2002 European Athletics Championships

The 18th European Athletics Championships were held from 6 August to 11 August 2002 in the Olympic Stadium of Munich, Germany.

18th European Athletics Championships
Dates	6 August – 11 August
Host city	Munich, Germany
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	46 (men: 24; women: 22)
Participation	1162 athletes from 47 nations
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Men's results

Track

1994 |1998 |2002 |2006 |2010 |

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Francis Obikwelu  Portugal	10.061	Darren Campbell  Great Britain	10.15	Roland Németh  Hungary	10.27
200 m details	Konstantinos Kenteris  Greece	19.85	Francis Obikwelu  Portugal	20.21	Marlon Devonish  Great Britain	20.24
400 m details	Ingo Schultz  Germany	45.14	David Canal  Spain	45.24	Daniel Caines  Great Britain	45.28
800 m details	Wilson Kipketer  Denmark	1:47.25	André Bucher   Switzerland	1:47.43	Nils Schumann  Germany	1:47.60
1500 m details	Mehdi Baala  France	3:45.25	Reyes Estévez  Spain	3:45.25	Rui Silva  Portugal	3:45.43
5000 m details	Alberto García  Spain	13:38.18	Ismaïl Sghyr  France	13:39.81	Serhiy Lebid  Ukraine	13:40.00
10,000 m details	José Manuel Martínez  Spain	27:47.65	Dieter Baumann  Germany	27:47.87	José Ríos  Spain	27:48.29
Marathon details	Janne Holmén  Finland	2:12:14	Pavel Loskutov  Estonia	2:13:18	Julio Rey  Spain	2:13:21
110 metres hurdles details	Colin Jackson  Great Britain	13.11	Staņislavs Olijars  Latvia	13.22	Artur Kohutek  Poland	13.32
400 metres hurdles details	Stéphane Diagana  France	47.58	Jiří Mužík  Czech Republic	48.43	Paweł Januszewski  Poland	48.46
3000 metres steeplechase details	Antonio David Jiménez  Spain	8:24.34	Simon Vroemen  Netherlands	8:24.45	Luis Miguel Martín  Spain	8:24.72
20 kilometres walk details	Paquillo Fernández  Spain	1:18:37	Vladimir Andreyev  Russia	1:19:56	Juan Manuel Molina  Spain	1:20:36
50 kilometres walk details	Robert Korzeniowski  Poland	3:36:39 WR	Aleksey Voyevodin  Russia	3:40:16	Jesús Ángel García  Spain	3:44:33
4x100 metres relay details	Ukraine Kostyantyn Vasyukov Kostyantyn Rurak Anatoliy Dovhal Oleksandr Kaydash	38.531	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 details	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

¹ Dwain Chambers originally won the 100 m in 9.96 and was part of the British team (with Christian Malcolm, Darren Campbell and Marlon Devonish) that won the 4 × 100 m relay in 38.19, but he was disqualified with the British team in August 2003 after he admitted to using THG between 2000 and 2002.

