The men's 4×400 metres relay event at the 1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Athens, Greece, at Olympic Stadium on 19 and 20 July.

Medalists Gold Clifton CampbellChip RishPercy WaddleWilliam Reed Silver Luis CadoganEulogio MordocheRamiro GonzálezRoberto Hernández Bronze Anthony ChristieThomas MasonHoward DavisLyndale Patterson

Results Final 20 July Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes Clifton CampbellChip RishPercy WaddleWilliam Reed 3:01.90 Luis CadoganEulogio MordocheRamiro GonzálezRoberto Hernández 3:04.22 Anthony ChristieThomas MasonHoward DavisLyndale Patterson 3:05.16 4 Gary PattersonGareth BakewellPeter CramptonMark Tyler 3:05.89 5 Aleksandr OvchinnikovVladimir LytkinAndrey KoltovichYan Krasnikov 3:06.97 6 Tomasz JędrusikMarek SzymkowiczDariusz RychterKrzysztof Sidowski 3:07.39 7 Joseph FalayeVincent OrlandoHassan BossoYusuf Bakare 3:08.96 8 Christian LandreChristophe GorisPascal MaranAlain Zamboni 3:09.72

Heats 19 July

Heat 1

Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes 1 Luis CadoganEulogio MordocheRamiro GonzálezRoberto Hernández 3:07.64 Q 2 Aleksandr OvchinnikovVladimir LytkinAndrey KoltovichYan Krasnikov 3:08.64 Q 3 Christian LandreChristophe GorisPascal MaranAlain Zamboni 3:09.03 q 4 Dolph FrancisCameron OrrMiles MurphyMark Garner 3:09.65 5 Mike SmithCarl FolkesKen LeBlancPhilip Hughes 3:11.26 6 José Luis ArrazolaJesús OlivánPedro MarotoManuel Moreno 3:12.20

Heat 2

Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes 1 Carey JohnsonHoward DavisThomas MasonLyndale Patterson 3:06.96 Q 2 Gary PattersonGareth BakewellPeter CramptonMark Tyler 3:09.03 Q 3 Milan PetakovićŽeljko KeroševićSlobodan BrankovićPredrag Melnjak 3:09.83 4 Thomas KleiberBodo KuhnThomas NettersheimVolker Höschele 3:09.85 5 Nicola MastroianniGiulio BonizzatoMarco MichieliDaniele Bertogna 3:11.75 6 Kharalambos RethymniotakisVasilios ArchondidisNikólaos DoúbasYeóryios Panayiotopoulos 3:12.81

Heat 3

Rank Nation Competitors Time Notes 1 Clois CarterChip RishPercy WaddleClifton Campbell 3:04.79 Q 2 Joseph FalayeVincent OrlandoHassan BossoYusuf Bakare 3:07.10 Q 3 Tomasz JędrusikMarek SzymkowiczDariusz RychterKrzysztof Sidowski 3:07.43 q 4 Peter DelarueRoland MoensYvan DelrueAlain Cuypers 3:09.77 5 Grant GilbertCraig PurdyJonathon MoyleScott Bowden 3:11.88

Participation According to an unofficial count, 70 athletes from 17 countries participated in the event.

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