1986 European Athletics Championships / Women's marathon

14th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's marathon
city	Stuttgart
place	Circuit through Stuttgart
Attendees	31 athletes from 18 countries
Competition phase	August 26, 1986
Medalist
gold	Rosa Mota ( POR )
silver	Laura Fogli ( ITA )
bronze	Yekaterina Khramenkova ( URS )

The women's marathon at the 1986 European Athletics Championships took place on August 26, 1985 in Stuttgart , FR Germany .

The Portuguese Rosa Mota won the race in 2:28:38 h. The Italian Laura Fogli became vice European champion . Yekaterina Khramenkova from the Soviet Union won the bronze medal.

Records / best performances

Existing records

World record	Ingrid Kristiansen	2:21:06 h	1985 London Marathon	April 21, 1985
European best
Championship record	Pink Mota	2:36:04 h	EM in Athens	September 12, 1982

View of Stuttgart from the Bismarck Tower

Note:
At that time, records were not kept in marathon running and street walking because of the different track conditions with the exception of championship records.

Record improvement

With her winning time of 2:28:38 h, Rosa Mota improved her own European championship record by 7:26 min.  

Result

Jocelyne Villeton, France - fifth place

Carla Beurksens, Netherlands - seventh place

space	Athlete	country	Time (h)
	Pink Mota	Portugal	2:28:38 CR
	Laura Fogli	Italy	2:32:52
	Yekaterina Khramenkova	Soviet Union	2:34:14 SB
04th	Sinikka Keskitalo	Finland	2:34:31
05	Jocelyne Villeton	France	2:35:17 SB
06th	Bente Moe	Norway	2:35:34 SB
07th	Carla Beurskens	Netherlands	2:39:05
08th	Paola Moro	Italy	2:39:19 SB
09	Maria Rebelo-Lelut	France	2:40:20
10	Agnes Pardaens	Belgium	2:40:33 SB
11	Mercedes Calleja	Spain	2:40:46 SB
12	Genoveva Eichenmann	Switzerland	2:41:54 SB
13	Rita Marchisio	Italy	2:42:06 SB
14th	Jeanette Nordgren-Ling	Sweden	2:42:39 PB
15th	Luzia Sahli	Switzerland	2:42:54 PB
16	Solveig Harrysson	Sweden	2:43:16 PB
17th	Irina Bogacheva	Soviet Union	2:43:30 SB
18th	Sylviane Geffray	France	2:43:34 SB
19th	Sirkku Kumpulainen	Finland	2:45:26 PB
20th	Ágnes Sipka	Hungary	2:45:36 PB
21st	Grazyna Mierzejewska	Poland	2:45:36 PB
22nd	Helena Comsa	Switzerland	2:50:13 PB
23	Linda Delvaux	Luxembourg	2:52:07 PB
	Veronique Marot	Great Britain	DNF
	Rita Borralho	Portugal
	María Luisa Irizar	Spain
	Gabriela Górzyńska	Poland
	Heidi Hutterer	BR Germany
	Kersti Jakobsen	Denmark
	Katrin Dörre	German Democratic Republic
	Nadezhda Gumerova	Soviet Union

Web links and sources

• Women Marathon European Championships 1986 Stuttgart on todor66.com (English), accessed on February 18, 2019
• European Marathon Championships on marathonspiegel.de, accessed on February 18, 2019
• European Athletics Championships - Stuttgart 1986 at european-athletics.org, accessed on February 18, 2019

Video

• 1986 European - Stuttgart Marathon Women part 1 on youtube.com, published on February 25, 2012, accessed on February 18, 2019
• 1986 European - Stuttgart Marathon Women part 2 on youtube.com, published on February 25, 2012, accessed on February 18, 2019
• 1986 European - Stuttgart Marathon Women part 3 on youtube.com, published on February 29, 2012, accessed on February 18, 2019
• 1986 European - Stuttgart Marathon Women part 4 on youtube.com, published on February 29, 2012, accessed on February 18, 2019
• 1986 European - Stuttgart Marathon Women part 5 on youtube.com, published February 23, 2012, accessed February 18, 2019
• 1986 European - Stuttgart Marathon Women part 6 on youtube.com, published on March 10, 2012, accessed on February 18, 2019
• 1986 European - Stuttgart Marathon Women part 7 on youtube.com, published March 12, 2012, accessed February 18, 2019
• 1986 European - Stuttgart Marathon Women part 8 on youtube.com, published March 14, 2012, accessed February 18, 2019
• 1986 European - Stuttgart Marathon Women part 9 on youtube.com, published March 15, 2012, accessed February 18, 2019
• 1986 European - Stuttgart Marathon Women part 10 on youtube.com, published March 16, 2012, accessed February 18, 2019
• 1986 European - Stuttgart Marathon Women part 11 on youtube.com, published March 18, 2012, accessed February 18, 2019
• 1986 European - Stuttgart Marathon Women part 12 on youtube.com, published March 20, 2012, accessed February 18, 2019
• 1986 European - Stuttgart Marathon Women part 13 on youtube.com, published May 9, 2012, accessed February 18, 2019
• 1986 European - Stuttgart Marathon Women part 14 on youtube.com, published on May 9, 2012, accessed on February 18, 2019
• 1986 European - Stuttgart Marathon Women part 15 on youtube.com, published on May 21, 2012, accessed on February 18, 2019
• 1986 European - Stuttgart Marathon Women part 16 on youtube.com, published September 26, 2012, accessed February 18, 2019
• 1986 European - Stuttgart Marathon Women part 17 on youtube.com, published September 26, 2012, accessed February 18, 2019
• 1986 European - Stuttgart Marathon Finish part 1 on youtube.com, published on September 28, 2012, accessed on February 18, 2019
• 1986 European - Stuttgart Marathon Finish part 2 on youtube.com, published on September 28, 2012, accessed on February 18, 2019
• 1986 European - Stuttgart Marathon Finish part 3 on youtube.com, published on September 28, 2012, accessed on February 18, 2019
• 1986 European - Stuttgart Marathon Finish part 4 on youtube.com, published on September 28, 2012, accessed on February 18, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF records. Women's marathon , accessed February 18, 2019