European Athletics Championships 1986/110 m hurdles of men

14th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 110-meter hurdles
city	Stuttgart
Stadion	Neckar Stadium
Attendees	25 athletes from 17 countries
Competition phase	August 28th (preliminary) August 29th (semi-finals) August 30th (final)
Medalist
gold	Stéphane Caristan ( FRA )
silver	Arto Bryggare ( FIN )
bronze	Carlos Sala ( ESP )

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

The men's 110-meter hurdles at the European Athletics Championships in 1986 took place from August 28 to 30, 1986 in the Neckar Stadium in Stuttgart .

The European champion was the French Stéphane Caristan , who set a new European record in the final. He won Arto Bryggare before the Finnish European Championship third in 1982 and Olympic third in 1984 . Bronze went to the Spaniard Carlos Sala .

Records

Existing records

World record	12.93 s	Renaldo Nehemiah	Zurich , Switzerland	August 12, 1981
European record	13.28 s	Guy Drut	Saint-Etienne , France	June 29, 1975
		Andrei Prokofiev	Moscow , Soviet Union (now Russia )	July 6, 1986
Championship record	13.40 s	Guy Drut	EM Rome , Italy	September 8, 1974

Record improvements

European champion Stéphane Caristan improved the existing EM record at these European championships twice:  

• 13.28 s - 1st semi-final, August 29, at the same time equalizing the European record
• 13.20 s - Final, August 30th, also a new European record

Preliminary round

August 28, 1986

The preliminary round was held in four runs. The first three athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - and the four fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semifinals.

Forward 1

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Liviu Giurgean	Romania	13.74
2	Nigel Walker	Great Britain	13.76
3	Alexander Markin	Soviet Union	13.78
4th	Carlos Sala	Spain	13.85
5	Mikael Ylöstalo	Finland	14.00
6th	Ulf Söderman	Sweden	14.05

Forward 2

Franck Chevallier did not cross the finish line in his heat and was eliminated

Wind: -0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Plamen Krastev	Bulgaria	13.81
2	Andreas Oschkenat	GDR	13.82
3	Gianni Tozzi	Italy	14.01
4th	Andrei Prokofiev	Soviet Union	14.06
5	Robert Ekpete	Norway	14.34
6th	João Lima	Portugal	14.47
DNF	Franck Chevallier	France

Forward 3

Wind: -1.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Igors Kazanovs	Soviet Union	13.89
2	Györgyi Bakos	Hungary	13.96
3	Roland Marloye	Belgium	14.35
4th	Peter Eriksson	Sweden	14.46
5	Romuald Giegiel	Poland	14.55

Forward 4

Wind: -1.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Stéphane Caristan	France	13.46
2	Arto Bryggare	Finland	13.58
3	Jonathan Ridgeon	Great Britain	13.87
4th	Daniele Fontecchio	Italy	14.05
5	Michael Radzey	BR Germany	14.34
6th	Serge Liegeois	Belgium	14.34
7th	Erik Sidenius Jensen	Denmark	14.60

Semifinals

August 29, 1986, 6:00 p.m.

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

Run 1

Wind: +0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Stéphane Caristan	France	13.28 ERe / CR
2	Carlos Sala	Spain	13.57
3	Liviu Giurgean	Romania	13.61
4th	Jonathan Ridgeon	Great Britain	13.66
5	Mikael Ylöstalo	Finland	13.69
6th	Alexander Markin	Soviet Union	13.78
7th	Roland Marloye	Belgium	14.02 NO
8th	Gianni Tozzi	Italy	14.16

Run 2

Wind: +0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Andreas Oschkenat	GDR	13.52
2	Nigel Walker	Great Britain	13.54
3	Arto Bryggare	Finland	13.57
4th	Györgyi Bakos	Hungary	13.60
5	Igors Kazanovs	Soviet Union	13.76
6th	Plamen Krastev	Bulgaria	13.81
7th	Daniele Fontecchio	Italy	13.89
8th	Ulf Söderman	Sweden	13.94

• 

  After bronze at the European Championships in 1982 and the Olympic Games in 1984 , Arto Bryggare (here in 2009) won the silver medal

• 

  Andreas Oschkenat (a little hidden here) came in fifth

final

August 30, 1986, 7:05 p.m.

Wind: +2.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Stéphane Caristan	France	13.20 ER
2	Arto Bryggare	Finland	13.42
3	Carlos Sala	Spain	13.50
4th	Nigel Walker	Great Britain	13.52
5	Andreas Oschkenat	GDR	13.55
6th	Jonathan Ridgeon	Great Britain	13.70
7th	Liviu Giurgean	Romania	13.71
8th	Györgyi Bakos	Hungary	13.84

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Stuttgart 1986 at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 30, 2019
• Men 110m Hurdles European Championship 1986 Stuttgart on todor66.com, accessed on August 30, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1986 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed August 30, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 110m Hurdles European Championship 1986 Stuttgart, p. 445 (PDF, 13,363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 30, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1986, 110 m hurdles men on sportschau.de, accessed on August 30, 2019
• 14th European Athletics Championships 1986 in Stuttgart, Germany from ifosta.de, accessed on August 30, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Men's 110-meter hurdles , accessed August 30, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 110 m Hurdles Men , p. 16 (PDF, 271 kB), Spanish / English, accessed on August 30, 2019