European Athletics Championships 1986 / women's high jump

14th European Athletics Championships
discipline	high jump
gender	Women
Attendees	22 athletes from 11 countries
venue	Stuttgart
Competition location	Neckar Stadium
Competition phase	August 27th (qualification) August 28th (final)
Medalists Stefka Kostadinowa ( BUL )   Svetlana Issayeva ( BUL )   Olga Turtschak ( URS )

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

The women's high jump at the European Athletics Championships in 1986 was held on August 27 and 28, 1986 in Stuttgart's Neckar Stadium.

In this competition there was a double victory for the Bulgarian high jumpers. The world record holder Stefka Kostadinowa became the European champion . Second place went to Svetlana Issajewa . Bronze went to Olga Turtschak from the Soviet Union.

Existing records

World record	2.07 m	Stefka Kostadinova	Sofia , Bulgaria	May 31, 1986
European record
EM record	2.02 m	Ulrike Meyfarth	EM Athens , Greece	September 8, 1982

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

qualification

August 27, 1986

22 participants took part in the qualification round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 1.91 m. Only one athlete skipped this mark (highlighted in light blue). For eleven other athletes who had mastered 1.89 m, it became clear that this height would be sufficient to make it to the final (highlighted in light green). This resulted in a final field with twelve high jumpers who competed together on the following day.

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Stefka Kostadinova	Bulgaria	1.91
2	Elzbieta Trylinska	Poland	1.89
	Larisa Kositsyna	Soviet Union	1.89
	Susanne Helm	GDR	1.89
	Olga Turchak	Soviet Union	1.89
	Svetlana Issayeva	Bulgaria	1.89
	Heike Redetzky	BR Germany	1.89
	Sigrid Kirchmann	Austria	1.89
	Diana Davies	Great Britain	1.89
	Danuta Bulkowska	Poland	1.89
	Olga Juha	Hungary	1.89
	Andrea Bienias	GDR	1.89
13	Madely Beaugendre	France	1.86
	Brigitte Rougeron	France	1.86
	Katalin Sterk	Hungary	1.86
	Sara Simeoni	Italy	1.86
	Tamara Bykowa	Soviet Union	1.86
	Christina Nordström	Sweden	1.86
19th	Janet Boyle	Great Britain	1.83
20th	Susanne Lorentzon	Sweden	1.80
	Maryse Éwanjé-Épée	France	1.80
22nd	Sharon McPeake	Great Britain	1.76

European champion Stefka Kostadinova (here in 2012) , previously the world record owner, won her first major title should be followed by further as the World Cup -Sieg 1987 and the Olympic gold medal  in 1996

final

August 28, 1986, 5:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Stefka Kostadinova	Bulgaria	2.00
2	Svetlana Issayeva	Bulgaria	1.93
3	Olga Turchak	Soviet Union	1.93
4th	Susanne Helm	GDR	1.90
	Andrea Bienias	GDR	1.90
6th	Heike Redetzky	BR Germany	1.90
7th	Danuta Bulkowska	Poland	1.90
8th	Diana Davies	Great Britain	1.87
9	Larisa Kositsyna	Soviet Union	1.83
	Olga Juha	Hungary	1.83
11	Sigrid Kirchmann	Austria	1.79
NM	Elzbieta Trylinska	Poland

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  Susanne Helm, later Susanne Beyer, came in fourth place

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  Andrea Bienias, former Andrea Reichstein, EC sixth from 1982 , came in fourth place

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  Heike Redetzky took sixth place - as Heike Henkel she was Olympic champion in  1992

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Stuttgart 1986 at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 28, 2019
• European Championship 1986 Stuttgart, Women High Jump 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 High Jump 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, high jump 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

Video

• 301 Stefka Kostadinowa, High Jump , published on November 13, 2012 on youtube.com (English), accessed on September 7, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. High jump women , accessed September 7, 2019