Battle of Honey Springs

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		Bydgoszcz	Germany	Russia
1st	A	Plovdiv	Czech Republic	Romania
	B	Istanbul	Spain	Italy
2nd	A	Reykjavík	Estonia	Ireland
	B	Novi Sad	Serbia and Montenegro	Croatia

Super League

Final standings

Men Pos. Team Points 1  Germany 107.5 2  France 105 3  Poland 104 4  Great Britain 102.5 5  Russia 99 6  Italy 72 7  Sweden 67 8  Netherlands 62

Women Pos. Team Points 1  Russia 142 2  Ukraine 97 3  France 92.5 4  Germany 92 5  Poland 86.5 6  Greece 79 7  Spain 66 8  Great Britain 63

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (Wind: -3.2 m/s)	Łukasz Chyła  Poland	10.42	Ronald Pognon  France	10.43	Ronny Ostwald  Germany	10.49
200 m (Wind: 0.0 m/s)	Christian Malcolm  Great Britain	20.56	Johan Wissman  Sweden	20.61	Marco Torrieri  Italy	20.62
400 m	Tim Benjamin  Great Britain	45.37	Ingo Schultz  Germany	45.50	Leslie Djhone  France	45.73
800 m	Florent Lacasse  France	1:45.19	René Herms  Germany	1:45.27	Arnoud Okken  Netherlands	1:45.64
1500 m	Mehdi Baala  France	3:49.13	Michael East  Great Britain	3:49.53	Yuriy Borzakovskiy  Russia	3:50.99
3000 m	Wolfram Müller  Germany	8:04.37	Gert-Jan Liefers  Netherlands	8:04.41	Vyacheslav Shabunin  Russia	8:05.92
5000 m	John Mayock  Great Britain	14:44.71	Sergey Ivanov  Russia	14:44.75	Mokhtar Benhari  France	14:44.78
3000 m steeplechase	Bouabdellah Tahri  France	8:23.40	Jakub Czaja  Poland	8:25.51	Giuseppe Maffei  Italy	8:27.53
110 m hurdles (Wind: -1.0 m/s)	Robert Kronberg  Sweden	13.58	Mike Fenner  Germany	13.66	Andrea Giaconi  Italy	13.66
400 m hurdles	Chris Rawlinson  Great Britain	48.59	Naman Keïta  France	49.04	Boris Gorban  Russia	49.71
4 × 100 m	Great Britain Christian Malcolm Darren Campbell Chris Lambert Mark Lewis-Francis	38.67	Poland Zbigniew Tulin Łukasz Chyła Marcin Jędrusiński Marcin Urbaś	38.68	Germany Alexander Kosenkow Ronny Ostwald Tobias Unger Till Helmke	38.76
4 × 400 m	Germany Ingo Schultz Kamghe Gaba Ruwen Faller Bastian Swillims	3:01.78	Russia Anton Galkin Andrey Rudnitskiy Aleksandr Usov Ruslan Mashchenko	3:01.88	Poland Piotr Klimczak Artur Gąsiewski Marcin Marciniszyn Robert Maćkowiak	3:02.05
High jump	Stefan Holm  Sweden	2.32	Grzegorz Sposób  Poland	2.32	Roman Fricke  Germany	2.27
Pole vault	Romain Mesnil  France	5.75	Patrik Kristiansson  Sweden	5.70	Lars Börgeling  Germany Yevgeniy Mikhailichenko  Russia	5.65
Long jump	Chris Tomlinson  Great Britain	8.28w	Salim Sdiri  France	8.24	Vitaliy Shkurlatov  Russia	8.13
Triple jump	Christian Olsson  Sweden	17.30	Danila Burkenya  Russia	17.28	Phillips Idowu  Great Britain	17.10w
Shot put	Carl Myerscough  Great Britain	20.85	Rutger Smith  Netherlands	20.56	Ralf Bartels  Germany	20.54
Discus throw	Michael Möllenbeck  Germany	64.42	Rutger Smith  Netherlands	63.68	Carl Myerscough  Great Britain	61.68
Hammer throw	Szymon Ziółkowski  Poland	77.27	Markus Esser  Germany	76.97	Nicola Vizzoni  Italy	76.16
Javelin throw	Aleksandr Ivanov  Russia	82.55	Peter Esenwein  Germany	82.43	Francesco Pignata  Italy	76.87
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: -1.9 m/s)	Christine Arron  France	11.23	Yuliya Tabakova  Russia	11.39	Glory Alozie  Spain	11.49
200 m (Wind: 0.6 m/s)	Muriel Hurtis  France	22.78	Natalya Antyukh  Russia	22.83	Anzhela Kravchenko  Ukraine	23.10
400 m	Olga Kotlyarova  Russia	50.09	Antonina Yefremova  Ukraine	51.79	Solen Désert  France	52.09
800 m	Olga Raspopova  Russia	2:00.24	Claudia Gesell  Germany	2:01.27	Susan Scott  Great Britain	2:01.35
1500 m	Iris María Fuentes-Pila  Spain	4:08.05	Maria Martins  France	4:08.12	Yuliya Kosenkova  Russia	4:08.59
3000 m	Gulnara Samitova  Russia	8:49.48	Lidia Chojecka  Poland	8:52.60	Zulema Fuentes-Pila  Spain	8:59.20
5000 m	Paula Radcliffe  Great Britain	14:29.11 CR, NR	Liliya Shobukhova  Russia	14:52.19	Sabrina Mockenhaupt  Germany	15:23.50
3000 m steeplechase	Élodie Olivarès  France	9:41.81	Lyubov Ivanova  Russia	9:44.95	Rosa María Morató  Spain	9:51.08
100 m hurdles (Wind: -1.0 m/s)	Yelena Krasovska  Ukraine	12.78	Irina Shevchenko  Russia	12.91	Glory Alozie  Spain	12.95
400 m hurdles	Fani Halkia  Greece	54.16	Yekaterina Bikert  Russia	54.60	Małgorzata Pskit  Poland	55.68
4 × 100 m	France Véronique Mang Muriel Hurtis Sylviane Félix Christine Arron	42.41	Russia Olga Fedorova Yuliya Tabakova Irina Khabarova Larisa Kruglova	42.93	Ukraine Tetyana Tkalich Anzhela Kravchenko Oksana Kaydash Iryna Shepetyuk	43.43
4 × 400 m	Russia Yuliya Gushchina Natalya Ivanova Yekaterina Bakhvalova Tatyana Levina	3:26.04	Ukraine Oleksandra Ryzhkova Oksana Ilyushkina Antonina Yefremova Nataliya Pyhyda	3:26.28	Greece Olga Kaidantzi Hrisoula Goudenoudi Hariklia Bouda Fani Halkia	3:26.33 NR
High jump	Yelena Slesarenko  Russia	2.04	Irina Mikhalchenko  Ukraine	1.92	Ariane Friedrich  Germany	1.92
Pole vault	Anzhela Balakhonova  Ukraine	4.50	Monika Pyrek  Poland	4.40	Tatyana Polnova  Russia	4.30
Long jump	Irina Simagina  Russia	6.91	Kelly Sotherton  Great Britain	6.68	Ioanna Kafetzi  Greece	6.56
Triple jump	Anna Pyatykh  Russia	14.85	Chrysopigi Devetzi  Greece	14.81w	Yelena Govorova  Ukraine	14.78
Shot put	Olga Ryabinkina  Russia	18.92	Kalliopi Ouzouni  Greece	18.45	Nadine Kleinert  Germany	18.44
Discus throw	Ekaterini Vogoli  Greece	64.25	Franka Dietzsch  Germany	61.42	Joanna Wiśniewska  Poland	60.51
Hammer throw	Irina Sekachova  Ukraine	71.91	Olga Kuzenkova  Russia	70.89	Betty Heidler  Germany	70.05
Javelin throw	Angeliki Tsiolakoudi  Greece	62.80	Steffi Nerius  Germany	59.42	Valeriya Zabruskova  Russia	58.88
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

