1994 United States gubernatorial elections
Before the elections, 21 seats were held by Democrats, 14 held by Republicans, and one by an independent. After the elections, 11 seats would be held by Democrats, 24 by Republicans, and one by an independent.


1994 United States gubernatorial elections
The elections coincided with the midterm elections for the Senate and for the House of Representatives. As of 2021, it was the last time that Democrats have won gubernatorial elections in Florida and Nebraska.


1994 United States motorcycle Grand Prix
The 1994 United States motorcycle Grand Prix was the twelfth round of the 1994 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on September 11, 1994, at the Laguna Seca Raceway. This round was the last motorcycle Grand Prix hosted by the United States until 2005.


1994 Uruguayan Primera División, Overview
It was contested by 13 teams, and Peñarol won the championship.


1994 Uruguayan general election
General elections were held in Uruguay on 27 November 1994, alongside a double referendum. The result was a narrow victory for the Colorado Party, which won the most seats in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate and received the most votes in the presidential election.


1994 Uruguayan general election
Tabaré Vázquez of the Broad Front received the most votes of any presidential candidate. However, former president Julio Maria Sanguinetti returned to office by virtue of the Colorados receiving the most votes of any party. Under the multi-candidate Ley de Lemas system in effect at the time, the highest-finishing candidate of the party that won the most votes was elected president. Vázquez finished with just 12,100 fewer votes than the combined vote for the runner-up National Party. At the time, this was the best showing for a third party since the presidential system was reinstituted with the 1967 constitution.


1994 Uruguayan general election
They were the last presidential elections conducted under the Ley de Lemas system, which had been used for much of the 20th century and had been reinstituted in 1967. In 1996, a referendum amended the constitution to restrict each party to a single presidential candidate, effective from the 1999 elections.


1994 Utah State Aggies football team
The 1994 Utah State Aggies football team represented Utah State University in the 1994 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Aggies were led by head coach Charlie Weatherbie in his third and final year at Utah State. The Aggies played their home games at Romney Stadium in Logan, Utah, their 27th season in the venue. Despite having made a bowl game and sharing the Big West Conference championship the year prior, the Aggies suffered through a difficult year, finishing 3–8 overall and 2–4 in Big West play.


1994 Utah Utes football team
The 1994 season was the most successful under Ron McBride's tenure at Utah, with the team going 10–2, beating three ranked teams including a 16–13 win over 15th ranked Arizona at the Freedom Bowl, finishing the season ranked 10th in the AP Poll and 8th in the Coaches Poll.


1994 Utah Utes football team, After the season, NFL draft
Four players went in the 1995 NFL Draft, including first rounder and future pro bowler Luther Elliss.


1994 Uzbek League
The 1994 Uzbek League season was the 3rd edition of top level football in Uzbekistan since independence from the Soviet Union in 1992.


1994 Uzbek League, Overview
It was contested by 16 teams, and Neftchi Farg'ona won the championship. Neftchi Farg'ona won the league title again for the third time and third in a row


1994 Uzbek League, Overview
On winning the championship, Neftchi also qualified for the 1995–96 Asian Club Championship edition. Neftchi also won the 1994 Uzbek Cup, which meant that no Uzbek team would be represented in the 1995–96 Asian Cup Winners' Cup.


1994 Uzbek League, Overview
Nurafshon Buxoro whom came runners up would enter the 1995 Commonwealth of Independent States Cup which would normally go to the league winners.


1994 VFA season
The 1994 Victorian Football Association season was the 113th season of the Australian rules football competition; and, it was the final season contested under the administration of the Association as an independent body, before control of the competition was ceded to the Victorian State Football League at the end of the year. The premiership was won by the Sandringham Football Club, after it defeated Box Hill in the Grand Final on 25 September by nine points; it was the fifth premiership won by the club.


1994 VFA season, Premiership season
In the home-and-away season, each team played eighteen games; the top five then contested the finals under the McIntyre Final Five system. Finals were played for the first time at Victoria Park.


1994 VFA season, Notable events, Interleague matches
The Association played one interleague match, against the Northern Territory Football League, during 1994. The match was played on 9 April, making it a pre-season match for the Association, and a post-season match for Northern Territory (which plays its season during the Australian summer), giving Northern Territory a form advantage. Northern Territory defeated the Association by 23 points.


1994 Vanavara air disaster
The 1994 Vanavara air disaster occurred on 26 September 1994 when a Yakovlev Yak-40, operated by Russian regional airliner Cheremshanka Airlines, crashed onto the bank of a river near Vanavara, Russia. All 24 passengers and 4 crew members were killed.


1994 Vanavara air disaster
The Russian investigation team concluded that pilot error was the cause of the crash. Poor weather conditions had required the flight to abort several landing attempts and the air crew failed to maintain awareness of the fuel quantity. This resulted in the aircraft crashing due to fuel exhaustion.


1994 Vanavara air disaster
Subsequently, the investigation team blamed the airport for "not reporting the weather condition" in a timely manner to the crew.


1994 Vanavara air disaster, Aircraft
The aircraft involved was a Yakovlev Yak-40 which bore a Russian registration of RA-87468. The airliner was manufactured in Saratov Aviation Plant on 11 November 1974 with a serial number of 9441337. It was re-registered as CCCP-87468 and was handed over to the Ministry of Civil Aviation of the USSR. On November 16 the aircraft was sent to the Kazakh Civil Aviation Administration. Fourteen years later, on 16 November 1988, the 87468 was operated by the Krasnoyarsk Civil Aviation Administration. Cheremshanka Airlines later retrieved the Yak-40 in 1993.


1994 Vanavara air disaster, Aircraft
The total operating time of the aircraft was 22,203 flight hours and a flight cycle of 17,220 cycles.


1994 Vanavara air disaster, Flight
The flight was operated by Cheremshanka Airlines, a regional airline based at Krasnoyark Cheremshanka Airport. At the time of the accident, the Yakovlev Yak-40 was carrying 24 passengers, including 21 adults and 3 children, and 4 crew members. The pilot of the flight was Captain Anatoliy A. Danilov and the co-pilot was First Officer Anatoliy G. Shcherbakov. Also on board was a flight mechanic Mikhail N. Shurpatov and one flight attendant.


1994 Vanavara air disaster, Flight
Weather conditions had begun to deteriorate while the aircraft was en route to Tura Airport, but ATC in Tura failed to inform the flight crew of the changing conditions. The crew were therefore caught unaware by the poor weather when they arrived in Tura. Due to the limited visibility, the crew missed the airport. After three failed landing attempts, the crew decided to divert to Vanavara airfield, a small airport some 453 kilometers away from Tura Airport.


1994 Vanavara air disaster, Flight
41 kilometers from Vanavara, at an altitude of 3,000 meters, the airliners engines flamed out as the fuel supply was exhausted. The crew then decided to make an emergency landing in a swamp. Two helicopters and an An-24 aircraft were trying to help, suggesting the Yak-40's direction to the swamp where it would be possible to make an emergency landing. The crew then decided to land on the bank of the Chamba River.


1994 Vanavara air disaster, Flight
Captain Danilov ordered First Officer Shcherbakov and the flight mechanic Shurpatov to look out from the window and see if they could find the Chamba River. The landing gear was extended by the crew started its initial descent. At a speed of 235 km/h, the aircraft sheared tree tops and the right wing detached from the airframe. The Yak-40 then rolled severely to the right and crashed into the bank of the Chamba River inverted, with the front portion in the water and the empennage resting on shore. There was no explosion or fire since the aircraft had run out of fuel, but the impact was not survivable. All 28 people on board were killed.


1994 Vanavara air disaster, Flight
Footage from the crash site, taken from a helicopter, showed that the cockpit of the Yak-40 was completely destroyed. The fuselage was crushed severely while the tail was relatively intact. Crash victims, along with their belongings, were strewn in a large grassy area near the wreckage.


1994 Vanavara air disaster, Investigation
The investigation was hampered by the fact that the recording of the crew's conversation with ATC at Tura Airport was somehow lost before the official investigation began. A.M Chernov, the owner of Cheremshanka Airlines, ordered that before the records were transferred to the investigation team, he should listen to them first. After the records were transferred to the Russian investigation team, the recordings were not to be found, which could indicate possible sabotage by Chernov.


1994 Vanavara air disaster, Investigation
The investigation found that there were several serious shortcomings in the organization of flight work at Cheremshanka Airlines, as well as in the flight safety culture in the air traffic control at Tura Airport. Employees of Tura ATC wrote letters and at trade union meetings raised the issue that disorganization and the lack of a safety culture were endemic at Tura ATC. However, management of the Tura Aviation Enterprise did not eliminate these shortcomings, and the Krasnoyarsk regional air transport department did not control its work properly.


1994 Vanavara air disaster, Investigation, Conclusion from Russian investigative team
The commission investigating the incident concluded that the catastrophe occurred due to a number of factors:


1994 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot
Coordinates: The 1994 Vancouver Stanley Cup Riot occurred in Downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of June 14, 1994, and continued into the following morning. The riot followed Game 7 of the 1994 Stanley Cup Finals in which the Vancouver Canucks lost to the New York Rangers. It was Vancouver's first riot since 1972, when the Rolling Stones American Tour 1972 led to confrontations between the police and 2,000 outside the Pacific Coliseum.


1994 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot, The riot
After the NHL game ended, an estimated 50,000 to 70,000 individuals converged upon Downtown Vancouver. The gathering developed into a riot at Robson and Thurlow Street, after an accident involving a man who fell from a lamp standard into the crowd below. The police, who were on bicycles, attempted to escort paramedics into the crowd. When members of the crowd attempted to take a bicycle from one constable, police retreated and warned the crowd to disperse.


1994 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot, The riot
Shortly after the riot squad congregated on Thurlow St. on the West side, police fired tear gas into the crowd, causing people to run in all directions. Many major retailers along Robson had their windows broken, including an Eaton's department store which had more than 50 smashed. The storefronts were eventually guarded by a constable as police regained control of the streets.


1994 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot, The riot
Tear gas wafted through the open windows of West End residents that night. St. Paul's Hospital responded to the situation by placing guards at the emergency room entrance to prevent tear gas victims from entering, claiming there was nothing that could be done for them. Eventually, as reported in The New York Times, bowls with water were placed outside by the security guards for those suffering from tear gas. Total damage to the downtown core was estimated at $1.1 million Canadian Dollars.


1994 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot, The riot
Subduing the crowd required the direct involvement of over 540 officers, of the Vancouver Police Department and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Numerous individuals were arrested and charged, and up to 200 people were injured.


