European Athletics Championships 1994

16th European Athletics Championships
city	Helsinki
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Competitions	44
opening	August 9, 1994
Closing ceremony	August 14, 1994
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Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

Medal table  (final score after 44 decisions)
space	country
1	Russia	10	8th	7th	25th
2	Great Britain	6th	5	2	13
3	Germany	5	4th	5	14th
4th	France	4th	3	2	9
5	Ukraine	3	6th	3	12
6th	Spain	3	2	4th	9
7th	Norway	3	2	1	6th
8th	Italy	2	3	3	8th
9	Portugal	2	1	-	3
10	Bulgaria	2	-	3	5
Complete medal table

The 16th European Athletics Championships took place in Helsinki from August 9-14, 1994 , for the second time since 1971 . The competitions were in the Olympic Stadium of 1952 discharged. After reunification in 1990, Germany competed for the first time with an all-German team.

Competitions

The competition canon for women was again expanded to include a discipline. The new women's discipline was the triple jump . The length of the walking distance remained at this and the coming European championships at ten kilometers.

The so-called Marathon Cup was also introduced for men and women . This is a team evaluation of the individual results from the marathon . The order results from the addition of the best three runners in a team. However, the results were not included in the medal table

Athletic performance

The most successful nation was Russia with ten European Championship titles ahead of Great Britain (six titles), Germany (five) and France (four).

At these European championships four championship records were set, namely over 1500 meters , over 110 meter hurdles , in the high jump and in the pole vault - each in the men's disciplines.

The following successes are particularly noteworthy for the individual athletes.

• Three athletes won two gold medals each at these championships:
  • Irina Privaleova ( Russia ) - 100 meters , 200 meters
  • Du'aine Ladejo ( Great Britain ) - 400 meters , 4 × 100 m
  • Marie-José Perec ( France ) - 400 meters, 4 × 400 m
• Seven of the European champion from 1994 had previously EM won -Titel:
  • Heike Drechsler ( Germany ) - long jump , third victory in a row since 1986, also European champion in 1986 over 200 meters
  • Linford Christie (Great Britain) - 100 meters, third straight win since 1986
  • Colin Jackson (Great Britain) - 110 meter hurdles , replicating his 1990 success
  • Radion Gataullin (Russia) - pole vault , repeating its 1990 success
  • Steve Backley (Great Britain) - Javelin throw , replicating his 1990 success
  • Ilke Wyludda (Germany) - discus throw , repetition of her success from 1990
  • Sabine Braun (Germany) - heptathlon , repetition of her success from 1990

doping

The following doping case occurred at these European Championships

• Sofia Boschanowa , Bulgaria , triple jump - initially in fourth place. She tested positive for the amphetamine mesocarb . The three jumpers in the ranks of five or more then moved up one rank in the list of results.

Results men

Linford Christie - here in 2009 - repeated its 1990 success

100 m

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space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Linford Christie	GBR	10.14
2	Geir Moen	NOR	10.20
3	Alexandr Porchomovsky	RUS	10.31
4th	Oleg Kramarenko	UKR	10.38
5	Daniel Cojocaru	ROME	10.39
6th	Marc Blume	GER	10.40
7th	Aléxandros Terzián	GRE	10.42
8th	Jason John	GBR	10.46

Final: August 8th

Wind: −0.5 m / s

European champion Linford Christie improved his own championship record in the first intermediate run on the day before the final by a hundredth of a second to 10.08 seconds.

200 m

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space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Geir Moen	NOR	20.30
2	Wladyslaw Dolohodin	UKR	20.47
3	Patrick Stevens	BEL	20.68
4th	Serhiy Ossovych	UKR	20.70
5	Jean-Charles Trouabal	FRA	20.70
6th	Andrei Fedoriv	RUS	20.78
7th	Yeóryios Panayiotópoulos	GRE	20.92
8th	Dave Dollé	SUI	21.10

Final: August 11th

Wind: +0.1 m / s

400 m

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space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Du'aine Ladejo	GBR	45.09
2	Roger Black	GBR	45.20
3	Mathias Rusterholz	SUI	45.96
4th	Dmitri Golovastov	RUS	46.01
5	Anton Ivanov	BUL	46.20
6th	Mikhail Vdovin	RUS	46.23
7th	Štefan Balošák	SVK	46.64
8th	Dmitri Kosov	RUS	46.69

