1986 European Athletics Championships

14th European Athletics Championships
The logo of the 1986 European Athletics Championships
Dates	26 – 31 August
Host city	Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany
Venue	Neckarstadion
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	43
Participation	906 athletes from 31 nations
← 1982 Athens 1990 Split →

The 14th European Athletics Championships were held from 26 to 31 August 1986 at the Neckarstadion, now known as MHPArena, in Stuttgart, a city in West Germany.

Contemporaneous reports were given in the Glasgow Herald. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]}

Men's results

Complete results were published. ^[12]

Track

1978 | 1982 | 1986 | 1990 | 1994

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Linford Christie   Great Britain	10.15	Steffen Bringmann   East Germany	10.20	Bruno Marie-Rose   France	10.21
200 metres details	Vladimir Krylov   Soviet Union	20.52	Jürgen Evers   West Germany	20.75	Andrey Fedoriv   Soviet Union	20.84
400 metres details	Roger Black   Great Britain	44.59	Thomas Schönlebe   East Germany	44.63	Mathias Schersing   East Germany	44.85
800 metres details	Sebastian Coe   Great Britain	1:44.50	Tom McKean   Great Britain	1:44.61	Steve Cram   Great Britain	1:44.88
1500 metres details	Steve Cram   Great Britain	3:41.09	Sebastian Coe   Great Britain	3:41.67	Han Kulker   Netherlands	3:42.11
5000 metres details	Jack Buckner   Great Britain	13:10.15	Stefano Mei   Italy	13:11.57	Tim Hutchings   Great Britain	13:12.88
10,000 metres details	Stefano Mei   Italy	27:56.79	Alberto Cova   Italy	27:57.93	Salvatore Antibo   Italy	28:00.25
Marathon details	Gelindo Bordin   Italy	2: 10:54	Orlando Pizzolato   Italy	2: 10:57	Herbert Steffny   West Germany	2: 11:30
110 metres hurdles details	Stéphane Caristan   France	13.20	Arto Bryggare   Finland	13.42	Carlos Sala   Spain	13.50
400 metres hurdles details	Harald Schmid   West Germany	48.65	Aleksandr Vasilyev   Soviet Union	48.76	Sven Nylander   Sweden	49.38
3000 metres steeplechase details	Hagen Melzer   East Germany	8:16.65	Francesco Panetta   Italy	8:16.85	Patriz Ilg   West Germany	8:16.92
20 kilometres walk details	Jozef Pribilinec   Czechoslovakia	1: 21:15	Maurizio Damilano   Italy	1: 21:17	Miguel Ángel Prieto   Spain	1: 21:36
50 kilometres walk details	Hartwig Gauder   East Germany	3:40:55	Vyacheslav Ivanenko   Soviet Union	3:41:54	Valeriy Suntsov   Soviet Union	3:42:38
4x100 metres relay details	Aleksandr Yevgenyev Nikolay Yuschmanov Vladimir Muravyov Viktor Bryzgin   Soviet Union  (URS)	38.29	Thomas Schröder Steffen Bringmann Olaf Prenzler Frank Emmelmann   East Germany  (GDR)	38.64	Elliot Bunney Daley Thompson Mike McFarlane Linford Christie   Great Britain  (GBR)	38.71
4x400 metres relay details	Derek Redmond Kriss Akabusi Brian Whittle Roger Black   Great Britain  (GBR)	2:59.84	Klaus Just Edgar Itt Harald Schmid Ralf Lübke   West Germany  (FRG)	3:00.17	Vladimir Prosin Vladimir Krylov Arkadiy Kornilov Aleksandr Kurotchikin   Soviet Union  (URS)	3:00.47