1994 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot, Aftermath
Ryan Berntt, a rioter who was shot in the head with a plastic bullet by police, causing a four-week coma and permanent brain damage, filed a civil suit against police and the City of Vancouver claiming excessive force. In 1997, he was found 75 percent liable for his own injuries, however, the British Columbia Court of Appeal ordered a new trial in 1999. In 2001, Berntt's civil suit was dismissed by the Supreme Court of British Columbia.


1994 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot, Aftermath
In New York City, although the celebrations marking the Rangers' first championship in 54 years were peaceful and there were no reports of violence or arrests, they were marred by the Vancouver riots. Rudy Giuliani, who became the city's mayor just five months before, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton, and Rangers President and General Manager Neil Smith said that the Rangers and people in New York City were in shock over the news of the riots and that the shockwaves of it had traveled to the city and put it on the highest alert. Bratton canceled days off for the New York City Police Department on June 17, 1994, the day of the parade for the Rangers, as a precaution against what happened in Vancouver happening in New York City.


1994 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot, Aftermath
During their broadcast of the post-game celebrations following Game 7, Hockey Night in Canada's Ron MacLean said when the network broadcast scenes outside Madison Square Garden that the NYPD avoided a large-scale riot by "continuing to bolster their situation in anticipation of a wild night in Manhattan."


1994 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot, Aftermath
Seventeen years later, the Canucks played the Boston Bruins in the Stanley Cup Finals. They again lost in Game 7, on June 15, 2011, resulting in a similar riot.


1994 Vanderbilt Commodores football team
The 1994 Vanderbilt Commodores football team represented Vanderbilt University in the 1994 NCAA Division I-A football season as a member of the Eastern Division of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The Commodores were led by head coach Gerry DiNardo in his fourth season and finished with a record of five wins and six losses (5–6 overall, 2–6 in the SEC).


1994 Vaucluse state by-election
A by-election was held in the New South Wales state electoral district of Vaucluse on 9 April 1994. The by-election was triggered by the resignation of Michael Yabsley (Liberal).


1994 Veikkausliiga, Overview
It was contested by 14 teams, and TPV Tampere won the championship.


1994 Vermont gubernatorial election
The 1994 Vermont gubernatorial election took place on November 7, 1994. Incumbent Governor Howard Dean won re-election.


1994 Vincentian general election
General elections were held in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines on 21 February 1994. The result was a victory for the New Democratic Party, which won twelve of the fifteen seats. Voter turnout was 65.6%.


1994 Virginia Cavaliers football team
The 1994 Virginia Cavaliers football team represented the University of Virginia during the 1994 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team's head coach was George Welsh. They played their home games at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, Virginia.


1994 Virginia Cavaliers men's soccer team
The 1994 Virginia Cavaliers men's soccer team represented the University of Virginia during the 1994 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. It was the program's 55th season of existence, and their 41st season in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The team was led by future National Soccer Hall of Fame member, Bruce Arena and their current coach, George Gelnovatch was an assistant.


1994 Virginia Slims of Chicago
The 1994 Virginia Slims of Chicago was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago, Illinois in the United States that was part of Tier II of the 1994 WTA Tour. It was the 23rd edition of the tournament and was held from February 7 through February 13, 1994. Second-seeded Natasha Zvereva won the singles title and earned $80,000 first-prize money.


1994 Virginia Slims of Chicago, Finals, Doubles
Gigi Fernández /  Natasha Zvereva defeated  Manon Bollegraf /  Martina Navratilova 6–3, 3–6, 6–4


1994 Virginia Slims of Chicago – Doubles
Katrina Adams and Zina Garrison-Jackson were the defending champions but lost in the semifinals to Gigi Fernández and Natasha Zvereva.


1994 Virginia Slims of Chicago – Doubles
Fernández and Zvereva won in the final 6–3, 3–6, 6–4 against Manon Bollegraf and Martina Navratilova.


1994 Virginia Slims of Chicago – Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


1994 Virginia Slims of Chicago – Singles
Monica Seles was the defending champion but did not compete that year.


1994 Virginia Slims of Chicago – Singles
Natasha Zvereva won in the final 6–3, 7–5 against Chanda Rubin.


1994 Virginia Slims of Chicago – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated. The top four seeds received a bye to the second round.


1994 Virginia Slims of Florida
The 1994 Virginia Slims of Florida was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Delray Beach Tennis Center in Delray Beach, Florida in the United States that was part of Tier II of the 1994 WTA Tour. The tournament was held from February 28 through March 6, 1994.


1994 Virginia Slims of Florida, Finals, Doubles
Jana Novotná /  Arantxa Sánchez Vicario defeated  Manon Bollegraf /  Helena Suková 6–2, 6–0


1994 Virginia Slims of Florida – Doubles
Gigi Fernández and Natasha Zvereva were the defending champions but did not compete that year.


1994 Virginia Slims of Florida – Doubles
Jana Novotná and Arantxa Sánchez Vicario won in the final 6–2, 6–0 against Manon Bollegraf and Helena Suková.


1994 Virginia Slims of Florida – Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated. The top four seeded teams received byes into the second round.


1994 Virginia Slims of Florida – Singles
Steffi Graf was the defending champion and won in the final 6–3, 7–5 against Arantxa Sánchez Vicario.


1994 Virginia Slims of Florida – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated. The top eight seeds received a bye to the second round.


1994 Virginia Slims of Houston
The 1994 Virginia Slims of Houston was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Westside Tennis Club in Houston, Texas in the United States that was part of Tier II of the 1994 WTA Tour. It was the 24th edition of the tournament and was held from March 21 through March 27, 1994. It was also the last tournament to use the name Virginia Slims in Houston. Seventh-seeded Sabine Hack won the singles title and earned $80,000 first-prize money.


1994 Virginia Slims of Houston, Finals, Doubles
Manon Bollegraf /  Martina Navratilova defeated  Katrina Adams /  Zina Garrison-Jackson 6–4, 6–2


1994 Virginia Slims of Houston – Doubles
Katrina Adams and Manon Bollegraf were the defending champions but they competed with different partners that year, Adams with Zina Garrison-Jackson and Bollegraf with Martina Navratilova.


1994 Virginia Slims of Houston – Doubles
Adams and Garrison-Jackson lost in the final 6–4, 6–2 against Bollegraf and Navratilova.


1994 Virginia Slims of Houston – Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


1994 Virginia Slims of Houston – Singles
Conchita Martínez was the defending champion but lost in the semifinals to Sabine Hack.


1994 Virginia Slims of Houston – Singles
Hack won in the final 7–5, 6–4 against Mary Pierce.


1994 Virginia Slims of Houston – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated. The top four seeds received a bye to the second round.


1994 Virginia Slims of Los Angeles
The 1994 Virginia Slims of Los Angeles was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Manhattan Country Club in Manhattan Beach, California in the United States that was part of the Tier II category of the 1994 WTA Tour. It was the 21st edition of the tournament and was held from August 8 through August 14, 1994. Tenth-seeded Amy Frazier won the singles title and earned $80,000 first-prize money.


1994 Virginia Slims of Los Angeles, Finals, Doubles
Julie Halard /  Nathalie Tauziat defeated  Jana Novotná /  Lisa Raymond 6–1, 0–6, 6–1


1994 Virginia Slims of Philadelphia
The 1994 Virginia Slims of Philadelphia was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Philadelphia Civic Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States that was part of the Tier I category of the 1994 WTA Tour. It was the 12th edition of the tournament and was held from November 7 through November 13, 1994. Sixth-seeded Anke Huber won the singles title and earned $150,000 first-prize money.


1994 Virginia Slims of Philadelphia
The tournament was highlighted by the presence of Jennifer Capriati, who returned to professional tennis after a 14-month hiatus. Her last match was at the first round of the 1993 US Open, where she lost to Leila Meskhi. Capriati will eventually lost in the first round against tournament winner Anke Huber, in what would end up being her only match in the entire 1994 season.


1994 Virginia Slims of Philadelphia, Finals, Doubles
Gigi Fernández /  Natasha Zvereva defeated  Gabriela Sabatini /  Brenda Schultz 4–6, 6–4, 6–2


1994 Virginia Slims of Philadelphia – Doubles
Katrina Adams and Manon Bollegraf were the defending champions, but Adams did not compete this year. Bollegraf teamed up with Zina Garrison-Jackson and lost in the first round to Gigi Fernández and Natasha Zvereva.


1994 Virginia Slims of Philadelphia – Doubles
Gigi Fernández and Natasha Zvereva won the title by defeating Gabriela Sabatini and Brenda Schultz 4–6, 6–4, 6–2 in the final.


1994 Virginia Slims of Philadelphia – Singles
Conchita Martínez was the defending champion, but lost in the first round to Nathalie Tauziat.


1994 Virginia Slims of Philadelphia – Singles
Anke Huber won the title by defeating Mary Pierce 6–0, 6–7(4–7), 7–5 in the final.


1994 Virginia Tech Hokies football team
The 1994 Virginia Tech Hokies football team represented the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University during the 1994 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team's head coach was Frank Beamer.


1994 Virginia ballot measures
The 1994 Virginia State Elections took place on Election Day, November 8, 1994, the same day as the U.S. Senate and U.S. House elections in the state. The only statewide elections on the ballot were three constitutional referendums  to amend the Virginia State Constitution. Because Virginia state elections are held on off-years, no statewide officers or state legislative elections were held. All referendums were referred to the voters by the Virginia General Assembly.


1994 Virginia ballot measures, Question 1
This amendment asked voters to extend the statutory time period for bringing civil lawsuits which involve intentional injuries to minors.


1994 Virginia ballot measures, Question 2
This amendment asked voters to remove the requirement that Virginia citizens must register to vote in-person and permits voter registration by mail. This amendment also removed the requirement that prevented citizens from cancelling their voter registration if they had voted in the past 4 years.


1994 Virginia ballot measures, Question 3
This amendment asked voters to allow the Governor of Virginia to use line-item vetos for bills passed by the Virginia General Assembly.


1994 Volkswagen Cup
The 1994 Volkswagen Cup was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the Devonshire Park Lawn Tennis Club in Eastbourne in the United Kingdom that was part of Tier II of the 1994 WTA Tour. The tournament was held from 13 June until 18 June 1994. Unseeded Meredith McGrath won the singles title.


1994 Volkswagen Cup, Finals, Doubles
Gigi Fernández /  Natalia Zvereva defeated  Inés Gorrochategui /  Helena Suková 6–7, 6–4, 6–3


1994 Volkswagen Cup – Doubles
Gigi Fernández and Natalia Zvereva were the defending champions and beat Inés Gorrochategui and Helena Suková, 6–7, 6–4, 6–3, in the final to retain the title.


1994 Volkswagen Cup – Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated. The top four seeded teams received byes into the second round.