Final: August 11th

800 m

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space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Andrea Benvenuti	ITA	1: 46.12
2	Vebjørn Rodal	NOR	1: 46.53
3	Tomás De Teresa	ESP	1: 46.57
4th	Nico Motchebon	GER	1: 46.65
5	Giuseppe D'Urso	ITA	1: 46.90
6th	Craig Winrow	GBR	1: 47.09
7th	[[José Manuel Cerezo]]	ESP	1: 47.58
8th	Atle Douglas	NOR	1: 47.90

Final: August 14th

After his Olympic victory in 1992 in his own country, Fermín Cacho has now also become European champion

1500 m

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space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Fermín Cacho	ESP	3: 35.27 CR
2	Isaac Viciosa	ESP	3: 36.01
3	Branko Zorko	CRO	3: 36.88
4th	Eric Dubus	FRA	3: 37.44
5	Andrij Bulkovsky	UKR	3: 37.81
6th	Manuel Pancorbo	ESP	3: 38.16
7th	Rüdiger Stenzel	GER	3: 38.36
8th	Abdelkader Chékhémani	FRA	3: 38.42

Final: August 9th

Olympic champion Dieter Baumann decided the race over 5000 meters clearly for himself

5000 m

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space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Dieter Baumann	GER	13: 36.93
2	Robert Denmark	GBR	13: 37.50
3	Abel Antón	ESP	13: 38.04
4th	Abdellah Béhar	FRA	13: 38.36
5	John Nuttall	GBR	13: 38.65
6th	José Carlos Adán	ESP	13: 39.16
7th	Risto Ulmala	FIN	13: 40.84
8th	Anacleto Jiménez	ESP	13: 41.60

Final: August 14th

10,000 m

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space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Abel Antón	ESP	28: 06.03
2	Vincent Rousseau	BEL	28: 06.63
3	Stéphane Franke	GER	28: 07.95
4th	Róbert Štefko	SVK	28: 08.02
5	Paulo Guerra	POR	28: 10.18
6th	Joao Junqueira	POR	28: 10.55
7th	Jan Pesava	CZE	28: 10.72
8th	Carlos de la Torre	ESP	28: 10.77

Date: August 7th

Martín Fiz

marathon

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space	athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Martín Fiz	ESP	2:10:31 CR
2	Diego García	ESP	2:10:46
3	Alberto Juzdado	ESP	2:11:18
4th	Richard Nerurkar	GBR	2:11:56
5	Luigi Di Lello	ITA	2:12:41
6th	Antonio Rodrigues	POR	2:12:43
7th	Manuel Matias	POR	2:12:48
8th	Harri Hänninen	FIN	2:13:21

Date: August 14th

Martín Fiz - photo on the right - set a new championship record when he won the marathon route

Marathon cup

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space	country	Athletes	Time (h)
1	Spain	Martín Fiz Diego García Alberto Juzdado	6:32:35
2	Portugal	António Rodrigues Manuel Matias António Pinto	6:38:55
3	France	Dominique Chauvelier Noureddine Sobhi Bruno Le Stum	6:42:10
4th	Germany	Konrad Dobler Kurt Stenzel Rainer Wachenbrunner	6:48:37
5	Great Britain	Richard Nerurkar Peter Whitehead William Foster	6:45:48
6th	Italy	Luigi Di Lello Raffaello Alliegro Walter Durbano	6:46:06
7th	Poland	Jan Huruk Grzegorz Gajdus Wieslaw Perszke	6:46:57
8th	Russia	Oleg Strizhakov Jakow Tolstikow Eduard Tuchbatullin	6:47:21

Date: August 14th

In the marathon there was also a team classification, for which the times of the three best runners per nation were added. However, the evaluation was not part of the official medal table.

110 m hurdles

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space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Colin Jackson	GBR	13.08
2	Florian Schwarthoff	GER	13.16
3	Tony Jarrett	GBR	13.23
4th	Claude Edorh	GER	13.41
5	Mike Fenner	GER	13.53
6th	Antti Haapakoski	FIN	13.54
7th	Dan Philibert	FRA	13.54
8th	Gheorghe Boroi	ROME	13.61

Final: August 12th

Wind: +1.1 m / s

European champion Colin Jackson had improved the championship record to 13.16 s in the run-up and to 13.04 s in the semifinals.

