1966 European Athletics Championships

International athletics championship event

8th European Athletics Championships

Dates| 30 August – 4 September
Host city| Budapest, Hungary
Venue| Népstadion
Level| Senior
Type| Outdoor
Events| 36
Participation| 769 athletes from
30 nations

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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

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Complete results were published.[7]

### Men

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100 metres
details |  Wiesław Maniak (POL) | 10.5  |  Roger Bambuck (FRA) | 10.5  |  Claude Piquemal (FRA) | 10.5
200 metres
details |  Roger Bambuck (FRA) | 20.9  |  Marian Dudziak (POL) | 21.0  |  Jean-Claude Nallet (FRA) | 21.0
400 metres
details |  Stanisław Grędziński (POL) | 46.0  |  Andrzej Badeński (POL) | 46.2  |  Manfred Kinder (FRG) | 46.3
800 metres
details |  Manfred Matuschewski (GDR) | 1:45.9 CR |  Franz-Josef Kemper (FRG) | 1:46.0  |  Bodo Tümmler (FRG) | 1:46.3
1500 metres
details |  Bodo Tümmler (FRG) | 3:41.9  |  Michel Jazy (FRA) | 3:42.2  |  Harald Norpoth (FRG) | 3:42.4
5000 metres
details |  Michel Jazy (FRA) | 13:42.8 CR |  Harald Norpoth (FRG) | 13:44.0  |  Bernd Diessner (GDR) | 13:47.8
10,000 metres
details |  Jürgen Haase (GDR) | 28:26.0 CR |  Lajos Mecser (HUN) | 28:27.0  |  Leonid Mikitenko (URS) | 28:32.2
110 metres hurdles
details |  Eddy Ottoz (ITA) | 13.7 =CR |  Hinrich John (FRG) | 14.0  |  Marcel Duriez (FRA) | 14.0
400 metres hurdles
details |  Roberto Frinolli (ITA) | 49.8  |  Gerd Lossdorfer (FRG) | 50.3  |  Robert Poirier (FRA) | 50.5
3000 metres steeplechase
details |  Viktor Kudinskiy (URS) | 8:26.6 CR |  Anatoliy Kuryan (URS) | 8:28.0  |  Gaston Roelants (BEL) | 8:28.0
4 × 100 metres relay
details |  France
Marc Berger
Jocelyn Delecour
Claude Piquemal
Roger Bambuck | 39.4 CR |  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
details |  Poland
Jan Werner
Edmund Borowski
Stanisław Grędziński
Andrzej Badeński | 3:04.5 CR |  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
details |  Jim Hogan (GBR) | 2:20:04.6  |  Aurèle Vandendriessche (BEL) | 2:21:43.6  |  Gyula Tóth (HUN) | 2:22:02.0
20 kilometres walk
details |  Dieter Lindner (GDR) | 1:29:25.0 CR |  Vladimir Golubnichiy (URS) | 1:30:06.0  |  Nikolay Smaga (URS) | 1:30:18.0
50 kilometres walk
details |  Abdon Pamich (ITA) | 4:18:42.0  |  Genhady Agapov (URS) | 4:20:01.2  |  Oleksandr Shcherbyna (URS) | 4:20:47.2
High jump
details |  Jacques Madubost (FRA) | 2.12 m  |  Robert Sainte-Rose (FRA) | 2.12 m  |  Valeriy Skvortsov (URS) | 2.09 m
Pole vault
details |  Wolfgang Nordwig (GDR) | 5.10 m CR |  Christos Papanikolaou (GRE) | 5.05 m  |  Hervé d'Encausse (FRA) | 5.00 m
Long jump
details |  Lynn Davies (GBR) | 7.98 m CR |  Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (URS) | 7.88 m  |  Jean Cochard (FRA) | 7.88 m
Triple jump
details |  Georgi Stoykovski (BUL) | 16.67 m CR |  Hans-Jürgen Rückborn (GDR) | 16.66 m  |  Henrik Kalocsai (HUN) | 16.59 m
Shot put
details |  Vilmos Varjú (HUN) | 19.43 m CR |  Nikolay Karasev (URS) | 18.82 m  |  Władysław Komar (POL) | 18.68 m
Discus throw
details |  Detlef Thorith (GDR) | 57.42 m CR |  Hartmut Losch (GDR) | 57.34 m  |  Lothar Milde (GDR) | 56.80 m
Javelin throw
details |  Jānis Lūsis (URS) | 84.48 m CR |  Władysław Nikiciuk (POL) | 81.76 m  |  Gergely Kulcsár (HUN) | 80.54 m
Hammer throw
details |  Romuald Klim (URS) | 70.02 m CR |  Gyula Zsivótzky (HUN) | 68.62 m  |  Uwe Beyer (FRG) | 67.28 m
Decathlon
details |  Werner von Moltke (FRG) | 7740 pts  |  Jörg Mattheis (FRG) | 7614 pts  |  Horst Beyer (FRG) | 7562 pts

