1986 European Athletics Championships – Women's javelin throw

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).

Women's javelin throw
at the European Athletics Championships

Medalists

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Gold   Fatima Whitbread
Great Britain (GBR)
Silver   Petra Felke
East Germany (GDR)
Bronze   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   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

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Final

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29 August

Rank Name Nationality Result Notes
  Fatima Whitbread   United Kingdom 76.32
  Petra Felke   East Germany 72.52
  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