European Athletics Championships 1994 / men's hammer throw

16th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Hammer throw
gender	Men
Attendees	30 athletes from 12 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 10th (qualification) August 11th (final)
Medalist Vasily Sidorenko ( RUS )   Ihar Astapkovich ( BLR )   Heinz Weis ( GER )

Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

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

The European champion was the Russian thrower Vasily Sidorenko . He won in front of the Belarusian defending champion, Olympic II of 1992 and two-time World Championship runner- 1991 / 1993 Ihar Astapkowitsch . The German World Cup third from 1991 Heinz Weis won the bronze medal.

Existing records

World record	86.74 m	Yuri Sedych	EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 30, 1986
European record
EM record

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

qualification

August 10, 1994

25 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 76.00 m. Two athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the ten next-placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 74.16 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

72.88 were not enough for Mika Laaksonen to take part in the final

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Heinz Weis	Germany	79.56
2	Ihar Astapkovich	Belarus	79.00
3	Igor Nikulin	Russia	75.10
4th	Tibor Gécsek	Hungary	74.74
5	Oleksandr Krykun	Ukraine	74.16
6th	Aleksandr Krasko	Belarus	73.88
7th	Mika Laaksonen	Finland	72.88
8th	Claus Dethloff	Germany	72.08
9	Tore Gustafsson	Sweden	71.90
10	Gilles Dupray	France	71.38
11	Pavel Sedláček	Czechoslovakia	71.36
12	Jan Bielecki	Poland	66.72
13	Loris Paoluzzi	Italy	66.50

Group B

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  With his 73.96 m, Marko Wahlman was missing twenty centimeters from the final

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  The Olympic third from 1980 and vice world champion from 1987 Jüri Tamm (here in 2007) failed in the qualification

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Vitaly Aliyevich	Belarus	75.84
2	Christophe Épalle	France	75.44
3	Vasily Sidorenko	Russia	75.42
4th	Baláz's Kiss	Hungary	74.84
5	Karsten Kobs	Germany	74.76
6th	Andrij Skwaruk	Ukraine	74.70
7th	Vadim Kolesnik	Ukraine	74.28
8th	Marko Wahlman	Finland	73.96
9	Frédérick Kuhn	France	73.30
10	Zoltán Fábián	Hungary	72.80
11	Per Karlsson	Sweden	72.56
12	Jüri Tamm	Estonia	68.46

final

August 11, 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	Vasily Sidorenko	Russia	81.10	79.54	x	81.10	80.26	79.54	80.90
2	Ihar Astapkovich	Belarus	80.40	79.54	80.40	78.64	78.46	x	79.88
3	Heinz Weis	Germany	78.48	x	78.10	77.18	78.48	x	75.94
4th	Igor Nikulin	Russia	78.38
5	Tibor Gécsek	Hungary	77.62
6th	Oleksandr Krykun	Ukraine	76.08
7th	Christophe Épalle	France	75.22
8th	Vadim Kolesnik	Ukraine	75.22
9	Vitaly Aliyevich	Belarus	74.44
10	Karsten Kobs	Germany	74.40
11	Andrij Skwaruk	Ukraine	74.22
12	Baláz's Kiss	Hungary	73.08

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  Seventh place for Christophe Epalle

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  Karsten Kobs came in tenth place - in 1999 he became world champion

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 1994 from european-athletics.org, accessed September 29, 2019
• European Championship 1994 Helsinki, Men Hammer Throw on todor66.com, accessed September 29, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1994 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed September 29, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Hammer Throw European Championship 1994 Helsinki, p. 464 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 29, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1994, hammer throw men on sportschau.de, accessed on September 29, 2019
• 16th European Athletics Championships 1994 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on September 29, 2019

Video

• Hammer Throw European Athletics Champs 1994 Final on youtube.com (English), accessed on September 29, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Hammer Throw Men , accessed September 29, 2019