Field

1994 | 1998 | 2002 | 2006 | 2010

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Yaroslav Rybakov  Russia	2.31	Stefan Holm  Sweden	2.29	Staffan Strand  Sweden	2.27
Long jump details	Olexiy Lukashevych  Ukraine	8.08	Siniša Ergotić  Croatia	8.00	Yago Lamela  Spain	7.99
Pole vault details	Aleksandr Averbukh  Israel	5.85	Lars Börgeling  Germany	5.80	Tim Lobinger  Germany	5.80
Triple jump details	Christian Olsson  Sweden	17.53	Charles Friedek  Germany	17.33	Jonathan Edwards  Great Britain	17.32
Shot put details	Yuriy Bilonoh  Ukraine	21.37	Joachim Olsen  Denmark	21.16	Ralf Bartels  Germany	20.58
Discus throw details	Róbert Fazekas  Hungary	68.83	Virgilijus Alekna  Lithuania	66.62	Michael Möllenbeck  Germany	66.37
Javelin throw details	Steve Backley  Great Britain	88.54	Sergey Makarov  Russia	88.05	Boris Henry  Germany	85.33
Hammer throw details	Adrián Annus  Hungary	81.17	Vladyslav Piskunov  Ukraine	80.39	Alexandros Papadimitriou  Greece	80.21
Decathlon details	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 details	Ekaterini Thanou  Greece	11.10	Kim Gevaert  Belgium	11.22	Manuela Levorato  Italy	11.23
200 metres details	Muriel Hurtis  France	22.43	Kim Gevaert  Belgium	22.53	Manuela Levorato  Italy	22.75
400 metres details	Olesya Zykina  Russia	50.45	Grit Breuer  Germany	50.70	Lee McConnell  Great Britain	51.02
800 metres details	Jolanda Čeplak  Slovenia	1:57.65	Mayte Martínez  Spain	1:58.86	Kelly Holmes  Great Britain	1:59.83
1500 metres details	Süreyya Ayhan  Turkey	3:58.79	Gabriela Szabo  Romania	3:58.81	Tatyana Tomashova  Russia	4:01.28
5000 metres details	Marta Domínguez  Spain	15:14.76	Sonia O'Sullivan Ireland	15:14.85	Yelena Zadorozhnaya  Russia	15:15.22
10,000 metres details	Paula Radcliffe  Great Britain	30:01.09	Sonia O'Sullivan Ireland	30:47.59 (NR)	Lyudmila Biktasheva  Russia	31:04.00
Marathon details	Maria Guida  Italy	2:26:05	Luminita Zaituc  Germany	2:26:58	Sonja Oberem  Germany	2:28:45
100 metres hurdles details	Glory Alozie  Spain	12.73	Olena Krasovska  Ukraine	12.88	Yana Kasova  Bulgaria	12.91
400 metres hurdles details	Ionela Târlea  Romania	54.95	Heike Meißner  Germany	55.89	Anna Olichwierczuk  Poland	56.18
20 kilometres walk details	Olimpiada Ivanova  Russia	1:26:42	Yelena Nikolayeva  Russia	1:28:20	Erica Alfridi  Italy	1:28:33
4x100 metres relay details	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 details	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 details	Kajsa Bergqvist  Sweden	1.98	Marina Kuptsova  Russia	1.92	Olga Kaliturina  Russia	1.89
Pole vault details	Svetlana Feofanova  Russia	4.60	Yelena Isinbayeva  Russia	4.55	Yvonne Buschbaum  Germany	4.50
Long jump details	Tatyana Kotova  Russia	6.85	Jade Johnson  Great Britain	6.73	Tünde Vaszi  Hungary	6.73
Triple jump details	Ashia Hansen  Great Britain	15.00	Heli Koivula  Finland	14.83	Yelena Oleynikova  Russia	14.54
Shot put details	Irina Korzhanenko  Russia	20.64	Vita Pavlysh  Ukraine	20.02	Svetlana Krivelyova  Russia	19.56
Discus throw details	Ekaterini Voggoli  Greece	64.31	Natalya Sadova  Russia	64.12	Anastasia Kelesidou  Greece	63.92
Hammer throw details	Olga Kuzenkova  Russia	72.94	Kamila Skolimowska  Poland	72.46	Manuela Montebrun  France	72.04
Javelin throw details	Mirela Manjani  Greece	67.47	Steffi Nerius  Germany	64.09	Mikaela Ingberg  Finland	63.50
Heptathlon details	Carolina Klüft  Sweden	6542	Sabine Braun  Germany	6434	Natallia Sazanovich  Belarus	6341

Medal 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
	Portugal	1	1	1	3
13	Czech Republic	1	1	0	2
	Denmark	1	1	0	2
	Romania	1	1	0	2
16	Italy	1	0	3	4
17	Israel	1	0	0	1
	Slovenia	1	0	0	1
	Turkey	1	0	0	1
20	Belgium	0	2	0	2
	Estonia	0	2	0	2
	Ireland	0	2	0	2
23	Croatia	0	1	0	1
	Latvia	0	1	0	1
	Lithuania	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
28	Belarus	0	0	1	1
	Bulgaria	0	0	1	1
Totals (29 entries)		46	46	46	138

Participating nations

•  Albania (6)
•  Andorra (1)
•  Armenia (1)
•  Austria (14)
•  Azerbaijan (2)
•  Belarus (27)
•  Belgium (18)
•  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.