1986 European Athletics Championships

Template:More footnotes Template:Infobox 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.

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

Field

1978 | 1982 | 1986 | 1990 | 1994

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

Women's results

Track

1978 | 1982 | 1986 | 1990 | 1994

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

Field

1978 | 1982 | 1986 | 1990 | 1994

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

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

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.

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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

• EAA
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