Athletics at the 1986 Goodwill Games

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Athletics at the 1986 Goodwill Games
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The Games opening ceremony at the main stadium
DatesJuly 1986
Host cityMoscow, Soviet Union Soviet Union
VenueMoscow Olympic Stadium
Events42
Participation? athletes from
? nations


At the 1986 Goodwill Games, the athletics competition was held in July 1986 at the Olympic Stadium in Moscow, Soviet Union. A total of 42 events were contested, of which 23 by male and 19 by female athletes.

In contrast to other major athletics competitions, the Goodwill Games operated an invitational policy, which meant that there were no qualifying stage of the events and the contests operated on a single or double final format.[1] The inaugural athletics competition brought two new world records: Sergey Bubka cleared 6.01 m for a new pole vault record and Jackie Joyner improved the women's heptathlon record to 7148 points.[2] In the 100 metres races, Ben Johnson gained his first international victory over Carl Lewis while Evelyn Ashford pipped Heike Drechsler to the gold in the women's race.

The Soviet Union dominated the medal table, winning 50% more medals than the United States.

Records[]

Name Event Country Record Type
Sergey Bubka Pole vault  Soviet Union 6.01 m WR
Jackie Joyner Heptathlon  United States 7148 pts WR
Key:0000WR — World record  • AR — Area record  • GR — Games record  • NR — National record

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres  Ben Johnson (CAN) 9.95  Chidi Imoh (NGR) 10.04  Carl Lewis (USA) 10.06
200 metres  Floyd Heard (USA) 20.12  Dwayne Evans (USA) 20.45  Wallace Spearmon Sr. (USA) 20.49
400 metres  Antonio McKay (USA) 44.98   (USA) 45.11  Darrell Robinson (USA) 45.15
800 metres  Johnny Gray (USA) 1:46.52  Stanley Redwine (USA) 1:46.89  Sammy Tirop (KEN) 1:47.05
1500 metres  Pavel Yakovlev (URS) 3:39.86  Igor Lotaryov (URS) 3:40.18  Steve Scott (USA) 3:40.31
5000 metres  Doug Padilla (USA) 13:46.65  Terry Brahm (USA) 13:47.11  Evgeni Ignatov (BUL) 13:47.17
10,000 metres  Domingos Castro (POR) 28:11.21  Gerard Donakowski (USA) 28:11.87  Dionísio Castro (POR) 28:12.04
110 metres hurdles  Greg Foster (USA) 13.25  Andrey Prokofyev (URS) 13.28   (USA) 13.31
400 metres hurdles  Edwin Moses (USA) 47.94  Aleksandr Vasilyev (URS) 48.24  Dave Patrick (USA) 48.59
3000 metres steeplechase  Hagen Melzer (GDR) 8:23.06  Henry Marsh (USA) 8:23.92   (URS) 8:25.73
4×100 metres relay  United States (USA)
Lee McRae
Floyd Heard
Harvey Glance
Carl Lewis
37.98  Soviet Union (URS) "A"
Aleksandr Yevgenyev
Vladimir Muravyov

Viktor Bryzhin
38.19  Soviet Union (URS) "B"



40.22
4×400 metres relay  Soviet Union (URS)
Vladimir Krylov
Vladimir Prosin

Aleksandr Kurochkin
3:01.25  United States (USA)
Walter McCoy

Danny Everett
Darrell Robinson
3:01.47  Ivory Coast (CIV)
Djétenan Kouadio
Akissi Kpidi
René Djédjémel Mélédjé
Gabriel Tiacoh
3:13.51
Marathon  Belayneh Dinsamo (ETH) 2:14:42   (URS) 2:15:24  Yakov Tolstikov (URS) 2:16:22
20 km walk  Aleksey Pershin (URS) 1:23:29   (URS) 1:23:36  Yevgeniy Misyulya (URS) 1:23:53
High jump  Doug Nordquist (USA) 2.34 m  Igor Paklin (URS) 2.32 m  Sorin Matei (ROM) 2.32 m
Pole vault  Sergey Bubka (URS) 6.01 m WR  Radion Gataullin (URS) 5.80 m  Earl Bell (USA) 5.75 m
Long jump  Robert Emmiyan (URS) 8.61 m  Larry Myricks (USA) 8.41 m  Sergey Layevskiy (URS) 8.20 m
Triple jump  Mike Conley (USA) 17.69 m  Khristo Markov (BUL) 17.35 m  Mykola Musiyenko (URS) 17.33 m
Shot put  Sergey Smirnov (URS) 21.79 m  Sergey Gavryushin (URS) 21.09 m  John Brenner (USA) 20.62 m
Discus throw  Romas Ubartas (URS) 67.12 m  Dmitry Kovtsun (URS) 64.24 m  Knut Hjeltnes (NOR) 64.02 m
Hammer throw  Yuriy Sedykh (URS) 84.72 m  Sergey Litvinov (URS) 84.64 m  Benjaminas Viluckis (URS) 80.04 m
Javelin throw  Tom Petranoff (USA) 83.46 m  Heino Puuste (URS) 83.12 m   (URS) 81.44 m
Decathlon  Grigoriy Degtyaryov (URS) 8322 pts  Oleksandr Apaychev (URS) 8244 pts   (URS) 8082 pts

