1994 European Championships in Athletics - Women's Javelin
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These are the official results of the Women’s javelin throw
event at the 1994 European Championships in Helsinki, Finland. There were a total number of 22 participating athletes. The final was held on 12 August 1994. All results were made with a rough surfaced javelin (old design). The qualification mark was set at 61.00 metres.
Javelin throw
The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...
event at the 1994 European Championships in Helsinki, Finland. There were a total number of 22 participating athletes. The final was held on 12 August 1994. All results were made with a rough surfaced javelin (old design). The qualification mark was set at 61.00 metres.
Medalists
Gold | Trine Hattestad Trine Hattestad Trine Hattestad is a former Norwegian javelin thrower. She was born on 18 April 1966 in Lørenskog, Norway.... Greece Greece Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe.... (NOR) |
Silver | Karen Forkel Karen Forkel Karen Forkel is a German track and field athlete and an Olympic medal winner. In the 1990s she was among the world's best javelin throwers. Her biggest success came in the 1992 Summer Olympics when she took the bronze medal with a throw of 66.86 meters.Her personal best throw with the... Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate... (GER) |
Bronze | Felicia Tilea Romania Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea... (ROM) |
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 | ||||
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World Record Javelin throw The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon... |
80.00 m | September 9, 1988 | Potsdam Potsdam Potsdam is the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenburg and part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. It is situated on the River Havel, southwest of Berlin city centre.... , East Germany |
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Event Record | 77.44 m | August 28, 1986 | Stuttgart Stuttgart Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million .... , West Germany West Germany West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990.... |
Group A
Rank | Overall | Athlete | Attempts | Distance | Notes | ||
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1 | 2 | 3 | |||||
1 | 2 | 64.28 m | |||||
2 | 3 | 62.84 m | |||||
3 | 4 | 60.16 m | |||||
4 | 5 | 59.64 m | |||||
5 | 6 | 59.26 m | |||||
6 | 7 | 58.18 m | |||||
7 | 9 | 56.80 m | |||||
8 | 13 | 55.12 m | |||||
9 | 14 | 55.08 m | |||||
10 | 21 | 51.26 m | |||||
11 | 22 | 49.96 m |
Group B
Rank | Overall | Athlete | Attempts | Distance | Notes | ||
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1 | 2 | 3 | |||||
1 | 1 | 64.46 m | |||||
2 | 8 | 57.34 m | |||||
3 | 10 | 56.14 m | |||||
4 | 11 | 55.72 m | |||||
5 | 12 | 55.66 m | |||||
6 | 15 | 54.86 m | |||||
7 | 16 | 54.26 m | |||||
8 | 17 | 53.82 m | |||||
9 | 18 | 53.28 m | |||||
10 | 19 | 53.10 m | |||||
11 | 20 | 53.06 m |
Final
Rank | Athlete | Attempts | Distance | Note | |||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||
65.18 | 63.66 | 66.42 | 65.12 | X | 68.00 | 68.00 m | |||
65.26 | 59.68 | X | X | 59.28 | 66.10 | 66.10 m | |||
64.34 | 62.40 | X | X | 59.78 | X | 64.34 m | |||
4 | 62.90 m | ||||||||
5 | 61.54 m | ||||||||
6 | 61.32 m | ||||||||
7 | 59.74 m | ||||||||
8 | 57.76 m | ||||||||
9 | 57.52 m | ||||||||
10 | 57.20 m | ||||||||
11 | 56.92 m | ||||||||
12 | 56.06 m |
See also
- 1991 Women's World Championships Javelin Throw (Tokyo)
- 1992 Women's Olympic Javelin Throw (Barcelona)
- 1993 Women's World Championships Javelin Throw (Stuttgart)
- 1994 Javelin Throw Year Ranking
- 1995 Women's World Championships Javelin Throw (Gothenburg)
- 1996 Women's Olympic Javelin Throw (Atlanta)
- 1997 Women's World Championships Javelin Throw (Athens)