1986 French Grand Prix
The 80-lap race was won by Nigel Mansell, driving a Williams-Honda. It was Mansell's third victory of the season. Alain Prost finished second in a McLaren-TAG, with Nelson Piquet third in the other Williams-Honda. Ayrton Senna took pole position in his Lotus-Renault, but crashed at Signes early in the race after sliding on oil laid by Andrea de Cesaris's failed Minardi.


1986 French Grand Prix
This race marked Scuderia Ferrari's 400th start in a World Championship event as a team.


1986 French Open
The 1986 French Open was a tennis tournament that took place on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. The tournament was held from 26 May until 8 June. It was the 90th staging of the French Open, and the first Grand Slam tennis event of 1986.


1986 French Open
The event was part of the 1986 Nabisco Grand Prix and 1986 Virginia Slims World Championship Series.


1986 French Open, Finals, Men's doubles
John Fitzgerald /  Tomáš Šmíd defeated  Stefan Edberg /  Anders Järryd, 6–3, 4–6, 6–3, 6–7(4–7), 14–12


1986 French Open, Finals, Women's doubles
Martina Navratilova /  Andrea Temesvári defeated  Steffi Graf /  Gabriela Sabatini, 6–1, 6–2


1986 French Open, Finals, Mixed doubles
Kathy Jordan /  Ken Flach defeated  Rosalyn Fairbank /  Mark Edmondson, 3–6, 7–6(7–3), 6–3


1986 French Open – Men's Doubles
The Men's Doubles tournament at the 1986 French Open was held from 26 May until 8 June 1986 on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. John Fitzgerald and Tomáš Šmíd won the title, defeating Stefan Edberg and Anders Järryd in the final.


1986 French Open – Men's Singles
First-seeded Ivan Lendl defeated Mikael Pernfors 6–3, 6–2, 6–4 in the final to win the Men's Singles tennis title at the 1986 French Open. Mats Wilander was the defending champion, but was upset in the third round by Andrei Chesnokov of the Soviet Union.


1986 French Open – Men's Singles, Seeds
The seeded players are listed below. Ivan Lendl is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.


1986 French Open – Mixed Doubles
The Mixed Doubles tournament at the 1986 French Open was held from 26 May until 8 June 1986 on the outdoor clay courts at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France. Kathy Jordan and Ken Flach won the title, defeating Rosalyn Fairbank and Mark Edmondson in the final.


1986 French Open – Women's Doubles
Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver were the two-time defending champions, but Shriver did not participate in this tournament. Navratilova partnered Andrea Temesvári and successfully defended her title, defeating Steffi Graf and Gabriela Sabatini in the final 6–1, 6–2.


1986 French Open – Women's Singles
Chris Evert was the defending champion and successfully defended her title, defeating Martina Navratilova 2–6, 6–3, 6–3 to win the Women's Singles tennis title at the 1986 French Open. This was their 3rd successive final at the French Open, was Evert's 18th and final Grand Slam singles championship, and her 7th Roland Garros championship, an all-time record for women. This win meant that Evert won a Grand Slam title for a 13th consecutive year, an Open Era record.


1986 French Open – Women's Singles, Seeds
The seeded players are listed below. Chris Evert is the champion; others show the round in which they were eliminated.


1986 French Open – Women's Singles Qualifying
Players who neither had high enough rankings nor received wild cards to enter the main draw of the annual French Open Tennis Championships participated in a qualifying tournament held in the week before the event.


1986 French Polynesian legislative election
Legislative elections were held in French Polynesia on 16 March 1986 for the Territorial Assembly. The result was a victory for Tahoera'a Huiraatira, which won 22 of the 41 seats. Its leader Gaston Flosse remained President of the Government.


1986 French Polynesian legislative election, Background
Elections had been due to be held in 1987. However, in 1985 the government and opposition ask the French Council of Ministers for early elections be held. The request was approved and the Assembly elected in 1982 was dissolved on 23 December. Prior to its dissolution, the Assembly adopted an amended electoral law increasing the number of seats from 30 to 41 and introducing an electoral threshold of 5%. Lists were also required to have two more candidates than the number of seats in the constituency to provide replacements and avoid the need for by-elections.


1986 French Polynesian legislative election, Results
The initial results showed Tahoera'a Huiraatira winning 21 seats. However, after a recount in the Leeward Islands, they were awarded another seat.


1986 French Polynesian legislative election, Aftermath
Following the elections, two members of the minor parties joined Tahoera'a Huiraatira, giving them 24 of the 41 seats. Gaston Flosse was subsequently elected president by a vote of 25 to 2. In addition to Flosse, four other Assembly members became ministers; Georges Kelly, Alexandre Léontieff, Jacques Teheiura and Michel Buillard. They were replaced in the Assembly by Franklin Brotherson, Roger Doom, Albert Taruoura. Emma Tetuanui and Lionel Watanabe.


1986 French legislative election
The French legislative elections took place on 16 March 1986 to elect the eighth National Assembly of the Fifth Republic. Contrary to other legislative elections of the Fifth Republic, the electoral system used was that of party-list proportional representation.


1986 French legislative election
Since the 1981 election of François Mitterrand, the Presidential Majority was divided. In March 1983, Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy renounced the left's radical Common Programme which had been agreed in the 1970s. Wages and prices were frozen. This change of economic policy was justified by the will to stay in the European Monetary System. One year later, the Communist ministers refused to remain in Laurent Fabius' cabinet.


1986 French legislative election
In opposition, the two main right-wing parties tried to forget their past quarrels. They were able to win the mid-term elections (1982 departmental elections, 1983 municipal elections, 1984 European Parliament election) and succeeded in forcing the government to abandon its policy of limiting the financing of private schools in 1984. The Rally for the Republic (RPR), led by Jacques Chirac, abandoned the traditional dirigiste and Eurosceptic Gaullist doctrines about the economy and European integration. It was then able to sign an electoral platform with the Union for French Democracy (UDF). It proposed notably to sell the companies nationalized by President Mitterrand and Pierre Mauroy.


1986 French legislative election
However, France had also witnessed the electoral rise of the National Front (FN). Its leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, made nationalist and xenophobic remarks. He appealed to part of the conservative electorate, notably some RPR voters. The right-wing opposition was divided on the question of an alliance with the FN. In 1985, President Mitterrand's decision to re-establish party-list proportional representation at the legislative election caused political outrage. The RPR/UDF opposition accused him of wanting to strengthen the FN in order to weaken the Republican Right, which was favourite to win according to the polls. Proportional representation was the only electoral system which was considered likely to allow the election of FN deputies.


1986 French legislative election
While the polls indicated a win by the RPR/UDF coalition, the former UDF Prime minister Raymond Barre argued that the next parliamentary majority should refuse to govern if President Mitterrand did not resign. Advised by Edouard Balladur, Jacques Chirac noted, however, that impeachment did not exist in the French Constitution. Instead, the next majority would "cohabit" with Mitterrand. The right-wing cabinet would enforce its domestic policy programme and Mitterrand would keep control of foreign and military affairs.


1986 French legislative election
Eventually, the RPR/UDF coalition obtained only a two-seat majority. Consequently, for the first time of the history of the Fifth Republic, the parliamentary majority was opposed to the President. Nevertheless, the Socialist Party held more seats than the polls had indicated. The FN was able to form a parliamentary group with its 35 elected members. The decline of the French Communist Party continued. Mitterrand nominated Chirac as Prime Minister. The first "cohabitation" of the Fifth Republic started. The new cabinet abolished proportional representation for the next legislative elections. The "cohabitation" ended with the 1988 legislative election.


1986 French motorcycle Grand Prix
The 1986 French motorcycle Grand Prix was the eighth round of the 1986 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 19–20 July 1986 at the Paul Ricard Circuit.


1986 French regional elections
Regional elections were held in France on 16 March 1986. At stake were the presidencies of each of France's 26 régions, which, though they don't have legislative autonomy, manage sizeable budgets. The parliamentary right, led by the conservative Rally for the Republic and the centre-right Union for French Democracy won a landslide, winning 20 of 22 metropolitan regional presidencies. The Socialists only won the Limousin and the Nord-Pas de Calais region.


1986 French regional elections
The election was held using a one-round proportional system (with a 5% threshold).


1986 Fresno State Bulldogs football team
The 1986 Fresno State Bulldogs football team represented California State University, Fresno during the 1986 NCAA Division I-A football season as a member of the Pacific Coast Athletic Association. The team was led by head coach Jim Sweeney, in his ninth year, and played their home games at Bulldog Stadium in Fresno, California. They finished the 1986 season with a record of nine wins and two losses (9–2, 6–1 PCAA).


1986 Fresno State Bulldogs football team, Team players in the NFL
The following finished their college career in 1986, were not drafted, but played in the NFL.


1986 Fujifilm Trophy
The 1986 Fujifilm Trophy was held in Frankfurt am Main. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.


1986 Fulham by-election
The Fulham by-election, in Fulham, on 10 April 1986 was held following the death of the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Martin Stevens on 10 January that year. In a seat that had changed hands on a few occasions, it was won by Nick Raynsford of Labour, only to be regained by the Tories in the general election 14 months later.


1986 Full Members' Cup Final
The 1986 Full Members' Cup final was a football match which took place at Wembley Stadium on 23 March 1986. It was the final of the inaugural Full Members' Cup, the competition created in the wake of the 1985 ban on English clubs from European competitions following the Heysel disaster. Contested between First Division sides Chelsea and Manchester City, the game produced nine goals, with Chelsea prevailing 5–4. Chelsea had led 5–1 courtesy of David Speedie's hat-trick and a brace by Colin Lee, but Manchester City scored three times in the last five minutes to give them a scare.


1986 Full Members' Cup Final
Rougvie's own goal, the result of a shot by City's Lillis, denied Lillis the consolation of having scored the fastest hat trick in Wembley history at that point. Both clubs had played First Division games the previous day; Chelsea a 1–0 victory over Southampton, Manchester City a 2–2 draw with local rivals Manchester United. Ten players from each side featured in both games over the weekend.


1986 GP Ouest–France
The 1986 GP Ouest-France was the 50th edition of the GP Ouest-France cycle race and was held on 26 August 1986. The race started and finished in Plouay. The race was won by Martial Gayant of the Système U team.


1986 Gabonese presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Gabon on 9 November 1986. The country was a one-party state at the time, with the Gabonese Democratic Party as the sole legal party. GDP leader and incumbent president Omar Bongo was the only candidate, and was re-elected unopposed. Voter turnout was reported to be 99.9%.


1986 Gabonese presidential election
These were the last one-party elections in Gabon, as the country returned to multi-party democracy in 1990.


