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  file_nav_name Encyclopedia Index (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The 17th European Championships in Athletics were in held in Budapest a city in Hungary.
The 14th European Championships in Athletics.were in held at the Olympic Stadium in Stuttgart a city in West Germany.
The 13th European Championships in Athletics were in held at the Olympic Stadium in Athens, a city in Greece.
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 Athletics Association of Ireland AAI » Ireland’s Record in European Athletics Championships
From the inaugural European Athletics Championships in Turin 1934 it took 60 years before the Irish flag was hoisted in Helsinki 1994 when Sonia O’Sullivan won gold in the 3000 metres in 8.31.84.
Four years later in Budapest Sonia had a remarkable double in the 5000 metres (15.06.50) and 10,000 metres (31.29.33).At the last championships in Munich 2002 Sonia added further to her successes in winning silver medals in the 5000 metres (15.14.85) and 10,000 metres (30.47.59).
Athletics Ireland wishes all its athletes every success in Gothenburg in what is truly expected to be a wonderful edition of these championships.
www.athleticsireland.ie /content/?p=434   (214 words)

  
 MW Final Year Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
European Championships; 1986 - 1st 100m, 1986 - 3rd 4x100m, 1990 - 1st 100m, 1990 - 2nd 4x100m, 1994 - 1st 100m, 1997 - 1st 100m &1st 200m.
Linford still has not 'hung up his spikes' for good as in 1999 while training with his group, his group set him a challenge to race the 60m under 6.60secs and surprised everyone by not only winning but also setting the fastest time of the year in Stuttgart.
In 1990 Lionford Christie awarded an OBE 'BBC Sports Personality of the Year' 1993 'European Athlete of the Year' 1993 In 1993, his home track, the West London Stadium was renamed in his honour.
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 Salvatore Antibo at AllExperts (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
After a bronze medal at the 1986 European Championships, behind Stefano Mei and again Cova, he gained the status of Italian numbre one winning the silver medal over 10,000 m at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.
At the 1990 European Championships in Athletics in Split he was victorious over both 10,000 m and 5,000 m, becoming one of the most popular sportsmen in his country.
In the 10,000 m final at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics in Tokyo, which Antibo had entered as one of the favourites, he tried to shock his opponents by varying the pace with little sprints.
experts.about.com.cob-web.org:8888 /e/s/sa/salvatore_antibo.htm   (286 words)

  
 Official Website for 5th European Athletics U23 Championships in Erfurt 2005
The European Championships under 23, which are now being staged for the fifth time, offer an excellent opportunity for aspiring European and Olympic Champions to compete against the best athletes in their own age group.
The European Athletic Association greatly appreciates the efforts made by the Deutscher Leichtathletik Verband, the German Athletic Association, and the local organisers in preparing these Championships in the wonderful Steigerwald stadium in Erfurt, which has seen so many successful events in recent years.
German athletics is honoured and happy that the European Athletic Association has awarded the 5th edition of the European Championships for Athletes under 23 to the city of Erfurt.
www.erfurt2005.org /eng/index.htm   (968 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | Athletics | European Athletics | European Championships: Meet the BBC team
Following his one European Championships as an athlete, this will be his eighth as a broadcaster.
The former golden girl of British athletics is the only woman to have held the European, World, Commonwealth and Olympic 400m hurdles title at the same time.
After retiring from athletics in 1990 he enjoyed a five-year spell as MP for Falmouth and Cambourne and was appointed as private secretary to Leader of the Opposition, William Hague in 1997.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport2/hi/athletics/specials/european_athletics/2135933.stm   (1262 words)

  
 Runner's & Triathlete's Web Athletics: Heshko, Ceplak, Cragg, Pavey Top The Fields At European ...
MADRID - With European athletes providing the bulk of the highlights from this post-Olympic indoor season, this weekend's 28th edition of the European Indoor Championships will provide a fitting end to the international season, and perhaps a brief glimpse of what to expect as the focus turns to next August's World outdoor championships in Helsinki.
This weekend's European Championships are only the third athletics competition to be held in the newly rebuilt Palacio des Desportes located in the heart of the Spanish capital.
An annual event through 1990, it's spot on the calendar was moved to even years to avoid conflict with the IAAF World Indoor Championships, and with this edition, it switched again when the IAAF moved its indoor competition last year.
www.runnersweb.com /running/news/rw_news_20050303_RRW_EIC.html   (891 words)

