user: Question: In which event before 2001 did the athlete place 16th?
Columns: ['Year', 'Tournament', 'Venue', 'Result', 'Event']
Types: ['real', 'text', 'text', 'text', 'text']
Sample row: [1998.0, 'European Championships', 'Budapest , Hungary', '8th', '5000 m']
SQL:

assistant: SELECT "Event" FROM "Table" WHERE "Year" < 2001.0 AND "Result" = '16th';