1994 Volkswagen Cup – Singles
Martina Navratilova was the defending champion but was beaten in the quarterfinals by Meredith McGrath, 6–7, 6–2, 6–4.


1994 Volkswagen Cup – Singles
McGrath won in the final 6–2, 6–4 against Linda Harvey-Wild.


1994 Volkswagen Cup – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated. The top eight seeds received a bye to the second round.


1994 Volta a Catalunya
The 1994 Volta a Catalunya was the 74th edition of the Volta a Catalunya cycle race and was held from 8 September to 14 September 1994. The race started in L'Hospitalet and finished in Sant Feliu de Guíxols. The race was won by Claudio Chiappucci of the Carrera team.


1994 Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
The 1994 Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana was the 52nd edition of the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana road cycling stage race, which was held from 22 February to 27 February 1994. The race started in Calpe and finished in Valencia. The race was won by Viatcheslav Ekimov of the WordPerfect–Colnago–Decca team.


1994 Volvo International
The 1994 Volvo International was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center in New Haven, Connecticut in the United States and was part of the Championship Series of the 1994 ATP Tour. It was the 22nd edition of the tournament and ran from August 15 through August 22, 1994. Boris Becker won the singles title.


1994 Volvo International, Finals, Doubles
Grant Connell /  Patrick Galbraith defeated  Jacco Eltingh /  Paul Haarhuis 6–3, 7–6


1994 Volvo International – Doubles
Cyril Suk and Daniel Vacek were the defending champions but lost in the first round to Alex O'Brien and Sandon Stolle.


1994 Volvo International – Doubles
Grant Connell and Patrick Galbraith won in the final 6–3, 7–6 against Jacco Eltingh and Paul Haarhuis.


1994 Volvo International – Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated. The top four seeded teams received byes into the second round.


1994 Volvo International – Singles
Andriy Medvedev was the defending champion but lost in the quarterfinals to Marc Rosset.


1994 Volvo International – Singles
Boris Becker won in the final 6–3, 7–5 against Rosset.


1994 Volvo International – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated. The top eight seeds received a bye to the second round.


1994 Volvo PGA Championship
The 1994 Volvo PGA Championship was the 40th edition of the Volvo PGA Championship, an annual professional golf tournament on the European Tour. It was held 27–30 May at the West Course of Wentworth Club in Virginia Water, Surrey, England, a suburb southwest of London.


1994 Volvo PGA Championship
José María Olazábal won his first Volvo PGA Championship with a one stroke victory over Ernie Els.


1994 Volvo Women's Open
The 1994 Volvo Women's Open was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Dusit Resort Hotel in Pattaya in Thailand that was part of Tier IV of the 1994 WTA Tour. It was the fourth edition of the tournament and was held from 11 April through 17 April 1994. First-seeded Sabine Appelmans won the singles title, her second at the event after 1992, and earned $18,000 first-prize money.


1994 Volvo Women's Open, Finals, Doubles
Patty Fendick /  Meredith McGrath defeated  Yayuk Basuki /  Nana Miyagi 7–6(7–0), 3–6, 6–3


1994 Volvo Women's Open – Doubles
Cammy MacGregor and Catherine Suire were the defending champions, but none competed this year.


1994 Volvo Women's Open – Doubles
Patty Fendick and Meredith McGrath won the title by defeating Yayuk Basuki and Nana Miyagi 7–6(7–0), 3–6, 6–3 in the final.


1994 Volvo Women's Open – Singles
Yayuk Basuki was the defending champion, but lost in the first round to Nicole Arendt.


1994 Volvo Women's Open – Singles
Sabine Appelmans won the title by defeating Patty Fendick 6–7(5–7), 7–6(7–5), 6–2 in the final.


1994 Vuelta a Andalucía
The 1994 Vuelta a Andalucía was the 40th edition of the Vuelta a Andalucía cycle race and was held on 8 February to 13 February 1994. The race started in Chiclana and finished in Granada. The race was won by Stefano Della Santa.


1994 Vuelta a Colombia
The 44th edition of the Vuelta a Colombia was held from March 15 to March 27, 1994. There were a total number of 95 competitors.


1994 Vuelta a España
The 1994 Vuelta a España was the 49th Edition of the Vuelta a España, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Vuelta started on April 25 with a short 9 km (5.6 mi) prologue around the Spanish city of Valladolid. The race came to a close on May 15 with a flat stage that stretched from Palazuelos de Eresma to the Spanish capital of Madrid. Seventeen teams entered the race, which was won by Tony Rominger of the Mapei–CLAS team. Second and third respectively were the Spanish riders Mikel Zarrabeitia and Pedro Delgado.


1994 Vuelta a España
Tony Rominger became the first rider to win the Vuelta a España three consecutive times. Amongst the race's other classifications, Laurent Jalabert of the ONCE team won the points classification, Festina–Lotus rider Luc Leblanc won the mountains classification, Mauro Radaelli of the Brescialat team won the intermediate sprints classification, and Amore & Vita rider Alessio Di Basco won the special sprints classification. Banesto finished as the winners of the team classification, which ranked each of the twenty teams contesting the race by lowest cumulative time.


1994 Vuelta a España, Race preview and favorites
Tony Rominger, winner of the past two editions, was once again the favorite. Alex Zülle the previous year's runner up and Pedro Delgado, twice winner of the Vuelta, were expected to be his main rivals.


1994 Vuelta a España, Teams
A total of 17 teams were invited to participate in the 1994 Vuelta a España. Each team sent a squad of ten riders, so the Vuelta began with a peloton of 170 cyclists. Out of the 170 riders that started this edition of the Vuelta a España, a total of 121 riders made it to the finish in Madrid.


1994 Vuelta a España, Teams
The 17 teams that took part in the race were:


1994 Vuelta a España, Route and stages
The 1994 Vuelta a España began with a brief 9 km (6 mi) individual time trial that circuited the city of Valladolid. The official race route contained three individual time trial events with distances that ranged from 9 km (6 mi) to 53 km (33 mi) in length. There were a total of eight stages that held many high mountains, while there was only one hilly stage that contained climbs of lesser degree. The nine remaining stages were primarily flat.


1994 Vuelta a España, Route and stages
Of the stages that contained mountains, six contained summit finishes: stage 6 to Sierra Nevada, stage 10 to Andorra-Arcalís, stage 11 to Cerler, stage 14 to Sierra de la Demanda, stage 16 to Lakes of Covadonga, and stage 17 to Monte Naranco.


1994 Vuelta a España, Race overview
Rominger showed from the very start that he was unlikely to be easily beaten, as he won the prologue by a large margin. On the sixth stage, ending at the top of the 2700m climb of the Sierra Nevada, Rominger took advantage of an attack by youngster Mikel Zarrabeitia to leave all other riders behind and win the stage. After only one mountain stage Rominger was now the leader by over two minutes over his rivals.


1994 Vuelta a España, Race overview
In the second week, Rominger put his overall win beyond doubt, gaining another two minutes on his rivals at the Benidorm individual time trial and taking two more stage wins, albeit without much time gain, on the mountaintop finishes at Cerler and the Alto de la Cruz de la Demanda.


1994 Vuelta a España, Race overview
Even though the overall winner was set in stone, there was a spirited fight for second and third places between ONCE leader Zülle and Banesto riders Delgado and Zarrabeitia. This fight was mostly decided when Zülle cracked on the Lagos de Covadonga climb and lost several minutes. This very stage marked the beginning of Laurent Jalabert's transformation from sprinter into GC contender as he took the stage win.


1994 Vuelta a España, Race overview
In Segovia, on the outskirts of Madrid, Marino Alonso took the only stage win by a Spanish rider in this edition of the Vuelta. It was also in Segovia that the penultima stage was held, a 53 km individual time trial. Zülle set the fastest intermediate times and looked set to win the stage and finish on the podium, but bad luck struck, and after four consecutive mechanical issues he lost any chance of doing so. Rominger took his 6th stage win.


1994 Vuelta a España, Race overview
The final stage, ending in Madrid, resulted in Jalabert's seventh stage win, a record that also netted him the points classification. Also a record was Rominger's third Vuelta win. He also held the leader's jersey from start to finish (which only three riders had achieved before) and won six stages. The Banesto duo of Zarrabeitia and Delgado accompanied him on the podium.


1994 Vuelta a España, Race overview
It was the last time that the race was held in late spring as from 1995 onwards the race was held in September.


1994 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11
The 1994 Vuelta a España was the 49th edition of the Vuelta a España, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Vuelta began in Valladolid, with an individual time trial on 25 April, and Stage 11 occurred on 5 May with a stage to Cerler. The race finished in Madrid on 15 May.


1994 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 1
25 April 1994 — Valladolid to Valladolid, 9 km (5.6 mi) (ITT)


1994 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 2
26 April 1994 — Valladolid to Salamanca, 178.4 km (110.9 mi)


1994 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 3
27 April 1994 — Salamanca to Cáceres, 239 km (149 mi)


1994 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 4
28 April 1994 — Almendralejo to Córdoba, 235.6 km (146.4 mi)


1994 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 5
29 April 1994 — Córdoba to Granada, 166.9 km (103.7 mi)


1994 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 6
30 April 1994 — Granada to Sierra Nevada, 151.7 km (94.3 mi)


1994 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 7
1 May 1994 — Baza to Alicante, 256.5 km (159.4 mi)


1994 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 8
2 May 1994 — Benidorm to Benidorm, 39.5 km (24.5 mi) (ITT)


1994 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 9
3 May 1994 — Benidorm to Valencia, 166 km (103 mi)


1994 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 10
4 May 1994 — Igualada to Andorra-Arcalís, 205 km (127 mi)


1994 Vuelta a España, Stage 1 to Stage 11, Stage 11
5 May 1994 — Andorra la Vella to Cerler, 195.3 km (121.4 mi)


1994 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 21
The 1994 Vuelta a España was the 49th edition of the Vuelta a España, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Vuelta began in Valladolid, with an individual time trial on 25 April, and Stage 12 occurred on 6 May with a stage from Benasque. The race finished in Madrid on 15 May.


