European Athletics Championships 1986/200 m men

14th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 200-meter run
city	Stuttgart
Stadion	Neckar Stadium
Attendees	25 athletes from 13 countries
Competition phase	August 28th (preliminary / semi-finals) August 29th (final)
Medalist
gold	Vladimir Krylov ( URS )
silver	Jürgen Evers ( FRG )
bronze	Andrei Fedoriv ( URS )

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

The men's 200-meter run at the European Athletics Championships in 1986 was held on August 28 and 29, 1986 in Stuttgart's Neckar Stadium.

In this competition, the sprinters of the USSR won two medals, gold and bronze. European champion was Vladimir Krylov . He won ahead of Jürgen Evers from the Federal Republic of Germany. Bronze went to Andrei Fedoriw .

Existing records

World record	19.72 s	Pietro Mennea	Mexico City , Mexico	September 12, 1979
European record
Championship record	20.16 s		EM Prague , Czechoslovakia	September 1, 1978

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

Preliminary round

August 28, 1986, 10:30 a.m.

The preliminary round was held in four 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 semifinals.

Remarks:

• The distribution of the 24 sprinters on the prelims was very uneven. The first two races were filled with eight and five athletes respectively, the third and fourth races with six athletes each. Such a division naturally has an impact on equal opportunities with regard to qualifying for the next round. This can perhaps be explained by the short-term withdrawal of reports.
• In preliminary three and four there are different information in the sources used here:
  • The two websites mentioned below on european-athletics.org also name the Portuguese Arnaldo Abrantes in the third run as a runner also placed fifth. His time is listed as 21.50 s. However, this representation is completely inconsistent, because the race would have been occupied by two Portuguese runners, which would not be common. In the preliminary runs, the athletes are divided in such a way that, if possible, not two runners from one country start in a race. In addition, the time specification does not correspond in any way with the times of the other sprinters in this run. The second forerun, on the other hand, is conducted with only four runners at the springs.
  • On the website at todor66.com - also one of the sources mentioned below - Abrantes is listed as fifth in the second preliminary run and is missing in preliminary three.
  • In the following overviews, the consistent presentation is taken from the website at todor66.com.

Forward 1

Wind: -0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Allan Wells	Great Britain	20.88
2	Andrei Fedoriv	Soviet Union	20.90
3	Pierfrancesco Pavoni	Italy	20.99
4th	Thomas Schröder	GDR	21.03
5	Jeroen Fischer	Belgium	21.58
6th	Lars Pedersen	Denmark	21.75
7th	Phil Snoddy	Ireland	21.83
8th	Markus Büchel	Liechtenstein	22.23

Forward 2

Wind: -1.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Alexandr Evgenev	Soviet Union	20.72
2	Stefano Tilli	Italy	20.79
3	Frank Emmelmann	GDR	21.15
4th	Peter Eriksson	Sweden	21.39
5	Arnaldo Abrantes	Portugal	21.50

Forward 3

Wind: -0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Linford Christie	Great Britain	20.78
2	Olaf Prenzler	GDR	20.91
3	Volker Westhagemann	BR Germany	20.91
4th	Bruno Marie-Rose	France	20.97
5	Einar Sagli	Norway	21.34
6th	Pedro Agostinho	Portugal	21.48

Forward 4

Wind: -0.5 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jürgen Evers	BR Germany	20.64
2	Vladimir Krylov	Soviet Union	20.69
3	Pascal Barré	France	20.80
4th	Luis Cunha	Portugal	21.19
5	Morten Kjems	Denmark	21.84
DNF	Todd Bennett	Great Britain

Semifinals

August 28, 1986, 7:50 p.m.

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

Run 1

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Vladimir Krylov	Soviet Union	20.61
2	Alexandr Evgenev	Soviet Union	20.66
3	Allan Wells	Great Britain	20.77
4th	Frank Emmelmann	GDR	20.82
5	Pascal Barré	France	20.88
6th	Bruno Marie-Rose	France	20.97
7th	Volker Westhagemann	BR Germany	21.04
8th	Luis Cunha	Portugal	21.31

Run 2

100 meter European champion Linford Christie was eliminated in fifth place in his semi-final race

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Thomas Schröder	GDR	20.54
2	Jürgen Evers	BR Germany	20.58
3	Andrei Fedoriv	Soviet Union	20.60
4th	Olaf Prenzler	GDR	20.68
5	Linford Christie	Great Britain	20.69
6th	Stefano Tilli	Italy	20.74
7th	Pierfrancesco Pavoni	Italy	20.85
8th	Einar Sagli	Norway	21.23

final

Just like over 100 meters , Thomas Schröder was fourth

August 29, 1986, 7:30 p.m.

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Vladimir Krylov	Soviet Union	20.52
2	Jürgen Evers	BR Germany	20.75
3	Andrei Fedoriv	Soviet Union	20.84
4th	Thomas Schröder	GDR	20.89
5	Allan Wells	Great Britain	20.89
6th	Alexandr Evgenev	Soviet Union	20.91
7th	Olaf Prenzler	GDR	21.00
8th	Frank Emmelmann	GDR	21.03

• 

  Defending champion Olaf Prenzler (left) had to be satisfied with seventh place this time

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  Frank Emmelmann no longer had the shape of the 1982 European Championships - at that time winner over 100 meters and third over 200 meters - and came in eighth place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Stuttgart 1986 at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 28, 2019
• Men 200m European Championship 1986 Stuttgart on todor66.com, accessed on August 28, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1986 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on August 28, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 200m European Championship 1986 Stuttgart, p. 443f (PDF, 13.363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 28, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1986, 200 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on August 28, 2019
• 14th European Athletics Championships 1986 in Stuttgart, Germany from ifosta.de, accessed on August 28, 2019

Video

• 1986 European Championships 200m , published February 26, 2009 on youtube.com (English), accessed August 31, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 200m men , accessed August 28, 2019