European Athletics Championships 1986 / participant (GDR)
The GDR DVfL initially nominated a total of 72 athletes, 36 men and 36 women , for the 1986 European Athletics Championships in Stuttgart . Shortly before the start, the Leipzig hurdler Holger Pohland and the Berlin heptathlete Sibylle Thiele had to cancel their start due to injury. So 70 athletes of the DVfL were at the start. Seven defending champions from Athens were among the nominees . After the boycott of the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles by the GDR, the European Championships were the first major international comparison for the GDR athletes since the 1983 World Athletics Championships in Helsinki. The 1982 European champions Thomas Munkelt, Lutz Dombrowski, Uwe Hohn, Bärbel Wöckel and Ramona Neubert were no longer at the start, some of whom had ended their competitive sporting careers not least because of the Olympic boycott.
successes
With 11 gold, 10 silver and 8 bronze medals, the GDR team took second place behind the team from the Soviet Union. The women won a medal in 14 of 18 competitions and the men in 7 of 21 competitions in which they competed. Heike Drechsler, Marlies Göhr and Marita Koch each won 2 titles. In the shot put, GDR athletes won four out of six medals. The women set five European Championship records. Outstanding, however, was the setting of the world record of 21.71 seconds in the sprint over 200 meters by Heike Drechsler. Shortly before the European Championships in Dresden, she set a new world record of 7.45 m in the long jump.
Nominee athletes
discipline | Men | Women | ||||
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athlete | Sports club / association | placement | athlete | Sports club / association | placement | |
100 m |
Steffen Bringmann Thomas Schröder |
SC DHfK Leipzig SC Neubrandenburg |
![]() 4th Place |
Marlies Göhr Silke Gladisch Ingrid Auerswald |
SC Motor Jena SC Empor Rostock SC Motor Jena |
![]() 4th place 5th place |
200 m |
Thomas Schröder Olaf Prenzler Frank Emmelmann |
SC Neubrandenburg SC Magdeburg SC Magdeburg |
4th place 7th place 8th place |
Heike Drechsler Silke Gladisch Sabine Günther |
SC Motor Jena SC Empor Rostock SC Motor Jena |
![]() ![]() 7th place |
400 m |
Thomas Schönlebe Mathias Schersing |
SC Karl-Marx-Stadt SC Chemie Halle |
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Marita Koch Petra Müller Kirsten Emmelmann |
SC Empor Rostock SC Chemie Halle SC Magdeburg |
![]() ![]() 4th Place |
800 m | Hans-Joachim Mogalle | SC Chemistry Hall | Intermediate run |
Sigrun Wodars Christine Wachtel |
SC Neubrandenburg SC Neubrandenburg |
![]() 8th place |
1500 m | Andreas Busse | SC unit Dresden | leader | Heike Oehme | SC Cottbus | 12th place |
5000 m | Hansjörg Kunze | SC Empor Rostock | not started | |||
10,000 m | Hansjörg Kunze | SC Empor Rostock | injured retired |
Ulrike Bruns Gabriele Veith |
ASK forward Potsdam SC Cottbus |
![]() 13th place |
marathon |
Jörg Peter Michael Heilmann |
SC unit Dresden TSC Berlin |
17th place eliminated |
Katrin Dörre | SC DHfK Leipzig | eliminated |
100 m hurdles |
Cornelia Oschkenat Heike Theele Kerstin Knabe |
SC Dynamo Berlin SC Magdeburg SC DHfK Leipzig |
![]() 4th place 4th place |
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110 m hurdles | Andreas Oschkenat | SC Dynamo Berlin | 5th place | |||
400 m hurdles |
Sabine Busch Cornelia Feuerbach Ellen Fiedler |
SC Magdeburg SC Magdeburg SC Dynamo Berlin |
![]() ![]() 6th place |
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3000 m obstacle | Hagen Melzer | SC unit Dresden | ![]() |
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4 × 100 m |
Thomas Schröder Steffen Bringmann Olaf Prenzler Frank Emmelmann |
SC Neubrandenburg SC DHfK Leipzig SC Magdeburg SC Magdeburg |
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Silke Gladisch Sabine Günther Ingrid Auerswald Marlies Göhr |
SC Empor Rostock SC Motor Jena SC Motor Jena SC Motor Jena |
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4 × 400 m |
Frank Möller Carlo Niestädt Thomas Schönlebe Mathias Schersing |
