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<br>

|Linford Christie<br />||10.15

|Steffen Bringmann<br /> ||10.20

|Bruno Marie-Rose <br /> ||10.21

|-

|200 metres<br>

|Vladimir Krylov<br /> ||20.52

|Jürgen Evers<br /> ||20.75

|Andrey Fedoriv <br /> ||20.84

|-

|400 metres<br>

|Roger Black<br />||44.59

|Thomas Schönlebe<br />||44.63

|Mathias Schersing<br />||44.85

|-

|800 metres<br>

|Sebastian Coe<br />||1:44.50

|Tom McKean<br />||1:44.61

|Steve Cram<br />||1:44.88

|-

|1500 metres<br>

|Steve Cram<br />||3:41.09

|Sebastian Coe<br />||3:41.67

|Han Kulker<br /> ||3:42.11

|-

|5000 metres<br>

|Jack Buckner<br /> ||13:10.15

|Stefano Mei<br />||13:11.57

|Tim Hutchings<br />||13:12.88

|-

|10,000 metres<br>

|Stefano Mei<br />||27:56.79

|Alberto Cova<br />||27:57.93

|Salvatore Antibo<br />||28:00.25

|-

|Marathon<br>

|Gelindo Bordin<br />||2: 10:54

|Orlando Pizzolato<br />||2: 10:57

|Herbert Steffny<br /> ||2: 11:30

|-

|110 metres hurdles<br>

|Stéphane Caristan<br />||13.20

|Arto Bryggare<br />||13.42

|Carlos Sala<br />||13.50

|-

|400 metres hurdles<br>

|Harald Schmid<br /> ||48.65

|Aleksandr Vasilyev<br /> ||48.76

|Sven Nylander<br /> ||49.38

|-

|3000 metres steeplechase<br>

|Hagen Melzer<br />||8:16.65

|Francesco Panetta<br />||8:16.85

|Patriz Ilg<br />||8:16.92

|-

|20 kilometres walk<br>

|Jozef Pribilinec<br /> ||1: 21:15

|Maurizio Damilano<br />||1: 21:17

|Miguel Ángel Prieto<br /> || 1: 21:36

|-

|50 kilometres walk<br>

|Hartwig Gauder<br />||3:40:55

|Vyacheslav Ivanenko<br />||3:41:54

|Valeriy Suntsov<br />||3:42:38

|-

|4 × 100 metres relay <br>

|Aleksandr Yevgenyev<br>Nikolay Yuschmanov<br> Vladimir Muravyov<br>Viktor Bryzgin<br>||38.29

|Thomas Schröder<br> Steffen Bringmann<br> Olaf Prenzler<br> Frank Emmelmann<br />||38.64

|Elliot Bunney<br>Daley Thompson<br> Mike McFarlane<br>Linford Christie<br />||38.71

|-

|4 × 400 metres relay<br>

|Derek Redmond<br> Kriss Akabusi<br>Brian Whittle<br> Roger Black<br />||2:59.84

|Klaus Just<br> Edgar Itt<br> Harald Schmid<br>Ralf Lübke<br />|| 3:00.17

|Vladimir Prosin<br> Vladimir Krylov<br> Arkadiy Kornilov<br> Aleksandr Kurotchikin<br />|| 3:00.47

