1966 European Athletics Championships
| 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 |
← 1962 Belgrade 1969 Athens → | |
The 8th European Athletics Championships were in Budapest, Hungary. The championship happened from 30 August to 4 September 1966. They were held in the Nép Stadium.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
The IAAF made a new rule that required female athletes to prove their gender. This was the first championship where this was required. All women competitors had to have a sex check. Many of the greatest women athletes from Europe missed these championships. High jumper Iolanda Balaș, shot putter Tamara Press, and long jumper Tatyana Shchelkanova all missed the championships. [1]
Medal summary
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 CR | 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 CR | Harald Norpoth (FRG) | 13:44.0 | Bernd Diessner (GDR) | 13:47.8 |
| 10,000 metres |
Jürgen Haase (GDR) | 28:26.0 CR |  Lajos Mecser (HUN) | 28:27.0 |  Leonid Mikitenko (URS) | 28:32.2 |
| 110 metres hurdles |
 Eddy Ottoz (ITA) | 13.7 =CR | 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 CR | Anatoliy Kuryan (URS) | 8:28.0 | .svg.png){kind=small} Gaston Roelants (BEL) | 8:28.0 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay |
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 |
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 |
.svg.png){kind=small} 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 CR | 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 | Oleksandr Shcherbyna (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 CR | .svg.png){kind=small} Christos Papanikolaou (GRE) | 5.05 m | Hervé d'Encausse (FRA) | 5.00 m |
| Long jump |
Lynn Davies (GBR) | 7.98 m CR | Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (URS) | 7.88 m | Jean Cochard (FRA) | 7.88 m |
| Triple jump |
 Georgi Stoykovski (BUL) | 16.67 m CR | Hans-Jürgen Rückborn (GDR) | 16.66 m | Henrik Kalocsai (HUN) | 16.59 m |
| Shot put |
Vilmos Varjú (HUN) | 19.43 m CR | Nikolay Karasev (URS) | 18.82 m | Władysław Komar (POL) | 18.68 m |
| Discus throw |
Detlef Thorith (GDR) | 57.42 m CR | Hartmut Losch (GDR) | 57.34 m | Lothar Milde (GDR) | 56.80 m |
| Javelin throw |
Jānis Lūsis (URS) | 84.48 m CR | Władysław Nikiciuk (POL) | 81.76 m | Gergely Kulcsár (HUN) | 80.54 m |
| Hammer throw |
Romuald Klim (URS) | 70.02 m CR | 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 [nb1] |
Ewa Kłobukowska (POL) | 11.5 | Irena Kirszenstein (POL) | 11.5 | Karin Frisch (FRG) | 11.8 |
| 200 metres |
Irena Kirszenstein (POL) | 23.1 CR | Ewa Kłobukowska (POL) | 23.4 | Vera Popkova (URS) | 23.7 |
| 400 metres |
 Anna Chmelková (TCH) | 52.9 CR | Antónia Munkácsi (HUN) | 53.9 | Monique Noirot (FRA) | 54.0 |
| 800 metres |
.svg.png){kind=small} Vera Nikolić (YUG) | 2:02.8 =CR | 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 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 |
Taisia Chenchik (URS) | 1.75 m | Ludmila Komleva (URS) | 1.73 m | Jarosława Bieda (POL) | 1.71 m |
| Long jump |
Irena Kirszenstein (POL) | 6.55 m CR | Diana Yorgova (BUL) | 6.45 m | Helga Hoffmann (FRG) | 6.38 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 CR | Liesel Westermann (FRG) | 57.38 m | Anita Hentschel (GDR) | 56.80 m |
| Javelin throw |
Marion Lüttge (GDR) | 58.74 m CR | .svg.png){kind=small} 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 |
- nb1 The women's 100 metres gold medal winner Ewa Kłobukowska got the same time as the championship record twice. Both times, she ran 11.4 seconds.
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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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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)
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Portugal (1)- Romania (18)
- Soviet Union (83)
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Spain (7)
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Switzerland (13)
Turkey (10)- Great Britain (57)
- West Germany (74)
- Yugoslavia (13)
References
- 1 2 Athletics - Top Athletes Miss European Games - Objections to Medical Test?, Glasgow Herald, August 30, 1966, p. 6, retrieved September 3, 2014
- ↑ Athletics - Start of European Championships - East Germans Gain First Two Gold Medals, Glasgow Herald, August 31, 1966, p. 6, retrieved September 3, 2014
- ↑ Athletics - European Gold Medal for Davies - Britain's First Success, Glasgow Herald, September 1, 1966, p. 4, retrieved September 3, 2014
- ↑ Athletics - Tummler Beats Jazy in 1500 Metres - W. German's Tactical Race, Glasgow Herald, September 2, 1966, p. 6, retrieved September 3, 2014
- ↑ Athletics - Another Gold Medal for East Germans - Nordwig's Pole Vault Record, Glasgow Herald, September 3, 1966, p. 4, retrieved September 3, 2014
- ↑ Athletics - Hogan Triumphs in Marathon - Irishman Gains Britain's Second Gold Medal, Glasgow Herald, September 1966, p. 5, retrieved September 3, 2014
- ↑ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 397–405, retrieved 13 August 2014
- ↑ 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.