1966 European Athletics Championships

8th European Athletics Championships
Host city Budapest, Hungary
Date(s) 30 August – 4 September 1966
Main stadium Népstadion
Level Senior
Type Outdoor
Participation 769 athletes from
30 nations
Events 36


The 8th European Athletics Championships were held from 30 August to 4 September 1966 in the Nép Stadium in Budapest, Hungary. Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

A new IAAF ruling was applied for the first time making gender verification for female events mandatory. As a consequence, all women competitors were forced to have a sex check. Several of the greatest women athletes missed this year's championships, among them world record holders Iolanda Balaș (high jump) from Romania, as well as Tamara Press (shot put) and Tatyana Shchelkanova (long jump), both from the Soviet Union.[1]

Medal summary

Complete results were published.[7]

Men

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
 Wiesław Maniak (POL)10.5  Roger Bambuck (FRA)10.5  Claude Piquemal (FRA)10.5
200 metres
 Roger Bambuck (FRA)20.9  Marian Dudziak (POL)21.0  Jean-Claude Nallet (FRA)21.0
400 metres
 Stanisław Grędziński (POL)46.0  Andrzej Badeński (POL)46.2  Manfred Kinder (FRG)46.3
800 metres
 Manfred Matuschewski (GDR)1:45.9  Franz-Josef Kemper (FRG)1:46.0  Bodo Tümmler (FRG)1:46.3
1500 metres
 Bodo Tümmler (FRG)3:41.9  Michel Jazy (FRA)3:42.2  Harald Norpoth (FRG)3:42.4
5000 metres
 Michel Jazy (FRA)13:42.8  Harald Norpoth (FRG)13:44.0  Bernd Diessner (GDR)13:47.8
10,000 metres
 Jürgen Haase (GDR)28:26.0  Lajos Mecser (HUN)28:27.0  Leonid Mikitenko (URS)28:32.2
110 metres hurdles
 Eddy Ottoz (ITA)13.7  Hinrich John (FRG)14.0  Marcel Duriez (FRA)14.0
400 metres hurdles
 Roberto Frinolli (ITA)49.8  Gerd Lossdorfer (FRG)50.3  Robert Poirier (FRA)50.5
3000 metres steeplechase
 Viktor Kudinskiy (URS)8:26.6  Anatoliy Kuryan (URS)8:28.0  Gaston Roelants (BEL)8:28.0
4 × 100 metres relay
 France
Marc Berger
Jocelyn Delecour
Claude Piquemal
Roger Bambuck
39.4  Soviet Union
Edvin Ozolin
Armin Tuyakov
Boris Savchuk
Nikolay Ivanov
39.8  West Germany
Hans-Jürgen Felsen
Gert Metz
Dieter Enderlein
Manfred Knickenberg
39.8
4 × 400 metres relay
 Poland
Jan Werner
Edmund Borowski
Stanisław Grędziński
Andrzej Badeński
3:04.5  West Germany
Friedrich Roderfeld
Jens Ulbricht
Rolf Krusmann
Manfred Kinder
3:04.8  East Germany
Joachim Both
Günter Klann
Michael Zerbes
Wilfried Weiland
3:05.7
Marathon
 Jim Hogan (GBR)2:20:04.6  Aurèle Vandendriessche (BEL)2:21:43.6  Gyula Tóth (HUN)2:22:02.0
20 kilometres walk
 Dieter Lindner (GDR)1:29:25.0  Vladimir Golubnichiy (URS)1:30:06.0  Nikolay Smaga (URS)1:30:18.0
50 kilometres walk
 Abdon Pamich (ITA)4:18:42.0  Genhady Agapov (URS)4:20:01.2  Aleksandr Shcherbina (URS)4:20:47.2
High jump
 Jacques Madubost (FRA)2.12 m  Robert Sainte-Rose (FRA)2.12 m  Valeriy Skvortsov (URS)2.09 m
Pole vault
 Wolfgang Nordwig (GDR)5.10 m  Christos Papanikolaou (GRE)5.05 m  Hervé d'Encausse (FRA)5.00 m
Long jump
 Lynn Davies (GBR)7.98 m  Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (URS)7.88 m  Jean Cochard (FRA)7.88 m
Triple jump
 Georgi Stoykovski (BUL)16.67 m  Hans-Jürgen Rückborn (GDR)16.66 m  Henrik Kalocsai (HUN)16.59 m
Shot put
 Vilmos Varjú (HUN)19.43 m  Nikolay Karasev (URS)18.82 m  Władysław Komar (POL)18.68 m
Discus throw
 Detlef Thorith (GDR)57.42 m  Hartmut Losch (GDR)57.34 m  Lothar Milde (GDR)56.80 m
Javelin throw
 Jānis Lūsis (URS)82.04 m  Władysław Nikiciuk (POL)81.76 m  Gergely Kulcsár (HUN)80.54 m
Hammer throw
 Romuald Klim (URS)70.02 m  Gyula Zsivótzky (HUN)68.62 m  Uwe Beyer (FRG)67.28 m
Decathlon
 Werner von Moltke (FRG)7740 pts  Jörg Mattheis (FRG)7614 pts  Horst Beyer (FRG)7562 pts

