The quadrennial women's European Championships was first held in 1938 and combined with the men's event in 1946. Men's Medallists are listed on a separate page.
Venues: 1938 Vienna (AUT), 1946 Oslo (NOR), 1950 Brussels (BEL), 1954 Berne (SUI), 1958 Stockholm (SWE), 1962 Belgrade (YUG), 1966 Budapest (HUN), 1969 Athens (GRE), 1971 Helsinki (FIN), 1974 Rome (ITA), 1978 Prague (TCH), 1982 Athens (GRE), 1986 Stuttgart (FRG), 1990 Split (YUG), 1994 Helsinki (FIN), 1998 Budapest (HUN), 2002 Munich (GER)
GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | wind | ||||
1938 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1969 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 |
Stella Walasiewicz POL Yevgeniya Sechenova URS Fanny Blankers-Koen NED Irina Turova URS Heather Young GBR Dorothy Hyman GBR Ewa Klobukowska POL Petra Vogt GDR Renate Stecher GDR Irena Szewinska (Kirszenstein) POL Marlies Göhr GDR Marlies Göhr GDR Marlies Göhr GDR Katrin Krabbe GDR Irina Privalova RUS Christine Arron FRA Ekaterini Thanou GRE |
11.9 11.9 11.7 11.8 11.7 11.3w 11.5 11.66 11.35 11.13 11.13 11.01 10.91 10.89 11.02 10.73 11.10 |
Käthe Krauss GER Winifred Jordan GBR Yevgeniya Sechenova URS Bertha van Duyne NED Vera Krepkina URS Jutta Heine FRG Irena Kirszenstein POL Wilma van den Berg NED Ingrid Mickler FRG Renate Stecher GDR Linda Haglund SWE Bärbel Wöckel GDR Anelia Nuneva BUL Silke Möller (Gladisch) GDR Zhanna Tarnopolskaya UKR Irina Privalova RUS Kim Gevaert BEL |
12.0 12.1 12.3 11.9 11.7 11.3w 11.5 11.74 11.46 11.23 11.29 11.20 11.04 11.10 11.10 10.83 11.22 |
Fanny Koen NED Claire Bresolles FRA June Foulds GBR Anne Pashley GBR Christa Stubnick GDR Teresa Ciepla POL Karin Frisch FRG Anita Neil GBR Elfgard Schittenhelm FRG Andrea Lynch GBR Lyudmila Maslakova URS Rose-Aimée Bacoul FRA Nelli Fiere-Cooman NED Kerstin Behrendt GDR Melanie Paschke GER Ekaterini Thanou GRE Manuela Levorato ITA |
12.0 12.2 12.4 11.9 11.8 11.4w 11.8 11.81 11.51 11.28 11.31 11.29 11.08 11.17 11.28 10.87 11.23 |
0.7 -1.0 2.3 -1.1 -0.4 0.0 -1.2 0.0 -0.5 0.8 1.8 0.6 2.0 -0.7 |
GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | wind | ||||
1938 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1969 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 |
Stella Walasiewicz POL Yevgeniya Sechenova URS Fanny Blankers-Koen NED Mariya Itkina URS Barbara Janiszewska POL Jutta Heine FRG Irena Kirszenstein POL Petra Vogt GDR Renate Stecher (Meissner) GDR Irena Szewinska POL Lyudmila Kondratyeva URS Bärbel Wöckel GDR Heike Drechsler GDR Katrin Krabbe GDR Irina Privalova RUS Irina Privalova RUS Muriel Hurtis FRA |
23.8 25.4 24.0 24.3 24.1 23.5 23.1 23.30 22.70 22.51 22.52 22.04 21.71 21.95 22.32 22.62 22.43 |
Käthe Krauss GER Winifred Jordan GBR Yevgeniya Sechenova URS Irina Turova URS Hannelore Sadau GDR Dorothy Hyman GBR Ewa Klobukowska POL Renate Meissner GDR Györgyi Balogh HUN Renate Stecher GDR Marlies Göhr GDR Kathy Smallwood GBR Marie-Christine Cazier FRA Heike Drechsler GDR Zhanna Tarnopolskaya UKR Zhanna Pintusevich (Tarnopolskaya) UKR Kim Gevaert BEL |
