1986 European Championships in Athletics
Encyclopedia
The 14th European Athletics Championships were held from 26 to 31 August 1986 at the Neckarstadion
Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion
The Mercedes-Benz Arena is a stadium located in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany and home to German Bundesliga club VfB Stuttgart.Before 1993 it was called Neckarstadion, named after the nearby river Neckar and between 1993 and July 2008 it was called Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion...

 in Stuttgart
Stuttgart
Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....

, a city in West Germany
West Germany
West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....

.

Track

1978 | 1982 | 1986 | 1990 | 1994
100 metres
Linford Christie
Linford Christie
Linford Cicero Christie OBE is a former sprinter from the United Kingdom. He is the only British man to have won gold medals in the 100 metres at all four major competitions open to British athletes: the Olympic Games, the World Championships, the European Championships and the Commonwealth Games...


 United Kingdom
10.15 Steffen Bringmann
Steffen Bringmann
Steffen Bringmann is a retired East German sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres.At the 1986 European Championships he won silver medals in the 100 metres and in the 4 x 100 metres relay, the latter with teammates Thomas Schröder, Olaf Prenzler and Frank Emmelmann...


 German Democratic Republic
10.20 Bruno Marie-Rose
Bruno Marie-Rose
Bruno Marie-Rose is a retired sprinter from France . He was a member of the French team which set a world record in the 4 x 100 metres relay in 1990 with a time of 37.79 seconds to win the gold medal at the European Championships...

 
 France
10.21
200 metres
Vladimir Krylov
Vladimir Krylov
Vladimir Valentinovich Krylov is a former Soviet athlete. He was Soviet 100, 200 and 400 metres champion, and also Soviet indoor 200 metres in 1989....


 Soviet Union
20.52 Jürgen Evers
Jürgen Evers
Jürgen Evers is a retired West German sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres.He won the silver medal in 200 m at the 1986 European Championships....


 West Germany
20.75 Andrey Fedoriv
Andrey Fedoriv
Andrey Fedoriv is a former sprinter from the former Soviet Union, who specialised in the 200 metres.He was 4 times Soviet Indoor 200 metre champion. He also took 2nd place in the European Cup A in the 200m in 1993. He was also 3rd in the Euro Cup 200 in 87. In 1986 he won a bronze medal in the...

 
 Soviet Union
20.84
400 metres
Roger Black
Roger Black
Roger Anthony Black MBE is a retired British athlete. During his athletics career, he won individual silver medals in the 400 metres sprint at both the Olympic Games and World Championships, two individual gold medals at the European Championships, and 4x400 metres relay gold medals at both the...


 United Kingdom
44.59 Thomas Schönlebe
Thomas Schönlebe
Thomas Schönlebe is a former German 400 metres runner who won the gold medal at the 1987 World Championships in Athletics in Rome...


 German Democratic Republic
44.63 Mathias Schersing
 German Democratic Republic
44.85
800 metres
Sebastian Coe
 United Kingdom
1:44.50 Tom McKean
Tom McKean
Thomas McKean is a former Scottish middle distance runner who won the European Championships 800m gold medal at Split in 1990....


 United Kingdom
1:44.61 Steve Cram
Steve Cram
Stephen "Steve" Cram MBE is a British retired athlete. Along with fellow Britons Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett, he was one of the world's dominant middle distance runners during the 1980s. Nicknamed "The Jarrow Arrow", Cram set world records in the 1500 metres, 2000 metres and the mile during a...


 United Kingdom
1:44.88
1500 metres
Steve Cram
Steve Cram
Stephen "Steve" Cram MBE is a British retired athlete. Along with fellow Britons Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett, he was one of the world's dominant middle distance runners during the 1980s. Nicknamed "The Jarrow Arrow", Cram set world records in the 1500 metres, 2000 metres and the mile during a...


 United Kingdom
3:41.09 Sebastian Coe
 United Kingdom
3:41.67 Han Kulker
Han Kulker
Johannes Nicolaas Maria Kulker is a former Dutch middle distance runner, who won a bronze medal at the 1986 European Championships in Athletics in Stuttgart over 1500 metres...


 Netherlands
3:42.11
5000 metres
Jack Buckner
Jack Buckner
Jack Richard Buckner was one of the many British athletes of the mid 1980s who dominated track and field. Educated at St. Petroc's preparatory school in Cornwall and Worksop College in Nottinghamshire it was clear from a young age that Buckner was highly talented...


 United Kingdom
13:10.15 Stefano Mei
Stefano Mei
Stefano Mei is an Italian long-distance runner who specialized in the 5000 and 10000 metres.-Achievements:-References:*...


