1986 European Athletics Championships – Men's triple jump

Medalists

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

Abbreviations

• All results shown are in metres

Records

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

Results

Final

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)

Qualification

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)

Participation

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