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1994 European Athletics Championships
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The men's 400 metres event at the 1994 European Athletics Championships was held in Helsinki, Finland, at Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 8, 9, and 11 August 1994.

Medalists

Gold	Du'aine Thorne-Ladejo  United Kingdom
Silver	Roger Black  United Kingdom
Bronze	Matthias Rusterholz   Switzerland

Results

Final

11 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Du'aine Thorne-Ladejo	United Kingdom	45.09
	Roger Black	United Kingdom	45.20
	Matthias Rusterholz	Switzerland	45.96
4	Dmitriy Golovastov	Russia	46.01
5	Anton Ivanov	Bulgaria	46.20
6	Mikhail Vdovin	Russia	46.23
7	Štefan Balošák	Slovakia	46.64
8	Dmitriy Kosov	Russia	46.69

Semi-finals

9 August

Semi-final 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Du'aine Thorne-Ladejo	United Kingdom	45.70	Q
2	Mikhail Vdovin	Russia	45.85	Q
3	Matthias Rusterholz	Switzerland	45.88	Q
4	Anton Ivanov	Bulgaria	46.10	Q
5	Daniel Bittner	Germany	46.44
6	Marco Vaccari	Italy	46.57
7	David McKenzie	United Kingdom	46.65
8	Nenad Đurović	Yugoslavia	47.44

Semi-final 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Roger Black	United Kingdom	45.79	Q
2	Dmitriy Golovastov	Russia	46.05	Q
3	Dmitriy Kosov	Russia	46.23	Q
4	Štefan Balošák	Slovakia	46.32	Q
5	Alessandro Aimar	Italy	46.33
6	Pierre-Marie Hilaire	France	46.39
7	Tomasz Czubak	Poland	47.05
8	Kari Louramo	Finland	47.37

Heats

8 August

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Roger Black	United Kingdom	45.88	Q
2	Pierre-Marie Hilaire	France	46.25	Q
3	Anton Ivanov	Bulgaria	46.29	Q
4	Marco Vaccari	Italy	46.32	Q
5	Dmitriy Golovastov	Russia	46.48	q
6	Daniel Bittner	Germany	46.62	q
7	Kari Louramo	Finland	46.83	q

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Du'aine Thorne-Ladejo	United Kingdom	46.50	Q
2	Alessandro Aimar	Italy	46.52	Q
3	Dmitriy Kosov	Russia	46.79	Q
4	Tomasz Czubak	Poland	46.95	Q
5	Tom McGuirk	Ireland	47.14
6	Lutz Becker	Germany	47.52
	Slobodan Branković	Yugoslavia	DNS

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Matthias Rusterholz	Switzerland	46.12	Q
2	Mikhail Vdovin	Russia	46.61	Q
3	Štefan Balošák	Slovakia	46.62	Q
4	David McKenzie	United Kingdom	46.78	Q
5	Nenad Đurović	Yugoslavia	46.84	q
6	Andrea Nuti	Italy	46.87
7	Kai Karsten	Germany	47.22
8	Evripides Demosthenous	Cyprus	47.40

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 21 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.

•  Bulgaria (1)
•  Cyprus (1)
•  Finland (1)
•  France (1)
•  Germany (3)
•  Ireland (1)
•  Italy (3)
•  Poland (1)
•  Russia (3)
•  Slovakia (1)
•   Switzerland (1)
•  United Kingdom (3)
•  Yugoslavia (1)

References

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

• Events at the 1994 European Athletics Championships
• 400 metres at the European Athletics Championships