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 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, 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

• Albania (6)
• Andorra (1)
• Armenia (1)
• Austria (14)
• Azerbaijan (2)
• Belarus (27)
• Belgium (17)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina (1)
• Bulgaria (13)
• Croatia (13)
• Cyprus (2)
• Czech Republic (40)
• Denmark (16)
• Estonia (14)
• Finland (49)
• France (66)
• Georgia (2)

• Germany (88)
• Gibraltar (1)
• Great Britain (60)
• Greece (51)
• Hungary (30)
• Iceland (3)
• Ireland (29)
• Israel (13)
• Italy (94)
• Latvia (16)
• Lithuania (13)
• Macedonia (1)
• Malta (2)
• Moldova (5)
• Monaco (1)
• Netherlands (30)
• Norway (17)

• Poland (55)
• Portugal (39)
• Romania (22)
• Russia (89)
• San Marino (1)
• Slovakia (17)
• Slovenia (22)
• Spain (70)
• Sweden (45)
• Switzerland (10)
• Turkey (8)
• Ukraine (37)
• Yugoslavia (9)

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