2001 European Cup (athletics)

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.

2001 European Cup
Dates	23–24 June
Host city	Bremen, Germany
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	39
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Poland won the men's Super League title while Russia won the women's title.^[1]

Super League

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  Russia 97 3  Italy 94 4  Germany 93 5  Great Britain 91 6  France 87 7  Spain 77 8  Greece 67

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

Results summary

Men's events

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

Women's events

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

First League

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

Men

Group A Held in Vaasa, Finland Pos. Nation Points 1  Finland 110 2  Sweden 106 3  Czech Republic 101 4  Norway 94.5 5  Switzerland 87.5 6  Portugal 82.5 7  Belarus 77 8  Ireland 60.5

Group B Held in Budapest, Hungary Pos. Nation Points 1  Ukraine 131 2  Romania 104 3  Netherlands 97.5 4  Hungary 93.5 5  Slovenia 86 6  Slovakia 73 7  Yugoslavia 71 8  Bulgaria 60

Women

Group A Held in Vaasa, Finland Pos. Nation Points 1  Poland 122 2  Spain 106 3  Greece 101 4  Sweden 95 5  Portugal 76 6  Finland 70 7  Belgium 63 8  Lithuania 51

Group B Held in Budapest, Hungary Pos. Nation Points 1  Ukraine 119 2  Bulgaria 109 3  Netherlands 92 4  Hungary 88 5  Slovenia 83 6  Turkey 72.5 7  Austria 62 8  Yugoslavia 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  Denmark 141 2  Lithuania 126 3  Latvia 125 4  Estonia 120 5  Turkey 115 6  Moldova 76 7  Georgia 64 8  Luxembourg 60 9  Armenia 51

Group B Held in Nicosia, Cyprus Pos. Nation Points 1  Belgium 143 2  Austria 118 3  Croatia 105 4  Israel 93 5  Cyprus 92 6  Iceland 71 7 AASSE 47 8  Bosnia and Herzegovina 45

Women

Group A Held in Riga, Latvia Pos. Nation Points 1  Norway 136.5 2  Latvia 131 3  Ireland 129 4  Estonia 116.5 5  Denmark 115 6  Moldova 97 7  Georgia 44 8  Luxembourg 43 9  Armenia 32

Group B Held in Nicosia, Cyprus Pos. Nation Points 1  Switzerland 131 2  Slovakia 109 3  Croatia 98 4  Israel 93 5  Cyprus 86 6  Iceland 79 7  Albania 49 7 AASSE 33

References

1. The SPAR European Cup: Memories of Europe's premier team athletics event. European Athletics (2006-06-14). Retrieved on 2010-06-30.
2. 2010 Italian almanach Archived 2021-08-28 at the Wayback Machine (p470–471)

External links

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