1986 Gator Bowl
The 1986 Gator Bowl game was a post-season college football bowl game between the Stanford Cardinal and the Clemson Tigers, played on December 27, 1986, at Gator Bowl Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida. It was the 42nd edition of the bowl game. Through a sponsorship agreement announced in November, the bowl was officially known as the Mazda Gator Bowl.


1986 Gator Bowl, Teams, Stanford Cardinal
Under third-year head coach Jack Elway, Stanford was making its first bowl appearance since the 1978 Bluebonnet Bowl. The Cardinal was led by running back Brad Muster, who was only the second Cardinal back to rush for more than 1,000 yards in a season. Stanford's starting quarterback, John Paye, was sidelined for the game due to a shoulder injury and backup Greg Ennis was named the starter.


1986 Gator Bowl, Teams, Clemson Tigers
The champions of the Atlantic Coast Conference, Clemson had recorded ties in its last two regular season games. Under head coach Danny Ford, the Tigers were led by tailbacks Kenny Flowers and Terrence Flagler.


1986 Gator Bowl, Game summary
Clemson completely dominated the first half of the game, recording 291 yards of offense and 15 first downs, and scored touchdowns on runs from quarterback Rodney Williams and backs Chris Lancaster and Ray Williams. David Treadwell added two field goals to put the Tigers up 27–0 at halftime.


1986 Gator Bowl, Game summary
Stanford recovered in the second half, holding the Tigers scoreless while gradually bringing the score closer. Muster scored on a one-yard run in the third quarter, and then twice more on fourth quarter passes from Ennis. The Cardinal had several chances to tie or win the game, but Ennis was intercepted inside the 10-yard line on one drive, and turned the ball over on downs with less than two minutes remaining.


1986 Gator Bowl, Aftermath
This was the first of a run of three straight ACC titles for Danny Ford's Clemson teams. This was Coach Elway's only winning season with the Cardinal.


1986 Gator Bowl, Aftermath
Muster and Rodney Williams shared Most Valuable Player honors. Muster would go on to play for the NFL's Chicago Bears. Junior Clemson kicker David Treadwell was named a 1987 consensus All-American and would go on to a successful NFL kicking career with the Denver Broncos and New York Giants.


1986 Gator Bowl, Aftermath
Through the first 75 editions of the Gator Bowl (1946–2020), Stanford's appearance in 1986 was the only time that a Pac-10 or Pac-12 team played in the bowl.


1986 Gay Games
The 1986 Gay Games (Gay Games II) were held in San Francisco, California, United States from August 9 to August 17, 1986.


1986 Gay Games
The opening ceremony had Rita Mae Brown as master of ceremonies, and also featured Gwen Avery, the Barbary Coast Cloggers, Leona Jiles, Nepata Mero, Ron Murphy and his Choir, Sharon McNight, Calvin Remsberg (from the cast of Cats), the Golden Gate Precision Dancers, and the Lesbian/Gay Band of America. The closing ceremony was emceed by Armistead Maupin and featured Jennifer Holliday as the main star.


1986 Geneva Open
The 1986 Geneva Open was a men's tennis tournament played on clay courts that was part of the 1986 Nabisco Grand Prix. It was played at Geneva in Switzerland from 8 September through 15 September 1986. First-seeded Henri Leconte won the singles title.


1986 Geneva Open, Finals, Doubles
Andreas Maurer /  Jörgen Windahl defeated  Gustavo Luza /  Gustavo Tiberti 6–4, 3–6, 6–4


1986 Geneva Open – Doubles
Sergio Casal and Emilio Sánchez were the defending champions, but did not participate this year.


1986 Geneva Open – Doubles
Andreas Maurer and Jörgen Windahl won the title, defeating Gustavo Luza and Gustavo Tiberti 6–4, 3–6, 6–4 in the final.


1986 Geneva Open – Singles
Tomáš Šmíd was the defending champion but did not participate this year.


1986 Geneva Open – Singles
Henri Leconte won the title, defeating Thierry Tulasne 7–5, 6–3 in the final.


1986 Gent–Wevelgem
The 1986 Gent–Wevelgem was the 48th edition of the Gent–Wevelgem cycle race and was held on 19 April 1986. The race started in Ghent and finished in Wevelgem. The race was won by Guido Bontempi of the Carrera–Inoxpran team.


1986 Georgia Bulldogs football team
The 1986 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the University of Georgia during the 1986 NCAA Division I-A football season.


1986 Georgia Bulldogs football team, Roster
Mike Castronis, Dicky Clark, Bob Davis, Ray Goff, Steve Greer, George Haffner(AHC/OC), Bill Hartman, Joe Hollis, John Kasay, Bill Lewis(DC), Paul Messer, Doug Quinn, Ray Sherman, Tommy Spangler, Dale Strahm, Joe Tereshinski, Charles Whittemore, Scott Woodall, Ron Wright


1986 Georgia Southern Eagles football team
The 1986 Georgia Southern Eagles football team represented the Georgia Southern Eagles of Georgia Southern College (now known as Georgia Southern University) during the 1986 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Eagles played their home games at Paulson Stadium in Statesboro, Georgia. The team was coached by Erk Russell, in his fifth year as head coach for the Eagles.


1986 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team
The 1986 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team represented the Georgia Institute of Technology during the 1987 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Yellow Jackets were led by head coach Bill Curry, in his seventh and final year with the team, and played their home games at Grant Field in Atlanta. The team competed as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference, finishing in fourth.


1986 Georgia gubernatorial election
The 1986 Georgia gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1986. Governor Joe Frank Harris (D) was overwhelmingly re-elected over Guy Davis (R) to win re-election. As the state was beginning to trend more Republican, this is the last election in which the Democrat won the governorship by double digits.


1986 Georgia gubernatorial election
Every county in the state voted for Harris, who flipped every previously Republican county in this election.


1986 German Formula Three Championship
The 1986 German Formula Three Championship (German: 1986 Deutsche Formel-3-Meisterschaft) was a multi-event motor racing championship for single-seat open wheel formula racing cars held across Europe. The championship featured drivers competing in two-litre Formula Three racing cars which conformed to the technical regulations, or formula, for the championship. It commenced on 18 May at Zolder and ended at Nürburgring on 21 September after eleven rounds.


1986 German Formula Three Championship
Volkswagen Motorsport (Bertram Schäfer Racing) driver Kris Nissen clinched the championship title. He won races at Zolder, Hockenheim and had a hat-trick at Nürburgring. Hanspeter Kaufmann lost 44 points to Nissen and finished as runner-up with a win in the penultimate round at Salzburgring. Víctor Rosso won at Norisring and Österreichring. Bernd Schneider, Alfonso de Vinuesa and Gregor Foitek were the other race winners.


1986 German Grand Prix
The 1986 German Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Hockenheimring on 27 July 1986. It was the tenth race of the 1986 FIA Formula One World Championship.


1986 German Grand Prix
The 45-lap race was won by Brazilian driver Nelson Piquet, driving a Williams-Honda. Compatriot Ayrton Senna was second in a Lotus-Renault, with Englishman Nigel Mansell third in the other Williams-Honda. Frenchman Alain Prost was running third in his McLaren-TAG in the closing laps when he ran out of fuel, dropping him to sixth and thus allowing Mansell to extend his lead in the Drivers' Championship to seven points.


1986 German Grand Prix, Pre-race
In the run-up to the race, Keke Rosberg announced that he would be retiring from Formula One at the end of the season, while Lotus announced that they would be using Honda engines in 1987, following Renault's withdrawal from the sport, with Japanese driver Satoru Nakajima replacing Johnny Dumfries. Meanwhile, Ligier drafted in Philippe Alliot to replace the injured Jacques Laffite.


1986 German motorcycle Grand Prix
The 1986 German motorcycle Grand Prix was the third round of the 1986 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 23–25 May 1986 at the Nürburgring.


1986 Ginebra San Miguel season
The 1986 Ginebra San Miguel season was the eighth season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).


1986 Ginebra San Miguel season, 1st finals stint under Big J (Rivalry with Tanduay)
On August 21, Ginebra clinched one of the two finals berth in the All-Filipino Conference with a 91-83 win over Shell Helix. This marks the fourth time the La Toñdena ballclub is playing in the championship series and the first since Robert Jaworski became player-coach of the team in 1985. Ginebra San Miguel were going up against Tanduay Rhum Makers in the finals, who were seeking their second straight title.


1986 Ginebra San Miguel season, 1st finals stint under Big J (Rivalry with Tanduay)
A bitter rivalry since the Crispa-Toyota days was born during the All-Filipino championship. Former Toyota teammates Ramon Fernandez and Robert Jaworski played on opposite sides in the finals for the first time. Adding color to their rivalry was Tanduay coach Arturo Valenzona, who steered Ginebra (then Gilbey's Gin) to three trips in the finals from 1982 to 1984 - the same coach Jaworski replaced on the Ginebra bench.


1986 Ginebra San Miguel season, 1st finals stint under Big J (Rivalry with Tanduay)
After taking the series opener of the best-of-five title series, Ginebra lost three straight to the Rhum Makers, which clinch their second championship of the season with a hairline 93-92 win in Game four.


1986 Ginebra San Miguel season, The super import duo
In the Open (Third) Conference, Billy Ray Bates - known as "The Black Superman" - who led the famed Crispa Redmanizers to a grandslam in 1983, teamed up with last year's Ginebra reinforcement and best import Michael Hackett in an explosive combination that have captured the excitement of PBA fans from the moment it made headlines.


1986 Ginebra San Miguel season, The super import duo
In their highly anticipated first game for Ginebra on September 25 as Bates and Hackett went up against Alaska's Norman Black and Donnie Ray Koonce - similarly comebacking imports - Ginebra won, 122-115. Bates scored 46 points while Hackett had 38.


1986 Ginebra San Miguel season, Championship
After eight years since joining the league in 1979, the La Tondeña ballclub won their first PBA championship by winning the Open Conference crown over Manila Beer, four games to one. On the memorable night of December 11, 1986, Ginebra San Miguel clinched the trophy with a 130-120 victory in Game Five. The Living Legend Robert Jaworski became the first playing coach to steer a team to a PBA title.


1986 Ginebra San Miguel season, Occurrences
League pioneer Francis Arnaiz retired from active playing after seeing action only in the first round of eliminations of the Open Conference.


1986 Girabola
The 1986 Girabola was the eighth season of top-tier football competition in Angola. Estrela Clube Primeiro de Maio were the defending champions.