1994 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 12
6 May 1994 — Benasque to Zaragoza, 226.7 km (140.9 mi)


1994 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 13
7 May 1994 — Zaragoza to Pamplona, 201.6 km (125.3 mi)


1994 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 14
8 May 1994 — Pamplona to Sierra de la Demanda, 174 km (108 mi)


1994 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 15
9 May 1994 — Santo Domingo de la Calzada to Santander, 209.3 km (130.1 mi)


1994 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 16
10 May 1994 — Santander to Lakes of Covadonga, 147.7 km (91.8 mi)


1994 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 17
11 May 1994 — Cangas de Onís to Monte Naranco, 150.4 km (93.5 mi)


1994 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 18
12 May 1994 — Ávila to Ávila, 189 km (117 mi)


1994 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 19
13 May 1994 — Ávila to Palazuelos de Eresma, 171 km (106 mi)


1994 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 20
14 May 1994 — Segovia to Palazuelos de Eresma, 53 km (33 mi) (ITT)


1994 Vuelta a España, Stage 12 to Stage 21, Stage 21
15 May 1994 — Palazuelos de Eresma to Madrid, 165.7 km (103.0 mi)


1994 Vuelta a Murcia
The 1994 Vuelta a Murcia was the tenth edition of the Vuelta a Murcia cycle race and was held on 8 March to 13 March 1994. The race started in La Manga and finished in Murcia. The race was won by Melcior Mauri.


1994 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1994 Western Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was held March 9–12 at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.


1994 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament
Hawaii defeated BYU in the championship game, 73–66, to clinch their first WAC men's tournament championship.


1994 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament
The Rainbow Warriors, in turn, received an automatic bid to the 1994 NCAA Tournament. They were joined in the tournament by the conference's regular season champions, New Mexico, who received an at-large bid to the tournament.


1994 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament, Format
No changes were made to the tournament format from the previous year. The top six teams received byes into the quarterfinal round, leaving the lowest four-seeded teams to play in the first round. Teams were seeded based on regular season conference records.


1994 WAFL season
The 1994 WAFL season was the 110th season of the West Australian Football League in its various incarnations.


1994 WAFL season
It was the final season before, to stem fears of dominance by the Eagles of the AFL, a second Western Australian team, the Fremantle Dockers was added to the national competition. Along with financial difficulties faced by perennial stragglers Perth and to a lesser extent West Perth, East Perth, Swan Districts and on-field power club Claremont, this made the league consider substantial measures to deal with the declining popularity of the competition. The 1994 season did see two home-and-away attendances of over ten thousand for the last time in the competition's history.


1994 WAFL season
With president Tom James admitting that if the Falcons remained based in the aging districts of Daglish and Shenton Park, the club would be extinct by 2000, West Perth took the league to the rapidly growing northwestern suburbs of the city by moving to Arena Joondalup in a newly developing region of the city, vacating Leederville Oval for six seasons until the redevelopment of Perth Oval as a rectangular soccer field for the Perth Glory forced the Falcons’ traditional rivals East Perth to move there. The 1994 season also saw the last WAFL games at the Western Australian Cricket Association Ground, due to redevelopment of the drainage and grandstands of Subiaco Oval during this and the early part of the 1995 season.


1994 WAFL season
Another notable feature was the first converts to Australian Rules from basketball, Daniel Bandy and Leon Harris, who debuted for Perth and East Perth respectively. Bandy was to be a mainstay for the Dockers during their early years in the AFL.


1994 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 1 (Easter weekend)
With recruit Brenton Cooper kicking seven goals, Perth score a surprise win for new coach David Glascott.


1994 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 4 (Anzac Day)
The Anzac Day match was the first WAFL game at West Perth’s new home of Arena Joondalup, and attracted a crowd never equalled at the ground. It also featured a motorcade from old West Perth captains to Joondalup.


1994 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 5
West Perth annihilate Subiaco with twelve unanswered goals after an even first half, with ruckman Craig Nelson dominating, and leave the 1993 preliminary finalists last on the ladder.


1994 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 7
Claremont’s 53-point win is the biggest in WAFL history by a team with fewer scoring shots.


1994 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 9
East Fremantle suffer an amazing second-half collapse kicking only 1.4 (10) to 9.8 (62), including seven goals by the Falcons into the wind in the last quarter, as the previously out-of-sorts Turley and Mildenhall come to dominate when positioned in the centre.


1994 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 15
Subiaco’s dominance of possession from the centre – 144 possessions from six midfielders as against Claremont’s 110 amongst eight – allows it to inflict the Tigers’ worst loss for two seasons, despite losing key forwards Jason Heatley and Karl Langdon early on.


1994 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 17
With a major upset over the eventual premiers, Perth move off the bottom.


1994 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 18
Although without Heatley and with Karl Langdon reported, Subiaco overwhelm West Perth for their seventh consecutive victory, kicking 17.8 (110) to 5.4 (34) to three-quarter time.


1994 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 19
East Fremantle’s superb tagging decimate the league-leading Tigers after quarter-time, leavign the Sharks a win from the double chance with two rounds to play – and question marks over the post-Neesham Tigers’ capability of winning the flag.


1994 WAFL season, Home-and-away season, Round 21
With Lamb playing his 150th game for the Lions and Heatley kicking 10.1, Subiaco fail by a single point to equal their highest score from ten years beforehand against Perth


1994 WAFL season, Finals, Semi-finals
West Perth manage to always stay a kick in front during a thrilling finish in sloppy conditions.


1994 WAFL season, Finals, Preliminary final
Several major moves by Shark coach Ken Judge, including veteran Malaxos from defence to the ball and Paul Harding to defence, completely break down the system of West Perth, who score only 2.3 (15) to 11.8 (74) in the second half.


1994 WAFL season, Finals, Grand Final
An opening skirmish between Damien Condon and second semi hero Morgan shows East Fremantle mean business as they completely break down Claremont’s attack for three quarters in hot weather.


1994 WAFU Club Championship
The 1994 WAFU Club Championship was the 17th  football club tournament season that took place for the runners-up or third place of each West African country's domestic league, the West African Club Championship. It was won again by Nigeria's Bendel Insurance after defeating Plateau United in two legs, it was the first final that feature both clubs from a single country. A total of about 46 goals were scored, slightly more but not as much as it was in 1991. No penalty shootout took place that season not even a club advanced under away goals rule. Originally a 22 match season, it was reduced to a 16 match as the Gambia's Real de Banjul FC and Niger's Alkali Nassara withdrew, in the quarterfinals, Liberia's Mighty Barolle withdrew. Neither clubs from Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania nor Ghana participated. From the quarterfinals, Bendel Insurance directly headed to the finals.


1994 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 1994 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 35th conference playoff in league history and 42nd season where a WCHA champion was crowned. The tournament was played between March 11 and March 19, 1994. First round games were played at home team campus sites while all 'Final Five' matches were held at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee. By winning the tournament, Minnesota was awarded the Broadmoor Trophy and received the WCHA's automatic bid to the 1994 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.


1994 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The first round of the postseason tournament featured a best-of-three games format. All nine conference teams participated in the tournament as did Mankato State which was slated to join the WCHA as a full member in two years. Teams were seeded No. 1 through No. 9 according to their final conference standing, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated while Mankato State was seeded tenth. The top five seeded teams each earned home ice and hosted one of the lower seeded teams.


1994 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The winners of the first round series advanced to the Bradley Center for the WCHA Final Five, the collective name for the quarterfinal, semifinal, and championship rounds. The Final Five uses a single-elimination format. Teams were re-seeded No. 1 through No. 5 according to the final regular season conference standings, with the top three teams automatically advancing to the semifinals and the remaining two playing in a quarterfinal game.


1994 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The semifinal pitted the top remaining seed against the winner of the quarterfinal game while the two other teams that received byes were matched against one another with the winners advancing to the championship game and the losers meeting in a Third Place contest. The Tournament Champion received an automatic bid to the 1994 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.


1994 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format, Conference Standings
Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against


1994 WDC World Darts Championship
The 1994 Skol World Darts Championship was held following 18 months of controversy within the sport of darts. After the 1993 Embassy World Championships, several players decided it was time to part company with the British Darts Organisation (who had always organised the World Championship) and form their own organisation. The new organisation was known as the World Darts Council (WDC). The WDC would later become the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC).


1994 WDC World Darts Championship
The WDC decided to introduce their own separate World Championship, with the inaugural tournament being staged before the BDO version. The 1994 Championship started on Boxing Day 1993, and finished on 2 January 1994. This started a tradition for the WDC/PDC World Championship to kick off before the new calendar year begins. The tournament was staged at the Circus Tavern, Purfleet, Essex.


1994 WDC World Darts Championship
Dennis Priestley became the first WDC World Darts Champion, winning the final 6–1 against Phil Taylor to add to his 6–0 whitewash victory over Eric Bristow in the 1991 World Championship. 1994 was the last time that Phil Taylor would fail to win the World Championship until 2003.


1994 WDC World Darts Championship, The 16 Defectors
Originally 16 players "defected" from the BDO to form the WDC/PDC – Phil Taylor, Dennis Priestley, Rod Harrington, Alan Warriner, Peter Evison, Richie Gardner, Jocky Wilson, Eric Bristow, Keith Deller, John Lowe, Bob Anderson, Cliff Lazarenko, Kevin Spiolek, Jamie Harvey, Mike Gregory and Chris Johns.


1994 WDC World Darts Championship, The 16 Defectors
However, Johns and Gregory returned to the BDO without ever competing at the PDC World Championship. They were replaced with Graeme Stoddart and Kevin Burrows and the field was brought up to 24 by adding eight players who are Larry Butler, Sean Downs, Gerald Verrier, Jerry Umberger, Jim Watkins, Dave Kelly and Steve Brown from North America and Tom Kirby of Ireland.


1994 WDC World Darts Championship, The Tournament and Format
There were 24 players involved and the tournament featured an unusual round-robin format. The players were put into groups of three where the order of play was thus:


1994 WDC World Darts Championship, The Tournament and Format
This was done so that there would usually always be something to play for in the last group game.


1994 WDC World Darts Championship, The Tournament and Format
The group winner would progress to the quarter-finals (best of seven sets) and the tournament then became a straight knock-out event. The semi-finals were the best of 9 sets and the final was best of 11 sets.


1994 WDC World Darts Championship, Prize money
The prize money for the tournament was £64,000 – significantly less than the 1994 BDO World Championship which featured a £136,100 prize fund.


1994 WDC World Darts Championship, Tournament review, Group stage
The majority of the major players came through the group stage without trouble. Phil Taylor eased past Jamie Harvey 3–1, and Jim Watkins 3–0 to win Group 1, while 1988 World Champion, Bob Anderson, cruised into the quarter-finals for a showdown against Taylor, after a series of 3–0 wins against Americans Gerald Verrier and Dave Kelly. But there was room for an American to upset the odds, as Steve Brown, surprisingly, took Group 3, with wins against 1983 champion Keith Deller and Kevin Spiolek.


