1986 European Athletics Championships Explained

14th European Athletics Championships
Colour:	E0ECF8
Size:	180
Host City:	Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany
Dates:	26 – 31 August
Stadium:	Neckarstadion
Level:	Senior
Type:	Outdoor
Nations Participating:	31
Athletes Participating:	906
Events:	43
Previous:	1982 Athens
Next:	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.

Men's results

Complete results were published.

Track

1978 | 1982 | 1986 | 1990 | 1994

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

Field

1978 | 1982 | 1986 | 1990 | 1994

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

Women's results

Track

1978 | 1982 | 1986 | 1990 | 1994

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

Field

1978 | 1982 | 1986 | 1990 | 1994

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

All the medalshttps://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.