European Athletics Championships 1994/20 km walking men
| 16th European Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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| discipline | 20 km walk | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 29 athletes from 16 countries | ||||||||
| venue |
 Helsinki
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| Competition location | Round trip through Helsinki | ||||||||
| Competition phase | August 7th | ||||||||
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The men's 20 km at the 1994 European Athletics Championships was held on August 7, 1994 in the streets of Helsinki .
The European champion was the Russian vice world champion from 1991 Mikhail Schchennikow . He won Jauhen Misjulja before the Belarusian World Cup third in 1991 . Bronze went to the Spanish world champion from 1993 Valentí Massana .
Records / best performances
Existing records / best performances
| World record | 1:18:13 h |
 Pavol Blažek
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Hildesheim , FR Germany | September 16, 1990 |
| European best time | ||||
| EM record | 1:21:15 h |
Jozef Pribilinec
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EM in Stuttgart , BR Germany | August 27, 1986 |
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 Mikhail Schchennikow improved the existing EM record on August 7th by 2:30 to 1:18:45.
execution
There was no preliminary round, all 29 walkers went to the final together.
Result
August 7, 1994
Robert Korzeniowski (here in 2018) was disqualified - later he developed into one of the most successful walkers in athletics history
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Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 1994 at european-athletics.org, accessed September 24, 2019
- Men 20km Walk 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 20km Walk European Championship 1994 Helsinki, p. 464f (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 24, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1994, 20 km walking 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
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF world records. 20 km walking men , accessed September 24, 2019