1986 Girabola
The league comprised 14 teams, the bottom three of which were relegated.


1986 Girabola
Petro Luanda were crowned champions, winning their 3rd title, while Desportivo de Benguela, Inter da Lunda Sul and Leões de Luanda were relegated.


1986 Girabola
Arsénio Ribeiro aka Túbia of Inter de Luanda finished as the top scorer with 20 goals.


1986 Girabola, Changes from the 1985 season
Relegated: Dínamos do Kwanza Sul, Gaiatos de Benguela, Leões do PlanaltoPromoted: FC de Cabinda, Inter da Lunda Sul, Leões de Luanda


1986 Giro d'Italia
The 1986 Giro d'Italia was the 69th running of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours races. The Giro started in Palermo, on 12 May, with a 1 km (0.6 mi) prologue and concluded in Merano, on 2 June, with a 108.6 km (67.5 mi) mass-start stage. A total of 171 riders from nineteen teams entered the 22-stage race, that was won by Italian Roberto Visentini of the Carrera Jeans–Vagabond team. The second and third places were taken by Italian riders Giuseppe Saronni and Francesco Moser, respectively.


1986 Giro d'Italia
Swiss rider Urs Freuler was the first rider to wear the race leader's maglia rosa (English: pink jersey). The race lead was passed between five riders across the first five days of racing. Saronni gained the overall lead after the conclusion of the sixth stage and maintained an advantage through the fifteenth day of racing. As the race crossed several Alpine passes in the sixteenth stage, Visentini gained the race lead due to his strong performance on the stage. Visentini then defended the race lead until the race's conclusion on 2 June.


1986 Giro d'Italia
Amongst the other classifications that the race awarded, Guido Bontempi of Carrera Jeans–Vagabond won the points classification, Pedro Muñoz of Fagor won the mountains classification, and Gis Gelati-Oece's Marco Giovannetti completed the Giro as the best neo-professional in the general classification, finishing eighth overall. Supermercati Brianzoli finishing as the winners of the team classification, ranking each of the twenty teams contesting the race by lowest cumulative time.


1986 Giro d'Italia, Teams
A total of nineteen teams were invited to participate in the 1986 Giro d'Italia. Each team sent a squad of nine riders, which meant that the race started with a peloton of 171 cyclists. The presentation of the teams – where each team's roster and manager are introduced in front the media and local dignitaries – took place at the Palazzo dei Normanni on 11 May. From the riders that began this edition, 143 made it to the finish in Merano.


1986 Giro d'Italia, Pre-race favorites
The starting peloton did not include the 1985 winner, Bernard Hinault. An El Mundo Deportivo writer believed LeMond, Moser, and Saronni to be the favorites to win the overall crown. In addition, the writer felt that Pedro Muñoz had the best chances to win the race, out of all the Spanish riders entering the event. Atala-Ofmega sports director Franco Criblori believed that Saronni's results would depend on what form he could maintain in the mountains. In addition, Criblori thought Dutchman Johan van der Velde and Swiss rider Niki Rüttimann were two foreigners to consider for a high place in the general classification.


1986 Giro d'Italia, Route and stages
The route for the 1986 edition of the Giro d'Italia was revealed to the public on television by head organizer Vincenzo Torriani on 8 February 1986. It contained four time trials, three of which were individual and one of which was a team event. There were twelve stages containing categorized climbs, of which three had summit finishes: stage 14, to Sauze d'Oulx; stage 16, to Foppolo; and stage 19, to Peio. The organizers chose to include no rest days. Torriani did not want to interfere with the World Cup being held in Mexico. When compared to the previous year's race, the race was 140 km (87 mi) shorter, contained two less rest days, and the same number of time trials. In addition, this race contained the same number of stages, but one less set of half stages.


1986 Giro d'Italia, Route and stages
l'Unita writer Gino Sala believed the route to be more challenging than the routes within the past few years. He criticized the route for the stage three team time trial for going over dangerous roads. Author Bill McGann believed Torriani designed the route to be relatively flat in order to increase the likelihood of Italian riders Giuseppe Saronni and Francesco Moser winning the race. Five-time champion Eddy Merckx believed the route to be "decapitated."


1986 Giro d'Italia, Race overview
The Giro began with a 1 km (0.6 mi) prologue that navigated through the streets of Palermo, which was won by Urs Freuler by one second over the second-placed finisher. Later that day, the first mass-start stage was raced. The leg was marred by a large crash about 10 km (6.2 mi) from the finish which saw Emilio Ravasio sustain heavy injuries and continue to race until the end of the leg. Shortly after the stage, he fell into a coma, only to die two weeks later.


1986 Giro d'Italia, Race overview
Sergio Santimaria won the stage through a field sprint, and, with the time bonus, he earned race leader's maglia rosa (English: pink jersey). Stage 2 also culminated with a bunch sprint where Skala-Skil's Jean-Paul van Poppel took the lead with 150 m (492.1 ft) left and held on to win, as well as take the overall lead. The third stage was a team time trial that traveled around Sicily. Del Tongo-Colnago won the time trial by nine seconds over Supermercati Brianzoli-Essebi, which put their rider Giuseppe Saronni into the pink jersey.


1986 Giro d'Italia, Race overview
Gianbattista Baronchelli rode away on a climb late into the fourth stage and rode by himself to victory, earning the race lead in the process. American Greg LeMond won the fifth stage after attacking a few kilometers from the finish. Saronni led the peloton across the finish line two seconds after LeMond crossed the finish line.


1986 Giro d'Italia, Race overview
In the race's sixth stage, Roberto Visentini won the leg after attacking a few kilometers from the finish. Saronni regained the race lead after finishing second on the stage and earning a fifteen-second time bonus. The next two stages both resulted in a bunch sprint, with Guido Bontempi winning stage 7 and Franco Chioccioli, stage 8. The ninth stage contained the climbs of Monte Terminillo and La Forca and was considered one of the tougher stages in the race. Malvor-Bottecchia-Vaporella rider Acácio da Silva won the stage as the top of the general classification rankings remained unchanged from the previous days.


1986 Giro d'Italia, Race overview
The twelfth stage of the race was a 46 km (28.6 mi) individual time trial that stretched from Sinalunga to Siena. Lech Piasecki of Del Tongo-Colnago won the stage and was one of five riders to complete the course in under an hour. Due to his strong time on the stage, Saronni increased his advantage over all of his rivals except for Visentini who finished quicker.


1986 Giro d'Italia, Race overview
The next day of racing saw several breakaway groups try to form, but all with no success as the main field finished the stage together with a field sprint that was won by van Poppel. The race's fourteenth stage saw the race head back into the mountains, with a summit finish to Sauze d'Oulx. As the peloton made its way up the final climb, Pedro Muñoz, Martin Earley, and Stefano Giuliani formed a breakaway group out in front. With about three kilometers left in the stage, Earley attacked and went on to win the stage after riding by himself for the remainder of the stage. Dag Erik Pedersen won the next stage through a bunch sprint.


1986 Giro d'Italia, Race overview
The sixteenth stage saw the race travel across several mountain passes in the Alps, with Muñoz winning the stage after attacking on the day's final climb of the day. Visentini, who finished third on the stage, gained enough time on Saronni to take the overall lead from him by over a minute. Bontempi won his fourth stage of the race after out-sprinting the rest of the peloton for the victory the day after. The next leg of the race was another individual time trial that was 36 km (22 mi) in length and very flat.


1986 Giro d'Italia, Race overview
Francesco Moser won the stage by forty-nine seconds over the second placed rider and his time, when coupled with the performance of the other riders, moved him into third overall. Panasonic–Merckx–Agu rider Johan van der Velde won the next leg of the race after attacking on a descent before the stage's final climb to Peio.


1986 Giro d'Italia, Race overview
The twentieth stage of the race came down to a field sprint that was won by Bontempi. The penultimate stage of the race traversed several mountain passes in the Dolomites. Four riders escaped off the front of the peloton, meanwhile the general classification contenders remained together behind the leading group. As the leading group neared the finish, da Silva attacked and went on to win the stage by seven seconds. The general classification contenders finished together, despite attacks from LeMond. The race's final stage began and ended in Merano and 108.6 km (67.5 mi). Belgian Eric Van Lancker won the leg by means of a bunch sprint.


1986 Giro d'Italia, Race overview
Three riders achieved multiple stage victories: Bontempi (stages 7, 10, 11, 17, and 20), da Silva (stages 9 and 21), and van Poppel (stages 2 and 13). Stage wins were achieved by eleven of the nineteen competing squads, eight of which won multiple stages. Carrera-Vagabond collected a total of six stage wins through two riders, Bontempi and Visentini (stage 6). Del Tongo-Colnago amassed a total of two stage victories through the team time trial and Piasecki (stage 12). Skala-Skil also collected two stage successes with van Poppel.


1986 Giro d'Italia, Race overview
Ariostea–Gres achieved the same feat with individual stage wins from Santimaria (stage 1) and Pedersen (stage 15). Fagor also secured two stage wins through Earley (stage 14) and Muñoz (stage 16). Supermercati Brianzoli-Essebi obtained two stage victories with Baronchelli (stage 4) and Moser (stage 18). Malvor-Bottecchia-Vaporella also collected two stage successes with da Silva. Panasonic-Merckx-Agu recorded two stage victories with van der Velde (stage 19) and Van Lancker (stage 22). Atala-Ofmega, La Vie Claire, and Ecoflam-Jollyscarpe-BFB Bruc. all won a single stage at the Giro, the first through Freuler (prologue), the second through LeMond (stage 5), and the third by Chioccioli (stage 8).


1986 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership
Four different jerseys were worn during the 1986 Giro d'Italia. The leader of the general classification – calculated by adding the stage finish times of each rider, and allowing time bonuses for the first three finishers on mass-start stages – wore a pink jersey. This classification is the most important of the race, and its winner is considered as the winner of the Giro.


1986 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership
For the points classification, which awarded a purple (or cyclamen) jersey to its leader, cyclists were given points for finishing a stage in the top 15; additional points could also be won in intermediate sprints. The green jersey was awarded to the mountains classification leader. In this ranking, points were won by reaching the summit of a climb ahead of other cyclists. Each climb was ranked as either first, second or third category (first being the highest), with more points available for higher category climbs.


1986 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership
The Cima Coppi, the race's highest point of elevation, awarded more points than the other first category climbs. The Cima Coppi for this Giro was the Passo Pordoi. The first rider to cross the Pordoi Pass was Spanish rider Pedro Muñoz. The white jersey was worn by the leader of young rider classification, a ranking decided the same way as the general classification, but considering only neo-professional cyclists (in their first three years of professional racing). Although no jersey was awarded, there was also one classification for the teams, in which the stage finish times of the best three cyclists per team were added; the leading team was the one with the lowest total time.