ASK Forward Potsdam TSC Berlin SC Karl-Marx-Stadt SC Chemie Halle |
6th place |
Kirsten Emmelmann Sabine Busch Petra Müller Marita Koch |
SC Magdeburg SC Turbine Erfurt SC Chemie Halle SC Empor Rostock |
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10 km walk | Dagmar Grimmenstein | SC Turbine Erfurt | 9th place | |||
20 km walk |
Ralf Kowalsky Axel Noack |
TSC Berlin TSC Berlin |
disqualified disqualified |
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50 km walk |
Hartwig Gauder Dietmar Meisch Ronald Weigel |
SC Turbine Erfurt TSC Berlin ASK Forward Potsdam |
![]() 6th place disqualified |
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Long jump |
Heike Drechsler Helga Radtke |
SC Motor Jena SC Empor Rostock |
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Triple jump |
Dirk Gamlin Volker May |
SC Tractor Schwerin SC Neubrandenburg |
5th place 8th place |
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high jump | Gerd Wessig | SC Tractor Schwerin | 6th place |
Andrea Bienias Susanne Helm |
SC DHfK Leipzig SC Dynamo Berlin |
4th place 4th place |
Shot put |
Ulf Timmermann Udo Beyer |
TSC Berlin ASK Forward Potsdam |
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Heidi Krieger Ines Müller Heike Hartwig |
SC Dynamo Berlin SC Empor Rostock SC Dynamo Berlin |
![]() ![]() 5th place |
Discus throw | Jürgen Schult | SC Tractor Schwerin | 7th place |
Diana Sachse Martina Hellmann Irina Meszynski |
ASK Forward Potsdam SC DHfK Leipzig TSC Berlin |
![]() ![]() 4th Place |
Hammer throw |
Gunther Rodehau Ralf Haber Matthias Moder |
SC unit Dresden SC Karl-Marx-Stadt SC Dynamo Berlin |
4th place 6th place 7th place |
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Javelin throw |
Detlef Michel Gerald Weiss |
TSC Berlin SC Tractor Schwerin |
![]() 11th place |
Petra Felke | SC Motor Jena |
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Heptathlon |
Anke Behmer Sibylle Thiele |
SC Neubrandenburg SC Dynamo Berlin |
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Decathlon |
Torsten Voss Uwe Freimuth |
SC Tractor Schwerin ASK Forward Potsdam |
4th place 6th place |
The following substitute starters were not used in the sprint disciplines: Sören Schlegel (SC Karl-Marx-Stadt); Torsten Heimrath (SC Traktor Schwerin); Holger Pohland (SC DHfK Leipzig); Ina Morgenstern (ASK Vorwärts Potsdam) and Dagmar Neubauer (SC Turbine Erfurt)
Medals and participants per club
The active participants were spread across 14 different competitive sports centers, of which 12 sports clubs were able to cheer for medalists. Only the clubs in Schwerin and Cottbus remained without precious metals. By far the most successful sports club was SC Motor Jena, whose five representatives took home seven medals. A total of three European championship titles went to Jena in the individual disciplines. Furthermore, Jena athletes had a share in a relay title.
space | Sports club / sports association | Attendees | ![]() |
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Medals total |
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1 | SC Motor Jena | 5 | 6th | 1 | 0 | 7th |
2 | SC Empor Rostock | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6th |
3 | SC Turbine Erfurt | 4th | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
4th | SC Magdeburg | 6th | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
5 | SC Neubrandenburg | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
6th | SC Dynamo Berlin | 7th | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
7th | SC Chemistry Hall | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
7th | ASK forward Potsdam | 7th | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
9 | SC unit Dresden | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
10 | SC DHfK Leipzig | 6th | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
11 | TSC Berlin | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
12 | SC Karl-Marx-Stadt | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
13 | SC Cottbus | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
13 | SC Tractor Schwerin | 6th | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |