# Athletics at the 1986 Goodwill Games

At the 1986 Goodwill Games, the athletics competition was held in July 1986 at the Olympic Stadium in Moscow, Soviet Union. A total of 42 events were contested, of which 23 by male and 19 by female athletes.
In contrast to other major athletics competitions, the Goodwill Games operated an invitational policy, which meant that there were no qualifying stage of the events and the contests operated on a single or double final format. The inaugural athletics competition brought two new world records: Sergey Bubka cleared 6.01 m for a new pole vault record and Jackie Joyner improved the women's heptathlon record to 7148 points. In the 100 metres races, Ben Johnson gained his first international victory over Carl Lewis while Evelyn Ashford pipped Heike Drechsler to the gold in the women's race.
The Soviet Union dominated the medal table, winning 50% more medals than the United States.

## Records

| Name | Event | Country | Record | Type |
| Sergey Bubka | Pole vault | Soviet Union | 6.01 m | WR |
| Jackie Joyner | Heptathlon | United States | 7148 pts | WR |
| Key:0000WR — World record • AR — Area record • GR — Games record • NR — National record |||||

## Medal summary
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres | Ben Johnson (CAN) | 9.95 | Chidi Imoh (NGR) | 10.04 | Carl Lewis (USA) | 10.06 |
| 200 metres | Floyd Heard (USA) | 20.12 | Dwayne Evans (USA) | 20.45 | Wallace Spearmon Sr. (USA) | 20.49 |
| 400 metres | Antonio McKay (USA) | 44.98 | Clarence Daniel (USA) | 45.11 | Darrell Robinson (USA) | 45.15 |
| 800 metres | Johnny Gray (USA) | 1:46.52 | Stanley Redwine (USA) | 1:46.89 | Sammy Tirop (KEN) | 1:47.05 |
| 1500 metres | Pavel Yakovlev (URS) | 3:39.86 | Igor Lotaryov (URS) | 3:40.18 | Steve Scott (USA) | 3:40.31 |
| 5000 metres | Doug Padilla (USA) | 13:46.65 | Terry Brahm (USA) | 13:47.11 | Evgeni Ignatov (BUL) | 13:47.17 |
| 10,000 metres | Domingos Castro (POR) | 28:11.21 | Gerard Donakowski (USA) | 28:11.87 | Dionísio Castro (POR) | 28:12.04 |
| 110 metres hurdles | Greg Foster (USA) | 13.25 | Andrey Prokofyev (URS) | 13.28 | Keith Talley (USA) | 13.31 |
| 400 metres hurdles | Edwin Moses (USA) | 47.94 | Aleksandr Vasilyev (URS) | 48.24 | Dave Patrick (USA) | 48.59 |
| 3000 metres steeplechase | Hagen Melzer (GDR) | 8:23.06 | Henry Marsh (USA) | 8:23.92 | Nikolay Matyushenko (URS) | 8:25.73 |
| 4×100 metres relay | United States (USA) Lee McRae Floyd Heard Harvey Glance Carl Lewis | 37.98 | Soviet Union (URS) "A" Aleksandr Yevgenyev Vladimir Muravyov Nikolai Yushmanov Viktor Bryzhin | 38.19 | Soviet Union (URS) "B" Aleksandr Kutepov Roman Osipenko Dmitry Bartenev Sergey Klyonov | 40.22 |
| 4×400 metres relay | Soviet Union (URS) Vladimir Krylov Vladimir Prosin Vladimir Volodko Aleksandr Kurochkin | 3:01.25 | United States (USA) Walter McCoy Clarence Daniel Danny Everett Darrell Robinson | 3:01.47 | Ivory Coast (CIV) Djétenan Kouadio Akissi Kpidi René Djédjémel Mélédjé Gabriel Tiacoh | 3:13.51 |
| Marathon | Belayneh Dinsamo (ETH) | 2:14:42 | Igor Broslavskiy (URS) | 2:15:24 | Yakov Tolstikov (URS) | 2:16:22 |
| 20 km walk | Aleksey Pershin (URS) | 1:23:29 | Aleksandr Boyarshinov (URS) | 1:23:36 | Yevgeniy Misyulya (URS) | 1:23:53 |
| High jump | Doug Nordquist (USA) | 2.34 m | Igor Paklin (URS) | 2.32 m | Sorin Matei (ROM) | 2.32 m |
| Pole vault | Sergey Bubka (URS) | 6.01 m WR | Radion Gataullin (URS) | 5.80 m | Earl Bell (USA) | 5.75 m |
| Long jump | Robert Emmiyan (URS) | 8.61 m | Larry Myricks (USA) | 8.41 m | Sergey Layevskiy (URS) | 8.20 m |
| Triple jump | Mike Conley (USA) | 17.69 m | Khristo Markov (BUL) | 17.35 m | Mykola Musiyenko (URS) | 17.33 m |
| Shot put | Sergey Smirnov (URS) | 21.79 m | Sergey Gavryushin (URS) | 21.09 m | John Brenner (USA) | 20.62 m |
| Discus throw | Romas Ubartas (URS) | 67.12 m | Dmitry Kovtsun (URS) | 64.24 m | Knut Hjeltnes (NOR) | 64.02 m |
| Hammer throw | Yuriy Sedykh (URS) | 84.72 m | Sergey Litvinov (URS) | 84.64 m | Benjaminas Viluckis (URS) | 80.04 m |
| Javelin throw | Tom Petranoff (USA) | 83.46 m | Heino Puuste (URS) | 83.12 m | Sergey Gavras (URS) | 81.44 m |
| Decathlon | Grigoriy Degtyaryov (URS) | 8322 pts | Oleksandr Apaychev (URS) | 8244 pts | Aleksey Lyakh (URS) | 8082 pts |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres | Evelyn Ashford (USA) | 10.91 | Heike Drechsler (GDR) | 10.91 | Elvira Barbashina (URS) | 11.12 |
| 200 metres | Pam Marshall (USA) | 22.12 | Ewa Kasprzyk (POL) | 22.13 | Elvira Barbashina (URS) | 22.27 |
| 400 metres | Olga Vladykina (URS) | 49.96 | Mariya Pinigina (URS) | 50.29 | Lillie Leatherwood (USA) | 50.47 |
| 800 metres | Lyubov Gurina (URS) | 1:57.52 | Nadezhda Zabolotneva (URS) | 1:57.54 | Mitica Junghiatu (ROM) | 1:57.87 |
| 1500 metres | Tatyana Samolenko (URS) | 4:05.50 | Ravilya Agletdinova (URS) | 4:06.14 | Svetlana Kitova (URS) | 4:07.21 |
| 3000 metres | Mariana Stanescu (ROM) | 8:38.83 | Svetlana Ulmasova (URS) | 8:39.19 | Regina Chistyakova (URS) | 8:39.25 |
| 5000 metres | Olga Bondarenko (URS) | 15:03.51 | Svetlana Ulmasova (URS) | 15:05.50 | Cindy Bremser (USA) | 15:11.78 |
| 100 metres hurdles | Yordanka Donkova (BUL) | 12.40 | Cornelia Oschkenat (GDR) | 12.62 | Ginka Zagorcheva (BUL) | 12.72 |
| 400 metres hurdles | Marina Stepanova (URS) | 53.81 | Cristeana Matei (ROM) | 54.55 | Ellen Fiedler (GDR) | 54.80 |
| 4×100 metres relay | United States (USA) Michelle Finn Diane Williams Randy Givens Evelyn Ashford | 42.12 | Soviet Union (URS) Olga Zolotaryova Maia Azarashvili Irina Slyusar Elvira Barbashina | 42.27 | Only two teams finished | |
| 4×400 metres relay | United States (USA) Chandra Cheeseborough Brenda Cliette Lillie Leatherwood Diane Dixon | 3:21.22 | Soviet Union (URS) Marina Stepanova Mariya Pinigina Lyudmyla Dzhyhalova Olga Vladykina | 3:21.99 | Only two teams started | |
| Marathon | Nadezhda Gumerova (URS) | 2:33:55 | Irina Bogacheva (URS) | 2:34:09 | Tatyana Gridneva (URS) | 2:34:40 |
| 10 km walk | Kerry Saxby (AUS) | 45:08.13 | Guan Ping (CHN) | 45:56.50 | Aleksandra Grigoryeva (URS) | 46:00.27 |
| High jump | Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) | 2.03 m | Olga Turchak (URS) | 2.01 m | Tamara Bykova (URS) Svetlana Isaeva (BUL) | 1.96 m |
| Long jump | Galina Chistyakova (URS) | 7.27 m | Yelena Belevskaya (URS) | 7.17 m | Irina Valyukevich (URS) | 7.07 m |
| Shot put | Natalya Lisovskaya (URS) | 21.37 m | Natalya Akhrimenko (URS) | 20.33 m | Mihaela Loghin (ROM) | 19.89 m |
| Discus throw | Tsvetanka Khristova (BUL) | 69.54 m | Martina Hellmann (GDR) | 69.04 m | Diana Sachse (GDR) | 68.46 m |
| Javelin throw | Petra Felke (GDR) | 70.78 m | Irina Kostyuchenkova (URS) | 61.28 m | Natalya Yermolovich (URS) | 60.58 m |
| Heptathlon | Jackie Joyner (USA) | 7148 pts WR | Sibylle Thiele (GDR) | 6635 pts | Natalya Shubenkova (URS) | 6631 pts |

## Medal table

* Host nation (Soviet Union)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Soviet Union (URS)* | 17 | 25 | 19 | 61 |
| 2 | United States (USA) | 15 | 8 | 10 | 33 |
| 3 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 4 | East Germany (GDR) | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
| 5 | Romania (ROM) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 6 | Portugal (POR) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | Australia (AUS) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Canada (CAN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Ethiopia (ETH) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | China (CHN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Nigeria (NGR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Poland (POL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Ivory Coast (CIV) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | Kenya (KEN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | Norway (NOR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (15 entries) | Totals (15 entries) | 42 | 42 | 41 | 125 |