European Athletics Championships 1994 / men's high jump

16th European Athletics Championships
discipline	high jump
gender	Men
Attendees	26 athletes from 17 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 7th (qualification) August 9th (final)
Medalist
gold	Steinar Hoen ( NOR )
silver	Artur Partyka ( POL )
	Steve Smith ( GBR )

Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The men's high jump at the European Athletics Championships in 1994 was held on August 7 and 9, 1994 in the Olympic Stadium in the Finnish capital Helsinki .

European champion was the Norwegian Steinar Hoen . In second place were two athletes who were each rewarded with silver. These were the Polish Olympic third in 1992 and World Cup runner-up in 1993 Artur Partyka and the British World Cup third in 1993, Steve Smith .

Records

Existing records

World record	2.45 m	Javier Sotomayor	Salamanca , Spain	July 27, 1993
European record	2.42 m	Patrik Sjöberg	Stockholm , Sweden	June 30, 1987
EM record	2.34 m	Igor Paklin	EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 31, 1986
		Dragutin Topić	EM Split , Yugoslavia	August 31, 1990
		Alexei Jemelin
		Georgi Dakov

Record improvement

European champion Steinar Hoen improved the existing championship record in the final on August 10th by one centimeter to 2.35 m  

qualification

August 7, 1994

26 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 2.28 m. Nobody even approached this amount after it became clear that this was not necessary for a participation in the final. Three athletes from the two groups had each jumped 2.26 m, twelve other participants had 2.23 m. These fifteen high jumpers were finally qualified for the final (highlighted in light green).

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Leonid Pumalainen	Russia	2.26
2	Stevan Zorić	Yugoslavia	2.23
	Jean-Charles Gicquel	France
	Artur Partyka	Poland
	Dimítrios Kokótis	Greece
6th	Ralf Sonn	Germany	2.23
	Håkon Særnblom	Sweden
	Steve Smith	Great Britain
9	Juha Isolehto	Finland	2.20
10	Itai Margalit	Israel	2.15
	Normunds Sietiņš	Latvia
12	Kristofer Lamos	Germany	2.15
13	Gustavo Becker	Spain	2.10

Group B

Sorin Matei was eliminated in eleventh place in his qualifying group

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Lábros papakóstas	Greece	2.26
2	Dalton Grant	Great Britain	2.26
3	Steinar Hoen	Norway	2.23
4th	Wolfgang Kreissig	Germany	2.23
5	Jaroslaw Kotewicz	Poland	2.23
	Dragutin Topić	Yugoslavia
	Oleg Zhukovskiy	Belarus
8th	Brendan Reilly	Great Britain	2.20
9	Roberto Ferrari	Italy	2.20
	Robert Kołodziejczyk	Poland
11	Sorin Matei	Romania	2.15
12	Mark Mandy	Ireland	2.15
13	Zoltán Bakler	Hungary	2.10

Legend

Brief overview of the meaning of the symbols - also commonly used in other publications:

-	left out
O	skipped
x	cracked

final

August 9, 1994

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)	Trial series of medalists
				2.15 m	2.20 m	2.25 m	2.28 m	2.31 m	2.33 m	2.35 m
1	Steinar Hoen	Norway	2.35 CR	-	-	O	-	xo	O	xxo
2	Artur Partyka	Poland	2.33	O	-	O	-	xxo	xo	xxx
	Steve Smith	Great Britain	2.33	-	-	O	-	xxo	xo	xxx
4th	Håkon Særnblom	Sweden	2.31
5	Jaroslaw Kotewicz	Poland	2.31
	Dragutin Topić	Yugoslavia	2.31
7th	Leonid Pumalainen	Russia	2.28
8th	Lábros papakóstas	Greece	2.28
9	Dalton Grant	Great Britain	2.25
	Jean-Charles Gicquel	France	2.25
11	Stevan Zorić	Yugoslavia	2.25
12	Ralf Sonn	Germany	2.25
13	Wolfgang Kreissig	Germany	2.20
14th	Oleg Zhukovskiy	Belarus	2.15
15th	Dimítrios Kokótis	Greece	2.15

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  European champion Steinar Hoen

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  Vice European Champion Artur Partyka (here in 2015) , Olympic Knight from 1992 and Vice World Champion from 1993 - he later won other medals at World, European and Olympic Games

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 1994 at european-athletics.org, accessed September 25, 2019
• European Championship 1994 Helsinki, Men High Jump on todor66.com, accessed September 25, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1994 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed September 25, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men High Jump European Championship 1994 Helsinki, p. 463 (PDF, 13.363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 25, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1994, high jump men on sportschau.de, accessed on September 25, 2019
• 16th European Athletics Championships 1994 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on September 25, 2019

Videos

• 4809 European Track & Field High Jump Men Steinar Hoen on youtube.com (English), accessed on September 25, 2019
• 4818 European Track & Field High Jump Men Artur Partyka on youtube.com (English), accessed on September 25, 2019
• 4813 European Track & Field High Jump Men Steve Smith on youtube.com (English), accessed September 25, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. High jump , accessed September 25, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, High Jump Men , p. 21 (PDF; 271 kB), Spanish / English, accessed on September 25, 2019