Women[]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres  Evelyn Ashford (USA) 10.91  Heike Drechsler (GDR) 10.91  Elvira Barbashina (URS) 11.12
200 metres  Pam Marshall (USA) 22.12  Ewa Kasprzyk (POL) 22.13  Elvira Barbashina (URS) 22.27
400 metres  Olga Vladykina (URS) 49.96  Mariya Pinigina (URS) 50.29  Lillie Leatherwood (USA) 50.47
800 metres  Lyubov Gurina (URS) 1:57.52   (URS) 1:57.54  Mitica Junghiatu (ROM) 1:57.87
1500 metres  Tatyana Samolenko (URS) 4:05.50  Ravilya Agletdinova (URS) 4:06.14  Svetlana Kitova (URS) 4:07.21
3000 metres  Mariana Stanescu (ROM) 8:38.83  Svetlana Ulmasova (URS) 8:39.19  Regina Chistyakova (URS) 8:39.25
5000 metres  Olga Bondarenko (URS) 15:03.51  Svetlana Ulmasova (URS) 15:05.50  Cindy Bremser (USA) 15:11.78
100 metres hurdles  Yordanka Donkova (BUL) 12.40  Cornelia Oschkenat (GDR) 12.62  Ginka Zagorcheva (BUL) 12.72
400 metres hurdles  Marina Stepanova (URS) 53.81  Cristeana Matei (ROM) 54.55  Ellen Fiedler (GDR) 54.80
4×100 metres relay  United States (USA)
Michelle Finn
Diane Williams
Randy Givens
Evelyn Ashford
42.12  Soviet Union (URS)

Maia Azarashvili
Irina Slyusar
Elvira Barbashina
42.27 Only two teams finished
4×400 metres relay  United States (USA)
Chandra Cheeseborough

Lillie Leatherwood
Diane Dixon
3:21.22  Soviet Union (URS)
Marina Stepanova
Mariya Pinigina
Lyudmyla Dzhyhalova
Olga Vladykina
3:21.99 Only two teams started
Marathon  Nadezhda Gumerova (URS) 2:33:55  Irina Bogacheva (URS) 2:34:09   (URS) 2:34:40
10 km walk  Kerry Saxby (AUS) 45:08.13  Guan Ping (CHN) 45:56.50  Aleksandra Grigoryeva (URS) 46:00.27
High jump  Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) 2.03 m  Olga Turchak (URS) 2.01 m  Tamara Bykova (URS)
 Svetlana Isaeva (BUL)
1.96 m
Long jump  Galina Chistyakova (URS) 7.27 m  Yelena Belevskaya (URS) 7.17 m  Irina Valyukevich (URS) 7.07 m
Shot put  Natalya Lisovskaya (URS) 21.37 m  Natalya Akhrimenko (URS) 20.33 m  Mihaela Loghin (ROM) 19.89 m
Discus throw  Tsvetanka Khristova (BUL) 69.54 m  Martina Hellmann (GDR) 69.04 m  Diana Sachse (GDR) 68.46 m
Javelin throw  Petra Felke (GDR) 70.78 m  Irina Kostyuchenkova (URS) 61.28 m  Natalya Yermolovich (URS) 60.58 m
Heptathlon  Jackie Joyner (USA) 7148 pts WR   (GDR) 6635 pts  Natalya Shubenkova (URS) 6631 pts

Medal table[]

Sergey Bubka raised the pole vault world record to win gold for the USSR.
Petra Felke won East Germany's only women's gold medal in the javelin.

  *   Host nation (Soviet Union)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Soviet Union (URS)*17251961
2 United States (USA)1581033
3 Bulgaria (BUL)3137
4 East Germany (GDR)2428
5 Romania (ROM)1135
6 Portugal (POR)1012
7 Australia (AUS)1001
 Canada (CAN)1001
 Ethiopia (ETH)1001
10 China (CHN)0101
 Nigeria (NGR)0101
 Poland (POL)0101
13 Ivory Coast (CIV)0011
 Kenya (KEN)0011
 Norway (NOR)0011
Totals (15 nations)424241125


References[]

  1. ^ Goodwill Games. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2010-06-28.
  2. ^ 1986, The Inaugural Games Archived 2014-10-21 at the Wayback Machine. Goodwill Games. Retrieved on 2010-06-28.
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