400 m hurdles

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space	athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Oleh Twerdochleb	UKR	48.06 NO
2	Sven Nylander	SWE	48.22
3	Stéphane Diagana	FRA	48.23
4th	Podro Rodrigues	POR	48.77 NO
5	Edgar Itt	GER	49.11
6th	Peter Crampton	GBR	49.45
7th	Vadim Zadoynov	MDA	49.50
8th	Cary Cadogan	GBR	49.53

Final: August 10th

3000 m obstacle

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space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Alessandro Lambruschini	ITA	8: 22.40
2	Angelo Carosi	ITA	8: 23.53
3	William Van Dijck	BEL	8: 24.86
4th	Mark Rowland	GBR	8: 26.00
5	Vladimir Pronin	RUS	8: 26.33
6th	Martin Strege	GER	8: 26.36
7th	Jim Svenøy	NOR	8: 28.12 NU23R
8th	Francesco Panetta	ITA	8: 28.25

Final: August 12th

4 × 100 m relay

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space	country	Athletes	Time (s)
1	France	Hermann Lomba Éric Perrot Jean-Charles Trouabal Daniel Sangouma	38.57
2	Ukraine	Serhiy Ossovych Oleh Kramarenko Dmytro Vanyajikin Wladyslaw Dolohodin	38.98
3	Italy	Ezio Madonia Domenico Nettis Giorgio Marras Sandro Floris	38.99
4th	Sweden	Peter Karlsson Matias Ghansah Lars Hedner ( final ) Torbjörn Eriksson in the preliminary also: Thomas Leandersson	39.05
5	Greece	Aléxandros Yenovélis Yeóryios Panayiotópoulos Aléxios Alexópoulos Aléxandros Terzián	39.25
6th	Germany	Holger Blume Steffen Görmer Michael Huke Marc Blume	39.36
7th	Finland	Let Juusela Tero Ridanpää Ari Pakarinen Pertti Purola	39.80
DSQ	Russia	Andrei Fedoriw Alex Porkhomowski Oleg Fatun ( final ) Andrei Grigorjew in the preliminary run also: Viktor Maltschugin

Final: August 13th

4 × 400 m relay

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space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	Great Britain	David McKenzie Roger Black Brian Whittle Du'aine Ladejo	2: 59.13
2	France	Pierre-Marie Hilaire Jacques Farraudière Jean-Louis Rapnouli Stéphane Diagana	3: 01.11
3	Russia	Mikhail Vdovin Dmitri At Dmitri Kosow Dmitri Golowastow	3: 03.10
4th	Italy	Marco Vaccari Fabio Grossi Ashraf Saber Alessandro Aimar	3: 03.46
5	Germany	Daniel Bittner Kai Karsten Lutz Becker Edgar Itt	3: 04.15
6th	Poland	Piotr Rysiukiewicz Robert Maćkowiak Piotr Kotlarski Tomasz Czubak	3: 04.22
7th	Finland	Ari Pinomaki Ilkka Yli-Tuomi Kari Louramo Vesa-Pekka Pihlavisto	3: 04.55

Date: August 14th

Mikhail Schchennikow became European champion over 20 km with one class time

20 km walking

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space	athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Mikhail Shchennikov	RUS	1:18:45 CR
2	Jauhen Misjulja	BLR	1:19:22
3	Valentí Massana	ESP	1:20:33
4th	Giovanni De Benedictis	ITA	1:20:39
5	Mikhail Orlov	RUS	1:21:01
6th	Giovanni Perriccelli	ITA	1:21:51
7th	Igor Kollár	SVK	1:22:23
8th	Sándor Urbanik	HUN	1:22:49

Date: August 8th

50 km of walking

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space	athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Valery Spitsyn	RUS	3:41:07
2	Thierry Toutain	FRA	3:43:52
3	Giovanni Perricelli	ITA	3:43:55
4th	Jesús Ángel García	ESP	3:45:25
5	Robert Korzeniowski	POLE	3:45:57
6th	German Skurygin	RUS	3:46:30
7th	Valentin Kononen	FIN	3:47:14
8th	Andrei Plotnikov	RUS	3:47:43

Date: August 8th

Steinar Hoen - European champion with championship record

high jump

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space	athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Steinar Hoen	NOR	2.35 CR
2	Artur Partyka	POLE	2.33
	Steve Smith	GBR	2.33
4th	Håkon Særnblom	NOR	2.31
5	Jaroslaw Kotewicz	POLE	2.31
	Dragutin Topić	SCG	2.31
7th	Leonid Pumalainen	RUS	2.28
8th	Lábros papakóstas	GRE	2.28

