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1986 European Athletics Championships – Women's javelin throw

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Women's javelin throw
at the European Athletics Championships

These are the official results of the Women's javelin throw event at the 1986 European Championships in Stuttgart, West Germany, held at Neckarstadion on 28 and 29 August 1986.[1] All results were made with a rough surfaced javelin (old design).

Medalists

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Gold United Kingdom Fatima Whitbread
Great Britain (GBR)
Silver East Germany Petra Felke
East Germany (GDR)
Bronze West Germany Beate Peters
West Germany (FRG)

Abbreviations

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  • All results shown are in metres
Q automatic qualification
q qualification by rank
DNS did not start
NM no mark
WR world record
AR area record
NR national record
PB personal best
SB season best

Records

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Standing records prior to the 1986 European Athletics Championships
World Record  Petra Felke (GDR) 75.40 m June 4, 1985 East Germany Schwerin, East Germany
Event Record  Anna Verouli (GRE) 70.02 m September 9, 1982 Greece Athens, Greece
Broken records during the 1986 European Athletics Championships
World Record  Fatima Whitbread (GBR) 77.44 m August 28, 1986 West Germany Stuttgart, West Germany
Event Record

Results

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Final

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29 August

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Fatima Whitbread  United Kingdom 76.32
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Petra Felke  East Germany 72.52
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Beate Peters  West Germany 68.04
4 Tiina Lillak  Finland 66.66
5 Genowefa Olejarz  Poland 63.34
6 Natalya Yermolovich  Soviet Union 62.84
7 Ingrid Thyssen  West Germany 62.42
8 Irina Kostyuchenkova  Soviet Union 61.40
9 Trine Solberg  Norway 59.52
10 Anna Verouli  Greece 57.06
11 Manuela Alizadeh  West Germany 56.20
12 Denise Thiémard   Switzerland 55.32

Qualification

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28 August

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
1 Fatima Whitbread  United Kingdom 77.44 WR Q
2 Petra Felke  East Germany 72.62 Q
3 Tiina Lillak  Finland 67.72 Q
4 Beate Peters  West Germany 66.12 Q
5 Ingrid Thyssen  West Germany 65.58 Q
6 Natalya Yermolovich  Soviet Union 64.52 Q
7 Anna Verouli  Greece 62.66 Q
8 Manuela Alizadeh  West Germany 62.50 Q
9 Irina Kostyuchenkova  Soviet Union 60.64 Q
10 Genowefa Olejarz  Poland 60.16 Q
11 Trine Solberg  Norway 59.66 Q
12 Denise Thiémard   Switzerland 59.60 Q
13 Karen Hough  United Kingdom 59.40
14 Elisabet Nagy  Sweden 59.28
15 Tuula Laaksalo  Finland 58.86
16 Zsuzsa Malovecz  Hungary 56.44
17 Danica Živanov  Yugoslavia 54.70
18 Simone Frandsen  Denmark 53.70

Participation

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According to an unofficial count, 18 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 443–451, retrieved 13 August 2014