1994 European Athletics Championships – Men's hammer throw

Events at the 1994 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
10 km walk				women
20 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

These are the official results of the Men's hammer throw event at the 1994 European Championships in Helsinki, Finland, held at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 10 and 11 August 1994.^[1] There were a total number of 25 participating athletes.

Medalists

Gold	Vasiliy Sidorenko Ukraine (UKR)
Silver	Igor Astapkovich Belarus (BLR)
Bronze	Heinz Weis Germany (GER)

Abbreviations

• All results shown are in metres

Q	automatic qualification
q	qualification by rank
DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
WR	world record
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Records

Standing records prior to the 1994 European Athletics Championships
World Record	Yuriy Sedykh (URS)	86.74 m	August 30, 1986	Stuttgart, West Germany
Event Record	Yuriy Sedykh (URS)	86.74 m	August 30, 1986	Stuttgart, West Germany

Qualification

Group A

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance
			1	2	3
1	1	Heinz Weis (GER)				79.56 m
2	2	Igor Astapkovich (BLR)				79.00 m
3	6	Igor Nikulin (RUS)				75.10 m
4	9	Tibor Gécsek (HUN)				74.74 m
5	12	Oleksandr Krykun (UKR)				74.16 m
6	14	Aleksandr Krasko (BLR)				73.88 m
7	16	Mika Laaksonen (FIN)				72.88 m
8	19	Claus Dethloff (GER)				72.08 m
9	20	Tore Gustafsson (SWE)				71.90 m
10	21	Gilles Dupray (FRA)				71.38 m
11	22	Pavel Sedláček (CZE)				71.36 m
12	24	Jan Bielecki (DEN)				66.72 m
13	25	Loris Paoluzzi (ITA)				66.50 m

Group B

Rank	Overall	Athlete	Attempts			Distance
			1	2	3
1	3	Vitaliy Alisevich (BLR)				75.84 m
2	4	Christophe Épalle (FRA)				75.44 m
3	5	Vasiliy Sidorenko (RUS)				75.42 m
4	7	Balázs Kiss (HUN)				74.84 m
5	8	Karsten Kobs (GER)				74.76 m
6	10	Andriy Skvaruk (UKR)				74.70 m
7	11	Vadim Kolesnik (UKR)				74.28 m
8	13	Marko Wahlman (FIN)				73.96 m
9	15	Frédéric Kuhn (FRA)				73.30 m
10	17	Zoltán Fábián (HUN)				72.80 m
11	18	Per Karlsson (SWE)				72.56 m
12	23	Jüri Tamm (EST)				68.46 m

Final

Rank	Athlete	Attempts						Distance	Note
		1	2	3	4	5	6
	Vasiliy Sidorenko (RUS)	79.54	X	81.10	80.26	79.54	80.90	81.10 m
	Igor Astapkovich (BLR)	79.54	80.40	78.64	78.46	X	79.88	80.40 m
	Heinz Weis (GER)	X	78.10	77.18	78.48	X	75.94	78.48 m
4	Igor Nikulin (RUS)							78.38 m
5	Tibor Gécsek (HUN)							77.62 m
6	Oleksandr Krykun (UKR)							76.08 m
7	Christophe Épalle (FRA)							75.22 m
8	Vadim Kolesnik (UKR)							75.22 m
9	Vitaliy Alisevich (BLR)							74.44 m
10	Karsten Kobs (GER)							74.40 m
11	Andrey Skvaruk (UKR)							74.22 m
12	Balázs Kiss (HUN)							73.08 m

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 25 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.

Belarus (3)  Czech Republic (1)  Denmark (1)

Estonia (1)  Finland (2)  France (3)

Germany (3)  Hungary (3)  Italy (1)

Russia (2)  Sweden (2)  Ukraine (3)

See also

• 1992 Men's Olympic Hammer Throw (Barcelona)
• 1993 Men's World Championships Hammer Throw (Stuttgart)
• 1994 Hammer Throw Year Ranking
• 1995 Men's World Championships Hammer Throw (Gothenburg)
• 1996 Men's Olympic Hammer Throw (Atlanta)

References

1. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 460–470, retrieved 13 August 2014

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