24.4 25.6 24.8 24.4 24.3 23.7 23.4 23.33 23.26 22.68 22.53 22.13 22.32 22.19 22.77 22.74 22.53 |
Fanny Koen NED Léa Caurla FRA Dorothy Hall GBR Shirley Hampton GBR Mariya Itkina URS Barbara Sobotta (Janiszewska) POL Vera Popkova URS Val Peat GBR Irena Szewinska (Kirszenstein) POL Mona-Lisa Pursiainen FIN Carla Bodendorf GDR Sabine Rieger GDR Silke Gladisch GDR Galina Malchugina URS Galina Malchugina RUS Melanie Paschke GER Manuela Levorato ITA |
24.9 25.6 25.0 24.4 24.3 23.9 23.7 23.34 23.32 23.17 22.64 22.51 22.49 22.23 22.90 22.78 22.75 |
-0.6 1.8 -2.3 0.0 -0.6 0.0 -2.8 -0.2 0.9 -0.8 0.3 0.2 -0.7 -0.3 |
GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | ||||
1958 1962 1966 1969 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 |
Mariya Itkina URS Mariya Itkina URS Anna Chmelková TCH Nicole Duclos FRA Helga Seidler GDR Riitta Salin FIN Marita Koch GDR Marita Koch GDR Marita Koch GDR Grit Breuer GDR Marie-José Pérec FRA Grit Breuer GER Olesya Zykina RUS |
53.7 53.4 52.9 51.77 52.14 50.14 48.94 48.16 48.22 49.50 50.33 49.93 50.45 |
Yekaterina Parlyuk URS Joy Grieveson GBR Antónia Munkácsi HUN Colette Besson FRA Inge Bödding FRG Ellen Streidt GDR Christina Brehmer GDR Jarmila Kratochvílová TCH Olga Vladykina URS Petra Schersing (Müller) GDR Svetlana Goncharenko RUS Helena Fuchsová CZE Grit Breuer GER |
54.8 53.9 53.9 51.79 52.90 50.69 50.38 48.85 49.67 50.51 51.24 50.21 50.70 |
Molly Hiscox GBR Tilly van den Zwaard NED Monique Noirot FRA Maria Sykora AUT Ingelore Lohse GDR Rita Wilden FRG Irena Szewinska POL Tatána Kocembová TCH Petra Müller GDR Marie-José Pérec FRA Phylis Smith GBR Olga Kotlyarova RUS Lee McConnell GBR |
55.7 54.4 54.0 53.0a 52.93 50.88 50.40 50.55 49.88 50.84 51.30 50.38 51.02 |
GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | ||||
1954 1958 1962 1966 1969 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 |
Nina Otkalenko URS Yelizaveta Yermolayeva URS Gerda Kraan NED Vera Nikolic YUG Lillian Board GBR Vera Nikolic YUG Lilyana Tomova BUL Tatyana Providokhina URS Olga Mineyeva URS Nadezhda Olizarenko URS Sigrun Wodars GDR Lyubov Gurina RUS Yelena Afanasyeva RUS Jolanda Ceplak SLO |
2:08.8 2:06.3 2:02.8 2:02.8 2:01.50 2:00.00 1:58.14 1:55.80 1:55.41 1:57.15 1:55.87 1:58.55 1:58.50 1:57.65 |
Diane Leather GBR Diane Leather GBR Waltraud Kaufmann GDR Zsuzsa Szabó HUN Annelise Damm Olesen DEN Pat Lowe GBR Gunhild Hoffmeister GDR Nadezhda Mushta URS Lyudmila Veselkova URS Sigrun Wodars GDR Christine Wachtel GDR Natalya Dukhnova BLR Malin Ewerlöf SWE Mayte Martínez ESP |
2:09.8 2:06.6 2:05.0 2:03.1 2:02.6a 2:01.66 1:58.81 1:55.82 1:55.96 1:57.42 1:56.11 1:58.55 1:59.61 1:58.86 |
Lyudmila Lysenko URS Dzidra Levicka URS Olga Kazi HUN Antje Gleichfeld FRG Vera Nikolic YUG Rosemary Stirling GBR Mariana Suman ROM Zoya Rigel URS Margrit Klinger FRG Lyubov Gurina URS Liliya Nurutdinova URS Lyudmila Rogachova RUS Stephanie Graf AUT Kelly Holmes GBR |
