European Athletics Championships 1994 / Men's Shot Put

16th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot put
gender	Men
Attendees	25 athletes from 15 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 12th (qualification) August 13th (final)
Medalist Oleksandr Klymenko ( UKR )   Oleksandr Bahatsch ( UKR )   Roman Wirastjuk ( UKR )

Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The shot put men at the 1994 European Athletics Championships was on 12 and 13 August 1994 at the Olympic Stadium in the Finnish capital Helsinki held.

In this competition the Ukrainian shot putters celebrated a triple success. European champion was the Russian World Cup third in 1991 Oleksandr Klymenko . He won ahead of Oleksandr Bahatsch , who won the 1993 World Cup bronze. Third place went to Roman Wirastjuk .

Existing records

World record	23.12 m	Randy Barnes	Los Angeles , USA	May 20, 1990
European record	23.06 m	Ulf Timmermann	Chania - Crete , Greece	May 22, 1988
EM record	22.22 m	Werner Günthör	EM Stuttgart , Germany	August 28, 1986

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

qualification

August 12, 1994

25 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 19.80 m. No competitor reached this mark. The final field now consisted of the twelve best-placed shot putters from both groups (highlighted in light green). To take part in the finals, 18.64 m had to be achieved.

Group A

Kjell Ove Hauge retired as tenth in his qualifying group

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Dragan Peric	Yugoslavia	19.64
2	Oleksandr Klymenko	Ukraine	19.45
3	Mika Halvari	Finland	19.29
4th	Saulius Kleiza	Lithuania	18.77
5	Thorsten Herbrand	Germany	18.65
6th	Corrado Fantini	Italy	18.64
7th	Paul Edwards	Great Britain	18.54
8th	Henrik Wennberg	Sweden	18.52
9	Oliver-Sven Buder	Germany	18.41
10	Kjell Ove Hauge	Norway	18.23
11	Ants Kiisa	Estonia	17.01
NM	Sergei Nikolaev	Russia	without space
	Dzmitryi Hancharuk	Belarus

Group B

Mika Halvari reached fourth place

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Pétur Guðmundsson	Iceland	19.96
2	Oleksandr Bahach	Ukraine	19.65
3	Roman Wirastyuk	Ukraine	19.25
4th	Paolo Dal Soglio	Italy	19.23
5	Markus Koistinen	Finland	18.95
6th	Roar Hoff	Norway	18.69
7th	Manuel Martínez	Spain	18.53
8th	Jonny Reinhardt	Germany	18.33
9	Jenõ Kóczián	Hungary	18.20
10	Kent Larsson	Sweden	18.19
11	Soeren Tallhem	Sweden	18.07
12	Antero Paljakka	Finland	18.00

Legend

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

-	left out
x	invalid

final

August 13, 1994

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)	Trial series of medalists
				1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt
1	Oleksandr Klymenko	Ukraine	20.78	20.54	20.78	x	x	x	-
2	Oleksandr Bahach	Ukraine	20.34	19.72	20.34	x	19.62	20.20	19.95
3	Roman Wirastyuk	Ukraine	19.59	18.70	19.45	19.40	19.59	x	x
4th	Mika Halvari	Finland	19.52
5	Markus Koistinen	Finland	19.51
6th	Dragan Peric	Yugoslavia	19.40
7th	Pétur Guðmundsson	Iceland	19.34
8th	Paolo Dal Soglio	Italy	19.15
9	Thorsten Herbrand	Germany	19.10
10	Saulius Kleiza	Lithuania	18.80
11	Corrado Fantini	Italy	18.30
12	Roar Hoff	Norway	18.15

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 1994 at european-athletics.org, accessed September 26, 2019
• European Championship 1994 Helsinki, Men Shot Put 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 Shot Put European Championship 1994 Helsinki, p. 463f (PDF, 13.363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 26, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1994, men's shot put 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

• Oleksandr Klimenko Shot Put 20.78 meters European Championships 1994 on youtube.com (English), accessed on September 26, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put men , accessed September 26, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, Shot Put Men , p. 28 (PDF, 271 kB), Spanish / English, accessed on September 26, 2019