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.^[1]

Track

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Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m details	Linford Christie  Great Britain	10.14	Geir Moen  Norway	10.20	Aleksandr Porkhomovskiy  Russia	10.31
200 m details	Geir Moen  Norway	20.30	Vladyslav Dolohodin  Ukraine	20.47	Patrick Stevens  Belgium	20.68
400 m details	Du'aine Ladejo  Great Britain	45.09	Roger Black  Great Britain	45.20	Matthias Rusterholz   Switzerland	45.96
800 m details	Andrea Benvenuti  Italy	1:46.12	Vebjørn Rodal  Norway	1:46.53	Tomás de Teresa  Spain	1:46.56
1500 m details	Fermín Cacho  Spain	3:35.27	Isaac Viciosa  Spain	3:36.01	Branko Zorko  Croatia	3:36.88
5000 m details	Dieter Baumann  Germany	13:36.93	Robert Denmark  Great Britain	13:37.50	Abel Antón  Spain	13:38.04
10,000 m details	Abel Antón  Spain	28:06.03	Vincent Rousseau  Belgium	28:06.63	Stéphane Franke  Germany	28:07.95
Marathon details	Martín Fiz  Spain	2:10:31	Diego Garcia  Spain	2:10:46	Alberto Juzdado  Spain	2:11:18
110 metres hurdles details	Colin Jackson  Great Britain	13.08	Florian Schwarthoff  Germany	13.16	Tony Jarrett  Great Britain	13.23
400 metres hurdles details	Oleg Tverdokhleb  Ukraine	48.06	Sven Nylander  Sweden	48.22	Stéphane Diagana  France	48.23
3000 metres steeplechase details	Alessandro Lambruschini  Italy	8:28.68	Angelo Carosi  Italy	8:29.81	William Van Dijck  Belgium	8:30.93
20 kilometres walk details	Mikhail Shchennikov  Russia	1:18:45	Yevgeniy Misyulya  Belarus	1:19:22	Valentí Massana  Spain	1:20:33
50 kilometres walk details	Valeriy Spitsyn  Russia	3:41:07	Thierry Toutain  France	3:43:52	Giovanni Perricelli  Italy	3:43:55
4 × 100 metres relay details	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 details	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 details	Steinar Hoen  Norway	2.35	Artur Partyka  Poland Steve Smith  Great Britain	2.33
Long jump details	Ivaylo Mladenov  Bulgaria	8.09	Milan Gombala  Czech Republic	8.04	Konstantinos Koukodimos  Greece	8.01
Pole vault details	Radion Gataullin  Russia	6.00	Igor Trandenkov  Russia	5.90	Jean Galfione  France	5.85
Triple jump details	Denis Kapustin  Russia	17.62	Serge Hélan  France	17.55	Māris Bružiks  Latvia	17.20
Shot put details	Aleksandr Klimenko  Ukraine	20.78	Oleksandr Bagach  Ukraine	20.34	Roman Virastyuk  Ukraine	19.59
Discus throw details	Vladimir Dubrovshchik  Belarus	64.78	Dmitriy Shevchenko  Russia	64.56	Jürgen Schult  Germany	64.18
Javelin throw details	Steve Backley  Great Britain	85.20	Seppo Räty  Finland	82.90	Jan Železný  Czech Republic	82.58
Hammer throw details	Vasiliy Sidorenko  Russia	81.10	Igor Astapkovich  Belarus	80.40	Heinz Weis  Germany	78.48
Decathlon details	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 details	Irina Privalova  Russia	11.02	Zhanna Pintusevich  Ukraine	11.10	Melanie Paschke  Germany	11.28
200 metres details	Irina Privalova  Russia	22.32	Zhanna Pintusevich  Ukraine	22.77	Galina Malchugina  Russia	22.90
400 metres details	Marie-José Pérec  France	50.33	Svetlana Goncharenko  Russia	51.24	Phylis Smith  Great Britain	51.30
800 metres details	Lyubov Gurina  Russia	1:58.55	Natalya Dukhnova  Belarus	1:58.55	Lyudmila Rogachova  Russia	1:58.69
1500 metres details	Lyudmila Rogachova  Russia	4:18.93	Kelly Holmes  Great Britain	4:19.30	Yekaterina Podkopayeva  Russia	4:19.37
3000 metres details	Sonia O'Sullivan  Ireland	8:31.84	Yvonne Murray  Great Britain	8:36.48	Gabriela Szabo  Romania	8:40.08
10,000 metres details	Fernanda Ribeiro  Portugal	31:08.75	Conceição Ferreira  Portugal	31:32.82	Daria Nauer   Switzerland	31:35.96
Marathon details	Manuela Machado  Portugal	2:29:54	Maria Curatolo  Italy	2:30:33	Adriana Barbu  Romania	2:30:55
100 metres hurdles details	Svetla Dimitrova  Bulgaria	12.72	Yuliya Graudyn  Russia	12.93	Yordanka Donkova  Bulgaria	12.93
400 metres hurdles details	Sally Gunnell  Great Britain	53.33	Silvia Rieger  Germany	54.68	Anna Knoroz  Russia	54.68
10 kilometres walk details	Sari Essayah  Finland	42:37	Annarita Sidoti  Italy	42:43	Yelena Nikolayeva  Russia	42:43
4 × 100 metres relay details	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 details	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 details	Britta Bilač  Slovenia	2.00	Yelena Gulyayeva  Russia	1.96	Nelė Žilinskienė  Lithuania	1.93
Long jump details	Heike Drechsler  Germany	7.14	Inessa Kravets  Ukraine	6.99	Fiona May  Italy	6.90
Triple jump details	Anna Biryukova  Russia	14.89	Inna Lasovskaya  Russia	14.85	Inessa Kravets  Ukraine	14.67
Shot put details	Vita Pavlysh  Ukraine	19.61	Astrid Kumbernuss  Germany	19.49	Svetla Mitkova  Bulgaria	19.45
Discus throw details	Ilke Wyludda  Germany	68.72	Ellina Zvereva  Belarus	64.46	Mette Bergmann  Norway	64.34
Javelin throw details	Trine Hattestad  Norway	68.00	Karen Forkel  Germany	66.10	Felicia Moldovan  Romania	64.34
Heptathlon details	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.^[2] 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)
• Independent European Participants (Yugoslavia) (8)
•  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)

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