1994 European Athletics Championships

The 16th European Athletics Championships were held from 7 August to 14 August 1994 in the Olympic Stadium of Helsinki, Finland.

16th European Athletics Championships
The logo of the 1994 European Athletics Championships
Dates	7–14 August
Host city	Helsinki, Finland
Venue	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	44
Participation	1113 athletes from 44 nations
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Men's results

Complete results were published.

Track

1986 |1990 |1994 |1998 |2002 |

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Linford Christie Great Britain	10.14	Geir Moen Norway	10.20	Aleksandr Porkhomovskiy Russia	10.31
200 m	Geir Moen Norway	20.30	Vladyslav Dolohodin Ukraine	20.47	Patrick Stevens Belgium	20.68
400 m	Du'aine Ladejo Great Britain	45.09	Roger Black Great Britain	45.20	Matthias Rusterholz Switzerland	45.96
800 m	Andrea Benvenuti Italy	1:46.12	Vebjørn Rodal Norway	1:46.53	Tomás de Teresa Spain	1:46.56
1500 m	Fermín Cacho Spain	3:35.27	Isaac Viciosa Spain	3:36.01	Branko Zorko Croatia	3:36.88
5000 m	Dieter Baumann Germany	13:36.93	Robert Denmark Great Britain	13:37.50	Abel Antón Spain	13:38.04
10,000 m	Abel Antón Spain	28:06.03	Vincent Rousseau Belgium	28:06.63	Stéphane Franke Germany	28:07.95
Marathon	Martín Fiz Spain	2:10:31	Diego Garcia Spain	2:10:46	Alberto Juzdado Spain	2:11:18
110 metres hurdles	Colin Jackson Great Britain	13.08	Florian Schwarthoff Germany	13.16	Tony Jarrett Great Britain	13.23
400 metres hurdles	Oleg Tverdokhleb Ukraine	48.06	Sven Nylander Sweden	48.22	Stéphane Diagana France	48.23
3000 metres steeplechase	Alessandro Lambruschini Italy	8:28.68	Angelo Carosi Italy	8:29.81	William Van Dijck Belgium	8:30.93
20 kilometres walk	Mikhail Shchennikov Russia	1:18:45	Yevgeniy Misyulya Belarus	1:19:22	Valentí Massana Spain	1:20:33
50 kilometres walk	Valeriy Spitsyn Russia	3:41:07	Thierry Toutain France	3:43:52	Giovanni Perricelli Italy	3:43:55
4 × 100 metres relay	Hermann Lomba Éric Perrot Jean-Charles Trouabal Daniel Sangouma France	38.57	Serhiy Osovych Oleh Kramarenko Dmytro Vanyayikin Vladyslav Dolohodin Ukraine	38.98	Ezio Madonia Domenico Nettis Giorgio Marras Sandro Floris Italy	38.99
4 × 400 metres relay	David McKenzie Roger Black Brian Whittle Du'aine Ladejo Great Britain	2:59.13	Pierre-Marie Hilaire Jacques Farraudiére Jean-Louis Rapnouil Stéphane Diagana France	3:01.11	Mikhail Vdovin Dmitriy Bey Dmitriy Kosov Dmitriy Golovastov Russia	3:03.10
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Field

1986 |1990 |1994 |1998 |2002 |

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump	Steinar Hoen Norway	2.35	Artur Partyka Poland Steve Smith Great Britain	2.33
Long jump	Ivaylo Mladenov Bulgaria	8.09	Milan Gombala Czech Republic	8.04	Konstantinos Koukodimos Greece	8.01
Pole vault	Radion Gataullin Russia	6.00	Igor Trandenkov Russia	5.90	Jean Galfione France	5.85
Triple jump	Denis Kapustin Russia	17.62	Serge Hélan France	17.55	Māris Bružiks Latvia	17.20
Shot put	Aleksandr Klimenko Ukraine	20.78	Oleksandr Bagach Ukraine	20.34	Roman Virastyuk Ukraine	19.59
Discus throw	Vladimir Dubrovshchik Belarus	64.78	Dmitriy Shevchenko Russia	64.56	Jürgen Schult Germany	64.18
Javelin throw	Steve Backley Great Britain	85.20	Seppo Räty Finland	82.90	Jan Železný Czech Republic	82.58
Hammer throw	Vasiliy Sidorenko Russia	81.10	Igor Astapkovich Belarus	80.40	Heinz Weis Germany	78.48
Decathlon	Alain Blondel France	8453	Henrik Dagård Sweden	8362	Lev Lobodin Ukraine	8201
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Women's results