Final: August 9th

Pole vault

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space	athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Rodion Gataullin	RUS	6.00 CR
2	Igor Trandenkov	RUS	5.90
3	Jean Galfione	FRA	5.85
4th	Philippe Collet	FRA	5.80
5	Denis Petouchinski	RUS	5.80
6th	Andrei Tivontschik	GER	5.70
7th	Danny Krasnov	ISR	5.70
8th	Gianni Iapichino	ITA	5.70
	Valeri Bukrejev	EST	5.70

Final: August 11th

Long jump

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space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Ivajlo Mladenov	BUL	8.09
2	Milan Gombala	CZE	8.04
3	Konstandinos Koukodimos	GRE	8.01
4th	Bogdan Tudor	ROME	7.99
5	Dmitri Bagryanov	RUS	7.96
6th	Stanislaw Tarassenko	RUS	7.93
7th	Vitaly Kyrylenko	UKR	7.92
8th	Erik Nijs	BEL	7.89

Final: August 10th

Triple jump

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space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Denis Kapustin	RUS	17.62
2	Serge Hélan	FRA	17.55
3	Māris Bružiks	LAT	17.20
4th	Vasily Sokov	RUS	16.97
5	Gennady Markov	RUS	16.89
6th	Jonathan Edwards	GBR	16.85
7th	Georges Sainte-Rose	FRA	16.59
8th	Audrius Raizgys	LTU	16.59

Final: August 13th

Shot put

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space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Oleksandr Klymenko	UKR	20.78
2	Oleksandr Bahach	UKR	20.34
3	Roman Wirastyuk	UKR	19.59
4th	Mika Halvari	FIN	19.52
5	Markus Koistinen	FIN	19.51
6th	Dragan Peric	SCG	19.40
7th	Pétur Guðmundsson	ISL	19.34
8th	Paolo Dal Soglio	ITA	19.15

Final: August 13th

Discus throw

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space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Uladsimir Dubrouschtschyk	BLR	64.78
2	Dmitri Shevchenko	RUS	64.56
3	Jürgen Schult	GER	64.18
4th	Nick Sweeney	IRL	63.76
5	Attila Horváth	HUN	63.60
6th	Volodymyr Zinchenko	UKR	63.60
7th	Svein Inge Valvik	NOR	62.02
8th	Costel Grasu	ROME	61.40

Final: August 14th

Hammer throw

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space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Vasily Sidorenko	RUS	81.10
2	Ihar Astapkovich	BLR	80.40
3	Heinz Weis	GER	78.48
4th	Igor Nikulin	RUS	78.38
5	Tibor Gécsek	HUN	77.62
6th	Oleksandr Krykun	UKR	76.08
7th	Christophe Épalle	FRA	75.22
8th	Vadim Kolesnik	UKR	75.22

Final: August 11th

Javelin throw

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space	athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Steve Backley	GBR	85.20
2	Seppo Räty	FIN	82.90
3	Jan Železný	CZE	82.58
4th	Patrick Bodén	SWE	81.34
5	Raymond Hecht	GER	81.18
6th	Mick Hill	GBR	80.66
7th	Terry McHugh	IRL	80.46
8th	Uladzimir Sassimovich	BLR	78.88

Final: August 8th

Decathlon

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space	athlete	country	Points
1	Alain Blondel	FRA	8453
2	Henrik Dagård	SWE	8362
3	Lev Lobodin	UKR	8201
4th	Christian Plaziat	FRA	8127
5	Stefan Schmid	GER	8109
6th	Sándor Munkacsi	HUN	8071
7th	Tomáš Dvořák	CZE	8065
8th	Dezső Szábo	HUN	7995

Date: 12./13. August

The rating was based on the 1985 point table, which is still valid today.

