European Athletics Championships 1986 / Men's discus throw

14th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's discus throw
city	Stuttgart
Stadion	Neckar Stadium
Attendees	21 athletes from 12 countries
Competition phase	August 30th (qualification) August 31st (final)
Medalist
gold	Romas Ubartas ( URS )
silver	Georgi Kolnootschenko ( URS )
bronze	Vaclavas Kidykas ( URS )

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

The men's discus throw at the European Athletics Championships in 1986 was held on August 30 and 31, 1986 in the Neckar Stadium in Stuttgart .

The Soviet discus throwers scored a triple success in this competition. European champion was Romas Ubartas . He won ahead of Georgi Kolnootschenko and Vaclavas Kidykas .

Records

Existing records

World record	74.08 m	Jürgen Schult	Neubrandenburg GDR (now Germany )	June 6, 1986
European record
EM record	66.82 m	Wolfgang Schmidt	EM Prague , Czechoslovakia	3rd September 1978

Record improvement

European champion Romas Ubartas improved the existing EM record in the final on August 31 by 25 centimeters to 67.08 m.  

qualification

Dariusz Juzyszyn was eliminated in fifteenth in the qualification

In the shot put three days earlier, Georg Andersen had finished tenth, in the discus throw it did not reach the final with 55.24 m

August 30, 1986, 9:30 a.m.

21 participants took part in the qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 62.00 m. Eight athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the four next-placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 60.38 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Georgi Kolnootschenko	Soviet Union	66.08
2	Imrich Bugár	Czechoslovakia	65.62
3	Knut Hjeltnes	Norway	64.34
4th	Romas Ubartas	Soviet Union	64.08
5	Stefan Fernholm	Sweden	62.98
6th	Erik de Bruin	Netherlands	62.96
7th	Vaclavas Kidykas	Soviet Union	62.76
8th	Rolf Danneberg	BR Germany	62.32
9	Jürgen Schult	GDR	61.06
10	Alois Hannecker	BR Germany	60.98
11	Géjza Valent	Czechoslovakia	60.58
12	Alwin Wagner	BR Germany	60.38
13	Marco Martino	Italy	59.94
14th	Came Dimitrov	Bulgaria	59.88
15th	Dariusz Juzyszyn	Poland	59.82
16	Paul Mardle	Great Britain	58.08
17th	Olav Jenssen	Norway	56.96
18th	Konstantinos Georgakopoulos	Greece	56.70
19th	Graham Savory	Great Britain	55.96
20th	Georg Andersen	Norway	55.24
21st	Bo Henriksson	Sweden	54.24

final

European champion Romas Ubartas - with silver in 1988 and gold in 1992 , he later won two Olympic medals

August 31, 1986, 3:45 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Romas Ubartas	Soviet Union	67.08 CR
2	Georgi Kolnootschenko	Soviet Union	67.02
3	Vaclavas Kidykas	Soviet Union	66.32
4th	Knut Hjeltnes	Norway	65.60
5	Géjza Valent	Czechoslovakia	65.00
6th	Erik de Bruin	Netherlands	64.52
7th	Jürgen Schult	GDR	64.38
8th	Imrich Bugár	Czechoslovakia	63.56
9	Alwin Wagner	BR Germany	62.76
10	Stefan Fernholm	Sweden	62.24
11	Rolf Danneberg	BR Germany	61.60
12	Alois Hannecker	BR Germany	59.48

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  Knut Hjeltnes, in 1978 EC - fifth and 1982 EC - twelfth, this time fourth

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  Erik de Bruin came in sixth - four years later there was EM silver for him

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  The world record holder Jürgen Schult came in seventh - later he won a large number of Olympic, World Cup and European Championship medals and is still the holder of the world record today

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  The defending champion and reigning world champion Imrich Bugár (here in 2013) finished eighth in this final

Video

• 1986 European Outdoor Championships Men's Discus Final , published June 14, 2012 on youtube.com (English), accessed September 3, 2019

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Stuttgart 1986 at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 28, 2019
• European Championship 1986 Stuttgart, Men High Jump on todor66.com, accessed on September 2, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1986 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on September 2, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men High Jump European Championship 1986 Stuttgart, p. 446 (PDF, 13.363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 2, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1986, discus throw men on sportschau.de, accessed on September 2, 2019
• 14th European Athletics Championships 1986 in Stuttgart, Germany from ifosta.de, accessed on September 2, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Men’s Discus Throw , accessed September 14, 2019