Group A

19–20 June 2004 Plovdiv

Men Pos. Team Points 1  Czech Republic 110 2  Ukraine 108 3  Romania 104.5 4  Belgium 101 5  Greece 97 6  Croatia 76 7  Belarus 72.5 8  Bulgaria 47

Women Pos. Team Points 1  Romania 130 2  Bulgaria 122 3  Belarus 104 4  Czech Republic 94 5  Sweden 90 6  Belgium 81 7  Estonia 48 8  Latvia 45

Group B

19–20 June 2004 Istanbul

Men Pos. Team Points 1  Spain 129 2  Finland 103 3  Hungary 95.5 4  Slovenia 94 5  Portugal 82 6  Switzerland 80.5 7  Norway 67.5 8  Austria 63.5

Women Pos. Team Points 1  Italy 126.5 2  Finland 104 3  Hungary 101 4  Portugal 88 5  Netherlands 82 6  Slovenia 79 7  Switzerland 77 8  Turkey 62.5

Second League

Group A

19–20 June 2004 Reykjavík

Men Pos. Team Points 1  Estonia 126.5 2  Ireland 121 3  Denmark 104 4  Cyprus 94 5  Iceland 80 6  Luxembourg 67.5 7  Lithuania 58 8 AASSE 49

Women Pos. Team Points 1  Ireland 118 2  Norway 109.5 3  Austria 103 4  Denmark 98 5  Cyprus 92.5 6  Lithuania 76 7  Iceland 70 8 AASSE 42

Group B

19–20 June 2004 Novi Sad

Men Pos. Team Points 1  Serbia and Montenegro 193.5 2  Slovakia 183.5 3  Latvia 172.5 4  Israel 164 5  Turkey 164 6  Moldova 143 7  Bosnia and Herzegovina 113 8  Azerbaijan 110 9  Armenia 84.5 10  Albania 82.5 11  Georgia 80 12  Macedonia 44.5

Women Pos. Team Points 1  Serbia and Montenegro 185 2  Croatia 184 3  Slovakia 181 4  Moldova 128 5  Israel 121.5 6  Bosnia and Herzegovina 109 7  Georgia 104 8  Albania 88 9  Armenia 80 10  Macedonia 54.5 11  Azerbaijan 49

External links

• european-athletics.org – 2004 SPAR European Cup Results^{[permanent dead link]}