2:11.2 2:06.6 2:05.0 2:03.7 2:02.6a 2:02.08 1:59.84 1:56.57 1:57.22 1:57.73 1:57.39 1:58.69 2:00.11 1:59.83 |
GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | ||||
1969 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 |
Jaroslava Jehlicková TCH Karin Burneleit GDR Gunhild Hoffmeister GDR Giana Romanova URS Olga Dvirna URS Ravilya Agletdinova URS Snežana Pajkic YUG Lyudmila Rogachova RUS Svetlana Masterkova RUS Süreyya Ayhan TUR |
4:10.77 4:09.62 4:02.25 3:59.01 3:57.80 4:01.19 4:08.12 4:18.93 4:11.91 3:58.79 |
Maria Gommers NED Gunhild Hoffmeister GDR Lilyana Tomova BUL Natalia Marasescu ROM Zamira Zaytseva URS Tatyana Samolenko URS Ellen Kiessling GDR Kelly Holmes GBR Carla Sacramento POR Gabriela Szabo ROM |
4:11.9a 4:10.31 4:04.97 3:59.77 3:58.82 4:02.36 4:08.67 4:19.30 4:12.62 3:58.81 |
Paola Pigni ITA Ellen Tittel FRG Grete Andersen NOR Totka Petrova BUL Gabriella Dorio ITA Doina Melinte ROM Sandra Gasser SUI Yekaterina Podkopayeva RUS Anita Weyermann SUI Tatyana Tomashova RUS |
4:12.0a 4:10.35 4:05.21 4:00.15 3:59.02 4:02.44 4:08.89 4:19.37 4:13.06 4:01.28 |
GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | ||||
1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 |
Nina Holmén FIN Svetlana Ulmasova URS Svetlana Ulmasova URS Olga Bondarenko URS Yvonne Murray GBR Sonia O'Sullivan IRL |
8:55.10 8:33.16 8:30.28 8:33.99 8:43.06 8:31.84 |
Lyudmila Bragina URS Natalia Marasescu ROM Maricica Puica ROM Maricica Puica ROM Yelena Romanova URS Yvonne Murray GBR |
8:56.09 8:33.53 8:33.33 8:35.92 8:43.68 8:36.48 |
Joyce Smith GBR Grete Waitz (Andersen) NOR Yelena Sipatova URS Yvonne Murray GBR Roberta Brunet ITA Gabriela Szabo ROM |
8:57.39 8:34.33 8:34.06 8:37.15 8:46.19 8:40.08 |
GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | ||||
1998 2002 |
Sonia O'Sullivan IRL Marta Domínguez ESP |
15:06.50 15:14.76 |
Gabriela Szabo ROM Sonia O'Sullivan IRL |
15:08.31 15:14.85 |
Marta Domínguez ESP Yelena Zadorozhnaya RUS |
15:10.54 15:15.22 |
GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | ||||
1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 |
Ingrid Kristiansen NOR Yelena Romanova URS Fernanda Ribeiro POR Sonia O'Sullivan IRL Paula Radcliffe GBR |
30:23.25 31:46.83 31:08.75 31:29.33 30:01.09 |
Olga Bondarenko URS Kathrin Ullrich GDR Conceiçăo Ferreira POR Fernanda Ribeiro POR Sonia O'Sullivan IRL |
30:57.21 31:47.70 31:32.82 31:32.42 30:47.59 |
Ulrike Bruns GDR Annette Sergent FRA Daria Nauer SUI Lidia Simon ROM Lyudmila Biktasheva RUS |
31:19.76 31:51.68 31:35.96 31:32.64 31:04.00 |
GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | ||||
1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 |
Rosa Mota POR Rosa Mota POR Rosa Mota POR Manuela Machado POR Manuela Machado POR Maria Guida ITA |
2:36:04 2:28:38 2:31:27 2:29:54 2:27:10 2:26:05 |
Laura Fogli ITA Laura Fogli ITA Valentina Yegorova URS Maria Curatolo ITA Madina Biktagirova RUS Luminita Zaituc GER |
