1986 European Athletics Championships / men's marathon

14th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's marathon
city	Stuttgart
place	Circuit through Stuttgart
Attendees	28 athletes from 17 countries
Competition phase	August 30, 1986
Medalist
gold	Gelindo Bordin ( ITA )
silver	Orlando Pizzolato ( ITA )
bronze	Herbert Steffny ( FRG )

The men's marathon at the 1986 European Athletics Championships took place on August 30, 1986 in Stuttgart , Federal Republic of Germany .

There was an Italian one-two. Gelindo Bordin was European champion in 2:10:54 h ahead of Orlando Pizzolato . The Federal German Herbert Steffny won the bronze medal.

Records / best performances

Existing records

World record	Carlos Lopes	2:07:12 h	Rotterdam Marathon 1985	April 20, 1985
European best
Championship record	Leonid Mossejew	2: 11: 57.5 h	EM in Prague	3rd September 1978

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 a time of 2:10:54 h, Gelindo Bordin improved the new European champion Leonid Mossejew's European championship record by 56 seconds.

Result

space	athlete	country	Time (h)
	Gelindo Bordin	Italy	2:10:54 CR
	Orlando Pizzolato	Italy	2:10:57 SB
	Herbert Steffny	BR Germany	2:11:30
04th	Ralf Salzmann	BR Germany	2:11:41 SB
05	Hugh Jones	Great Britain	2:11:49 SB
06th	Gerard Nijboer	Netherlands	2:12:46 SB
07th	Jacques Lefrand	France	2:12:53 PB
08th	Antoni Niemczak	Poland	2:13:04 SB
09	Kjell-Erik Ståhl	Sweden	2:13:14 SB
10	Dirk Vanderherten	Belgium	2:13:29 PB
11	Alex Gonzalez	France	2:13:36 SB
12	Viktor Sawicki	Poland	2:15:16
13	Gianni Poli	Italy	2:15:25
14th	Tomislav Ašković	Yugoslavia	2:15:27 PB
15th	Jerzy Skarżyński	Poland	2:16:40
16	Dick Hooper	Ireland	2:17:45 SB
17th	Jörg Peter	GDR	2:18:05 SB
18th	Par Wallin	Sweden	2:19:28
19th	Peter Lyrenmann	Switzerland	2:19:49 SB
20th	Steve Jones	Great Britain	2:22:12 SB
21st	István Kerékjártó	Hungary	2:22:46
	Allister Hutton	Great Britain	DNF
	Freddy Vandervennet	Belgium
	Henrik Sandstrom	Finland
	Santiago de la Parte	Spain
	Svend-Erik Kristensen	Denmark
	Michael Heilmann	GDR
	Jouni Kortelainen	Finland

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  Gerard Nijboer, Netherlands - sixth place

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  Jörg Peter, GDR - 17th place

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  Steve Jones, Great Britain - 20th place

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  Michael Heilmann, GDR - race not finished

Web links and sources

• Men 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 Athletics Championships: Men's marathon on youtube.com, published February 15, 2013, accessed February 18, 2019
• 1986 European - Stuttgart Marathon Men part 1 on youtube.com, published January 8, 2013, accessed February 18, 2019
• 1986 European - Stuttgart Marathon Men part 2 on youtube.com, published January 9, 2013, accessed February 18, 2019
• 1986 European - Stuttgart Marathon Men part 3 on youtube.com, published January 9, 2013, accessed February 18, 2019
• 1986 European - Stuttgart Marathon Men part 4 on youtube.com, published January 10, 2013, accessed February 18, 2019
• 1986 European - Stuttgart Marathon Men part 6 on youtube.com, published on March 10, 2013, accessed on February 18, 2019
• 1986 European - Stuttgart Marathon Men part 7 on youtube.com, published January 20, 2013, accessed February 18, 2019
• 1986 European - Stuttgart Marathon Men part 8 on youtube.com, published January 20, 2013, accessed February 18, 2019
• 1986 European - Stuttgart Marathon Men part 9 on youtube.com, published January 26, 2013, accessed February 18, 2019
• 1986 European - Stuttgart Marathon Men part 10 on youtube.com, published March 16, 2013, accessed February 18, 2019
• 1986 European - Stuttgart Marathon Men part 11 on youtube.com, published January 27, 2013, accessed February 18, 2019
• 1986 European - Stuttgart Marathon Men part 12 on youtube.com, published January 27, 2013, accessed February 18, 2019
• 1986 European - Stuttgart Marathon Men part 13 on youtube.com, published February 2, 2013, accessed February 18, 2019
• 1986 European - Stuttgart Marathon Men part 14 on youtube.com, published May 9, 2013, accessed February 18, 2019
• 1986 European - Stuttgart Marathon Men part 15 on youtube.com, published February 19, 2013, accessed February 18, 2019

Individual evidence

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