 Italy
13:11.57 Tim Hutchings
Tim Hutchings
Timothy Hilton Hutchings is a former middle- and long-distance runner who represented England and Great Britain internationally.-Athletics career:...


 United Kingdom
13:12.88
10,000 metres
Stefano Mei
Stefano Mei
Stefano Mei is an Italian long-distance runner who specialized in the 5000 and 10000 metres.-Achievements:-References:*...


 Italy
27:41.03 Alberto Cova
Alberto Cova
Alberto Cova is a retired Italian athlete, winner of the 10,000 m at the 1984 Summer Olympics.-Career:Born in Inverigo, province of Como, Italy, Alberto Cova was characterized by his superiority in the sprint finish, and the only way to nullify this was to set a very fast pace from the start to...


 Italy
27:57.93 Salvatore Antibo
Salvatore Antibo
Salvatore Antibo is a former long distance runner from Italy.-Career:Antibo was born on February 7, 1962 in Altofonte, within the province of Palermo ....


 Italy
28:00.25
Marathon
Gelindo Bordin
Gelindo Bordin
Gelindo Bordin is an Italian former athlete, winner of the marathon race at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Born at Vicenza, Bordin made his first breakthrough at the 1986 European Championships, where he won a gold medal....


 Italy
2: 10:54 Orlando Pizzolato
Orlando Pizzolato
Orlando Pizzolato is a retired long-distance runner from Italy, who represented his native country in the men's marathon at the 1988 Summer Olympics, finishing in 16th place...


 Italy
2: 10:57 Herbert Steffny
Herbert Steffny
Herbert Steffny is a former German long distance track event runner and prominent physical trainer.-Professional career:...


 West Germany
2: 11:30
110 metres hurdles
Stéphane Caristan
Stéphane Caristan
Stéphane Caristan is a retired hurdler from France, who set the world's best year performance in 1986. He did so by winning the men's 110 metres hurdles final at the European Championships in Stuttgart, clocking 13.20, which was also his personal best. He competed in three consecutive Summer...


 France
13.20 Arto Bryggare
Arto Bryggare
Arto Kalervo Bryggare is a former Finnish hurdling athlete. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland, representing the Social Democratic Party of Finland from 1995 to 1999 and 2003 to 2007. His personal best time 13,35, made during trials in 1984 Los Angeles Games, is still the record time in...


 Finland
13.42 Carlos Sala
 Spain
13.50
400 metres hurdles
Harald Schmid
Harald Schmid
Harald Schmid is a former German track-and-field athlete.Schmid was one of the best 400 m hurdles runners in the world. His duels with Edwin Moses during the late 1970s and early 1980s are unforgettable. His race against Moses in Rome, 1987, is ranked as one of the races of the century...


 West Germany
48:65 Aleksandr Vasilyev
 Soviet Union
48:76 Sven Nylander
Sven Nylander
Sven Olof Nylander is a retired hurdler from Sweden, who is best known for winning two silver medals at the European Championships during his career...


 Sweden
49:38
3000 metres steeplechase
Hagen Melzer
Hagen Melzer
Hagen Melzer is a former German middle and long distance runner who specialized in the 3000 m steeplechase....


 German Democratic Republic
8:16.65 Francesco Panetta
Francesco Panetta
Francesco Panetta is a former Italian long-distance runner, who won several medals at international championships in the 1980s. His greatest achievement was the victory at the World Championships' final over 3000m steeplechase in Rome 1987...


 Italy
8:16.85 Patriz Ilg
Patriz Ilg
Patriz Ilg is a retired 3000 m steeplechaser from West Germany.He won a silver medal at the 1978 European Championships and gold medals at the 1982 European Championships in Athens and the 1983 World Championships in Helsinki...


 West Germany
8:16.92
20 kilometres walk
Jozef Pribilinec
Jozef Pribilinec
Jozef Pribilinec is a Slovak athlete who mainly competed in racewalking.He was born in Kopernica.Pribilinec competed for the former Czechoslovakia at the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea where he won the gold medal in the men's 20 kilometre walk event.-References:...


 Czechoslovakia
1: 21:15 Maurizio Damilano
Maurizio Damilano
Maurizio Damilano is an Italian former race walker.He was the 1980 Olympic Champion and the 1987 and 1991 World Champion in the 20 km race walk....


 Italy
1: 21:17 Miguel Ángel Prieto
Miguel Ángel Prieto
Miguel Ángel Prieto Adanero is a race walker from Spain, who represented his native country at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain, where he came tenth overall...


