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	women
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 200 metres event at the 1986 European Athletics Championships was held in Stuttgart, then West Germany, at Neckarstadion on 28 and 29 August 1986.^[1]

Gold	Heike Drechsler  East Germany
Silver	Marie-Christine Cazier  France
Bronze	Silke Gladisch  East Germany

29 August Wind: -0.8 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Heike Drechsler	East Germany	21.71	=WR
	Marie-Christine Cazier	France	22.32	NR
	Silke Gladisch	East Germany	22.49
4	Marina Molokova	Soviet Union	22.71
5	Ewa Kasprzyk	Poland	22.73
6	Natalya Bochina	Soviet Union	22.87
7	Sabine Günther	East Germany	22.98
8	Marina Zhirova	Soviet Union	23.18

28 August

Wind: 0.5 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Silke Gladisch	East Germany	22.29	Q
2	Marie-Christine Cazier	France	22.45	NR Q
3	Marina Zhirova	Soviet Union	22.93	Q
4	Sabine Günther	East Germany	22.93	Q
5	Kathy Cook	Great Britain	23.20
6	Anke Köninger	West Germany	23.58
7	Jolanta Janota	Poland	23.59
8	Martha Grossenbacher	Netherlands	23.81

Wind: 0.3 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Heike Drechsler	East Germany	22.33	Q
2	Ewa Kasprzyk	Poland	22.60	Q
3	Marina Molokova	Soviet Union	22.61	Q
4	Natalya Bochina	Soviet Union	22.61	Q
5	Heather Oakes	Great Britain	22.92
6	Claudia Lepping	West Germany	23.39
7	Virginia Gomes	Portugal	24.44
	Sandra Whittaker	Great Britain	DNS

28 August

Wind: -2.0 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Heather Oakes	Great Britain	23.01	Q
2	Silke Gladisch	East Germany	23.01	Q
3	Natalya Bochina	Soviet Union	23.21	Q
4	Claudia Lepping	West Germany	23.44	Q
5	Sølvi Olsen	Norway	24.46

Wind: -1.7 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ewa Kasprzyk	Poland	23.11	Q
2	Marina Molokova	Soviet Union	23.17	Q
3	Sabine Günther	East Germany	23.24	Q
4	Sandra Whittaker	Great Britain	23.39	Q
5	Martha Grossenbacher	Netherlands	23.67	q

Wind: -1.1 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Heike Drechsler	East Germany	22.52	Q
2	Marie-Christine Cazier	France	22.62	Q
3	Marina Zhirova	Soviet Union	23.11	Q
4	Kathy Cook	Great Britain	23.11	Q
5	Jolanta Janota	Poland	23.32	q
6	Anke Köninger	West Germany	23.70	q
7	Virginia Gomes	Portugal	24.38	q

According to an unofficial count, 17 athletes from 9 countries participated in the event.