European Athletics Championships 1986/100 m hurdles for women

14th European Athletics Championships
discipline	100 meter hurdles
gender	Women
Attendees	21 athletes from 12 countries
venue	Stuttgart
Competition location	Neckar Stadium
Competition phase	August 27th (preliminary) August 28th (semi-finals) August 29th (final)
Medalists Jordanka Donkowa ( BUL )   Cornelia Oschkenat ( GDR )   Ginka Sagortschewa ( BUL )

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

The women's 100-meter hurdles at the European Athletics Championships in 1986 was held from August 27 to 29, 1986 in the Neckar Stadium in Stuttgart .

In this competition, the Bulgarian hurdlers won two medals, gold and bronze. The European champion was the European Championship runner-up from 1982 and world record holder Jordanka Donkowa . She won ahead of Cornelia Oschkenat from the GDR. Bronze went to Ginka Sagortschewa, who was third in the World Cup in 1983 .

Records

Existing records

World record	12.29 s	Jordanka Donkova	Cologne , FR Germany	17th August 1986
European record
EM record	12.45 s	Lucyna Kałek	EM Athens , Greece	September 7, 1982

Record improvement

European champion Jordanka Donkowa improved the existing EM record in the final on August 29th by seven hundredths of a second to 12.38 s.  

Preliminary round

August 27, 1986, 5:45 p.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: +1.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Mihaela Pogăcean	Romania	12.84
2	Heike Theele	GDR	12.84
3	Laurence Elloy	France	12.87
4th	Natalija Hryhorjewa	Soviet Union	12.88
5	Wendy Jeal	Great Britain	13.16
6th	Patrizia Lombardo	Italy	13.51
DSQ	Dorthe Wolfsberg	Denmark

Forward 2

Wind: +2.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Cornelia Oschkenat	GDR	12.56
2	Ginka Sagortschewa	Bulgaria	12.58
3	Jelena Politika	Soviet Union	12.95
4th	Xénia Siska	Hungary	12.95
5	Monique Éwanjé-Épée	France	13.16
6th	Rita Heggli	Switzerland	13.19
7th	Claudia Zaczkiewicz	BR Germany	13.26

Sally Gunnell (here in 2011) was eliminated sixth in her preliminary run - in 1992 she was Olympic champion in the 400 meter hurdles

Forward 3

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jordanka Donkova	Bulgaria	12.66
2	Kerstin boy	GDR	12.85
3	Anne Piquereau	France	12.95
4th	Vera Akimova	Soviet Union	13.05
5	Marjan Olyslager	Netherlands	13.14
6th	Sally Gunnell	Great Britain	13.33
7th	Edith Oker	BR Germany	13.76

Semifinals

August 28, 1986, 7:20 pm

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

Run 1

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Laurence Elloy	France	12.80
2	Heike Theele	GDR	12.82
3	Mihaela Pogăcean	Romania	12.84
4th	Ginka Sagortschewa	Bulgaria	12.86
5	Vera Akimova	Soviet Union	12.87
6th	Rita Heggli	Switzerland	13.13
7th	Jelena Politika	Soviet Union	13.29
DNF	Anne Piquereau	France

Marjan Olyslager was disqualified in her semi-final run

Run 2

Wind: +0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jordanka Donkova	Bulgaria	12.49
2	Cornelia Oschkenat	GDR	12.52
3	Natalija Hryhorjewa	Soviet Union	12.75
4th	Kerstin boy	GDR	12.84
5	Xénia Siska	Hungary	12.90
6th	Wendy Jeal	Great Britain	13.29
7th	Monique Éwanjé-Épée	France	13.39
DSQ	Marjan Olyslager	Netherlands

final

The European Championship runner-up from 1982 Jordanka Donkowa (here in 2013) was now European champion - in 1988 she was Olympic champion

August 29, 1986, 8:05 pm

Wind: −0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jordanka Donkova	Bulgaria	12.38 CR
2	Cornelia Oschkenat	GDR	12.55
3	Ginka Sagortschewa	Bulgaria	12.70
4th	Heike Theele	GDR	12.82
	Kerstin boy	GDR
6th	Laurence Elloy	France	12.93
7th	Natalija Hryhorjewa	Soviet Union	12.96
8th	Mihaela Pogăcean	Romania	13.17

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  Vice European Champion Cornelia Oschkenat - in fact it was World Cup -Third

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  The joint fourth-placed Kerstin Knabe (left) and Heike Theele (middle) in a race with Vice European Champion Cornelia Oschkenat (right)

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Stuttgart 1986 at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 7, 2019
• Women 100m Hurdles European Championship 1986 Stuttgart on todor66.com, accessed on September 7, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1986 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed September 7, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 100m Hurdles European Championship 1986 Stuttgart, p. 449f (PDF, 13,363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 7, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1986, 100 m hurdles women on sportschau.de, accessed on September 7, 2019
• 14th European Athletics Championships 1986 in Stuttgart, Germany from ifosta.de, accessed on September 7, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 100 m hurdles women , accessed on September 7, 2019