1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics
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
2000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
5000 m walk		women
10,000 m walk	men
Road events
20 km	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
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The men's javelin throw event at the 1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Athens, Greece, at Olympic Stadium on 17 and 18 July.^[1][2]

Gold	Vladimir Sasimovich  Soviet Union
Silver	Mark Roberson  United Kingdom
Bronze	Gavin Lovegrove  New Zealand

18 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Vladimir Sasimovich	Soviet Union	78.84
	Mark Roberson	United Kingdom	74.24
	Gavin Lovegrove	New Zealand	74.22
4	Uwe Ludwig	East Germany	73.68
5	Kimmo Kinnunen	Finland	70.96
6	Juan Oxamendi	Cuba	70.96
7	Gary Jenson	United Kingdom	69.96
8	Patrik Bodén	Sweden	69.62
9	Arnis Shimkus	Soviet Union	68.62
10	Kim Jae-Sang	South Korea	67.34
11	Mirosław Witek	Poland	65.24
12	Alain Storaci	France	64.94

17 Jul

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Uwe Ludwig	East Germany	71.50	Q
2	Kimmo Kinnunen	Finland	70.18	Q
3	Gary Jenson	United Kingdom	67.64	Q
4	Arnis Shimkus	Soviet Union	66.56	Q
5	José Luis Hernández	Cuba	66.06
6	Milan Stjepovic	Yugoslavia	64.44
7	Valentin Jula	Romania	62.96
8	Stefan Petersson	Sweden	62.46
9	Eric Schoenborn	United States	62.44
10	Markus Galanski	West Germany	61.26
11	Christophe Laudat	France	60.94
12	Shingo Ogino	Japan	60.18
13	Amadou Bangoura	Senegal	59.54
14	Panagiotis Lambrianides	Cyprus	59.10
15	Graham Morfitt	Canada	56.40
16	Marcelo Knauss	Argentina	55.94
17	Upadhyay Kumar	India	54.02
18	Roberto Jiménez	Nicaragua	53.22
19	Roelof Geertsema	Netherlands	51.56

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Vladimir Sasimovich	Soviet Union	72.16	Q
2	Mark Roberson	United Kingdom	69.62	Q
3	Gavin Lovegrove	New Zealand	69.20	Q
4	Mirosław Witek	Poland	68.60	Q
5	Juan Oxamendi	Cuba	67.76	Q
6	Kim Jae-Sang	South Korea	67.60	Q
7	Alain Storaci	France	66.90	q
8	Patrik Bodén	Sweden	66.24	q
9	José Gómez	Dominican Republic	66.22
10	Steffen Thrän	East Germany	66.08
11	John White	Australia	65.74
12	Anders Höeffler	Denmark	65.54
13	Giuseppe Soffiato	Italy	65.24
14	Juha Laukkanen	Finland	65.02
15	Ralph Willinski	West Germany	65.00
16	Roy Seidmeyer	United States	61.98
17	Abdul Azim Al-Aliwat	Saudi Arabia	60.98
18	Tony Mucha	Canada	60.40
19	Ivan Sibaja	Nicaragua	56.06
20	Troy Patterson	Barbados	50.10
21	Hussein Hassan Abdullah	United Arab Emirates	49.18
22	Martin Rekab	Sierra Leone	42.26

According to an unofficial count, 41 athletes from 30 countries participated in the event.