European Athletics Championships 1994/10 km women's walking

16th European Athletics Championships
discipline	10 km walk
gender	Women
Attendees	33 athletes from 16 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Round trip through Helsinki
Competition phase	August 9
Medalists Sari Essayah ( FIN )   Annarita Sidoti ( ITA )   Jelena Nikolajewa ( RUS )

The women's 10 km at the 1994 European Athletics Championships was held on August 9, 1994 in the streets of Helsinki .

The European champion was the Finnish world champion from 1993 and vice world champion from 1991 Sari Essayah . She won ahead of the Italian defending champion Annarita Sidoti . Bronze went to the Russian Olympic runner-up in 1992 Jelena Nikolajewa .

Records / best performances

Existing records / best performances

World record	41:46 min	Annarita Sidoti	Livorno , Italy	June 12, 1994
European best time
Championship record	44:00 min		EM Split , Yugoslavia	August 29, 1990

Panoramic view of Helsinki

Note:
At that time, records were not kept in marathon running and street walking because of the different track conditions with the exception of championship records.

Record improvement

European champion Sari Essayah improved the existing EM record on August 9 by 1:23 min to 42:37 min.  

execution

There was no preliminary round here, all 33 walkers went to the final together.

Result

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  European title for Sari Essayah, world champion from 1993 and vice world champion from 1991

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  Susana Feitor reached eighth place

Beate Gummelt, in 1990 as Beate Anders EM sixth, came in ninth place

August 9, 1994

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Sari essayah	Finland	42:37 CR
2	Annarita Sidoti	Italy	42:43
3	Elena Nikolaeva	Russia	42:43
4th	Jelena Arshinzeva	Russia	43:23
5	Larissa Ramasanova	Russia	43:25
6th	Natallja Misjulja	Belarus	43:39
7th	Elisabetta Perrone	Italy	43:47
8th	Susana Feitor	Portugal	43:47
9	Beate Gummelt	Germany	44:09
10	Tatyana Ragozina	Ukraine	44:15
11	Ileana Salvador	Italy	44:51
12	Valyanzina Zybulskaya	Belarus	45:06
13	Emilia Cano	Spain	45:14
14th	Mária Urbanik-Rosza	Hungary	45:31
15th	Encarna Granados	Spain	45:43
16	Kjersti Tysse	Norway	46:10
17th	Sonata Milušauskaite	Lithuania	46:17
18th	Valérie Nadaud	France	46:23
19th	Simone Thust	Germany	46:26
20th	Vicky Lupton	Great Britain	46:30
21st	Hanne Liland	Norway	46:51
22nd	Yulia Lisnik	Moldova	47:20
23	Verity Snook-Larby	Great Britain	47:23
24	Isilda Gonçalves	Portugal	47:42
25th	Deirdre Gallagher	Ireland	48:50
26th	Kada Delic	Bosnia and Herzegovina	49:58
27	Kaisa Suhonen	Finland	50:54
28	Mira Saastamoines	Finland	51:54
DSQ	Olga Leonenko	Ukraine
	Lisa Kehler	Great Britain
	Norica Câmpean	Romania
	Katarzyna Radtke	Poland
	Kathrin Boyde	Germany

Web links

• Women 10km Walk European Championship 1994 Helsinki 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 10km Walk European Championship 1994 Helsinki, p. 469 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 4, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1994, 10 km walk 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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 10 km Walk Women , Spanish / English, p. 73 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on October 4, 2019