European Athletics Championships 1994 / men's long jump

16th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Long jump
gender	Men
Attendees	33 athletes from 19 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 9th (qualification) August 10th (final)
Medalist Iwajlo Mladenow ( BUL )   Milan Gombala ( CZE )   Konstandinos Koukodimos ( GRE )

Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The men's long jump at the European Athletics Championships in 1994 was held on August 9 and 10, 1994 in the Olympic Stadium in the Finnish capital Helsinki .

Bulgarian Iwajlo Mladenow became European champion . He won ahead of the Czech Milan Gombala . Bronze went to the Greek Konstandinos Koukodimos .

Existing records

World record	8.95 m	Mike Powell	World Cup Tokyo , Japan	August 30, 1991
European record	8.86 m	Robert Emmijan	Zaghkadzor , Soviet Union (now Armenia )	May 22, 1987
Championship record	8.41 m		EM Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany	August 29, 1986

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

Wind conditions

In the following summary of results, the wind conditions for the best jumps are named. The permitted limit is two meters per second. With stronger wind support, the distance will be counted for the competition, but will not be included in the lists of records and the best.

Frans Maas clearly missed the final qualification

The 1986 European champion, 1987 vice world champion and European
record holder Robert Emmijan did not reach the final as eighth in his qualifying group

Mattias Sunneborn reached ninth place

qualification

August 9, 1994

33 participants competed in two groups for the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 8.00 m. Four athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the eight athletes placed next to twelve jumpers (highlighted in light green). In the end, 7.83 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

Group A

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)	Wind (m / s)
1	Vitaly Kyrylenko	Ukraine	8.11	+1.5
2	Stanislaw Tarassenko	Russia	8.04	+1.5
3	Milan Gombala	Czech Republic	7.95	+0.1
4th	Milko Campus	Italy	7.90	+1.6
5	Georg Ackermann	Germany	7.89	+2.1
6th	Aljaksandr Hlawazki	Belarus	7.88	+0.8
7th	Ivajlo Mladenov	Bulgaria	7.83	+0.7
8th	Giovanni Evangelisti	Italy	7.80	-0.8
9	Bogdan Țăruş	Romania	7.79	+1.6
10	Dimitrios Chatzopoulos	Greece	7.73	+1.0
11	Christian Thomas	Germany	7.66	+0.5
12	Juha Kivi	Finland	7.65	+0.2
13	Gregor Cankar	Slovenia	7.62	+0.6
14th	Frans Maas	Netherlands	7.53	+0.2
15th	Csaba Almási	Hungary	7.13	+0.6
16	János Uzsoki	Hungary	7.11	-0.8
DNS	Poor Martirosjan	Armenia

Group B

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)	Wind (m / s)
1	Erik Nijs	Belgium	8.03	+1.1
2	Konstandinos Koukodimos	Greece	8.00	+1.7
3	Mattias Sunneborn	Sweden	7.98	+0.8
4th	Dmitri Bagryanov	Russia	7.95	+1.4
5	Bogdan Tudor	Romania	7.88	+1.0
6th	Simone Bianchi	Italy	7.80	+0.1
7th	Ángel Hernández	Spain	7.73	+1.0
8th	Robert Emmijan	Armenia	7.69	+0.8
9	Barrington Williams	Great Britain	7.69	+1.1
10	Nikolay Antonov	Bulgaria	7.63	± 0.0
11	Dietmar Haaf	Germany	7.55	+0.3
12	Jarmo Kärnä	Finland	7.55	+0.9
13	Siniša Ergotić	Croatia	7.55	+0.1
14th	Tibor Ordina	Hungary	7.52	+0.1
15th	Roman Orlík	Czech Republic	7.50	+0.1
16	Andrei Ignatov	Russia	7.42	+0.8
NM	Kenneth Kastrén	Finland	without space

final

August 10, 1994

Note: The symbol "x" means "invalid".

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)	Wind (m / s)	Trial series of medalists
					1st attempt (m)	2. attempt (m)	3rd attempt (m)	4th attempt (m)	5th attempt (m)	6th attempt (m)
1	Ivajlo Mladenov	Bulgaria	8.09	-0.5	8.02	x	7.78	7.88	7.94	8.09
2	Milan Gombala	Czech Republic	8.04	+1.4	7.85	8.04	7.83	7.79	6.02	7.83
3	Konstandinos Koukodimos	Greece	8.01	+0.2	x	x	8.01	x	x	x
4th	Bogdan Tudor	Romania	7.99	+1.7
5	Dmitri Bagryanov	Russia	7.96	-0.2
6th	Stanislaw Tarassenko	Russia	7.93	-0.1
7th	Vitaly Kyrylenko	Ukraine	7.92	-0.6
8th	Erik Nijs	Belgium	7.89	-1.2
9	Mattias Sunneborn	Sweden	7.85	+0.8
10	Aljaksandr Hlawazki	Belarus	7.82	+0.8
11	Milko Campus	Italy	7.76	+1.0
12	Georg Ackermann	Germany	7.70	-0.6

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 1994 at european-athletics.org, accessed September 25, 2019
• European Championship 1994 Helsinki, Men Long 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 Long 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, long 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

Video

• 4875 European Track & Field Long Jump Men Dmitriy Bagryanov on youtube.com (English), accessed September 25, 2019

References and comments

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