2:36:29 2:32:52 2:31:32 2:30:33 2:28:01 2:26:58 |
Ingrid Kristiansen NOR Yekaterina Khramenkova URS Maria Lelut-Rebelo FRA Adriana Barbu ROM Maura Viceconte ITA Sonja Oberem GER |
2:36:39 2:34:18 2:35:51 2:30:55 2:28:31 2:28:45 |
GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | wind | ||||
1938 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 |
Claudia Testoni ITA Fanny Blankers-Koen NED Fanny Blankers-Koen NED Mariya Golubnichaya URS Galina Bystrova URS Teresa Ciepla POL Karin Balzer GDR |
11.6 11.8 11.1 11.0 10.9 10.6 10.7 |
Lisa Gelius GER Yelena Gokieli URS Maureen Dyson GBR Annelise Seonbuchner FRG Zenta Kopp FRG Karin Balzer GDR Karin Frisch FRG |
11.7 11.9 11.6 11.2 10.9 10.6 10.7 |
Kitty ten Braake NED Valentina Fokina URS Micheline Ostermeyer FRA Pam Seaborne GBR Gisela Birkemeyer GDR Erika Fisch FRG & Maria Piatkowska POL Elzbieta Bednarek POL |
11.8 11.9 11.7 11.3 11.0 10.6 10.7 |
0.9 0.4 0.1 0.2 |
GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | wind | ||||
1969 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 |
Karin Balzer GDR Karin Balzer GDR Annelie Ehrhardt GDR Johanna Klier GDR Lucyna Kalek POL Yordanka Donkova BUL Monique Ewanjé-Épée FRA Svetla Dimitrova BUL Svetla Dimitrova BUL Glory Alozie ESP |
13.29 12.94 12.66 12.62 12.45 12.38 12.79 12.72 12.56 12.73 |
Bärbel Podeswa GDR Annelie Ehrhardt GDR Annerose Fiedler GDR Tatyana Anisimova URS Yordanka Donkova BUL Cornelia Oschkenat GDR Gloria Siebert GDR Yuliya Graudyn RUS Brigita Bukovec SLO Yelena Krasovska UKR |
13.68 12.96 12.89 12.67 12.54 12.55 12.91 12.93 12.65 12.88 |
Teresa Nowak POL Teresa Sukniewicz POL Teresa Nowak POL Gudrun Berend GDR Kerstin Knabe GDR Ginka Zagorcheva BUL Lidiya Yurkova URS Yordanka Donkova BUL Irina Korotya RUS Yana Kasova BUL |
13.77 13.21 12.91 12.73 12.54 12.70 12.92 12.93 12.85 12.91 |
1.0 0.0 0.2 0.6 0.4 -0.7 -0.9 -1.7 1.5 -0.7 |
GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | ||||
1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 |
Tatyana Zelentsova URS Ann-Louise Skoglund SWE Marina Stepanova URS Tatyana Ledovskaya URS Sally Gunnell GBR Ionela Tîrlea ROM Ionela Tîrlea ROM |
54.89 54.57 53.32 53.62 53.33 53.37 54.95 |
Silvia Hollmann FRG Petra Pfaff GDR Sabine Busch GDR Anita Protti SUI Silvia Rieger GER Tatyana Tereshchuk UKR Heike Meissner GER |
55.14 54.89 53.60 54.36 54.68 54.07 55.89 |
Karin Rossley GDR Chantal Réga FRA Cornelia Feuerbach GDR Monica Westén SWE Anna Knoroz RUS Silvia Rieger GER Anna Olichwierczuk POL |
55.35 54.93 54.13 55.45 54.68 54.45 56.18 |
GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | ||||
1938 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1969 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 |
Ibolya Csák HUN Anne-Marie Colchen FRA Sheila Alexander GBR Thelma Hopkins GBR Iolanda Balas ROM Iolanda Balas ROM Taisiya Chenchik URS Milena Rezková TCH Ilona Gusenbauer AUT Rosemarie Witschas GDR Sara Simeoni ITA Ulrike Meyfarth FRG Stefka Kostadinova BUL Heike Henkel FRG Britta Bilac SLO Monica Dinescu ROM Kajsa Bergqvist SWE |
