1985 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's long jump

The men's long jump event at the 1985 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 3 March in Piraeus, Greece. In a rare occurrence, the first two athletes recorded the same distance in their best jump and the second best jump. Because of this, the third best jump decided the gold medal.

Results

Rank	Name	Nationality	#1	#2	#3	#4	#5	#6	Result	Notes
	Gyula Pálóczi	Hungary	7.79	7.71	7.96	7.94	8.01	8.15	8.15
	László Szálma	Hungary	7.64	7.79	7.94	x	8.01	8.15	8.15
	Sergey Layevskiy	Soviet Union	7.83	8.03	8.07	8.14	–	x	8.14
4	Jan Leitner	Czechoslovakia	7.71	7.91	x	7.91	7.96	8.13	8.13
5	Giovanni Evangelisti	Italy	x	x	7.77	x	7.91	8.01	8.01
6	Antonio Corgos	Spain	7.58	7.64	7.94	x	x	x	7.94
7	Atanas Atanasov	Bulgaria	7.55	7.79	7.78	7.86	7.77	7.67	7.86
8	Claude Morinière	France	7.61	7.86	x	x	x	x	7.86
9	Emiel Mellaard	Netherlands	7.72	7.76	7.52				7.76
10	Zdeněk Hanáček	Czechoslovakia	7.40	7.76	x				7.76
11	Vladimir Amidzhinov	Bulgaria	7.70	7.61	7.64				7.70
12	Ronald Desruelles	Belgium	7.68	7.60	7.57				7.68
13	Alberto Solanas	Spain	7.59	x	7.60				7.60
14	René Gloor	Switzerland	7.59	7.48	7.39				7.59
15	Zsolt Szabó	Hungary	x	7.56	x				7.56
16	Markus Kessler	West Germany	x	7.53	x				7.53
17	Christian Thomas	West Germany	x	7.50	x				7.50
18	Einar Sagli	Norway	7.47	x	–				7.47
19	José Leitão	Portugal	6.88	x	x				6.88
	João Lima	Portugal	x	x	x				NM