Field

1978 | 1982 | 1986 | 1990 | 1994

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Igor Paklin   Soviet Union	2.34	Sergey Malchenko   Soviet Union	2.31	Carlo Thränhardt   West Germany	2.31
Long jump details	Robert Emmiyan   Soviet Union	8.41	Sergey Layevskiy   Soviet Union	8.01	Giovanni Evangelisti   Italy	7.92
Pole vault details	Sergey Bubka   Soviet Union	5.85	Vasiliy Bubka   Soviet Union	5.75	Philippe Collet   France	5.75
Triple jump details	Khristo Markov   Bulgaria	17.66	Māris Bružiks   Soviet Union	17.33	Oleg Protsenko   Soviet Union	17.28
Shot put details	Werner Günthör    Switzerland	22.22	Ulf Timmermann   East Germany	21.84	Udo Beyer   East Germany	20.74
Discus throw details	Romas Ubartas   Soviet Union	67.08	Georgiy Kolnootchenko   Soviet Union	66.32	Vaclavas Kidykas   Soviet Union	65.60
Javelin throw details	Klaus Tafelmeier   West Germany	84.76	Detlef Michel   East Germany	81.90	Viktor Yevsyukov   Soviet Union	81.80
Hammer throw details	Yuriy Sedykh   Soviet Union	86.74 WR	Sergey Litvinov   Soviet Union	85.74	Igor Nikulin   Soviet Union	82.20
Decathlon details	Daley Thompson   Great Britain	8811	Jürgen Hingsen   West Germany	8730	Siegfried Wentz   West Germany	8676

Women's results

Track

1978 | 1982 | 1986 | 1990 | 1994

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Marlies Göhr   East Germany	10.91	Aneliya Nuneva   Bulgaria	11.04	Nelli Cooman   Netherlands	11.08
200 metres details	Heike Drechsler   East Germany	21.71 WR	Marie-Christine Cazier   France	22.32	Silke Gladisch   East Germany	22.64
400 metres details	Marita Koch   East Germany	48.22	Olga Vladykina   Soviet Union	49.67	Petra Muller   East Germany	49.88
800 metres details	Nadiya Olizarenko   Soviet Union	1:57.15	Sigrun Wodars   East Germany	1:57.42	Lyubov Gurina   Soviet Union	1:57.73
1500 metres details	Ravilya Agletdinova   Soviet Union	4:01.19	Tetyana Samolenko   Soviet Union	4:02.36	Doina Melinte   Romania	4:02.44
3000 metres details	Olga Bondarenko   Soviet Union	8:33.99	Maricica Puică   Romania	8:35.92	Yvonne Murray   Great Britain	8:37.15
10,000 metres details	Ingrid Kristiansen   Norway	30:23.25	Olga Bondarenko   Soviet Union	30:57.21	Ulrike Bruns   East Germany	31:19.76
Marathon details	Rosa Mota   Portugal	2:28:38	Laura Fogli   Italy	2:32:52	Yekaterina Khramenkova   Soviet Union	2:34:18
100 metres hurdles details	Yordanka Donkova   Bulgaria	12.38	Cornelia Oschkenat   East Germany	12.55	Ginka Zagorcheva   Bulgaria	12.70
400 metres hurdles details	Marina Stepanova   Soviet Union	53.32 WR	Sabine Busch   East Germany	53.60	Cornelia Feuerbach   East Germany	54.13
10 kilometres walk details	Mari Cruz Díaz   Spain	46:09	Ann Jansson   Sweden	46:13	Siv Ibáñez   Sweden	46:19
4x100 metres relay details	Silke Gladisch Sabine Rieger Ingrid Auerswald Marlies Göhr   East Germany  (GDR)	41.84	Ginka Zagorcheva Aneliya Nuneva Yordanka Donkova Nadezhda Georgieva   Bulgaria  (BUL)	42.68	Antonina Nastoburko Natalya Bochina Marina Zhirova Olga Zolotaryova   Soviet Union  (URS)	42.74
4x400 metres relay details	Kirsten Emmelmann Sabine Busch Petra Müller Marita Koch   East Germany  (GDR)	3:16.87	Gisela Kinzel Ute Thimm Heidi-Elke Gaugel Gaby Bussmann   West Germany  (FRG)	3:22.80	Ewa Kasprzyk Marzena Wojdecka Elżbieta Kapusta Genowefa Błaszak   Poland  (POL)	3:24.65

Field

1978 | 1982 | 1986 | 1990 | 1994

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Stefka Kostadinova   Bulgaria	2.00	Svetlana Isaeva-Leseva   Bulgaria	1.93	Olga Turchak   Soviet Union	1.93
Long jump details	Heike Drechsler   East Germany	7.27	Galina Chistyakova   Soviet Union	7.09	Helga Radtke   East Germany	6.89
Shot put details	Heidi Krieger   East Germany	21.10	Ines Müller   East Germany	20.81	Natalya Akhrimenko   Soviet Union	20.68
Discus throw details	Diana Sachse   East Germany	71.36	Tsvetanka Khristova   Bulgaria	69.52	Martina Opitz   East Germany	68.26
Javelin throw details	Fatima Whitbread   Great Britain	76.32	Petra Felke   East Germany	72.52	Beate Peters   West Germany	68.04
Heptathlon details	Anke Behmer   East Germany	6717	Natalya Schubenkova   Soviet Union	6645	Judy Simpson   Great Britain	6623

