1986 European Athletics Championships

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.

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 →

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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