 Spain
1: 21:36
50 kilometres walk
Hartwig Gauder
Hartwig Gauder
Hartwig Gauder is a former German race walker.-Biography:In 1996 Gauda started suffering from a virus infection of his heart. After living with an artificial heart for several months, he received a heart transplant. He has subsequently taken part in the New York Marathon several times...


 German Democratic Republic
3: 40:55 Vyacheslav Ivanenko
Vyacheslav Ivanenko
Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanenko is a retired race walker who represented the USSR. He won the gold medal over 50 kilometres at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul with a personal best time of 3:38:29...


 Soviet Union
3: 41:54 Valeriy Suntsov
 Soviet Union
3: 42:38
4x100 metres relay
Aleksandr Yevgenyev
Nikolay Yuschmanov
Vladimir Muravyov
Viktor Bryzgin
Viktor Bryzgin
Viktor Arkadyevich Bryzhin is a former Soviet athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 1988 Summer Olympics.Viktor Bryzhin trained at Dynamo in Voroshilovgrad. He made his debut in the international championships at the first World Championships, where he reached to the quarterfinal...


 Soviet Union
38.29 Thomas Schröder
Thomas Schröder
Thomas Schröder is a retired East German sprinter who specialized in the 100 and 200 metres.He won the 100 m at the 1979 European Junior Championships, and at the following European Junior Championships in 1981 he won gold medals in both 100 m, 200 m and 4 x 100 metres relay.He competed at the...


Steffen Bringmann
Steffen Bringmann
Steffen Bringmann is a retired East German sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres.At the 1986 European Championships he won silver medals in the 100 metres and in the 4 x 100 metres relay, the latter with teammates Thomas Schröder, Olaf Prenzler and Frank Emmelmann...


Olaf Prenzler
Olaf Prenzler
Olaf Prenzler is a retired East German sprinter who specialized in the 100 and 200 metres.-Career:He was a European Junior silver medalist in the 100 metres in 1977...


Frank Emmelmann
Frank Emmelmann
Frank Emmelmann is a retired East German sprinter who specialized in the 100 and 200 metres....


 German Democratic Republic
38.64 Elliot Bunney
Elliot Bunney
Elliot John Bunney was a Scottish athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres. He won the AAAs Junior championships in 1984, and 85. He was also a Scottish 100 metre champion in 85, 86, 89, 91,92, and 93...


Daley Thompson
Daley Thompson
Francis Morgan Ayodélé "Daley" Thompson CBE , is a former decathlete from England. He won the decathlon gold medal at the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984, and broke the world record for the event four times....


Mike McFarlane
Linford Christie
Linford Christie
Linford Cicero Christie OBE is a former sprinter from the United Kingdom. He is the only British man to have won gold medals in the 100 metres at all four major competitions open to British athletes: the Olympic Games, the World Championships, the European Championships and the Commonwealth Games...


 United Kingdom
38.71
4x400 metres relay
Derek Redmond
Derek Redmond
Derek Anthony Redmond is a retired British athlete. During his career, he held the British record for the 400 metres sprint, and won gold medals in the 4x400 metres relay at the World Championships, European Championships and Commonwealth Games.However his career was blighted by a series of...


Kriss Akabusi
Kriss Akabusi
Kriss Kezie Uche Chukwu Duru Akabusi MBE is a former sprint and hurdling athlete from the United Kingdom. During his career, he won the gold medal in the 400 metres hurdles at the 1990 European Championships, a gold in the 4 x 400 metres relay at the 1991 World Championships, and a silver medal in...


Brian Whittle
Brian Whittle
Brian Whittle is a British athlete who won the gold medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay at both the 1986 European Championships in Athletics and 1994 European Championships in Athletics. He also competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul...


Roger Black
Roger Black
Roger Anthony Black MBE is a retired British athlete. During his athletics career, he won individual silver medals in the 400 metres sprint at both the Olympic Games and World Championships, two individual gold medals at the European Championships, and 4x400 metres relay gold medals at both the...


 United Kingdom
2:59.84 Klaus Just
Klaus Just
Klaus Just is a retired West German sprinter.His personal best time was 45.52 seconds, achieved in August 1985 in Stuttgart.Just represented the sports club SV Salamander Kornwestheim.-Achievements:...


Edgar Itt
Edgar Itt
Edgar Itt was a West German athlete who competed for West Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea where he won the bronze medal in the 4 x 400 metre relay with his team mates Norbert Dobeleit, Jörg Vaihinger and Ralf Lübke. He finished in eight position in the final of the...


