European Athletics Championships 1994 / Men's discus throw

16th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Men
Attendees	21 athletes from 16 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 12th (qualification) ; August 14th (final)
	Medalist
	Uladsimir Dubrouschtschyk ( BLR )
	Dmitri Shevchenko ( RUS )
	Jürgen Schult ( GER )

Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The men's discus throw at the 1994 European Athletics Championships was held on August 12 and 14, 1994 in the Olympic Stadium in the Finnish capital Helsinki .

The European champion was the Belarusian Uladzimir Dubrouschtschyk . The Russian vice world champion from 1993 Dmitri Shevchenko won the silver medal. Bronze went to the German Olympic champion in 1992 , World Cup third in 1993 and world record holder Jürgen Schult , who was world champion in 1987 , Olympic champion in 1988 and European champion in 1990 as a thrower for the GDR .

Existing records

World record	74.08 m	Germany Democratic Republic 1949 Jürgen Schult	Neubrandenburg GDR (now Germany )	June 6, 1986
European record
EM record	67.08 m	Soviet Union Romas Ubartas	EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 31, 1986

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

qualification

August 12, 1994

21 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 61.00 m. Four athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the eight athletes placed next to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 57.78 m had to be achieved for the final.

Group A

57.18 m were not enough for Vésteinn Hafsteinsson to take part in the final
With 56.38 m Virgilijus Alekna, later one of the world's best discus throwers, was eliminated from the qualification

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Dmitri Shevchenko	Russia Russia	62.46
2	Uladsimir Dubrouschtschyk	Belarus 1991 Belarus	62.00
3	Andreas Seelig	Germany Germany	61.28
4th	Nick Sweeney	Ireland Ireland	59.34
5	Lars Riedel	Germany Germany	58.66
6th	Robert Weir	United Kingdom Great Britain	57.18
7th	Vésteinn Hafsteinsson	Iceland Iceland	57.18
8th	Virgilijus Alekna	Lithuania 1989 Lithuania	56.38
9	Kristian Pettersson	Sweden Sweden	56.38
10	Kari Pekola	Finland Finland	56.06

Group B

Imrich Bugár had already won the EM bronze in 1978 , was a. a. European champion in 1982 and world champion in 1983 , but no longer reached the final

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Sergei Lyashov	Russia Russia	62.26
2	Attila Horváth	Hungary Hungary	60.96
3	Costel Grasu	Romania Romania	60.64
4th	Jürgen Schult	Germany Germany	60.62
5	Volodymyr Zinchenko	Ukraine Ukraine	60.40
6th	Svein Inge Valvik	Norway Norway	58.50
7th	Sergey Lukashok	Israel Israel	57.79
8th	Imrich Bugár	Czech Republic Czech Republic	56.64
9	Timo Sinervo	Finland Finland	56.60
10	Diego Fortuna	Italy Italy	55.70
11	Dag Solhaug	Sweden Sweden	54.44

final

August 14, 1994

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

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)	Trial series of medalists
space	Surname	nation	Width (m)	1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt
1	Uladsimir Dubrouschtschyk	Belarus 1991 Belarus	64.78	62.26	57.96	64.78	64.32	x	x
2	Dmitri Shevchenko	Russia Russia	64.56	61.60	x	64.56	61.40	x	x
3	Jürgen Schult	Germany Germany	64.18	63.92	61.96	61.68	64.18	x	61.64
4th	Nick Sweeney	Ireland Ireland	63.76
5	Attila Horváth	Hungary Hungary	63.60
6th	Volodymyr Zinchenko	Ukraine Ukraine	63.60
7th	Svein Inge Valvik	Norway Norway	62.02
8th	Costel Grasu	Romania Romania	61.40
9	Sergei Lyashov	Russia Russia	60.80
10	Andreas Seelig	Germany Germany	59.26
11	Sergey Lukashok	Israel Israel	57.60
DNS	Lars Riedel	Germany Germany

The bronze medalist and world record holder Jürgen Schult was already very successful for the GDR as world champion in 1987 , Olympic champion in 1988 , European champion in 1990 and also won several other medals after these European championships
Svein Inge Valvik came in seventh, in 1990 he failed in the qualification
The world champion of 1991 and 1993 Lars Riedel could not take the final - he was later another great success, including as World Champion 1995 / 1997 / 2001 and Olympic champion in 1996

Web links

European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 1994 at european-athletics.org, accessed September 27, 2019
European Championship 1994 Helsinki, Men Discus Throw on todor66.com, accessed September 27, 2019
Track and Field Statistics, EM 1994 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed September 27, 2019
European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Discus Throw European Championship 1994 Helsinki, p. 464 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 27, 2019
Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1994, discus throw men on sportschau.de, accessed on September 27, 2019
16th European Athletics Championships 1994 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on September 27, 2019

Video

5048 European Track & Field Discus Men Vladimir Dubrovshchik on youtube.com (English), accessed on September 27, 2019

References and comments

↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw men , accessed September 27, 2019

[1] IAAF world records. Discus throw men , accessed September 27, 2019