Results women

100 m

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space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Irina Privaleova	RUS	11.02
2	Shanna Tarnopolskaya	UKR	11.10
3	Melanie Paschke	GER	11.28
4th	Anelija Nunewa	BUL	11.40
5	Nelli Cooman	NED	11.40
6th	Petya Pendareva	BUL	11.41
7th	Sanna Hernesniemi	FIN	11.43
8th	Marina Trandenkowa	RUS	11.52

Final: August 8th

Wind: +0.6 m / s

200 m

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space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Irina Privaleova	RUS	22.32
2	Shanna Tarnopolskaya	UKR	22.77
3	Galina Malschugina	RUS	22.90
4th	Silke-Beate Knoll	GER	22.99
5	Maya Azarashvili	GEO	23.01
6th	Sanna Hernesniemi	FIN	23.24
7th	Lucrécia Jardim	POR	23.28
8th	Slatka Georgieva	BUL	23.46

Final: August 11th

Wind: +0.2 m / s

Marie-José Perec - an outstanding athlete of her time

400 m

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space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Marie-José Pérec	FRA	50.33
2	Svetlana Goncharenko	RUS	51.24
3	Phylis Smith	GBR	51.30
4th	Elena Andreyeva	RUS	51.65
5	Anja Rücker	GER	51.85
6th	Melanie Neef	GBR	52.10
7th	Daniela Spassowa	BUL	52.25
8th	Francine Landre	FRA	52.57

Final: August 11th

800 m

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space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Lyubov Gurina	RUS	1: 58.55
2	Natallja Duchnowa	BLR	1: 58.55
3	Lyudmila Rogacheva	RUS	1: 58.69
4th	Małgorzata Rydz	POLE	1: 59.12
5	Ann Griffiths	GBR	1: 59.81
6th	Carla Sacramento	POR	2: 00.01
7th	Patricia Djaté	FRA	2: 00.34
8th	Anna Brzesinska	POLE	2: 00.41

Final: August 10th

1500 m

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space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Lyudmila Rogacheva	RUS	4: 18.93
2	Kelly Holmes	GBR	4: 19.30
3	Ekaterina Podkopaeva	RUS	4: 19.37
4th	Lyubov Kremlyova	RUS	4: 19.77
5	Małgorzata Rydz	POLE	4: 19.80
6th	Carla Sacramento	POR	4: 20.62
7th	Ellen Kiessling	GER	4: 20.79
8th	Maite Zúñiga	ESP	4: 20.83

Final: August 14th

Sonia O'Sullivan dominated the competition over 3000 meters

3000 m

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space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Sonia O'Sullivan	IRL	8: 31.84
2	Yvonne Murray	GBR	8: 36.48
3	Gabriela Szabo	ROME	8: 40.08
4th	Olga Churbanova	RUS	8: 40.48
5	Lyudmila Borisova	RUS	8: 41.71
6th	Alison Wyeth	GBR	8: 45.76
7th	Farida Fates	FRA	8: 46.04
8th	Nadia Dandolo	ITA	8: 49.42

Final: August 10th

10,000 m

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Fernanda Ribeiro won the 10,000 meter run by more than 24 seconds

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Fernanda Ribeiro	POR	31: 08.75
2	Conceição Ferreira	POR	31: 32.82
3	Daria Nauer	SUI	31: 35.96
4th	Kathrin Weßel	GER	31: 38.75
5	Cristina Misaros	ROME	31: 41.03
6th	Maria Guida	ITA	31: 42.14
7th	Fernanda Marques	POR	31: 53.12
8th	Klara Kaschapowa	RUS	31: 55.99

Date: August 13th

marathon

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space	Athlete	country	Time (h)
1	Maria Manuela Machado	POR	2:29:54
2	Maria Curatolo	ITA	2:30:33
3	Adriana Barbu	ROME	2:30:55
4th	Ornella Ferrara	ITA	2:31:57
5	Anuța Cătună	ROME	2:32:51
6th	Ritva Lemettines	FIN	2:32:05
7th	Kirsi Rauta	FIN	2:33:32
8th	Rosanna Munerotto	ITA	2:34:32

Date: August 7th

Marathon cup

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space	country	Athletes	Time (h)
1	Italy	Maria Curatolo Ornella Ferrara Rosanna Munerotto	7:37:02
2	Romania	Adriana Barbu Anuța Cătună Lidia Slavuteanu	7:40:00
3	Finland	Ritva Lemettinen Kirsi Rauta Pia Ruotsalainen	7:49:35
4th	France	Marie-Helene Ohier Maryse le Gallo Isabelle Guillot	7:56:24
5	Great Britain	Danielle Sanderson Marion Sutton Lesley Turner	8:02:19
6th	Poland	Isabela Zatorska Anna Rybicka Marzanna Helbik	8:03:32
7th	Russia	Firija Sultanowa Ramilja Burangulowa Olga Michurina	8:09:10

Date: August 7th

In the marathon there was also a team ranking, for which the times of the three best runners per nation were added. However, the evaluation was not part of the official medal table.

