European Athletics Championships 1994/3000 m women

16th European Athletics Championships
discipline	3000 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	27 athletes from 15 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 7th (preliminary) August 10th (final)
Medalists Sonia O'Sullivan ( IRL )   Yvonne Murray ( GBR )   Gabriela Szabo ( ROM )

Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The 3,000-meter run for women at the European Athletics Championships in 1994 was held on August 7 and 10, 1994 in the Olympic Stadium in the Finnish capital Helsinki .

European champion was the Irish Olympic runner-up over 1500 meters in 1992 and European record holder Sonia O'Sullivan . The British defending champion Yvonne Murray came in second. Bronze went to the Romanian Gabriela Szabo .

Existing records

World record	8: 06.11 min	Wang Junxia	Beijing , People's Republic of China	September 13, 1993
European record	8: 21.64 min	Sonia O'Sullivan	London , UK	July 15, 1994
EM record	8: 30.28 min	Svetlana Ulmasowa	EM Athens , Greece	September 9, 1982

The European champion Sonia O'Sullivan missed the European Championship record in the final on August 10th by only 1.56 seconds.  

Preliminary round

August 7, 1994

The preliminary round was held in two runs. The first five athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the five fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Sonia O'Sullivan	Ireland	8: 51.30
2	Olga Churbanova	Russia	8: 52.47
3	Alison Wyeth	Great Britain	8: 52.68
4th	Sonia McGeorge	Great Britain	8: 52.73
5	Roberta Brunet	Italy	8: 52.80
6th	Cristina Misaros	Romania	8: 52.98
7th	Farida Fates	France	8: 55.17
8th	Grete Koens	Netherlands	8: 56.21
9	Anita Philpott	Ireland	8: 57.74
10	Jelena Kaledina	Russia	8: 58.86
11	Gunhild Hall	Norway	8: 59.11
12	Renata Paradowska	Poland	9: 01.95
13	Estela Estévez	Spain	9: 03.02
14th	Serap Aktas	Turkey	9: 07.04

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Yvonne Murray	Great Britain	8: 54.46
2	Lyudmila Borisova	Russia	8: 54.99
3	Gabriela Szabo	Romania	8: 55.83
4th	Päivi Tikkanen	Finland	8: 56.99
5	Nadia Dandolo	Italy	8: 57.38
6th	Brynhild Synstnes	Norway	8: 58.75
7th	Hilde Stavik	Norway	8: 58.80
8th	Silvia Sommaggio	Italy	8: 59.58
9	Anikó Javo	Hungary	9: 01.98
10	Milka Mikhailova	Bulgaria	9: 02.74
11	Andrea Karhoff	Germany	9: 07.64
12	Julia Vaquero	Spain	9: 11.76
13	Geraldine Hendricken	Ireland	9: 30.81
DNS	Marina Bastos	Portugal

final

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  With Sonia O'Sullivan, the Olympic runner-up in the 1500 meters in 1992 and European record holder - she achieved numerous other successes in the years to come

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  Bronze for Gabriela Szabo, who won numerous other victories and medals in the years following these European championships

August 10, 1994

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Sonia O'Sullivan	Ireland	8: 31.85
2	Yvonne Murray	Great Britain	8: 36.48
3	Gabriela Szabo	Romania	8: 40.08
4th	Olga Churbanova	Russia	8: 40.48
5	Lyudmila Borisova	Russia	8: 41.71
6th	Alison Wyeth	Great Britain	8: 45.76
7th	Farida Fates	France	8: 46.04
8th	Nadia Dandolo	Italy	8: 49.42
9	Cristina Misaros	Romania	8: 49.69
10	Roberta Brunet	Italy	8: 50.76
11	Sonia McGeorge	Great Britain	8: 51.55
12	Anita Philpott	Ireland	8: 54.79
13	Brynhild Synstnes	Norway	8: 59.17
14th	Päivi Tikkanen	Finland	9: 06.93
15th	Grete Koens	Netherlands	9: 14.35

Web links

• Women 3000m 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 3000m 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, 3000 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

• 4886 European Track & Field 3000m Women on youtube.com (English), accessed October 2, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ Track and Field Statistics - Women, 3000 m , on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed October 2, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 3000 m Women , Spanish / English, p. 75 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on October 2, 2019