1986 European Athletics Championships – Women's long jump

Medalists

Gold	Heike Drechsler  East Germany
Silver	Galina Chistyakova  Soviet Union
Bronze	Helga Radtke  East Germany

Results

Final

27 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Heike Drechsler	East Germany	7.27 (w: 0.3 m/s)	CR
	Galina Chistyakova	Soviet Union	7.09 (w: 0.0 m/s)
	Helga Radtke	East Germany	6.89 (w: 0.0 m/s)
4	Valy Ionescu	Romania	6.81 (w: 0.5 m/s)
5	Ljudmila Ninova	Bulgaria	6.65 (w: 0.0 m/s)
6	Silvia Khristova	Bulgaria	6.61 (w: -0.3 m/s)
7	Yelena Belevskaya	Soviet Union	6.58 (w: 1.2 m/s)
8	Nadine Fourcade	France	6.52 (w: 0.5 m/s)
9	Monika Hirsch	West Germany	6.52 (w: 0 m/s)
10	Sofiya Bozhanova	Bulgaria	6.42 (w: 1.5 m/s)
11	Agata Karczmarek	Poland	6.37 (w: 0 m/s)
12	Lene Demsitz	Denmark	6.29 (w: 0 m/s)

Qualification

26 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Heike Drechsler	East Germany	6.85 (w: -1 m/s)	Q
2	Yelena Belevskaya	Soviet Union	6.85 (w: 0 m/s)	Q
3	Galina Chistyakova	Soviet Union	6.83 (w: -0.7 m/s)	Q
4	Helga Radtke	East Germany	6.76 (w: 1.4 m/s)	Q
5	Ljudmila Ninova	Bulgaria	6.74 (w: 0.9 m/s)	Q
6	Silvia Khristova	Bulgaria	6.72 (w: -4.7 m/s)	Q
7	Nadine Fourcade	France	6.61 w (w: 4.3 m/s)	Q
8	Valy Ionescu	Romania	6.60	Q
9	Sofiya Bozhanova	Bulgaria	6.60 w (w: 5.2 m/s)	Q
10	Monika Hirsch	West Germany	6.53 (w: 0.3 m/s)	Q
11	Agata Karczmarek	Poland	6.52 (w: 1.4 m/s)	Q
12	Lene Demsitz	Denmark	6.49 (w: -1.1 m/s)	Q
13	Nadine Debois	France	6.41 w (w: 2.5 m/s)
14	Eva Murková	Czechoslovakia	6.40 (w: 1.1 m/s)
15	Irina Valyukevich	Soviet Union	6.29
16	Silke Harms	West Germany	6.09 (w: -2.1 m/s)
17	Mary Berkeley	United Kingdom	6.08 (w: 0.8 m/s)
18	Maroula Teloni	Cyprus	5.89 (w: -0.2 m/s)

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 18 athletes from 11 countries participated in the event.