1986 Giro d'Italia, Classification leadership
The rows in the following table correspond to the jerseys awarded after that stage was run.


1986 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 11
The 1986 Giro d'Italia was the 69th edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Giro began in Palermo, with a prologue individual time trial on 12 May, and Stage 11 occurred on 22 May with a stage to Castiglione del Lago. The race finished in Merano on 2 June.


1986 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 11, Prologue
12 May 1986 — Palermo, 1 km (0.62 mi) (ITT)


1986 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 1
12 May 1986 — Palermo to Sciacca, 140 km (87 mi)


1986 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 2
13 May 1986 — Sciacca to Catania, 259 km (161 mi)


1986 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 3
14 May 1986 — Catania to Taormina, 50 km (31 mi) (TTT)


1986 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 4
15 May 1986 — Villa San Giovanni to Nicotera, 115 km (71 mi)


1986 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 5
16 May 1986 — Nicotera to Cosenza, 194 km (121 mi)


1986 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 6
17 May 1986 — Cosenza to Potenza, 251 km (156 mi)


1986 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 7
18 May 1986 — Potenza to Baia Domizia, 257 km (160 mi)


1986 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 8
19 May 1986 — Cellole to Avezzano, 160 km (99 mi)


1986 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 9
20 May 1986 — Avezzano to Rieti, 172 km (107 mi)


1986 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 10
21 May 1986 — Rieti to Pesaro, 235 km (146 mi)


1986 Giro d'Italia, Prologue to Stage 11, Stage 11
22 May 1986 — Pesaro to Castiglione del Lago, 207 km (129 mi)


1986 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 22
The 1986 Giro d'Italia was the 69th edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Giro began in Palermo, with a prologue individual time trial on 12 May, and Stage 12 occurred on 23 May with a stage from Sinalunga. The race finished in Merano on 2 June.


1986 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 12
23 May 1986 — Sinalunga to Siena, 46 km (29 mi) (ITT)


1986 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 13
24 May 1986 — Siena to Sarzana, 175 km (109 mi)


1986 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 14
25 May 1986 — Savona to Sauze d'Oulx, 236 km (147 mi)


1986 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 15
26 May 1986 — Sauze d'Oulx to Erba, 260 km (160 mi)


1986 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 16
27 May 1986 — Erba to Foppolo, 143 km (89 mi)


1986 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 17
28 May 1986 — Foppolo to Piacenza, 196 km (122 mi)


1986 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 18
29 May 1986 — Piacenza to Cremona, 36 km (22 mi) (ITT)


1986 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 19
30 May 1986 — Cremona to Peio, 211 km (131 mi)


1986 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 20
31 May 1986 — Peio to Bassano del Grappa, 179 km (111 mi)


1986 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 21
1 June 1986 — Bassano del Grappa to Bolzano, 234 km (145 mi)


1986 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 22, Stage 22
2 June 1986 — Merano to Merano, 108.6 km (67.5 mi)


1986 Giro di Lombardia
The 1986 Giro di Lombardia was the 80th edition of the Giro di Lombardia cycle race and was held on 18 October 1986. The race started in Como and finished in Milan. The race was won by Gianbattista Baronchelli of the Del Tongo team.


1986 Gloucester City Council election
The 1986 Gloucester City Council election took place on 3 May 1986 to elect members of Gloucester City Council in England.


1986 Goodwill Games
The 1986 Goodwill Games was the inaugural edition of the international multi-sport event created by Ted Turner, which was held from 5 – 20 July 1986. The main stadium was the Central Lenin Stadium in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. The Games were a response to the Olympic boycotts of the period, which saw the United States refuse to attend the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, and the Soviet Union refusing to attend the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. The Soviet athletes dominated the competition, winning 118 gold medals and 241 medals overall. The United States finished second place, with 42 golds and 142 medals in total.


1986 Goodwill Games, Summary
A total of 3000 athletes from 79 nations took part in events in eighteen different sports. The Goodwill Games was the first time in ten years that elite athletes from Soviet Union and United States competed against each other in a major summer multi-sport event. In contrast to the selection methods of other major competitions, the Games was an invitation-only event. The event was broadcast over 129 hours on TBS in the United States.


1986 Goodwill Games, Summary
The Games themselves were subject to political issues, as the USSR banned teams from Israel and South Korea (two close allies of the US) from the competition. The organizers also closed the city to non-Muscovites. The Goodwill Games, although commercial in nature, were not successful financially and Turner Broadcasting suffered millions of dollars of losses through its support of the event.


1986 Goodwill Games, Summary
A number of sporting world records were set over the course of the Games. In the athletics competition, Sergey Bubka broke the pole vault record with a mark of 6.01 m, Jackie Joyner-Kersee broke the heptathlon record with a score of 7148 points, while Ben Johnson defeated Carl Lewis in the 100 metres to win his first major international title. Vladimir Salnikov broke the 800 m freestyle world record in the swimming competition with a time of 7:50.64. In the cycling events, Michael Hübner and Erika Salumäe set world records in the men's and women's 200 m flying start race, respectively.


1986 Goodwill Games, Summary
The 1986 FIBA World Basketball Championship in Madrid was broadcast on Ted Turner's network and were thus classified as the official Goodwill Games event for the men's sport. In the women's basketball competition, the United States team broke the Soviets' undefeated international run, which had grown to 152 victories. The 1986 Games also saw the first ever international motorcycle polo, or motoball, competition.


1986 Goodwrench 500
The 1986 Goodwrench 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that took place on March 2, 1986, at North Carolina Motor Speedway in Rockingham, North Carolina.


1986 Goodwrench 500
A souvenir program of this race was handed out to the spectators at a cost of $5 USD per copy ($11.66 when adjusted for inflation). A companion race known as the ProTecta Truck Bed Liner 200 was done the previous day while a pit crew challenge was done the morning before the companion race. Pit crew members had to put tires and fuel on the vehicle in the fastest time possible in order to win a championship.


1986 Goodwrench 500
This race was of the few competitive races that Richard Petty had later in his career.


1986 Goodwrench 500, Race report
It took four hours and nine minutes to resolve 492 laps of racing on a paved track spanning 1.017 miles (1.637 km). The race started at noon and ended approximately at 4:09 P.M.. Terry Labonte defeated Harry Gant by a time of 0.63 seconds in front of 47,500 live spectators with his 1986 Oldsmobile Delta 88 machine; becoming the first front-wheel drive vehicle to win a NASCAR Cup Series racing event. Terry Labonte's win also was considered to be his last victory for Billy Hagan and the #44 vehicle. Throughout the race, Labonte enjoyed pure domination and this was the greatest amount laps that Terry Labonte ever led in a race and won. It would, unfortunately, be the last win for anybody in the # 44 machine.


1986 Goodwrench 500, Race report
It would also be the first Cup win for something other than a Ford or Chevy since Richard Petty's Pontiac went to victory lane in the July 4, 1984, Firecracker 400 at Daytona. This would count as the first win for an Oldsmobile since Buddy Baker at the 1980 Talladega race. This was the only points win for the Oldsmobile Delta 88. Benny Parsons did win the Winston Invitational at Atlanta in his Oldsmobile a little later, but that wasn't a points race.


1986 Goodwrench 500, Race report
Oldsmobile had a new body style based on the 88 series approved for NASCAR for the 1986 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season, Hagan was probably hoping for an aerodynamic advantage. Oldsmobile may have also pitched them a better incentive package of factory support, since Chevy had a big roster of teams at the time and Oldsmobile did not.


1986 Goodwrench 500, Race report
Labonte would earn $44,550 in prize winnings for this race ($103,909 when adjusted for inflation). Nine cautions slowed the race for 50 laps; the average speed of the race was 120.488 miles per hour (193.907 km/h). Labonte would earn the pole position with a qualifying speed of 146.348 miles per hour (235.524 km/h). Kirk Bryant and Newsom tangled. Hillin got lost in the smoke and plowed into Newsom during the first 50 laps of the race. Only Kirk Bryant managed to finish the race in 18th place while Hillin and Newsom were knocked out of the race due to inflicting terminal damage to their vehicles.


1986 Goodwrench 500, Race report
Qualifying time for this race ranged from 25 seconds to 27 seconds. Drivers who failed to qualify for the race were Brad Heath, Mike Potter and Jerry Holden.


1986 Goodwrench 500, Race report
Out of the 40-driver grid; Trevor Boys was the only Canadian driver in an otherwise all-American grid. Rick Newsom would acquire the last-place finish due to a crash on lap 39. Earle Canavan would retire from NASCAR after this race; but not before making two abortive attempts at re-igniting his top-level stock car racing career at the 1986 Valleydale 500 and at the 1986 First Union 400. Darrell Waltrip would also take the points lead away from Geoff Bodine after this race.


1986 Goodwrench 500, Race report
The increased fuel efficiency of the Oldsmobile vehicle driven by Labonte allowed him to spend less time on pit road due to the fact that his car was an apparently a car that predominantly used its rear wheels rather than its front wheels. Only manual transmission vehicles were allowed to participate in this race; a policy that NASCAR has retained to the present day.


1986 Goodwrench 500, Race report, Finishing order
† signifies that the driver is known to be deceased * Driver failed to finish race


1986 Governor General's Awards
Each winner of the 1986 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.


1986 Governor General's Awards
The four Canada Council Children's Literature Prizes, two each for children's book writers and illustrators, were outside the Governor General's Awards program for the last time. For Children's Literature Prize winners 1975 to 1986, see "Children's literature" (2) and "Children's illustration" (2) in the footer navigation box.


1986 Governor General's Awards
Two awards for literary translation were also included, bringing the number of Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit from 8 in 1986 to 14 in 1987.


1986 Grampian Regional Council election
The fourth election to Grampian Regional Council was held on 8 May 1986 as part of the wider 1986 Scottish regional elections. The election saw the Conservatives suffering heavy losses, which were in turn picked up by the various other parties. The Labour Party emerged as the single largest force on the 57 seat council, although all parties fell well short of the 29 seats needed for a majority. The election was particularly devastating for the Conservatives in the region given that they had controlled the council since its creation in 1974.


1986 Grampian Regional Council election
Following the election control of the council was undertaken by a minority administration composed of Independent, SNP, and SDP-Liberal Alliance councillors. The councils new convenor was the Independent councillor Geoffrey Hadley.


