1986 European Athletics Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay

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
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

The women's 4 × 400 metres relay event at the 1986 European Athletics Championships was held in Stuttgart, then West Germany, at Neckarstadion on 31 August 1986.^[1]

Gold	Kirsten Emmelmann Sabine Busch Petra Müller Marita Koch  East Germany
Silver	Gisela Kinzel Ute Thimm Heidi-Elke Gaugel Gaby Bussmann  West Germany
Bronze	Ewa Kasprzyk Marzena Wojdecka Elżbieta Kapusta Genowefa Błaszak  Poland

31 August

Rank	Nation	Competitors	Time	Notes
	East Germany	Kirsten Emmelmann Sabine Busch Petra Müller Marita Koch	3:16.87	CR
	West Germany	Gisela Kinzel Ute Thimm Heidi-Elke Gaugel Gaby Bussmann	3:22.80	NR
	Poland	Ewa Kasprzyk Marzena Wojdecka Elżbieta Kapusta Genowefa Błaszak	3:24.65	NR
4	Bulgaria	Yuliana Marinova Pepa Pavlova Yordanka Stoyanova Rositsa Stamenova	3:26.26
5	Italy	Marisa Masullo Cosetta Campana Giuseppina Cirulli Erica Rossi	3:32.30
6	Spain	Esther Lahoz Montserrat Pujol Cristina Pérez Blanca Lacambra	3:32.51
	Soviet Union	Vineta Ikauniece Olga Nazarova Marina Stepanova Olga Vladykina	DQ

According to an unofficial count, 28 athletes from 7 countries participated in the event.