1966 European Athletics Championships – Men's 1500 metres

Events at the
1966 European
Athletics Championships

Track events
100 m   men   women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m men women
1500 m men
5000 m men
10,000 m men
80 m hurdles women
110 m hurdles men
400 m hurdles men
3000 m
steeplechase
men
4×100 m relay men women
4×400 m relay men
Road events
Marathon men
20 km walk men
50 km walk 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
Pentathlon women
Decathlon men

The men's 1500 metres at the 1966 European Athletics Championships was held in Budapest, Hungary, at Népstadion on 30 August and 1 September 1966.[1]

Medalists

Gold Bodo Tümmler
 West Germany
Silver Michel Jazy
 France
Bronze Harald Norpoth
 West Germany

Results

Final

1 September

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st Bodo Tümmler  West Germany 3:41.9
2nd Michel Jazy  France 3:42.2
3rd Harald Norpoth  West Germany 3:42.4
4 Alan Simpson  United Kingdom 3:43.8
5 Jürgen May  East Germany 3:44.1
6 André De Hertoghe  Belgium 3:44.3
7 Jean Wadoux  France 3:44.5
8 Henryk Szordykowski  Poland 3:45.8
9 Eugène Allonsius  Belgium 3:46.2
10 Stanislav Hoffman  Czechoslovakia 3:46.5
11 Walter Wilkinson  United Kingdom 3:46.9
12 Claude Nicolas  France 3:48.1

Heats

30 August

Heat 1

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Harald Norpoth  West Germany 3:44.9 Q
2 Michel Jazy  France 3:45.1 Q
3 Walter Wilkinson  United Kingdom 3:45.4 Q
4 Stanislav Hoffman  Czechoslovakia 3:45.4 Q
5 Arne Kvalheim  Norway 3:45.7
6 Oleg Rayko  Soviet Union 3:46.7
7 Roland Brehmer  Poland 3:49.0
8 Henk Snepvangers  Netherlands 3:51.5
9 Frank Murphy  Ireland 3:52.4
10 Gani Alia  Albania 3:57.2

Heat 2

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 André De Hertoghe  Belgium 3:40.7 CR NR Q
2 Bodo Tümmler  West Germany 3:41.1 Q
3 Jürgen May  East Germany 3:41.2 Q
4 Claude Nicolas  France 3:41.4 Q
5 Josef Odložil  Czechoslovakia 3:42.1
6 Mart Vilt  Soviet Union 3:42.7
7 Roman Tkaczyk  Poland 3:45.1
8 Simo Važić  Yugoslavia 3:45.6
9 Preben Glue  Denmark 3:45.9
10 Gergely Szentivanyi  Hungary 3:47.2

Heat 3

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Jean Wadoux  France 3:45.3 Q
2 Alan Simpson  United Kingdom 3:45.5 Q
3 Eugene Allonsius  Belgium 3:45.6 Q
4 Henryk Szordykowski  Poland 3:45.7 Q
5 Anders Gärderud  Sweden 3:45.8
6 Hans-Rudolf Knill   Switzerland 3:46.3
7 Franco Arese  Italy 3:46.3
8 Stig Rekdal  Norway 3:46.3
9 Wolf Schulte-Hillen  West Germany 3:46.5
10 Mikhail Zhelobovskiy  Soviet Union 3:48.4
11 Manuel de Oliveira  Portugal 3:48.9
12 Muharrem Dalkılıç  Turkey 3:56.4

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 32 athletes from 20 countries participated in the event.

References

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