2000 European Cup (athletics)

The 2000 European Cup was the 21st edition of the European Cup of athletics.^[1]

2000 European Cup
Dates	15–16 July (Super Leagues) 8–9 July (First & Second Leagues)
Host city	Gateshead, United Kingdom
Venue	Gateshead International Stadium
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	39
← 1999 Paris 2001 Bremen →

The Super League Finals were held in Gateshead, Great Britain.

Super League

Main article: 2000 European Cup Super League

Held on 15 and 16 July in Gateshead, United Kingdom^[2]

Team standings

Men Pos. Nation Points 1  Great Britain 101.5 2  Germany 101 3  France 97 4  Italy 96.5 5  Russia 88.5 6  Greece 88.5 7  Sweden 75 8  Hungary 62

Women Pos. Nation Points 1  Russia 124 2  Germany 111 3  France 87 4  Italy 79 5  Great Britain 78 6  Romania 72 7  Ukraine 71 8  Greece 56

Results summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (Wind: +2.3 m/s)	Darren Campbell  Great Britain	10.09w	Roland Németh  Hungary	10.19w	Andrea Colombo  Italy	10.23w
200 m (Wind: 0.0 m/s)	Christian Malcolm  Great Britain	20.45	Alessandro Cavallaro  Italy	20.48	Konstantinos Kenteris  Greece	20.48
400 m	Jamie Baulch  Great Britain	46.64	Alessandro Attene  Italy	46.71	Jimisola Laursen  Sweden	46.93
800 m	Mehdi Baala  France	1:47.90	Nils Schumann  Germany	1:47.94	Balázs Korányi  Hungary	1:48.52
1500 m	Mehdi Baala  France	3:41.75	John Mayock  Great Britain	3:42.32	Vyacheslav Shabunin  Russia	3:42.44
3000 m	Driss Maazouzi  France	7:58.7	Vyacheslav Shabunin  Russia	7:59.0	Anthony Whiteman  Great Britain	8:01.0
5000 m	Mustapha Essaïd  France	13:47.44	Dmitriy Maksimov  Russia	13:48.43	Sebastian Hallmann  Germany	13:49.95
3000 m steeplechase	Bouabdellah Tahri  France	8:27.28	Damian Kallabis  Germany	8:29.16	Giuseppe Maffei  Italy	8:34.47
110 m hurdles (Wind: +1.4 m/s)	Falk Balzer  Germany	13.52	Emiliano Pizzoli  Italy	13.54	Robert Kronberg  Sweden	13.67
400 m hurdles	Chris Rawlinson  Great Britain	48.84	Ruslan Mashchenko  Russia	49.19	Fabrizio Mori  Italy	49.98
4 × 100 m	Great Britain Christian Malcolm Darren Campbell Marlon Devonish Dwain Chambers	38.41	Greece Yeóryios Theodorídis Konstadínos Kedéris Alexiós Alexópoulos Ággelos Pavlakákis	38.67	Italy Marco Torrieri Maurizio Checcucci Alessandro Cavallaro Andrea Colombo	39.17
4 × 400 m	France Bruno Wavelet Marc Foucan Dimitri Demonière Marc Raquil[3]	3:04.50	Great Britain Richard Knowles Sean Baldock Chris Rawlinson Jamie Baulch[4]	3:05.24	Hungary Zétény Dombi Zsolt Szeglet Attila Kilvinger Tibor Bédi[5]	3:05.88
High jump	Stefan Holm  Sweden	2.28	Wolfgang Kreissig  Germany	2.25	Sergey Klyugin  Russia Lambros Papakostas  Greece	2.20
Pole vault	Yevgeniy Smiryagin  Russia	5.85	Tim Lobinger  Germany	5.75	Patrik Kristiansson  Sweden	5.70
Long jump	Vitaliy Shkurlatov  Russia	8.22	Kofi Amoah Prah  Germany	8.15w	Peter Häggström  Sweden	8.08w
Triple jump	Larry Achike  Great Britain	17.31w	Fabrizio Donato  Italy	17.17w	Stamatios Lenis  Greece	17.01
Shot put	Paolo Dal Soglio  Italy	19.99	Michael Mertens  Germany	19.71	Jimmy Nordin  Sweden	19.46
Discus throw	Lars Riedel  Germany	63.30	Róbert Fazekas  Hungary	62.15	Vitaliy Sidorov  Russia	60.91
Hammer throw	Christophe Épalle  France	78.51	Alexandros Papadimitriou  Greece	77.64	Karsten Kobs  Germany	77.55
Javelin throw	Sergey Makarov  Russia	89.92	Kostas Gatsioudis  Greece	84.56	Boris Henry  Germany	82.83
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (Wind: +2.9 m/s)	Ekaterini Thanou  Greece	10.84w	Christine Arron  France	11.02w	Manuela Levorato  Italy	11.13w
200 m (Wind: -0.3 m/s)	Muriel Hurtis  France	22.70	Natalya Voronova  Russia	22.81	Andrea Philipp  Germany	22.88
400 m	Svetlana Pospelova  Russia	50.63	Donna Fraser  Great Britain	51.78	Uta Rohländer  Germany	52.17
800 m	Irina Mistyukevich  Russia	2:02.52	Linda Kisabaka  Germany	2:03.88	Patricia Djaté  France	2:04.44
1500 m	Helen Pattinson  Great Britain	4:12.05	Yelena Zadorozhnaya  Russia	4:12.20	Kristina da Fonseca-Wollheim  Germany	4:13.11
3000 m	Gabriela Szabo  Romania	8:43.33	Galina Bogomolova  Russia	8:43.45	Hayley Tullett  Great Britain	8:45.39
5000 m	Tatyana Tomashova  Russia	14:53.00	Irina Mikitenko  Germany	14:54.30	Yamna Belkacem  France	14:57.05
100 m hurdles (Wind: +0.2 m/s)	Linda Ferga  France	12.93	Maya Shemchishina  Ukraine	12.95	Yuliya Graudyn  Russia	13.08
400 m hurdles	Tatyana Tereshchuk  Ukraine	54.68	Ulrike Urbansky  Germany	56.10	Monika Niederstätter  Italy	56.33
4 × 100 m	France Katia Benth Muriel Hurtis Fabé Dia Christine Arron[3]	42.97	Russia Marina Kislova Marina Trandenkova Irina Khabarova Natalya Voronova	43.38	Germany Sina Schielke Esther Möller Andrea Philipp Marion Wagner	43.51
4 × 400 m	Russia Olesya Zykina Irina Rosikhina Yekaterina Kulikova Yuliya Sotnikova[6]	3:25.50	Germany Shanta Ghosh Ulrike Urbansky Birgit Rockmeier Uta Rohländer[6]	3:27.70	Great Britain Natasha Danvers Sinead Dudgeon Allison Curbishley Donna Fraser[6]	3:28.12
High jump	Monica Dinescu  Romania	1.93	Yuliya Lyakhova  Russia	1.91	Jo Jennings-Steele  Great Britain	1.86
Pole vault	Svetlana Feofanova  Russia	4.35	Yvonne Buschbaum  Germany	4.30	Francesca Dolcini  Italy	4.20
Long jump	Olga Rublyova  Russia	6.87	Yelena Shekhovtsova  Ukraine	6.79	Fiona May  Italy	6.74w
Triple jump	Tatyana Lebedeva  Russia	14.98	Yelena Govorova  Ukraine	14.31	Barbara Lah  Italy	13.86
Shot put	Astrid Kumbernuss  Germany	18.94	Kalliopi Ouzouni  Greece	18.16	Judy Oakes  Great Britain	18.08
Discus	Nicoleta Grasu  Romania	63.35	Ilke Wyludda  Germany	62.45	Anastasia Kelesidou  Greece	62.30
Hammer	Olga Kuzenkova  Russia	70.20	Kirsten Münchow  Germany	68.31	Manuela Montebrun  France	67.73
Javelin	Ana Mirela Termure  Romania	63.23	Tatyana Shikolenko  Russia	60.41	Mirela Tzelili  Greece	57.84
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

