European Athletics Championships 1994 / women's javelin

16th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Javelin throw
gender	Women
Attendees	22 athletes from 14 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 10th (qualification) August 11th (final)
Medalists Trine Hattestad ( NOR )   Heide Rosendahl ( GER )   Felicia Țilea ( ROM )

Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The women's javelin 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 reigning world champion Trine Hattestad from Norway became the European champion . The German European Championship runner-up from 1990 , Olympic third from 1992 and Vice World Champion from 1993 Karen Forkel won the silver medal. The Romanian Felicia Țilea came in third place .

Existing records

World record	80.00 m	Petra Felke	Potsdam , GDR (now Germany )	September 9, 1988
European record
EM record	77.44 m	Fatima Whitbread	EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 29, 1986

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

qualification

August 11, 1994

22 participants competed in two groups for the qualification round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 61.00 m. Three athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the nine next placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 55.66 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Karen Forkel	Germany	64.28
2	Felicia Țilea	Romania	62.84
3	Claudia Isăilă	Romania	60.16
4th	Jette Jeppesen	Denmark	59.64
5	Antoaneta Selenska	Bulgaria	59.26
6th	Kinga Zsigmond	Hungary	58.18
7th	Silke Gast	Germany	56.80
8th	Nadine Auzei	France	55.12
9	Natallja Schykalenka	Belarus	55.08
10	Shelley Holroyd	Great Britain	51.26
11	Mirela Manjani	Albania	49.96

Group B

With her 53.10 m Claudia Coslovich retired in the qualification

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Trine Hattestad	Norway	64.46
2	Rita Ramanauskaitė	Lithuania	57.34
3	Tanja Damaske	Germany	56.14
4th	Nathalie Teppe	France	55.72
5	Taina Uppa	Finland	55.66
6th	Ekaterina Ivakina	Russia	54.86
7th	Mikaela Ingberg	Finland	54.26
8th	Sharon Gibson	Great Britain	53.82
9	Päivi Alafrantti	Finland	53.28
10	Claudia Coslovich	Italy	53.10
11	Martine Bègue	France	53.06

final

August 12, 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	Trine Hattestad	Norway	68.00	65.18	63.66	66.42	65.12	x	68.00
2	Karen Forkel	Germany	66.10	65.26	59.68	x	x	59.28	66.10
3	Felicia Țilea	Romania	64.34	64.34	62.40	x	x	59.78	x
4th	Silke Gast	Germany	62.90
5	Rita Ramanauskaitė	Lithuania	61.54
6th	Tanja Damaske	Germany	61.32
7th	Kinga Zsigmond	Hungary	59.74
8th	Antoaneta Selenska	Bulgaria	57.76
9	Nathalie Teppe	France	57.52
10	Taina Uppa	Finland	57.20
11	Claudia Isăilă	Romania	56.92
12	Jette Jeppesen	Denmark	56.06

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  Bronze medalist Felicia Țilea

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  Jette Jeppesen was twelfth in this final

Web links

• European Championship 1994 Helsinki, Women Javelin Throw 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 Javelin Throw 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, javelin women on sportschau.de, accessed on October 5, 2019
• 16th European Athletics Championships 1994 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on October 5, 2019

Video

• 5009 European Track & Field Javelin Women Trine Hattestad on youtube.com (English), accessed October 5, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Javelin women , accessed October 5, 2019