1986 European Athletics Championships – Women's javelin throw

Events at the
1986 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m   men   women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m men women
1500 m men women
3000 m women
5000 m men
10,000 m men women
100 m hurdles women
110 m hurdles men
400 m hurdles men women
3000 m
steeplechase
men
4×100 m relay men women
4×400 m relay men women
Road events
Marathon men women
10 km walk women
20 km walk men
50 km walk men
Field events
Long jump men women
Triple jump men
High jump men women
Pole vault men
Shot put men women
Discus throw men women
Javelin throw men women
Hammer throw men
Combined events
Heptathlon women
Decathlon men

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

Contents

Medalists

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

Abbreviations

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

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

Final

Rank Final Distance
 Fatima Whitbread (GBR) 76.32 m
 Petra Felke (GDR) 72.52 m
 Beate Peters (FRG) 68.04 m
4.  Tiina Lillak (FIN) 66.66 m
5.  Genowefa Olejarz (POL) 63.34 m
6.  Natalya Yermolovich (URS) 62.84 m
7.  Ingrid Thyssen (FRG) 62.42 m
8.  Irina Kostyuchenkova (URS) 61.40 m
9.  Trine Solberg (NOR) 59.52 m
10.  Anna Verouli (GRE) 57.06 m
11.  Manuela Alizadeh (FRG) 56.20 m
12.  Denise Thiémard (SUI) 55.32 m

Qualification

See also

References