1986 European Athletics Championships
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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.
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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 |
Contemporaneous reports were given in the Glasgow Herald.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
Men's results
editComplete results were published.[12]
Track
edit1978 | 1982 | 1986 | 1990 | 1994
Field
edit1978 | 1982 | 1986 | 1990 | 1994
Women's results
editTrack
edit1978 | 1982 | 1986 | 1990 | 1994
Field
edit1978 | 1982 | 1986 | 1990 | 1994
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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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 medals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1dLKh0aH1U&list=PLK1QYHf4OvhN6ydKbmo2wLecwCOef15SL
Medal table
edit* Host nation (West Germany)
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | 11 | 13 | 12 | 36 | |
2 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 29 | |
3 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 15 | |
4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 8 | |
5 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 10 | |
6 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 | |
7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |
8 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | |
9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
13 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
14 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
16 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
17 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (17 entries) | 43 | 43 | 43 | 129 |
Participation
editAccording 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
editNotes
editDifferences 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
edit- ^ Cova loses, but Italians still celebrate treble, Glasgow Herald, August 27, 1986, p. 24, retrieved September 21, 2014
- ^ Gillon, Doug (August 27, 1986), Wells canters his way towards European final, Glasgow Herald, p. 24, retrieved September 21, 2014
- ^ Gillon, Doug (August 28, 1986), Triumphant Christie's tribute to Wells, Glasgow Herald, p. 22, retrieved September 21, 2014
- ^ Gillon, Doug (August 29, 1986), McKean's moment of glory, Glasgow Herald, p. 1, retrieved September 21, 2014
- ^ 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
- ^ Thompson silences Germans, Glasgow Herald, August 29, 1986, p. 28, retrieved September 21, 2014
- ^ Gillon, Doug (August 30, 1986), No medal - but Wells regains his self-respect, Glasgow Herald, p. 20, retrieved September 21, 2014
- ^ Whitbread and Black rewrite record book, Glasgow Herald, August 30, 1986, p. 20, retrieved September 21, 2014
- ^ Daley turns to coaches in pursuit of perfection, Glasgow Herald, August 30, 1986, p. 20, retrieved September 21, 2014
- ^ 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
- ^ Hurdles no barrier for Stepanova, Glasgow Herald, September 1, 1986, p. 7, retrieved September 21, 2014
- ^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 443–451, retrieved 13 August 2014
- ^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, p. 4, retrieved 13 August 2014