2000 European Athletics Indoor Championships
Dates	25 – 27 February
Host city	Ghent Belgium
Venue	Flanders Sports Arena
Events	28
Participation	546 athletes from 44 nations
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The 2000 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held from Friday, 25 February to Sunday, 27 February 2000 in Ghent, Belgium. This was the first ever edition to feature combined events and the first since 1975 to hold relay races.

Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres	Jason Gardener  Great Britain	6.49	Georgios Theodoridis  Greece	6.51	Aggelos Pavlakakis  Greece	6.54
200 metres	Christian Malcolm  Great Britain	20.54	Patrick Stevens  Belgium	20.70	Julian Golding  Great Britain	21.05
400 metres	Iliya Dzhivondov  Bulgaria	46.63	David Canal  Spain	46.85	Marc Raquil  France	47.28
800 metres	Yuriy Borzakovskiy  Russia	1:47.92	Nils Schumann  Germany	1:48.41	Balázs Korányi  Hungary	1:48.42
1,500 metres	José Antonio Redolat  Spain	3:40.51	James Nolan  Ireland	3:41.59	Mehdi Baala  France	3:42.27
3,000 m	Mark Carroll  Ireland	7:49.24	Rui Silva  Portugal	7:49.70	John Mayock  Great Britain	7:49.97
60 metres hurdles	Staņislavs Olijars  Latvia	7.50	Tony Jarrett  Great Britain	7.53	Tomasz Ścigaczewski  Poland	7.56
4 x 400 metre relay	Czech Republic Jiří Mužík Jan Poděbradský Štěpán Tesařík Karel Bláha	3:06.10	Germany Ingo Schultz Ruwen Faller Krause Lars Figura	3:06.64	Hungary Péter Nyilasi Attila Kilvinger Zétény Dombi Tibor Bédi	3:09.35
High jump	Vyacheslav Voronin  Russia	2.34	Martin Buss  Germany	2.34	Dragutin Topić  Yugoslavia	2.34
Pole vault	Aleksander Averbukh  Israel	5.75	Martin Eriksson  Sweden	5.70	Rens Blom  Netherlands	5.60
Long jump	Petar Dachev  Bulgaria	8.26	Bogdan Tarus  Romania	8.20	Vitaliy Shkurlatov  Russia	8.10
Triple jump	Charles Friedek  Germany	17.28	Rostislav Dimitrov  Bulgaria	17.22	Paolo Camossi  Italy	17.05
Shot put	Timo Aaltonen  Finland	20.62	Manuel Martínez  Spain	20.38	Miroslav Menc  Czech Republic	20.23
Heptathlon	Tomáš Dvořák  Czech Republic	6,424	Roman Šebrle  Czech Republic	6,271	Erki Nool  Estonia	6,200
WR world record | ER European record | CR championship record | NR national record | WL world leading | EL European leading | PB personal best | SB seasonal best

Women

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 m	Ekaterini Thanou (GRE)	7.05	Petya Pendareva (BUL)	7.11	Irina Pukha (UKR)	7.11
200 m	Muriel Hurtis (FRA)	23.06	Alenka Bikar (SLO)	23.16	Yekaterina Leshchova (RUS)	23.20
400 m	Svetlana Pospelova (RUS)	51.66	Natalya Nazarova (RUS)	51.69	Helena Fuchsová (CZE)	52.32
800 m	Stephanie Graf (AUT)	1:59.70	Natalya Tsyganova (RUS)	2:00.17	Sandra Stals (BEL)	2:01.34
1500 m	Violeta Szekely (ROM)	4:12.82	Olga Kuznetsova (RUS)	4:13.45	Yuliya Kosenkova (RUS)	4:13.60
3000 m	Gabriela Szabo (ROM)	8:42.06	Lidia Chojecka (POL)	8:42.42	Marta Domínguez (ESP)	8:44.08
60 m hurdles	Linda Ferga (FRA)	7.88	Patricia Girard (FRA)	7.98	Olena Krasovska (UKR)	8.03
4 × 400 m	Russia Olesya Zykina Irina Rosikhina Yuliya Sotnikova Svetlana Pospelova	3:32.53	Italy Francesca Carbone Carla Barbarino Patrizia Spuri Virna De Angeli	3:35.01	Romania Georgeta Lazar Anca Safta Otilia Ruicu Alina Ripanu	3:36.28
High jump	Kajsa Bergqvist (SWE)	2.00 m	Zuzana Hlavoňová (CZE)	1.98 m	Olga Kaliturina (RUS)	1.96 m
Pole vault	Pavla Hamáčková-Rybová (CZE)	4.40	Yelena Belyakova (RUS)  Christine Adams (GER)	4.35
Long jump	Erica Johansson (SWE)	6.89 m	Heike Drechsler (GER)	6.86 m	Iva Prandzheva (BUL)	6.80 m
Triple jump	Tatyana Lebedeva (RUS)	14.68 m	Cristina Nicolau (ROM)	14.63 m	Iva Prandzheva (BUL)	14.63 m
Shot put	Larisa Peleshenko (RUS)	20.15 m	Nadine Kleinert (GER)	19.23 m	Astrid Kumbernuss (GER)	19.12 m
Pentathlon	Karin Ertl (GER)	4671 pts	Irina Vostrikova (RUS)	4615 pts	Urszula Włodarczyk (POL)	4590 pts

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	6	5	4	15
2	Czech Republic (CZE)	3	2	2	7
3	Germany (GER)	2	6	1	9
4	Bulgaria (BUL)	2	2	2	6
5	Romania (ROM)	2	2	1	5
6	France (FRA)	2	1	2	5
	Great Britain (GBR)	2	1	2	5
8	Sweden (SWE)	2	1	0	3
9	Spain (ESP)	1	2	1	4
10	Greece (GRE)	1	1	1	3
11	Ireland (IRL)	1	1	0	2
12	Austria (AUT)	1	0	0	1
	Finland (FIN)	1	0	0	1
	Israel (ISR)	1	0	0	1
	Latvia (LAT)	1	0	0	1
16	Poland (POL)	0	1	2	3
17	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	1	2
	Italy (ITA)	0	1	1	2
19	Portugal (POR)	0	1	0	1
	Slovenia (SLO)	0	1	0	1
21	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	2	2
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	2	2
23	Estonia (EST)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
	Serbia and Montenegro (SCG)	0	0	1	1
Totals (25 entries)		28	29	27	84

Participating nations

See also

• 2000 in athletics (track and field)

References

• Athletix