Harald Schmid
Harald Schmid
Harald Schmid is a former German track-and-field athlete.Schmid was one of the best 400 m hurdles runners in the world. His duels with Edwin Moses during the late 1970s and early 1980s are unforgettable. His race against Moses in Rome, 1987, is ranked as one of the races of the century...


Ralf Lübke
Ralf Lübke
Ralf Lübke is a retired West German athlete who specialized in the 200 metres.At the 1988 Summer Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea he helped win the 4 x 400 metres relay bronze medal with his teammates Norbert Dobeleit, Edgar Itt and Jörg Vaihinger...


 West Germany
3:00.17 Vladimir Prosin
Vladimir Krylov
Vladimir Krylov
Vladimir Valentinovich Krylov is a former Soviet athlete. He was Soviet 100, 200 and 400 metres champion, and also Soviet indoor 200 metres in 1989....


Arkadiy Kornilov
Aleksandr Kurotchikin
 Soviet Union
3:00.47

Field

1978 | 1982 | 1986 | 1990 | 1994
High jump
Igor Paklin
Igor Paklin
Igor Paklin is a retired athlete who represented USSR and later Kyrgyzstan. He trained at Armed Forces sports society in Frunze.Competing in the high jump, he won the 1987 World Indoor Championships as well as a silver medal at the 1987 World Championships for the USSR...


 Soviet Union
2.34 Sergey Malchenko
 Soviet Union
2.31 Carlo Thränhardt
Carlo Thränhardt
Carlo Thränhardt is a former German high jumper, who won the silver medal at the 1981 European Indoor Championships in Grenoble. He excelled at indoor competitions, setting the world indoor record on three occasions between 1984-88...


 West Germany
2.31
Long jump
Robert Emmiyan
Robert Emmiyan
Robert Emmiyan is a retired long jumper who represented USSR and later Armenia. His personal best jump of 8.86 metres, which he achieved in Tsakhkadzor in May 1987, is the current European record and also the fourth best result of all time .His achievements include a silver medal at the 1987 World...


 Soviet Union
8.41 Sergey Layevskiy
Sergey Layevskiy
Sergey Layevskiy is a retired long jumper who represented the USSR and later Ukraine. He won a bronze medal at the 1985 European Indoor Championships and a silver medal at the 1986 European Championships.-Achievements:-External links:...


 Soviet Union
8.01 Giovanni Evangelisti
Giovanni Evangelisti
Giovanni Evangelisti is a retired long jumper from Italy. His greatest achievements were the Olympic bronze medal in 1984 and three World Indoor bronze medals...


 Italy
7.92
Pole vault
Sergey Bubka
 Soviet Union
5.85 Vasiliy Bubka
Vasiliy Bubka
Vasyliy Bubka is a retired pole vaulter who represented the USSR and later Ukraine...


 Soviet Union
5.75 Philippe Collet
Philippe Collet
Philippe Collet is a retired French pole vaulter.-Achievements:-External links:...


 France
5.75
Triple jump
Khristo Markov
 Bulgaria
17.66 Māris Bružiks
Maris Bružiks
Māris Bružiks is a retired triple jumper who represented the USSR, and later, following its dissolution, Latvia....


 Soviet Union
17.33 Oleg Protsenko
Oleg Protsenko
Oleg Valeryevich Protsenko is a retired male triple jumper who represented the USSR. He won a bronze medal at the 1986 European Championships as well as a silver medal at the 1987 World Indoor Championships. In June 1990 he achieved a personal best jump of 17.75 metres, which puts him 17th in the...


 Soviet Union
17.28
Shot put
Werner Günthör
Werner Günthör
Werner Günthör is a former Swiss track and field athlete, who was the best shot putter in the history of Swiss track and field....


 Switzerland
22.22 Ulf Timmermann
Ulf Timmermann
Ulf Timmermann is a German shot putter who broke many world records during the 1980s and is the first and one of only two people to ever throw over 23 metres ....


 German Democratic Republic
21.84 Udo Beyer
Udo Beyer
Udo Beyer is a former East German track and field athlete who competed in the shot put.- Life :Beyer is the oldest of the six children of heating mechanic Hans-Georg Beyer and his wife Eva-Marie and was born in Stalinstadt, today Eisenhüttenstadt. He grew up in Breslack, , and in Eisenhüttenstadt...


 German Democratic Republic
20.74
Discus throw
Romas Ubartas
Romas Ubartas
Romas Ubartas is a retired male discus thrower from Lithuania who won a silver medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics for the USSR and a gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics for Lithuania. His personal best was 70.06m. He also became European champion, in 1986. In the Soviet time he trained at Dynamo...


