1994 European Indoor Championships in Athletics
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The 23rd European Athletics Indoor Championships were held in Paris
, the capital city
of France
in 1994.
Paris
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, the capital city
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of France
France
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in 1994.
Track
| Discipline | 1st | Time | 2nd | Time | 3rd | Time | |
| 60 m | M | Colin Jackson Colin Jackson Colin Ray Jackson CBE is a British former sprint and hurdling athlete who specialised in the 110 metres hurdles. Over his career representing Great Britain and Wales he won an Olympic silver medal, became world champion three times, went undefeated at the European Championships for 12 years and... (GBR) |
6.49 | Alexandros Terzian Alexandros Terzian Alexandros Terzian is a retired Argentine-Greek sprinter.Terzián, an Argentine, won the national title of that country in 100 metres in 1989 and in both 100 and 200 metres in 1990... (GRE) |
6.51 | Michael Rosswess Michael Rosswess Michael Rupert Rosswess is a retired English sprinter.Rosswess reached the final of the 200 metres event at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, where he finished in seventh place... (GBR) |
6.54 |
| F | Nelli Cooman Nelli Cooman Cornelli Antoinette Hariëtte Cooman is a former Dutch athlete of Surinamese origin. She was World Champion twice, six times European Champion and nineteen times national Champion of the Netherlands.... (GRE) |
7.17 | Melanie Paschke Melanie Paschke Melanie Paschke is a retired German sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres, 200 metres and 4x100 metres relay.Her personal best time in the 100 metres is 11.04 seconds, achieved in June 1995 in Bremen... (GER) |
7.19 | Patricia Girard (FRA) | 7.19 | |
| 200 m | M | Daniel Sangouma Daniel Sangouma Daniel Sangouma is a retired French sprinter who specialized in the 100 and 200 metres.-Biography:... (FRA) |
20.68 | Vladyslav Dolohodin (UKR) | 20.76 | Georgios Panayotopoulos (GRE) | 20.99 |
| F | Galina Malchugina Galina Malchugina Galina Malchugina is a retired sprinter from Russia. Competing for the Soviet relay team, she won medals at the 1988 and 1992 Olympics... (RUS) |
22.41 | Silke Knoll Silke Knoll Silke-Beate Knoll was a German track and field athlete and participant in the Olympic Games who had success in the 1980s and 1990s as a sprinter.Her first success was the 1986 German junior title over 200 metres... (GER) |
22.96 | Jacqueline Poelman Jacqueline Poelman Helina Jacomina Poelman is a former Dutch sprinter.Poelman was born and raised in Leek and trained at an athletics club in Roden. Her first major international tournament were the 1991 European Junior Championships in Thessaloniki, where she did not reach the final on the 100 nor the 200 m... (NED) |
23.43 | |
| 400 m | M | Du'aine Ladejo Du'aine Ladejo Du'aine Ladejo is an English-born athlete and television personality. In his sports career, he was best known for winning the 400 metres sprint gold medal at the 1994 European Championships and being a member of the United Kingdom and England 400 metre relay squads at the European Championships,... (GBR) |
46.53 | Mikhail Vdovin Mikhail Vdovin -Achievements:-External links:... (RUS) |
46.56 | Rico Lieder Rico Lieder Rico Lieder is a retired German sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.He competed for the clubs SC Karl-Marx-Stadt, LG Chemnitz and LAC Chemnitz during his active career.-Achievements:-References:... (GER) |
46.82 |
| F | Svetlana Goncharenko Svetlana Goncharenko Svetlana Goncharenko is a former Russian athlete who mainly competed in the 200 metres. In addition to winning medals in individual contests, she has been a very successful relay runner, winning the bronze medal in 4x400 metres relay at the 2000 Olympics.... (RUS) |
51.62 | Tatyana Alekseyeva Tatyana Alekseyeva Tatyana Alekseyeva is a former 400 metres runner from Russia. Her personal best result was 49.98.- Achievements :-External reference:... (RUS) |
51.77 | Viviane Dorsile Viviane Dorsile Viviane Dorsile is a French athlete who specialises in the 800 meters and the 4 x 400 meter relay. Dorsile competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics and 1996 Summer Olympics.-References:*... (FRA) |
51.92 | |
| 800 m | M | Andrey Loginov Andrey Loginov Andrey Loginov is a retired Russian middle distance runner who specialized in the 800 and 1500 metres.-Achievements:-External links:... (RUS) |
1:46.38 | Luis Javier González Luis Javier González Luis Javier González is a retired Spanish middle distance runner. He specialized in the 800 metres.-Achievements:-External links:... (ESP) |
1:46.69 | Ousmane Diarra (FRA) | 1:47.18 |
| F | Natalya Dukhnova Natalya Dukhnova Natalya Dukhnova is a Belarusian middle distance runner who mainly competes in the 800 metres. Her career peaked in the mid-90's and she became European indoor champion in 1994.-Achievements:-External links:... (BLR) |
2:00.42 | Ella Kovacs Ella Kovacs Ella Kovacs is a retired Romanian middle distance runner of Hungarian descent. In 1985 she won the European Indoor Championships, and ran 800 metres in 1:55.68 in June. She would achieve prominence on the world scene in 1991, when she won bronze medals in the World Championships indoor and outdoor... (ROM) |
2:00.49 | Carla Sacramento Carla Sacramento Carla Cristina Paquete Sacramento, OIH is a middle distance runner from Portugal.-Biography:Carla Sacramento has won medals at a variety of distances but her speciality is the 1500 m... (POR) |
2:01.12 | |
| 1500 m | M | David Strang David Strang David Strang is a former British middle distance runner who won a gold medal at the 1994 European Indoor Championships in Athletics in Paris and a silver medal at the 1993 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Toronto over 1500 m.-External links:... (GBR) |
3:44.57 | Branko Zorko Branko Zorko Branko Zorko is a Croatian middle distance runner, a notable 1500 m competitor in the 1990s. Probably his biggest accomplishment is winning the first international medal for the country of Croatia, winning a bronze medal at the 1992 European Indoor Athletics Championships... (CRO) |
3:44.64 | Abdelkader Chékhémani (FRA) | 3:44.65 |
| F | Yekaterina Podkopayeva Yekaterina Podkopayeva Yekaterina Podkopayeva is a retired middle distance runner who represented the USSR and later Russia. She gained international recognition in 1983, when she won two bronze medals at the World Championships . The same year she managed an 800 m time of 1:55.96. She resurfaced in 1992, winning the... (RUS) |
4:06.46 | Lyudmila Rogachova Lyudmila Rogachova Lyudmila Rogachova is a retired Russian middle distance runner who competed mainly in the 1500 metres. She became a World Indoor and European champion in this event, and won an Olympic silver medal in 1992 with a personal best time of 3:56.91 - beating future world record holder Qu Yunxia into... (RUS) |
4:06.60 | Małgorzata Rydz (POL) | 4:06.98 | |
| 3000 m | M | Kim Bauermeister Kim Bauermeister Kim Bauermeister is a retired German runner who specialized in the 3000 metres steeplechase.He won the bronze medal at the 1989 European Junior Championships and the gold medal in 3000 metres at the 1994 European Indoor Championships... (GER) |
7:52.34 | Ovidiu Olteanu (ROM) | 7:52.37 | Rod Finch (GBR) | 7:53.99 |
| F | Fernanda Ribeiro Fernanda Ribeiro Maria Fernanda Moreira Ribeiro, GCIH , is a long-distance runner, born in Penafiel, Portugal. She achieved the top of her career in the 1996 Summer Olympics where she won the women's 10,000 m gold medal, giving Portugal their 3rd Olympic gold , and establishing a new Olympic record - 31:01.63.-... (POR) |
8:50.47 | Margareta Keszeg Margareta Keszeg Margareta Keszeg is a retired middle distance runner from Romania, best known for winning several medals in European and World Indoor Championships over 3000 metres. Her only victory came at the 1992 European Indoor Championships. Her personal best time was 8:46.70 minutes.-Achievements:-... (ROM) |
8:55.61 | Anna Brzezińska Anna Brzezinska (athlete) Anna Brzezińska is a retired Polish middle distance runner who specialized in the 1500 metres. She adopted the New Zealand nationality on 1999-01-22.-Achievements:-References:*... (POL) |
8:56.90 | |
| 60 m hurdles | M | Colin Jackson Colin Jackson Colin Ray Jackson CBE is a British former sprint and hurdling athlete who specialised in the 110 metres hurdles. Over his career representing Great Britain and Wales he won an Olympic silver medal, became world champion three times, went undefeated at the European Championships for 12 years and... (GBR) |
7.41 | Gheorghe Boroi Gheorghe Boroi Gheorghe Boroi is a retired hurdler from Romania, who represented his native country in the men's 110 metres hurdles at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992 in Barcelona, Spain.-Achievements:-References:... (ROM) |
7.57 | Mike Fenner Mike Fenner Mike Fenner is a retired German hurdler.His personal best is 13.06 seconds, achieved in June 1995 in Scheeßel. This ranks him second among German 110 m hurdlers, only behind Florian Schwarthoff. -Achievements:... (GER) |
7.58 |
| F | Yordanka Donkova Yordanka Donkova Yordanka Donkova is a former hurdling athlete notable for winning an Olympic gold medal and bronze medal as well as 9 medals at European indoor and outdoor championships. She still holds the CR for the European Championships with 12.38 s. Donkova set four world records in 1986... (BUL) |
7.85 | Eva Sokolova (RUS) | 7.89 | Anne Piquereau (FRA) | 7.91 | |
| 5000 m walk | M | Mikhail Shchennikov Mikhail Shchennikov Mikhail Anatolyevich Shchennikov is a Russian race walker.He was born in Sverdlovsk. His son Georgi Shchennikov is a professional footballer for PFC CSKA Moscow.-Achievements:-External links:... (RUS) |
18:34.32 | Ronald Weigel Ronald Weigel Ronald Weigel is a German athlete and Olympic medal winner. In the 1980s through the middle of the 1990s he represented East Germany as one of world's best in race walking.His first big win came in 1983 when he won the World title in the 50 km walk... (GER) |
18:40.32 | Denis Langlois Denis Langlois Denis Langlois is a French race walker.-Achievements:-External links:... (FRA) |
18:43.20 |
| 3000 m walk | F | Annarita Sidoti Annarita Sidoti Annarita Sidoti is an Italian race walker.-Achievements:-References:**... (ITA) |
11:54.32 | Beate Gummelt Beate Gummelt Beate Gummelt, née Anders , is a German track and field athlete. She competed in the 1980s until 2000 in the walk. Before 1990 she competed for East Germany.... (GER) |
11:56.01 | Yelena Arshintseva Yelena Arshintseva Yelena Arshintseva is a retired female race walker from Russia, who competed for her native country in the early 1990s.-Achievements:-References:... (RUS) |
11:57.48 |
Field
| Discipline | 1st | Meter | 2nd | Meter | 3rd | Meter | |
| High Jump | M | Dalton Grant Dalton Grant Dalton Grant is a British high jumper, who has won a total number of four national titles for Great Britain in the men's high jump event. His personal best jump is 2.36 metres, achieved at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo. He has a personal indoor best of 2.37 metres... (GBR) |
2.37 | Jean-Charles Gicquel Jean-Charles Gicquel Jean-Charles Gicquel is a retired high jumper from France, who set his personal best on March 13, 1994 in Paris. He is a four-time national champion for France in the men's high jump event.-Achievements:... (FRA) |
2.35 | Wolf-Hendrik Beyer (GER) | 2.33 |
| F | Stefka Kostadinova Stefka Kostadinova Stefka Kostadinova is a Bulgarian retired athlete and the current women's world record holder in the high jump. She is the current president of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee.-Career:... (BUL) |
1.98 | Desislava Aleksandrova (BUL) | 1.96 | Sigrid Kirchmann Sigrid Kirchmann Sigrid Kirchmann is a former high jumper from Austria, best known for winning Austria's first ever medal at the World Championships in Athletics. She did so in 1993, finishing third behind two Cubans... (AUT) |
1.94 NR | |
| Long Jump | M | Dietmar Haaf Dietmar Haaf Dietmar Haaf is a former German long jumper.-Career:He won the gold medal at the 1990 European Championships in Split in a personal best jummp of 8.25 metres. The following year he won the gold medal at the World Indoor Championships in Seville... (GER) |
8.15 | Kostas Koukodimos (GRE) | 8.09 | Bogdan Tudor Bogdan Tudor Bogdan Tudor is a Romanian long jumper, best known for his bronze medal at the 1994 European Indoor Championships. His personal best is 8.37 metres, achieved in July 1995 in Bad Cannstatt.-Achievements:-External links:... (ROM) |
8.07 |
| F | Heike Drechsler Heike Drechsler Heike Gabriela Drechsler née Daute is a German track and field athlete. She is one of the most successful female long jumpers of all time and also had several successes in sprint disciplines.She is the only woman who has won two Olympic gold medals in the long jump... (GER) |
7.06 | Ljudmila Ninova (AUT) | 6.78 | Inessa Kravets Inessa Kravets Inessa Mykolajivna Kravets is an Ukrainian triple jumper and long jumper.She jumped the world record at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg with 15.50m after studying a picture of Jonathan Edwards.... (UKR) |
6.72 | |
| Triple Jump | M | Leonid Voloshin Leonid Voloshin Leonid Voloshin is a retired triple jumper from Russia. He won the European Championships in 1990 as well as two European Indoor titles. He also won two World Championship silvers, in 1991 and 1993. In Tokyo 1991 he achieved a personal best jump of 17.75 metres, which puts him 18th in the all-time... (RUS) |
17.44 | Denis Kapustin Denis Kapustin Denis Viktorovich Kapustin is a retired male triple jumper from Russia. Best known for winning the bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics, he is also the 1994 European champion. His personal best jump is 17.65 metres, which he achieved in 1998.... (RUS) |
17.35 | Vasiliy Sokov Vasiliy Sokov Vasiliy Dmitryevich Sokov is a retired triple jumper who represented the USSR and later Russia.He is best known for his two bronze medals at the European Indoor Championships. His personal best was 17.59 metres, achieved in June 1993 in Moscow. This is the Uzbek record... (RUS) |
17.31 |
| F | Inna Lasovskaya Inna Lasovskaya Inna Lasovskaya is a retired triple jumper from Russia. In 1994 she won a gold medal at the European Indoor Championships, ahead of compatriot and world record holder Anna Biryukova. In 1996 she jumped past the 15 metres mark for the first time and proceeded to win an Olympic silver medal... (RUS) |
14.88 | Anna Biryukova Anna Biryukova Anna Biryukova is a retired female triple jumper from Russia. In 1993 she won a gold medal at the World Championships by jumping 15.09, a new world record. She reportedly believed she had the capability of jumping 16 metres, but in 1994 she didn't reach the 15 metre mark once, although she did... (RUS) |
14.72 | Sofiya Bozhanova Sofiya Bozhanova Sofiya Bozhanova is a retired long and triple jumper from Bulgaria. She set the world's best year performance in 1994, jumping 14.98 metres at a meet in Stara Zagora on 1994-07-16. She won the bronze medal at the 1991 IAAF World Indoor Championships, held in Seville, Spain, but the new event was a... (BUL) |
14.52 | |
| Pole Vault | M | Pyotr Bochkaryov Pyotr Bochkaryov Pyotr Bochkaryov is a retired Russian pole vaulter. He won the European Indoor Championships twice, setting an indoor personal best in 1994 with 5.90 metres. This is still the championship record . Outdoors he reached 5.86 metres, during the 1996 Summer Olympics.-Achievements:-References:... (RUS) |
5.90 | Jean Galfione Jean Galfione Jean Galfione is a French athlete. In 1995 he won the bronze medal in the pole vault at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics. In 1996 he won the gold medal in the pole vault at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia... (FRA) |
5.80 | Igor Trandenkov Igor Trandenkov Igor Trandenkov is a retired Russian pole vaulter best known for winning two Olympic silver medals. His personal best jump of 6.01 m makes him a part of the so-called 6 metres club.-Achievements:-External links:... (RUS) |
5.75 |
| Shot Put | M | Aleksandr Bagach (UKR) | 20.66 | Dragan Peric Dragan Peric Dragan Perić is a retired Serbian shot putter who occasionally competed in the discus throw. He holds the Serbian records in both events... (IEP) |
20.55 | Pétur Guðmundsson (ISL) | 20.04 |
| F | Astrid Kumbernuss Astrid Kumbernuss Astrid Kumbernuss is a former German female shot putter and discus thrower.Her career started at the SC Neubrandenburg sports club. Her greatest successes were gold medals at the 1995, 1997 and 1999 World Championships in Athletics, and the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta... (GER) |
19.44 | Larisa Peleshenko Larisa Peleshenko Larisa Alexandrovna Peleshenko , née Agapova is a retired Russian shot putter best known for winning the Olympic silver medal in 2000. In her early career she won European Indoor silver medals, but in February 1995 she received a four-year drugs ban. Having originally won the 1995 World Indoor... (RUS) |
19.16 | Svetla Mitkova (BUL) | 19.09 | |
| Heptathlon | M | Christian Plaziat Christian Plaziat Christian Plaziat is a retired French decathlete. During his career he won the European Championships, the European Indoor Championships and the World Indoor Championships.-Achievements:-External links:... (FRA) |
6268 | Henrik Dagård Henrik Dagård Olof Henrik Dagård is a retired Swedish decathlete.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*100 metres - 10.58 *400 metres - 46.71 *1500 metres - 4:34.46 *110 metres hurdles - 13.97... (SWE) |
6119 | Alain Blondel Alain Blondel Alain Blondel is a retired French decathlete. During his career he won the European title once.-Achievements:-External links:... (FRA) |
6084 |
| Pentathlon | F | Larisa Turchinskaya Larisa Turchinskaya Larisa Turchinskaya , née Nikitina , born 29 April 1965 in Kostroma, is a retired Russian heptathlete.Her personal best result is 7007 points, achieved on 10-11 June 1989 in Bryansk. This result remained the European record, until Carolina Klüft achieved 7032 points at the 2007 World Championships... (RUS) |
4801 | Rita Ináncsi Rita Ináncsi Rita Ináncsi is a retired Hungarian heptathlete.-Achievements:-External links:... (HUN) |
4775 NR | Urszula Włodarczyk (POL) | 4668 |
Medal table
| 1 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 19 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 7 | |
| 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 11 | |
| 4 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 11 | |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |
| 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | |
| 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 11 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
| 12 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
| IEP | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 18 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
| 19 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
External links
- Results - men at GBRathletics.com
- Results - women at GBRathletics.com
- EAA