1994 European Athletics Championships – Women's 400 metres hurdles

Women's 400 metres hurdles at the European Athletics Championships
Venue	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Location	Helsinki, Finland
Dates	9 and 10 August 1994
Competitors	24 from 15 nations
Winning time	53.33 s
Medalists
Sally Gunnell    United Kingdom   Silvia Rieger    Germany   Anna Knoroz    Russia

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
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

The women's 400 metres hurdles event at the 1994 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 9 and 10 August 1994.^[1]

Gold	Sally Gunnell  United Kingdom
Silver	Silvia Rieger  Germany
Bronze	Anna Knoroz  Russia

10 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Sally Gunnell	United Kingdom	53.33
	Silvia Rieger	Germany	54.68
	Anna Knoroz	Russia	54.68
4	Heike Meißner	Germany	54.79
5	Tatyana Kurochkina	Belarus	55.18
6	Tetyana Tereshchuk	Ukraine	55.53
7	Olga M. Nazarova	Russia	55.98
8	Gowry Retchakan	United Kingdom	56.05

10 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Heike Meißner	Germany	55.16	Q
2	Tatyana Kurochkina	Belarus	55.49	Q
3	Gowry Retchakan	United Kingdom	55.78	Q
4	Olga M. Nazarova	Russia	55.90	Q
5	Gesine Schmidt	Germany	56.01
6	Monica Westén	Sweden	56.38
7	Sylwia Pachut	Poland	56.57
8	Michèle Schenk	Switzerland	57.67

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Sally Gunnell	United Kingdom	54.60	Q
2	Anna Knoroz	Russia	54.82	Q
3	Silvia Rieger	Germany	55.69	Q
4	Tetyana Tereshchuk	Ukraine	55.79	Q
5	Anita Protti	Switzerland	56.15
6	Vera Ordina	Russia	56.40
7	Monika Warnicka	Poland	56.70
8	Frida Johansson	Sweden	57.54

9 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Olga M. Nazarova	Russia	55.71	Q
2	Heike Meißner	Germany	56.13	Q
3	Monika Warnicka	Poland	56.48	Q
4	Anita Protti	Switzerland	56.51	Q
5	Monica Westén	Sweden	56.74	q
6	Iina Pekkola	Finland	57.81
7	Jacqui Parker	United Kingdom	57.83
8	Stefanie Zotter	Austria	58.32

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Sally Gunnell	United Kingdom	55.17	Q
2	Tetyana Tereshchuk	Ukraine	55.75	Q
3	Gesine Schmidt	Germany	55.96	Q
4	Michèle Schenk	Switzerland	56.50	Q
5	Vera Ordina	Russia	56.66	q
6	Sylwia Pachut	Poland	56.76	q
7	Tiia Eeskivi	Estonia	58.06
8	Carole Nelson	France	58.39

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Tatyana Kurochkina	Belarus	55.53	Q
2	Silvia Rieger	Germany	55.83	Q
3	Anna Knoroz	Russia	55.95	Q
4	Gowry Retchakan	United Kingdom	56.45	Q
5	Frida Johansson	Sweden	57.06	q
6	Ionela Tîrlea	Romania	57.79
7	Lana Jekabsone	Latvia	57.99
8	Virna De Angeli	Italy	58.60

According to an unofficial count, 24 athletes from 15 countries participated in the event.