1986 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
10 km walk		women
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

These are the official results of the Men's Triple Jump event at the 1986 European Championships in Stuttgart, West Germany, held at Neckarstadion on 29 and 30 August 1986.^[1]

Gold	Khristo Markov Bulgaria (BUL)
Silver	Māris Bružiks Soviet Union (URS)
Bronze	Oleg Protsenko Soviet Union (URS)

• All results shown are in metres

Standing records prior to the 1986 European Athletics Championships
World Record	Willie Banks (USA)	17.97 m	June 16, 1985	Indianapolis, United States
Event Record	Keith Connor (GBR)	17.29 m	September 10, 1982	Athens, Greece
Broken records during the 1986 European Athletics Championships
Event Record	Māris Bružiks (URS)	17.33 m	August 30, 1986	Stuttgart, West Germany
Event Record	Khristo Markov (BUL)	17.66 m	August 30, 1986	Stuttgart, West Germany

30 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Attempts						Result	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6
	Khristo Markov	Bulgaria							17.66 (w: 1.9 m/s)	CR
	Māris Bružiks	Soviet Union							17.33 (w: 1.1 m/s)
	Oleg Protsenko	Soviet Union							17.28 w (w: 2.6 m/s)
4	Georgi Pomashki	Bulgaria							16.99 (w: 0.3 m/s)
5	Dirk Gamlin	East Germany							16.89 (w: -1.3 m/s)
6	Nikolay Musiyenko	Soviet Union							16.86 (w: 0.4 m/s)
7	Volker Mai	East Germany							16.74 (w: 0.0 m/s)
8	Didier Falise	Belgium							16.74 (w: 1.1 m/s)
9	Serge Hélan	France							16.64 (w: -0.3 m/s)
10	Mike Makin	United Kingdom							16.63 (w: -1.3 m/s)
11	Arne Holm	Sweden							16.37 (w: 0.8 m/s)
12	Béla Bakosi	Hungary							16.09 (w: -1.4 m/s)

29 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Nikolay Musiyenko	Soviet Union	16.94 (w: 1.3 m/s)	Q
2	Volker Mai	East Germany	16.93 (w: -0.8 m/s)	Q
3	Oleg Protsenko	Soviet Union	16.93 (w: -1.4 m/s)	Q
4	Khristo Markov	Bulgaria	16.90 (w: -2.8 m/s)	Q
5	Béla Bakosi	Hungary	16.83 w (w: 3 m/s)	Q
6	Dirk Gamlin	East Germany	16.75 (w: -0.7 m/s)	Q
7	Serge Hélan	France	16.67 (w: -0.9 m/s)	Q
8	Didier Falise	Belgium	16.66 (w: -1.1 m/s)	Q
9	Mike Makin	United Kingdom	16.65 (w: 1.9 m/s)	Q
10	Māris Bružiks	Soviet Union	16.60 (w: -1.2 m/s)	Q
11	Arne Holm	Sweden	16.50 (w: -1.1 m/s)	Q
12	Georgi Pomashki	Bulgaria	16.45 (w: -0.5 m/s)	Q
13	Dario Badinelli	Italy	16.42 (w: 0.1 m/s)
14	Ján Čado	Czechoslovakia	16.39 (w: -0.3 m/s)
15	Ivan Slanař	Czechoslovakia	16.35 (w: -0.1 m/s)
16	John Herbert	United Kingdom	16.32 (w: -3.2 m/s)
17	Jacek Pastusiński	Poland	16.32 (w: -0.3 m/s)
18	Peter Bouschen	West Germany	16.10 (w: 0 m/s)
19	Milan Mikuláš	Czechoslovakia	16.10 (w: 0.4 m/s)
20	Claes Rahm	Sweden	15.83 (w: -1.0 m/s)
21	Thomas Eriksson	Sweden	15.79
22	Marios Hadjiandreou	Cyprus	15.50 (w: -2.7 m/s)
23	Wolfgang Zinser	West Germany	15.12 (w: -3.4 m/s)

According to an unofficial count, 23 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.

• 1983 Men's World Championships Triple Jump (Helsinki)
• 1984 Men's Olympic Triple Jump (Los Angeles)
• 1987 Men's World Championships Triple Jump (Rome)
• 1988 Men's Olympic Triple Jump (Seoul)

• Results