Track

1986 |1990 |1994 |1998 |2002 |

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Irina Privalova Russia	11.02	Zhanna Pintusevich Ukraine	11.10	Melanie Paschke Germany	11.28
200 metres	Irina Privalova Russia	22.32	Zhanna Pintusevich Ukraine	22.77	Galina Malchugina Russia	22.90
400 metres	Marie-José Pérec France	50.33	Svetlana Goncharenko Russia	51.24	Phylis Smith Great Britain	51.30
800 metres	Lyubov Gurina Russia	1:58.55	Natalya Dukhnova Belarus	1:58.55	Lyudmila Rogachova Russia	1:58.69
1500 metres	Lyudmila Rogachova Russia	4:18.93	Kelly Holmes Great Britain	4:19.30	Yekaterina Podkopayeva Russia	4:19.37
3000 metres	Sonia O'Sullivan Ireland	8:31.84	Yvonne Murray Great Britain	8:36.48	Gabriela Szabo Romania	8:40.08
10,000 metres	Fernanda Ribeiro Portugal	31:08.75	Conceição Ferreira Portugal	31:32.82	Daria Nauer Switzerland	31:35.96
Marathon	Manuela Machado Portugal	2:29:54	Maria Curatolo Italy	2:30:33	Adriana Barbu Romania	2:30:55
100 metres hurdles	Svetla Dimitrova Bulgaria	12.72	Yuliya Graudyn Russia	12.93	Yordanka Donkova Bulgaria	12.93
400 metres hurdles	Sally Gunnell Great Britain	53.33	Silvia Rieger Germany	54.68	Anna Knoroz Russia	54.68
10 kilometres walk	Sari Essayah Finland	42:37	Annarita Sidoti Italy	42:43	Yelena Nikolayeva Russia	42:43
4 × 100 metres relay	Melanie Paschke Silke Knoll Bettina Zipp Silke Lichtenhagen Germany	42.90	Natalya Anisimova Marina Trandenkova Galina Malchugina Irina Privalova Russia	42.96	Desislava Dimitrova Svetla Dimitrova Anelia Nuneva Petya Pendareva Bulgaria	43.00
4 × 400 metres relay	Francine Landre Évelyne Élien Viviane Dorsile Marie-José Pérec France	3:22.34	Natalya Khrushcheleva Yelena Andreyeva Tatyana Zakharova Svetlana Goncharenko Russia	3:24.06	Karin Janke Heike Meißner Uta Rohländer Anja Rücker Germany	3:24.10

Field

1986 |1990 |1994 |1998 |2002 |

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump	Britta Bilač Slovenia	2.00	Yelena Gulyayeva Russia	1.96	Nelė Žilinskienė Lithuania	1.93
Long jump	Heike Drechsler Germany	7.14	Inessa Kravets Ukraine	6.99	Fiona May Italy	6.90
Triple jump	Anna Biryukova Russia	14.89	Inna Lasovskaya Russia	14.85	Inessa Kravets Ukraine	14.67
Shot put	Vita Pavlysh Ukraine	19.61	Astrid Kumbernuss Germany	19.49	Svetla Mitkova Bulgaria	19.45
Discus throw	Ilke Wyludda Germany	68.72	Ellina Zvereva Belarus	64.46	Mette Bergmann Norway	64.34
Javelin throw	Trine Hattestad Norway	68.00	Karen Forkel Germany	66.10	Felicia Moldovan Romania	64.34
Heptathlon	Sabine Braun Germany	6.419	Rita Ináncsi Hungary	6.404	Urszula Włodarczyk Poland	6.322

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Finland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	10	8	7	25
2	Great Britain (GBR)	6	5	2	13
3	Germany (GER)	5	4	5	14
4	France (FRA)	4	3	2	9
5	Ukraine (UKR)	3	6	3	12
6	Spain (ESP)	3	2	4	9
7	Norway (NOR)	3	2	1	6
8	Italy (ITA)	2	3	3	8
9	Portugal (POR)	2	1	0	3
10	Bulgaria (BUL)	2	0	3	5
11	Belarus (BLR)	1	4	0	5
12	Finland (FIN)*	1	1	0	2
13	Ireland (IRL)	1	0	0	1
	Slovenia (SLO)	1	0	0	1
15	Sweden (SWE)	0	2	0	2
16	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	2	3
17	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	1	1	2
	Poland (POL)	0	1	1	2
19	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	0	1
20	Romania (ROU)	0	0	3	3
21	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	2	2
22	Croatia (CRO)	0	0	1	1
	Greece (GRE)	0	0	1	1
	Latvia (LAT)	0	0	1	1
	Lithuania (LTU)	0	0	1	1
Totals (25 entries)		44	45	43	132

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 1125 athletes from 43 countries participated in the event, 12 athletes more than the official number of 1113 and one country less than the official number of 44 as published. The announced athlete from Macedonia did not show.

• Albania (1)
• Armenia (1)
• Austria (12)
• Belarus (37)
• Belgium (13)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina (2)
• Bulgaria (21)
• Croatia (4)
• Cyprus (7)
• Czech Republic (23)
• Denmark (12)
• Estonia (17)
• Finland (85)
• France (78)
• Georgia (2)
• Germany (101)
• Great Britain & N.I. (90)
• Greece (18)
• Hungary (27)
• Iceland (6)
• Ireland (21)
• Israel (6)
• Italy (73)
• Latvia (11)
• Liechtenstein (1)
• Lithuania (11)
• Luxembourg (1)
• Malta (1)
• Moldova (6)
• Netherlands (23)
• Norway (32)
• Poland (37)
• Portugal (25)
• Romania (22)
• Russia (96)
• Slovakia (11)
• Slovenia (7)
• Spain (58)
• Sweden (45)
• Switzerland (28)
• Turkey (6)
• Ukraine (39)
• Yugoslavia (8)

See also

• 1994 in athletics (track and field)

Notes

Differences to competition format since the 1990 European Championships:

• Women's Triple Jump was added as a new event
• East and West Germany competed as one team
• Countries that made up the Soviet Union competed as separate teams
• Countries that made up Yugoslavia competed as separate teams

References

• Athletix
• Results European Championships Athletic 1934-2010 Discus Throw, Shot Put, Long Jump by Leszek Albiniak Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine