1986 European Athletics Championships

14th European Athletics Championships
The logo of the 1986 European Athletics Championships
Host city	Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany
Date(s)	26 – 31 August 1986
Main stadium	Neckarstadion
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Participation	906 athletes from 31 nations
Events	43
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The 14th European Athletics Championships were held from 26 to 31 August 1986 at the Neckarstadion in Stuttgart, a city in West Germany. Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald.

Men's results

Complete results were published.

Track

1978 | 1982 | 1986 | 1990 | 1994

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Linford Christie Great Britain	10.15	Steffen Bringmann East Germany	10.20	Bruno Marie-Rose France	10.21
200 metres	Vladimir Krylov Soviet Union	20.52	Jürgen Evers West Germany	20.75	Andrey Fedoriv Soviet Union	20.84
400 metres	Roger Black Great Britain	44.59	Thomas Schönlebe East Germany	44.63	Mathias Schersing East Germany	44.85
800 metres	Sebastian Coe Great Britain	1:44.50	Tom McKean Great Britain	1:44.61	Steve Cram Great Britain	1:44.88
1500 metres	Steve Cram Great Britain	3:41.09	Sebastian Coe Great Britain	3:41.67	Han Kulker Netherlands	3:42.11
5000 metres	Jack Buckner Great Britain	13:10.15	Stefano Mei Italy	13:11.57	Tim Hutchings Great Britain	13:12.88
10,000 metres	Stefano Mei Italy	27:56.79	Alberto Cova Italy	27:57.93	Salvatore Antibo Italy	28:00.25
Marathon	Gelindo Bordin Italy	2: 10:54	Orlando Pizzolato Italy	2: 10:57	Herbert Steffny West Germany	2: 11:30
110 metres hurdles	Stéphane Caristan France	13.20	Arto Bryggare Finland	13.42	Carlos Sala Spain	13.50
400 metres hurdles	Harald Schmid West Germany	48:65	Aleksandr Vasilyev Soviet Union	48:76	Sven Nylander Sweden	49:38
3000 metres steeplechase	Hagen Melzer East Germany	8:16.65	Francesco Panetta Italy	8:16.85	Patriz Ilg West Germany	8:16.92
20 kilometres walk	Jozef Pribilinec Czechoslovakia	1: 21:15	Maurizio Damilano Italy	1: 21:17	Miguel Ángel Prieto Spain	1: 21:36
50 kilometres walk	Hartwig Gauder East Germany	3: 40:55	Vyacheslav Ivanenko Soviet Union	3: 41:54	Valeriy Suntsov Soviet Union	3: 42:38
4x100 metres relay	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	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	Igor Paklin Soviet Union	2.34	Sergey Malchenko Soviet Union	2.31	Carlo Thränhardt West Germany	2.31
Long jump	Robert Emmiyan Soviet Union	8.41	Sergey Layevskiy Soviet Union	8.01	Giovanni Evangelisti Italy	7.92
Pole vault	Sergey Bubka Soviet Union	5.85	Vasiliy Bubka Soviet Union	5.75	Philippe Collet France	5.75
Triple jump	Khristo Markov Bulgaria	17.66	Māris Bružiks Soviet Union	17.33	Oleg Protsenko Soviet Union	17.28
Shot put	Werner Günthör Switzerland	22.22	Ulf Timmermann East Germany	21.84	Udo Beyer East Germany	20.74
Discus throw	Romas Ubartas Soviet Union	67.08	Georgiy Kolnootchenko Soviet Union	66.32	Vaclavas Kidykas Soviet Union	65.60
Javelin throw	Klaus Tafelmeier West Germany	84.76	Detlef Michel East Germany	81.90	Viktor Yevsyukov Soviet Union	81.80
