# 1986 European Athletics Championships

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
| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres details | Linford Christie Great Britain | 10.15 | Steffen Bringmann East Germany | 10.20 | Bruno Marie-Rose France | 10.21 |
| 200 metres details | Vladimir Krylov Soviet Union | 20.52 | Jürgen Evers West Germany | 20.75 | Andrey Fedoriv Soviet Union | 20.84 |
| 400 metres details | Roger Black Great Britain | 44.59 | Thomas Schönlebe East Germany | 44.63 | Mathias Schersing East Germany | 44.85 |
| 800 metres details | Sebastian Coe Great Britain | 1:44.50 | Tom McKean Great Britain | 1:44.61 | Steve Cram Great Britain | 1:44.88 |
| 1500 metres details | Steve Cram Great Britain | 3:41.09 | Sebastian Coe Great Britain | 3:41.67 | Han Kulker Netherlands | 3:42.11 |
| 5000 metres details | Jack Buckner Great Britain | 13:10.15 | Stefano Mei Italy | 13:11.57 | Tim Hutchings Great Britain | 13:12.88 |
| 10,000 metres details | Stefano Mei Italy | 27:56.79 | Alberto Cova Italy | 27:57.93 | Salvatore Antibo Italy | 28:00.25 |
| Marathon details | Gelindo Bordin Italy | 2: 10:54 | Orlando Pizzolato Italy | 2: 10:57 | Herbert Steffny West Germany | 2: 11:30 |
| 110 metres hurdles details | Stéphane Caristan France | 13.20 | Arto Bryggare Finland | 13.42 | Carlos Sala Spain | 13.50 |
| 400 metres hurdles details | Harald Schmid West Germany | 48.65 | Aleksandr Vasilyev Soviet Union | 48.76 | Sven Nylander Sweden | 49.38 |
| 3000 metres steeplechase details | Hagen Melzer East Germany | 8:16.65 | Francesco Panetta Italy | 8:16.85 | Patriz Ilg West Germany | 8:16.92 |
| 20 kilometres walk details | Jozef Pribilinec Czechoslovakia | 1: 21:15 | Maurizio Damilano Italy | 1: 21:17 | Miguel Ángel Prieto Spain | 1: 21:36 |
| 50 kilometres walk details | Hartwig Gauder East Germany | 3:40:55 | Vyacheslav Ivanenko Soviet Union | 3:41:54 | Valeriy Suntsov Soviet Union | 3:42:38 |
| 4x100 metres relay details | 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 Mike McFarlane Linford Christie Great Britain (GBR) | 38.71 |
| 4x400 metres relay details | 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 | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| High jump details | Igor Paklin Soviet Union | 2.34 | Sergey Malchenko Soviet Union | 2.31 | Carlo Thränhardt West Germany | 2.31 |
| Long jump details | Robert Emmiyan Soviet Union | 8.41 | Sergey Layevskiy Soviet Union | 8.01 | Giovanni Evangelisti Italy | 7.92 |
| Pole vault details | Sergey Bubka Soviet Union | 5.85 | Vasiliy Bubka Soviet Union | 5.75 | Philippe Collet France | 5.75 |
| Triple jump details | Khristo Markov Bulgaria | 17.66 | Māris Bružiks Soviet Union | 17.33 | Oleg Protsenko Soviet Union | 17.28 |
| Shot put details | Werner Günthör Switzerland | 22.22 | Ulf Timmermann East Germany | 21.84 | Udo Beyer East Germany | 20.74 |
| Discus throw details | Romas Ubartas Soviet Union | 67.08 | Georgiy Kolnootchenko Soviet Union | 66.32 | Vaclavas Kidykas Soviet Union | 65.60 |
| Javelin throw details | Klaus Tafelmeier West Germany | 84.76 | Detlef Michel East Germany | 81.90 | Viktor Yevsyukov Soviet Union | 81.80 |
| Hammer throw details | Yuriy Sedykh Soviet Union | 86.74 WR | Sergey Litvinov Soviet Union | 85.74 | Igor Nikulin Soviet Union | 82.20 |
| Decathlon details | Daley Thompson Great Britain | 8811 | Jürgen Hingsen West Germany | 8730 | Siegfried Wentz West Germany | 8676 |

