European Athletics Championships 1986 / Women's discus throw

14th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Discus throw
gender	Women
Attendees	14 athletes from 10 countries
venue	Stuttgart
Competition location	Neckar Stadium
Competition phase	August 28th
Medalists Diana Sachse ( GDR )   Tsvetanka Christowa ( BUL )   Martina Hellmann ( GDR )

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

The women's discus throw at the 1986 European Athletics Championships was held on August 28, 1986 in the Neckar Stadium in Stuttgart .

In this competition there were two medals, gold and bronze, for the discus throwers of the GDR. European champion was Diana Sachse , later Diana Gansky. Bulgarian defending champion Tsvetanka Christowa came in second . Martina Hellmann , as Martina Opitz world champion in 1983 , won the bronze medal.

Existing records

Records

World record	74.56 m	Zdeňka Šilhavá	Nitra , Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia )	August 26, 1984
European record
EM record	69.00 m	Faina Melnik	EM Rome , Italy	September 6, 1974

Record improvement

European champion Diana Sachse improved the existing EM record on August 28 by 2.36 m to 71.36 m.

execution

With only fourteen participants, the qualification planned for August 27, 1986 at 10:30 a.m. was canceled, and all athletes entered the final together.

final

European champion Diana Sachse - in the two following years she was second in the World Cup ( 1987 ) and second in the Olympic Games ( 1988 )

August 28, 1986, 5:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Diana Sachse	GDR	71.36 CR
2	Tsvetanka Christova	Bulgaria	69.52
3	Martina Hellmann	GDR	68.82
4th	Irina Meszynski	GDR	65.20
5	Svetla Mitkova	Bulgaria	63.98
6th	Galina Yermakova	Soviet Union	63.20
7th	Daniela Costian	Romania	61.42
8th	Renata Katewicz	Poland	58.36
9	Claudia Losch	BR Germany	56.54
10	Stephanie Storp	BR Germany	56.46
11	Mette Bergmann	Norway	53.58
12	Venissa Head	Great Britain	52.04
13	Snežana Golubic	Yugoslavia	48.80
14th	Ursula Weber	Austria	45.58

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  The reigning world champion Martina Hellmann won bronze - in 1987 she became world champion a second time and in 1988 she won Olympic gold

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  Mette Bergmann came in eleventh place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Stuttgart 1986 at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 28, 2019
• European Championship 1986 Stuttgart, Women Discus Throw on todor66.com, accessed September 8, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1986 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed September 8, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Discus Throw European Championship 1986 Stuttgart, p. 450 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 8, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1986, discus throw women on sportschau.de, accessed on September 8, 2019
• 14th European Athletics Championships 1986 in Stuttgart, Germany from ifosta.de, accessed on September 8, 2019

Videos

• Discus Throw Womens Final IAAF European Championships 1986 , published April 9, 2011 on youtube.com (English), accessed September 8, 2019
• 246 Diana Sachse, Discus Throw , published on October 27, 2012 on youtube.com (English), accessed on September 8, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw women , accessed September 8, 2019