European Athletics Championships 1986/1500 m men

14th European Athletics Championships
discipline	1500 meter run of men
city	Stuttgart
Stadion	Neckar Stadium
Attendees	29 athletes from 15 countries
Competition phase	August 28th (preliminary) August 31st (final)
Medalist
gold	Steve Cram ( GBR )
silver	Sebastian Coe ( GBR )
bronze	Han Kulker ( NED )

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

The men's 1500 meter run at the European Athletics Championships in 1986 took place on August 29 and 31, 1986 in the Neckar Stadium in Stuttgart .

In this competition there was a double victory for the British runners. The defending champion, Olympic champion in 1984 and world record holder Steve Cram , who had won bronze over 800 meters three days earlier , became European champions . Second place went to the 1980 and 1984 Olympic champion Sebastian Coe , who was already European champion over 800 meters. The Dutchman Han Kulker came in third place.

Existing records

World record	3: 29.46 min	Said Aouita	Berlin , FR Germany	23rd August 1985
European record	3: 29.67 min	Steve Cram	Nice , France	July 16, 1985
Championship record	3: 35.59 min	Steve Ovett	EM Prague , Czechoslovakia	3rd September 1978

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

Preliminary round

August 28, 1982, 6:40 p.m.

The preliminary round was carried out in three runs. The first three athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - and the three fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final. The three runners who made it through their time for the final all came from the fast third run.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Marcus O'Sullivan	Ireland	3: 39.02
2	Sebastian Coe	Great Britain	3: 39.03
3	Han Kulker	Netherlands	3: 39.08
4th	José Manuel Abascal	Spain	3: 39.20
5	Klaus-Peter Nabein	BR Germany	3: 40.44
6th	Pascal Thiébaut	France	3: 40.82
7th	Mario Silva	Portugal	3: 42.04
8th	Markus Hacksteiner	Switzerland	3: 44.81
9	Ronny Olsson	Sweden	3: 50.17
10	Zeki Öztürk	Turkey	3: 51.72

Forward 2

Andreas Busse, who won the European Championship four years ago , was eliminated this time in advance

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Steve Cram	Great Britain	3: 40.66
2	Johnny Kroon	Sweden	3: 41.22
3	José Luis Carreira	Spain	3: 41.33
4th	Cyrille Laventure	France	3: 41.41
5	Andreas Busse	GDR	3: 42.06
6th	Eddy Stevens	Belgium	3: 42.21
7th	Mogens Guldberg	Denmark	3: 42.84
8th	Dave Taylor	Ireland	3: 44.57
9	Ari Suhonen	Finland	3: 49.60
DSQ	Sergei Afanasiev	Soviet Union

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	John Gladwin	Great Britain	3: 36.85
2	José Luis González	Spain	3: 36.92
3	Frank O'Mara	Ireland	3: 37.06
4th	Igor Lotaryov	Soviet Union	3: 37.53
5	Niels Kim Hjorth	Denmark	3: 37.60
6th	Peter Wirz	Switzerland	3: 37.75
7th	Bruno Levant	France	3: 40.82
8th	Rainer Thau	BR Germany	3: 41.10
9	Eastern Buskas	Sweden	3: 42.88

final

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  The defending champion and world champion in 1983 Steve Cram was again champions - three days earlier he had Bronze 800 meters won

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  The 1500 meter Olympic champion from 1980 and 1984 Sebastian Coe (here in 2012) won silver. here he had already become European champion over 800 meters

August 31, 1982, 4:50 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Steve Cram	Great Britain	3: 41.09
2	Sebastian Coe	Great Britain	3: 41.67
3	Han Kulker	Netherlands	3: 42.11
4th	José Luis González	Spain	3: 42.52
5	John Gladwin	Great Britain	3: 42.57
6th	Marcus O'Sullivan	Ireland	3: 42.60
7th	Johnny Kroon	Sweden	3: 42.61
8th	Frank O'Mara	Ireland	3: 42.90
9	José Luis Carreira	Spain	3: 44.09
10	Peter Wirz	Switzerland	3: 44.09
11	Igor Lotaryov	Soviet Union	3: 44.60
12	Niels Kim Hjorth	Denmark	3: 45.06

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Stuttgart 1986 at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 29, 2019
• Men 1500m European Championship 1986 Stuttgart on todor66.com, accessed on August 29, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1986 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed August 29, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 1500m European Championship 1986 Stuttgart, p. 444 (PDF, 13.363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 29, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1986, 1500 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on August 29, 2019
• 14th European Athletics Championships 1986 in Stuttgart, Germany from ifosta.de, accessed on August 29, 2019

Video

• 1986 European Athletics Championship Men's 1500m final , published March 28, 2012 on youtube.com (English), accessed August 31, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 1500m men , accessed August 28, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 1500 m Men , Spanish / English, p. 12 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on August 28, 2019