1986 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay

Men's 4 x 100 metres relay
at the European Athletics Championships

The men's 4 x 100 metres relay event at the 1986 European Athletics Championships was held in Stuttgart, then West Germany, at Neckarstadion on 30 and 31 August 1986.[1]

Medalists

Gold Aleksandr Yevgenyev
Nikolay Yushmanov
Vladimir Muravyov
Viktor Bryzgin
 Soviet Union
Silver Thomas Schröder
Steffen Bringmann
Olaf Prenzler
Frank Emmelmann
 East Germany
Bronze Elliot Bunney
Daley Thompson
Mike McFarlane
Linford Christie
 United Kingdom

Results

Final

31 August

Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Soviet Union Aleksandr Yevgenyev
Nikolay Yushmanov
Vladimir Muravyov
Viktor Bryzgin
38.29 CR
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  East Germany Thomas Schröder
Steffen Bringmann
Olaf Prenzler
Frank Emmelmann
38.64
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  United Kingdom Elliot Bunney
Daley Thompson
Mike McFarlane
Linford Christie
38.71
4  France Thierry François
Gilles Quénéhervé
Antoine Richard
Bruno Marie-Rose
38.81
5  Italy Antonio Ullo
Carlo Simionato
Pierfrancesco Pavoni
Stefano Tilli
38.86
6  Hungary László Karaffa
István Nagy
István Tatár
Attila Kovács
39.15
7  Bulgaria Nikolay Markov
Anri Grigorov
Krasimir Bozhinovski
Valentin Atanasov
39.33
8  Portugal Arnaldo Abrantes
Pedro Curvelo
Luís Cunha
Pedro Agostinho
39.74 NR

Heats

30 August

Heat 1

Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes
1  France Thierry François
Gilles Quénéhervé
Antoine Richard
Bruno Marie-Rose
38.97 Q
2  United Kingdom Elliot Bunney
Daley Thompson
Mike McFarlane
Linford Christie
39.26 Q
3  Soviet Union Andrey Shlyapnikov
Nikolay Yushmanov
Vladimir Muravyov
Viktor Bryzgin
39.30 Q
4  Hungary László Karaffa
István Nagy
István Tatár
Attila Kovács
39.42 q
5  Portugal Arnaldo Abrantes
Pedro Curvelo
Luís Cunha
Pedro Agostinho
39.86 NR q

Heat 2

Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes
1  East Germany Thomas Schröder
Steffen Bringmann
Olaf Prenzler
Frank Emmelmann
38.81 Q
2  Italy Antonio Ullo
Carlo Simionato
Pierfrancesco Pavoni
Stefano Tilli
39.03 Q
3  Bulgaria Nikolay Markov
Anri Grigorov
Krasimir Bozhinovski
Valentin Atanasov
39.23 Q
 West Germany Volker Westhagemann
Werner Zaske
Peter Klein
Jürgen Evers
DNF

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 37 athletes from 9 countries participated in the event.

References

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