1986 Grampian Regional Council election
Turnout was particularly low, at 35.72%; the lowest in Scotland.


1986 Grand Canyon mid-air collision
The Grand Canyon mid-air collision occurred when Grand Canyon Airlines Flight 6, a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter that collided with a Bell 206 helicopter, Helitech Flight 2 over Grand Canyon National Park on June 18, 1986. All 25 passengers and crew on board the two aircraft were killed. It remains the deadliest accident involving a helicopter on United States soil, surpassing the crash of Los Angeles Airways Flight 841 in 1968, which killed 23 people.


1986 Grand Canyon mid-air collision, Collision
On the morning of the accident Grand Canyon Airlines Canyon 6 took off from Grand Canyon National Park Airport at 8:55 am for a sightseeing flight over Grand Canyon National Park with two pilots and 18 passengers on board; the pilots were operating their second scenic flight for the day. At 9:13 am, Helitech Flight 2 took off from the company's heliport in Tusayan, Arizona for a 30-minute sightseeing flight.


1986 Grand Canyon mid-air collision, Collision
At approximately 9:33 at an altitude of approximately 6,500 ft (2,000 m) the Bell 206 and DHC-6 collided, with the helicopter on the left of the Twin Otter and the two aircraft traveling at approximately right angles to each other. The helicopter's main rotor struck the nose landing gear and tail of the Twin Otter. The Bell 206's main rotor was torn off and disintegrated; and the Twin Otter's tail separated; causing both aircraft to crash. All 20 passengers and crew on Canyon 6, and the pilot and four passengers on Tech 2, were killed in the accident.


1986 Grand Canyon mid-air collision, Cause
The National Transportation Safety Board found that the crews of the two aircraft failed to 'see and avoid' each other, but could not determine why this occurred due to the lack of recorded flight data (there being no requirement for such recording for the scenic flights that were being operated). The accident investigation also found that the limited number of scenic points of interest in the Grand Canyon concentrated flights over these points, increasing the risk of collision; and recommended that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulate the separation of flight routes of fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters. Following the accident the FAA imposed changes to the operation of scenic flights over the Grand Canyon.


1986 Grand National
The 1986 Grand National (officially known as the Seagram Grand National for sponsorship reasons) was the 140th renewal of the world-famous Grand National horse race that took place at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool, England, on 5 April 1986.


1986 Grand National
The race was won by nine-year-old 15/2 second favourite West Tip, ridden by jockey Richard Dunwoody. in a time of 9 minutes, 33 seconds for a prize of £57,254. The winner was owned by Mr Peter Luff and trained in Droitwich, Worcestershire by Michael Oliver.


1986 Grand National, Build-up, leading contenders and the race
One hundred and nine horses were entered the 1986 Grand National of which fifty six stood their ground and declared to run For health and safety reasons only a maximum field of forty could take part so the sixteen entrants given the lowest handicap mark by handicapper, Captain Christopher Mordaunt were balloted out. These included former competitors, King Spruce, Onapromise and Colonel Christy


1986 Grand National, Build-up, leading contenders and the race
The previous year's runner up, Mr Snugfit was installed as the 13/2 favourite despite having been injured for a time during the season and having run unimpressively in his last four starts. Phil Tuck took the mount, as he had done last year. with last year's favourite, West Tip was again heavily supported at 15/2 with many of his supporters feeling that he had been unlucky when falling at Becher's Brook while disputing the lead last year. His jockey on that occasion, Richard Dunwoody was released from his retainer on Port Askaig to take the mount on the second favourite.


1986 Grand National, Build-up, leading contenders and the race
Four months before the National, West Tip had been defeated by the impressive chaser, Door Latch, considered by the racing press as owner, Jim Joel's best chance of winning the race in his almost thirty years of trying. Richard Rowe took the mount on the 9/1 chance trained by former champion jockey Josh Gifford. The remaining public support was placed in former winners, Corbiere and Last Suspect who would both set off at 14/1 in company of their riders in victory, Ben de Haan and Hywell Davies.


1986 Grand National, Build-up, leading contenders and the race
Aside from these main contenders the majority of the remainder of public support was placed with The Tsarevich, former twice runner up, Greasepaint and 1984 winner Hallo Dandy at 16/1. Mark Dwyer was considered to have the best chance of the seven riders taking part in their debut National on board 18/1 shot Knock Hill. Among the other six debut riders was future winner Steve Knight, riding Tracy's Special.


1986 Grand National, Build-up, leading contenders and the race
Unusually there were no riders taking part with experience of more than six previous rides in the race with Steve Smith Eccles, on board Classified and Paul Barton, on Fethard Friend both taking their seventh mounts


1986 Grand National, Build-up, leading contenders and the race
Starter, Michael Sayers was starting his third National and had some difficulty communicating instructions to Czech rider, Vaclav Chalupka, on board the top weight, Essex who did not speak English but still managed to dispatch the forty competitors at the first attempt.


1986 Grand National, Build-up, leading contenders and the race
Richard Rowe's race ended early when Door Latch exited at the first fence while Corbiere fell at the fourth. Last Suspect was always well to the rear before being pulled up at the eighteenth fence but both West Tip and Mr Snugfit were well in contention in a leading group of eight crossing the Melling Road towards the second last fence. West Tip had cruised up into second place at that point behind the 66/1 outsider, Young Driver with Classified, The Tsarevich and Sommelier the other challengers with Mr Snugfit having dropped back to eighth. West Tip moved upsides Young Driver after jumping the final fence and always looked comfortable on the run in despite only defeating the outsider by two lengths.


1986 Grand National, Media coverage and aftermath
The official attendance of 75,637 was an increase of over 10,000 on the previous year and 20,000 on the year prior to that. While the Aintree Executive pointed to this as a mark of the recent success in saving the racecourse from being closed, some elements of the press stated that these figures were still some way short of those estimated in the 1920s-50s. In doing so however the press failed to point out that spectators had been able to watch the race for free if they took position on the country side of the Melling Road in those days while they were now charged admission in the modern era.


1986 Grand National, Media coverage and aftermath
The race was broadcast live by the BBC as part of its regular Saturday afternoon Grandstand programme in a Grand National special, as it had done every year since 1960. The commentary team for the fifteenth consecutive year was John Hanmer, Julian Wilson and lead commentator Peter O'Sullevan who was calling his forty-first Grand National on Radio or Television. The programme itself was presented by Des Lynam who also leased the horse Another Duke to run in his colours.


1986 Grand National, Media coverage and aftermath
This situation presented Lynam with the prospect of having to interview himself if the 200/1 outsider were to win, until they departed the contest at the tenth fence. Jockey Paul Nicholls later commented that "He cleared Becher's like a dream then fell at a little one. We [He and Des Lynam] still have a laugh about it"


1986 Grand National, Media coverage and aftermath
In addition to its Television coverage, The BBC also broadcast the race live on Radio Two as part of its regular Saturday Sports Programme, having broadcast every National since 1927 with Peter Bromley calling home the winner.


1986 Grand National, Media coverage and aftermath
In the post race interview with Lynam, Richard Dunwoody explained how the horse had almost been killed years before in a road accident. "He needed 90-100 stitches and lost an awful lot of blood... It's a miracle he's here today, never mind winning the race."


1986 Grand National, Media coverage and aftermath
BBC Commentator Peter O'Sullevan describes the climax of the 1986 National


1986 Grand Prix (snooker)
The 1986 Rothmans Grand Prix was held during October 1986 in the Hexagon Theatre in Reading.


1986 Grand Prix (snooker)
Rex Williams made his first (and only) major final in a professional snooker tournament after being a professional since 1951. He was 53 years and 98 days old, making him the oldest player in a ranking final. He had beaten Mark Wildman, Alex Higgins, Steve Davis and Neal Foulds before facing Jimmy White in the final. During that match Williams took a 5–2 lead which he had made a break of 125 in the 7th frame and 6–4 before White took the last 6 frames to win his first Grand Prix title by 10–6. White had beaten 17-year-old Stephen Hendry in the quarter-finals and Silvino Francisco in the semi-final.


1986 Grand Prix (tennis)
The 1986 Nabisco Grand Prix was the only tennis circuit held that year. The tour consisted of 70 tournaments in 23 different countries. It incorporated three of the four grand slam tournaments, three World Championship Tennis tournaments and the Grand Prix tournaments. The season ending Masters tournament was moved from the January slot to December.


1986 Grand Prix (tennis), Schedule
The table below shows the schedule for the 1986 Nabisco Grand Prix season.


1986 Grand Prix (tennis), List of tournament winners
The list of winners and number of singles titles won, alphabetically by last name:


1986 Grand Prix German Open
The 1986 German Open, also known by its sponsored name Ebel German Open, was a men's tennis tournament of the 1986 Nabisco Grand Prix and played on outdoor red clay courts. It was the 77th edition of the event. It took place at the Am Rothenbaum in Hamburg, West Germany, from 15 September through 21 September 1986. Fourth-seeded Henri Leconte won the singles title.


1986 Grand Prix German Open, Finals, Doubles
Emilio Sánchez /  Sergio Casal defeated  Boris Becker /  Eric Jelen, 6–1, 7–5


1986 Grand Prix German Open – Doubles
Hans Gildemeister and Andrés Gómez were the defending champions, but lost in the second round to Ronnie Båthman and Michiel Schapers.


1986 Grand Prix German Open – Doubles
Sergio Casal and Emilio Sánchez won the title by defeating Boris Becker and Eric Jelen 6–4, 6–1 in the final.


1986 Grand Prix German Open – Doubles, Seeds
The first four seeds received a bye to the second round.


1986 Grand Prix German Open – Singles
Miloslav Mečíř was the defending champion, but lost in the final to Henri Leconte. The score was 6–2, 5–7, 6–4, 6–2. Leconte became the last French player to win the tournament until Gilles Simon won it in 2011.


1986 Grand Prix German Open – Singles, Seeds
The first eight seeds received a bye to the second round.


1986 Grand Prix d'Automne
The 1986 Grand Prix d'Automne was the 80th edition of the Paris–Tours cycle race and was held on 12 October 1986. The race started in Créteil and finished in Chaville. The race was won by Phil Anderson.


1986 Grand Prix de Tennis de Toulouse
The 1986 Grand Prix de Tennis de Toulouse was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor Carpet courts in Toulouse, France that was part of the Regular Series of the 1986 Grand Prix tennis circuit. It was the fifth edition of the tournament and was held from 6 October until 12 October 1986. Seventh-seeded Guy Forget won the singles title.


1986 Grand Prix de Tennis de Toulouse, Finals, Doubles
Miloslav Mečíř /  Tomáš Šmíd defeated  Jakob Hlasek /  Pavel Složil, 6–2, 3–6, 6–4.


