XVII European Athletics Championships in BUDAPEST HUN 1998, 18-23 Aug Budapest 1998
          JAVELIN men       compiled by Matti Rasilainen
QUALIFICATION                   Day: 21 Aug [Fri]  Time: 10:00 (A), 11:40 (B)
Q(limit - 82.50)                                  
group-A: (12) 1 2 3 group-B: (13) 1 2 3
481 Blank Q [12] 75.96 75.45 83.41 3 408 Backley Q [9] 87.45     1
1085 Makarov q [6] 80.98 x p 6 271 Laukkanen Q [2] 83.71     2
276 Parviainen q [2] x 80.65 x~84 8 500 Hecht Q [10] 76.21 83.32   4
8 Högler q [10] 80.28 80.47 77.54 9 1230 Boden q [1] 79.02 81.01 p 5
965 Trafas q [3] 79.86 78.42 77.16 11 266 Närhi q [7] 72.32 x 80.94 7
442 Roberson q [1] 74.46 79.63 x 12 428 Hill q [8] x x 80.14 10
805 SONEGO Carlo 72 ITA [9] 77.74 76.80 x 15 45 SASIMOVICH Vladimir 68 BLR [4] 79.14 79.06 76.66 13
914 FAGERNES Pål Arne 74 NOR [4] 77.54 x x 16 514 LINDEN Andreas 65 GER [6] 78.98 x x 14
666 HORVATH Gergely 75 HUN [5] 74.82 75.66 74.47 19 625 POLYMEROU Dimitris 74 GRE [3] 77.49 x x 17
851 LUSIS Voldemars 74 LAT [8] x x~78 75.14 20 867 JURKSAS Arunas 72 LTU [11] 75.40 74.73 77.37 18
881 ANGELOVSKI Dejan 76 MKD [7] 70.77 71.78 70.18 24 854 RAGS Eriks 75 LAT   [13] 74.27 x x 21
356 SIAKINUU Gaetan 74 FRA [11] 69.95 x 65.53 25 1092 RYBIN Yuriy 63 RUS [5] 72.86 x x 22
737 McHUGH Terry 63 IRL [12] 72.82 72.71 72.76 23
                                     
FINAL                       Day: 23 Aug [Sun]  Time: 18:00
1 BACKLEY Steve     69 GBR 89.72 CR
2 HILL Mick       64 GBR 86.92
3 HECHT Raymond     68 GER 86.63
4 MAKAROV Sergey 73 RUS 86.45
5 LAUKKANEN Juha 69 FIN 84.78
6 ROBERSON Mark 67 GBR 84.15
7 BLANK Peter 62 GER 83.66
8 NÄRHI Matti       75 FIN 82.59
9 PARVIAINEN Aki 74 FIN 82.30
10 HÖGLER Gregor 72 AUT 81.75
11 TRAFAS Dariusz 72 POL 79.77
12 BODEN Patrik 67 SWE 79.73
1 2 3 4 5 6
series: Laukkanen 84.78 x x~73 Närhi 80.77 x~78 x~73
Hecht 85.68 83.51 86.63 Roberson 84.15 77.42 x~77
Boden 79.73 x p Blank 77.20 76.87 x~76
Backley 89.72 x~83 83.03 Hill 85.77 86.92 85.72
Makarov 86.45 80.47 80.86 Laukkanen x~75 x~78 77.72
Närhi 82.59 x~74 79.33 Makarov p p 79.83
Hill 83.80 79.07 83.41 Hecht p dnf  
Trafas 79.53 74.79 79.77 Backley 85.69 84.87 84.17
Blank 83.66 78.65 x
Parviainen x¨74 82.30 81.84
Högler 81.44 81.75 73.72
Roberson 80.41 79.38 83.64
                                     
European list 17 Aug 1998                                
SB PB SB PB
1 Aki Parviainen FIN 90,88 87,48 -97 14 Kimmo Kinnunen FIN 84,23 85,32 -96
2 Steve Backley GBR 89,89 91,46 -92 15 Peter Esenwein GER 84,17 85,60 -97
3 Boris Henry GER 89,21 90,44 -97 16 Mick Hill   GBR 83,94 86.94 -93
4 Kostas Gatsioudis GRE 88,13 89,22 -97 17 Sami Saksio FIN 83,37 84,26 -97
5 Raymond Hecht GER 88,08 92,60 -95 18 Yuriy Rybin   RUS 83,08 86,98 -95
6 Peter Blank GER 86,99 88,12 -96 19 Carlo Sonego   ITA 82,44 74,90 -95
7 Juha Laukkanen FIN 86,96 88,22 -92 20 Gregor Högler   AUT 81,89 83,00 -97
8 Mark Roberson GBR 85,67 80,92 -88 21 Andreas Linden GER 81,89 85,42 -95
9 Sergey Makarov RUS 85.64 88,86 -96 22 Esko Mikkola FIN 81,86 76,08 -95
10 Harri Hakkarainen FIN 85,28 87,82 -95 23 Gaetan Siakinuu-Schmidt FRA 81,75 76,88 -96
11 Patrik Bodén SWE 85,15 89,10 -90 24 Johan Kloeck BEL 81,18 78,46 -97
12 Pål Arne Fagernäs NOR 84,46 85,06 -96 25 Erik Rags   LAT 80,56 79,04 -97
13 Matti Närhi FIN 84,38 88,24 -97 26 Gergely Horvath HUN 80,53 73,96 -97