1.64 1.60 1.63 1.67 1.77 1.83 1.75 1.83 1.87 1.95 2.01 2.02 2.00 1.99 2.00 1.97 1.98 |
Nelly van Balen-Blanken NED Aleksandra Chudina URS Dorothy Tyler GBR Iolanda Balas ROM Taisiya Chenchik URS Olga Gere YUG Lyudmila Komleva URS Antonina Lazareva URS Barbara Inkpen GBR & Cornelia Popescu ROM Milada Karbanová TCH Rosemarie Ackermann (Witschas) GDR Tamara Bykova URS Svetlana Isaeva BUL Biljana Petrovic YUG Yelena Gulyayeva RUS Donata Jancewicz POL Marina Kuptsova RUS |
1.64 1.57 1.63 1.65 1.70 1.76 1.73 1.83 1.85 1.91 1.99 1.97 1.93 1.96 1.96 1.95 1.92 |
Fedora Solms GER Anne Iversen DEN Galina Ganeker URS Olga Modrachová TCH Dorothy Shirley GBR Linda Knowles GBR Jaroslawa Bieda POL Mária Mracnová TCH Sara Simeoni ITA Brigitte Holzapfel FRG Sara Simeoni ITA Olga Turchak URS Yelena Yelesina URS Nelé Žilinskiené LTU Alina Astafei GER Olga Kaliturina RUS |
1.64 1.57 1.63 1.63 1.67 1.73 1.71 1.83 1.89 1.95 1.97 1.93 1.96 1.93 1.95 1.89 |
GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | ||||
1998 2002 |
Anzhela Balakhonova UKR Svetlana Feofanova RUS |
4.31 4.60 |
Nicole Humbert GER Yelena Isinbayeva RUS |
4.31 4.55 |
Yvonne Buschbaum GER Yvonne Buschbaum GER |
4.31 4.50 |
GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | ||||
1938 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1969 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 |
Irmgard Praetz GER Gerda Koudijs NED Valentina Bogdanova URS Jean Desforges GBR Liesel Jakobi FRG Tatyana Shchelkanova URS Irena Kirszenstein POL Miroslawa Sarna POL Ingrid Mickler FRG Ilona Bruzsenyák HUN Vilhelmina Bardauskiené URS Valy Ionescu ROM Heike Drechsler GDR Heike Drechsler GDR Heike Drechsler GER Heike Drechsler GER Tatyana Kotova RUS |
5.88 5.67 5.82 6.04 6.14 6.36 6.55 6.49 6.76 6.65 6.88 6.79 7.27 7.30 7.14 7.16 6.85 |
Stella Walasiewicz POL Lidiya Gaile URS Wilhelmine Lust NED Aleksandra Chudina URS Valentina Lituyeva (Bogdanova) URS Elzbieta Krzesinska (Dunska) POL Diana Yorgova BUL Viorica Viscopoleanu ROM Meta Antenen SUI Eva Šuranová TCH Angela Voigt GDR Anisoara Cusmir ROM Galina Chistyakova URS Marieta Ilcu ROM Inessa Kravets UKR Fiona May ITA Jade Johnson GBR |
5.81 5.66 5.63 5.93 6.00 6.22 6.45 6.45 6.73 6.60 6.79 6.73 7.09 7.02 6.99 7.11 6.73 |
Gisela Voss GER Valentina Vasilyeva URS Maire Osterdahl FIN Elzbieta Dunska POL Nina Prochenko URS Mary Rand GBR Helga Hoffmann FRG Berit Berthelsen NOR Heide Rosendahl FRG Pirkko Helenius FIN Jarmila Nygrýnová TCH Yelena Ivanova URS Helga Radtke GDR Helga Radtke GDR Fiona May ITA Lyudmila Galkina RUS Tünde Vaszi HUN |
5.47 5.63 5.57 5.83 5.99 6.22 6.38 6.44 6.66 6.59 6.69 6.73 6.89 6.94 6.90 7.06w 6.73 |
GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | ||||
1994 1998 2002 |
Anna Biryukova RUS Olga Vasdeki GRE Ashia Hansen GBR |
14.89 14.55 15.00w |
