European Athletics Championships 1986 / men's high jump

14th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's high jump
city	Stuttgart
Stadion	Neckar Stadium
Attendees	17 athletes from 11 countries
Competition phase	August 30th (qualification) August 31st (final)
Medalist
gold	Igor Paklin ( URS )
silver	Sergei Maltschenko ( URS )
bronze	Carlo Thränhardt ( FRG )

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

The men's high jump at the 1986 European Athletics Championships was held on August 30 and 31, 1986 in the Neckar Stadium in Stuttgart .

In this competition there was a double victory for the Soviet high jumpers. World record holder Igor Paklin became European champion . He won ahead of Sergei Malchenko . Carlo Thränhardt from the Federal Republic of Germany won the bronze medal.

Records

Existing records

World record	2.41 m	Igor Paklin	Kobe , Japan	4th September 1985
European record
EM record	2.30 m	Vladimir Yashchenko	EM Prague , Czechoslovakia	2nd September 1978
		Dietmar Mögenburg	EM Athens , Greece	September 11, 1982

Record improvement

In the final on August 31, European champion Igor Paklin improved the existing championship record by four centimeters to 2.34 m.  

qualification

August 30, 1986, 10:00 a.m.

Seventeen participants went to the qualifying round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 2.26 m. Nine athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the five tied next-placed athletes who had crossed 2.23 m (highlighted in light green). A total of fourteen high jumpers went into the final on the following day. Only three athletes were eliminated.

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Gerd Wessig	GDR	2.26
	Carlo Thränhardt	BR Germany	2.26
	Geoff Parsons	Great Britain	2.26
	Igor Paklin	Soviet Union	2.26
	Ján Zvara	Czechoslovakia	2.26
	Valery Sereda	Soviet Union	2.26
	Dietmar Mögenburg	BR Germany	2.26
	Patrik Sjöberg	Sweden	2.26
	Krzysztof Krawczyk	Poland	2.26
10	Cristian Popescu	Romania	2.23
	Sorin Matei	Romania	2.23
	Sergei Malchenko	Soviet Union	2.23
	Georgi Dakov	Bulgaria	2.23
	Bernhard Bensch	BR Germany	2.23
15th	Constantin Militaru	Romania	2.19
	Roland Dalhauser	Switzerland	2.19
17th	Markus Einberger	Austria	2.10

final

The 1984 Olympic runner-up Patrik Sjöberg finished sixth

August 31, 1986, 1:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Igor Paklin	Soviet Union	2.34 CR
2	Sergei Malchenko	Soviet Union	2.31
3	Carlo Thränhardt	BR Germany	2.31
4th	Dietmar Mögenburg	BR Germany	2.28
5	Krzysztof Krawczyk	Poland	2.28
6th	Patrik Sjöberg	Sweden	2.25
7th	Gerd Wessig	GDR	2.25
	Cristian Popescu	Romania	2.25
9	Geoff Parsons	Great Britain	2.21
	Ján Zvara	Czechoslovakia	2.21
11	Bernhard Bensch	BR Germany	2.17
	Valery Sereda	Soviet Union	2.17
	Georgi Dakov	Bulgaria	2.17
14th	Sorin Matei	Romania	2.12

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  Gerd Wessig, Olympic champion 1980 , finished seventh

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  Eliminated from the qualification four years ago, Sorin Matei reached the final here and came in fourteenth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Stuttgart 1986 at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 28, 2019
• European Championship 1986 Stuttgart, Men High Jump on todor66.com, accessed on August 27, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1986 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on August 27, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men High Jump European Championship 1986 Stuttgart, p. 445 f. (PDF; 13 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 27, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1986, high jump men on sportschau.de, accessed on August 27, 2019
• 14th European Athletics Championships 1986 in Stuttgart, Germany from ifosta.de, accessed on August 27, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. High jump , accessed August 31, 2019.