Athletics at the 1986 Goodwill Games

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.

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


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

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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

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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   Clarence Daniel (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   Keith Talley (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   Nikolay Matyushenko (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
Nikolai Yushmanov
Viktor Bryzhin
38.19   Soviet Union (URS) "B"
Aleksandr Kutepov
Roman Osipenko
Dmitry Bartenev
Sergey Klyonov
40.22
4×400 metres relay   Soviet Union (URS)
Vladimir Krylov
Vladimir Prosin
Vladimir Volodko
Aleksandr Kurochkin
3:01.25   United States (USA)
Walter McCoy
Clarence Daniel
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   Igor Broslavskiy (URS) 2:15:24   Yakov Tolstikov (URS) 2:16:22
20 km walk   Aleksey Pershin (URS) 1:23:29   Aleksandr Boyarshinov (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   Sergey Gavras (URS) 81.44 m
Decathlon   Grigoriy Degtyaryov (URS) 8322 pts   Oleksandr Apaychev (URS) 8244 pts   Aleksey Lyakh (URS) 8082 pts

Women

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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   Nadezhda Zabolotneva (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)
Olga Zolotaryova
Maia Azarashvili
Irina Slyusar
Elvira Barbashina
42.27 Only two teams finished
4×400 metres relay   United States (USA)
Chandra Cheeseborough
Brenda Cliette
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   Tatyana Gridneva (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   Sibylle Thiele (GDR) 6635 pts   Natalya Shubenkova (URS) 6631 pts

Medal table

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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 entries)424241125


References

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  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.
Results
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