1994 WDC World Darts Championship, Tournament review, Group stage
Alan Warriner would go through to meet him after a couple of 3–1 wins against Richie Gardner and Cliff Lazarenko. Peter Evison showed no signs of discomfort, with consecutive 3–0 wins over Jerry Umberger and Kevin Burrows, and two 90-plus averages to go with it; the second of which, 97.56, would be the highest three-dart average in the tournament. Rod Harrington also went through after winning group 6, though not without difficulty. After a 3–1 win over five time World Champion, Eric Bristow, he narrowly defeated Sean Downs by 3 sets to 2 to go through to the last 8.


1994 WDC World Darts Championship, Tournament review, Group stage
Group 7 would see three-time champion John Lowe bow out, who narrowed missed out in a tight group, which saw Tom Kirby from Ireland book a quarter-final place, despite suffering defeat in his opening match to Lowe. A 3–1 win over American Larry Butler, and Lowe's 3–2 loss to Butler, ensured the Irishmen's advancement. He would be up against Dennis Priestley, after the Yorkshireman saw off Jocky Wilson 3–2 and Graeme Stoddart 3–0 to book a quarter-final place.


1994 WDC World Darts Championship, Tournament review, Quarter-finals
In a battle of two former world champions, Phil Taylor defeated Bob Anderson 4–2. Steve Brown upset the odds again to defeat 1993 runner-up Alan Warriner 4–3 and book a meeting with Taylor in the semi-finals. Peter Evison continued his good form, recording another 90-plus three-dart average while beating Rod Harrington 4–1, while Dennis Priestley ended the run of Tom Kirby with a 4–2 win.


1994 WDC World Darts Championship, Tournament review, Semi-finals and third-place play-off
Brown's dream run finally ended in the semi-finals, as Taylor beat him 5–0 to reach his third world final. The scoreline seemed harsh on Brown, however, as both players finished with the same three-dart average (91.20). In the other semi-final, Priestley beat Evison 5–3, thus reaching his second world final. Brown capped off his impressive run in fine style, beating Evison 5–1 in the third-place play-off.


1994 WDC World Darts Championship, Tournament review, Final
The final turned out to be a one-sided affair, with Taylor rarely giving Priestley any trouble at all. Priestley raced into a 5–0 lead, and eventually won 6–1 to take his second world title.


1994 WDC World Darts Championship, Results, Knockout stages
Third-place play-off:  (4) Peter Evison 84.48 1 – 5  Steve Brown 89.04


1994 WDC World Darts Championship, Representation from different countries
This table shows the number of players by country in the 1st WDC World Championship.


1994 WDF Europe Cup
The 1994 WDF Europe Cup was the 9th edition of the WDF Europe Cup darts tournament, organised by the World Darts Federation. It was held in Stockholm, Sweden from 13 to 15 October.


1994 WNBL season
The 1994 WNBL season was the 14th season of competition since its establishment in 1981. A total of 10 teams contested the league.


1994 WR12
1994 WR12 is a sub-kilometer asteroid and near-Earth object of the Aten group, approximately 130 meters (430 feet) in diameter. First imaged at Kitami Observatory on 26 November 1994, it was discovered two nights later by American astronomer Carolyn S. Shoemaker at Palomar Observatory on 28 November 1994. The asteroid then went unobserved from 1994 until it was recovered by Mauna Kea in March 2016. It was removed from the Sentry Risk Table on 2 April 2016.


1994 WR12, Description
1994 WR12 orbits the Sun at a distance of 0.5–1.1 AU once every 8 months (240 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.40 and an inclination of 7° with respect to the ecliptic.


1994 WR12, Description
It has an Earth minimum orbital intersection distance of 0.0019 AU (284,000 km), which translates into 0.7 lunar distances. On 25 November 2046, it will pass 0.0108589 AU (1,624,470 km) from Earth with an uncertainty of ±800 km. While listed on the Sentry Risk Table the range for the 2046 close approach distance varied from 0.001 AU (150,000 km) to 0.039 AU (5,800,000 km) from Earth.


1994 WR12, Description
While listed on the Sentry Risk Table, virtual clones of the asteroid that fit the uncertainty in the known trajectory showed 116 potential impacts between 2054 and 2109. It had about a cumulative 1 in 9090 chance of impacting the Earth. The formerly poorly known trajectory of this asteroid was further complicated by close approaches to Venus and Mercury. It was recovered by Mauna Kea in March 2016, which extended the observation arc from 34 days to 21 years.


1994 WR12, Description
It is estimated that an impact would produce the equivalent of 77 megatons of TNT, roughly 1.5 times that of most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated (Tsar Bomba).


1994 WTA German Open
The 1994 WTA German Open was a professional women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Berlin, Germany. It was part of the Tier I category of the 1994 WTA Tour. It was the 25th edition of the tournament and was held from 9 May through 15 May 1994. Steffi Graf won the singles title and earned $150,000 first-prize money..


1994 WTA German Open, Finals, Doubles
Gigi Fernández /  Natalia Zvereva defeated  Graham /  Brenda Schultz 6–1, 6–3


1994 WTA Tour
The 1994 WTA Tour was the elite tour for professional women's tennis organised by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). The WTA Tour includes the four Grand Slam tournaments, the year-ending WTA Tour Championships and the WTA Tier I, Tier II, Tier III and Tier IV events. ITF tournaments are not part of the WTA Tour, although they award points for the WTA World Ranking.


1994 WTA Tour, Rankings
Below are the 1994 WTA year-end rankings in both singles and doubles competition:


1994 WTA Tour Championships
The 1994 Virginia Slims Championships were played on indoor carpet courts at the Madison Square Garden in New York City, United States between November 14 and November 20. It marked the last singles tournament for Czech player Martina Navratilova until her comeback in 2002. The singles title was won by unseeded Gabriela Sabatini and earned $250,000 first-prize money.


1994 WTA Tour Championships, Finals, Singles
Gigi Fernández /  Natasha Zvereva defeated  Jana Novotná /  Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, 6–3, 6–7(4–7), 6–3.


1994 WTA Tour Championships – Doubles
Gigi Fernández and Natasha Zvereva were the defending champions and successfully defended their title, by defeating Jana Novotná and Arantxa Sánchez Vicario 6–3, 6–7(4–7), 6–3 in the final.


1994 WTA Tour Championships – Singles
Steffi Graf was the defending champion, but she lost in the quarter-finals against Mary Pierce.


1994 WTA Tour Championships – Singles
Gabriela Sabatini won the title by defeating Lindsay Davenport 6–3, 6–2, 6–4 in the final.


1994 Wagner Seahawks football team
The 1994 Wagner Seahawks football team represented Wagner College in the 1994 NCAA Division I-AA football season as an independent. The Seahawks were led by 14th-year head coach Walt Hameline and played their home games at Wagner College Stadium. They finished the season 6–5 and lost in the ECAC–IFC Division I-AA Bowl to St. John's.


1994 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team
The 1994 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team was an American football team that represented Wake Forest University during the 1994 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their second season under head coach Jim Caldwell, the Demon Deacons compiled a 3–8 record and finished in eighth place in the Atlantic Coast Conference.


1994 Waldbaum's Hamlet Cup
The 1994 Waldbaum's Hamlet Cup was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 14th edition of the event known that year as the Waldbaum's Hamlet Cup, and was part of the World Series of the 1994 ATP Tour. It took place at the Hamlet Golf and Country Club in Commack, Long Island, New York, United States, from August 22 through August 28, 1994.


1994 Waldbaum's Hamlet Cup
The singles field was led by ATP No. 2, Wimbledon runner-up, Kitzbühel and Tokyo indoor winner Goran Ivanišević, Doha, Stuttgart indoor and Washington titlist Stefan Edberg, and Jakarta, Philadelphia, Hong Kong, Atlanta and Cincinnati champion Michael Chang. Also competing were Australian Open runner-up, Wimbledon semifinalist Todd Martin, Adelaide and Copenhagen titlist Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Cédric Pioline, Marc Rosset and Arnaud Boetsch.


1994 Waldbaum's Hamlet Cup, Finals, Doubles
Olivier Delaître /  Guy Forget defeated  Andrew Florent /  Mark Petchey, 6–4, 7–6


1994 Waldbaum's Hamlet Cup – Doubles
Marc-Kevin Goellner and David Prinosil were the defending champions, but chose not to participate that year.


1994 Waldbaum's Hamlet Cup – Doubles
Olivier Delaître and Guy Forget won in the final 6–4, 7–6, against Andrew Florent and Mark Petchey.


1994 Waldbaum's Hamlet Cup – Singles
Marc Rosset was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to Renzo Furlan.


1994 Waldbaum's Hamlet Cup – Singles
Yevgeny Kafelnikov won in the final 5–7, 6–1, 6–2, against Cédric Pioline.


1994 Wales rugby union tour of Canada and Oceania
The 1994 Wales rugby union tour was a series of matches played in June 1994 in Canada, Fiji, Samoa and Tonga by Wales national rugby union team.


1994 Waltham Forest London Borough Council election
The 1994 Waltham Forest Council election took place on 5 May 1994 to elect members of Waltham Forest London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the council went into no overall control.


1994 Wan Chai District Board election
The 1994 Wan Chai District Board election was held on 18 September 1994 to elect all 10 elected members to the Wan Chai District Board.


1994 Wandsworth London Borough Council election
The 1994 Wandsworth Council election took place on 5 May 1994 to elect members of Wandsworth London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative party stayed in overall control of the council.


1994 Warringah by-election
The 1994 Warringah by-election was held in the Australian electorate of Warringah in New South Wales on 26 March 1994. The by-election was triggered by the resignation of the sitting member, Liberal MP Michael MacKellar on 18 February 1994, from the safe Liberal seat. The writ for the by-election was issued on the same day.


1994 Warringah by-election
The by-election was won by Liberal candidate Tony Abbott who served as the Prime Minister of Australia from 18 September 2013 to 15 September 2015.


1994 Warringah by-election
The Warringah by-election was held on the same day as the Mackellar by-election triggered by the resignation of sitting Liberal member Jim Carlton.


1994 Warringah by-election
Unsuccessful candidates for Liberal preselection included former NSW attorney-general John Dowd, future MP Peter King, and future senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells.


1994 Washington Huskies football team
The 1994 Washington Huskies football team was an American football team that represented the University of Washington during the 1994 NCAA Division I-A football season. In its second season under head coach Jim Lambright, the team compiled a 7–4 record, finished in fourth place in the Pacific-10 Conference, and outscored its opponents by a combined total of 295 to 233.


1994 Washington Huskies football team
In the third game, the Huskies upset Miami at the Orange Bowl, breaking the Hurricanes' home winning streak at 58 games. Midway through the season, Washington was 5–1 and ranked ninth, but lost three of the final five games. All four losses were on the road to Pac-10 opponents. Due to earlier sanctions, the Huskies were ineligible for a bowl as they were serving the second year of a two year bowl ban.