First League

The First League was held on 8 and 9 June^[2]

Men

Group A Held in Oslo, Norway Pos. Nation Points 1  Spain 116 2  Finland 101 3  Norway 98 4  Czech Republic 93 5  Portugal 87 6  Switzerland 85 7  Belgium 82 8  Denmark 54

Group B Held in Bydgoszcz, Poland Pos. Nation Points 1  Poland 134 2  Ukraine 111 3  Netherlands 108 4  Bulgaria 86 5  Slovenia 78.5 6  Romania 77.5 7  Austria 63 8  Croatia 59

Women

Group A Held in Oslo, Norway Pos. Nation Points 1  Czech Republic 108 2  Sweden 106 3  Spain 96 4  Finland 89 5  Hungary 83 6  Portugal 72 7  Norway 71 8  Switzerland 59

Group B Held in Bydgoszcz, Poland Pos. Nation Points 1 Belarus 118 2  Bulgaria 116 3  Poland 103 4  Slovenia 94 5  Netherlands 71 6  Austria 69 7  Ireland 63 8  Croatia 44

Second League

The Second League was held on 8 and 9 June^[2]

Men

Group A Held in Kaunas, Lithuania Pos. Nation Points 1 Belarus 132 2  Ireland 125 3 Lithuania 108 4  Estonia 100 5  Latvia 94 6  Moldova 74 7  Luxembourg 43 8  Armenia 37

Group B Held in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia Pos. Nation Points 1  Slovakia 140 2 Yugoslavia 136 3  Turkey 132 4  Cyprus 127 5  Israel 116.5 6  Iceland 70 7 AASSE 69 8  Bosnia and Herzegovina 53 9 Georgia 50.5

Women

Group A Held in Kaunas, Lithuania Pos. Nation Points 1 Lithuania 129 2  Belgium 115 3  Denmark 106 4  Estonia 100 5  Latvia 94 6  Moldova 64 7  Luxembourg 41 8  Armenia 28

Group B Held in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia Pos. Nation Points 1  Turkey 149.5 2 Yugoslavia 136 3  Slovakia 120 4  Israel 116 5  Iceland 85 6  Cyprus 83 7  Albania 64.5 8 Georgia 42 9 AASSE 37