European Athletics Championships 1994 / men's triple jump
| 16th European Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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| discipline | Triple jump | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 20 athletes from 13 countries | ||||||||
| venue |
 Helsinki
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| Competition location | Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
| Competition phase | August 11th (qualification) August 13th (final) |
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The men's triple jump at the European Athletics Championships 1994 was held on August 11th and 13th, 1994 in the Olympic Stadium in the Finnish capital Helsinki .
European champion was the Russian Denis Kapustin . He won ahead of Frenchman Serge Hélan . Bronze went to the Latvian Māris Bružiks .
Existing records
| World record | 17.97 m |
 Willie Banks
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Indianapolis , USA | May 16, 1985 |
| European record | 17.92 m |
.svg){kind=small} Christo Markow
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Rome , Italy | August 31, 1987 |
| EM record | 17.74 m |
 Leonid Voloshin
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EM Split , Yugoslavia | August 30, 1990 |
The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.
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 11, 1994
Twenty participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 16.80 m. No triple jumper reached this mark. The final field now consisted of the twelve best placed athletes from both groups (highlighted in light green). Only 16.24 m were necessary to take part in the finals.
Group A
| space | Surname | nation | Width (m) | Wind (m / s) |
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| 1 | Gennady Markov |
 Russia
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16.66 | -1.3 |
| 2 | Māris Bružiks |
 Latvia
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16.54 | -0.6 |
| 3 | Zsolt Czingler |
 Hungary
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16.45 | -1.0 |
| 4th | Georges Sainte-Rose |
 France
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16.43 | -0.5 |
| 5 | Julian Golley |
 Great Britain
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16.41 | +0.6 |
| 6th | Vasily Sokov |
Russia
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16.38 | +0.1 |
| 7th | Alex Norca |
France
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16.23 | -0.1 |
| 8th | Volker May |
 Germany
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16.22 | +0.3 |
| 9 | Ketill Hanstveit |
 Norway
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15.84 | -0.5 |
| 10 | Pierre Andersson |
 Sweden
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15.56 | -0.2 |
Group B
| space | Surname | nation | Width (m) | Wind (m / s) |
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| 1 | Jonathan Edwards |
Great Britain
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16.72 | +0.1 |
| 2 | Serge Hélan |
France
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16.68 | -0.3 |
| 3 | Denis Kapustin |
Russia
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16.60 | -0.3 |
| 4th | Audrius Raizgys |
 Lithuania
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16.37 | -0.4 |
| 5 | Milán Mikuláš |
 Czech Republic
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16.31 | +0.7 |
| 6th | Heikki Herva |
Finland
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16.24 | -0.2 |
| 7th | Arne Holm |
Sweden
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16.21 | -0.8 |
| 8th | Marios Hadjiandreou |
.svg){kind=small} Cyprus
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16.07 | -2.5 |
| 9 | Stoyko Tsonov |
 Bulgaria
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15.84 | -1.6 |
| NM | Francis Agyepong |
Great Britain
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without space |
final
August 13, 1994
Note: The symbol "x" means "invalid".
| space | Surname | nation | Width (m) | Wind (m / s) | Trial series of medalists | |||||
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| 1st attempt (m) | 2. attempt (m) | 3rd attempt (m) | 4th attempt (m) | 5th attempt (m) | 6th attempt (m) | |||||
| 1 | Denis Kapustin |
Russia
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17.62 | +0.4 | 16.75 | 16.77 | 16.66 | 16.97 | 17.17 | 17.62 |
| 2 | Serge Hélan |
France
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17.55 | +0.9 | 16.60 | 16.64 | 16.28 | 17.23 | 17.55 | 17.03 |
| 3 | Māris Bružiks |
Latvia
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17.20 | +0.7 | 17.12 | 17.20 | x | x | 17.08 | x |
| 4th | Vasily Sokov |
Russia
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16.97 | +1.5 | ||||||
| 5 | Gennady Markov |
Russia
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16.89 | +0.6 | ||||||
| 6th | Jonathan Edwards |
Great Britain
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16.85 | +0.5 | ||||||
| 7th | Georges Sainte-Rose |
France
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16.59 | +1.3 | ||||||
| 8th | Audrius Raizgys |
Lithuania
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16.59 | +0.8 | ||||||
| 9 | Julian Golley |
Great Britain
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16.35 | +0.6 | ||||||
| 10 | Milán Mikuláš |
Czech Republic
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16.29 | +0.4 | ||||||
| 11 | Zsolt Czingler |
Hungary
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16.21 | +0.7 | ||||||
| 12 | Heikki Herva |
Finland
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16.08 | +0.5 | ||||||
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 1994 at european-athletics.org, accessed September 26, 2019
- European Championship 1994 Helsinki, Men Triple Jump on todor66.com, accessed September 26, 2019
- Track and Field Statistics, EM 1994 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed September 26, 2019
- European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Triple Jump European Championship 1994 Helsinki, p. 463 (PDF, 13.363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 26, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1994, triple jump men on sportschau.de, accessed on September 26, 2019
- 16th European Athletics Championships 1994 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on September 26, 2019
Video
- 5103 European Track & Field Triple Jump Men Denis Kapustin on youtube.com (English), accessed on September 26, 2019
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. Triple jump men , accessed September 26, 2019
- ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, Triple Jump Men , p. 26 (PDF, 271 kB), Spanish / English, accessed on September 26, 2019