1994 Washington Huskies football team
For the second consecutive year, Napoleon Kaufman was selected as the team's most valuable player. Kaufman, Mark Bruener, David Killpatrick, and Donovan Schmidt were the team captains.


1994 Washington Huskies football team, Game summaries, at Miami (FL)
Washington's win in the Miami Orange Bowl snapped a 58-game home winning streak for the Hurricanes.


1994 Washington Huskies football team, NFL Draft selections
The following Washington players were selected in the 1995 NFL Draft:


1994 Washington Redskins season
The 1994 Washington Redskins season was the franchise's 63rd season in the National Football League (NFL) and their 58th in Washington, D.C. The Redskins' 3–13 season was the worst record the team had posted since 1961, and the fewest wins they have ever had in a 16-game season (later to be matched by their 2013 & 2019 seasons). The team was decimated by the onset of the modern salary cap and free agency system. The Redskins were forced to depend on younger and untested players at many key positions.


1994 Washington Redskins season
The season marked the hiring of head coach Norv Turner, who would spend the next six seasons coaching the Redskins.


1994 Washington Redskins season
In addition to going winless at RFK in 1994, Turner's first season in Washington saw the team lose at home to the Falcons for the first time. Prior to the Falcons' 27-20 victory in Week 4, Atlanta had been 0-10 against the Redskins at RFK. This included a 24-7 loss to the Redskins during Washington's most recent championship season.


1994 Washington Redskins season, Regular season
The Redskins not only finished with the second worst record in 1994 at 3-13, just behind the 2-14 Oilers, but also suffered their worst season in terms of fewest wins (3 or less), later to be tied in 2013 & 2019. The Redskins had nine of their thirteen defeats come by less than a full touchdown and only one or two come by more than 20 points.


1994 Washington Redskins season, Regular season
All three of the Redskins' wins are on the road; The Redskins failed to win a home game all season, going 0-8 when playing at RFK, which included their biggest low point, losing to Atlanta for their first ever home loss to that team in 11 games, having been 10-0 against Atlanta at home just prior. This is Norv Turner's first of seven season's with the Redskins


1994 Washington State Cougars football team
The 1994 Washington State Cougars football team was an American football team that represented Washington State University in the Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10) during the 1994 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their sixth season under head coach Mike Price, the Cougars compiled an 7–4 regular season record (5–3 in Pac-10, fourth), and outscored their opponents 192 to 136. The preseason media poll had picked WSU to finish last in the conference.


1994 Washington State Cougars football team
The team's statistical leaders included Chad Davis with 2,299 passing yards, Frank Madu with 494 rushing yards, and Albert Kennedy with 551 receiving yards.


1994 Washington State Cougars football team
Home games were played on campus at Martin Stadium in Pullman. The Cougars hosted and won the Apple Cup, (their second straight victory over the Huskies on the Palouse), and went to the second Alamo Bowl; they defeated Baylor for their eighth win, and were 21st in the final AP poll.


1994 Washington, D.C. mayoral election
The 1994 election for Washington, D.C. mayor featured the return of Marion Barry, who served as mayor from 1979 until 1991. It occurred on November 8, 1994.


1994 Washington, D.C. mayoral election
Barry served six months in prison on a cocaine conviction. After his release from prison, Barry ran successfully for the Ward 8 city council seat in 1992, running under the slogan "He May Not Be Perfect, But He's Perfect for D.C."  Upon this victory, Barry said he was "not interested in being mayor" again.


1994 Washington, D.C. mayoral election
This was by far the smallest Democratic victory margin in a partisan DC citywide election since the city was granted home rule.


1994 Washington, D.C. mayoral election, Campaign, Democratic primary
Sharon Pratt Kelly succeeded Barry as mayor. In the second year of her term, Barry loyalists mounted a recall campaign, which, although unsuccessful, weakened her administration.


1994 Washington, D.C. mayoral election, Campaign, Democratic primary
Councilman John Ray received the endorsement of The Washington Post and was favored to win the primary. However, Barry ran a grassroots campaign, touting his record balancing the budget in 10 of his 12 years as mayor.


1994 Washington, D.C. mayoral election, Campaign, General election
A major issue in the campaign was how to cut $140 million from the city budget, as mandated by Congress. Though Barry was seen by some as responsible for the bureaucracyand Schwartz criticized Barry's proposals as old and ineffective, Barry tied his personal redemption to the redemption of the city.


1994 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship
The 1994 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship was the 94th staging of the Waterford Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Waterford County Board in 1897.


1994 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship
On 9 October 1994, Mount Sion won the championship after a 2-13 to 1-11 defeat of Passage in the final. This was their 29th championship title overall and their first title since 1988.


1994 Welsh Open (snooker)
The 1994 Regal Welsh Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 30 January–5 February 1994 at the Newport Leisure Centre in Newport, Wales.


1994 Welsh Open (snooker)
Ken Doherty was the defending champion, but lost in the third round to David Roe.


1994 Welsh Open (snooker)
Steve Davis defeated Alan McManus 9–6 in the final to win his first Welsh Open title.


1994 Werriwa by-election
A by-election for the Australian House of Representatives division of Werriwa was held on 28 January 1994. It was triggered by the resignation of sitting Labor Party member and former minister John Kerin.


1994 Werriwa by-election
The by-election was won by Labor Party candidate Mark Latham, retaining the seat for his party.


1994 Werriwa by-election
The by-election was marked by a swing against the ALP of almost twelve per cent. Much of this swing benefited minor party candidates, in particular the anti-immigration party Australians Against Further Immigration, whose candidate Robyn Spencer polled 7.24 per cent. Single issue parties are rarely able to sustain such high votes at a general election.


1994 Werriwa by-election
Due to its status as a safe ALP seat, the Liberal Party originally decided not to field a candidate in this by-election but it was overruled by leader John Hewson and saw Charlie Lynn becoming the Liberal candidate by being handpicked by Hewson rather than going through the usual rank and file preselection process.


1994 Werriwa by-election, Aftermath
Two years later, Latham was re-elected as the member for Werriwa at the 1996 federal election, despite the Labor Party losing several seats—and as a consequence, losing office—including the neighbouring divisions of Lindsay, Hughes and Macarthur. In December 2003, Latham became Leader of the Opposition and led his party to defeat at the 2004 federal election. Although re-elected as leader in the aftermath of that election, in January 2005 he stepped down as Labor leader and the member for Werriwa citing health concerns, triggering the 2005 Werriwa by-election.


1994 Werriwa by-election, Aftermath
Latham's defeated opponent, Charlie Lynn of the Liberal Party, was selected to the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1995 filling a vacancy caused by the resignation of Ted Pickering.


1994 West Virginia Mountaineers football team
The 1994 West Virginia Mountaineers football team represented West Virginia University in the 1994 NCAA Division I-A football season. It was the Mountaineers' 102nd overall and 4th season as a member of the Big East Conference (Big East). The team was led by head coach Don Nehlen, in his 15th year, and played their home games at Mountaineer Field in Morgantown, West Virginia. They finished the season with a record of seven wins and six losses (7–6 overall, 4–3 in the Big East) and with a loss in the Carquest Bowl against South Carolina.


1994 Western Isles Area Council election
The sixth election to Western Isles Council was held on 5 May 1994 as part of the wider 1994 Scottish regional elections. One ward - Laxdale - was unfilled, as no individuals came forward as candidates.


1994 Western Michigan Broncos football team
The 1994 Western Michigan Broncos football team represented Western Michigan University in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1994 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their eighth season under head coach Al Molde, the Broncos compiled a 7–4 record (5–4 against MAC opponents), finished in a tie for third place in the MAC, and outscored their opponents, 274 to 189. The team played its home games at Waldo Stadium in Kalamazoo, Michigan.


1994 Western Michigan Broncos football team
The team's statistical leaders included Jay McDonagh with 2,136 passing yards, Jim Vackaro with 910 rushing yards, and Andre Wallace with 758 receiving yards.


1994 Westminster City Council election
The 1994 Westminster Council election took place on 5 May 1994 to elect members of Westminster City Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative party stayed in overall control of the council.


1994 Whitbread Awards
The Whitbread Awards (since 2006 called the Costa Book Awards) are among the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary awards. They were launched in 1971, are given both for high literary merit but also for works that are enjoyable reading and whose aim is to convey the enjoyment of reading to the widest possible audience. This page gives details of the awards given in the year 1994.


1994 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election
Elections to the Wigan council were held on Thursday, 5 May 1994, with one third of the seats up for election. Prior to the election, Labour had defended their seats in two by-elections for Abram and Hindley. The election suffered from a mixture of a poor contesting rate and low voter turnout. The number of candidates contesting was just 50, the lowest since 1975, with four wards going unopposed, and Lib Dems back to fighting a half of the seats, and the Conservatives less than two-thirds. The only other opposition standing were three Independent Labour candidates, one of which was the previous - but since deselected - Labour incumbent for the seat being fought in Worsley Mesnes. Voter turnout rose from the previous election's nadir, but at 30.4%, still well below average.


1994 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election
Labour achieved their highest vote share to date, with an overwhelming 70.3% of votes cast. Conversely the Conservatives obtained both their lowest vote share, and lowest vote figure, on record. The Lib Dems, whilst suffering a drop to 16% - a figure below average for results in recent years - witnessed nothing as dramatic. Party seat totals remained unchanged, with Labour and the Lib Dems gaining a seat from each other. The Lib Dem narrowly gained (by just four votes) their third in Beech Hill, turning a ward entirely represented by Labour from the early to mid eighties, into solely Lib Dem for the first time. Labour elsewhere regained a seat in Hope Carr, returning that to entirely Labour.


1994 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council election, Election result
This result had the following consequences for the total number of seats on the Council after the elections:


1994 William & Mary Tribe football team
The 1994 William & Mary Tribe football team represented the College of William & Mary as member of the Mid-Atlantic Division of the Yankee Conference during the 1994 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Led by Jimmye Laycock in his 15th year as head coach, William & Mary finished the season with an overall record of 8–3 and a mark of 6–2 in Yankee Conference play, sharing the Mid-Atlantic Division title with James Madison. They were ranked No. 19 in the final Sports Network poll, but did not receive a bid to the NCAA Division I-AA playoffs.


1994 Williamstown state by-election
A by-election for the Victorian Legislative Assembly district of Williamstown was held on 13 August 1994. The by-election was triggered by the resignation of Joan Kirner, the former Premier of Victoria, on 27 May 1994.


1994 Wimbledon Championships
The 1994 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London in the United Kingdom. It was the 108th edition of the Wimbledon Championships and were held from 20 June to 3 July 1994.


1994 Wimbledon Championships, Prize money
The total prize money for 1994 championships was £5,682,170. The winner of the men's title earned £345,000 while the women's singles champion earned £310,000.


