European Athletics Championships 1994 / women's high jump

16th European Athletics Championships
discipline	high jump
gender	Women
Attendees	35 athletes from 24 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 12th (qualification) August 14th (final)
Medalists Britta Bilač ( SLO )   Jelena Guljajewa ( RUS )   Nelė Žilinskienė ( LTU )

Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The women's high jump at the European Athletics Championships in 1994 was held on August 12 and 14, 1994 in the Olympic Stadium in the Finnish capital Helsinki .

European champion was the Slovenian Britta Bilač . Second place went to the Russian Jelena Guljajewa . The Lithuanian Nelė Žilinskienė won the bronze medal.

Existing records

World record	2.09 m	Stefka Kostadinova	Rome , Italy	August 30, 1987
European record
EM record	2.02 m	Ulrike Meyfarth	EM Athens , Greece	September 8, 1982

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

qualification

August 12, 1994

35 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification height for direct entry into the final was 1.92 m. Eight athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the four athletes placed next to twelve jumpers (highlighted in light green). So finally 1.90 m had to be achieved for the final. The failed attempt rule was applied, which led to the fact that five athletes with skipped 1.90 m were not qualified for the final.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Britta Bilač	Slovenia	1.92
2	Heike Henkel	Germany	1.92
3	Inha Babakowa	Ukraine	1.92
4th	Elena Gulyayeva	Russia	1.92
5	Zuzana Kováciková	Czech Republic	1.90
6th	Katarzyna Majchrzak	Poland	1.90
7th	Olga Bolshova	Moldova	1.90
8th	Yevgenia Zdanova	Russia	1.90
9	Eleonora Milusheva	Bulgaria	1.88
10	Monica Iagăr	Romania	1.85
	Julia Bennett	Great Britain	1.85
	Sandrine Fricot	France	1.85
13	Valentina Gotovska	Latvia	1.85
14th	Pia Zinck	Denmark	1.85
15th	Hanne Andersen	Norway	1.80
	Claudia Ellinger	Switzerland	1.80
17th	Tatyana Khramova	Belarus	1.80
NM	Lenka Riháková	Slovakia

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Tazzjana Scheutschyk	Belarus	1.92
2	Nelė Žilinskienė	Lithuania	1.92
3	Elena Topchina	Russia	1.92
4th	Svetlana Issaewa-Lessewa	Bulgaria	1.92
5	Heike Balck	Germany	1.90
	Hanne Haugland	Norway	1.90
	Sigrid Kirchmann	Austria	1.90
8th	Sieglinde Cadusch	Switzerland	1.90
9	Inna Gliznutsa	Moldova	1.90
10	Laura Sharpe	Ireland	1.85
	Antonella Bevilacqua	Italy	1.85
	Donata Jancewicz	Poland	1.85
13	Erzsebet Fazekas	Hungary	1.85
14th	Natalia Jonckheere	Belgium	1.85
15th	Debbie Marti	Great Britain	1.85
16	Níki Bakoyiánni	Greece	1.80
17th	Lea Haggett	Great Britain	1.75

Legend

Brief overview of the meaning of the symbols - also commonly used in other publications:

-	left out
O	skipped
x	cracked

final

The defending champion and Olympic champion from 1992 Heike Henkel came in eleventh place

August 14, 1994

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)	Trial series of medalists
				1.80	1.85	1.90	1.93	1.96	1.98	2.00	2.02
1	Britta Bilač	Slovenia	2.00	O	O	O	O	xxo	xo	O	xxx
2	Elena Gulyayeva	Russia	1.96	-	O	xo	xo	O	xxx
3	Nelė Žilinskienė	Lithuania	1.93	O	O	O	O	xxx
4th	Inha Babakowa	Ukraine	1.93
5	Hanne Haugland	Norway	1.93
6th	Heike Balck	Germany	1.93
7th	Svetlana Issaewa-Lessewa	Bulgaria	1.90
	Elena Topchina	Russia	1.90
9	Tazzjana Scheutschyk	Belarus	1.90
10	Sigrid Kirchmann	Austria	1.90
11	Heike Henkel	Germany	1.85
	Zuzana Kováciková	Czech Republic	1.85

Web links

• European Championship 1994 Helsinki, Women High Jump on todor66.com, accessed October 4, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1994 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed October 4, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women High Jump European Championship 1994 Helsinki, p. 467f (PDF, 13.363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 4, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1994, high jump women on sportschau.de, accessed on October 4, 2019
• 16th European Athletics Championships 1994 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on October 4, 2019

Video

• 5069 European Track & Field High Jump Britta Bilač on youtube.com (English), accessed on October 4, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. High jump women , accessed October 4, 2019