1966 European Athletics Championships – Men's javelin throw

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 javelin throw at the 1966 European Athletics Championships was held in Budapest, Hungary, at Népstadion on 1 and 2 September 1966.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Jānis Lūsis Soviet Union
Silver	Władysław Nikiciuk Poland
Bronze	Gergely Kulcsár Hungary

Results

Final

2 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
01 !	Jānis Lūsis	Soviet Union	84.48	CR
02 !	Władysław Nikiciuk	Poland	81.76
03 !	Gergely Kulcsár	Hungary	80.54
4	Pauli Nevala	Finland	80.36
5	Miklós Németh	Hungary	79.82
6	Väinö Kuisma	Finland	79.26
7	Janusz Sidło	Poland	78.86
8	Manfred Stolle	East Germany	78.70
9	Karlo Gordzemashvili	Soviet Union	75.68
10	Miloš Vojtek	Czechoslovakia	72.52
11	Urs von Wartburg	Switzerland	72.06
12	Jorma Kinnunen	Finland	70.48

Qualification

1 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Władysław Nikiciuk	Poland	81.36	Q
2	Pauli Nevala	Finland	80.48	Q
3	Janusz Sidło	Poland	80.16	Q
4	Urs von Wartburg	Switzerland	79.14	Q
5	Miklós Németh	Hungary	78.34	Q
6	Karlo Gordzemashvili	Soviet Union	78.30	Q
7	Gergely Kulcsár	Hungary	77.64	Q
8	Jānis Lūsis	Soviet Union	77.00	Q
9	Jorma Kinnunen	Finland	76.60	Q
10	Väinö Kuisma	Finland	76.60	Q
11	Manfred Stolle	East Germany	75.50	Q
12	Miloš Vojtek	Czechoslovakia	74.88	Q
13	Mart Paama	Soviet Union	74.54
14	Terje Thorslund	Norway	74.20
15	Petelo Wakalina	France	74.12
16	Hermann Salomon	West Germany	73.24
17	Josef Dušátko	Czechoslovakia	73.18
18	Harry Abraham	West Germany	70.94
19	Eugen Stumpp	West Germany	70.90
20	Michel Pougheon	France	69.28
21	Gábor Kovács	Hungary	69.14
22	John Fitzsimmons	United Kingdom	68.86
23	Willy Rasmussen	Norway	NM

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 23 athletes from 11 countries participated in the event.

France (2)
Hungary (3)
Norway (2)

United Kingdom (1)
West Germany (3)

References

↑ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 397–405, retrieved 13 August 2014

Javelin throw at the European Athletics Championships

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