Medalists

Gold	Fatima Whitbread Fatima Whitbread Fatima Whitbread MBE is a British former javelin thrower and multiple medal-winner.-Early life:... Great Britain Great Britain Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...  (GBR)
Silver	Petra Felke Petra Felke Petra Meier, nee Felke is a former German track and field athlete and Olympic champion who represented East Germany.... East Germany (GDR)
Bronze	Beate Peters Beate Peters Beate Edeltraud Peters is a retired West German javelin thrower.She finished seventh at the 1983 World Championships and the 1984 Summer Olympics. She then won bronze medals at the 1986 European Championships and the 1987 World Championships... West Germany West Germany West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....  (FRG)

Abbreviations

• 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

Standing records prior to the 1986 European Athletics Championships
World Record Javelin throw The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...		75.40 m	June 4, 1985	Schwerin Schwerin Schwerin is the capital and second-largest city of the northern German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The population, as of end of 2009, was 95,041.-History:... , East Germany
Event Record		70.02 m	September 9, 1982	Athens, Greece
Broken records during the 1986 European Athletics Championships
World Record Javelin throw The javelin throw is a track and field athletics throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear approximately 2.5 metres in length. Javelin is an event of both the men's decathlon and the women's heptathlon...		77.44 m	August 28, 1986	Stuttgart Stuttgart Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million .... , West Germany West Germany West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....
Event Record

Final

Rank	Final	Distance
		76.32 m
		72.52 m
		68.04 m
4.		66.66 m
5.		63.34 m
6.		62.84 m
7.		62.42 m
8.		61.40 m
9.		59.52 m
10.		57.06 m
11.		56.20 m
12.		55.32 m

See also

• 1982 Women's European Championships Javelin Throw (Athens)
• 1983 Women's World Championships Javelin Throw (Helsinki)
• 1984 Women's Olympic Javelin Throw (Los Angeles)
• 1986 Javelin Throw Year Ranking
• 1987 Women's World Championships Javelin Throw (Rome)
• 1988 Women's Olympic Javelin Throw (Seoul)
• 1990 Women's European Championships Javelin Throw (Split)