 Soviet Union
67.08 Georgiy Kolnootchenko
Georgiy Kolnootchenko
Georgiy Kolnootchenko is a retired discus thrower from Belarus, who still is the national record holder with a distance of 69.44, thrown on July 3, 1982 in Indianapolis, USA. He won the silver medal in the men's discus event at the 1986 European Championships in Stuttgart, West...


 Soviet Union
66.32 Vaclavas Kidykas
Vaclavas Kidykas
Vaclavas Kidykas is a retired male discus thrower from Lithuania. He placed third in the men's 1986 European Championships in Athletics in Stuttgart, West Germany with a throw of 65.5 meters and participated in four Olympic competitions...


 Soviet Union
65.60
Javelin throw
Klaus Tafelmeier
Klaus Tafelmeier
Klaus Tafelmeier is a retired German javelin thrower. He represented Bayer 04 Leverkusen.In September 1986 Tafelmeier threw 85.74 metres in Como to record the first official world record for the new javelin type. The record lasted until May 1987 when Jan Železný threw 87.66 metres...


 West Germany
84.76 Detlef Michel
Detlef Michel
Detlef Michel, born in Berlin, is a German track and field athlete. He represented East Germany during the 1980s and was one of the world's best in the javelin throw...


 German Democratic Republic
81.90 Viktor Yevsyukov
Viktor Yevsyukov
Viktor Yevsyukov is a retired javelin thrower who represented the Soviet Union and later Kazakhstan during his active career. He won the silver medal at the 1987 World Championships in Rome....


 Soviet Union
81.80
Hammer throw
Yuriy Sedykh
Yuriy Sedykh
Yuriy Georgiyevich Sedykh is a retired Soviet/Ukrainian athlete who represented the USSR, specialising in the hammer throw....


 Soviet Union
86.74
WR
Sergey Litvinov
Sergey Litvinov
Sergey Nikolaevich Litvinov is a hammer thrower who won two Olympic medals representing USSR. Additionally, he won the World Championships twice. Litvinov trained at the Armed Forces sports society in Rostov on Don...


 Soviet Union
85.74 Igor Nikulin
Igor Nikulin (athlete)
Igor Nikulin is a former hammer thrower who represented the USSR, the Unified Team, and later Russia. He won the bronze medal at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain....


 Soviet Union
82.20
Decathlon
Daley Thompson
Daley Thompson
Francis Morgan Ayodélé "Daley" Thompson CBE , is a former decathlete from England. He won the decathlon gold medal at the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984, and broke the world record for the event four times....


 United Kingdom
8811 Jürgen Hingsen
Jürgen Hingsen
Jürgen Hingsen is a former West German decathlete who won several medals at international championships and Olympic Games in the 1980s, and held the decathlon world record in 1982 and again from 1983 to 1984....


 West Germany
8730 Siegfried Wentz
Siegfried Wentz
Siegfried Wentz is a former German track and field athlete. In the 1980s and until 1990 he represented West Germany and belonged to the world elite in the decathlon. His most notable result was winning the bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California...


 West Germany
8676

Track

1978 | 1982 | 1986 | 1990 | 1994
100 metres
Marlies Oelsner-Gohr
Marlies Göhr
Marlies Göhr is a former East German athlete, the winner of the 100 m at the inaugural World Championships in 1983. She ranked in the top 10 of the 100 m world rankings for twelve straight years, ranking first in six of those years...


 German Democratic Republic
10.91 Aneliya Nuneva
Anelia Nuneva
Aneliya Vechernikova née Nuneva is a retired sprinter from Bulgaria, she competed mainly in the 100m. In the final of the 100m at the 1988 Summer Olympic Games she was drawn in lane 4 alongside Florence Griffith-Joyner the red hot favorite...


 Bulgaria
11.04 Nelli Cooman
Nelli Cooman
Cornelli Antoinette Hariëtte Cooman is a former Dutch athlete of Surinamese origin. She was World Champion twice, six times European Champion and nineteen times national Champion of the Netherlands....


 Netherlands
11.08
200 metres
Heike Daute-Drechsler
Heike Drechsler
Heike Gabriela Drechsler née Daute is a German track and field athlete. She is one of the most successful female long jumpers of all time and also had several successes in sprint disciplines.She is the only woman who has won two Olympic gold medals in the long jump...


 German Democratic Republic
21.71
WR
Marie-Christine Cazier
Marie-Christine Cazier
Marie-Christine Cazier-Ballo is a retired French sprinter who specialized in the 200 metres. She set three French records over the distance, the last being 22.32 seconds when she won a silver medal at the 1986 European Championships.-Achievements:-External links:...