1994 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Seniors, Men's Doubles
Todd Woodbridge /   Mark Woodforde defeated  Grant Connell /  Patrick Galbraith, 7–6(7–3), 6–3, 6–1


1994 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Seniors, Women's Doubles
Gigi Fernández /  Natasha Zvereva defeated  Jana Novotná /  Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, 6–4, 6–1


1994 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Seniors, Mixed Doubles
Todd Woodbridge /  Helena Suková defeated  T. J. Middleton /  Lori McNeil, 3–6, 7–5, 6–3


1994 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Juniors, Boys' Doubles
Ben Ellwood /  Mark Philippoussis defeated  Vladimír Pláteník /  Ricardo Schlachter, 6–2, 6–4


1994 Wimbledon Championships, Champions, Juniors, Girls' Doubles
Nannie de Villiers /  Lizzie Jelfs defeated  Corina Morariu /  Ludmila Varmužová, 6–3, 6–4


1994 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' Doubles
Ben Ellwood and Mark Philippoussis defeated Vladimír Pláteník and Ricardo Schlachter in the final, 6–2, 6–4 to win the Boys' Doubles tennis title at the 1994 Wimbledon Championships.


1994 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' Singles
Scott Humphries defeated Mark Philippoussis in the final, 7–6(7–5), 3–6, 6–4 to win the Boys' Singles tennis title at the 1994 Wimbledon Championships.


1994 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' Singles, Seeds
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1994 Wimbledon Championships – Girls' Doubles
Nannie de Villiers and Lizzie Jelfs defeated Corina Morariu and Ludmila Varmužová in the final, 6–3, 6–4 to win the Girls' Doubles tennis title at the 1994 Wimbledon Championships.


1994 Wimbledon Championships – Girls' Singles
Martina Hingis defeated Jeon Mi-ra in the final, 7–5, 6–4 to win the Girls' Singles tennis title at the 1994 Wimbledon Championships.


1994 Wimbledon Championships – Girls' Singles, Seeds
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1994 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles
Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde successfully defended their title, defeating Grant Connell and Patrick Galbraith in a repeat of the previous year's final, 7–6(7–3), 6–3, 6–1 to win the Gentlemen's Doubles title at the 1994 Wimbledon Championships. This was the third Grand Slam title for The Woodies, their second Wimbledon title, and the duo's second of five straight.


1994 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles, Seeds
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1994 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles Qualifying
Players and pairs who neither have high enough rankings nor receive wild cards may participate in a qualifying tournament held one week before the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships.


1994 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles
Defending champion Pete Sampras successfully defended his title, defeating Goran Ivanišević in the final, 7–6(7–2), 7–6(7–5), 6–0 to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 1994 Wimbledon Championships.


1994 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles, Seeds
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1994 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles Qualifying
Players and pairs who neither have high enough rankings nor receive wild cards may participate in a qualifying tournament held one week before the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships.


1994 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed Doubles
Mark Woodforde and Martina Navratilova were the defending champions but Navratilova did not compete. Woodforde competed with Meredith McGrath but lost in the quarterfinals to Byron Black and Pam Shriver.


1994 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed Doubles
Todd Woodbridge and Helena Suková defeated T. J. Middleton and Lori McNeil in the final, 3–6, 7–5, 6–3 to win the Mixed Doubles tennis title at the 1994 Wimbledon Championships.


1994 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed Doubles, Seeds
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1994 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles
Gigi Fernández and Natasha Zvereva successfully defended their title, defeating Jana Novotná and Arantxa Sánchez Vicario in the final, 6–4, 6–1 to win the Ladies' Doubles tennis title at the 1994 Wimbledon Championships.


1994 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles, Seeds
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1994 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles Qualifying
Players and pairs who neither have high enough rankings nor receive wild cards may participate in a qualifying tournament held one week before the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships.


1994 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles
Conchita Martínez defeated Martina Navratilova in the final, 6–4, 3–6, 6–3 to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 1994 Wimbledon Championships.


1994 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles
Steffi Graf was the three-time defending champion but lost in the first round to Lori McNeil, ending her streak of thirty-one consecutive quarter-final appearances dating back to the 1985 US Open. This also marked the first time in the Open Era that a Grand Slam defending champion had lost in the first round.


1994 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles, Seeds
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1994 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles, Seeds
Mary Pierce withdrew due to personal reasons. She was replaced in the draw by the highest-ranked non-seeded player Helena Suková, who became the #17 seed.


1994 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles Qualifying
Players and pairs who neither have high enough rankings nor receive wild cards may participate in a qualifying tournament held one week before the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships.


1994 Winnipeg Blue Bombers season
The 1994 Winnipeg Blue Bombers finished in 1st place in the East Division with a 13–5 record. They attempted to make a third straight Grey Cup appearance, but they lost to Baltimore in the East Final.


1994 Winston Select 500
The 1994 Winston Select 500 was held on May 1, 1994, at the Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Alabama.


1994 Winston Select 500, Background
Talladega Superspeedway, originally known as Alabama International Motor Superspeedway (AIMS), is a motorsports complex located north of Talladega, Alabama. It is located on the former Anniston Air Force Base in the small city of Lincoln. The track is a Tri-oval and was constructed by International Speedway Corporation, a business controlled by the France Family, in the 1960s. Talladega is most known for its steep banking and the unique location of the start/finish line - located just past the exit to pit road. The track currently hosts the NASCAR series such as the Sprint Cup Series, Xfinity Series, and the Camping World Truck Series. Talladega Superspeedway is the longest NASCAR oval with a length of 2.66 miles (4.28 km), and the track at its peak had a seating capacity of 175,000 spectators.


1994 Winston Select 500, Summary
Jeff Gordon was the most favored driver to enter this racing event just prior to the actual running. However, he would not rack up his first victory until the 1994 Coca-Cola 600, where Gordon would be referred to by Dale Earnhardt as the "Wonder Boy". It was the ninth race of the 1994 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season. During the race, a scary crash occurred after halfway when Mark Martin's #6 car, without brakes, hit the inside retaining wall and crashed through two guardrails, through a catchfence and into a third guardrail. He was only slightly injured.


1994 Winston Select 500, Summary
At the end of this 190-minute race, Earnhardt would beat pole-sitter Ernie Irvan by less than 0.10 seconds. The strongly-favored Gordon would finish in 24th, finishing four laps behind the lead-lap vehicles. Earnhardt would later dedicate his win to fallen Formula One driver Ayrton Senna, who died earlier in the day (European Time) at the San Marino Grand Prix while leading. Senna's death was announced during this race.


1994 Winston Select 500, Summary
Winnings for this race varied from the winner's portion of $94,865 ($163,638.93 when considering inflation)  to the last-place finisher's paycheck of $8,720 ($15,041.71 when considering inflation).


1994 Winston Select 500, Summary, Failed to qualify (Flippin' Burgers)
The term Flippin' Burgers was used during the ESPN coverage as a reference of the following drivers who failed to qualify:


1994 Winter Olympics
The 1994 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVII Olympic Winter Games (Norwegian: De 19. olympiske vinterleker; Nynorsk: Dei 19. olympiske vinterleikane) and commonly known as Lillehammer '94, was an international winter multi-sport event held from 12 to 27 February 1994 in and around Lillehammer, Norway. Having lost the bid for the 1992 Winter Olympics to Albertville in France, Lillehammer was awarded the 1994 Winter Games on 15 September 1988, at the 94th IOC Session in Seoul, South Korea.


1994 Winter Olympics
This was the only Winter Olympics to take place two years after the previous edition of the Winter Games, and the first to be held in a different year from the Summer Olympics. Lillehammer '94 was the second Winter Games hosted in Norway—the first being the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo—and the fourth Olympics overall to be held in a Nordic country, after the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden, and the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. Lillehammer is the most northerly city ever to host the Olympic Games.


1994 Winter Olympics
Although many of the events took place in Lillehammer, the skating events were held in Hamar, some ice hockey matches were played in Gjøvik, and the Alpine skiing events were held in Øyer and Ringebu. Sixty-seven countries and 1,737 athletes participated in six sports and sixty-one events. Fourteen countries made their Winter Olympic debuts, of which nine were former Soviet republics. The Games also saw the introduction of stricter qualifying rules, reducing the number of under-performing participants from warm-weather countries. New events were two new distances in short track speed skating and aerials, while speed skating was moved indoors. Almost two million people spectated at the Games, which were the first to have the Olympic Truce in effect. The Olympics were succeeded by the 1994 Winter Paralympics from 10 to 19 March.


1994 Winter Olympics
Manuela Di Centa and Lyubov Yegorova dominated women's cross-country skiing, taking five and four medals for Italy and Russia respectively. A crowd of more than 100,000 saw Italy beat Norway by 0.4 seconds in the men's 4 × 10 km relay. Vreni Schneider won a complete set of medals for Switzerland in Alpine skiing, while Norway took a podium sweep in the men's combined competition.


1994 Winter Olympics
Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan won silver in ladies' singles, despite being attacked a few weeks before the Games by Tonya Harding's associate Shane Stant; 16-year-old Oksana Baiul edged Kerrigan to win the gold medal, marking the first time the Ukrainian national anthem was played at the Olympics. Johann Olav Koss won three speed skating golds for Norway, while 13-year-old Kim Yun-mi from South Korea became the youngest-ever Olympic gold medalist. Sweden defeated Canada in a dramatic penalty shootout in the ice hockey final. Russia won the most events, with 11 gold medals, while Norway collected the highest number of medals overall, winning 26.


1994 Winter Olympics, Host city selection
Planning for the Lillehammer bid started in 1981, following Sweden's failed Falun bid for the 1988 Winter Olympics, which lost out to Calgary. The bid was supported by the Swedish government largely to help stimulate the economy of the inland counties. Lillehammer originally bid for the 1992 Games, but came fourth in the voting with the Games ultimately awarded to Albertville, France.


1994 Winter Olympics, Host city selection
In 1986, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) voted to separate the Summer and Winter Games (which had been held in the same year since the inception of the Winter Olympics in 1924) and arrange for them to take place in alternating even-numbered years. Lillehammer subsequently launched a bid for the 1994 Games, with some modifications such as the new indoor speed skating venue and an additional ice hall in Lillehammer. Supplementary government guarantees were secured for the new bid.


1994 Winter Olympics, Host city selection
Three other locations put in bids for the 1994 Games: Anchorage (United States), Östersund (Sweden), and Sofia (Bulgaria). Lillehammer was elected to host the 1994 Winter Games at the 94th IOC Session, held in Seoul on 15 September 1988. Until 2018, the Lillehammer Games were the last Winter Olympics to be held in a town, rather than centered in a city.