1986 Grand Prix de Tennis de Toulouse – Doubles
The 1986 Grand Prix de Tennis de Toulouse was a men's tennis tournament played on Indoor Carpet in Toulouse, France that was part of the Regular Series of the 1986 Grand Prix tennis circuit. It was the fifth edition of the tournament and was held from 6 October – 12 October.


1986 Grand Prix de Tennis de Toulouse – Doubles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


1986 Grand Prix de Tennis de Toulouse – Singles
The 1986 Grand Prix de Tennis de Toulouse was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts in Toulouse, France that was part of the Regular Series of the 1986 Grand Prix tennis circuit. It was the fifth edition of the tournament and was held from 6 October – 12 October.


1986 Grand Prix de Tennis de Toulouse – Singles, Seeds
Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.


1986 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
The 1986 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season was the 38th F.I.M. Road Racing World Championship season.


1986 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season
This would be the last season where the Championship was held only in Europe until 2020.


1986 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Season summary
A second world championship for the consistent Eddie Lawson. After a dominating 1985 season, the future looked bright for Honda's Freddie Spencer. However, once the season started, he began to suffer from carpal tunnel syndrome. The talented American would never win another Grand Prix after his spectacular 1985 season. Australian Wayne Gardner stepped up to become Honda's lead rider. Randy Mamola, riding for the newly formed Kenny Roberts-Yamaha team continued to post good results and finished third in the points chase.


1986 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Season summary
Venezuelan Carlos Lavado earned his second world championship for Yamaha with a strong performance. Garelli teammates Fausto Gresini and Luca Cadalora battled it out for the 125 title, each taking four wins with Cadalora coming out on top. Spain's Jorge Martinez ended Stefan Dörflinger's streak of title wins at four. Angel Nieto announced he was retiring after twenty-three years in Grand Prix racing. He continued to be competitive up to the end with a second-place finish in the Italian 125 race and a second in Spain in the 80cc class. His 90 Grand Prix victories at the time ranked him second only to Giacomo Agostini.


1986 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Season summary
For 125cc and 80cc, an additional post-season event on the Hockenheimring (located in the German state of Baden-Württemberg) was designated as the Baden-Württemberg Grand Prix and counted towards the championships in these classes.


1986 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, 1986 Grand Prix season calendar
The following Grands Prix were scheduled to take place in 1986:


1986 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, Participants, 500cc riders' standings
Points are awarded to the top ten finishers. A rider has to finish the race to earn points.


1986 Great Taste Coffee Makers season
The 1986 Great Taste Coffee Makers season was the 12th season of the franchise in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA).


1986 Great Taste Coffee Makers season, Finals stint
After failing to win the Grandslam last year, the Great Taste Coffee Makers return to the finals against the Tanduay Rhum Makers in the first conference of the season. Great Taste had the returning Jeff Collins, a former best import awardee who led the CFC ballclub to a title back in 1984, and Michael David Holton (the third import to arrived as Collins' partner after Mike Wilson and Gregory Jones) as their imports going up against the Tanduay pair of Rob Williams and Andre McKoy. The Coffee Makers were the odds-on favorite to win the title due to their championship experience but the Rhum Makers were determined to end a long-drought and gave their franchise its first PBA title. Great Taste lost to Tanduay in six games in the Best-of-seven title series.


1986 Great Taste Coffee Makers season, Occurrences
Great Taste’ first choice for an import in the Open Conference, Anthony Frederick, arrived and was measured slightly over six-foot-six, the limit for one of the two imports. Sources said at least two teams refused to grant the exception, leaving the Coffee Makers with no choice but to send him back home. Frederick only saw action as a guest import for amateur club RFM-Swift’s that beat Alaska Milk in the PBA-PABL exhibition series at the Rizal Coliseum a week before the start of the Third Conference.


1986 Great Taste Coffee Makers season, Occurrences
The Coffee Makers paraded two new imports namely Lewis Jackson and Alvin Franklin at the start of the second round of eliminations in the Open Conference, replacing the pair of Johnny Brown and Eric Turner.


1986 Greek Basketball Super Cup
The 1986 Greek Basketball Super Cup was the 1st edition of the professional basketball national domestic super cup competition of Greece, the Greek Basketball Super Cup. The first Greek Basketball Super Cup was held prior to the start of the 1986–87 season, and it was organised under the auspices of the Hellenic Basketball Federation (E.O.K.). It was contested between the 1985–86 Greek Basket League season champions, Aris Thessaloniki, and the 1985–86 Greek Basketball Cup winners, Panathinaikos Athens.


1986 Greek Basketball Super Cup
In subsequent seasons, Aris went on to win both the Greek League championship and the Greek Cup (the domestic double title), for the next four consecutive seasons (1986–87, 1987–88, 1988–89, and 1989–90). So there was no reason to hold the Greek Super Cup over those next four seasons. Because of that, the Hellenic Basketball Federation (E.O.K. ), decided that the Super Cup wasn't a needed competition, and never held it again. However, the Greek Super Cup was revived much later, with the 2020 edition of the competition, under the auspices of the Hellenic Basketball Clubs Association (HEBA), using a different four-team format.


1986 Greek Basketball Super Cup, Competition format
The competition was played between the 1985–86 Greek Basket League champions, Aris, and the 1985–86 Greek Basketball Cup winners, Panathinaikos Athens. It was contested as a two-legged, home-and-away, aggregate score competition. With the first game taking place in Thessaloniki, where Aris is based, and the second game taking place in Athens, where Panathinaikos is based. Aris won the first game in Thessaloniki, by a score of 117–85, and the second game in Athens, by a score of 104–88, thereby easily winning the Super Cup, by an overall aggregate score of (221–173).


1986 Green Bay Packers season
The 1986 Green Bay Packers season was their 68th season overall and their 66th season in the National Football League. The team finished with a 4–12 record under coach Forrest Gregg, earning them 4th-place finish in the NFC Central division.


1986 Green Bay Packers season, Awards and milestones, Hall of Fame Inductions
In 1986 Packer great Paul Hornung was inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame


1986 Greenlandic Men's Football Championship
The 1986 Greenlandic Men's Football Championship was the 16th edition of the Greenlandic Men's Football Championship. The final round was held in Nuuk. It was won by Nuuk IL for the fourth time in its history.


1986 Greenwich London Borough Council election
The 1986 Greenwich Council election took place on 8 May 1986 to elect members of Greenwich London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party stayed in overall control of the council.


1986 Grote Prijs Jef Scherens
The 1986 Grote Prijs Jef Scherens was the 22nd edition of the Grote Prijs Jef Scherens cycle race and was held on 21 September 1986. The race started and finished in Leuven. The race was won by Jozef Lieckens.


1986 Guamanian balanced budget referendum
A referendum on introducing balanced budgets was held in Guam on 1 November 1986. Although more voters voted "yes" than "no", the Santos Amendment had required that the referendum required at least 50% of all votes in favour to pass. As a result, the proposal was rejected.


1986 Hackney London Borough Council election
The 1986 Hackney Council election took place on 8 May 1986 to elect members of Hackney London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party stayed in overall control of the council.


1986 Haitian Constitutional Assembly election
Constitutional Assembly elections were held in Haiti on 19 October 1986. Voters elected 41 of the 61 seats, with the remaining 20 appointed by the National Council of Government (CNG). The CNG claimed that voter turnout was 9.2%, although it was widely reported to be under 5%. A total of 101 candidates contested the 41 seats, which were based on the country's arrondissements.


1986 Haitian Constitutional Assembly election, Aftermath
The Assembly started meeting on 1 December, and drafted a new constitution, which was approved in a referendum the following year.


1986 Hall of Fame Bowl
The 1986 Hall of Fame Bowl was a college football bowl game featuring the Boston College Eagles and the Georgia Bulldogs. It was the inaugural edition of the Hall of Fame Bowl.


1986 Hall of Fame Bowl
Georgia started the scoring on a 7-yard James Jackson run. Boston College got on the board after Lowe made a 23-yard field goal at 7–3. In the second quarter, quarterback Shawn Halloran threw a 4-yard touchdown strike to Peter Casparriello giving BC a 10–7 lead. Troy Stradford scored on a 1-yard touchdown run, and Lowe added a 37-yard field goal for Boston College to take a 20–7 halftime lead.


1986 Hall of Fame Bowl
In the third quarter, Georgia scored on a 28-yard field goal by Jacobs. With Boston College driving, Gary Moss returned an interception 81 yards for a touchdown, and Georgia was within 20–17. In the fourth quarter, James Jackson scored on a 5-yard touchdown run as Georgia took a 24–20 lead. Shawn Halloran's 5-yard touchdown pass to Kelvin Martin with no time left gave Boston College a 27–24 win.


1986 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships
The 1986 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, also known as the 1986 Volvo Tennis Hall of Fame Championships for sponsorship reasons, was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts and part of the Nabisco Grand Prix circuit. held. It was the 11th edition of the tournament and was held at the International Tennis Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island, USA from July 7 through July 13, 1986. Unseeded Bill Scanlon won the singles title and $20,000 first prize money.


1986 Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, Finals, Doubles
Vijay Amritraj /  Tim Wilkison defeated  Eddie Edwards /  Francisco González 4–6, 7–5, 7–6


1986 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season
The 1986 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season was the 29th season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 37th overall. The Tiger-Cats finished in 2nd place in the East Division with a 9–8–1 record and won the Grey Cup over the Edmonton Eskimos.


1986 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season
Tiger-Cats owner Harold Ballard claimed to be losing a million dollars a year as owner of the Tiger-Cats. In 1986, Ballard publicly called the Tiger-Cats a bunch of overpaid losers. After the Tiger Cats beat the Toronto Argonauts in the 1986 Eastern Final, Ballard said "You guys may still be overpaid, but after today, no one can call you losers." A few days later, the Tiger-Cats won the 1986 Grey Cup by beating the Edmonton Eskimos 39–15 and Ballard said it was worth every penny.


1986 Hamilton Tiger-Cats season
Mike Kerrigan and Paul Osbaldiston were in their first years with the Tiger-Cats.


1986 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election
The 1986 Hammersmith and Fulham Council election took place on 8 May 1986 to elect members of Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party gained overall control of the council.


1986 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, Background
Labour, the Conservatives and the SDP Liberal Alliance all fielded a full slate of 50 candidates. On the ballot paper the third-party candidates were listed alternatively as 'SDP-Liberal Alliance' and 'Liberal Alliance-SDP'.