 France
22.32 Silke Gladisch
Silke Möller
Silke Möller, née Gladisch is a German athlete, who in the 1980s competed for East Germany as one of the best female sprinters in the world. Her best result was a world record in the 4 x 100 metres relay at the World cup in Canberra on October 6, 1985...


 German Democratic Republic
22.64
400 metres
Marita Koch
Marita Koch
Marita Koch , is a former sprint track and field athlete...


 German Democratic Republic
48.22 Olga Vladykina
Olga Bryzgina
Olha Bryzhina is a retired athlete who represented USSR and later Ukraine. She trained at Dynamo in Voroshilovgrad. Competing in the 400 metres and 4 x 400 metres relay, she was a particularly successful Olympian with three gold medals and one silver. At the 1988 Olympics the Soviet relay team...


 Soviet Union
49.67 Petra Muller
Petra Schersing
Petra Schersing, née Müller is a retired East German sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres...


 German Democratic Republic
49.88
800 metres
Nadezhda Mushta-Olizarenko
Nadezhda Olizarenko
Nadezhda Fyodorovna Olizarenko is a retired athlete, who competed mainly in the 800 metres. She represented the Soviet Union.Olizarenko competed for Soviet Union in the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow, Russia in the 800 metres, where she won the gold medal ahead of country women Olga Mineyeva...


 Soviet Union
1:57.15 Sigrun Ludvigs-Wodars
Sigrun Wodars
Sigrun Grau is an East German former middle distance athlete, who was born Sigrun Ludwigs in Neu-Kaliß. She started out as a 400 m runner in Schwerin, and proved successful in this event in junior meets...


 German Democratic Republic
1:57.42 Lyubov Gurina
Lyubov Gurina
Lyubov Gurina is a retired middle-distance runner who represented the USSR, the Unified Team, and later Russia. Competing mainly in the 800 metres, in 1994 she became the oldest European Champion at the age of 37...


 Soviet Union
1:57.73
1500 metres
Ravilya Agletdinova
 Soviet Union
4:01.19 Tetyana Khamitova-Samolenko
 Soviet Union
4:02.36 Doina Besliu-Melinte
Doina Melinte
Doina Ofelia Melinte is a retired Romanian athlete.She won gold medals over 1500 metres at the European Indoor Championships in 1985, 1988 and 1990, the latter race even being a European record time with 4:00.27...


 Romania
4:02.44
3000 metres
Olga Krentzer-Bondarenko
Olga Bondarenko
Olga Petrovna Bondarenko is a retired female track and field athlete who competed mainly in the 10,000 metres. She trained at the Armed Forces sports society in Volgograd and represented the Soviet Union internationally....


 Soviet Union
8:33.99 Maricica Luca-Puică
Maricica Puica
Maricica Puică is a Romanian former middle distance athlete, who won the 3000 meters gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, a race also remembered for the collision of Mary Decker and Zola Budd....


 Romania
8:35.92 Yvonne Murray
Yvonne Murray
Yvonne Murray MBE , is a Scottish former middle-distance and long-distance track and road-running athlete. She won a bronze medal in the 3000 metres at the 1988 Olympic Games, and gold medals at this distance at the 1993 World Indoor Championships and the 1990 European Championships...


 United Kingdom
8:37.15
10,000 metres
Ingrid Kristiansen
Ingrid Kristiansen
Ingrid Kristiansen née Christensen , was one of the best female long distance runners in the second half of the 1980s. She finished in fourth place in the first women's Olympic marathon race, at the 1984 Summer Olympics.-Career:Kristiansen started her career quite unremarkably, running 2:30 - 2:40...


 Norway
30:23.25 Olga Krentzer-Bondarenko
Olga Bondarenko
Olga Petrovna Bondarenko is a retired female track and field athlete who competed mainly in the 10,000 metres. She trained at the Armed Forces sports society in Volgograd and represented the Soviet Union internationally....


 Soviet Union
30:57.21 Ulrike Klapezynski-Bruns
 German Democratic Republic
31:19.76
Marathon
Rosa Mota
Rosa Mota
Rosa Maria Correia dos Santos Mota, GCIH, GCM is a Portuguese former marathon runner, one of her country's foremost athletes. She is also considered to have been one of the best marathon runners of the 20th century....


 Portugal
2:28:38 Laura Fogli
Laura Fogli
Laura Fogli is an Italian long-distance runner who specialized in the marathon race.She won the inaugural edition of the Rome City Marathon in 1982....


