1994 European Athletics Championships – Men's hammer throw

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
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
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
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

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.

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

• Results
• hammerthrow.wz