The 1986 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held at the Palacio de los Deportes in Madrid, Spain, on 22 and 23 February 1986. The track used at the stadium at the time was 164 metres long.^[1]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres details	Ronald Desruelles (BEL)	6.61	Steffen Bringmann (GDR)	6.64	Bruno Marie-Rose (FRA)	6.65
200 metres details	Linford Christie (GBR)	21.10	Aleksandr Yevgenyev (URS)	21.18	Nikolay Razgonov (URS)	21.48
400 metres details	Thomas Schönlebe (GDR)	46.98	José Alonso (ESP)	47.12	Mathias Schersing (GDR)	47.59
800 metres details	Peter Braun (FRG)	1:48.96	Colomán Trabado (ESP)	1:49.12	Thierry Tonnelier (FRA)	1:49.51
1500 metres details	José Luis González (ESP)	3:44.55	José Luis Carreira (ESP)	3:45.07	Han Kulker (NED)	3:46.46
3000 metres details	Dietmar Millonig (AUT)	7:59.08	Stefano Mei (ITA)	7:59.12	João Campos (POR)	7:59.15
60 metres hurdles details	Javier Moracho (ESP)	7.67	Daniele Fontecchio (ITA)	7.70	Holger Pohland (GDR)	7.71
High jump details	Dietmar Mögenburg (FRG)	2.34	Carlo Thränhardt (FRG)	2.31	Eddy Annys (BEL)  Geoff Parsons (GBR)	2.28
Pole vault details	Atanas Tarev (BUL)	5.70	Marian Kolasa (POL)	5.70	Philippe Collet (FRA)	5.65
Long jump details	Robert Emmiyan (URS)	8.32 CR	László Szalma (HUN)	8.24 NR	Jan Leitner (TCH)	8.17
Triple jump details	Māris Bružiks (URS)	17.54 CR	Vladimir Plekhanov (URS)	17.21	Béla Bakosi (HUN)	16.93
Shot put details	Werner Günthör (SUI)	21.51	Sergey Smirnov (URS)	20.36	Marco Montelatici (ITA)	20.11

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres details	Nelli Fiere-Cooman (NED)	7.00 CR	Marlies Göhr (GDR)	7.08	Silke Gladisch (GDR)	7.14
200 metres details	Marita Koch (GDR)	22.58	Ewa Kasprzyk (POL)	22.96	Kirsten Emmelmann (GDR)	23.28
400 metres details	Sabine Busch (GDR)	51.40	Petra Müller (GDR)	51.59	Ann-Louise Skoglund (SWE)	52.40
800 metres details	Sigrun Ludwigs (GDR)	1:59.89	Cristeana Matei (ROM)	2:01.54	Slobodanka Čolović (YUG)	2:03.28
1500 metres details	Svetlana Kitova (URS)	4:14.25	Tatyana Lebonda (URS)	4:14.29	Mitica Junghiatu (ROM)	4:15.00
3000 metres details	Ines Bibernell (GDR)	8:52.52	Yvonne Murray (GBR)	9:01.31	Regina Chistyakova (URS)	9:01.72
60 metres hurdles details	Cornelia Oschkenat (GDR)	7.79	Anne Piquereau (FRA)	7.89	Kerstin Knabe (GDR)	7.90
High jump details	Andrea Bienias (GDR)	1.97	Gabriele Günz (GDR)	1.94	Larisa Kositsyna (URS)	1.94
Long jump details	Heike Drechsler (GDR)	7.18 CR	Helga Radtke (GDR)	6.94	Yelena Kokonova (URS)	6.90
Shot put details	Claudia Losch (FRG)	20.48	Heidi Krieger (GDR)	20.21	Mihaela Loghin (ROM)	19.07

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (GDR)	8	6	5	19
2	Soviet Union (URS)	3	4	4	11
3	West Germany (FRG)	3	1	0	4
4	Spain (ESP)	2	3	0	5
5	Great Britain (GBR)	1	1	1	3
6	Belgium (BEL)	1	0	1	2
	Netherlands (NED)	1	0	1	2
8	Austria (AUT)	1	0	0	1
	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	0	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	1	0	0	1
11	Italy (ITA)	0	2	1	3
12	Poland (POL)	0	2	0	2
13	France (FRA)	0	1	3	4
14	Romania (ROU)	0	1	2	3
15	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	1	2
16	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	0	1	1
	Portugal (POR)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 entries)		22	22	23	67

• 1986 in athletics (track and field)

• Results - men at GBRathletics.com
• Results - women at GBRathletics.com
• EAA