1986 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, Background
The Humanist Party ran seven candidates - two each in Gibbs Green, Normand and Avonmore wards and a further one in Margravine. Across London the party ran a further 11 candidates at this election - averaging 43 votes per candidate.


1986 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, Background
The Green Party ran a single candidate in six wards - Colehill, Crabtree, Palace, Sherbrooke, Town, White City & Shepherds Bush. At the previous election the Ecology Party had fielded four candidates in different wards. Across London at this election the Green Party ran a further 161 candidates.


1986 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, Background
Four candidates listed themselves under the 'Village Independent' banner - two each in Addison and Brook Green wards.


1986 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, Background
The Revolutionary Communist Party ran a single candidate - in White City & Shepherds Bush ward. Across London they ran a further 10 candidates - averaging 68 votes per person.


1986 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, Background
No candidates listed themselves as representing the Residents Association - down from seven at the previous election.


1986 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, Background
The Workers Revolutionary Party didn't field any candidates - down from two at the previous election.


1986 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, Background
The National Front didn't field any candidates - down from two at the previous election.


1986 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, Background
A total of 168 candidates put themselves forward for the 50 available seats - a decrease from the 175 candidates who contested the previous election.


1986 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, Election result
The Labour Party won 40 seats - a gain of 15 seats from the 1982 result, and took control of the council. The Conservative Party won 9 seats - a loss of 14 seats from their 1982 result.


1986 Hammersmith and Fulham London Borough Council election, Election result
The SDP Liberal Alliance retained 1 seat and lost 1 seat. This was the seventh and final election for the Liberal candidate Simon Knott - and his fourth victory. He also stood as a candidate for the House of Commons four times for the Barons Court constituency, three times for the Hammersmith North constituency and twice for the Hammersmith constituency, without success.


1986 Hardy Cup
The 1986 Hardy Cup was the 1986 edition of the Canadian intermediate, senior ice hockey championship.


1986 Hardy Cup, Final
Dundas Real McCoys beat Lloydminster Border Kings 4–0 on series.


1986 Haringey London Borough Council election
The 1986 Haringey Council election took place on 8 May 1986 to elect members of Haringey London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party retained overall control of the council.


1986 Haringey London Borough Council election, Ward results, Crouch End
Paul Loach was a sitting councillor for Seven Sisters ward.


1986 Haringey London Borough Council election, Ward results, High Cross
Robert Harris was a sitting councillor for Bruce Grove ward.


1986 Haringey London Borough Council election, Ward results, Hornsey Central
Pearl Hurry was a sitting councillor for the Bowes Park ward. She, and Brian Bullard, were originally elected as Conservatives.


1986 Haringey London Borough Council election, Ward results, South Tottenham
Viv Fenwick was a sitting councillor for Hornsey Vale ward. Walter Taylor was a sitting councillor for West Green ward.


1986 Harlow District Council election
The 1986 Harlow District Council election took place on 8 May 1986 to elect members of Harlow District Council in Essex, England. This was on the same day as other local elections. The Labour Party retained control of the council.


1986 Harlow District Council election, Election result
All comparisons in vote share are to the corresponding 1982 election.


1986 Harrow London Borough Council election
The 1986 Harrow Council election took place on 8 May 1986 to elect members of Harrow London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative party stayed in overall control of the council.


1986 Harvard Crimson football team
The 1986 Harvard Crimson football team was an American football team that represented Harvard University during the 1986 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Crimson finished fifth in the Ivy League.


1986 Harvard Crimson football team
In their 16th year under head coach Joe Restic, the Crimson compiled a 3–7 record and were outscored 190 to 139. Scott C. Collins was the team captain.


1986 Harvard Crimson football team
Harvard's 3–4 conference record placed fifth in the Ivy League standings. The Crimson outscored Ivy opponents 132 to 108.


1986 Harvard Crimson football team
Harvard played its home games at Harvard Stadium in the Allston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.


1986 Havering London Borough Council election
The 1986 Havering Council election took place on 8 May 1986 to elect members of Havering London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the council went in no overall control.


1986 Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football team
The 1986 Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football team represented the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in the Western Athletic Conference during the 1986 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their tenth season under head coach Dick Tomey, the Rainbow Warriors compiled a 7–5 record.


1986 Hawaii gubernatorial election
The 1986 Hawaii gubernatorial election was Hawaii's eighth gubernatorial election. The election was held on November 4, 1986, and resulted in a victory for the Democratic candidate, Lt. Gov. John D. Waiheʻe III over the Republican candidate, State Senator D. G. Anderson. Waihee received more votes than Anderson in every county in the state.


1986 Hawaii gubernatorial election
This was Anderson's second loss for the position of governor, having previously lost the 1982 election.


1986 Hawthorn Football Club season
The 1986 season was the Hawthorn Football Club's 62nd season in the Victorian Football League and 85th overall.


1986 Hewlett-Packard Trophy
The 1986 Hewlett-Packard Trophy was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts in Hilversum, Netherlands which was part of the 1986 WTA Tour. It was the 2nd and last edition off the tournament and was played from 29 September until 5 October 1986. First-seeded Helena Suková won the singles title.


1986 Hewlett-Packard Trophy, Finals, Doubles
Kathy Jordan /  Helena Suková defeated  Tine Scheuer-Larsen /  Catherine Tanvier 7–5, 6–1


1986 Hexagon World Men's Curling Championship
The 1986 Hexagon World Men's Curling Championship, the men's world curling championship, was held from March 31 to April 6 at the CNE Coliseum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.


1986 Highland Regional Council election
The 1986 Highland Regional Council election to the Highland Regional Council was held on 8 May 1986 as part of the wider 1986 Scottish regional elections. The election saw Independents win control of 36 of the council's 52 seats.


1986 Highland Regional Council election
Turnout was 42.1% in contested electoral districts. Only half of the regions electoral districts were contested.


1986 Hillingdon London Borough Council election
The 1986 Hillingdon Council election took place on 8 May 1986 to elect members of Hillingdon London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the council went into no overall control.


1986 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 1986 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the 2nd Tournament in the history of the conference. It was played between March 7 and March 15, 1986. Quarterfinal games were played at home team campus sites, while the final four games were, for the first time, played at the Providence Civic Center in Providence, Rhode Island. This was the final year the Hockey East championship was decided at a venue outside of the state of Massachusetts (as of 2014). By winning the tournament, Boston University received the Hockey East's automatic bid to the 1986 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.


1986 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The tournament featured three rounds of play. In the quarterfinals, the second seed and seventh seed, the third seed and sixth seeds, and the fourth seed and fifth seeds played a two-game series where the team that scored the most total goals was declared the winner and advanced to the semifinals. In the semifinals, the first seed was matched against the lowest remaining quarterfinalist while the other remaining quarterfinalists met in a single-elimination game with the winners advancing to the championship game and the losers meeting in a third-place game. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the 1986 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.


1986 Hockey East Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Conference Standings
Note: GP = Games Played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; PTS = Points; GF = Goals For; GA = Goals Against


1986 Holiday Bowl
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1986 Holiday Bowl
The 1986 Holiday Bowl was a college football bowl game played December 30, 1986, in San Diego, California. It was part of the 1986 NCAA Division I-A football season. It featured the 19th-ranked Iowa Hawkeyes, and the unranked San Diego State Aztecs.


1986 Holiday Bowl, Scoring summary
Iowa scored first on a 5-yard touchdown run from Rick Bayless, taking a 7–0 lead. San Diego State answered on a 6-yard touchdown pass from Todd Santos to running back Chris Hardy to make it 7–6 Iowa, closing the 1st quarter of scoring. In the second quarter, Santos fired a 44-yard bomb to Matt Jakson, as SDSU took a 14–7 lead. Iowa's Mark Vlasic scored from 1 yard out, and SDSU led 14–13. Todd Santos threw a 28-yard touchdown pass to Monty Gilbreath, giving San Diego State a 21–13 lead at halftime.


1986 Holiday Bowl, Scoring summary
In the third quarter, Gilmore scored on a 1-yard touchdown run to make it 28–13 SDSU. Iowa responded when Hudson scored on a 1-yard touchdown run, making it 28–21 SDSU. In the fourth quarter, Chris Hardy scored on a 6-yard run, and SDSU went up 35–21. Iowa responded with a 29-yard touchdown pass from Vlasic to Cook, making it 35–29. Iowa then took the lead on a 4-yard score from Vlasic to Flagg.


1986 Holiday Bowl, Scoring summary
San Diego State's kicker Kevin Rahill kicked a 21-yard field goal with 47 seconds left to put the Aztecs up 38–36. Iowa's Kevin Harmon returned the ensuing kickoff 48 yards to the SDSU 37-yard line. Iowa kicker Rob Houghtlin kicked a 41-yard field goal, as Iowa won 39–38.


1986 Holy Cross Crusaders football team
The 1986 Holy Cross Crusaders football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross as a member of the Colonial League during the 1986 NCAA Division I-AA football season. In its first year under head coach Mark Duffner, the team compiled a 10–1 record (4–0 against conference opponents) and won the Colonial League championship. The team played its home games at Fitton Field in Worcester, Massachusetts.


1986 Honduran Segunda División
The 1986 Honduran Segunda División was the 20th season of the Honduran Segunda División. Under the management of Carlos Padilla, Universidad won the tournament after finishing first in the final round (or Cuadrangular) and obtained promotion to the 1987–88 Honduran Liga Nacional.


1986 Hong Kong Masters
The 1986 Hong Kong Masters was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament held in September 1986 at the Queen Elizabeth Stadium in Hong Kong. Willie Thorne won the tournament, defeating Dennis Taylor 8–3 in the final. Thorne recorded two century breaks, 102 and 106, during the final. The event was sponsored by Camus and had a prize fund of £86,000.


1986 Hong Kong Masters, Main draw
First round and quarter-finals source: Hayton and Dee (2004); Semi-finals and final source: Hale (1987)


1986 Hong Kong municipal elections
The 1986 Urban Council and Regional Council elections were the municipal elections held on 6 March 1986 for the elected seats of the Urban Council for Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and New Kowloon and newly created Regional Council for the rest of the New Territories respectively.


1986 Hong Kong municipal elections, Overview
15 seats in the Urban Council remained the directly elected by the general residents and 15 appointed by the Governor. For the newly formed Regional Council, 12 seats were directly elected and 9 seats were elected by the New Territories District Boards members, with 12 appointed members and 3 ex officio members of the Chairman and two vice chairmen of the Heung Yee Kuk. The first-past-the-post voting system was used.


1986 Hong Kong municipal elections, Overview
Total of 362,725, which shared 27% of the voters cast their votes on the election day on 6 March, 143,888 of which voted (35.9% turnout) in the Regional Council and 218,837 of them (23.2% turnout) voted in the Urban Council, slightly higher than the 1983 Urban Council Election.


