1986 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 3000 metres

The men's 3000 metres event at the 1986 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 22 and 23 February.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Dietmar Millonig Austria	Stefano Mei Italy	João Campos Portugal

Results

Heats

First 3 of each heat (Q) and the next 3 fastest (q) qualified for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Thomas Wessinghage	West Germany	8:01.01	Q
2	1	António Leitão	Portugal	8:01.13	Q
3	2	Walter Merlo	Italy	8:01.14	Q
4	1	Dietmar Millonig	Austria	8:01.46	Q
5	1	Stefano Mei	Italy	8:01.50	Q
6	1	João Campos	Portugal	8:02.20	q
7	2	Gábor Szabó	Hungary	8:02.55	Q
8	2	Mark Roberts	Great Britain	8:03.35	Q
9	1	Lubomír Tesáček	Czechoslovakia	8:03.53	q
10	2	Czesław Mojżysz	Poland	8:04.10	Q
11	1	Billy Dee	Great Britain	8:04.11	q
12	2	Abel Antón	Spain	8:05.09	q
13	2	Peter Belger	West Germany	8:14.84
14	2	José Regalo	Portugal	8:16.52
15	2	José Manuel Abascal	Spain	8:17.33
16	1	Jaime López	Spain	8:21.23
17	1	Yorgos Petrakis	Greece	8:22.22
18	2	Panayotis Fotiou	Greece	8:49.97
	2	Luboš Gaisl	Czechoslovakia	DNF

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Dietmar Millonig	Austria	7:59.08
	Stefano Mei	Italy	7:59.12
	João Campos	Portugal	7:59.15
4	Gábor Szabó	Hungary	7:59.99
5	Thomas Wessinghage	West Germany	8:00.76
6	Walter Merlo	Italy	8:03.29
7	António Leitão	Portugal	8:03.43
8	Lubomír Tesáček	Czechoslovakia	8:04.74
9	Abel Antón	Spain	8:09.31
10	Billy Dee	Great Britain	8:14.61
11	Czesław Mojżysz	Poland	8:20.16
	Mark Roberts	Great Britain	DNF