Women

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
 Ewa Kłobukowska (POL)11.5  Irena Kirszenstein (POL)11.5  Karin Frisch (FRG)11.8
200 metres
 Irena Kirszenstein (POL)23.1  Ewa Kłobukowska (POL)23.4  Vera Popkova (URS)23.7
400 metres
 Anna Chmelková (TCH)52.9  Antónia Munkácsi (HUN)52.9  Monique Noirot (FRA)54.0
800 metres
 Vera Nikolić (YUG)2:02.8  Zsuzsa Szabóné Nagy (HUN)2:03.1  Antje Gleichfeld (FRG)2:03.7
80 metres hurdles
 Karin Balzer (GDR)10.7  Karin Frisch (FRG)10.7  Elzbieta Bednarek (POL)10.7
4 × 100 metres relay
 Poland
Elzbieta Bednarek
Danuta Straszynska
Irena Kirszenstein
Ewa Kłobukowska
44.4  West Germany
Renate Meyer
Hannelore Trabert
Karin Frisch
Jutta Stöck
44.5  Soviet Union
Vera Popkova
Valentina Bolshova
Lyudmila Samotyosova
Renate Laze
44.6
Long jump
 Irena Kirszenstein (POL)6.55 m  Diana Yorgova (BUL)6.45 m  Helga Hoffmann (FRG)6.38 m
High jump
 Taisia Chenchik (URS)1.75 m  Ludmila Komleva (URS)1.73 m  Jarosława Bieda (POL)1.71 m
Shot put
 Nadezhda Chizhova (URS)17.22 m  Margitta Gummel (GDR)17.05 m  Marita Lange (GDR)16.96 m
Discus throw
 Christine Spielberg (GDR)57.76 m  Liesel Westermann (FRG)57.38 m  Anita Hentschel (GDR)56.80 m
Javelin throw
 Marion Lüttge (GDR)58.74 m  Mihaela Peneş (ROM)56.94 m  Valentina Popova (URS)56.70 m
Pentathlon
 Valentina Tikhomirova (URS)4787 pts  Heide Rosendahl (FRG)4765 pts  Inge Exner (GDR)4713 pts

Medal table

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  East Germany 8 3 6 17
2  Poland 7 5 3 15
3  Soviet Union 5 7 7 19
4  France 4 3 7 14
5  West Germany 3 10 9 22
6  Italy 3 0 0 3
7  Great Britain 2 0 0 2
8  Hungary 1 4 3 8
9  Bulgaria 1 1 0 2
10=  Czechoslovakia 1 0 0 1
10=  Yugoslavia 1 0 0 1
12  Belgium 0 1 1 2
13=  Greece 0 1 0 1
13=  Romania 0 1 0 1

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 770 athletes from 29 countries participated in the event, one athletes more than the official number of 769 and one country less than the official number of 30 as published.[8]

References

Results

External links

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