Hammer throw	Yuriy Sedykh Soviet Union	86.74 WR	Sergey Litvinov Soviet Union	85.74	Igor Nikulin Soviet Union	82.20
Decathlon	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	Marlies Oelsner-Gohr East Germany	10.91	Aneliya Nuneva Bulgaria	11.04	Nelli Cooman Netherlands	11.08
200 metres	Heike Daute-Drechsler East Germany	21.71 WR	Marie-Christine Cazier France	22.32	Silke Gladisch East Germany	22.64
400 metres	Marita Koch East Germany	48.22	Olga Vladykina Soviet Union	49.67	Petra Muller East Germany	49.88
800 metres	Nadezhda Mushta-Olizarenko Soviet Union	1:57.15	Sigrun Ludvigs-Wodars East Germany	1:57.42	Lyubov Gurina Soviet Union	1:57.73
1500 metres	Ravilya Agletdinova Soviet Union	4:01.19	Tetyana Khamitova-Samolenko Soviet Union	4:02.36	Doina Besliu-Melinte Romania	4:02.44
3000 metres	Olga Krentzer-Bondarenko Soviet Union	8:33.99	Maricica Luca-Puică Romania	8:35.92	Yvonne Murray Great Britain	8:37.15
10,000 metres	Ingrid Kristiansen Norway	30:23.25	Olga Krentzer-Bondarenko Soviet Union	30:57.21	Ulrike Klapezynski-Bruns East Germany	31:19.76
Marathon	Rosa Mota Portugal	2:28:38	Laura Fogli Italy	2:32:52	Yekaterina Khramenkova Soviet Union	2:34:18
100 metres hurdles	Yordanka Donkova-Atanasova Bulgaria	12.38	Cornelia Riefstahl-Oschkenat East Germany	12.55	Ginka Zagorcheva-Boycheva Bulgaria	12.70
400 metres hurdles	Marina Makeyeva-Stepanova Soviet Union	53.32 WR	Sabine Busch East Germany	53.60	Cornelia Feuerbach East Germany	54.13
10 kilometres walk	Mari Cruz Díaz Spain	46:09	Ann Janson Sweden	46:13	Siv Ibáñez Sweden	46:19
4x100 metres relay	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	Antonia Nastorburko Natalya Bochina Marina Zhirova Olga Zolotaryova Soviet Union (URS)	42.74
4x400 metres relay	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	Stefka Kostadinova Bulgaria	2.00	Svetlana Isaeva-Leseva Bulgaria	1.93	Olga Turchak Soviet Union	1.93
Long jump	Heike Daute-Drechsler East Germany	7.27	Galina Chistyakova Soviet Union	7.09	Helga Radtke East Germany	6.89
Shot put	Heidi Krieger East Germany	21.10	Ines Müller East Germany	20.81	Natalya Akhrimenko Soviet Union	20.68
Discus throw	Diana Sachse East Germany	71.36	Tsvetanka Khristova Bulgaria	69.52	Martina Opitz East Germany	68.26
Javelin throw	Fatima Whitbread Great Britain	77.44	Petra Felke East Germany	72.52	Beate Peters West Germany	68.04
Heptathlon	Anke Behmer East Germany	6717	Natalya Schubenkova Soviet Union	6645	Judy Simpson Great Britain	6623

Medals table

      Host nation (West Germany)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	11	13	12	36
2	East Germany	11	10	8	29
3	Great Britain	8	2	5	15
4	Bulgaria	3	4	1	8
5	Italy	2	6	2	10
6	West Germany	2	4	5	11
7	France	1	1	2	4
8	Spain	1	0	2	3
9	Czechoslovakia	1	0	0	1
9	Norway	1	0	0	1
9	Portugal	1	0	0	1
9	Switzerland	1	0	0	1
13	Sweden	0	1	2	3
14	Romania	0	1	1	2
15	Finland	0	1	0	1
16	Netherlands	0	0	2	2
17	Poland	0	0	1	1
17	Total	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.

• 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.

See also

• 1986 in athletics (track and field)

References

• EAA
• Athletix