# 1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

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 Campbell Chip Rish Percy Waddle William Reed United States |
| Silver | Luis Cadogan Eulogio Mordoche Ramiro González Roberto Hernández Cuba |
| Bronze | Anthony Christie Thomas Mason Howard Davis Lyndale Patterson Jamaica |

## Results
### Final

20 July
| Rank | Nation | Competitors | Time |
| | United States | Clifton Campbell Chip Rish Percy Waddle William Reed | 3:01.90 |
| | Cuba | Luis Cadogan Eulogio Mordoche Ramiro González Roberto Hernández | 3:04.22 |
| | Jamaica | Anthony Christie Thomas Mason Howard Davis Lyndale Patterson | 3:05.16 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | Gary Patterson Gareth Bakewell Peter Crampton Mark Tyler | 3:05.89 |
| 5 | Soviet Union | Aleksandr Ovchinnikov Vladimir Lytkin Andrey Koltovich Yan Krasnikov | 3:06.97 |
| 6 | Poland | Tomasz Jędrusik Marek Szymkowicz Dariusz Rychter Krzysztof Sidowski | 3:07.39 |
| 7 | Nigeria | Joseph Falaye Vincent Orlando Hassan Bosso Yusuf Bakare | 3:08.96 |
| 8 | France | Christian Landre Christophe Goris Pascal Maran Alain Zamboni | 3:09.72 |

### Heats

19 July

#### Heat 1

| Rank | Nation | Competitors | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Cuba | Luis Cadogan Eulogio Mordoche Ramiro González Roberto Hernández | 3:07.64 | Q |
| 2 | Soviet Union | Aleksandr Ovchinnikov Vladimir Lytkin Andrey Koltovich Yan Krasnikov | 3:08.64 | Q |
| 3 | France | Christian Landre Christophe Goris Pascal Maran Alain Zamboni | 3:09.03 | q |
| 4 | Australia | Dolph Francis Cameron Orr Miles Murphy Mark Garner | 3:09.65 | |
| 5 | Canada | Mike Smith Carl Folkes Ken LeBlanc Philip Hughes | 3:11.26 | |
| 6 | Spain | José Luis Arrazola Jesús Oliván Pedro Maroto Manuel Moreno | 3:12.20 | |

#### Heat 2

| Rank | Nation | Competitors | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Jamaica | Carey Johnson Howard Davis Thomas Mason Lyndale Patterson | 3:06.96 | Q |
| 2 | United Kingdom | Gary Patterson Gareth Bakewell Peter Crampton Mark Tyler | 3:09.03 | Q |
| 3 | Yugoslavia | Milan Petaković Željko Kerošević Slobodan Branković Predrag Melnjak | 3:09.83 | |
| 4 | West Germany | Thomas Kleiber Bodo Kuhn Thomas Nettersheim Volker Höschele | 3:09.85 | |
| 5 | Italy | Nicola Mastroianni Giulio Bonizzato Marco Michieli Daniele Bertogna | 3:11.75 | |
| 6 | Greece | Kharalambos Rethymniotakis Vasilios Archondidis Nikólaos Doúbas Yeóryios Panayiotopoulos | 3:12.81 | |

#### Heat 3

| Rank | Nation | Competitors | Time | Notes |
| 1 | United States | Clois Carter Chip Rish Percy Waddle Clifton Campbell | 3:04.79 | Q |
| 2 | Nigeria | Joseph Falaye Vincent Orlando Hassan Bosso Yusuf Bakare | 3:07.10 | Q |
| 3 | Poland | Tomasz Jędrusik Marek Szymkowicz Dariusz Rychter Krzysztof Sidowski | 3:07.43 | q |
| 4 | Belgium | Peter Delarue Roland Moens Yvan Delrue Alain Cuypers | 3:09.77 | |
| 5 | New Zealand | Grant Gilbert Craig Purdy Jonathon Moyle Scott Bowden | 3:11.88 | |

## Participation

According to an unofficial count, 70 athletes from 17 countries participated in the event.
* Australia (4)
* Belgium (4)
* Canada (4)
* Cuba (4)
* France (4)
* Greece (4)
* Italy (4)
* Jamaica (5)
* New Zealand (4)
* Nigeria (4)
* Poland (4)
* Soviet Union (4)
* Spain (4)
* United Kingdom (4)
* United States (5)
* West Germany (4)
* Yugoslavia (4)