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
Dates7–14 August
Host cityHelsinki, Finland
VenueHelsinki Olympic Stadium
LevelSenior
TypeOutdoor
Events44
Participation1113 athletes from
44 nations

Men's results

Complete results were published.[1]

Track

1986 |1990 |1994 |1998 |2002 |

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

EventGoldSilverBronze
High jump
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Steinar Hoen
 Norway
2.35Artur Partyka
 Poland
Steve Smith
 Great Britain
2.33
Long jump
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Ivaylo Mladenov
 Bulgaria
8.09Milan Gombala
 Czech Republic
8.04Konstantinos Koukodimos
 Greece
8.01
Pole vault
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Radion Gataullin
 Russia
6.00Igor Trandenkov
 Russia
5.90Jean Galfione
 France
5.85
Triple jump
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Denis Kapustin
 Russia
17.62Serge Hélan
 France
17.55Māris Bružiks
 Latvia
17.20
Shot put
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Aleksandr Klimenko
 Ukraine
20.78Oleksandr Bagach
 Ukraine
20.34Roman Virastyuk
 Ukraine
19.59
Discus throw
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Vladimir Dubrovshchik
 Belarus
64.78Dmitriy Shevchenko
 Russia
64.56Jürgen Schult
 Germany
64.18
Javelin throw
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Steve Backley
 Great Britain
85.20Seppo Räty
 Finland
82.90Jan Železný
 Czech Republic
82.58
Hammer throw
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Vasiliy Sidorenko
 Russia
81.10Igor Astapkovich
 Belarus
80.40Heinz Weis
 Germany
78.48
Decathlon
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Alain Blondel
 France
8453Henrik Dagård
 Sweden
8362Lev 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

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

Field

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EventGoldSilverBronze
High jump
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Britta Bilač
 Slovenia
2.00Yelena Gulyayeva
 Russia
1.96Nelė Žilinskienė
 Lithuania
1.93
Long jump
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Heike Drechsler
 Germany
7.14Inessa Kravets
 Ukraine
6.99Fiona May
 Italy
6.90
Triple jump
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Anna Biryukova
 Russia
14.89Inna Lasovskaya
 Russia
14.85Inessa Kravets
 Ukraine
14.67
Shot put
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Vita Pavlysh
 Ukraine
19.61Astrid Kumbernuss
 Germany
19.49Svetla Mitkova
 Bulgaria
19.45
Discus throw
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Ilke Wyludda
 Germany
68.72Ellina Zvereva
 Belarus
64.46Mette Bergmann
 Norway
64.34
Javelin throw
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Trine Hattestad
 Norway
68.00Karen Forkel
 Germany
66.10Felicia Moldovan
 Romania
64.34
Heptathlon
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Sabine Braun
 Germany
6,419Rita Ináncsi
 Hungary
6,404Urszula Włodarczyk
 Poland
6,322

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Finland)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Russia (RUS)108725
2  Great Britain (GBR)65213
3  Germany (GER)54514
4  France (FRA)4329
5  Ukraine (UKR)36312
6  Spain (ESP)3249
7  Norway (NOR)3216
8  Italy (ITA)2338
9  Portugal (POR)2103
10  Bulgaria (BUL)2035
11  Belarus (BLR)1405
12  Finland (FIN)*1102
13  Ireland (IRL)1001
 Slovenia (SLO)1001
15  Sweden (SWE)0202
16  Belgium (BEL)0123
17  Czech Republic (CZE)0112
 Poland (POL)0112
19  Hungary (HUN)0101
20  Romania (ROU)0033
21  Switzerland (SUI)0022
22  Croatia (CRO)0011
 Greece (GRE)0011
 Latvia (LAT)0011
 Lithuania (LTU)0011
Totals (25 entries)444543132

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.[2] The announced athlete from  Macedonia did not show.

See also

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