2004 European Cup (athletics) explained

2004 European Cup
Host City:	Bydgoszcz, Poland
Dates:	19–20 June
Stadium:	Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak Stadium
Level:	Senior
Type:	Outdoor
Events:	40
Previous:	2003 Florence
Next:	2005 Florence

The 2004 Spar European Cup took place on 19 and 20 June 2004 at the Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak Stadium in Bydgoszcz, Poland. This was the 25th European Cup and the first time the event was hosted by Poland.

Events

League	Group	Venue	Men Winner	Women Winner
Super League
1st	A
1st	B
2nd	A
2nd	B

Super League

See main article: 2004 European Cup Super League.

Final standings

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Men
Pos.	Team	Points
1		107.5
2		105
3		104
4		102.5
5		99
6		72
7		67
8		62

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Women
Pos.	Team	Points
1		142
2		97
3		92.5
4		92
5		86.5
6		79
7		66
8		63

Men's events

100 m (Wind: -3.2 m/s)	Łukasz Chyła	10.42	Ronald Pognon	10.43	Ronny Ostwald	10.49
200 m (Wind: 0.0 m/s)	Christian Malcolm	20.56	Johan Wissman	20.61	Marco Torrieri	20.62
400 m	Tim Benjamin	45.37	Ingo Schultz	45.50	Leslie Djhone	45.73
800 m	Florent Lacasse	1:45.19	René Herms	1:45.27	Arnoud Okken	1:45.64
1500 m	Mehdi Baala	3:49.13	Michael East	3:49.53	Yuriy Borzakovskiy	3:50.99
3000 m	Wolfram Müller	8:04.37	Gert-Jan Liefers	8:04.41	Vyacheslav Shabunin	8:05.92
5000 m	John Mayock	14:44.71	Sergey Ivanov	14:44.75	Mokhtar Benhari	14:44.78
3000 m steeplechase	Bouabdellah Tahri	8:23.40	Jakub Czaja	8:25.51	Giuseppe Maffei	8:27.53
110 m hurdles (Wind: -1.0 m/s)	Robert Kronberg	13.58	Mike Fenner	13.66	Andrea Giaconi	13.66
400 m hurdles	Chris Rawlinson	48.59	Naman Keïta	49.04	Boris Gorban	49.71
4 × 100 m	Christian Malcolm Darren Campbell Chris Lambert Mark Lewis-Francis	38.67	Zbigniew Tulin Łukasz Chyła Marcin Jędrusiński Marcin Urbaś	38.68	Alexander Kosenkow Ronny Ostwald Tobias Unger Till Helmke	38.76
4 × 400 m	Ingo Schultz Kamghe Gaba Ruwen Faller Bastian Swillims	3:01.78	Anton Galkin Andrey Rudnitskiy Aleksandr Usov Ruslan Mashchenko	3:01.88	Piotr Klimczak Artur Gąsiewski Marcin Marciniszyn Robert Maćkowiak	3:02.05
High jump	Stefan Holm	2.32	Grzegorz Sposób	2.32	Roman Fricke	2.27
Pole vault	Romain Mesnil	5.75	Patrik Kristiansson	5.70	Lars Börgeling Yevgeniy Mikhailichenko	5.65
Long jump	Chris Tomlinson	8.28w	Salim Sdiri	8.24	Vitaliy Shkurlatov	8.13
Triple jump	Christian Olsson	17.30	Danila Burkenya	17.28	Phillips Idowu	17.10w
Shot put	Carl Myerscough	20.85	Rutger Smith	20.56	Ralf Bartels	20.54
Discus throw	Michael Möllenbeck	64.42	Rutger Smith	63.68	Carl Myerscough	61.68
Hammer throw	Szymon Ziółkowski	77.27	Markus Esser	76.97	Nicola Vizzoni	76.16
Javelin throw	Aleksandr Ivanov	82.55	Peter Esenwein	82.43	Francesco Pignata	76.87

Women's events

100 m (Wind: -1.9 m/s)	Christine Arron	11.23	Yuliya Tabakova	11.39	Glory Alozie	11.49
200 m (Wind: 0.6 m/s)	Muriel Hurtis	22.78	Natalya Antyukh	22.83	Anzhela Kravchenko	23.10
400 m	Olga Kotlyarova	50.09	Antonina Yefremova	51.79	Solen Désert	52.09
800 m	Olga Raspopova	2:00.24	Claudia Gesell	2:01.27	Susan Scott	2:01.35
1500 m	Iris María Fuentes-Pila	4:08.05	Maria Martins	4:08.12	Yuliya Kosenkova	4:08.59
3000 m	Gulnara Samitova	8:49.48	Lidia Chojecka	8:52.60	Zulema Fuentes-Pila	8:59.20
5000 m	Paula Radcliffe	14:29.11 CR, NR	Liliya Shobukhova	14:52.19	Sabrina Mockenhaupt	15:23.50
3000 m steeplechase	Élodie Olivarès	9:41.81	Lyubov Ivanova	9:44.95	Rosa María Morató	9:51.08
100 m hurdles (Wind: -1.0 m/s)	Yelena Krasovska	12.78	Irina Shevchenko	12.91	Glory Alozie	12.95
400 m hurdles	Fani Halkia	54.16	Yekaterina Bikert	54.60	Małgorzata Pskit	55.68
4 × 100 m	Véronique Mang Muriel Hurtis Sylviane Félix Christine Arron	42.41	Olga Fedorova Yuliya Tabakova Irina Khabarova Larisa Kruglova	42.93	Tetyana Tkalich Anzhela Kravchenko Oksana Kaydash Iryna Shepetyuk	43.43
4 × 400 m	Yuliya Gushchina Natalya Ivanova Yekaterina Bakhvalova Tatyana Levina	3:26.04	Oleksandra Ryzhkova Oksana Ilyushkina Antonina Yefremova Nataliya Pyhyda	3:26.28	Olga Kaidantzi Hrisoula Goudenoudi Hariklia Bouda Fani Halkia	3:26.33 NR
High jump	Yelena Slesarenko	2.04	Irina Mikhalchenko	1.92	Ariane Friedrich	1.92
Pole vault	Anzhela Balakhonova	4.50	Monika Pyrek	4.40	Tatyana Polnova	4.30
Long jump	Irina Simagina	6.91	Kelly Sotherton	6.68	Ioanna Kafetzi	6.56
Triple jump	Anna Pyatykh	14.85	Chrysopigi Devetzi	14.81w	Yelena Govorova	14.78
Shot put	Olga Ryabinkina	18.92	Kalliopi Ouzouni	18.45	Nadine Kleinert	18.44
Discus throw	Ekaterini Vogoli	64.25	Franka Dietzsch	61.42	Joanna Wiśniewska	60.51
Hammer throw	Irina Sekachova	71.91	Olga Kuzenkova	70.89	Betty Heidler	70.05
Javelin throw	Angeliki Tsiolakoudi	62.80	Steffi Nerius	59.42	Valeriya Zabruskova	58.88

First League

Group A

19–20 June 2004 Plovdiv

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Men
Pos.	Team	Points
1		110
2		108
3		104.5
4		101
5		97
6		76
7		72.5
8		47

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Women
Pos.	Team	Points
1		130
2		122
3		104
4		94
5		90
6		81
7		48
8		45

Group B

19–20 June 2004 Istanbul

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Men
Pos.	Team	Points
1		129
2		103
3		95.5
4		94
5		82
6		80.5
7		67.5
8		63.5

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Women
Pos.	Team	Points
1		126.5
2		104
3		101
4		88
5		82
6		79
7		77
8		62.5

Second League

Group A

19–20 June 2004 Reykjavík

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Men
Pos.	Team	Points
1		126.5
2		121
3		104
4		94
5		80
6		67.5
7		58
8		49

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Women
Pos.	Team	Points
1		118
2		109.5
3		103
4		98
5		92.5
6		76
7		70
8		42

Group B

19–20 June 2004 Novi Sad

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Men
Pos.	Team	Points
1		193.5
2		183.5
3		172.5
4		164
5		164
6		143
7		113
8		110
9		84.5
10		82.5
11		80
12		44.5

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Women
Pos.	Team	Points
1		185
2		184
3		181
4		128
5		121.5
6		109
7		104
8		88
9		80
10		54.5
11		49

External links

european-athletics.org – 2004 SPAR European Cup Results