European Athletics Championships 1994 / Women's Shot Put

16th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot put
gender	Women
Attendees	20 athletes from 13 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 7th (qualification / final)
Medalists Wita Pawlysch ( UKR )   Astrid Kumbernuss ( GER )   Svetla Mitkowa ( BUL )

Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The shot put women at the 1994 European Athletics Championships was on August 7, 1994 at the Olympic Stadium in the Finnish capital Helsinki held.

The European champion was the Ukrainian Wita Pawlysch , who later tested positive for doping abuse twice and was most recently banned for life. She won ahead of the German defending champion Astrid Kumbernuss . The Bulgarian Swetla Mitkowa won the bronze medal.

Existing records

World record	22.63 m	Natalia Lisovskaya	Moscow , Soviet Union (now Russia )	June 7, 1987
European record
EM record	21.59 m	Ilona Slupianek	EM in Athens , Greece	September 6, 1982

The European Championship record of the GDR athlete Ilona Slupianek , which has existed since 1982 , remained completely untouched at these European championships. The best performance comes from a time with proven doping practice in the GDR . The record holder Ilona Slupianek herself tested positive in 1977.

qualification

August 7, 1994

Twenty participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 18.00 m. Eight athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the four next-placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 16.98 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Stephanie Storp	Germany	18.85
2	Larissa Peleschenko	Russia	18.32
3	Svetla Mitkowa	Bulgaria	18.24
4th	Valentyna Fedyushyna	Ukraine	18.04
5	Danguolé urbikiené	Lithuania	17.22
6th	Marika Tuliniemi	Finland	17.05
7th	Natasha Erjavec	Slovenia	16.98
8th	Maggie Lynes	Great Britain	16.16
9	Linda-Marie Mårtensson	Sweden	15.90
10	Elvira Urusova	Georgia	15.73

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Astrid Kumbernuss	Germany	18.41
2	Anna Romanova	Russia	18.39
3	Wita Pavlysch	Ukraine	18.29
4th	Kathrin Neimke	Germany	18.08
5	Krystyna Danilczyk	Poland	17.98
6th	Karoliina Lundahl	Finland	16.82
7th	Myrtle Augee	Great Britain	16.77
8th	Corrie de Bruin	Netherlands	16.66
9	Eha Rünne	Estonia	16.21
10	Katarina Sederholm	Finland	15.72

final

Krystyna Danilczyk reached ninth place

August 7, 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	Wita Pavlysch	Ukraine	19.61	19.61	19.24	18.88	x	x	19.04
2	Astrid Kumbernuss	Germany	19.49	19.49	x	18.44	x	x	19.11
3	Svetla Mitkowa	Bulgaria	19.49	18.87	x	18.92	19.49	18.60	18.94
4th	Stephanie Storp	Germany	19.39
5	Larissa Peleschenko	Russia	19.01
6th	Kathrin Neimke	Germany	18.94
7th	Valentyna Fedyushyna	Ukraine	18.91
8th	Anna Romanova	Russia	18.40
9	Krystyna Danilczyk	Poland	17.50
10	Danguolé urbikiené	Lithuania	17.37
11	Marika Tuliniemi	Finland	16.71
12	Natasha Erjavec	Slovenia	16.34

Web links

• European Championship 1994 Helsinki, Women Shot Put 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 Shot Put 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, women's shot put on sportschau.de, accessed on October 5, 2019
• 16th European Athletics Championships 1994 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on October 5, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ "Dopingopfer" Kleinert for life-long bans , Focus Online August 2, 2013, accessed on October 5, 2019
2. ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put women , accessed October 5, 2019
3. ↑ A new level has been reached in GDR doping practice: A world record with addictive substances , Der Tagesspiegel August 8, 1998, accessed on October 5, 2019
4. ↑ The GDR was already stuffing the little ones of sport with pills - this has fatal consequences on focus.de, Focus Magazin, No. 11/1994, March 14, 1994, accessed on October 5, 2019
5. ↑ Doping - not an issue for the Briesenick family on taz.de, accessed on October 5, 2019