1986 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 3000 metres

1986 European Athletics Indoor Championships
Track events
60 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
60 m hurdles	men	women
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women

The men's 3000 metres event at the 1986 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 22 and 23 February.^[1][2]

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

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

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