1986 Hong Kong municipal elections, Overview
Among 12 incumbent Urban Councillors, only veteran Brook Bernacchi of the Reform Club of Hong Kong and Chow Wai-hung of the Hong Kong Civic Association failed to be re-elected. The oldest elected Urban Councillor was Elsie Tu who was already 72 years old, while 64 years old Kwong Ping-yau was the oldest Regional Councillor. For the Regional Council, 10 out of 27 councillors elected were social workers, while there were also 7 education workers.


1986 Hong Kong municipal elections, Overview
The grassroots organisation Hong Kong People's Council on Public Housing Policy (PCPHP) had candidates it supported being elected Kwun Tong, Sham Shui Po, Shau Kei Wan and Wong Tai Sin while the other new political groups such as the Hong Kong Affairs Society and Meeting Point had both victories and defeats in different areas.


1986 Hoshiarpur bus massacre
1986 Hoshiarpur Bus massacre was a massacre of 24 Hindu bus-passengers by Khalistani Sikh terrorists. The bus massacre was the worst terrorist incident in Punjab of the year 1986. It occurred on Sunday, 30 November 1986, near Khuda located in the Hoshiarpur district in the northern state of Punjab, India close to the Indo-Pak border.


1986 Hoshiarpur bus massacre
According to the local police officials four Sikh terrorists carrying  automatic weapons (AK-47) and revolvers hijacked the public bus, taking it to a remote area and stopped. The terrorists then commanded all Hindu passengers to get off the bus. While the passengers were getting down, the terrorists opened fire on them killing twenty four of them and injuring seven with gunshots. The gunmen then fled the location after the killings in motorcycles and scooters.


1986 Hoshiarpur bus massacre, Objective
The goal of the terrorists behind the massacre was to drive out the million Hindus living in the Punjab state and force the Sikhs living in the other states of India to move in. This would have enabled the Sikh separatists to claim the Punjab state as a sovereign country of Khalistan. Thousands of refugees belonging to the Hindu religion from Punjab had already moved to New Delhi to escape the communal violence.


1986 Hoshiarpur bus massacre, Objective
In July same year, after a similar incident of the killing of 15 people in Muktsar in July, Hindu-Sikh riots had broke out in western part of New Delhi, where a majority of Hindu refugees from Punjab lived. Five people were killed in those Riots. The Police in New Delhi were put on increased vigilance with more patrolling to prevent a similar rioting that had happened in July.


1986 Hoshiarpur bus massacre, Reactions
The Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi made a condolence statement on the Sunday night where he had expressed sympathy for the "sorrowing mothers, fathers, wives and children of the victims." He said "I am with them in this moment of grief, and I resolve with them not to rest until we have conquered the evil designs of disruptive forces,". The attack was called a "grave provocation to secularism, love and brotherhood, the basic principles of new, resurgent India."


1986 Hoshiarpur bus massacre, Reactions
The Governor of Punjab S.S. Ray called the incident an "act of madness" and he requested both the Sikhs and the Hindus in the state to maintain peace by keeping restraint.


1986 Hoshiarpur bus massacre, Reactions
According to the Police director of Punjab, Julio Ribeiro, in the last 11 months, more than 400 civilians were killed with an overall figure of more than 450 killed in sectarian violence in Punjab.


1986 Hounslow London Borough Council election
The 1986 Hounslow Council election took place on 8 May 1986 to elect members of Hounslow London Borough Council in London, England. The whole council was up for election and the Labour party stayed in overall control of the council.


1986 Houston Astros season
The 1986 Houston Astros season was the 25th season for the Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise in Houston, Texas. For the second time in team history, the Astros won the National League West division; it was their third postseason appearance the past seven seasons, and it would be their last for eleven years.


1986 Houston Astros season, Regular season
Scott was the first pitcher in the National League and the second overall to throw a no-hitter to clinch a pennant. The first was New York Yankees pitcher Allie Reynolds, who accomplished the feat on September 18, 1951.


1986 Houston Astros season, Regular season, All-Star Game
The 1986 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the 57th playing of the midsummer classic between the all-stars of the American League (AL) and National League (NL), the two leagues comprising Major League Baseball. The game was held on July 15, 1986, at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas, the home of the Astros. The game resulted in the American League defeating the National League 3–2.


1986 Houston Astros season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1986 Houston Astros season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1986 Houston Astros season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1986 Houston Astros season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1986 Houston Astros season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1986 Houston Astros season, National League Championship Series, Game 6
Game 6 was one for the ages, in more ways than one. The game went 16 innings with the Mets coming out on top 7–6. It was the highest scoring game of the series; in fact, the 16th inning alone featured more runs than three of the previous five games had in their entirety.


1986 Houston Astros season, National League Championship Series, Game 6
The Astrodome hosted what some consider to be one of the greatest games of all time that October and it will forever be remembered.


1986 Houston Astros season, National League Championship Series, Game 6
The big story of Game 6 was that it was most nearly a must-win for both teams. The Astros obviously had to have it because they were facing elimination.


1986 Houston Astros season, National League Championship Series, Game 6
Even though they were up 3–2 in the series, the Mets regarded it as a must-win because they were scheduled to face Mike Scott again in Game 7. Scott had given up a grand total of 1 run in his first two starts of the series, and had dominated the Mets so completely that even the most optimistic Mets fans knew their chances of beating him in a potential Game 7 were small. The end result was one of the greatest games in baseball history.


1986 Houston Astros season, National League Championship Series, Game 6
The Astros broke through first, and for a low scoring series like this, they broke through big, scoring three runs off a possibly tired Bob Ojeda in the bottom of the first. He settled down after that, however, and the Astros wouldn't score again for the next 12 innings. Meanwhile, Astros starter Bob Knepper was brilliant from the very first pitch, and the game headed to the 9th still 3–0.


1986 Houston Astros season, National League Championship Series, Game 6
Just when it looked like the Mets would have to face the mighty Scott, however, their bats suddenly came to life. After pitching almost perfectly for the first eight innings, Knepper clearly tired in the 9th. He allowed three hits and recorded only one out, and left with the Astros clinging to a 3–2 lead. The decision by Lanier not to bring in Smith to start the inning was talked about for years to come. Smith was their closer, but had blown a save earlier in the series.


1986 Houston Astros season, National League Championship Series, Game 6
When Smith finally did appear, he was ineffective, walking two batters to load the bases and then allowing the tying run to score on a sacrifice fly by Ray Knight. In a matter of minutes, the previously raucous crowd of 45,718 had been almost completely silenced and extra innings had soon begun.


1986 Houston Astros season, National League Championship Series, Game 6
In the 14th, the Mets made their first bid to win. After Gary Carter opened with a single, a walk to Darryl Strawberry put two runners on with nobody out. After Knight forced Carter at third, Wally Backman drove a single to right. When Kevin Bass' throw to the plate sailed high over Alan Ashby's head to the screen, Strawberry scored. It looked like the end for the Astros, as Orosco came in to close them down.


1986 Houston Astros season, National League Championship Series, Game 6
With one out in the bottom of the 14th and the Houston fans with their heads in their hands, Billy Hatcher shocked everyone with a line drive home run off the left field foul pole. It was the first earned run allowed by the Mets bullpen in the entire series. Hatcher went 3 for 7 in the game, and his homer meant the Astros would be kept alive for at least one more inning. Both teams failed to score in the 15th, and the game went to the 16th inning, the most innings in playoff history at that time.


1986 Houston Astros season, National League Championship Series, Game 6
The 16th inning would be the deciding factor, and it was not an easy 16th for either pitching staff. The Mets appeared to take control of the game once again, this time coming up with 3 runs in the top half of the inning. The rally began with Strawberry receiving a gift double when Billy Hatcher and Bill Doran misplayed his towering fly ball with one out. When Knight followed with a single to right, a poor throw to the plate by Kevin Bass allowed the tiebreaking run to score, just as it had in the 14th. A walk, two wild pitches, and a single by Lenny Dykstra brought in two more runs, putting the Mets up 7–4. This sent some of the Houston faithful for the exits; those who stayed, however, almost witnessed the unthinkable.


1986 Houston Astros season, National League Championship Series, Game 6
Orosco struck out Craig Reynolds to open the inning, but a walk and two singles later, Houston had a run in and the tying run on base. Orosco induced Denny Walling to hit into a force play at second for the second out, but Glenn Davis singled home another run, bringing the Astros within a run. People everywhere were quiet as they watched Orosco face right fielder Kevin Bass with two outs and the tying run on second, and the winning run on first.


1986 Houston Astros season, National League Championship Series, Game 6
It was all up to Bass to drive in a run and tie the game. Orosco threw Bass six straight sliders; when Bass swung and missed the last of them, the epic series was over. Orosco was awarded the victory, marking the first time in postseason history a reliever won three games in a series. It would be a long winter for the Astros, but for the Mets, an even bigger trial awaited them. After taking two days off to recover from the exhausting series against Houston, the Mets began a legendary World Series against the Boston Red Sox, a series in which they would pull off one of the greatest comebacks of all time.


1986 Houston Astros season, National League Championship Series, Game 6
The Mets had won the series with a .189 batting average, the lowest average recorded by a winning team in a postseason series. Their pitching had been the key.


1986 Houston Cougars football team
The 1986 Houston Cougars football team represented the University of Houston during the 1986 NCAA Division I-A football season. The Cougars were led by 25th-year head coach Bill Yeoman and played their home games at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas. The team competed as members of the Southwest Conference, finishing in last. Following a dismal 1–10 season, and amidst mounting controversy surrounding alleged NCAA rule violations, Bill Yeoman resigned as head coach. He retired as Houston's longest serving and winningest coach by wide margins.


1986 Houston Oilers season
The 1986 Houston Oilers season was the 27th season overall and 17th with the National Football League (NFL). The team matched their previous season's output of 5–11, and missed the playoffs for the sixth consecutive season.


1986 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team
The 1986 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team represented Humboldt State University during the 1986 NCAA Division II football season. Humboldt State competed in the Northern California Athletic Conference in 1986.


1986 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team
The 1986 Lumberjacks were led by first-year head coach Mike Dolby. They played home games at the Redwood Bowl in Arcata, California. Humboldt State finished with a record of two wins and nine losses (2–9, 0–5 NCAC). The Lumberjacks were outscored by their opponents 175–350 for the season.


1986 Humboldt State Lumberjacks football team, Team players in the NFL
No Humboldt State players were selected in the 1987 NFL Draft.