European Athletics Championships 1994 / women's triple jump

16th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Triple jump
gender	Women
Attendees	25 athletes from 14 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 7th (qualification) August 8th (final)
Medalists Anna Biryukova ( RUS )   Inna Lasovskaya ( RUS )   Inessa Krawez ( UKR )

Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The women's triple jump at the European Athletics Championships in 1994 was held on August 7th and 8th, 1994 in the Olympic Stadium in the Finnish capital Helsinki .

This competition was on the program for the first time as a women's discipline at a European Championship. The women's triple jump at the 1993 World Championships had its premiere at a major international championship .

The Russian triple jumpers achieved a double victory here. The reigning world champion and world record holder Anna Birjukowa became the European champion . She won ahead of Inna Lasovskaya . Bronze went to Ukrainian Inessa Krawez , who took second place in the long jump four days later .

Existing records

World record	15.09 m	Anna Biryukova	WM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 21, 1993
European record
Championship record	Competition for the first time in the EM program

The following EM records have been set:

• 14.33 m - Inna Lasovskaya , qualifying group A, August 7th
• 14.89 m - Anna Biryukova , final, August 8

doping

In this competition, an athlete had to be disqualified for doping abuse. The Bulgarian Sofia Boschanova , who was initially fourth , tested positive for the amphetamine mesocarb . The three jumpers in the ranks of five or more then moved up one rank in the list of results.

Boschanowa's doping fraud had an impact on two participants in particular:

• The Italian Barbara Lah , who was eliminated in the qualification, could have been in the final.
• The German Helga Radtke , who initially placed ninth, would have allowed three more attempts in the final.

Wind conditions

In the following summary of results, the wind conditions for the best jumps are named. The permitted limit is two meters per second. With stronger wind support, the distance will be counted for the competition, but will not be included in the lists of records and the best.

qualification

August 7, 1994

25 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 13.85 m. Eight athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the four athletes placed next to twelve jumpers (highlighted in light green). So finally 13.64 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)	Wind (m / s)
1	Inna Lasovskaya	Russia	14.33 CR	+1.7
2	Inessa Krawez	Ukraine	14.08	-0.7
3	Anna Biryukova	Russia	13.94	-1.7
4th	Concepción Paredes	Spain	13.78	-0.2
5	Rachel Kirby	Great Britain	13.64	+1.1
6th	Michelle Griffith	Great Britain	13.64	-0.1
7th	Betty Lise	France	13.35	-0.9
8th	Petra Laux	Germany	13.18	-1.3
9	Yelena Stakhova	Belarus	13.14	+0.2
10	Marika salt mines	Finland	12.97	+0.2
11	Anni Paananen	Finland	12.95	+0.1
NM	Iwa Prandschewa	Bulgaria
DNS	Olympia Menelaou	Cyprus

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)	Wind (m / s)
1	Iolanda Tschen	Russia	14.15	+0.1
2	Ramona Molzan	Germany	13.96	+0.6
3	Rodica Petrescu	Romania	13.89	-0.9
4th	Šárka Kašpárková	Czech Republic	13.87	+1.3
5	Helga Radtke	Germany	13.84	-1.7
6th	Barbara Lah	Italy	13.59	+0.3 actually qualified for the final
7th	Valérie Guiyoule	France	13.55	-0.2
8th	Ashia Hansen	Great Britain	13.45	+0.8
9	Natallja Klimovez	Belarus	13.37	+1.7
10	Carina Kjellman	Finland	13.34	+0.5
11	Virge Naeris	Estonia	13.16	-0.7
12	Jeļena Blaževiča	Latvia	13.02	-1.4
DOP	Sofia Boschanova	Bulgaria	admitted to the finals

final

August 8, 1994

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)	Wind (m / s)	Trial series of medalists
					1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt
1	Anna Biryukova	Russia	14.89 CR	+1.1	14.89	x	14.84	14.49	x	14.24
2	Inna Lasovskaya	Russia	14.85	+3.1	x	13.61	14.27	14.24	14.73	14.85
3	Inessa Krawez	Ukraine	14.67	+2.1	14.28	x	x	14.67	13.75	14.42
4th	Iolanda Tschen	Russia	14.48	+2.2
5	Rodica Petrescu	Romania	14.42	+0.8
6th	Šárka Kašpárková	Czech Republic	13.98	+1.6
7th	Ramona Molzan	Germany	13.82	+1.6
8th	Helga Radtke	Germany	13.77	+0.7	actually entitled to 3 more jumps
9	Concepción Paredes	Spain	13.68	-0.2
10	Michelle Griffith	Great Britain	13.60	+0.9
11	Rachel Kirby	Great Britain	13.45	+0.7
DOP	Sofia Boschanova	Bulgaria

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  Bronze medalist Inessa Krawez, four days later long jump - second - after a doping ban, she became world champion in 1995 and Olympic champion in 1996

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  Iolanda Tschen (here in 2010) , Vice World Champion from 1993 , reached fourth place

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  Šárka Kašpárková (on the photo in 2011) came in sixth place - in 1996 she was Olympic third, in 1997 world champion and in 1998 vice European champion

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  The two-time European Championship -Third in the long jump ( 1986 / 1990 ) Helga Radtke finished eighth

Web links

• European Championship 1994 Helsinki, Women Triple 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 Triple 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, triple jump 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

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

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Triple jump women , accessed October 5, 2019
2. ↑ Dreisprung-Vierte was doped , Berliner Zeitung August 12, 1994, accessed on October 5, 2019
3. ↑ Kravets' appeal thwarted , BBC News November 26, 2001, accessed October 5, 2019