1998 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 200 metres

1998 European Athletics Indoor Championships
Track events
60 m	men	women
200 m	men
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m	men	women
60 m hurdles	men	women
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Heptathlon	men

The women's 200 metres event at the 1998 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held 28 February–1 March.^[1]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Svetlana Goncharenko  Russia	Melanie Paschke  Germany	Katerina Koffa  Greece

First 2 from each heat (Q) and the next 5 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Svetlana Goncharenko	Russia	22.86	Q
2	5	Melanie Paschke	Germany	22.88	Q
3	3	Katerina Koffa	Greece	22.90	Q
4	2	Mireille Donders	Switzerland	22.96	Q, NR
5	1	Birgit Rockmeier	Germany	23.05	Q
6	1	Natalya Voronova	Russia	23.11	Q
7	2	Sylviane Félix	France	23.18	Q
8	4	Lucrécia Jardim	Portugal	23.21	Q, NR
9	1	Karin Mayr	Austria	23.22	q
10	5	Donna Fraser	Great Britain	23.32	Q
11	5	Fabé Dia	France	23.35	q
12	3	Fabienne Ficher	France	23.41	Q
13	4	Alenka Bikar	Slovenia	23.51	q
14	3	Monika Gachevska	Bulgaria	23.72	q
15	3	Kinga Leszczyńska	Poland	24.17	q
16	1	Petya Pendareva	Bulgaria	24.24
17	5	Tamara Shanidze	Georgia	24.30
18	5	Ellen De Meyere	Belgium	24.33
19	2	Mami Awuah-Asante	Netherlands	24.36
20	3	Saša Prokofjev	Slovenia	24.38
21	4	Elena Córcoles	Spain	24.44
22	4	Aksel Gürcan	Turkey	24.45
23	1	Lena Barry	Ireland	24.64
24	2	Hana Benešová	Czech Republic	29.03

First 2 from each semifinal qualified directly (Q) for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Svetlana Goncharenko	Russia	22.73	Q
2	2	Melanie Paschke	Germany	22.79	Q
3	3	Katerina Koffa	Greece	22.89	Q
4	1	Birgit Rockmeier	Germany	23.05	Q
5	1	Sylviane Félix	France	23.07
6	2	Natalya Voronova	Russia	23.16	Q
7	2	Lucrécia Jardim	Portugal	23.37
8	3	Donna Fraser	Great Britain	23.39	Q
9	1	Alenka Bikar	Slovenia	23.81
10	2	Fabé Dia	France	23.92
11	3	Fabienne Ficher	France	23.94
12	1	Monika Gachevska	Bulgaria	24.03
13	2	Kinga Leszczyńska	Poland	24.25
14	3	Karin Mayr	Austria	24.33
	3	Mireille Donders	Switzerland	DQ

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Svetlana Goncharenko	Russia	22.46
	Melanie Paschke	Germany	22.50
	Katerina Koffa	Greece	22.86
4	Birgit Rockmeier	Germany	23.24
5	Donna Fraser	Great Britain	23.53
6	Natalya Voronova	Russia	24.29