1966 European Athletics Championships

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]

8th European Athletics Championships
Dates30 August – 4 September
Host cityBudapest, Hungary
VenueNépstadion
LevelSenior
TypeOutdoor
Events36
Participation769 athletes from
30 nations

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]

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
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  Wiesław Maniak (POL) 10.5   Roger Bambuck (FRA) 10.5   Claude Piquemal (FRA) 10.5
200 metres
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  Roger Bambuck (FRA) 20.9   Marian Dudziak (POL) 21.0   Jean-Claude Nallet (FRA) 21.0
400 metres
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  Stanisław Grędziński (POL) 46.0   Andrzej Badeński (POL) 46.2   Manfred Kinder (FRG) 46.3
800 metres
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  Manfred Matuschewski (GDR) 1:45.9 CR   Franz-Josef Kemper (FRG) 1:46.0   Bodo Tümmler (FRG) 1:46.3
1500 metres
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  Bodo Tümmler (FRG) 3:41.9   Michel Jazy (FRA) 3:42.2   Harald Norpoth (FRG) 3:42.4
5000 metres
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  Michel Jazy (FRA) 13:42.8 CR   Harald Norpoth (FRG) 13:44.0   Bernd Diessner (GDR) 13:47.8
10,000 metres
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  Jürgen Haase (GDR) 28:26.0 CR   Lajos Mecser (HUN) 28:27.0   Leonid Mikitenko (URS) 28:32.2
110 metres hurdles
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  Eddy Ottoz (ITA) 13.7 =CR   Hinrich John (FRG) 14.0   Marcel Duriez (FRA) 14.0
400 metres hurdles
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  Roberto Frinolli (ITA) 49.8   Gerd Lossdorfer (FRG) 50.3   Robert Poirier (FRA) 50.5
3000 metres steeplechase
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  Viktor Kudinskiy (URS) 8:26.6 CR   Anatoliy Kuryan (URS) 8:28.0   Gaston Roelants (BEL) 8:28.0
4 × 100 metres relay
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  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
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  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
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  Jim Hogan (GBR) 2:20:04.6   Aurèle Vandendriessche (BEL) 2:21:43.6   Gyula Tóth (HUN) 2:22:02.0
20 kilometres walk
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  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
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  Abdon Pamich (ITA) 4:18:42.0   Genhady Agapov (URS) 4:20:01.2   Oleksandr Shcherbyna (URS) 4:20:47.2
High jump
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  Jacques Madubost (FRA) 2.12 m   Robert Sainte-Rose (FRA) 2.12 m   Valeriy Skvortsov (URS) 2.09 m
Pole vault
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  Wolfgang Nordwig (GDR) 5.10 m CR   Christos Papanikolaou (GRE) 5.05 m   Hervé d'Encausse (FRA) 5.00 m
Long jump
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  Lynn Davies (GBR) 7.98 m CR   Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (URS) 7.88 m   Jean Cochard (FRA) 7.88 m
Triple jump
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  Georgi Stoykovski (BUL) 16.67 m CR   Hans-Jürgen Rückborn (GDR) 16.66 m   Henrik Kalocsai (HUN) 16.59 m
Shot put
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  Vilmos Varjú (HUN) 19.43 m CR   Nikolay Karasev (URS) 18.82 m   Władysław Komar (POL) 18.68 m
Discus throw
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  Detlef Thorith (GDR) 57.42 m CR   Hartmut Losch (GDR) 57.34 m   Lothar Milde (GDR) 56.80 m
Javelin throw
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  Jānis Lūsis (URS) 84.48 m CR   Władysław Nikiciuk (POL) 81.76 m   Gergely Kulcsár (HUN) 80.54 m
Hammer throw
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  Romuald Klim (URS) 70.02 m CR   Gyula Zsivótzky (HUN) 68.62 m   Uwe Beyer (FRG) 67.28 m
Decathlon
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  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
100 metres
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  Ewa Kłobukowska (POL) 11.5   Irena Kirszenstein (POL) 11.5   Karin Frisch (FRG) 11.8
200 metres
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  Irena Kirszenstein (POL) 23.1 CR   Ewa Kłobukowska (POL) 23.4   Vera Popkova (URS) 23.7
400 metres
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  Anna Chmelková (TCH) 52.9 CR   Antónia Munkácsi (HUN) 53.9   Monique Noirot (FRA) 54.0
800 metres
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  Vera Nikolić (YUG) 2:02.8 =CR   Zsuzsa Szabóné Nagy (HUN) 2:03.1   Antje Gleichfeld (FRG) 2:03.7
80 metres hurdles
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  Karin Balzer (GDR) 10.7   Karin Frisch (FRG) 10.7   Elzbieta Bednarek (POL) 10.7
4 × 100 metres relay
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  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
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  Taisia Chenchik (URS) 1.75 m   Ludmila Komleva (URS) 1.73 m   Jarosława Bieda (POL) 1.71 m
Long jump
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  Irena Kirszenstein (POL) 6.55 m CR   Diana Yorgova (BUL) 6.45 m   Helga Hoffmann (FRG) 6.38 m
Shot put
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  Nadezhda Chizhova (URS) 17.22 m   Margitta Gummel (GDR) 17.05 m   Marita Lange (GDR) 16.96 m
Discus throw
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  Christine Spielberg (GDR) 57.76 m CR   Liesel Westermann (FRG) 57.38 m   Anita Hentschel (GDR) 56.80 m
Javelin throw
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  Marion Lüttge (GDR) 58.74 m CR   Mihaela Peneş (ROM) 56.94 m   Valentina Popova (URS) 56.70 m
Pentathlon
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  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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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  East Germany (GDR)83617
2  Poland (POL)75315
3  Soviet Union (URS)67720
4  France (FRA)43714
5  Italy (ITA)3003
6  West Germany (FRG)210921
7  Great Britain (GBR)2002
8  Hungary (HUN)1438
9  Bulgaria (BUL)1102
10  Czechoslovakia (TCH)1001
  Yugoslavia (YUG)1001
12  Belgium (BEL)0112
13  Greece (GRE)0101
  Romania (ROU)0101
Totals (14 entries)363636108

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]

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
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