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 | |
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| Dates | 30 August – 4 September 1966 |
| Host city | Budapest, Hungary |
| Venue | Népstadion |
| Level | Senior |
| Type | Outdoor |
| Events | 36 |
| Participation | 769 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
Complete results were published.[7]
Men
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 metres |
 | 10.5 |  | 10.5 | | 10.5 |
| 200 metres |
| 20.9 | | 21.0 | | 21.0 |
| 400 metres |
| 46.0 | | 46.2 |  | 46.3 |
| 800 metres |
 | 1:45.9 CR | | 1:46.0 | | 1:46.3 |
| 1500 metres |
| 3:41.9 | | 3:42.2 | | 3:42.4 |
| 5000 metres |
| 13:42.8 CR | | 13:44.0 | | 13:47.8 |
| 10,000 metres |
| 28:26.0 CR |  | 28:27.0 |  | 28:32.2 |
| 110 metres hurdles |
 | 13.7 =CR | | 14.0 | | 14.0 |
| 400 metres hurdles |
| 49.8 | | 50.3 | | 50.5 |
| 3000 metres steeplechase |
| 8:26.6 CR | | 8:28.0 | .svg.png){kind=small} | 8:28.0 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay |
Marc Berger Jocelyn Delecour Claude Piquemal Roger Bambuck | 39.4 CR | Edvin Ozolin Armin Tuyakov Boris Savchuk Nikolay Ivanov | 39.8 | Hans-Jürgen Felsen Gert Metz Dieter Enderlein Manfred Knickenberg | 39.8 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay |
Jan Werner Edmund Borowski Stanisław Grędziński Andrzej Badeński | 3:04.5 CR | Friedrich Roderfeld Jens Ulbricht Rolf Krusmann Manfred Kinder | 3:04.8 | Joachim Both Günter Klann Michael Zerbes Wilfried Weiland | 3:05.7 |
| Marathon |
 | 2:20:04.6 | | 2:21:43.6 | | 2:22:02.0 |
| 20 kilometres walk |
| 1:29:25.0 CR | | 1:30:06.0 | | 1:30:18.0 |
| 50 kilometres walk |
| 4:18:42.0 | | 4:20:01.2 | | 4:20:47.2 |
| High jump |
| 2.12 m | | 2.12 m | | 2.09 m |
| Pole vault |
| 5.10 m CR | .svg.png){kind=small} | 5.05 m | | 5.00 m |
| Long jump |
| 7.98 m CR | | 7.88 m | | 7.88 m |
| Triple jump |
.svg.png){kind=small} | 16.67 m CR | | 16.66 m | | 16.59 m |
| Shot put |
| 19.43 m CR | | 18.82 m | | 18.68 m |
| Discus throw |
| 57.42 m CR | | 57.34 m | | 56.80 m |
| Javelin throw |
| 84.48 m CR | | 81.76 m | | 80.54 m |
| Hammer throw |
| 70.02 m CR | | 68.62 m | | 67.28 m |
| Decathlon |
| 7740 pts | | 7614 pts | | 7562 pts |
Women
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 metres [nb1] |
| 11.5 | | 11.5 | | 11.8 |
| 200 metres |
| 23.1 CR | | 23.4 | | 23.7 |
| 400 metres |
 | 52.9 CR | | 52.9 | | 54.0 |
| 800 metres |
.svg.png){kind=small} | 2:02.8 =CR | | 2:03.1 | | 2:03.7 |
| 80 metres hurdles |
| 10.7 | | 10.7 | | 10.7 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay |
Elzbieta Bednarek Danuta Straszynska Irena Kirszenstein Ewa Kłobukowska | 44.4 CR | Renate Meyer Hannelore Trabert Karin Frisch Jutta Stöck | 44.5 | Vera Popkova Valentyna Bolshova Lyudmila Samotyosova Renāte Lāce | 44.6 |
| High jump |
| 1.75 m | | 1.73 m | | 1.71 m |
| Long jump |
| 6.55 m CR | | 6.45 m | | 6.38 m |
| Shot put |
| 17.22 m | | 17.05 m | | 16.96 m |
| Discus throw |
| 57.76 m CR | | 57.38 m | | 56.80 m |
| Javelin throw |
| 58.74 m CR | .svg.png){kind=small} | 56.94 m | | 56.70 m |
| Pentathlon |
| 4787 pts | | 4765 pts | | 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
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | 8 | 3 | 6 | 17 |
| 2 | | 7 | 5 | 3 | 15 |
| 3 | | 5 | 7 | 7 | 19 |
| 4 | | 4 | 3 | 7 | 14 |
| 5 | | 3 | 10 | 9 | 22 |
| 6 | | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 | | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 |
| 9 | | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 12 | | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 13 |  | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Totals (14 nations) | 36 | 36 | 36 | 108 | |
Participation
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]
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References
- 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.
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