1986 European Athletics Championships
14th European Athletics Championships | |
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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 |
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
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Field
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Women's results
Track
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Field
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Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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High jump |
Stefka Kostadinova Bulgaria |
2.00 |
Svetlana Isaeva-Leseva Bulgaria |
1.93 |
Olga Turchak Soviet Union |
1.93 |
Long jump |
Heike 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 |
76.32 |
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 |
All the medals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1dLKh0aH1U&list=PLK1QYHf4OvhN6ydKbmo2wLecwCOef15SL
Medal table
* Host nation (West Germany)
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Soviet Union (URS) | 11 | 13 | 12 | 36 |
2 | East Germany (GDR) | 11 | 10 | 8 | 29 |
3 | Great Britain (GBR) | 8 | 2 | 5 | 15 |
4 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 3 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
5 | Italy (ITA) | 2 | 6 | 2 | 10 |
6 | West Germany (FRG)* | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 |
7 | France (FRA) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
8 | Spain (ESP) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
9 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Norway (NOR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Portugal (POR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Switzerland (SUI) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
13 | Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
14 | Romania (ROU) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
15 | Finland (FIN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
16 | Netherlands (NED) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
17 | Poland (POL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Totals (17 entries) | 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)