European Athletics Championships 1986/200 m women

14th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's 200-meter run
city	Stuttgart
Stadion	Neckar Stadium
Participants	17 athletes from 9 countries
Competition phase	August 28th (preliminary / semi-finals) August 29th (final)
Medalists
gold	Heike Drechsler ( GDR )
silver	Marie-Christine Cazier ( FRA )
bronze	Silke Gladisch ( GDR )

The Stuttgart stadium - today the Mercedes-Benz Arena in 2011

The 200-meter run for women at the European Athletics Championships in 1986 was held on August 28 and 29, 1986 in the Neckar Stadium in Stuttgart .

With gold and bronze, there were two medals in this competition for the sprinters of the GDR. The European champion was Heike Drechsler , who was highly decorated in the long jump and equalized the existing world record in the final. She won ahead of the French Marie-Christine Cazier . Third place went to Silke Gladisch .

Records

Existing records

World record	21.71 s	Marita Koch	Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz ), GDR (now Germany )	June 10, 1979
			Potsdam , GDR (now Germany )	July 21, 1984
		Heike Drechsler	Jena , GDR (now Germany )	June 29, 1986
European record		Marita Koch	Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz ), GDR (now Germany )	June 10, 1979
			Potsdam , GDR (now Germany )	July 21, 1984
		Heike Drechsler	Jena , GDR (now Germany )	June 29, 1986
Championship record	22.04 s	Bärbel Wöckel	EM Athens , Greece	September 9, 1982

Record improvement

European champion Heike Drechsler improved the existing championship record in the final on August 9th by 33 hundredths of a second to 21.71 s, making her the first female sprinter to run over 200 meters faster than 22 seconds at European championships .  

With her winning time she equalized the existing world record.

Preliminary round

August 28, 1986, 10:50 a.m.

The preliminary round was carried out in three runs. The first four athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the four fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals.

Forward 1

Wind: –2.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Heather Oakes	Great Britain	23.01
2	Silke Gladisch	GDR	23.01
3	Natalia Botschina	Soviet Union	23.21
4th	Claudia Lepping	BR Germany	23.44
5	Sølvi Meinseth	Norway	24.46

Forward 2

Wind: -1.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ewa Kasprzyk	Poland	22.11
2	Marina Molokowa	Soviet Union	23.17
3	Sabine Günther	GDR	23.24
4th	Sandra Whittaker	Great Britain	23.39
5	Martha Grossenbacher	Netherlands	23.67

Forward 3

Wind: -1.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Heike Drechsler	GDR	22.52
2	Marie-Christine Cazier	France	22.62
3	Kathy Cook	Great Britain	23.11
4th	Marina Shirova	Soviet Union	23.11
5	Jolanta Janota	Poland	23.32
6th	Anke Koeninger	BR Germany	23.70
7th	Virginia Gomes	Portugal	24.38

Semifinals

August 28, 1986, 8:05 p.m.

In each of the two semi-finals, the first four athletes - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Run 1

Wind: +0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Silke Gladisch	GDR	22.29
2	Marie-Christine Cazier	France	22.45
3	Marina Shirova	Soviet Union	22.93
4th	Sabine Günther	GDR	22.93
5	Kathy Cook	Great Britain	23.20
6th	Anke Koeninger	BR Germany	23.38
7th	Jolanta Janota	Poland	23.59
8th	Martha Grossenbacher	Netherlands	23.81

Run 2

Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Heike Drechsler	GDR	22.33
2	Ewa Kasprzyk	Poland	22.60
3	Marina Molokowa	Soviet Union	22.61
4th	Natalia Botschina	Soviet Union	22.61
5	Heather Oakes	Great Britain	22.92
6th	Claudia Lepping	BR Germany	23.39
7th	Virginia Gomes	Portugal	23.44
DNS	Sandra Whittaker	Great Britain

final

The reigning long jump - world champion Heike Drechsler became European champion over 200 meters and long jump - later she won numerous victories and medals at major international championships, especially in long jump

August 29, 1986, 7:45 p.m.

Wind: −0.8 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Heike Drechsler	GDR	21.71 WRe
2	Marie-Christine Cazier	France	22.32 NO
3	Silke Gladisch	GDR	22.49
4th	Marina Molokowa	Soviet Union	22.71
5	Ewa Kasprzyk	Poland	22.73
6th	Natalia Botschina	Soviet Union	22.87
7th	Sabine Günther	GDR	22.98
8th	Marina Shirova	Soviet Union	23.18

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  Silke Gladisch, later Silke Möller, won bronze two days after her fourth place over 100 meters and became double world champion over 100 and 200 meters the following year

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  Ewa Kasprzyk (here in 2011) came in fifth place

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  Sabine Günther (right) finished seventh, as Sabine Rieger had won the EM bronze four years ago

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Stuttgart 1986 at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 5, 2019
• Women 200m European Championship 1986 Stuttgart from todor66.com, accessed September 5, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1986 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed September 5, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 200m European Championship 1986 Stuttgart, p. 448 (PDF, 13,363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 5, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1986, 200 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on September 5, 2019
• 14th European Athletics Championships 1986 in Stuttgart, Germany from ifosta.de, accessed on September 5, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b} IAAF world records. 200m women , accessed September 5, 2019