European Athletics Championships 1986 / participant (GDR)

The GDR DVfL initially nominated a total of 72 athletes, 36 men and 36 women , for the 1986 European Athletics Championships in Stuttgart . Shortly before the start, the Leipzig hurdler Holger Pohland and the Berlin heptathlete Sibylle Thiele had to cancel their start due to injury. So 70 athletes of the DVfL were at the start. Seven defending champions from Athens were among the nominees . After the boycott of the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles by the GDR, the European Championships were the first major international comparison for the GDR athletes since the 1983 World Athletics Championships in Helsinki. The 1982 European champions Thomas Munkelt, Lutz Dombrowski, Uwe Hohn, Bärbel Wöckel and Ramona Neubert were no longer at the start, some of whom had ended their competitive sporting careers not least because of the Olympic boycott.

successes

With 11 gold, 10 silver and 8 bronze medals, the GDR team took second place behind the team from the Soviet Union. The women won a medal in 14 of 18 competitions and the men in 7 of 21 competitions in which they competed. Heike Drechsler, Marlies Göhr and Marita Koch each won 2 titles. In the shot put, GDR athletes won four out of six medals. The women set five European Championship records. Outstanding, however, was the setting of the world record of 21.71 seconds in the sprint over 200 meters by Heike Drechsler. Shortly before the European Championships in Dresden, she set a new world record of 7.45 m in the long jump.

Nominee athletes

discipline	Men			Women
	athlete	Sports club / association	placement	athlete	Sports club / association	placement
100 m	Steffen Bringmann Thomas Schröder	SC DHfK Leipzig SC Neubrandenburg	4th Place	Marlies Göhr Silke Gladisch Ingrid Auerswald	SC Motor Jena SC Empor Rostock SC Motor Jena	4th place 5th place
200 m	Thomas Schröder Olaf Prenzler Frank Emmelmann	SC Neubrandenburg SC Magdeburg SC Magdeburg	4th place 7th place 8th place	Heike Drechsler Silke Gladisch Sabine Günther	SC Motor Jena SC Empor Rostock SC Motor Jena	7th place
400 m	Thomas Schönlebe Mathias Schersing	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt SC Chemie Halle		Marita Koch Petra Müller Kirsten Emmelmann	SC Empor Rostock SC Chemie Halle SC Magdeburg	4th Place
800 m	Hans-Joachim Mogalle	SC Chemistry Hall	Intermediate run	Sigrun Wodars Christine Wachtel	SC Neubrandenburg SC Neubrandenburg	8th place
1500 m	Andreas Busse	SC unit Dresden	leader	Heike Oehme	SC Cottbus	12th place
5000 m	Hansjörg Kunze	SC Empor Rostock	not started
10,000 m	Hansjörg Kunze	SC Empor Rostock	injured retired	Ulrike Bruns Gabriele Veith	ASK forward Potsdam SC Cottbus	13th place
marathon	Jörg Peter Michael Heilmann	SC unit Dresden TSC Berlin	17th place eliminated	Katrin Dörre	SC DHfK Leipzig	eliminated
100 m hurdles				Cornelia Oschkenat Heike Theele Kerstin Knabe	SC Dynamo Berlin SC Magdeburg SC DHfK Leipzig	4th place 4th place
110 m hurdles	Andreas Oschkenat	SC Dynamo Berlin	5th place
400 m hurdles				Sabine Busch Cornelia Feuerbach Ellen Fiedler	SC Magdeburg SC Magdeburg SC Dynamo Berlin	6th place
3000 m obstacle	Hagen Melzer	SC unit Dresden
4 × 100 m	Thomas Schröder Steffen Bringmann Olaf Prenzler Frank Emmelmann	SC Neubrandenburg SC DHfK Leipzig SC Magdeburg SC Magdeburg		Silke Gladisch Sabine Günther Ingrid Auerswald Marlies Göhr	SC Empor Rostock SC Motor Jena SC Motor Jena SC Motor Jena
4 × 400 m	Frank Möller Carlo Niestädt Thomas Schönlebe Mathias Schersing	ASK Forward Potsdam TSC Berlin SC Karl-Marx-Stadt SC Chemie Halle	6th place	Kirsten Emmelmann Sabine Busch Petra Müller Marita Koch	SC Magdeburg SC Turbine Erfurt SC Chemie Halle SC Empor Rostock
10 km walk				Dagmar Grimmenstein	SC Turbine Erfurt	9th place
20 km walk	Ralf Kowalsky Axel Noack	TSC Berlin TSC Berlin	disqualified disqualified
50 km walk	Hartwig Gauder Dietmar Meisch Ronald Weigel	SC Turbine Erfurt TSC Berlin ASK Forward Potsdam	6th place disqualified
Long jump				Heike Drechsler Helga Radtke	SC Motor Jena SC Empor Rostock
Triple jump	Dirk Gamlin Volker May	SC Tractor Schwerin SC Neubrandenburg	5th place 8th place
high jump	Gerd Wessig	SC Tractor Schwerin	6th place	Andrea Bienias Susanne Helm	SC DHfK Leipzig SC Dynamo Berlin	4th place 4th place
Shot put	Ulf Timmermann Udo Beyer	TSC Berlin ASK Forward Potsdam		Heidi Krieger Ines Müller Heike Hartwig	SC Dynamo Berlin SC Empor Rostock SC Dynamo Berlin	5th place
Discus throw	Jürgen Schult	SC Tractor Schwerin	7th place	Diana Sachse Martina Hellmann Irina Meszynski	ASK Forward Potsdam SC DHfK Leipzig TSC Berlin	4th Place
Hammer throw	Gunther Rodehau Ralf Haber Matthias Moder	SC unit Dresden SC Karl-Marx-Stadt SC Dynamo Berlin	4th place 6th place 7th place
Javelin throw	Detlef Michel Gerald Weiss	TSC Berlin SC Tractor Schwerin	11th place	Petra Felke	SC Motor Jena
Heptathlon				Anke Behmer Sibylle Thiele	SC Neubrandenburg SC Dynamo Berlin	not started
Decathlon	Torsten Voss Uwe Freimuth	SC Tractor Schwerin ASK Forward Potsdam	4th place 6th place

