European Athletics Championships 1986/800 m women

14th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's 800-meter run
city	Stuttgart
Stadion	Neckar Stadium
Participants	17 athletes from 10 countries
Competition phase	August 26th (preliminary) August 27th (semi-finals) August 28th (final)
Medalists
gold	Nadija Olisarenko ( URS )
silver	Sigrun Wodars ( GDR )
bronze	Lyubov Gurina ( URS )

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

The 800-meter run for women at the European Athletics Championships in 1986 was held from August 26 to 28, 1986 in the Neckar Stadium in Stuttgart .

In this competition, the Soviet runners won two medals, gold and bronze. The European champion was the 1980 Olympic champion Nadija Olisarenko . She won ahead of Sigrun Wodars from the GDR. Bronze went to Lyubov Gurina .

Existing records

World record	1: 53.28 min	Jarmila Kratochvílová	Munich , FR Germany	July 26, 1983
European record
EM record	1: 55.41 min	Olga Mineeva	EM Athens , Greece	September 8, 1982

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

Preliminary round

August 26, 1982

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

Of the seventeen participants in this preliminary round, only one did not qualify for the next round. There was only a real elimination in the first two heats with six athletes each. of which the runner with the weakest time did not get any further. The participants in the third heat only had to reach the finish in order to automatically be in the semi-finals.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Lyubov Gurina	Soviet Union	2: 00.22
2	Gaby Bussmann	BR Germany	2: 00.27
3	Sigrun Wodars	GDR	2: 00.28
4th	Mitica Junghiatu	Romania	2: 00.35
5	Shireen Bailey	Great Britain	2: 00.41
6th	Kaisa Siitonen	Finland	2: 06.37

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Diane Edwards	Great Britain	2: 03.59
2	Milena Strnadová	Czechoslovakia	2: 03.59
3	Lyubov Kirjukhina	Soviet Union	2: 03.65
4th	Rosa-Maria Colorado	Spain	2: 03.74
5	Christine Wachtel	GDR	2: 03.81
6th	Violeta Beclea	Romania	2: 04.86

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Nadia Olisarenko	Soviet Union	2: 02.12
2	Gabriela Sedlaková	Czechoslovakia	2: 02.57
3	Slobodanka Čolović	Yugoslavia	2: 02.59
4th	Lorraine Baker	Great Britain	2: 02.62
5	Régine mountain	Belgium	2: 02.67

Semifinals

August 27, 1982, 8:30 p.m.

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

Run 1

As the seventh of their semifinals, Slobodanka Čolović did not reach the final

Diane Edwards was eliminated in sixth of their semi-final race

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Lyubov Gurina	Soviet Union	1; 59.66
2	Milena Strnadová	Czechoslovakia	2: 00.02
3	Mitica Junghiatu	Romania	2: 00.02
4th	Christine Wachtel	GDR	2: 00.36
5	Shireen Bailey	Great Britain	2: 00.50
6th	Lorraine Baker	Great Britain	2: 02.03
7th	Slobodanka Čolović	Yugoslavia	2: 02.59
8th	Rosa-Maria Colorado	Spain	2: 05.56

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Sigrun Wodars	GDR	1: 58.26
2	Nadia Olisarenko	Soviet Union	1: 58.70
3	Gaby Bussmann	BR Germany	1: 58.97
4th	Lyubov Kirjukhina	Soviet Union	1: 59.05
5	Gabriela Sedlaková	Czechoslovakia	2: 00.61
6th	Diane Edwards	Great Britain	2: 00.84
7th	Régine mountain	Belgium	2: 02.05
8th	Violeta Beclea	Romania	2: 08.25

final

August 28, 1982, 7:40 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Nadia Olisarenko	Soviet Union	1: 57.15
2	Sigrun Wodars	GDR	1: 57.42
3	Lyubov Gurina	Soviet Union	1: 57.73
4th	Gaby Bussmann	BR Germany	1: 58.57
5	Milena Strnadová	Czechoslovakia	1: 58.89
6th	Mitica Junghiatu	Romania	1: 59.22
7th	Lyubov Kirjukhina	Soviet Union	1: 59.67
8th	Christine Wachtel	GDR	2: 00.02

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  Silver medalist Sigrun Wodars - she won the upcoming World Championships , Olympic Games and European Championships

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  Eighth place for Christine Wachtel in this final - she was second behind Sigrun Wodars at the major international championships

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Stuttgart 1986 at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 5, 2019
• Women 800m European Championship 1986 Stuttgart on 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 800m European Championship 1986 Stuttgart, p. 448f (PDF, 13.363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 5, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1986, 800 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

Video

• 279 - 800 m , published on November 12, 2012 on youtube.com (English), accessed on September 5, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 800m women , accessed September 5, 2019