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, held at Neckarstadion on 28 and 29 August 1986.^[1] All results were made with a rough surfaced javelin (old design).

Medalists

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

Abbreviations

• All results shown are in metres

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

Results

Final

29 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
01 !	Fatima Whitbread	United Kingdom	76.32
02 !	Petra Felke	East Germany	72.52
03 !	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

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

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

See also

• 1982 Women's European Championships Javelin Throw (Athens)
• 1983 Women's World Championships Javelin Throw (Helsinki)
• 1984 Women's Olympic Javelin Throw (Los Angeles)
• 1986 Javelin Throw Year Ranking
• 1987 Women's World Championships Javelin Throw (Rome)
• 1988 Women's Olympic Javelin Throw (Seoul)
• 1990 Women's European Championships Javelin Throw (Split)

References

• Results
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