European Athletics Championships 1994 / women's javelin
16th European Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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discipline | Javelin throw | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 22 athletes from 14 countries | ||||||||
venue | Helsinki | ||||||||
Competition location | Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 10th (qualification) August 11th (final) |
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The women's javelin at the European Athletics Championships in 1994 was held on August 10 and 11, 1994 in the Olympic Stadium in the Finnish capital Helsinki .
The reigning world champion Trine Hattestad from Norway became the European champion . The German European Championship runner-up from 1990 , Olympic third from 1992 and Vice World Champion from 1993 Karen Forkel won the silver medal. The Romanian Felicia Țilea came in third place .
Existing records
World record | 80.00 m | Petra Felke | Potsdam , GDR (now Germany ) | September 9, 1988 |
European record | ||||
EM record | 77.44 m | Fatima Whitbread | EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany | August 29, 1986 |
The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.
qualification
August 11, 1994
22 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 61.00 m. Three athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the nine next placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 55.66 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.
Group A
space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
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1 | Karen Forkel | Germany | 64.28 |
2 | Felicia Țilea | Romania | 62.84 |
3 | Claudia Isăilă | Romania | 60.16 |
4th | Jette Jeppesen | Denmark | 59.64 |
5 | Antoaneta Selenska | Bulgaria | 59.26 |
6th | Kinga Zsigmond | Hungary | 58.18 |
7th | Silke Gast | Germany | 56.80 |
8th | Nadine Auzei | France | 55.12 |
9 | Natallja Schykalenka | Belarus | 55.08 |
10 | Shelley Holroyd | Great Britain | 51.26 |
11 | Mirela Manjani | Albania | 49.96 |
Group B
space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
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1 | Trine Hattestad | Norway | 64.46 |
2 | Rita Ramanauskaitė | Lithuania | 57.34 |
3 | Tanja Damaske | Germany | 56.14 |
4th | Nathalie Teppe | France | 55.72 |
5 | Taina Uppa | Finland | 55.66 |
6th | Ekaterina Ivakina | Russia | 54.86 |
7th | Mikaela Ingberg | Finland | 54.26 |
8th | Sharon Gibson | Great Britain | 53.82 |
9 | Päivi Alafrantti | Finland | 53.28 |
10 | Claudia Coslovich | Italy | 53.10 |
11 | Martine Bègue | France | 53.06 |
final
August 12, 1994
Note: The symbol "x" means "invalid".
space | Surname | nation | Width (m) | Trial series of medalists | |||||
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1st attempt | Second attempt | 3. Attempt | 4th attempt | 5th attempt | 6th attempt | ||||
1 | Trine Hattestad | Norway | 68.00 | 65.18 | 63.66 | 66.42 | 65.12 | x | 68.00 |
2 | Karen Forkel | Germany | 66.10 | 65.26 | 59.68 | x | x | 59.28 | 66.10 |
3 | Felicia Țilea | Romania | 64.34 | 64.34 | 62.40 | x | x | 59.78 | x |
4th | Silke Gast | Germany | 62.90 | ||||||
5 | Rita Ramanauskaitė | Lithuania | 61.54 | ||||||
6th | Tanja Damaske | Germany | 61.32 | ||||||
7th | Kinga Zsigmond | Hungary | 59.74 | ||||||
8th | Antoaneta Selenska | Bulgaria | 57.76 | ||||||
9 | Nathalie Teppe | France | 57.52 | ||||||
10 | Taina Uppa | Finland | 57.20 | ||||||
11 | Claudia Isăilă | Romania | 56.92 | ||||||
12 | Jette Jeppesen | Denmark | 56.06 |
Web links
- European Championship 1994 Helsinki, Women Javelin Throw on todor66.com, accessed October 5, 2019
- Track and Field Statistics, EM 1994 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed October 5, 2019
- European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Javelin Throw European Championship 1994 Helsinki, p. 468 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 5, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1994, javelin women on sportschau.de, accessed on October 5, 2019
- 16th European Athletics Championships 1994 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on October 5, 2019
Video
- 5009 European Track & Field Javelin Women Trine Hattestad on youtube.com (English), accessed October 5, 2019
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. Javelin women , accessed October 5, 2019