 Italy
2:32:52 Yekaterina Khramenkova
Yekaterina Khramenkova
Yekaterina Khramenkova is a retired long-distance runner from Belarus, best known for winning the bronze medal for the Soviet Union in the women's marathon at the 1986 European Championships . She was the winner of the 1992 Madrid Marathon...


 Soviet Union
2:34:18
100 metres hurdles
Yordanka Donkova-Kiryakova
Yordanka Donkova
Yordanka Donkova is a former hurdling athlete notable for winning an Olympic gold medal and bronze medal as well as 9 medals at European indoor and outdoor championships. She still holds the CR for the European Championships with 12.38 s. Donkova set four world records in 1986...


 Bulgaria
12.38 Cornelia Riefstahl-Oschkenat
Cornelia Oschkenat
Cornelia Oschkenat, née Riefstahl is a German track and field athlete and Olympics participant, who represented East Germany...


 German Democratic Republic
12.55 Ginka Zagorcheva-Boycheva
Ginka Zagorcheva
Ginka Zagorcheva-Boycheva is a former hurdling athlete from Bulgaria. Most notable for winning the 100 metres hurdles at the 1987 World Championships, with 12.25 seconds she held the world record for a year until it was beaten by Yordanka Donkova in August 1988...


 Bulgaria
12.70
400 metres hurdles
Marina Makeyeva-Stepanova
Marina Stepanova
Marina Stepanova is a former Soviet track and field athlete who was the first woman to run under 53 seconds in the 400 metres hurdles.-Career:...


 Soviet Union
53.32
WR
Sabine Busch
Sabine Busch
Sabine Busch is a retired East German athlete who specialized in the 400 metres and the 400 metres hurdles. She was born in Erfurt.At the 1982 European Championships she finished fourth in the 400 metres hurdles, but won a gold medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay together with teammates Kirsten...


 German Democratic Republic
53.60 Cornelia Feuerbach
Cornelia Ullrich
Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1988-0604-007, Cornelia Ulrich, Susanne Losch.jpg Cornelia Ullrich, née Feuerbach is a retired East German hurdler...


 German Democratic Republic
54.13
10 kilometres walk
Mari Cruz Díaz
 Spain
46:09 Ann Janson
 Sweden
46:13 Siw Ybañez
 Sweden
46:19
4x100 metres relay
Silke Gladisch
Silke Möller
Silke Möller, née Gladisch is a German athlete, who in the 1980s competed for East Germany as one of the best female sprinters in the world. Her best result was a world record in the 4 x 100 metres relay at the World cup in Canberra on October 6, 1985...


Sabine Rieger
Sabine Günther
Sabine Günther, née Rieger is a retired East German sprinter who competed mainly in the 200 metres.She won the 200 metres gold medal at the 1981 European Junior Championships...


Ingrid Brestrich-Auerswald
Ingrid Auerswald
Ingrid Lange, née Brestrich, divorced Auerswald is a retired German athlete, who competed mainly in the 100 metres....


Marlies Oelsner-Göhr
Marlies Göhr
Marlies Göhr is a former East German athlete, the winner of the 100 m at the inaugural World Championships in 1983. She ranked in the top 10 of the 100 m world rankings for twelve straight years, ranking first in six of those years...


 German Democratic Republic
41.84 Ginka Zagorcheva-Boycheva
Ginka Zagorcheva
Ginka Zagorcheva-Boycheva is a former hurdling athlete from Bulgaria. Most notable for winning the 100 metres hurdles at the 1987 World Championships, with 12.25 seconds she held the world record for a year until it was beaten by Yordanka Donkova in August 1988...


Aneliya Nuneva
Anelia Nuneva
Aneliya Vechernikova née Nuneva is a retired sprinter from Bulgaria, she competed mainly in the 100m. In the final of the 100m at the 1988 Summer Olympic Games she was drawn in lane 4 alongside Florence Griffith-Joyner the red hot favorite...


Yordanka Donkova-Kiryakova
Yordanka Donkova
Yordanka Donkova is a former hurdling athlete notable for winning an Olympic gold medal and bronze medal as well as 9 medals at European indoor and outdoor championships. She still holds the CR for the European Championships with 12.38 s. Donkova set four world records in 1986...


Nadezhda Georgieva-Ivanova
 Bulgaria
42.68 Antonia Nastorburko
Natalya Bochina
Marina Zhirova
Olga Zolotaryova
 Soviet Union
42.74
4x400 metres relay
 German Democratic Republic 3:16.87  West Germany 3:22.80  Poland 3:24.65

Field

1978 | 1982 | 1986 | 1990 | 1994
High jump
Stefka Kostadinova
Stefka Kostadinova
Stefka Kostadinova is a Bulgarian retired athlete and the current women's world record holder in the high jump. She is the current president of the Bulgarian Olympic Committee.-Career:...


