European Athletics Championships 1994/200 m women

16th European Athletics Championships
discipline	200 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	32 athletes from 19 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 10th (preliminary) August 11th (semifinals / finals)
Medalists Irina Priwalowa ( RUS )   Shanna Tarnopolskaya ( UKR )   Galina Maltschugina ( RUS )

The women's 200-meter run at the European Athletics Championships in 1994 was held on August 10 and 11, 1994 in the Olympic Stadium in the Finnish capital Helsinki .

In this competition, the Russian sprinters received two gold and bronze medals. European champion was the World Championship -Third of 1993 Irina Priwalowa that three days earlier and the 100-meter dash had won. Like over 100 meters, the Ukrainian Shanna Tarnopolskaya won the silver medal. She started later as Schanna Pintusewitsch or Schanna Block. As in 1990, bronze went to Galina Maltschugina .

Existing records

World record	21.34 s	Florence Griffith-Joyner	Olympic Games Seoul , South Korea	September 29, 1988
European record	21.71 s	Marita Koch	Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz ), GDR (now Germany )	June 10, 1979
			Potsdam , GDR (now Germany )	July 21, 1984
		Heike Drechsler	Jena , GDR (now Germany )	June 29, 1986
			EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 9, 1986
EM record	21.71 s	Heike Drechsler	EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 9, 1986

Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

Preliminary round

August 10, 1994

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

Forward 1

Wind: –2.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Shanna Tarnopolskaya	Ukraine	23.33
2	Lucrécia Jardim	Portugal	23.41
3	Silke Lichtenhagen	Germany	23.42
4th	Regula Anliker-Aebi	Switzerland	23.48
5	Jacqueline Poelman	Netherlands	23.56
6th	Simmone Jacobs	Great Britain	23.75
7th	Maria Staafgard	Sweden	24.09
8th	Karin Solbakken	Norway	24.18

Forward 2

Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Galina Malschugina	Russia	23.32
2	Slatka Georgieva	Bulgaria	23.35
3	Katharine Merry	Great Britain	23.73
4th	Sara Wüest	Switzerland	23.89
5	Sabine Tröger	Austria	23.91
6th	Anu Pirttimaa	Finland	24.02
7th	Jana Burtasenkova	Moldova	24.37
8th	Antonina Slyussar	Ukraine	24.50

Forward 3

Wind: -0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Irina Privaleova	Russia	22.93
2	Maya Azarashvili	Georgia	23.17
3	Sanna Hernesniemi	Finland	23.32
4th	Paula Thomas	Great Britain	23.39
5	Giada Gallina	Italy	23.69
6th	Eva Barati	Hungary	23.88
7th	Birgit Rockmeier	Germany	23.89
8th	Dora Kyriakou	Cyprus	24.18

Forward 4

Wind: -1.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Silke-Beate Knoll	Germany	23.25
2	Erika Suchovská	Czech Republic	23.52
3	Ekaterina Leschchowa	Russia	23.59
4th	Viktoria Fomenko	Ukraine	23.67
5	Mireille Donders	Switzerland	23.97
6th	Marika Johansson	Sweden	24.05
7th	Tarja Leveelahti	Finland	24.24
8th	Aksel Gurcan	Turkey	24.50

Semifinals

August 11, 1994

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

Run 1

Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Silke-Beate Knoll	Germany	22.75
2	Galina Malschugina	Russia	22.90
3	Lucrécia Jardim	Portugal	23.25
4th	Slatka Georgieva	Bulgaria	23.29
5	Ekaterina Leschchowa	Russia	23.36
6th	Regula Anliker-Aebi	Switzerland	23.50
7th	Viktoria Fomenko	Ukraine	23.52
8th	Katharine Merry	Great Britain	23.55

Run 2

Wind: +1.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Irina Privaleova	Russia	22.61
2	Shanna Tarnopolskaya	Ukraine	23.01
3	Maya Azarashvili	Georgia	23.24
4th	Sanna Hernesniemi	Finland	23.28
5	Erika Suchovská	Czech Republic	23.34
6th	Paula Thomas	Great Britain	23.41
7th	Silke Lichtenhagen	Germany	23.45
8th	Jacqueline Poelman	Netherlands	23.58

Like over 100 meters , there was silver for Shanna Tarnopolskaya

final

August 11, 1994

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Irina Privaleova	Russia	22.32
2	Shanna Tarnopolskaya	Ukraine	22.77
3	Galina Malschugina	Russia	22.90
4th	Silke-Beate Knoll	Germany	22.99
5	Maya Azarashvili	Georgia	23.01
6th	Sanna Hernesniemi	Finland	23.24
7th	Lucrécia Jardim	Portugal	23.28
8th	Slatka Georgieva	Bulgaria	23.46

Web links

• Women 200m European Championship 1994 Helsinki on todor66.com, accessed September 30, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1994 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed September 30, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 200m European Championship 1994 Helsinki, p. 465f (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 30, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1994, 200 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on September 30, 2019
• 16th European Athletics Championships 1994 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on September 30, 2019

Video

• Women's 200m Final European Champs Helsinki 1994 on youtube.com, accessed September 30, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 200m women , accessed December 29, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 200 m Women , Spanish / English, p. 50 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on December 29, 2019