2003 European Cup (athletics)

2003 European Cup
Dates	21–22 June
Host city	Florence, Italy
Venue	Stadio Luigi Ridolfi
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	40
← 2002 Annecy 2004 Bydgoszcz →

The 2003 European Cup was the 24th edition of the European Cup of athletics.^[1]

The Super League Finals were held in Florence, Italy.

Held on 21 and 22 June in Florence, Italy^[2]

Men Pos. Nation Points 1  France 109 2  Germany 100.5 3  Great Britain 96 4  Russia 92 5  Italy 84 6  Poland 83 7  Spain 80 8  Greece 74.5

Women Pos. Nation Points 1  Russia 130 2  Germany 103 3  France 102 4  Great Britain 83 5  Spain 82 6  Greece 78.5 7  Romania 77.5 8  Italy 62

Top six teams qualified for the 2004 European Indoor Cup.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (Wind: -1.0 m/s)	Mark Lewis-Francis  Great Britain	10.22	Aimé-Issa Nthépé  France	10.36	Aristotelis Gavelas  Greece	10.44
200 m (Wind: -2.3 m/s)	Konstantinos Kenteris  Greece	20.37	Christian Malcolm  Great Britain	20.45	Marcin Jędrusiński  Poland	20.53
400 m	Marc Raquil  France	44.88	Ingo Schultz  Germany	45.19	Iwan Thomas  Great Britain	45.58
800 m	Antonio Manuel Reina  Spain	1:48.13	Florent Lacasse  France	1:48.37	René Herms  Germany	1:49.15
1500 m	Juan Carlos Higuero  Spain	3:49.16	Mirosław Formela  Poland	3:49.22	Michael East  Great Britain	3:49.60
3000 m	Fouad Chouki  France	8:22.56	Carles Castillejo  Spain	8:22.79	Vyacheslav Shabunin  Russia	8:23.18
5000 m	Ismaïl Sghyr  France	13:43.70	Jesús España  Spain	13:44.68	Dieter Baumann  Germany	13:45.55
3000 m steeplechase	Pavel Potapovich  Russia	8:26.28	Radosław Popławski  Poland	8:29.70	Angelo Iannelli  Italy	8:30.40
110 m hurdles (Wind: -0.2 m/s)	Ladji Doucouré  France	13.55	Mike Fenner  Germany	13.58	Andrea Giaconi  Italy	13.66
400 m hurdles	Chris Rawlinson  Great Britain	48.45	Periklis Iakovakis  Greece	49.23	Ruslan Mashchenko  Russia	49.43
4 × 100 m	Italy Francesco Scuderi Simone Collio Massimiliano Donati Alessandro Cavallaro	38.42	Poland Marcin Krzywański Łukasz Chyła Marcin Jędrusiński Marcin Urbaś	38.45	Great Britain Christian Malcolm Darren Campbell Marlon Devonish Julian Golding	38.60
4 × 400 m	Great Britain Chris Rawlinson Tim Benjamin Jamie Baulch Matt Elias	3:02.43	Greece Stilianos Dimotsios Anastasios Gousis Dimitrios Tsomos Periklis Iakovakis	3:02.69	Germany Ingo Schultz Sebastian Gatzka Ruwen Faller Bastian Swillims	3:02.83
High jump	Yaroslav Rybakov  Russia	2.34	Alessandro Talotti  Italy	2.30	Grzegorz Sposób  Poland	2.27
Pole vault	Romain Mesnil  France	5.75	Giuseppe Gibilisco  Italy	5.70	Lars Börgeling  Germany	5.70
Long jump	Louis Tsatoumas  Greece	8.06	Yago Lamela  Spain	7.96	Nils Winter  Germany	7.85
Triple jump	Fabrizio Donato  Italy	17.16	Julien Kapek  France	16.59	Christos Meletoglou  Greece	16.52
Shot put	Manuel Martínez  Spain	21.08	Carl Myerscough  Great Britain	20.72	Pavel Chumachenko  Russia	20.12
Discus throw	Dmitriy Shevchenko  Russia	65.39	Michael Möllenbeck  Germany	65.26	Andrzej Krawczyk  Poland	61.27
Hammer throw	Karsten Kobs  Germany	80.63	Wojciech Kondratowicz  Poland	78.37	Alexandros Papadimitriou  Greece	78.11
Javelin throw	Sergey Makarov  Russia	85.86	Christian Nicolay  Germany	81.93	Dariusz Trafas  Poland	79.36
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)

