1996 European Cup (athletics) explained

1996 European Cup
Host City:	Madrid, Spain
Dates:	1–2 June (Super Leagues) 28–29 June (First Leagues) 29–30 June (Second Leagues)
Level:	Senior
Type:	Outdoor
Events:	37
Previous:	1995 Villeneuve d'Ascq
Next:	1997 Munich

The 1996 European Cup was the 17th edition of the European Cup of athletics.^[1]

It was the last edition to allow athletes six attempts in the throws and horizontal jumps, as this number was reduced to four from the next edition. The Super League Finals were held in Madrid, Spain.

Super League

See main article: 1996 European Cup Super League. Held on 1 and 2 June in Madrid, Spain^[2]

Team standings

Men
Pos.	Nation	Points
1		142
2		125
3		110
4		106
5		103
6		93.5
7		84
8		75.5
9		53

Women
Pos.	Nation	Points
1		115
2		97
3		79
4		78
5		75
6		73
7		49
8		46

Results summary

Men's events

100 m (Wind: +0.8 m/s)	Linford Christie	10.04 CR	Marc Blume	10.25	Vladislav Dologodin	10.26
200 m (Wind: +2.5 m/s)	Linford Christie	20.25w	Vladislav Dologodin	20.39w	Torbjörn Eriksson	20.45w
400 m	Uwe Jahn	45.64	Du'aine Ladejo	45.72	Jean-Louis Rapnouil	45.96
800 m	Roberto Parra	1:44.97 CR	Giuseppe D'Urso	1:45.27	Nico Motchebon	1:45.98
1500 m	Fermín Cacho	3:40.24	Rüdiger Stenzel	3:40.53	Anthony Whiteman	3:41.21
3000 m	Dieter Baumann	7:57.19	Isaac Viciosa	7:57.80	Alessandro Lambruschini	7:58.44
5000 m	Gennaro Di Napoli	13:52.34	Manuel Pancorbo	13:55.18	Abdellah Béhar	13:57.15
3000 m steeplechase	Steffen Brand	8:30.09	Angelo Carosi	8:32.50	Justin Chaston	8:33.59
110 m hurdles (Wind: -0.3 m/s)	Florian Schwarthoff	13.20	Colin Jackson	13.63	Yevgeniy Pechonkin	13.64
400 m hurdles	Fabrizio Mori	49.45	Jon Ridgeon	49.84	Sven Nylander	50.18
4 × 100 m	Kostyantyn Rurak Sergiy Osovich Oleg Kramarenko Vladyslav Dologodin	38.53	Giovanni Puggioni Ezio Madonia Angelo Cipolloni Sandro Floris	38.66	Kevin Williams Darren Braithwaite Jason John Darren Campbell	38.67
4 × 400 m	Mark Richardson Jamie Baulch Mark Hylton Du'aine Ladejo	3:03.38	Uwe Jahn Karsten Just Kai Karsten Rico Lieder	3:03.53	Pierre-Marie Hilaire Marc Foucan Willy Migerel Jean-Louis Rapnouil	3:05.05
High jump	Arturo Ortiz	2.27	Leonid Pumalainen	2.27	Dalton Grant	2.27
Pole vault	Pyotr Bochkaryov	5.70	Tim Lobinger	5.60	José Manuel Arcos	5.50
Long jump	Simone Bianchi	8.25	Jesús Oliván	7.97	Bakri Darouèche	7.96
Triple jump	Jonathan Edwards	17.79w	Vladimir Kravchenko	17.29w	Gennadiy Markov	17.12w
Shot put	Paolo Dal Soglio	20.72	Oliver-Sven Buder	20.08	Yuriy Bilonog	19.86
Discus throw	David Martínez	62.38	Sergey Lyakhov	62.20	Jürgen Schult	61.96
Hammer throw	Karsten Kobs	78.18	Marko Wahlman	77.72	Enrico Sgrulletti	77.44
Javelin throw	Raymond Hecht	88.86	Sergey Makarov	84.96	Harri Hakkarainen	81.44

