athletic Association