European Athletics Championships 1986/400 m hurdles for women

14th European Athletics Championships
discipline	400 meter hurdles
gender	Women
Attendees	24 athletes from 16 countries
venue	Stuttgart
Competition location	Neckar Stadium
Competition phase	August 28th (preliminary) August 29th (semi-finals) August 30th (final)
Medalists Marina Stepanova ( URS )   Sabine Busch ( GDR )   Cornelia Feuerbach ( GDR )

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

The women's 400-meter hurdles at the European Athletics Championships in 1986 took place from August 28 to 30, 1986 in the Neckar Stadium in Stuttgart .

In this competition there were two medals, silver and bronze, for the runners from the GDR. Marina Stepanova from the Soviet Union, who set a new world record in the final , became the European champion . Second place went to the previous world record holder Sabine Busch . Bronze went to Cornelia Feuerbach .

Records

Existing records

World record	53.55 s	Sabine Busch	East Berlin (now Berlin ), GDR (now Germany )	September 12, 1985
European record
EM record	54.58 s	Ann-Louise Skoglund	EM Athens , Greece	2nd September 1982

Record improvement

European champion Marina Stepanova improved the existing championship record twice:

• 53.83s - 2nd semifinals on August 29
• 53.32 s - final on August 30th

With her winning time in the final, Marina Stepanova set a new world record at the same time.

Preliminary round

August 28, 1986, 6:20 p.m.

The preliminary round was carried out in three 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 semi-finals.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Christieana Cojocaru-Matei	Romania	56.46
2	Cornelia Feuerbach	GDR	56.50
3	Genowefa Blaszak	Poland	56.52
4th	Tuija Helander	Finland	56.87
5	Christina Wennberg	Sweden	57.27
6th	Anne Gundersen	Norway	58.01
7th	Montserrat Pujol	Spain	58.14
8th	Giuseppina Cirulli	Italy	58.37

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Sabine Busch	GDR	55.42
2	Margarita Chromowa	Soviet Union	55.69
3	Nicoleta Căruţaşu	Romania	56.82
4th	Gerda Haas	Austria	56.95
5	Caroline Pluss	Switzerland	57.23
6th	Monika Klebe	Sweden	57.83
7th	Beate Holzapfel	BR Germany	58.52
8th	Semra Aksu	Turkey	59.25

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marina Stepanova	Soviet Union	54.68
2	Ellen Fiedler	GDR	55.09
3	Ann-Louise Skoglund	Sweden	56.56
4th	Gudrun Abbot	BR Germany	57.02
5	Irmgard Trojer	Italy	57.81
6th	Yvette Wray	Great Britain	57.89
7th	Cristina Perez	Spain	58.19
8th	Helga Halldórsdóttir	Iceland	58.24

Semifinals

August 29, 1986, 7:10 p.m.

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

Run 1

Nicoleta Căruţaşu missed the finals by one place in fifth of her semifinals

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Cornelia Feuerbach	GDR	54.72
2	Ellen Fiedler	GDR	54.76
3	Genowefa Blaszak	Poland	54.83
4th	Margarita Chromowa	Soviet Union	55.37
5	Nicoleta Căruţaşu	Romania	55.95
6th	Christina Wennberg	Sweden	56.69
7th	Irmgard Trojer	Italy	58.20
DNF	Gerda Haas	Austria

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marina Stepanova	Soviet Union	53.83 CR
2	Sabine Busch	GDR	53.97
3	Ann-Louise Skoglund	Sweden	54.93
4th	Christieana Cojocaru-Matei	Romania	55.67
5	Tuija Helander	Finland	56.21
6th	Gudrun Abbot	BR Germany	56.66
7th	Caroline Pluss	Switzerland	57.15
8th	Monika Klebe	Sweden	57.18

final

Vice European Champion Sabine Busch lost her world record in this race - in 1987 she became world champion, in 1988 she was third in the Olympic Games

August 30, 1986, 6:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marina Stepanova	Soviet Union	53.32 WR
2	Sabine Busch	GDR	53.60
3	Cornelia Feuerbach	GDR	54.13
4th	Ann-Louise Skoglund	Sweden	54.15 NO
5	Genowefa Blaszak	Poland	54.74
6th	Ellen Fiedler	GDR	54.90
7th	Christieana Cojocaru-Matei	Romania	55.23
8th	Margarita Chromowa	Soviet Union	55.56

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  Bronze medalist Cornelia Ulrich

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  The Olympic third from 1984 Cristieana Cojocaru-Matei came here in seventh place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Stuttgart 1986 at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 7, 2019
• Women 400m Hurdles European Championship 1986 Stuttgart on todor66.com, accessed on September 7, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1986 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed September 7, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 400m Hurdles European Championship 1986 Stuttgart, p. 450 (PDF, 13,363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 7, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1986, 400 m hurdles women on sportschau.de, accessed on September 7, 2019
• 14th European Athletics Championships 1986 in Stuttgart, Germany from ifosta.de, accessed on September 7, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 400m hurdles women , accessed on 7 September 2019