  
 Rediff On The NeT: "Sex on legs" is now the "ex"
Roger Black, pinup boy of English athletics, Olympic 400 metre silver medallist behind Michael Johnson, and captain of the English athletic team, retires after a final appearance at Sheffield, in the British Grand Prix, on Sunday.
Black was overlooked for the individual 400m at the upcoming European Championships in Budapest, after finishing fourth in the recent team trials.
Despite serious stress fracture that caused him to miss the 1988 Olympics (Black needed a screw inserted into his foot, and was on crutches for six months after the operation), he stormed back to take golds in the European Championships of 1990 in the 400 and the relay.
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 Stuttgart 1993 — JACKSON EXACTS HIS REVENGE
Arriving at Stuttgart for the 3rd World Championships in history, the man the British press had dubbed “shaker” knew that it was now or never.
Seven long years before, after his Junior World Championships title in 1986, the pundits had elevated him to the rank of new hurdling sensation, and he wasted little time confirming this status by picking up the silver medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, at the tender age of 20.
First it was the World Championships in Tokyo, when he was forced to withdraw before the quarterfinals after aggravating an old injury in training.
www.paris2003saintdenis.org /en/cmc/competition/200329/cmc_254.html   (567 words)

  
 EUROPEAN VETERANS ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPS STADIA, ÅRHUS & RANDERS, DENMARK JULY 22 - AUGUST 1, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
She competed in every major veterans championships since 1990 and is now on her way to the WMA championships in Puerto Rico.
He was an outstanding talent in hurdles, high hump and long jump and his gold medal in high jump in the European Championships in Rome in 1974 still makes him one of the most popular athletes in the history of Danish athletics.
She practised some athletics during her years at school but went on to become a handball player.
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 European Broadcasting Union
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) which is unrelated to the European Union was formed 12 February 1950 by 23 broadcasting organizations from Europe and the Mediterranean rim at a conference in the Devonshire coastal resort of Torquay, England.
Associate members are not limited to those from European countries and the Mediterranean but include broadcasters from Canada, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, India and Hong Kong, as well as many others.
In 1989, The European Sports Network/Screensport Network, a commercial satellite channel, filed a complaint with the Commission of the European Communities alleging that the joint purchasing scheme for sporting events violated the competition (antitrust) law rules of the Treaty of Rome.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/E/htmlE/europeanbroa/europeanbroa.htm   (892 words)

  
 Salvatore Antibo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After a bronze medal at the 1986 European Championships, behind Stefano Mei and again Cova, he gained the status of Italian numbre one winning the silver medal over 10,000 m at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.
At the 1990 European Championships in Athletics in Split he was victorious over both 10,000 m and 5,000 m, becoming one of the most popular sportsmen in his country.
In the 10,000 m final at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics in Tokyo, which Antibo had entered as one of the favourites, he tried to shock his opponents by varying the pace with little sprints.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Salvatore_Antibo   (297 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | Athletics | European Athletics | Jackson confirms retirement plan
"Given the number of major championships medals he has won, not just my 25 but all the other golds and world records with other athletes, then Malcolm should be a multi-millionaire," Jackson added.
But he hopes that the 'Linford Christie' affect may be felt and a new generation of hurdlers come through as we now have an era of top-class sprinters with the likes of Dwain Chambers, Mark Lewis-Francis, Christian Malcolm and Darren Campbell.
Links to more European Athletics stories are at the foot of the page.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/athletics/specials/european_athletics/2166334.stm   (707 words)

  
 European Championships: Medals for bravery under fire
BRITISH athletics enjoyed a fabulous 15 minutes in the Nep Stadium last night when Iwan Thomas blew away the best of Europe's 400 metres runners to win gold and Dougie Walker fought back the pain to lead Doug Turner and Julian Golding to a clean sweep in the 200m.
There were medals won at the European Indoor Championships, in Valencia, earlier this year but the pride felt at British performances there was nothing compared with the fervour whipped up by the rash of medals which came in such a short time in this famous old stadium.
Thomas's run off the final bend was too much for even Mark Richardson while Walker's surge in the last 60m of the 200m to bring him victory in 20.53sec made a mockery of the pain from a displaced right kneecap.
www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1998/08/22/sobuda22.html   (733 words)

  
 North Central College - Jan Cado
Cado was the national champion at the 1989 NCAA Division III Indoor Championships in the long and triple jumps with marks of 24-11 ¼ (Division III record) and 52-00 ¾.
In 1990, Cado again captured national titles in the long and triple at the NCAA III Indoors with marks of 24-10 and 52-10 (a Division III record that still stands).
In indoor track, Cado holds North Central varsity records in both long (24-11 in 1990) and triple (56-05 in 1990) jumps as well as the outdoor records in both events (25-06 in long jump in 1990; 56-05 ¼ in triple in 1990).
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 CNN/SI - Athletics - Arron takes gold, sets Euro 100m record; O'Sullivan wins 10,000 - Wednesday August 19, 1998 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
She is the only consistent sub-11 seconds European sprinter this year and looks the only woman capable of challenging Jones, the world champion.
Breuer won the title in 1990 when she was still a junior and an East German.
Dragutin Topic of Yugoslavia, the 1990 European high jump champion, won his heat as all favorites cleared 2.24 to advance to the final.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /athletics/news/1998/08/19/euro_second   (1186 words)

