European Athletics Championships 1994/400 m hurdles for women

16th European Athletics Championships
discipline	400 meter hurdles
gender	Women
Attendees	24 athletes from 15 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 9th (preliminary) August 10th (semi-finals) August 12th (final)
Medalists Sally Gunnell ( GBR )   Silvia Rieger ( GER )   Anna Knoros ( RUS )

Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The women's 400-meter hurdles at the European Athletics Championships in 1994 was held from August 9 to 12, 1994 in the Olympic Stadium in the Finnish capital Helsinki .

The British Olympic champion in 1992 , vice world champion in 1991 , world champion in 1993 and world record holder Sally Gunnell became European champion . The German Silvia Rieger won the silver medal. Third place went to Russian Anna Knoros .

Existing records

World record	52.74 s	Sally Gunnell	WM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	19th August 1993
European record
EM record	53.32 s	Marina Stepanova	EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 30, 1986

European champion Sally Gunnell missed the existing EM record in the final on August 12th by a hundredth of a second.  

Preliminary round

August 10, 1994, 5:35 p.m.

The preliminary round was carried out in three runs. The first four athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the four fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Olga Nazarova	Russia	55.71
2	Heike Meissner	Germany	56.13
3	Monika Warnicka	Poland	56.48
4th	Anita Protti	Switzerland	56.51
5	Monica Westén	Sweden	56.74
6th	Iina Pekkola	Finland	57.81
7th	Jacqui Parker	Great Britain	57.83
8th	Stefanie Zotter	Austria	58.32

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Sally Gunnell	Great Britain	55.17
2	Tetiana Tereshchuk	Ukraine	55.75
3	Gesine Schmidt	Germany	55.96
4th	Michèle Schenk	Switzerland	56.50
5	Wera Ordina	Russia	56.66
6th	Sylwia Pachut	Poland	56.76
7th	Tiia Eeskivi	Estonia	58.06
8th	Carole Nelson	France	58.39

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Tatiana Kurochkina	Belarus	55.53
2	Silvia Rieger	Germany	55.83
3	Anna Knoros	Russia	55.95
4th	Gowry Retchakan	Great Britain	56.45
5	Frida Svensson	Sweden	57.06
6th	Ionela Târlea	Romania	57.79
7th	Lana Jekabesone	Latvia	57.99
8th	Virna De Angeli	Italy	58.60

Semifinals

August 10, 1994

From the two semi-finals, the first four athletes - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Heike Meissner	Germany	55.16
2	Tatiana Kurochkina	Belarus	55.49
3	Gowry Retchakan	Great Britain	55.78
4th	Olga Nazarova	Russia	55.90
5	Gesine Schmidt	Germany	56.01
6th	Monica Westén	Sweden	56.38
7th	Sylwia Pachut	Poland	56.57
8th	Michèle Schenk	Switzerland	57.67

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Sally Gunnell	Great Britain	54.60
2	Anna Knoros	Russia	54.82
3	Silvia Rieger	Germany	55.69
4th	Tetiana Tereshchuk	Ukraine	55.79
5	Anita Protti	Switzerland	56.15
6th	Wera Ordina	Russia	56.40
7th	Monika Warnicka	Poland	56.70
8th	Frida Svensson	Sweden	57.54

From 1992 to 1994 the world record holder Sally Gunnell dominated this discipline - 1992 Olympic champion, 1993 world champion and now European champion, plus vice world champion from 1991

final

August 12, 1994

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Sally Gunnell	Great Britain	53.33
2	Silvia Rieger	Germany	54.68
3	Anna Knoros	Russia	54.68
4th	Heike Meissner	Germany	54.79
5	Tatiana Kurochkina	Belarus	55.18
6th	Tetiana Tereshchuk	Ukraine	55.53
7th	Olga Nazarova	Russia	55.98
8th	Gowry Retchakan	Great Britain	56.05

Web links

• Women 400m Hurdles European Championship 1994 Helsinki on todor66.com, accessed October 3, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1994 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on October 3, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 400m Hurdles European Championship 1994 Helsinki, p. 467 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 3, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1994, 400 m hurdles women on sportschau.de, accessed on October 3, 2019
• 16th European Athletics Championships 1994 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on October 3, 2019

Video

• Women's 400m Hurdles Final European Champs Helsinki 1994 on youtube.com (English), accessed October 3, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 400 m hurdles women , accessed on October 3, 2019