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
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The men's 400 metres hurdles event at the 1986 European Athletics Championships was held in Stuttgart, then West Germany, at Neckarstadion on 26, 27, and 28 August 1986.^[1]

Gold	Harald Schmid  West Germany
Silver	Aleksandr Vasilyev  Soviet Union
Bronze	Sven Nylander  Sweden

28 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Harald Schmid	West Germany	48.65
	Aleksandr Vasilyev	Soviet Union	48.76
	Sven Nylander	Sweden	49.38
4	Toma Tomov	Bulgaria	49.62
5	Tagir Zemskov	Soviet Union	50.02
6	José Alonso	Spain	50.30
7	Rik Tommelein	Belgium	50.45
8	Athanassios Kalogiannis	Greece	51.83

27 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Harald Schmid	West Germany	49.17	Q
2	José Alonso	Spain	49.45	Q
3	Tagir Zemskov	Soviet Union	49.47	Q
4	Athanassios Kalogiannis	Greece	49.86	Q
5	Luca Cosi	Italy	50.28
6	Philippe Gonigam	France	50.44
7	Phil Beattie	United Kingdom	50.67
	Peter Scholz	West Germany	DQ

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Aleksandr Vasilyev	Soviet Union	48.80	Q
2	Sven Nylander	Sweden	48.83	NR Q
3	Toma Tomov	Bulgaria	49.21	Q
4	Rik Tommelein	Belgium	49.77	Q
5	Thomas Futterknecht	Austria	49.82
6	Matthias Kaulin	West Germany	50.00
7	Max Robertson	United Kingdom	50.06
8	Jozef Kucej	Czechoslovakia	50.42

26 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Sven Nylander	Sweden	49.80	Q
2	Toma Tomov	Bulgaria	50.02	Q
3	José Alonso	Spain	50.03	Q
4	Matthias Kaulin	West Germany	50.09	q
5	Giorgio Rucli	Italy	50.89
6	Alain Cuypers	Belgium	51.27

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Aleksandr Vasilyev	Soviet Union	49.61	Q
2	Peter Scholz	West Germany	49.74	Q
3	Rik Tommelein	Belgium	49.92	Q
4	Thomas Futterknecht	Austria	50.17	q
5	Luca Cosi	Italy	50.69	q
6	Georgios Vamvakas	Greece	50.91

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Harald Schmid	West Germany	50.15	Q
2	Philippe Gonigam	France	50.45	Q
3	Max Robertson	United Kingdom	50.64	Q
4	Ryszard Szparak	Poland	50.70
5	Oleg Azarov	Soviet Union	50.76
6	Ulf Sedlacek	Sweden	51.58
7	Klaus Ehrle	Austria	51.82

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Tagir Zemskov	Soviet Union	49.85	Q
2	Athanassios Kalogiannis	Greece	49.96	Q
3	Jozef Kucej	Czechoslovakia	50.00	Q
4	Phil Beattie	United Kingdom	50.00	q
5	Thomas Nyberg	Sweden	52.16

According to an unofficial count, 24 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.