Women's events

100 m (Wind: +0.3 m/s)	Marina Trandenkova	11.14	Melanie Paschke	11.19	Irina Pukha	11.25
200 m (Wind: +1.6 m/s)	Marie-José Pérec	22.34	Melanie Paschke	22.55	Katharine Merry	22.88
400 m	Grit Breuer	50.22	Anna Kozak	50.94	Sandra Myers	51.10
800 m	Svetlana Masterkova	1:57.87	Kelly Holmes	1:58.20	Natalya Dukhnova	1:59.70
1500 m	Olga Churbanova	4:09.57	Sylvia Kühnemund	4:10.22	Frédérique Quentin	4:10.49
3000 m	Blandine Bitzner-Ducret	8:59.82	Petra Wassiluk	9:02.91	Marta Domínguez	9:06.27
5000 m	Kathrin Wessel	15:40.36	Julia Vaquero	15:41.99	Farida Fatès	15:47.72
100 m hurdles (Wind: +2.7 m/s)	Nadezhda Bodrova	12.89w	Lidiya Yurkova	12.99w	Angie Thorp	13.09w
400 m hurdles	Sally Gunnell	56.84	Silvia Rieger	57.07	Nelli Voronkova	57.39
4 × 100 m	Natalya Merzlyakova Galina Malchugina Marina Trandenkova Oksana Dyachenko	42.55	Andrea Philipp Melanie Paschke Silke-Beate Knoll Silke Lichtenhagen	42.59	Sandra Citté Odiah Sidibé Delphine Combe Marie-José Pérec	43.13
4 × 400 m	Uta Rohländer Silke-Beate Knoll Linda Kisabaka Grit Breuer	3:26.19	Viktoriya Fomenko Lyudmila Koshchey Olga Moroz Olena Rurak	3:27.74	Tatyana Chebykina Natalya Sharova Yuliya Sotnikova Olga Kotlyarova	3:28.54
High jump	Alina Astafei	1.98	Stefka Kostadinova	1.94	Yelena Topchina	1.90
Long jump	Iva Prandzheva	6.84	Yelena Sinchukova	6.81	Claudia Gerhardt	6.76
Triple jump	Ashia Hansen	14.57 CR	Yelena Govorova	14.42	Lyudmila Dubkova	14.14
Shot put	Astrid Kumbernuss	20.05	Judy Oakes	19.00	Svetlana Krivelyova	17.70
Discus throw	Ilke Wyludda	65.66	Olga Chernyavskaya	65.06	Irina Yatchenko	60.68
Javelin throw	Oksana Ovchinnikova	65.72	Natalya Shikolenko	62.52	Tanja Damaske	58.80

First League

The First League was held on 28 and 29 June^[2]

Men

Group 1
Held in Lisbon, Portugal

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		111
2		98.5
3		88
4		80
5		78
6		72
7		32.5

Group 2
Held in Bergen, Norway

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		112
2		107
3		97
4		91
5		90
6		76
7	Belarus	72
8		71

Women

Group 1
Held in Lisbon, Portugal

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		110
2		98
3		94
4		79
5		73
6		68
7		64
8		26

Group 2
Held in Bergen, Norway

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		101
2		92
3		89
4		88
5		77
6		69
7		56
8		40

Second League

The Second League was held on 29 and 30 June^[2]

Men

Group 1
Held in Oordegem, Belgium

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		93.5
2		92.5
3		91
4		64
5		52
6	AASSE	37

Group 2
Held in Tallinn, Estonia

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		96
2		92
3		88
4		87
5		83
6	Lithuania	60
7		55

Women

Group 1
Held in Oordegem, Belgium

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		103
2		91
3		77
4		62
5		51
6		50
7	AASSE	42

Group 2
Held in Tallinn, Estonia

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	Lithuania	90
2		84
3		80
4		73
5		64
6		54
7		30

External links

European Cup results (Men) from GBR Athletics
European Cup results (Women) from GBR Athletics

Notes and References

Web site: The SPAR European Cup: Memories of Europe's premier team athletics event . european-athletics.org . 3 November 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131006060426/http://www.european-athletics.org/event-archive.html?id=98 . 6 October 2013 .
http://asdpedaggio-castiglionetorinese.com/files/annuario-fidal.pdf 2010 Italian almanach