European Athletics Championships 1994 / Women's discus throw

16th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Women
Attendees	24 athletes from 17 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 10th (qualification) August 11th (final)
Medalists Ilke Wyludda ( GER )   Elina Swerawa ( BLR )   Mette Bergmann ( NOR )

Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The women's discus throw at the European Athletics Championships in 1994 was played on August 10 and 11, 1994 in the Olympic Stadium in the Finnish capital Helsinki .

The German defending champion and runner-up in 1991, Ilke Wyludda , became European champion . Second place went to Elina Swerava from Belarus . Bronze went to the Norwegian Mette Bergmann .

Existing records

World record	76.80 m	Gabriele Reinsch	Neubrandenburg , GDR (now Germany )	July 9, 1988
European record
EM record	71.36 m	Diana Sachse	EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 28, 1986

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

qualification

August 9, 1994

24 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 57.58 m had to be achieved for the final.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Elina Swerava	Bulgaria	62.50
2	Franka Dietzsch	Germany	59.98
3	Jana Lauren	Germany	58.20
4th	Olga Chernyavskaya	Russia	57.62
5	Nicoleta Grasu	Romania	57.58
6th	Eha Rünne	Estonia	56.50
7th	Renata Katewicz	Poland	56.32
8th	Svetla Mitkowa	Bulgaria	56.04
9	Jacqueline Goormachtigh	Netherlands	54.82
10	Alice Matejková	Czech Republic	54.14
11	Anastasía Kelesídou	Greece	54.08
12	Karin Colberg	Sweden	53.36

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Ilke Wyludda	Germany	65.90
2	Mette Bergmann	Norway	63.32
3	Olga Nikischina	Ukraine	59.80
4th	Natalia Sadova	Russia	59.76
5	Marie-Paule Geldhof	Belgium	59.20
6th	Lyudmila Filimonova	Belarus	58.50
7th	Zdeňka Šilhavá	Czech Republic	58.00
8th	Jacqueline McKernan	Great Britain	57.56
9	Daniela Curovic	Yugoslavia	57.06
10	Atanaska Angelova	Bulgaria	56.26
11	Corrie de Bruin	Netherlands	54.76
12	Agnès carpet	France	51.98

final

Ilke Wyludda won her second European Championship title after the vice world championship in 1991 - in 1995 she was again vice world champion and in 1996 she was Olympic champion

August 10, 1994

Note: The symbol "x" means "invalid".

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)	Trial series of medalists
				1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt
1	Ilke Wyludda	Germany	68.72	65.40	61.76	63.60	67.08	68.72	65.08
2	Elina Swerava	Bulgaria	64.46	59.18	64.46	62.36	63.78	x	x
3	Mette Bergmann	Norway	64.34	58.64	59.30	64.34	60.90	x	61.64
4th	Nicoleta Grasu	Romania	63.64
5	Olga Chernyavskaya	Russia	62.54
6th	Jana Lauren	Germany	60.44
7th	Marie-Paule Geldhof	Belgium	59.48
8th	Lyudmila Filimonova	Belarus	59.46
9	Franka Dietzsch	Germany	59.18
10	Olga Nikischina	Ukraine	58.36
11	Natalia Sadova	Russia	58.08
12	Zdeňka Šilhavá	Czech Republic	55.04

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  Mette Bergmann - four years ago in the final without a valid attempt - won the bronze medal

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  Nicoleta Grasu came fourth - she later won numerous silver and bronze medals at world championships from 1999 to 2009 and European championships from 1998 to 2010

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  Franka Dietzsch came in ninth - she was world champion three times between 1999 and 2007, European champion 1998 , vice European champion 2006

Web links

• European Championship 1994 Helsinki, Women High Jump 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 High Jump 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, discus throw 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

• 4863 European Track & Field Discus Women Ilke Wyludda on youtube.com (English), accessed on October 5, 2019
• 4866 European Track & Field Discus Women Ellina Zvereva on youtube.com (English), accessed on October 5, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Discus women , accessed October 5, 2019