1986 European Athletics Championships – Women's long jump

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)

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)

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