1986 European Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres hurdles

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.

Medalists

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

Results

Final

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

Semi-finals

27 August

Semi-final 1

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

Semi-final 2

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

Heats

26 August

Heat 1

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

Heat 2

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

Heat 3

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

Heat 4

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

Participation

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

• Austria (2)
• Belgium (2)
• Bulgaria (1)
• Czechoslovakia (1)
• France (1)
• Greece (2)
• Italy (2)
• Poland (1)
• Soviet Union (3)
• Spain (1)
• Sweden (3)
• United Kingdom (2)
• West Germany (3)