European Athletics Championships 1994 / men's javelin

16th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Javelin throw
gender	Men
Attendees	26 athletes from 15 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 7th (qualification) August 8th (final)
Medalist Steve Backley ( GBR )   Seppo Räty ( FIN )   Jan Železný ( CZE )

Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The men's javelin throw at the European Athletics Championships in 1994 was held on August 7th and 8th, 1994 in the Olympic Stadium in the Finnish capital Helsinki .

European champion was the British defending champion and Olympic bronze medalist in 1992 Steve Backley . The Finnish Olympic runner-up in 1992 and vice world champion in 1991 Seppo Räty won the silver medal. Bronze went to the Czech world record holder, 1992 Olympic champion and reigning world champion Jan Železný .

Existing records

World record	95.66 m	Jan Železný	Sheffield , UK	August 29, 1993
European record
Championship record	87.30 m	Steve Backley	EM Split , Yugoslavia	August 28, 1990

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

qualification

August 7, 1994

26 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 81.00 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 78.98 m had to be achieved for the final.

Group A

Konstandínos Gatsioúdis achieved 78.56 m and was eliminated in seventh place

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Raymond Hecht	Germany	82.54
2	Steve Backley	Great Britain	81.58
3	Donald-Aik Sild	Estonia	81.12
4th	Patrik Bodén	Sweden	80.94
5	Uladzimir Sassimovich	Belarus	78.98
6th	Harri Hakkarainen	Finland	78.82
7th	Konstandínos Gatsioúdis	Greece	78.56
8th	Andrei Shevchuk	Russia	78.56
9	Sigurdur Einarsson	Iceland	77.22
10	Colin Mackenzie	Great Britain	74.00
11	Miloš climb	Czech Republic	73.82
12	Ivan Mustapic	Croatia	72.50
13	Håvard Johansen	Norway	72.44

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Seppo Räty	Finland	84.76
2	Mick Hill	Great Britain	84.44
3	Jan Železný	Czech Republic	83.88
4th	Terry McHugh	Ireland	82.14
5	Andrei Moruev	Russia	81.58
6th	Dag Wennlund	Sweden	80.30
7th	Boris Henry	Germany	77.22
8th	Yuri Rybin	Russia	76.38
9	Juha Laukkanen	Finland	75.86
10	Miroslaw Witek	Poland	75.26
11	Peter Blank	Germany	74.88
12	Marek Kaleta	Estonia	74.46
NM	Marcis Štrobinders	Latvia

Legend

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

-	left out
x	invalid

final

Bronze medalist Jan Železný -
the world record holder, multiple Olympic champion and world champion never managed to win a title at European championships

August 8, 1994

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)	Trial series of medalists
				1st attempt	Second attempt	3. Attempt	4th attempt	5th attempt	6th attempt
1	Steve Backley	Great Britain	85.20	81.04	85.20	81.74	x	79.70	-
2	Seppo Räty	Finland	82.90	81.80	x	80.06	82.16	82.90	80.78
3	Jan Železný	Czech Republic	82.58	80.40	82.58	82.50	x	x	x
4th	Patrik Bodén	Sweden	81.34
5	Raymond Hecht	Germany	81.18
6th	Mick Hill	Great Britain	80.66
7th	Terry McHugh	Ireland	80.46
8th	Uladzimir Sassimovich	Belarus	78.88
9	Andrei Moruev	Russia	78.66
10	Dag Wennlund	Sweden	78.52
11	Boris Henry	Germany	76.88
12	Donald-Aik Sild	Estonia	75.35

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 1994 from european-athletics.org, accessed September 29, 2019
• European Championship 1994 Helsinki, Men Javelin 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 Javelin 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, javelin 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

• Men's Javelin Final European Champs Helsinki 1994 on youtube.com (English), accessed September 29, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Javelin Men , Retrieved September 29, 2019