1986 European Athletics Championships

14th 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)

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

^ Cova loses, but Italians still celebrate treble, Glasgow Herald, August 27, 1986, p. 24, retrieved September 21, 2014
^ Gillon, Doug (August 27, 1986), Wells canters his way towards European final, Glasgow Herald, p. 24, retrieved September 21, 2014
^ Gillon, Doug (August 28, 1986), Triumphant Christie's tribute to Wells, Glasgow Herald, p. 22, retrieved September 21, 2014
^ Gillon, Doug (August 29, 1986), McKean's moment of glory, Glasgow Herald, p. 1, retrieved September 21, 2014
^ 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
^ Thompson silences Germans, Glasgow Herald, August 29, 1986, p. 28, retrieved September 21, 2014
^ Gillon, Doug (August 30, 1986), No medal - but Wells regains his self-respect, Glasgow Herald, p. 20, retrieved September 21, 2014
^ Whitbread and Black rewrite record book, Glasgow Herald, August 30, 1986, p. 20, retrieved September 21, 2014
^ Daley turns to coaches in pursuit of perfection, Glasgow Herald, August 30, 1986, p. 20, retrieved September 21, 2014
^ 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
^ Hurdles no barrier for Stepanova, Glasgow Herald, September 1, 1986, p. 7, retrieved September 21, 2014
^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 443–451, retrieved 13 August 2014
^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, p. 4, retrieved 13 August 2014

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[herald_03-1] Cova loses, but Italians still celebrate treble, Glasgow Herald, August 27, 1986, p. 24, retrieved September 21, 2014

[herald_04-2] Gillon, Doug (August 27, 1986), Wells canters his way towards European final, Glasgow Herald, p. 24, retrieved September 21, 2014

[herald_06-3] Gillon, Doug (August 28, 1986), Triumphant Christie's tribute to Wells, Glasgow Herald, p. 22, retrieved September 21, 2014

[herald_07-4] Gillon, Doug (August 29, 1986), McKean's moment of glory, Glasgow Herald, p. 1, retrieved September 21, 2014

[herald_08-5] 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

[herald_09-6] Thompson silences Germans, Glasgow Herald, August 29, 1986, p. 28, retrieved September 21, 2014

[herald_11-7] Gillon, Doug (August 30, 1986), No medal - but Wells regains his self-respect, Glasgow Herald, p. 20, retrieved September 21, 2014

[herald_12-8] Whitbread and Black rewrite record book, Glasgow Herald, August 30, 1986, p. 20, retrieved September 21, 2014

[herald_13-9] Daley turns to coaches in pursuit of perfection, Glasgow Herald, August 30, 1986, p. 20, retrieved September 21, 2014

[herald_14-10] 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

[herald_15-11] Hurdles no barrier for Stepanova, Glasgow Herald, September 1, 1986, p. 7, retrieved September 21, 2014

[eaa_01-12] European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 443–451, retrieved 13 August 2014

[eaa_ref-13] European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, p. 4, retrieved 13 August 2014

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1986 European Athletics Championships

Contents

Men's results

Track

Field

Women's results

Track

Field

Medal table

Participation

See also

Notes

References