European Athletics Championships 1986/400 m women

14th European Athletics Championships
discipline	400-meter run for women
city	Stuttgart
Stadion	Neckar Stadium
Participants	18 athletes from 11 countries
Competition phase	August 26th (preliminary) August 27th (semi-finals) August 28th (final)
Medalists
gold	Marita Koch ( GDR )
silver	Olha Wladykina ( URS )
bronze	Petra Müller ( GDR )

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

The women's 400-meter run at the European Athletics Championships in 1986 was held from August 26th to 28th, 1986 in the Neckar Stadium in Stuttgart .

With gold and bronze, the GDR runners won two medals in this competition. Their third EM -Titel consecutive Olympic champion secured in 1980 , World Record owner and reigning 200 meters - world champion Marita Koch . Second place went to Olha Wladykina from the Soviet Union. Bronze went to Petra Müller .

Existing records

World record	47.60 s	Marita Koch	Canberra , Australia	October 6, 1985
European record
EM record	48.16 s		EM Athens , Greece	September 8, 1982

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

Preliminary round

August 26, 1986

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 semi-finals.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marita Koch	GDR	52.34
2	Marija Pinigina	Soviet Union	52.43
3	Karin Lix	BR Germany	52.86
4th	Fabienne Ficher	France	52.91
5	Blanca Lacambra	Spain	53.51
6th	Patricia Walsh	Ireland	54.65

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marzena Wojdecka	Poland	52.79
2	Kirsten Emmelmann	GDR	52.81
3	Olha Wladykina	Soviet Union	52.92
4th	Gisela Kinzel	BR Germany	53.02
5	Cosetta Campana	Italy	53.30
6th	Anne Gundersen	Norway	54.35

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Olga Nazarova	Soviet Union	52.26
2	Petra Müller	GDR	52.36
3	Taťána Kocembová	Czechoslovakia	52.39
4th	Ute Thimm	BR Germany	52.39
5	Helen Barnett	Great Britain	52.46
6th	Erika Rossi	Italy	53.31

Semifinals

August 27, 1986, 9:20 pm

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

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Petra Müller	GDR	49.84
2	Olha Wladykina	Soviet Union	50.23
3	Kirsten Emmelmann	GDR	50.79
4th	Ute Thimm	BR Germany	51.60
5	Olga Nazarova	Soviet Union	52.11
6th	Marzena Wojdecka	Poland	53.26
7th	Cosetta Campana	Italy	53.89
8th	Anne Gundersen	Norway	53.98

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marita Koch	GDR	50.74
2	Taťána Kocembová	Czechoslovakia	51.91
3	Fabienne Ficher	France	52.14
4th	Karin Lix	BR Germany	52.46
5	Helen Barnett	Great Britain	52.47
6th	Erika Rossi	Italy	53.22
DSQ	Gisela Kinzel	BR Germany
DNS	Marija Pinigina	Soviet Union

The world record holder, Marita Koch, became European champion for the third time in a row - she won a number of titles at the Olympic Games, world and European championships

final

August 28, 1986, 6:40 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marita Koch	GDR	48.22
2	Olha Wladykina	Soviet Union	49.67
3	Petra Müller	GDR	49.88
4th	Kirsten Emmelmann	GDR	50.43
5	Ute Thimm	BR Germany	51.15
6th	Taťána Kocembová	Czechoslovakia	51.50
7th	Fabienne Ficher	France	51.91
8th	Karin Lix	BR Germany	52.89

• 

  Bronze medalist Petra Müller - in 1990 she won EM silver, with the GDR relay she became European champion here in 1990 and world champion in 1987

• 

  Kirsten Emmelmann reached fourth place - in 1987 she was third in the World Cup , she won further medals and titles at World and European Championships with the GDR relay

• 

  The 1982 European Championship bronze medalist Taťána Kocembová came in sixth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Stuttgart 1986 at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 5, 2019
• Women 400m European Championship 1986 Stuttgart on todor66.com, accessed September 5, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1986 from trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed September 5, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 400m European Championship 1986 Stuttgart, p. 448 (PDF, 13,363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 5, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1986, 400 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on September 5, 2019
• 14th European Athletics Championships 1986 in Stuttgart, Germany from ifosta.de, accessed on September 5, 2019

Video

• 1986 European 400m women , published June 28, 2008 on youtube.com (English), accessed September 5, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 400m women , accessed September 5, 2019