  
 Athletics - Hall of Fame
After obtaining her bachelor's degree in 1934 and her master's in 1938, Magee was a member of the TWU faculty until her retirement in 1981 with the rank of associate professor.
She represented the U.S. Badminton Team in South Africa and the European Championships and was on the Uber Cup Squad in 1963 and 1966.
In her first season of collegiate competition, German won the high jump at the AAU national championships and at the AIAW state, regional and national championships and then went on to compete in the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich during the summer.
www.twu.edu /ATHLETICS/FAME.HTML?printerfriendly=on   (6339 words)

  
 IAAF International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF.org - News
Split, a beautiful and historic Croatian city which hosted the 1979 edition of the Mediterranean Games and the 1990 European Athletics Championships, was awarded the right to host the 2010 edition of the IAAF World Cup.
Diack concluded by describing a new project to capture new converts to athletics amongst younger age groups, working in co-operation with TV partners to guarantee worldwide distribution of news and human interest features about athletics.
Nagai Stadium, which will host all the athletics events, was built in 1964 as one of Japan’s largest stadiums, and since then has hosted many major sporting events.
www.iaaf.org /news/Kind=512/newsId=34112.html   (1442 words)

  
 GreatRun
The Polish city which staged the IAAF World Youth Championships seven years ago and also the highly prestigious 2004 SPAR European Cup final, won after a second round vote was required.
Former Olympic sprint champion Irena Szewinska, president of the Polish Athletics Federation who led the delegation from the city known as "the Capital of Polish Athletics", was delighted with the result.
Split which hosted the 1979 edition of the Mediterranean Games and the 1990 European Athletics Championships, was awarded the right to host the 2010 edition of the IAAF World Cup.
www.greatrun.org /onrunning/news_article.asp?id=3089   (270 words)

  
 History of Women in Sports Timeline - Part 6 - 1990-1997
1990 - Bernadette Locke becomes the first female Division I coach of a men's basketball team when she joins the University of Kentucky as an assistant coach to Rick Pitino in June.
1990 - Triathlete Paula Newby-Frasier is named the Women's Sports Foundation's "Professional Sportswoman of the Year." In her career she is an eight-Time Ironman Triathlon World Champion (1996, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1989, 1988, 1986).
The youngest of six children in a poor, single-parent family, she was born partially blind and ran in 25 marathons, twice placing among the top 100 women in the Boston Marathon, and carrying the torch in the International Special Olympics where she has won medals in dozens of its events.
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 // Athletics Links // A chat with Ellen van Langen
Since ditching soccer and taking up athletics in the mid 80's, Ellen improved steadily and clinched 4th place at the 1990 European Championships.
She made a comeback in '95 for the World Championships, where she finished a commendable 6th.
Dutch athletics seems to be on an upward swing at the moment, with the male team making its debut in the Euro Cup Super league and becoming strong at a wider range of events.
www.athleticslinks.com /art/langen.php   (1284 words)

  
 World and European Ultra Running Championships
The International Association of Ultra Runners 100 Kilometres World Challenge (also referred to as World Championships or World Cup) is an annual event first held in 1987.
An IAU World 24 Hours Challenge (with team event) was introduced in 2003 and held in conjunction with the IAU European 24 Hours Challenge.
In 2003 the event was given official WMA (World Masters Athletics) World Championship status, however was subsequently only held every two years.
www.gbrathletics.com /ic/ultra.htm   (451 words)

  
 University of the Incarnate Word Athletics - Men's Tennis
In the summer of 2003, he led the Texas team to a title at the National Intersectional Championships.
In 1990 he returned home to serve as the associate coach here at Incarnate Word before moving to the head job in 1991.
At Tennessee his 1980 team won the Southeast Conference, a men's doubles team won the NCAA championship, and he was SEC coach of the year.
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 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - NEWS
As announced last week, IOC President Jacques Rogge was last weekend in Helsinki (Finland) for the joint meeting of the IOC Executive Board (EB) and the Council of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), held on the occasion of the 10th World Championships in Athletics.
The youngest rower at the championships, Wilson Owuor Midenga from Kenya, 14, who rowed in the men’s double is part of the ongoing development of Kenyan rowing.
The following year, at the European Championships in Athens, she won the silver medal in the 400m, beaten in the photo finish by her compatriot Nicole Duclos (both setting the world record in a time of 51”07).
www.olympic.org /uk/news/olympic_news/week_uk.asp?weekDate=08/08/2005   (1220 words)

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