European Athletics Championships 1994/800 m women

16th European Athletics Championships
discipline	800 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	22 athletes from 14 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 7th (preliminary) August 8th (semi-finals) August 10th (final)
Medalists Lyubov Gurina ( RUS )   Natallja Duchnowa ( BLR )   Lyudmila Rogacheva ( RUS )

Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The 800-meter run for women at the European Athletics Championships in 1994 was held from August 7 to 10, 1994 in the Olympic Stadium in the Finnish capital Helsinki .

With gold and bronze, the Russian runners won two medals in this competition. European champion was Ljubow Gurina . She won in front of the Belarusian Natallja Duchnowa . Bronze went to Lyudmila Rogacheva .

Existing records

World record	1: 53.28 min	Jarmila Kratochvílová	Munich , FR Germany	July 26, 1983
European record
EM record	1: 55.41 min	Olga Mineeva	EM Athens , Greece	September 8, 1982

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

Preliminary round

August 7, 1994

The preliminary round was carried out in three runs. The first four 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

Sixth place in the first heat was not enough for Ludmila Formanová to qualify for the semi-finals

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Natallja Duchnowa	Belarus	2: 04.49
2	Irina Samorokova	Russia	2: 04.52
3	Diane Modahl	Great Britain	2: 04.56
4th	Małgorzata Rydz	Poland	2: 04.57
5	Ester Goossens	Netherlands	2: 04.96
6th	Ludmila Formanová	Czech Republic	2: 05.25
7th	Satu Jaaskelainen	Finland	2: 08.38
8th	Aisling Molloy	Ireland	2: 08.46

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Carla Sacramento	Portugal	2: 01.86
2	Lyubov Gurina	Russia	2: 01.87
3	Maria Akraka	Sweden	2: 01.91
4th	Kati Kovacs	Germany	2: 02.04
5	Karen Gydesen	Denmark	2: 02.05
6th	Anna Brzesinska	Poland	2: 02.10
7th	Ann Griffiths	Great Britain	2: 02.42
DNS	Ellen van Langen	Netherlands

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Patricia Djaté	France	2: 02.19
2	Lyudmila Rogacheva	Russia	2: 02.74
3	Stella Jongmans	Netherlands	2: 02.85
4th	Christine Wachtel	Germany	2: 03.13
5	Malin Ewerlof	Sweden	2: 03.19
6th	Yelena Zavadskaya	Ukraine	2: 03.20
7th	Marjo Piipponen	Finland	2: 04.81
DNS	Sonya Bowyer	Great Britain

Semifinals

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  The Vice European Champion from 1990 and Olympic runner-up from 1988 Christine Wachtel was eliminated in the semifinals

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  Maria Akraka did not reach seventh place in the first semifinals for the final, four days later she was tenth over 1500 meters

August 8, 1994

In the two semi-finals, it was planned that the first four athletes - highlighted in light blue - would qualify for the final. In the first heat, two runners took fourth place at the same time, both of whom were admitted to the finals, so that nine middle distance runners contested the final two days later.

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Lyudmila Rogacheva	Russia	2: 00.93
2	Natallja Duchnowa	Belarus	2: 01.09
3	Ann Griffiths	Great Britain	2: 01.29
4th	Anna Brzesinska	Poland	2: 01.48
	Carla Sacramento	Portugal
6th	Christine Wachtel	Germany	2: 01.84
7th	Maria Akraka	Sweden	2: 02.04
8th	Karen Gydesen	Denmark	2: 02.16

For Diane Modahl, as Diane Edwards 1990 EM -Achte was in the semifinals last stop

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Lyubov Gurina	Russia	2: 00.77
2	Patricia Djaté	France	2: 00.81
3	Irina Samorokova	Russia	2: 00.81
4th	Małgorzata Rydz	Poland	2: 00.83
5	Stella Jongmans	Netherlands	2: 01.55
6th	Diane Modahl	Great Britain	2: 02.18
7th	Malin Ewerlof	Sweden	2: 02.28
8th	Kati Kovacs	Germany	2: 03.54

final

August 10, 1994

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Lyubov Gurina	Russia	1: 58.55
2	Natallja Duchnowa	Belarus	1: 58.55
3	Lyudmila Rogacheva	Russia	1: 58.69
4th	Małgorzata Rydz	Poland	1: 59.12
5	Ann Griffiths	Great Britain	1: 59.81
6th	Carla Sacramento	Portugal	2: 00.01
7th	Patricia Djaté	France	2: 00.34
8th	Anna Brzesinska	Poland	2: 00.41
9	Irina Samorokova	Russia	2: 11.50

Web links

• Women 800m European Championship 1994 Helsinki on todor66.com, accessed October 2, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1994 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed October 2, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 800m European Championship 1994 Helsinki, p. 466 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 2, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1994, 800 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on October 2, 2019
• 16th European Athletics Championships 1994 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on October 2, 2019

Video

• Women's 800m Final European Champs Helsinki 1994 on youtube.com (English), accessed October 2, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 800m women , accessed October 2, 2019