The following substitute starters were not used in the sprint disciplines: Sören Schlegel (SC Karl-Marx-Stadt); Torsten Heimrath (SC Traktor Schwerin); Holger Pohland (SC DHfK Leipzig); Ina Morgenstern (ASK Vorwärts Potsdam) and Dagmar Neubauer (SC Turbine Erfurt)

Medals and participants per club

The active participants were spread across 14 different competitive sports centers, of which 12 sports clubs were able to cheer for medalists. Only the clubs in Schwerin and Cottbus remained without precious metals. By far the most successful sports club was SC Motor Jena, whose five representatives took home seven medals. A total of three European championship titles went to Jena in the individual disciplines. Furthermore, Jena athletes had a share in a relay title.

space	Sports club / sports association	Attendees				Medals total
1	SC Motor Jena	5	6th	1	0	7th
2	SC Empor Rostock	5	3	1	2	6th
3	SC Turbine Erfurt	4th	2	0	0	2
4th	SC Magdeburg	6th	1	3	1	5
5	SC Neubrandenburg	5	1	2	0	3
6th	SC Dynamo Berlin	7th	1	1	0	2
7th	SC Chemistry Hall	3	1	0	2	3
7th	ASK forward Potsdam	7th	1	0	2	3
9	SC unit Dresden	5	1	0	0	1
10	SC DHfK Leipzig	6th	0	2	1	3
11	TSC Berlin	9	0	2	0	2
12	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt	3	0	1	0	1
13	SC Cottbus	2	0	0	0	0
13	SC Tractor Schwerin	6th	0	0	0	0