 Bulgaria
2.00 Svetlana Isaeva
 Bulgaria
1.92 Olga Turchak
Olga Turchak
Olga Turchak is a retired female high jumper from Kazakhstan, who set her personal best on 7 July 1986, jumping 2.01 metres at a meet in Moscow. She competed at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988 , where she finished in fourth place...


 Soviet Union
1.93
Long jump
Heike Daute-Drechsler
Heike Drechsler
Heike Gabriela Drechsler née Daute is a German track and field athlete. She is one of the most successful female long jumpers of all time and also had several successes in sprint disciplines.She is the only woman who has won two Olympic gold medals in the long jump...


 German Democratic Republic
7.27 Galina Chistyakova
Galina Chistyakova
Galina Valentinovna Chistyakova is a retired athlete who represented the USSR and later Slovakia.She trained at Burevestnik in Moscow. Competing in long jump, Galina Chistyakova won the 1985 European Indoor Championships and a silver medal at the European Championships one year later...


 Soviet Union
7.09 Helga Radtke
Helga Radtke
Helga Radtke is a German track and field athlete. She competed from 1979 up until the 1990’s in the long and triple jumps. Until 1990 she represented East Germany...


 German Democratic Republic
6.89
Shot put
Heidi Krieger
Andreas Krieger
Andreas Krieger is a former German shot putter, who competed as a woman on the East German athletics team at SC Dynamo Berlin...


 German Democratic Republic
21.10 Ines Müller
Ines Müller
Ines Müller, née Reichenbach , is a German track and field athlete who represented East Germany in the shot put during the 1980s...


 German Democratic Republic
20.81 Natalya Akhrimenko
 Soviet Union
20.68
Discus throw
Diana Sachse
Diana Gansky
Diana Gansky, née Sachse , is a German track and field athlete. She won an Olympic medal and was one of the world's best discus throwers. She represented East Germany and was the 1986 European champion...


 German Democratic Republic
71.36 Tsvetanka Khristova
Tsvetanka Khristova
Tsvetanka Mincheva Khristova was a Bulgarian discus thrower who competed from the early 1980s to the mid 2000s, with a career break for a drugs ban....


 Bulgaria
69.52 Martina Opitz
Martina Hellmann
Martina Hellmann, née Opitz , is a retired German track and field athlete who represented East Germany. She was the Olympic champion in the discus throw at the 1988 Summer Olympics. She also won the World Championship in that event in 1983 and again in 1987.Hellmann was sixteen years old when she...


 German Democratic Republic
68.26
Javelin throw
Fatima Whitbread
Fatima Whitbread
Fatima Whitbread MBE is a British former javelin thrower and multiple medal-winner.-Early life:...


 United Kingdom
77.44 Petra Felke
Petra Felke
Petra Meier, nee Felke is a former German track and field athlete and Olympic champion who represented East Germany....


 German Democratic Republic
72.52 Beate Peters
Beate Peters
Beate Edeltraud Peters is a retired West German javelin thrower.She finished seventh at the 1983 World Championships and the 1984 Summer Olympics. She then won bronze medals at the 1986 European Championships and the 1987 World Championships...


 West Germany
68.04
Heptathlon
Anke Vater
Anke Behmer
Anke Behmer, née Vater is a former East German athlete who competed mainly in the heptathlon....


 German Democratic Republic
6717 Natalya Schubenkova
 Soviet Union
6645 Judy Simpson
Judy Simpson
Judith Earline Veronica Simpson , is a former British heptathlete. She competed in three Commonwealth Games, 1982, 1986 and 1990, winning a silver, gold and bronze respectively in the heptathlon...


 United Kingdom
6623

Medals table

1  Soviet Union 11 13 12 36
2  German Democratic Republic 11 10 8 29
3  United Kingdom 8 2 5 15
4  Bulgaria 3 4 1 8
5  Italy 2 6 2 10
6  West Germany 2 4 5 11
7  Early Modern France 1 1 2 4
8  Spain 1 0 2 3
9  Czechoslovakia 1 0 0 1
9  Norway 1 0 0 1
9  Portugal 1 0 0 1
9  Switzerland 1 0 0 1
13  Sweden 0 1 2 3
14  Romania 0 1 1 2
15  Finland 0 1 0 1
16  Netherlands 0 0 2 2
17  Poland 0 0 1 1
17 Total 43 43 43 129
The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK