| Event: | Men's triple jump |
| Competition: | European Athletics Championships |
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.
| Gold | Khristo Markov Bulgaria (BUL) | |
| Silver | Māris Bružiks Soviet Union (URS) | |
| Bronze | Oleg Protsenko Soviet Union (URS) |
| Q | automatic qualification | |
| q | qualification by rank | |
| DNS | did not start | |
| NM | no mark | |
| WR | world record | |
| AR | area record | |
| NR | national record | |
| PB | personal best | |
| SB | season best |
| Standing records prior to the 1986 European Athletics Championships | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17.97 m | June 16, 1985 | ||||
| 17.29 m | September 10, 1982 | Athens, Greece | |||
| Broken records during the 1986 European Athletics Championships | |||||
| 17.33 m | August 30, 1986 | ||||
| 17.66 m | August 30, 1986 | ||||
30 August
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Attempts | Result | Notes | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||||||
| align=left | align=left | 17.66 (w: 1.9 m/s) | CR | ||||||||||
| align=left | align=left | 17.33 (w: 1.1 m/s) | |||||||||||
| align=left | align=left | 17.28 w (w: 2.6 m/s) | |||||||||||
| 4 | align=left | align=left | 16.99 (w: 0.3 m/s) | ||||||||||
| 5 | align=left | align=left | 16.89 (w: -1.3 m/s) | ||||||||||
| 6 | align=left | align=left | 16.86 (w: 0.4 m/s) | ||||||||||
| 7 | align=left | align=left | 16.74 (w: 0.0 m/s) | ||||||||||
| 8 | align=left | align=left |  | 16.74 (w: 1.1 m/s) | |||||||||
| 9 | align=left | align=left |  | 16.64 (w: -0.3 m/s) | |||||||||
| 10 | align=left | align=left | 16.63 (w: -1.3 m/s) | ||||||||||
| 11 | align=left | align=left |  | 16.37 (w: 0.8 m/s) | |||||||||
| 12 | align=left | align=left |  | 16.09 (w: -1.4 m/s) | |||||||||
29 August
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Result | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | align=left | align=left | 16.94 (w: 1.3 m/s) | Q | |||
| 2 | align=left | align=left | 16.93 (w: -0.8 m/s) | Q | |||
| 3 | align=left | align=left | 16.93 (w: -1.4 m/s) | Q | |||
| 4 | align=left | align=left | 16.90 (w: -2.8 m/s) | Q | |||
| 5 | align=left | align=left | | 16.83 w (w: 3 m/s) | Q | ||
| 6 | align=left | align=left | 16.75 (w: -0.7 m/s) | Q | |||
| 7 | align=left | align=left | | 16.67 (w: -0.9 m/s) | Q | ||
| 8 | align=left | align=left | | 16.66 (w: -1.1 m/s) | Q | ||
| 9 | align=left | align=left | 16.65 (w: 1.9 m/s) | Q | |||
| 10 | align=left | align=left | 16.60 (w: -1.2 m/s) | Q | |||
| 11 | align=left | align=left | | 16.50 (w: -1.1 m/s) | Q | ||
| 12 | align=left | align=left | 16.45 (w: -0.5 m/s) | Q | |||
| 13 | align=left | align=left |  | 16.42 (w: 0.1 m/s) | |||
| 14 | align=left | align=left | 16.39 (w: -0.3 m/s) | ||||
| 15 | align=left | align=left | 16.35 (w: -0.1 m/s) | ||||
| 16 | align=left | align=left | 16.32 (w: -3.2 m/s) | ||||
| 17 | align=left | align=left |  | 16.32 (w: -0.3 m/s) | |||
| 18 | align=left | align=left | 16.10 (w: 0 m/s) | ||||
| 19 | align=left | align=left | 16.10 (w: 0.4 m/s) | ||||
| 20 | align=left | align=left | | 15.83 (w: -1.0 m/s) | |||
| 21 | align=left | align=left | | 15.79 | |||
| 22 | align=left | align=left |  | 15.50 (w: -2.7 m/s) | |||
| 23 | align=left | align=left | 15.12 (w: -3.4 m/s) |
According to an unofficial count, 23 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.
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