|}

Field

1978 | 1982 | 1986 | 1990 | 1994

{|

|-

|High jump<br>

|Igor Paklin<br />||2.34

|Sergey Malchenko<br />||2.31

|Carlo Thränhardt<br /> ||2.31

|-

|Long jump<br>

|Robert Emmiyan<br />||8.41

|Sergey Layevskiy<br />||8.01

|Giovanni Evangelisti<br />||7.92

|-

|Pole vault<br>

|Sergey Bubka<br />||5.85

|Vasiliy Bubka<br />||5.75

|Philippe Collet<br />||5.75

|-

|Triple jump<br>

|Khristo Markov<br />||17.66

|Māris Bružiks<br />||17.33

|Oleg Protsenko<br />||17.28

|-

|Shot put<br>

|Werner Günthör<br />||22.22

|Ulf Timmermann<br />||21.84

|Udo Beyer<br />||20.74

|-

|Discus throw<br>

|Romas Ubartas<br />||67.08

|Georgiy Kolnootchenko<br />||66.32

|Vaclavas Kidykas<br />||65.60

|-

|Javelin throw<br>

|Klaus Tafelmeier<br />||84.76

|Detlef Michel<br />||81.90

|Viktor Yevsyukov<br />||81.80

|-

|Hammer throw<br>

|Yuriy Sedykh<br />||86.74<br />WR

|Sergey Litvinov<br />||85.74

|Igor Nikulin<br />||82.20

|-

|Decathlon<br>

|Daley Thompson<br />||8811

|Jürgen Hingsen<br />||8730

|Siegfried Wentz<br />||8676

|}

Women's results

Track

1978 | 1982 | 1986 | 1990 | 1994

{|

|-

|100 metres<br>

|Marlies Göhr<br />||10.91

|Aneliya Nuneva<br />||11.04

|Nelli Cooman<br />||11.08

|-

|200 metres<br>

|Heike Drechsler<br />||21.71<br>WR

|Marie-Christine Cazier<br />||22.32

|Silke Gladisch<br />||22.64

|-

|400 metres<br>

|Marita Koch<br />||48.22

|Olga Vladykina<br />||49.67

|Petra Muller<br />||49.88

|-

|800 metres<br>

|Nadiya Olizarenko<br />||1:57.15

|Sigrun Wodars<br />||1:57.42

|Lyubov Gurina<br />||1:57.73

|-

|1500 metres<br>

|Ravilya Agletdinova<br />||4:01.19

|Tetyana Samolenko<br />||4:02.36

|Doina Melinte<br />|| 4:02.44

|-

|3000 metres<br>

|Olga Bondarenko<br />||8:33.99

|Maricica Puică<br />||8:35.92

|Yvonne Murray<br />||8:37.15

|-

|10,000 metres<br>

|Ingrid Kristiansen<br />||30:23.25

|Olga Bondarenko<br />||30:57.21

|Ulrike Bruns<br />||31:19.76

|-

|Marathon<br>

|Rosa Mota<br />||2:28:38

|Laura Fogli<br />|| 2:32:52

|Yekaterina Khramenkova<br />||2:34:18

|-

|100 metres hurdles<br>

|Yordanka Donkova<br />||12.38

|Cornelia Oschkenat<br />||12.55

|Ginka Zagorcheva<br />||12.70

|-

|400 metres hurdles<br>

|Marina Stepanova<br />||53.32<br>WR

|Sabine Busch<br />||53.60

|Cornelia Feuerbach<br />||54.13

|-

|10 kilometres walk<br>

|Mari Cruz Díaz<br />||46:09

|Ann Jansson<br />||46:13

|Siv Ibáñez<br />||46:19

|-

|4 × 100 metres relay<br>

|Silke Gladisch<br>Sabine Rieger<br>Ingrid Auerswald<br>Marlies Göhr<br />|| 41.84

|Ginka Zagorcheva<br>Aneliya Nuneva<br>Yordanka Donkova<br>Nadezhda Georgieva<br />|| 42.68

|Antonina Nastoburko<br> Natalya Bochina<br> Marina Zhirova<br> Olga Zolotaryova<br />|| 42.74

|-

|4 × 400 metres relay<br>

|Kirsten Emmelmann<br>Sabine Busch<br>Petra Müller<br>Marita Koch<br>|| 3:16.87

|Gisela Kinzel<br>Ute Thimm<br>Heidi-Elke Gaugel<br>Gaby Bussmann<br>|| 3:22.80

|Ewa Kasprzyk<br>Marzena Wojdecka<br>Elżbieta Kapusta<br>Genowefa Błaszak<br>|| 3:24.65

|}

Field

1978 | 1982 | 1986 | 1990 | 1994

{|

|-

|High jump<br />

|Stefka Kostadinova<br />||2.00

|Svetlana Isaeva-Leseva<br />||1.93

|Olga Turchak<br />||1.93

|-

|Long jump<br>

|Heike Drechsler<br />||7.27

|Galina Chistyakova<br />||7.09

|Helga Radtke<br />||6.89

|-

|Shot put<br>

|Heidi Krieger<br />||21.10

|Ines Müller<br />||20.81

|Natalya Akhrimenko<br />||20.68

|-

|Discus throw<br>

|Diana Sachse<br />||71.36

|Tsvetanka Khristova<br />||69.52

|Martina Opitz<br />||68.26

|-

|Javelin throw<br>

|Fatima Whitbread<br />||76.32

|Petra Felke<br />||72.52

|Beate Peters<br />||68.04

|-

|Heptathlon<br>

|Anke Behmer<br />||6717

|Natalya Schubenkova<br />||6645

|Judy Simpson<br />||6623

|}

All the medals

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

Medal table

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.

  • (17)
  • (20)
  • (34)
  • (6)
  • (29)
  • (17)
  • (65)
  • (31)
  • (59)
  • (1)
  • (6)
  • (24)
  • (3)
  • (12)
  • (47)
  • (2)
  • (2)
  • (1)
  • (16)
  • (30)
  • (34)
  • (21)
  • (16)
  • (98)
  • (33)
  • (49)
  • (26)
  • (6)
  • (79)
  • (82)
  • (12)

See also

  • 1986 in the sport of athletics

Notes

Differences to competition format since the 1982 European Championships:

:New events added:

::*Women's 20&nbsp;km walk replaces the 10&nbsp;km walk .

::*Women's 10 000 m.

References

  • EAA