100 m hurdles

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1994/100 m hurdles for women

space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Svetla Dimitrova	BUL	12.72
2	Julija Graudyn	RUS	12.93
3	Jordanka Donkova	BUL	12.93
4th	Brigita Bukovec	SLO	13.01
5	Tatiana Reshetnikova	RUS	13.06
6th	Julie Baumann	SUI	13.10
7th	Jackie Agyepong	GBR	13.17
8th	Anne Piquereau	FRA	13.25

Final: August 9th

Wind: −1.7 m / s

Sally Gunnell won the 400 meter hurdles race by more than a second

400 m hurdles

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space	Athlete	country	Time (s)
1	Sally Gunnell	GBR	53.33
2	Silvia Rieger	GER	54.68
3	Anna Knoros	RUS	54.68
4th	Heike Meissner	GER	54.79
5	Tatiana Kurochkina	BLR	55.18
6th	Tetiana Tereshchuk	UKR	55.53
7th	Olga Nazarova	RUS	55.98
8th	Gowry Retchakan	GBR	56.05

Final: August 13th

4 × 100 m relay

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space	country	Athletes	Time (s)
1	Germany	Melanie Paschke Silke-Beate Knoll Bettina Zipp Silke Lichtenhagen	42.90
2	Russia	Natalja Anissimowa Marina Trandenkowa Galina Maltschugina Irina Priwalowa ( final ) in the preliminary also: Jekaterina Leschtschowa	42.96
3	Bulgaria	Dessislawa Dimitrova Svetla Dimitrova Anelija Nunewa Petya Pendarewa	43.00
4th	Ukraine	Antonija Sljusar Wiktorija Formenko Iryna Sljusar Shanna Tarnopolskaja ( final ) in the preliminary run also: Anshela Kravchenko	43.61
5	Great Britain	Stephanie Douglas Katherine Merry Simonne Jacobs Paula Thomas	43.63
6th	Netherlands	Claudia Elissen Jacqueline Poelman Karin De Lange Monique Boogards	43.81
7th	Finland	Anu Pirttimaa Tarja Leveelahti Sanna Hernesniemi Marja Salmela	43.96
8th	Italy	Carla Tuzzi Laura Ardissone Annarita Balzani Giada Galina	44.46

Final: August 13th

4 × 400 m relay

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space	country	Athletes	Time (min)
1	France	Francine Landre Evelyn Elien Viviane Dorsile Marie-José Pérec ( final ) in the preliminary also: Marie-Line Scholent	3: 22.34
2	Russia	Natalja Khruschtscheljowa Jelena Andrejewa Tatjana Sacharowa Svetlana Goncharenko ( final ) in the preliminary also: Jelena Goleschewa	3: 24.06
3	Germany	Karin Janke Heike Meißner ( final ) Uta Rohländer Anja Rücker in the preliminary run also: Linda Kisabaka	3: 24.10
4th	Great Britain	Melanie Neef Linda Keough Phylis Smith Sally Gunnell	3: 24.14
5	Czech Republic	Nadezda Kostovalová Hana Benesová Erika Suchovská ( final ) Ludmila Formanová in the preliminary also: Helena Dziurová	3: 27.95
6th	Switzerland	Regula Aebi ( final ) Kathrin Lüthi Martha Grossenbacher Anita Protti in the run-up also: Michèle Schenk	3: 28.78
7th	Poland	Barbara Grzywocz Monika Warnicka Sylwia Pachut Elzbieta Kilinska	3: 29.75
8th	Finland	Aila Haikkonen Heidi Suomi Satu Jaaskelainen Sonja Finell	3: 32.97

Final: August 14th

10 km walking

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1994/10 km women's walking

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Sari essayah	FIN	42:37 CR
2	Annarita Sidoti	ITA	42:43
3	Elena Nikolaeva	RUS	42:43
4th	Jelena Arshinzeva	RUS	43:23
5	Larissa Ramasanova	RUS	43:25
6th	Natallja Misjulja	BLR	43:39
7th	Elisabetta Perrone	ITA	43:47
8th	Susana Feitor	POR	43:47