All the medals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1dLKh0aH1U&list=PLK1QYHf4OvhN6ydKbmo2wLecwCOef15SL

Medal table

  *   Host nation (West Germany)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union  (URS)	11	13	12	36
2	East Germany  (GDR)	11	10	8	29
3	Great Britain  (GBR)	8	2	5	15
4	Bulgaria  (BUL)	3	4	1	8
5	Italy  (ITA)	2	6	2	10
6	West Germany  (FRG)*	2	4	5	11
7	France  (FRA)	1	1	2	4
8	Spain  (ESP)	1	0	2	3
9	Czechoslovakia  (TCH)	1	0	0	1
	Norway  (NOR)	1	0	0	1
	Portugal  (POR)	1	0	0	1
	Switzerland  (SUI)	1	0	0	1
13	Sweden  (SWE)	0	1	2	3
14	Romania  (ROU)	0	1	1	2
15	Finland  (FIN)	0	1	0	1
16	Netherlands  (NED)	0	0	2	2
17	Poland  (POL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (17 entries)		43	43	43	129

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 878 athletes from 31 countries participated in the event, 28 athletes less than the official number of 906 as published. ^[13]

•   Austria (17)
•   Belgium (20)
•   Bulgaria (34)
•   Cyprus (6)
•   Czechoslovakia (29)
•   Denmark (17)
•   East Germany (65)
•   Finland (31)
•   France (59)
•   Gibraltar (1)
•   Greece (6)
•   Hungary (24)
•   Iceland (3)
•   Ireland (12)
•   Italy (47)
•   Liechtenstein (2)
•   Luxembourg (2)
•   Malta (1)
•   Netherlands (16)
•   Norway (30)
•   Poland (34)
•   Portugal (21)
•   Romania (16)
•   Soviet Union (98)
•   Spain (33)
•   Sweden (49)
•    Switzerland (26)
•   Turkey (6)
•   United Kingdom (79)
•   West Germany (82)
•   Yugoslavia (12)

See also

• 1986 in the sport of athletics

Notes

Differences to competition format since the 1982 European Championships:

New events added:

• Women's 20 km walk replaces the 10 km walk .
• Women's 10 000m.

References

1. Cova loses, but Italians still celebrate treble, Glasgow Herald, August 27, 1986, p. 24, retrieved September 21, 2014
2. Gillon, Doug (August 27, 1986), Wells canters his way towards European final, Glasgow Herald, p. 24, retrieved September 21, 2014
3. Gillon, Doug (August 28, 1986), Triumphant Christie's tribute to Wells, Glasgow Herald, p. 22, retrieved September 21, 2014
4. Gillon, Doug (August 29, 1986), McKean's moment of glory, Glasgow Herald, p. 1, retrieved September 21, 2014
5. Gillon, Doug (August 29, 1986), Silver stunner from McKean - First medal treble for Britain as Scot splits Coe and Cram, Glasgow Herald, p. 28, retrieved September 21, 2014
6. Thompson silences Germans, Glasgow Herald, August 29, 1986, p. 28, retrieved September 21, 2014
7. Gillon, Doug (August 30, 1986), No medal - but Wells regains his self-respect, Glasgow Herald, p. 20, retrieved September 21, 2014
8. Whitbread and Black rewrite record book, Glasgow Herald, August 30, 1986, p. 20, retrieved September 21, 2014
9. Daley turns to coaches in pursuit of perfection, Glasgow Herald, August 30, 1986, p. 20, retrieved September 21, 2014
10. Gillon, Doug (September 1, 1986), Whittle unshod hero of Britain's relay triumph - Cram and Buckner add to record-equalling gold haul, Glasgow Herald, p. 7, retrieved September 21, 2014
11. Hurdles no barrier for Stepanova, Glasgow Herald, September 1, 1986, p. 7, retrieved September 21, 2014
12. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 443–451, retrieved 13 August 2014
13. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, p. 4, retrieved 13 August 2014

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