European Athletics Championships 1986/3000 m women

14th European Athletics Championships
discipline	3000 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	28 athletes from 15 countries
venue	Stuttgart
Competition location	Neckar Stadium
Competition phase	August 26th (preliminary) August 28th (final)
Medalists Olga Bondarenko ( URS )   Maricica Puică ( ROM )   Yvonne Murray ( GBR )

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

The 3000-meter run for women at the European Athletics Championships in 1986 was held on August 26th and 28th, 1986 in the Neckar Stadium in Stuttgart .

The European champion was the Soviet runner Olga Bondarenko , who two days later also won the silver medal over 10,000 meters . Second place went to the Romanian Olympic champion from 1984 Maricica Puică , who had also finished second in the European Championship in 1982 . Bronze went to the Briton Yvonne Murray .

Existing records

World record	8: 22.62 min	Tatiana Kasankina	Leningrad (today St. Petersburg ), Soviet Union (today Russia )	August 26, 1984
European record
EM record	8: 30.28 min	Svetlana Ulmasowa	EM Athens , Greece	September 9, 1982

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

Preliminary round

August 26, 1982

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

Forward 1

Fernanda Ribeiro failed as thirteenth of her preliminary round in the preliminary round

Doina Melinte. three days later bronze
medalist over 1500 meters , did not reach the finish

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Olga Bondarenko	Soviet Union	8: 53.98
2	Cornelia Bürki	Switzerland	8: 55.82
3	Vera Michallek	BR Germany	8: 56.28
4th	Elly van Hulst	Netherlands	8: 57.55
5	Iris Biba	BR Germany	8: 58.76
6th	Liz Lynch	Great Britain	8: 58.85
7th	Martine Fays	France	8: 59.39
8th	Christin Sørum	Norway	9: 00.13 NU23R
9	Mariana Stanescu	Romania	9: 02.57
10	Jana Kučeríková	Czechoslovakia	9: 08.71
11	Ingrid Delagrange	Belgium	9: 15.37
12	Eva Ernström	Sweden	9: 20.50
13	Fernanda Ribeiro	Portugal	9: 32.87
DNF	Doina Melinte	Romania

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Maricica Puică	Romania	8: 47.70
2	Zola Budd	Great Britain	8: 48.02
3	Olena Schupiyeva	Soviet Union	8: 49.18
4th	Yvonne Murray	Great Britain	8: 49.56
5	Tetiana Samolenko	Soviet Union	8: 51.29
6th	Annette Sergent	France	8: 57.21
7th	Midde Hamrin	Sweden	9: 02.32
8th	Sandra Gasser	Switzerland	9: 04.78
9	Snežana Pajkić	Yugoslavia	9: 07.44
10	Corine Debaets	Belgium	9: 09.13
11	Marion Josefsen	Norway	9: 18.72
12	Danièle Kaber	Luxembourg	9: 20.00
13	Gitte Karlshøj	Denmark	9: 33.47
DNF	Brigitte Kraus	BR Germany

final

The silver medalist maricica puică was 1982 EM become -Second, 1984 it had Olympic gold 3000 and bronze over 1500 meters up for it

August 28, 1982, 8:20 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Olga Bondarenko	Soviet Union	8: 33.99
2	Maricica Puică	Romania	8: 35.92
3	Yvonne Murray	Great Britain	8: 37.15
4th	Zola Budd	Great Britain	8: 38.20
5	Tetiana Samolenko	Soviet Union	8: 40.35
6th	Olena Schupiyeva	Soviet Union	8: 40.74
7th	Cornelia Bürki	Switzerland	8: 44.44
8th	Annette Sergent	France	8: 47.52
9	Elly van Hulst	Netherlands	8: 49.22
10	Vera Michallek	BR Germany	8: 57.28
11	Iris Biba	BR Germany	9:00:20
12	Liz Lynch	Great Britain	9: 02.42
13	Martine Fays	France	9: 04.67
14th	Christin Sørum	Norway	9: 11.80
DNF	Midde Hamrin	Sweden

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

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  Ninth-placed Elly van Hulst (on the photo in the leading position) finished eleventh over 1500 meters three days later

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Stuttgart 1986 at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 6, 2019
• Women 3000m 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 3000m 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, 3000 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

Videos

• EM 1986, 3000 m women (324) , published on November 22, 2012 on youtube.com (English), accessed on September 6, 2019
• EM 1986, 3000 m women (309) , published on November 15, 2012 on youtube.com (English), accessed on September 6, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 3000 m Women , Spanish / English, p. 75 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on September 6, 2019