European Athletics Championships 1986 / Men's Shot Put

14th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot put
gender	Men
Attendees	16 athletes from 11 countries
venue	Stuttgart
Competition location	Neckar Stadium
Competition phase	August 27th (qualification) ; August 28th (final)
	Medalist
	Werner Günthör ( SUI )
	Ulf Timmermann ( GDR )
	Udo Beyer ( GDR )

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

The shot put men at the 1986 European Athletics Championships was on 27 and 28 August 1986 in Stuttgart Neckarstadion discharged.

In this competition, the shot putter from the GDR won two medals, silver and bronze. The European champion was the Swiss Werner Günthör . Second place went to the 1983 vice world champion Ulf Timmermann . Bronze went to the European Championship of 1978 / 1982 , the Olympic champion in 1976 , Olympic bronze medalists from 1980 and world record holder Udo Beyer .

Records

Existing records

World record	22.64 m	Germany Democratic Republic 1949 Udo Beyer	East Berlin (now Berlin ), GDR (now Germany )	August 20, 1986
European record
EM record	21.50 m	Germany Democratic Republic 1949 Udo Beyer	EM Athens , Greece	September 9, 1982

Record improvement

European champion Werner Günthör improved the existing EM record in the final on August 28 by 72 centimeters to 22.22 m. Switzerland

qualification

August 27, 1986, 6:00 p.m.

Sixteen participants went to the qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 19.50 m. Ten athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue). The final field was filled with the two next-placed athletes to twelve shot putters (highlighted in light green). So finally 19.19 m had to be achieved to take part in the finals.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Ulf Timmermann	Germany Democratic Republic 1949 GDR	21.13
2	Werner Günthör	Switzerland Switzerland	20.64
3	Udo Beyer	Germany Democratic Republic 1949 GDR	20.61
4th	Sergei Smirnov	Soviet Union Soviet Union	20.40
5	Jan Sagedal	Norway Norway	20.38
6th	Karsten pride	Germany BR BR Germany	20.34
7th	Alessandro Andrei	Italy Italy	20.27
8th	Lars Arvid Nilsen	Norway Norway	19.94
9	Georg Andersen	Norway Norway	19.64
10	Udo Gelhausen	Germany BR BR Germany	19.62
11	Vladimir Milic	Yugoslavia Yugoslavia	19.48
12	Helmut Krieger	Poland 1980 Poland	19.19
13	Jari Kuoppa	Finland Finland	18.93
14th	Klaus Bodenmüller	Austria Austria	18.90
15th	Janne Ronkainen	Finland Finland	18.82
16	Dimítrios Koutsoukis	Greece Greece	18.77

final

The vice world champion from 1983 Ulf Timmermann became vice European champion - in 1988 he won the Olympic title and in 1990 the European championship title

August 28, 1986, 6:50 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Werner Günthör	Switzerland Switzerland	22.22 CR
2	Ulf Timmermann	Germany Democratic Republic 1949 GDR	21.84
3	Udo Beyer	Germany Democratic Republic 1949 GDR	20.74
4th	Alessandro Andrei	Italy Italy	20.73
5	Lars Arvid Nilsen	Norway Norway	20.52
6th	Karsten pride	Germany BR BR Germany	19.89
7th	Vladimir Milic	Yugoslavia Yugoslavia	19.85
8th	Udo Gelhausen	Germany BR BR Germany	19.76
9	Helmut Krieger	Poland 1980 Poland	18.53
10	Georg Andersen	Norway Norway	18.45
NM	Jan Sagedal	Norway Norway	without space
DNS	Sergei Smirnov	Soviet Union Soviet Union

European champion Werner Günthör came in the final on the following series:
21.58 m - 22.22 m - 21.62 m - x - 21.24 m - x

Udo Beyer already two times European Champion, ( 1978 / 1982 ), Olympic champion ( 1976 ), Olympic third ( 1980 ) and world record holder, won bronze again a medal
Lars Arvid Nilsen came in fifth
Georg Andersen came in tenth

Web links

European Athletics Championships - Stuttgart 1986 at european-athletics.org, accessed on August 28, 2019
European Championship 1986 Stuttgart, Men Shot Put on todor66.com, accessed on September 2, 2019
Track and Field Statistics, EM 1986 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on September 2, 2019
European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Shot Put European Championship 1986 Stuttgart, p. 446 (PDF, 13,363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 2, 2019
Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1986, men's shot put on sportschau.de, accessed on September 2, 2019
14th European Athletics Championships 1986 in Stuttgart, Germany from ifosta.de, accessed on September 2, 2019

Video

1986 European Championships Shot Put Men Stuttgart , published on August 17, 2019 on youtube.com (English), accessed on September 2, 2019
264 Werner Günthör, Shot Put , published on November 10, 2012 on youtube.com (English), accessed on September 2, 2019

References and comments

↑ IAAF world records. Shot put men , accessed September 2, 2019

[1] IAAF world records. Shot put men , accessed September 2, 2019