1994 Winter Olympics, Organization
The overall responsibility for the games was held by the Lillehammer Olympic Organizing Committee, which was created on 14 November 1988 and led by Gerhard Heiberg. It was reorganized several times with various subsidiaries, but from 1993 consisted of a single company owned 51% by Lillehammer Municipality, 24.5% by the Government of Norway and 24.5% by the Norwegian Olympic Committee. The government had issued a guarantee for the games, and also covered the expenses related to infrastructure.


1994 Winter Olympics, Organization
The total costs of the games was 7.4 billion Norwegian krone (NOK), of which NOK 0.95 billion was expenditure by the ministries, NOK 4.48 billion was for operations and event expenses, and NOK 1.67 billion was for investments. The games had a revenue of NOK 2.71 billion, of which NOK 1.43 billion was from television rights, NOK 0.65 billion was from sponsors, and NOK 0.15 billion was from ticket sales.


1994 Winter Olympics, Organization
Production of the broadcasting, which costs NOK 462 million, was the responsibility of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), with assistance from the CTV Television Network (Canada) (CTV) and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). NRK had 1,424 people working at the Olympics, while international broadcasters sent an additional 4,050 accredited broadcasting personnel. The transmission rights for the games were held by EBU in Europe, CBS in the United States, NHK in Japan, CTV in Canada, the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union, Nine Network in Australia, as well as other broadcasters in other countries. The total transmission rights price was 350 million United States dollars, 310 of which were paid by CBS. In part because of the Harding–Kerrigan affair, the viewship in the United States is still the highest ever for Winter Olympics.


1994 Winter Olympics, Organization
NOK 460 million was used on information technology, with the main system running on an IBM AS/400. 3,500 terminals were in use during the game based on the Info '94 system; it was the first Olympics to have terminals installed abroad. Seiko delivered the time-keeping devices. Telecommunications were delivered by Norwegian Telecom, including signal transmission. This included a mobile radio network with nine base stations.


1994 Winter Olympics, Cost and cost overrun
The Oxford Olympics Study established the outturn cost of the Lillehammer 1994 Winter Olympics at US$2.2 billion in 2015-dollars and cost overrun at 277% in real terms.


1994 Winter Olympics, Cost and cost overrun
This includes sports-related costs only, that is, (i) operational costs incurred by the organizing committee for the purpose of staging the Games, e.g., expenditures for technology, transportation, workforce, administration, security, catering, ceremonies, and medical services, and (ii) direct capital costs incurred by the host city and country or private investors to build, e.g., the competition venues, the Olympic village, international broadcast center, and media and press center, which are required to host the Games.


1994 Winter Olympics, Cost and cost overrun
Indirect capital costs are not included, such as for road, rail, or airport infrastructure, or for hotel upgrades or other business investment incurred in preparation for the Games but not directly related to staging the Games. The cost and cost overrun for Lillehammer 1994 compares with costs of US$2.5 billion and a cost overrun of 13% for Vancouver 2010, and costs of US$51 billion and a cost overrun of 289% for Sochi 2014, the latter being the most costly Olympics to date. Average cost for Winter Games since 1960 is US$3.1 billion, average cost overrun is 142%.


1994 Winter Olympics, Events
There were 61 events contested in 6 sports (12 disciplines).


1994 Winter Olympics, Events, Opening ceremony
The opening ceremony was held at the ski jumping hill Lysgårdsbakken. Artistic content was made to present a range of Norwegian culture, included Sami joik, Telemark skiing, fiddlers and folk dancing, simulations of traditional weddings and their processions, and vetter from Norse mythology. After speeches by Heiberg and IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch, the games were officially declared opened by King Harald V. The Olympic Flame was to be skied down the skijump before lighting the cauldron.


1994 Winter Olympics, Events, Opening ceremony
Originally this task had rested upon Ole Gunnar Fidjestøl, but after he was injured in a practice jump, his back-up Stein Gruben received the honor. The cauldron was lit by Crown Prince Haakon Magnus. The Olympic oaths were issued by Vegard Ulvang for the athletes and Kari Kåring for the officials.


1994 Winter Olympics, Events, Alpine skiing
Since the 1992 Games, the rules for combined changed, where the winner was determined by total time instead of points. The women's downhill was originally scheduled for Hafjell, but after protests it was moved to Kvitfjell, which also hosted the men's downhill and super-G. In the men's events, Germany's Markus Wasmeier won two disciplines, giant slalom and super-G, finishing ahead of the United States's Tommy Moe on the super-G. Moe won the downhill ahead of Norway's Kjetil André Aamodt, who came in third in the super-G. Austria's Thomas Stangassinger won the slalom ahead of Italy's Alberto Tomba. In the combined, Norway took a medal sweep, with Lasse Kjus winning ahead of Aamodt and Harald Christian Strand Nilsen.


1994 Winter Olympics, Events, Alpine skiing
In the women's events, Switzerland's Vreni Schneider was the most successful, winning the slalom, taking silver in combined and taking bronze in giant slalom. The only other athlete to take multiple medals was Italy's Isolde Kostner, who took a third place in both downhill and super-G. The downhill was won by Germany's Katja Seizinger, super-G by the United States' Diann Roffe, the giant slalom by Italy's Deborah Compagnoni, and the combined by Sweden's Pernilla Wiberg.


1994 Winter Olympics, Events, Biathlon
Russia and Germany split all the individual men's medals. In the 10 km sprint, Russia's Sergei Tchepikov won ahead of Ricco Groß, both with a clean sheet. Bronze winner Sergei Tarasov won the 20 km individual ahead of Germany's Frank Luck and Sven Fischer. Germany easily revenged itself by winning the 4 × 7.5 km relay ahead of Russia and France. In the women's class, Canada's Myriam Bédard won both the individual events, finishing ahead of Belarus' Svetlana Paramygina on the 7.5 km sprint and ahead of France's Anne Briand on the 15 km individual. In the 4 × 7.5 km relay, the format since 1992 was changed from three to four participants. Russia, with a clean sheet, won ahead of Germany, who made six misses, with France taking the bronze.


1994 Winter Olympics, Events, Bobsleigh
In two-man, Switzerland took the top two places, with Gustav Weder, Donat Acklin winning 0.05 seconds ahead of Reto Götschi and Guido Acklin, who were again 0.15 seconds ahead of Italy's Günther Huber and Stefano Ticci placing third. In four-man, Germany-II, consisting of Harald Czudaj, Karsten Brannasch, Olaf Hampel and Alexander Szelig, finished 0.06 seconds ahead of Switzerland-I and 0.23 ahead of Germany-I.


1994 Winter Olympics, Events, Cross-country skiing
Participants from five countries took all the medals of the ten events. Starting in 1994, the Olympics alternated which of the medium-distance and long-distance races had classical and freestyle. men's 4 × 10 km relay was watched by a crowd of nearly 150,000. Norway, Italy and Finland followed each other tightly for three and a half rounds, with the second and third exchange of the three talking place within 1.1 seconds of each other. Finland fell behind in the end, and Norwegian Bjørn Dæhlie and Italian Silvio Fauner battled to the end, with Italy beating Norway by 0.4 seconds.


1994 Winter Olympics, Events, Cross-country skiing
Dæhlie won the 10 km classical and 15 km pursuit, while taking silver in the 30 km freestyle. Kazakhstan's Vladimir Smirnov won the 50 km classical, in addition to silver in the 10 km and the 15 km. Norway's Thomas Alsgaard won the 30 km, while Finland's Mika Myllylä took an individual silver and a bronze.


1994 Winter Olympics, Events, Cross-country skiing
Italy's Manuela Di Centa and Russia's Lyubov Yegorova dominated the women's events. They took five and four medals each, respectively, and between them winning all the races. Yegorova finished ahead of Di Centa on the 5 km classical and the 10 km pursuit, while Di Centa finished ahead of Yegorova on the 15 km freestyle, and also won the 30 km classical ahead of Norway's Marit Wold. Finland's Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi took two bronze medals, in 5 km and 30 km. In the 4 × 5 km relay, Norway and Russia kept up with each other until the final stage, in which Anita Moen lost to Yegorova, with Italy finishing third. With Yegorova's sixth career gold, she was tied as the most-winning Winter Olympic participant.


1994 Winter Olympics, Events, Figure skating
On 6 January, Tonya Harding's ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly and his friend Shawn Eckdardt, conspired with Shane Stant to club fellow female figure skater Nancy Kerrigan in the knee. Both Harding and Kerrigan were selected for the Olympic team. After Harding admitted to helping to cover up the attack, the United States Olympic Committee initiated proceedings to remove her from the Olympic team, but Harding retained her place after threatening legal action. In the ladies' singles, Ukraine's Oksana Baiul won ahead of Kerrigan and Chen Lu, with Harding finishing eighth.


1994 Winter Olympics, Events, Figure skating
In the men's singles, Russia's Alexei Urmanov won ahead of Canada's Elvis Stojko and France's Philippe Candeloro. Relaxation of the amateurism rules led to several former stars returning, such as ice dancing 1984 Champions Great Britain's Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, who took a bronze behind Russians Oksana Grishuk and Evgeny Platov, and Maya Usova and Alexander Zhulin. In pair skating, the Russians also took a double, with Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov winning ahead of Natalia Mishkutenok and Artur Dmitriev.


1994 Winter Olympics, Events, Freestyle skiing
Aerials was added as a discipline, after it had been a demonstration sport at the previous two games. Ski ballet, which had been a demonstration sport in 1992, was dropped. Canada dominated the men's events, with Jean-Luc Brassard winning the men's moguls ahead of Russian Sergey Shupletsov. In the men's aerials, Switzerlands's Andreas Schönbächler won ahead of Canada's Philippe LaRoche and Lloyd Langlois, with Canadians also claiming the fourth and sixth places. In the women's disciplines, Norway was the only nation to take two medals; Stine Lise Hattestad won the moguls ahead of the United States' Liz McIntyre. In the aerials, Lina Cheryazova won, claiming Uzbekistan's only medal, ahead of Sweden's Marie Lindgren and Norway's Hilde Synnøve Lid.


1994 Winter Olympics, Events, Ice hockey
Twelve teams participated in the ice hockey tournament, divided into two groups. Each played as a single round robin, with the four best advancing to the single elimination medal tournament. Group A saw Finland win all five matches, while the host nation lost all theirs. Also Germany, the Czech Republic and Russia advanced from the group, all with three victories. Group B was won by Slovakia ahead of Canada, Sweden and the United States. The quarter-finals saw the Czech Republic, the United States, Germany and Slovakia eliminated. In the semi-finals, Canada beat Finland 5–3, while Sweden beat Russia 4–3.