### Women

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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100 metres
details[nb1] |  Ewa Kłobukowska (POL) | 11.5  |  Irena Kirszenstein (POL) | 11.5  |  Karin Frisch (FRG) | 11.8
200 metres
details |  Irena Kirszenstein (POL) | 23.1 CR |  Ewa Kłobukowska (POL) | 23.4  |  Vera Popkova (URS) | 23.7
400 metres
details |  Anna Chmelková (TCH) | 52.9 CR |  Antónia Munkácsi (HUN) | 53.9  |  Monique Noirot (FRA) | 54.0
800 metres
details |  Vera Nikolić (YUG) | 2:02.8 =CR |  Zsuzsa Szabóné Nagy (HUN) | 2:03.1  |  Antje Gleichfeld (FRG) | 2:03.7
80 metres hurdles
details |  Karin Balzer (GDR) | 10.7  |  Karin Frisch (FRG) | 10.7  |  Elzbieta Bednarek (POL) | 10.7
4 × 100 metres relay
details |  Poland
Elzbieta Bednarek
Danuta Straszynska
Irena Kirszenstein
Ewa Kłobukowska | 44.4 CR |  West Germany
Renate Meyer
Hannelore Trabert
Karin Frisch
Jutta Stöck | 44.5  |  Soviet Union
Vera Popkova
Valentyna Bolshova
Lyudmila Samotyosova
Renāte Lāce | 44.6
High jump
details |  Taisia Chenchik (URS) | 1.75 m  |  Ludmila Komleva (URS) | 1.73 m  |  Jarosława Bieda (POL) | 1.71 m
Long jump
details |  Irena Kirszenstein (POL) | 6.55 m CR |  Diana Yorgova (BUL) | 6.45 m  |  Helga Hoffmann (FRG) | 6.38 m
Shot put
details |  Nadezhda Chizhova (URS) | 17.22 m  |  Margitta Gummel (GDR) | 17.05 m  |  Marita Lange (GDR) | 16.96 m
Discus throw
details |  Christine Spielberg (GDR) | 57.76 m CR |  Liesel Westermann (FRG) | 57.38 m  |  Anita Hentschel (GDR) | 56.80 m
Javelin throw
details |  Marion Lüttge (GDR) | 58.74 m CR |  Mihaela Peneş (ROM) | 56.94 m  |  Valentina Popova (URS) | 56.70 m
Pentathlon
details |  Valentina Tikhomirova (URS) | 4787 pts  |  Heide Rosendahl (FRG) | 4765 pts  |  Inge Exner (GDR) | 4713 pts

* nb1 The women's 100 metres gold medallist Ewa Kłobukowska equalled the championship record twice in qualifying, running 11.4 seconds.

## Medal table

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  East Germany (GDR)| 8| 3| 6| 17
2|  Poland (POL)| 7| 5| 3| 15
3|  Soviet Union (URS)| 6| 7| 7| 20
4|  France (FRA)| 4| 3| 7| 14
5|  Italy (ITA)| 3| 0| 0| 3
6|  West Germany (FRG)| 2| 10| 9| 21
7|  Great Britain (GBR)| 2| 0| 0| 2
8|  Hungary (HUN)| 1| 4| 3| 8
9|  Bulgaria (BUL)| 1| 1| 0| 2
10|  Czechoslovakia (TCH)| 1| 0| 0| 1
Yugoslavia (YUG)| 1| 0| 0| 1
12|  Belgium (BEL)| 0| 1| 1| 2
13|  Greece (GRE)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Romania (ROU)| 0| 1| 0| 1
Totals (14 entries)| 36| 36| 36| 108

## Participation

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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]

* Albania (20)
* Austria (11)
* Belgium (16)
* Bulgaria (14)
* Czechoslovakia (49)
* Denmark (7)
* East Germany (61)
* Finland (16)
* France (52)
* Gibraltar (1)
* Greece (15)
* Hungary (68)
* Iceland (3)
* Ireland (8)
* Italy (35)
* Luxembourg (3)
* Netherlands (19)
* Norway (15)
* Poland (56)
* Portugal (1)
* Romania (18)
* Soviet Union (83)
* Spain (7)
* Sweden (25)
* Switzerland (13)
* Turkey (10)
* Great Britain (57)
* West Germany (74)
* Yugoslavia (13)

## References

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1. ^ a b Athletics - Top Athletes Miss European Games - Objections to Medical Test?, Glasgow Herald, August 30, 1966, p. 6, retrieved September 3, 2014
2. ^ Athletics - Start of European Championships - East Germans Gain First Two Gold Medals, Glasgow Herald, August 31, 1966, p. 6, retrieved September 3, 2014
3. ^ Athletics - European Gold Medal for Davies - Britain's First Success, Glasgow Herald, September 1, 1966, p. 4, retrieved September 3, 2014
4. ^ Athletics - Tummler Beats Jazy in 1500 Metres - W. German's Tactical Race, Glasgow Herald, September 2, 1966, p. 6, retrieved September 3, 2014
5. ^ Athletics - Another Gold Medal for East Germans - Nordwig's Pole Vault Record, Glasgow Herald, September 3, 1966, p. 4, retrieved September 3, 2014
6. ^ Athletics - Hogan Triumphs in Marathon - Irishman Gains Britain's Second Gold Medal, Glasgow Herald, September 1966, p. 5, retrieved September 3, 2014
7. ^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 397–405, retrieved 13 August 2014
8. ^ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, p. 4, retrieved 13 August 2014

Results

* "European Championships (Men)". gbrathletics.com. 2007. Archived from the original on 2 September 2010. Retrieved 21 August 2010.
* "European Championships (Women)". gbrathletics.com. 2007. Archived from the original on 22 September 2010. Retrieved 21 August 2010.

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