1986 European Athletics Championships

The logo of the 1986 European Athletics Championships

The 14th European Athletics Championships were held from 29 August to 3 September 1986 at the Neckarstadion in Stuttgart, a city in West Germany.

Men's results

Track

1978 | 1982 | 1986 | 1990 | 1994

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
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	Matthias 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	27:41.03	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	Carles 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 Soviet Union (URS)	38.29	Thomas Schröder Steffen Bringmann Olaf Prenzler Frank Emmelmann East Germany (GDR)	38.64	Elliot Bunney Daley Thompson Michael 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	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	Hristo 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

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-Kiryakova Bulgaria	12.38	Cornelia Riefstahl 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	María Cruz Díaz Spain	46:09	Ann Janson Sweden	46:13	Siw Ybañez Sweden	46:19
4x100 metres relay	Silke Gladisch Sabine Rieger Ingrid Brestrich-Auerswald Marlies Oelsner-Göhr East Germany (GDR)	41.84	Ginka Zagorcheva-Boycheva Aneliya Nuneva Yordanka Donkova-Kiryakova Nadezhda Georgieva-Ivanova Bulgaria (BUL)	42.68	— — — — Soviet Union (URS)	42.74
4x400 metres relay	East Germany (GDR)	3:16.87	West Germany (FRG)	3:22.80	Poland (POL)	3:24.65

Field

1978 | 1982 | 1986 | 1990 | 1994

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump	Stefka Kostadinova Bulgaria	2.00	Svetlana Isaeva Bulgaria	1.92	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	Nataliya 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 Vater East Germany	6717	Natalya Schubenkova Soviet Union	6645	Judy Simpson Great Britain	6623

Medals table

  Host nation (West Germany)

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

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