Inna Lasovskaya RUS Šárka Kašpárková CZE Heli Koivula FIN |
14.85w 14.53 14.83w |
Inessa Kravets UKR Tereza Marinova BUL Yelena Oleynikova RUS |
14.67w 14.50 14.54 |
GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | ||||
1938 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1969 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 |
Hermine Schröder GER Tatyana Sevryokova URS Anna Andreyeva URS Galina Zybina URS Marianne Werner FRG Tamara Press URS Nadezhda Chizhova URS Nadezhda Chizhova URS Nadezhda Chizhova URS Nadezhda Chizhova URS Ilona Slupianek GDR Ilona Slupianek GDR Heidi Krieger GDR Astrid Kumbernuss GDR Vita Pavlysh UKR Vita Pavlysh UKR Irina Korzhanenko RUS |
13.29 14.16 14.32 15.65 15.74 18.55 17.22 20.43 20.16 20.78 21.41 21.59 21.10 20.38 19.61 21.69 20.64 |
Gisela Mauermayer GER Micheline Ostermeyer FRA Klavdiya Tochenova URS Mariya Kuznetsova URS Tamara Tyshkevich URS Renate Garisch GDR Margitta Gummel GDR Margitta Gummel GDR Marita Lange GDR Marianne Adam GDR Helena Fibingerová TCH Helena Fibingerová TCH Ines Müller GDR Natalya Lisovskaya URS Astrid Kumbernuss GER Irina Korzhanenko RUS Vita Pavlysh UKR |
13.27 12.84 13.92 14.99 15.54 17.17 17.05 19.58 19.25 20.43 20.86 20.94 20.81 20.06 19.49 19.71 20.02 |
Wanda Flakowicz POL Amelia Piccinini ITA Micheline Ostermeyer FRA Tamara Tyshkevich URS Tamara Press URS Galina Zybina URS Marita Lange GDR Marita Lange GDR Margitta Gummel GDR Helena Fibingerová TCH Margitta Droese GDR Nunu Abashidze URS Natalya Akhrimenko URS Kathrin Neimke GDR Svetla Mitkova BUL Yanina Korolchik BLR Svetlana Krivelyova RUS |
12.55 12.22 13.37 14.78 15.53 16.95 16.96 18.56 19.22 20.33 20.58 20.82 20.54 19.96 19.49 19.23 19.56 |
GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | ||||
1938 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1969 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 |
Gisela Mauermayer GER Nina Dumbadze URS Nina Dumbadze URS Nina Ponomaryova URS Tamara Press URS Tamara Press URS Christine Spielberg GDR Tamara Danilova URS Faina Melnik URS Faina Melnik URS Evelin Jahl GDR Tsvetanka Khristova BUL Diana Sachse GDR Ilke Wyludda GDR Ilke Wyludda GER Franka Dietzsch GER Ekaterini Vogoli GRE |
44.80 44.21 48.03 48.02 53.32 56.91 57.76 59.28 64.22 69.00 66.98 68.34 71.36 68.46 68.72 67.49 64.31 |
Hildegard Sommer GER Ann Niesink NED Rimma Shumskaya URS Irina Beglyakova URS Štepánka Mertová TCH Doris Müller GDR Liesel Westermann FRG Lyudmila Muravyova URS Liesel Westermann FRG Argentina Menis ROM Margitta Droese GDR Maria Petkova BUL Tsvetanka Khristova BUL Olga Burova URS Ellina Zvereva BLR Natalya Sadova RUS Natalya Sadova RUS |
40.95 40.46 42.25 45.79 52.19 53.60 57.38 59.24 61.88 64.62 64.04 67.94 69.52 66.72 64.46 66.94 64.12 |
Paula Mollenhauer GER Jadwiga Wajs POL Edera Cordiale ITA Galina Zybina URS Kriemhild Hausmann FRG Jolán Kontsek HUN Anita Hentschel GDR Karin Illgen GDR Lyudmila Muravyova URS Gabriele Hinzmann GDR Natalya Gorbachova URS Galina Savinkova URS Martina Hellmann GDR Martina Hellmann GDR Mette Bergmann NOR Nicoleta Grasu ROM Anastasia Kelesidou GRE |
