European Athletics Championships 1986/1500 m for women

14th European Athletics Championships
discipline	1500 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	20 athletes from 14 countries
venue	Stuttgart
Competition location	Neckar Stadium
Competition phase	August 29th (preliminary) August 31st (final)
Medalists Rawilja Agletdinova ( URS )   Tetjana Samolenko ( URS )   Doina Melinte ( ROM )

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

The women's 1500-meter run at the European Athletics Championships in 1986 was held on August 29 and 31, 1986 in the Neckar Stadium in Stuttgart .

In this competition there was a double victory for the Soviet runners. Rawilja Agletdinova became European champion . The 3000 meter Olympic champion from 1980 Tetjana Samolenko won the silver medal. Bronze went to the Romanian Olympic runner-up in 1984 and 800 meters - Olympic champion from 1984 Doina Melinte .

Existing records

World record	3: 52.47 min	Tatiana Kasankina	Zurich , Switzerland	August 13, 1980
European record
EM record	3: 57.80 min	Olga Dwirna	EM Athens , Greece	September 11, 1982

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

Preliminary round

August 29, 1982, 6:20 pm

The preliminary round was held in two runs. The first five athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the two fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

Forward 1

Paula Ivan was eliminated in seventh place in the first heat

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Tetiana Samolenko	Soviet Union	4: 06.70
2	Ivana Walterová	Czechoslovakia	4: 06.75
3	Zola Budd	Great Britain	4: 06.83
4th	Cornelia Bürki	Switzerland	4: 06.86
5	Maricica Puică	Romania	4: 06.87
6th	Christina Cahill	Great Britain	4: 07.74
7th	Paula Ivan	Romania	4: 10.64
8th	Annette Sergent	France	4: 11.32
9	Snežana Pajkić	Yugoslavia	4: 13.76
10	Corine Debaets	Belgium	4: 14.97

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Rawilja Agletdinova	Soviet Union	4: 06.72
2	Kirsty Wade	Great Britain	4: 06.74
3	Doina Melinte	Romania	4: 06.78
4th	Svetlana Kitova	Soviet Union	4: 6.80
5	Nikolina Shtereva	Bulgaria	4: 06.99
6th	Heike Oehme	GDR	4: 07.16
7th	Elly van Hulst	Netherlands	4: 07.21
8th	Vera Michallek	BR Germany	4: 07.52
9	Andri Avraam	Cyprus	4: 15.20
10	Roberta Brunet	Italy	4: 15.76

final

The Olympic runner-up in 1984 and 800 meters Olympic champion in 1984 Doina Melinte won the bronze medal here

August 31, 1982, 4:35 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Rawilja Agletdinova	Soviet Union	4: 01.19
2	Tetiana Samolenko	Soviet Union	4: 02.36
3	Doina Melinte	Romania	4: 02.44
4th	Ivana Walterová	Czechoslovakia	4: 03.09 NO
5	Maricica Puică	Romania	4: 03.90
6th	Svetlana Kitova	Soviet Union	4: 04.74
7th	Kirsty Wade	Great Britain	4: 04.99
8th	Cornelia Bürki	Switzerland	4: 05.31
9	Zola Budd	Great Britain	4: 05.32
10	Nikolina Shtereva	Bulgaria	4: 06.31
11	Elly van Hulst	Netherlands	4: 06.72
12	Heike Oehme	GDR	4: 08.61

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  The EM -Vierte of 1982 and 3000 meters - EM -Second 1982 maricica puică came after her silver medal three days earlier than 3000 meters now in fifth place, in 1984 she had Olympic gold over 3000 meters and bronze over 1500 meters won

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  Zola Budd finished ninth - she had previously started for South Africa, went back there after her marriage and competed again for South Africa

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  The EM eighth of 1982 Elly van Hulst (on the photo in the leading position) reached eleventh place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Stuttgart 1986 at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 6, 2019
• Women 1500m European Championship 1986 Stuttgart on todor66.com, accessed September 6, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1986 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed September 6, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 1500m European Championship 1986 Stuttgart, p. 449 (PDF, 13.363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 6, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1986, 1500 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on September 6, 2019
• 14th European Athletics Championships 1986 in Stuttgart, Germany from ifosta.de, accessed on September 6, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 1500m women , accessed September 6, 2019