European Athletics Championships 1994/110 m hurdles of men

16th European Athletics Championships
discipline	110 meter hurdles
gender	Men
Attendees	31 athletes from 17 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 11th (preliminary) August 12th (semifinals / finals)
Medalist Colin Jackson ( GBR )   Florian Schwarthoff ( GER )   Tony Jarrett ( GBR )

Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The men's 110-meter hurdles at the European Athletics Championships in 1994 was held on August 11 and 12, 1994 in the Olympic Stadium in the Finnish capital Helsinki .

The British hurdlers won two gold and bronze medals in this competition. European champion was the defending champion, reigning world champion and Olympic runner-up in 1988 Colin Jackson . He won ahead of the German Florian Schwarthoff . Bronze went to the European Championships -second of 1990 , WM -third of 1991 and World Cup -second 1993 Tony Jarrett .

Records

Existing records

World record	12.91 s	Colin Jackson	WM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 20, 1993
European record
Championship record	13.18 s		EM Split , Yugoslavia	August 29, 1990

Record improvements

European champion Colin Jackson improved his own EM record twice:  

• 13.16 s - 2nd advance on August 11th
• 13.04s - 1st semi-final on August 12th

Preliminary round

August 11, 1994

The preliminary round was held in four runs. The first three athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - and the four fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semifinals.

Forward 1

Wind: +0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Florian Schwarthoff	Germany	13.31
2	Laurent Ottoz	Italy	13.52
3	Thomas J. Kearns	Ireland	13.60
4th	Claes Albihn	Sweden	13.72
5	Igor Kováč	Slovakia	13.72
6th	Tibor Bédi	Hungary	13.94
7th	Gunnar Schrör	Switzerland	13.98
DNF	Igors Kazanovs	Latvia

Forward 2

For Levente Csillag, his sixth place in the second heat was not enough for the semifinals

Wind: +1.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Colin Jackson	Great Britain	13.16 CR
2	Dan Philibert	France	13.43
3	Mike Fenner	Germany	13.49
4th	Niklas Eriksson	Sweden	13.65
5	Kai Kyllönen	Finland	13.67
6th	Levente Csillag	Hungary	14.02
7th	Guntis Peders	Latvia	15.57

Forward 3

Wind: +1.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Mark McKoy	Austria	13.50
2	Andy Tulloch	Great Britain	13.52
3	Claude Edorh	Germany	13.53
4th	Gheorghe Boroi	Romania	13.64
5	Jyrki Kaehkonen	Finland	13.65
6th	Hubert Grossard	Belgium	13.67
7th	Mathieu Jouÿs	France	13.78
8th	Sean Cahill	Ireland	14.16

Forward 4

Wind: -0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Tony Jarrett	Great Britain	13.43
2	Antti Haapakoski	Finland	13.49
3	Jonathan Nsenga	Belgium	13.66
4th	Gaute Gundersen	Norway	13.77
5	Vincent Clarico	France	13.81
6th	Patrik Torkelsson	Sweden	13.85
7th	Robin Korving	Netherlands	14.31
DNF	Vladimir Belokon	Ukraine

Semifinals

August 12, 1994

From the two semi-finals, the first four athletes - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Run 1

Wind: +1.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Colin Jackson	Great Britain	13.04 CR
2	Dan Philibert	France	13.45
3	Gheorghe Boroi	Romania	13.53
4th	Mike Fenner	Germany	13.55
5	Andy Tulloch	Great Britain	13.62
6th	Jonathan Nsenga	Belgium	13.69
7th	Jyrki Kaehkonen	Finland	13.73
DNS	Mark McKoy	Austria

Run 2

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Tony Jarrett	Great Britain	13.32
2	Florian Schwarthoff	Germany	13.38
3	Claude Edorh	Germany	13.47
4th	Antti Haapakoski	Finland	13.52
5	Laurent Ottoz	Italy	13.53
6th	Thomas J. Kearns	Ireland	13.60
7th	Kai Kyllönen	Finland	13.63
8th	Niklas Eriksson	Sweden	13.67

• 

  Colin Jackson defended his title confidently, meanwhile the Olympic runner-up from 1988 a . a. Became world champion - in addition to many other successes, he won the European Championship title twice and the World Cup title again

• 

  Gheorghe Boroi was eighth in this final - four years earlier he had been eliminated in the semifinals

final

August 12, 1994

Wind: +1.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Colin Jackson	Great Britain	13.08
2	Florian Schwarthoff	Germany	13.16
3	Tony Jarrett	Great Britain	13.23
4th	Claude Edorh	Germany	13.41
5	Mike Fenner	Germany	13.53
6th	Antti Haapakoski	Finland	13.54
7th	Dan Philibert	France	13.54
8th	Gheorghe Boroi	Romania	13.61

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 1994 at european-athletics.org, accessed on 23 September 2019
• Men 110m Hurdles European Championship 1994 Helsinki on todor66.com, accessed on September 23, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1994 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on September 23, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 110m Hurdles European Championship 1994 Helsinki, p. 462 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on 23 September 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1994, 110 m hurdles men on sportschau.de, accessed on September 23, 2019
• 16th European Athletics Championships 1994 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on September 23, 2019

Video

• Men's 110m Hurdles Final European Champs Helsinki 1994 on youtube.com (English), accessed September 23, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Men's 110-meter hurdles , accessed September 23, 2019