39.81 39.37 41.57 44.77 50.99 52.82 56.80 58.66 59.48 62.50 63.58 67.82 68.26 66.66 64.34 65.94 63.92 |
GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | ||||
1998 2002 |
Mihaela Melinte ROM Olga Kuzenkova RUS |
71.17 72.94 |
Olga Kuzenkova RUS Kamila Skolimowska POL |
69.28 72.46 |
Kirsten Münchow GER Manuela Montebrun FRA |
65.61 72.04 |
(new model from 2002)
GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | ||||
1938 1946 1950y 1954 1958 1962 1966 1969 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 |
Lisa Gelius GER Klavdiya Mayuchaya URS Natalya Smirnitskaya URS Dana Zátopková TCH Dana Zátopková TCH Elvîra Ozolina URS Marion Lüttge GDR Angéla Ránky HUN Daniela Jaworska POL Ruth Fuchs GDR Ruth Fuchs GDR Anna Verouli GRE Fatima Whitbread GBR Päivi Alafrantti FIN Trine Hattestad NOR Tanja Damaske GER Mirela Manjani GRE |
45.58 46.25 47.55 52.91 56.02 54.93 58.74 59.76 61.00 67.22 69.16 70.02 76.32 67.68 68.00 69.10 67.47 |
Suse Pastoors GER Lyudmila Anokhina URS Herma Bauma AUT Virve Roolaid URS Biruté Zalogaitité URS Maria Diaconescu ROM Mihaela Penes ROM Magda Vidos HUN Ameli Koloska FRG Jacqueline Todten GDR Tessa Sanderson GBR Antje Kempe GDR Petra Felke GDR Karen Forkel GDR Karen Forkel GER Tatyana Shikolenko RUS Steffi Nerius GER |
44.14 45.84 43.87 49.94 51.30 52.10 56.94 58.80 59.40 62.10 62.40 67.94 72.52 67.56 66.10 66.92 64.09 |
Luise Krüger GER Johanna-Ans Koning NED Galina Zybina URS Nadezhda Konyayeva URS Jutta Neumann FRG Alla Shastitko URS Valentina Popova URS Valentina Evert URS Ruth Fuchs GDR Nataša Urbancic YUG Ute Hommola GDR Sofia Sakorafa GRE Beate Peters FRG Petra Felke GDR Felicia Tilea ROM Mikaela Ingberg FIN Mikaela Ingberg FIN |
42.49 43.24 42.75 49.49 50.30 51.80 56.70 56.56 59.16 61.66 62.32 67.04 68.04 66.56 64.34 64.92 63.50 |
GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | ||||
1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1969 1971 1974 1978 |
Arlette Ben Hamo FRA Aleksandra Chudina URS Galina Bystrova URS Galina Bystrova URS Valentina Tikhomirova URS Liese Prokop AUT Heide Rosendahl FRG Nadezhda Tkachenko URS Margit Papp HUN |
3204 4526 4733 4833 4787 5030 5299 4776 4655 |
Bertha Crowther GBR Maria Sander FRG Nina Vinogradova URS Denise Guénard FRA Heide Rosendahl FRG Meta Antenen SUI Burglinde Pollak GDR Burglinde Pollak GDR Burglinde Pollak GDR |
3048 4485 4627 4735 4765 4793 5275 4678 4600 |
Olga Modrachová TCH Maria Sturm FRG Edeltraud Eiberle FRG Helga Hoffmann FRG Inge Exner GDR Mariya Sizyakova URS Margrit Herbst GDR Zoya Spasovkhodskaya URS Kristine Nitzsche GDR |
3026 4357 4545 4676 4713 4773 5179 4550 4599 |
Above scores given using tables in use at time of competition. Major changes to tables were made in 1954 & 1971(end). 100 metres hurdles replaced 80 metres hurdles in 1969 & 800 metres replaced 200 metres in 1978.
GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | ||||
1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 |
Ramona Neubert GDR Anke Behmer GDR Sabine Braun FRG Sabine Braun GER Denise Lewis GBR Carolina Klüft SWE |
6622 6717 6688 6419 6559 6542 |
Sabine Möbius GDR Natalya Shubenkova URS Heike Tischler GDR Rita Ináncsi HUN Urszula Wlodarczyk POL Sabine Braun GER |
6595 6645 6572 6404 6460 6434 |
Sabine Everts FRG Judy Simpson GBR Peggy Beer GDR Urszula Wlodarczyk POL Natalya Sazanovich BLR Natalya Sazanovich BLR |
6420 6623 6531 6322 6410 6341 |
Above scores given using tables in use at time of competition. Major changes to tables were made in 1985.
GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | ||||
1986 1990 1994 1998 |
Marí Cruz Díaz ESP Annarita Sidoti ITA Sari Essayah FIN Annarita Sidoti ITA |
46:09 44:00 42:37 42:49 |
Ann Jansson SWE Olga Kardopoltseva URS Annarita Sidoti ITA Erica Alfridi ITA |
46:14 44:06 42:43 42:54 |
Siv Vera-Ibáńez SWE Ileana Salvador ITA Yelena Nikolayeva RUS Susana Feitor POR |
46:19 44:38 42:43 42:55 |
GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | ||||
2002 | Olimpiada Ivanova RUS | 1:26:42 | Yelena Nikolayeva RUS | 1:28:20 | Erica Alfridi ITA | 1:28:33 |
GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | ||||
1938 1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1969 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 |
Germany Netherlands Great Britain & N.I. Soviet Union Soviet Union Poland Poland German D.R. F.R. Germany German D.R. Soviet Union German D.R. German D.R. German D.R. Germany France France |
46.8 47.8 47.4 45.8 45.3 44.5 44.49 43.61 43.23 42.51 42.54 42.19 41.84 41.68 42.90 42.59 42.46 |
Poland France Netherlands F.R. Germany Great Britain & N.I. F.R. Germany F.R. Germany F.R. Germany German D.R. F.R. Germany Great Britain & N.I. Great Britain & N.I. Bulgaria F.R. Germany Russia Germany Germany |
48.2 48.5 47.4 46.3 46.0 44.6 44.60 44.09 43.62 42.75 42.72 42.66 42.68 43.02 42.96 42.68 42.54 |
Italy Soviet Union Soviet Union Italy Poland Great Britain & N.I. Soviet Union Great Britain & N.I. Soviet Union Poland German D.R. France Soviet Union Great Britain & N.I. Bulgaria Russia Russia |
49.4 48.7 47.5 46.6 46.0 44.9 44.70 44.39 44.45 43.48 43.07 42.69 42.74 43.32 43.00 42.73 43.11 |
GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | ||||
1969 1971 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 |
Great Britain & N.I. German D.R. German D.R. German D.R. German D.R. German D.R. German D.R. France Germany Germany |
3:30.82 3:29.28 3:25.21 3:21.20 3:19.04 3:16.87 3:21.02 3:22.34 3:23.03 3:25.10 |
France F.R. Germany Finland Soviet Union Czechoslovakia F.R. Germany Soviet Union Russia Russia Russia |
3:30.85 3:33.04 3:25.7a 3:22.53 3:22.17 3:22.80 3:23:34 3:24.06 3:23.56 3:25.59 |
F.R. Germany Soviet Union Soviet Union Poland Soviet Union Poland Great Britain & N.I. Germany Great Britain & N.I. Poland |
3:32.7a 3:34.11 3:26.1a 3:26.76 3:22.79 3:24.65 3:24.78 3:24.10 3:25.66 3:26.15 |
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