2001 European Cup (athletics) explained

2001 European Cup
Host City:	Bremen, Germany
Dates:	23–24 June
Level:	Senior
Type:	Outdoor
Events:	39
Previous:	2000 Gateshead
Next:	2002 Annecy

The 2001 European Cup took place on 23 and 24 June 2001 in Bremen, Germany. The B finals were held in Vaasa, Finland and Budapest, Hungary.

Poland won the men's Super League title while Russia won the women's title.^[1]

Super League

See main article: 2001 European Cup Super League. Held on 23 and 24 June in Bremen, Germany^[2]

Team standings

Men
Pos	Country	Pts
1	Poland	107
2		97
3	Italy	94
4	Germany	93
5		91
6	France	87
7	Spain	77
8	Greece	67

Women
Pos	Country	Pts
1		126.5
2	Germany	117
3	France	86
4		82
5	Romania	78
6	Italy	72.5
7	Belarus	70
8	Czech Republic	47

Results summary

Men's events

100 m (Wind: +1.4 m/s)	Mark Lewis-Francis	10.13	Konstantinos Kenteris	10.15	Frédéric Krantz	10.27
200 m (Wind: -0.7 m/s)	Konstantinos Kenteris	20.31	Marlon Devonish	20.59	Marcin Urbaś	20.69
400 m	Marc Raquil	44.95	Robert Maćkowiak	45.48	David Canal	45.52
800 m	Paweł Czapiewski	1:48.28	Andrea Longo	1:48.54	Simon Lees	1:48.80
1500 m	José Antonio Redolat	3:45.81	Mehdi Baala	3:46.29	Leszek Zblewski	3:47.06
3000 m	Driss Maazouzi	7:52.26	Andrés Díaz	7:52.59	John Mayock	7:56.06
5000 m	Ismaïl Sghyr	13:50.47	Alberto García	13:50.96	Marco Mazza	13:55.85
3000 m steeplechase	Bouabdellah Tahri	8:38.02	Antonio Jiménez	8:38.09	Ralf Assmus	8:39.34
110 m hurdles (Wind: +1.3 m/s)	Yevgeniy Pechonkin	13.38	Florian Schwarthoff	13.57	Tony Jarrett	13.58
400 m hurdles	Fabrizio Mori	48.39	Marek Plawgo	48.98	Stéphane Diagana	49.07
4 × 100 m	Francesco Scuderi Alessandro Cavallaro Maurizio Checcucci Andrea Colombo	38.89	Allyn Condon Marlon Devonish Christian Malcolm Mark Lewis-Francis	38.99	Marcin Krzywański Marcin Jędrusiński Piotr Balcerzak Marcin Urbaś	39.00
4 × 400 m	Piotr Rysiukiewicz Piotr Haczek Piotr Długosielski Robert Maćkowiak	3:01.79	Boris Gorban Ruslan Mashchenko Dmitriy Golovastov Andrey Semyonov	3:02.09	Ingo Schultz Michael Dragu Marc Alexander Scheer Lars Figura	3:02.71
High jump	Yaroslav Rybakov	2.28	Grzegorz Sposób	2.23	Martin Buss	2.19
Pole vault	Michael Stolle	5.75	Adam Kolasa	5.68	Vasiliy Gorshkov	5.68
Long jump	Danila Burkenya	7.89	Chris Tomlinson	7.67	Grzegorz Marciniszyn	7.64
Triple jump	Jonathan Edwards	17.26	Christos Meletoglou	17.19	Paolo Camossi	16.97
Shot put	Manuel Martínez	21.03	Pavel Chumachenko	20.54	Paolo Dal Soglio	20.02
Discus throw	Lars Riedel	66.63	Mario Pestano	65.60	Dmitriy Shevchenko	65.26
Hammer throw	Szymon Ziółkowski	80.87	Nicola Vizzoni	80.13	Christos Polychroniou	78.34
Javelin throw	Kostas Gatsioudis	88.33	Sergey Makarov	83.24	Raymond Hecht	83.05