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (Wind: -1.3 m/s)	Christine Arron  France	11.07	Marina Kislova  Russia	11.19	Glory Alozie  Spain	11.29
200 m (Wind: -0.4 m/s)	Anastasiya Kapachinskaya  Russia	22.71	Ionela Tîrlea  Romania	22.78	Muriel Hurtis  France	22.89
400 m	Svetlana Pospelova  Russia	50.85	Lee McConnell  Great Britain	51.37	Chrysoula Goudenoudi  Greece	52.11
800 m	Claudia Gesell  Germany	2:00.85	Maria Cioncan  Romania	2:01.02	Mayte Martínez  Spain	2:01.63
1500 m	Natalia Rodríguez  Spain	4:07.18	Helen Clitheroe  Great Britain	4:08.18	Konstantina Efentaki  Greece	4:09.06
3000 m	Olga Yegorova  Russia	8:55.73	Hayley Tullett  Great Britain	8:57.45	Sabrina Mockenhaupt  Germany	8:57.69
5000 m	Yelena Zadorozhnaya  Russia	15:34.07	Joanne Pavey  Great Britain	15:35.31	Mihaela Botezan  Romania	15:39.63
3000 m steeplechase	Gulnara Samitova  Russia	9:40.89 CR	Cristina Casandra  Romania	9:48.47	Élodie Olivarès  France	9:54.51
100 m hurdles (Wind: -0.1 m/s)	Glory Alozie  Spain	12.86	Svetlana Laukhova  Russia	12.88	Patricia Girard  France	12.95
400 m hurdles	Ionela Tîrlea  Romania	54.47	Natasha Danvers  Great Britain	55.01	Heike Meissner  Germany	55.22
4 × 100 m	France Patricia Girard Muriel Hurtis Fabé Dia Christine Arron	42.62	Germany Melanie Paschke Gabi Rockmeier Esther Möller Marion Wagner	42.62	Russia Olga Fedorova Irina Khabarova Marina Kislova Larisa Kruglova	43.11
4 × 400 m	Russia Natalya Lavshuk Natalya Ivanova Tatyana Firova Svetlana Pospelova	3:26.02	Great Britain Helen Karagounis Katharine Merry Catherine Murphy Lee McConnell	3:26.52	France Francine Landre Dado Kamissoko Solen Désert Marie-Louise Bévis	3:28.39
High jump	Daniela Rath  Germany	2.00	Ruth Beitia  Spain	1.95	Marina Kuptsova  Russia	1.95
Pole vault	Annika Becker  Germany	4.50	Tatyana Polnova  Russia	4.45	Marie Poissonnier  France	4.35
Long jump	Eunice Barber  France	6.76	Concepción Montaner  Spain	6.69	Fiona May  Italy	6.67
Triple jump	Anna Pyatykh  Russia	14.79	Magdelín Martínez  Italy	14.76	Adelina Gavrilă  Romania	14.45
Shot put	Astrid Kumbernuss  Germany	19.46	Svetlana Krivelyova  Russia	18.98	Laurence Manfrédi  France	17.97
Discus throw	Ekaterini Vogoli  Greece	62.11	Mélina Robert-Michon  France	61.67	Natalya Sadova  Russia	61.59
Hammer throw	Manuela Montebrun  France	74.43	Mihaela Melinte  Romania	71.99	Olga Kuzenkova  Russia	69.89
Javelin throw	Steffi Nerius  Germany	63.30	Mirela Manjani  Greece	63.13	Claudia Coslovich  Italy	62.70
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)

The First League was held on 21 and 22 June^[2]

Group A Held in Lappeenranta, Finland Pos. Nation Points 1  Sweden 125 2  Finland 113 3  Hungary 104 4  Belgium 89 5  Belarus 83 6  Norway 77 7  Denmark 67 8  Estonia 60

Group B Held in Velenje, Slovenia Pos. Nation Points 1  Netherlands 121 2  Ukraine 115 3  Czech Republic 110 4  Portugal 100 5  Slovenia 82 6  Bulgaria 67.5 7  Israel 63 8  Slovakia 60.5

Group A Held in Lappeenranta, Finland Pos. Nation Points 1  Poland 125 2  Finland 104 3  Sweden 104 4  Belarus 100 5  Hungary 99 6  Belgium 81.5 7  Ireland 58 8  Lithuania 47.5

Group B Held in Velenje, Slovenia Pos. Nation Points 1  Ukraine 125 2  Czech Republic 104 3  Portugal 96 4  Netherlands 92 5  Bulgaria 87 6  Slovenia 86 7  Slovakia 67 8  Serbia and Montenegro 58

The winners of each group also qualified for the 2004 European Indoor Cup.

The Second League was held on 21 and 22 June^[2]

Group A Held in Århus, Denmark Pos. Nation Points 1   Switzerland 131 2  Austria 121 3  Ireland 114 4  Lithuania 103 5  Latvia 86 6  Luxembourg 57.5 7  Iceland 53 8 AASSE 47.5

Group B Held in Istanbul, Turkey Pos. Nation Points 1  Romania 209 2  Croatia 183 3  Turkey 175.5 4  Cyprus 164 5  Serbia and Montenegro 162 6  Moldova 121 7  Bosnia and Herzegovina 114 8  Azerbaijan 106 9  Armenia 103.5 10  Georgia 103 11  Albania 75 12  Macedonia 15

Group A Held in Århus, Denmark Pos. Nation Points 1   Switzerland 122 2  Latvia 117 3  Austria 114.5 4  Norway 111 5  Denmark 101.5 6  Iceland 81 7 AASSE 38 8  Luxembourg 27

Group B Held in Istanbul, Turkey Pos. Nation Points 1  Estonia 212.5 2  Turkey 203 3  Israel 183 4  Croatia 169 5  Cyprus 151 6  Moldova 138 7  Georgia 98 8  Bosnia and Herzegovina 90 9  Armenia 88.5 10  Azerbaijan 76 11  Albania 74 12  Macedonia 15

• 2003 European Athletics Indoor Cup

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