Athletics at the 1986 Goodwill Games

Athletics at the 1986 Goodwill Games
The Games opening ceremony at the main stadium
Dates	July 1986
Host city	Moscow, Soviet Union
Venue	Moscow Olympic Stadium
Events	42
Participation	? athletes from ? nations
1990 Seattle → 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. Keeping in line with the tone of the competition, the United States and Soviet Union were the major protagonists in the athletics events. The Soviet Union topped the medal table with 17 golds and 61 medals altogether while the United States was the runner-up with 15 golds and 33 medals overall. Three Eastern bloc countries (Bulgaria, East Germany and Romania) were the only other nations to win more than two medals.

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. The inaugural athletics competition brought two new world records: Sergey Bubka cleared 6.01 m for a new pole vault record and Jackie Joyner-Kersee improved the women's heptathlon record to 7148 points. 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.

Records

Name	Event	Country	Record	Type
Sergey Bubka	Pole vault	Soviet Union	6.01 m	WR
Jackie Joyner-Kersee	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	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	Ed 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 Nikolai Yushmanov Vladimir Muravyev Viktor Bryzgin	38.19	Soviet Union (URS) "B" Aleksandr Kutepov Roman Osipenko Dmitry Bartenev Sergei 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)	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	Rodion 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	Nikolay 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	Dmitriy 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 Degtyaryev (URS)	8322 pts	Oleksandr Apaychev (URS)	8244 pts	Aleksey Lyakh (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	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 Cistiakova (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 Maya Azarashvili Irina Slyusar Elvira Barbashina	42.27	Only two finishing teams
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 Lyudmila Dzhigalova Olga Vladykina	3:21.99	Only two starting teams
Marathon	Nadezhda Gumerova (URS)	2:33:55	Irina Bogachova (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-Kersee (USA)	7148 pts WR	Sibylle Thiele (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.

Key

  The host country is highlighted in lavender blue

1	Soviet Union	17	25	19	61
2	United States	15	8	10	33
3	Bulgaria	3	1	3	7
4	East Germany	2	4	2	8
5	Romania	1	1	3	5
6	Portugal	1	0	1	2
7=	Australia	1	0	0	1
7=	Canada	1	0	0	1
7=	Ethiopia	1	0	0	1
10=	China	0	1	0	1
10=	Poland	0	1	0	1
10=	Nigeria	0	1	0	1
13=	Ivory Coast	0	0	1	1
13=	Kenya	0	0	1	1
13=	Norway	0	0	1	1
Total		42	42	41	125

References

Results

• Goodwill Games. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2010-06-24.
• Athletics results. Goodwill Games. Retrieved on 2010-06-24.

External links

• Official website