Women's events

100 m (Wind: +2.8 m/s)	Marina Kislova	11.23w	Natalya Safronnikova	11.26w	Katia Benth	11.38w
200 m (Wind: +0.3 m/s)	Natalya Safronnikova	22.68	Ionela Tîrlea	22.85	Svetlana Goncharenko	22.87
400 m	Grit Breuer	50.49	Francine Landre	51.21	Natalya Antyukh	51.37
800 m	Irina Mistyukevich	1:59.09	Ivonne Teichmann	1:59.39	Natalya Dukhnova	1:59.95
1500 m	Violeta Szekely	4:06.43	Olga Yegorova	4:06.59	Hayley Tullett	4:07.83
3000 m	Kathy Butler	9:03.71	Maria Cristina Grosu	9:04.91	Fatima Yvelain	9:05.30
5000 m	Yelena Zadorozhnaya	14:40.47 CR	Paula Radcliffe	14:49.84	Mihaela Botezan	15:08.78
100 m hurdles (Wind: +0.6 m/s)	Irina Korotya	13.06	Linda Ferga	13.10	Kirsten Bolm	13.15
400 m hurdles	Yuliya Nosova	53.84 CR	Ionela Tîrlea	55.08	Heike Meissner	55.33
4 × 100 m	Melanie Paschke Sina Schielke Birgit Rockmeier Marion Wagner	43.02	Natalya Ignatova Irina Khabarova Marina Kislova Oksana Ekk	43.15	Katia Benth Frédérique Bangué Fabé Dia Odiah Sidibé	43.45
4 × 400 m	Claudia Marx Shanta Ghosh Florence Ekpo-Umoh Grit Breuer	3:23.81	Olga Maksimova Natalya Khrushcheleva Yuliya Pechenkina Natalya Antyukh	3:24.58	Francine Landre Peggy Babin Sylvanie Morandais Anita Mormand	3:26.23
High jump	Susan Jones	1.95 =NR	Alina Astafei	1.89	Olga Kaliturina	1.89
Pole vault	Svetlana Feofanova	4.60 CR	Janine Whitlock	4.34	Pavla Hamácková	4.34
Long jump	Heike Drechsler	6.79	Eunice Barber	6.71	Fiona May	6.57
Triple jump	Tatyana Lebedeva	14.89	Natallia Safronava	14.10w	Cristina Nicolau	13.83
Shot put	Nadine Kleinert-Schmitt	19.30	Irina Korzhanenko	19.27	Assunta Legnante	17.51
Discus throw	Franka Dietzsch	64.04	Natalya Sadova	63.77	Nicoleta Grasu	62.33
Hammer throw	Olga Tsander	68.40	Kirsten Münchow	68.09	Lorraine Shaw	67.98
Javelin throw	Nikola Tomecková	64.77	Steffi Nerius	63.12	Claudia Coslovich	63.07

First League

The First League was held on 23 and 24 June^[2]

Men

Group A
Held in Vaasa, Finland

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		110
2		106
3		101
4		94.5
5		87.5
6		82.5
7	Belarus	77
8		60.5

Group B
Held in Budapest, Hungary

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		131
2		104
3		97.5
4		93.5
5		86
6		73
7		71
8		60

Women

Group A
Held in Vaasa, Finland

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		122
2		106
3		101
4		95
5		76
6		70
7		63
8	Lithuania	51

Group B
Held in Budapest, Hungary

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		119
2		109
3		92
4		88
5		83
6		72.5
7		62
8		56.5

Second League

The Second League was held on 23 and 24 June^[2]

Men

Group A
Held in Riga, Latvia

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		141
2	Lithuania	126
3		125
4		120
5		115
6		76
7	Georgia	64
8		60
9		51

Group B
Held in Nicosia, Cyprus

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		143
2		118
3		105
4		93
5		92
6		71
7	AASSE	47
8		45

Women

Group A
Held in Riga, Latvia

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		136.5
2		131
3		129
4		116.5
5		115
6		97
7	Georgia	44
8		43
9		32

Group B
Held in Nicosia, Cyprus

Pos.	Nation	Points
1		131
2		109
3		98
4		93
5		86
6		79
7		49
7	AASSE	33

External links

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

Notes and References

http://www.european-athletics.org/the-spar-european-cup-memories-of-europes-premier-team-athletics-event.html The SPAR European Cup: Memories of Europe's premier team athletics event
http://asdpedaggio-castiglionetorinese.com/files/annuario-fidal.pdf 2010 Italian almanach