## Women's results
### Track

1978 | 1982 | 1986 | 1990 | 1994
| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres details | Marlies Göhr East Germany | 10.91 | Aneliya Nuneva Bulgaria | 11.04 | Nelli Cooman Netherlands | 11.08 |
| 200 metres details | Heike Drechsler East Germany | 21.71 WR | Marie-Christine Cazier France | 22.32 | Silke Gladisch East Germany | 22.64 |
| 400 metres details | Marita Koch East Germany | 48.22 | Olga Vladykina Soviet Union | 49.67 | Petra Muller East Germany | 49.88 |
| 800 metres details | Nadiya Olizarenko Soviet Union | 1:57.15 | Sigrun Wodars East Germany | 1:57.42 | Lyubov Gurina Soviet Union | 1:57.73 |
| 1500 metres details | Ravilya Agletdinova Soviet Union | 4:01.19 | Tetyana Samolenko Soviet Union | 4:02.36 | Doina Melinte Romania | 4:02.44 |
| 3000 metres details | Olga Bondarenko Soviet Union | 8:33.99 | Maricica Puică Romania | 8:35.92 | Yvonne Murray Great Britain | 8:37.15 |
| 10,000 metres details | Ingrid Kristiansen Norway | 30:23.25 | Olga Bondarenko Soviet Union | 30:57.21 | Ulrike Bruns East Germany | 31:19.76 |
| Marathon details | Rosa Mota Portugal | 2:28:38 | Laura Fogli Italy | 2:32:52 | Yekaterina Khramenkova Soviet Union | 2:34:18 |
| 100 metres hurdles details | Yordanka Donkova Bulgaria | 12.38 | Cornelia Oschkenat East Germany | 12.55 | Ginka Zagorcheva Bulgaria | 12.70 |
| 400 metres hurdles details | Marina Stepanova Soviet Union | 53.32 WR | Sabine Busch East Germany | 53.60 | Cornelia Feuerbach East Germany | 54.13 |
| 10 kilometres walk details | Mari Cruz Díaz Spain | 46:09 | Ann Jansson Sweden | 46:13 | Siv Ibáñez Sweden | 46:19 |
| 4x100 metres relay details | Silke Gladisch Sabine Rieger Ingrid Auerswald Marlies Göhr East Germany (GDR) | 41.84 | Ginka Zagorcheva Aneliya Nuneva Yordanka Donkova Nadezhda Georgieva Bulgaria (BUL) | 42.68 | Antonina Nastoburko Natalya Bochina Marina Zhirova Olga Zolotaryova Soviet Union (URS) | 42.74 |
| 4x400 metres relay details | Kirsten Emmelmann Sabine Busch Petra Müller Marita Koch East Germany (GDR) | 3:16.87 | Gisela Kinzel Ute Thimm Heidi-Elke Gaugel Gaby Bussmann West Germany (FRG) | 3:22.80 | Ewa Kasprzyk Marzena Wojdecka Elżbieta Kapusta Genowefa Błaszak Poland (POL) | 3:24.65 |

### Field

1978 | 1982 | 1986 | 1990 | 1994
| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| High jump details | Stefka Kostadinova Bulgaria | 2.00 | Svetlana Isaeva-Leseva Bulgaria | 1.93 | Olga Turchak Soviet Union | 1.93 |
| Long jump details | Heike Drechsler East Germany | 7.27 | Galina Chistyakova Soviet Union | 7.09 | Helga Radtke East Germany | 6.89 |
| Shot put details | Heidi Krieger East Germany | 21.10 | Ines Müller East Germany | 20.81 | Natalya Akhrimenko Soviet Union | 20.68 |
| Discus throw details | Diana Sachse East Germany | 71.36 | Tsvetanka Khristova Bulgaria | 69.52 | Martina Opitz East Germany | 68.26 |
| Javelin throw details | Fatima Whitbread Great Britain | 76.32 | Petra Felke East Germany | 72.52 | Beate Peters West Germany | 68.04 |
| Heptathlon details | 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 |
| 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 |
| 9 | Norway (NOR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Portugal (POR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | 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) | 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)