European Athletics Championships 1994/400 m hurdles men

16th European Athletics Championships
discipline	400 meter hurdles
gender	Men
Attendees	37 athletes from 21 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 7th (preliminary) August 8th (semi-finals) August 10th (final)
Medalist Oleh Twerdochleb ( UKR )   Sven Nylander ( SWE )   Stéphane Diagana ( FRA )

Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The men's 400-meter hurdles at the European Athletics Championships in 1994 was held from August 7th to 10th, 1994 in the Olympic Stadium in the Finnish capital Helsinki .

European champion was the Ukrainian Oleh Twerdochleb . Second place went to the Swedish European Championship runner-up in 1990, Sven Nylander . Bronze went to the French Stéphane Diagana .

Records

Existing records

World record	46.78 s	Kevin Young	OS Barcelona , Spain	August 6, 1992
European record	47.48 s	Harald Schmid	EM Athens , Greece	September 8, 1982
			World Cup Rome , Italy	September 1, 1987
Championship record			EM Athens , Greece	September 8, 1982

The EM record, which has existed since 1982, was not set and not improved at these European championships.

Preliminary round

August 7, 1994

The preliminary round was carried out in five runs. The first two athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the six fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Stéphane Diagana	France	49.29
2	Vadim Zadoynov	Moldova	49.51
3	Peter Crampton	Great Britain	49.71
4th	Michael Kaul	Germany	50.04
5	Piotr Kotlarski	Poland	50.04
6th	Daniel Ritter	Switzerland	50.16
7th	Carlos Silva	Portugal	50.88

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Pedro Rodrigues	Portugal	49.05
2	Gary Cadogan	Great Britain	49.55
3	Paweł Januszewski	Poland	50.01
4th	Vesa-Pekka Pihlavisto	Finland	50.12
5	Marko Garnet	Sweden	50.28
6th	Tom McGuirk	Ireland	50.84
7th	Giorgio Frinolli	Italy	51.16
8th	Costas Pochanis	Cyprus	52.07

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Oleh Twerdochleb	Ukraine	49.20
2	Niklas Wallenlind	Sweden	49.45
3	Marc Dollendorf	Belgium	49.45
4th	Dusán Kovács	Hungary	50.01
5	Lawrence Lynch	Great Britain	50.24
6th	Miro Kocuvan	Slovenia	50.30
7th	Íñigo Monreal	Spain	51.51

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Edgar Itt	Germany	49.62
2	Fabrizio Mori	Italy	49.71
3	Jozef Kucej	Slovakia	49.91
4th	Jean-Paul Bruwier	Belgium	50.28
5	Aleksey Bazarov	Israel	50.31
6th	Petteri Pulkkinen	Finland	51.05
7th	Salvador Vila	Spain	51.18
8th	Marek Helinurm	Estonia	51.87

Forward 5

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Sven Nylander	Sweden	49.71
2	Ruslan Mashchenko	Russia	50.28
3	Ismo Hämeenniemi	Finland	50.44
4th	Óscar Pitillas	Spain	50.50
5	Stéphane Caristan	France	50.84
6th	Ashraf Saber	Italy	50.87
7th	Helge Bormann	Germany	51.49

Semifinals

August 8, 1994

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

Run 1

Paweł Januszewski was eliminated in sixth place in his preliminary run

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Sven Nylander	Sweden	48.72
2	Pedro Rodrigues	Portugal	49.04
3	Edgar Itt	Germany	49.40
4th	Gary Cadogan	Great Britain	49.42
5	Jozef Kucej	Slovakia	49.75
6th	Paweł Januszewski	Poland	49.95
7th	Dusán Kovács	Hungary	50.01
8th	Fabrizio Mori	Italy	66.35

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Stéphane Diagana	France	48.47
2	Oleh Twerdochleb	Ukraine	49.00
3	Peter Crampton	Great Britain	49.26
4th	Vadim Zadoynov	Moldova	49.30
5	Niklas Wallenlind	Sweden	49.31
6th	Marc Dollendorf	Belgium	49.34
7th	Ruslan Mashchenko	Russia	50.47
8th	Michael Kaul	Germany	51.30

final

Sven Nylander (here in 2014) - Vice European Champion for the second time in a row

August 10, 1994

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Oleh Twerdochleb	Ukraine	48.06 NO
2	Sven Nylander	Sweden	48.22
3	Stéphane Diagana	France	48.23
4th	Pedro Rodrigues	Portugal	48.77 NO
5	Edgar Itt	Germany	49.11
6th	Peter Crampton	Great Britain	49.45
7th	Vadim Zadoynov	Moldova	49.50
8th	Gary Cadogan	Great Britain	49.53

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  Stéphane Diagana won his first international medal - numerous more followed at World and European Championships, in 1997 he became world champion and 2002 European champion

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 1994 at european-athletics.org, accessed September 24, 2019
• Men 400m Hurdles European Championship 1994 Helsinki on todor66.com, accessed September 24, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1994 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed September 24, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 400m Hurdles European Championship 1994 Helsinki, p. 462 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 24, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1994, 400 m hurdles men on sportschau.de, accessed on September 24, 2019
• 16th European Athletics Championships 1994 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on September 24, 2019

Video

• Men's 400m Hurdles Final European Champs Helsinki 1994 on youtube.com (English), accessed September 24, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 400m hurdles men , accessed on September 24, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 400 m Hurdles Men , p. 18, Spanish / English (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on September 24, 2019