Date: August 9th

high jump

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space	Athlete	country	Height (m)
1	Britta Bilač	SLO	2.00
2	Elena Gulyayeva	RUS	1.96
3	Nelė Žilinskienė	LTU	1.93
4th	Inha Babakowa	UKR	1.93
5	Hanne Haugland	NOR	1.93
6th	Heike Balck	GER	1.93
7th	Svetlana Issaewa-Lessewa	BUL	1.90
	Elena Topchina	RUS	1.90

Final: August 14th

Heike Drechsler won the long jump for the third time in a row

Long jump

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space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Heike Drechsler	GER	7.14
2	Inessa Krawez	UKR	6.99
3	Fiona May	ITA	6.90
4th	Renata Nielsen	THE	6.82
5	Lyudmila Ninova-Rudoll	AUT	6.80
6th	Agata Karczmarek	POLE	6.67
7th	Irina Mushailova	RUS	6.62
8th	Iwa Prandschewa	BUL	6.56

Final: August 12th

Triple jump

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space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Anna Biryukova	RUS	14.89 CR
2	Inna Lasovskaya	RUS	14.85
3	Inessa Krawez	UKR	14.67
4th	Iolanda Tschen	RUS	14.48
5	Rodica Petrescu	ROME	14.42
6th	Šárka Kašpárková	CZE	13.98
7th	Ramona Molzan	GER	13.82
8th	Helga Radtke	GER	13.77

Final: August 8th

In this competition, an athlete had to be disqualified for doping abuse. The Bulgarian Sofia Boschanova , who was initially fourth , tested positive for the amphetamine mesocarb . The triple jumpers in the ranks of five or more moved up one rank in the list of results.

Shot put

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space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Wita Pavlysch	UKR	19.61
2	Astrid Kumbernuss	GER	19.49
3	Svetla Mitkowa	BUL	19.49
4th	Stephanie Storp	GER	19.39
5	Larissa Peleschenko	RUS	19.01
6th	Kathrin Neimke	GER	18.94
7th	Valentyna Fedyushyna	UKR	18.91
8th	Anna Romanova	RUS	18.40

Final: August 7th

Discus throw

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1994 / women's discus throw

Ilke Wyludda - European discus thrower with a lead of more than four meters

space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Ilke Wyludda	GER	68.72
2	Elina Swerava	BLR	64.46
3	Mette Bergmann	NOR	64.34
4th	Nicoleta Grasu	ROME	63.64
5	Olga Chernyavskaya	RUS	62.54
6th	Jana Lauren	GER	60.44
7th	Marie-Paule Geldhof	BEL	59.48
8th	Lyudmila Filimonova	BLR	59.46

Final: August 10th

Javelin throw

→ Main article : European Athletics Championships 1994 / women's javelin

space	Athlete	country	Width (m)
1	Trine Hattestad	NOR	68.00
2	Karen Forkel	GER	66.10
3	Felicia Țilea	ROME	64.34
4th	Silke Gast	GER	62.90
5	Rita Ramanauskaitė	LTU	61.54
6th	Tanja Damaske	GER	61.32
7th	Kinga Zsigmond	HUN	59.74
8th	Antoaneta Selenska	BUL	57.76

Final: August 12th

Heptathlon

→ Main article : 1994 European Athletics Championships / women's heptathlon

space	Athlete	country	Points
1	Sabine Braun	GER	6419
2	Rita Ináncsi	HUN	6404
3	Urszula Włodarczyk	POLE	6322
4th	Larissa Turchinskaya	RUS	6311
5	Svetlana Moskalez	RUS	6308
6th	Peggy Beer	GER	6275
7th	Remigija Nazarovienė	LTU	6262
8th	Tina Rättyä	FIN	6241

Date: 8./9. August

Valued according to the points table from 1985, which is still valid today.

Web links and sources

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 1994 at european-athletics.org, accessed October 6, 2019
• Athletics European Championships Helsinki 1994 from todor66.com, accessed October 6, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1994 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed October 6, 2019
• 16th European Athletics Championships 1994 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on October 6, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1994 on sportschau.de, accessed on October 6, 2019
• 16th European Athletics Championships 1994 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on October 6, 2019
• Athletics. KATRINS SCHERBEN , Spiegel Online, Der Spiegel 30/1994, July 25, 1994 at spiegel.de, accessed on October 6, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Dreisprung-Vierte was doped , Berliner Zeitung August 12, 1994, accessed on October 5, 2019