1966 European Aquatics Championships

The 1966 European Aquatics Championships were held in Utrecht, Netherlands from 20 to 27 August 1966. Titles were contested in swimming, diving and water polo (men).

Medal table

Host nation

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	12	7	5	24
2	East Germany	4	6	5	15
3	Netherlands	3	1	1	5
4	France	2	0	1	3
5	Great Britain	1	3	3	7
6	Italy	1	0	1	2
7	Sweden	0	2	2	4
8	Hungary	0	1	1	2
9	Austria	0	1	0	1
9	Spain	0	1	0	1
9	West Germany	0	1	0	1
12	Finland	0	0	1	1
12	Poland	0	0	1	1
12	Romania	0	0	1	1
12	Yugoslavia	0	0	1	1
Total		23	23	23	69

Medal summary

Diving

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
3 m springboard	Mikhail Safonov (URS)	155.27	Tord Andersson (SWE)	146.30	Franco Cagnotto (ITA)	146.21
10 m platform	Klaus Dibiasi (ITA)	162.92	Brian Phelps (GBR)	152.01	Jerzy Kowalewski (POL)	143.13

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
3 m springboard	Vera Baklanova (URS)	136.59	Delia Reinhard (GDR)	136.05	Tamara Fyedosova (URS)	133.23
10 m platform	Natalya Kuznetsova (URS)	100.93	Ingeborg Pertmayr (AUT)	94.52	Gabriele Krauss Schöpe (GDR)	91.22

Swimming

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Bobby McGregor (GBR)	53.7	Leonid Ilyichev (URS)	54.3	Udo Poser (GDR)	54.8
400 m freestyle	Frank Wiegand (GDR)	4:11.1	Semyon Belits-Geiman (URS)	4:13.2	Alain Mosconi (FRA)	4:13.6
1500 m freestyle	Semyon Belits-Geiman (URS)	16:58.5	Alan Kimber (GBR)	17:13.2	Aleksandr Pletnyev (URS)	17:17.9
200 m backstroke	Yuriy Gromak (URS)	2:12.9	Jaime Monzó (ESP)	2:15.7	Joachim Rother (GDR)	2:16.7
200 m breaststroke	Georgiy Prokopenko (URS)	2:30.0	Aleksandr Tutakayev (URS)	2:30.3	Egon Henninger (GDR)	2:30.5
200 m butterfly	Valentin Kuzmin (URS)	2:10.2	Horst-Günter Gregor (GDR)	2:10.6	Anatoliy Skavronskiy (URS)	2:11.2
400 m individual medley	Frank Wiegand (GDR)	4:47.9	Andrey Dunayev (URS)	4:48.7	Klaus Katzur (GDR)	4:55.7
4×100 m freestyle relay	East Germany Frank Wiegand Udo Poser Horst-Günter Gregor Peter Sommer	3:36.8	Soviet Union Leonid Ilyichev Viktor Mazanov Georgiy Kulikov Vladimir Shuvalov	3:37.5	Sweden Lester Eriksson Göran Jansson Yngvar Eriksson Jan Lundin	3:39.0
4×200 m freestyle relay	Soviet Union Leonid Ilyichev Semyon Belits-Geiman Aleksandr Pletnev Yevgeniy Novikov	8:00.2	East Germany Horst-Günter Gregor Alfred Müller Udo Poser Frank Wiegand	8:01.6	Sweden Lester Eriksson Olle Ferm Ingvar Eriksson Jan Lundin	8:04.3
4×100 m medley relay	Soviet Union Viktor Mazanov Georgiy Prokopenko Valentin Kuzmin Leonid Ilyichev	4:02.4	East Germany Jürgen Dietze Egon Henninger Horst-Günter Gregor Frank Wiegand	4:02.9	HUN József Csikány Ferenc Lenkei Ákos Gulyás István Szentirmay	4:05.9

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Martina Grunert (GDR)	1:01.2	Judit Turóczy (HUN)	1:02.1	Pauline Sillett (GBR)	1:02.5
400 m freestyle	Claude Mandonnaud (FRA)	4:48.2	Ada Kok (NED)	4:48.7	Tamara Sosnova (URS)	4:50.1
100 m backstroke	Christine Caron (FRA)	1:08.1	Linda Ludgrove (GBR)	1:08.9	Cristina Balaban (ROM)	1:09.7
200 m breaststroke	Galina Prozumenshchikova (URS)	2:40.8	Irina Posdnyakova (URS)	2:41.9	Jill Slattery (GBR)	2:47.9
100 m butterfly	Ada Kok (NED)	1:05.6	Heike Hustede (FRG)	1:06.3	Eila Pyrhönen (FIN)	1:07.8
400 m individual medley	Betty Heukels (NED)	5:25.0	Heidi Pechstein (GDR)	5:26.0	Lyudmila Kasiyeva (URS)	5:28.4
4×100 m freestyle relay	Soviet Union Natalya Sipchenko Antonina Rudenko Natalya Ustinova Tamara Sosnova	4:11.3	Sweden Ingrid Gustavsson Ulla Jafvert Ann-charlott Lilja Anne-Christine Hagberg	4:12.2	Netherlands Toos Beumer Mirjam van Hemert Bep Weeteling Lydia Schaap	4:12.8
4×100 m medley relay	Netherlands Cobie Sikkens Gretta Kok Ada Kok Toos Beumer	4:36.4	Soviet Union Natalya Mikhaylova Galina Prozumenshchikova Tatyana Devyatova Antonina Rudenko	4:38.2	Great Britain Linda Ludgrove Diana Harris Mary-Anne Cotterill Pauline Sillett	4:38.4

Water polo

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's competition	Soviet Union	East Germany	Yugoslavia

References

"European Swimming Championships (Men)". GBRSPORTS.COM. Archived from the original on 15 June 2011. Retrieved 11 June 2011.
"European Swimming Championships (Women)". GBRSPORTS.COM. Archived from the original on 15 June 2011. Retrieved 11 June 2011.

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