1966 European Athletics Championships

Template:Infobox 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.

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.

Medal summary

Complete results were published.

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	10.5	Template:Flagathlete	10.5	Template:Flagathlete	10.5
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	20.9	Template:Flagathlete	21.0	Template:Flagathlete	21.0
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	46.0	Template:Flagathlete	46.2	Template:Flagathlete	46.3
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	1:45.9 Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	1:46.0	Template:Flagathlete	1:46.3
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	3:41.9	Template:Flagathlete	3:42.2	Template:Flagathlete	3:42.4
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	13:42.8 Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	13:44.0	Template:Flagathlete	13:47.8
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	28:26.0 Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	28:27.0	Template:Flagathlete	28:32.2
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	13.7 =Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	14.0	Template:Flagathlete	14.0
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	49.8	Template:Flagathlete	50.3	Template:Flagathlete	50.5
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	8:26.6 Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	8:28.0	Template:Flagathlete	8:28.0
Template:AthleticsLink	Marc Berger Jocelyn Delecour Claude Piquemal Roger Bambuck	39.4 Template:AthAbbr	Edvin Ozolin Armin Tuyakov Boris Savchuk Nikolay Ivanov	39.8	Hans-Jürgen Felsen Gert Metz Dieter Enderlein Manfred Knickenberg	39.8
Template:AthleticsLink	Jan Werner Edmund Borowski Stanisław Grędziński Andrzej Badeński	3:04.5 Template:AthAbbr	Friedrich Roderfeld Jens Ulbricht Rolf Krusmann Manfred Kinder	3:04.8	Template:GDR Joachim Both Günter Klann Michael Zerbes Wilfried Weiland	3:05.7
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	2:20:04.6	Template:Flagathlete	2:21:43.6	Template:Flagathlete	2:22:02.0
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	1:29:25.0 Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	1:30:06.0	Template:Flagathlete	1:30:18.0
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	4:18:42.0	Template:Flagathlete	4:20:01.2	Template:Flagathlete	4:20:47.2
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	2.12 m	Template:Flagathlete	2.12 m	Template:Flagathlete	2.09 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	5.10 m Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	5.05 m	Template:Flagathlete	5.00 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	7.98 m Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	7.88 m	Template:Flagathlete	7.88 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	16.67 m Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	16.66 m	Template:Flagathlete	16.59 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	19.43 m Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	18.82 m	Template:Flagathlete	18.68 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	57.42 m Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	57.34 m	Template:Flagathlete	56.80 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	84.48 m Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	81.76 m	Template:Flagathlete	80.54 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	70.02 m Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	68.62 m	Template:Flagathlete	67.28 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	7740 pts	Template:Flagathlete	7614 pts	Template:Flagathlete	7562 pts

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Template:AthleticsLink[nb1]	Template:Flagathlete	11.5	Template:Flagathlete	11.5	Template:Flagathlete	11.8
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	23.1 Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	23.4	Template:Flagathlete	23.7
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	52.9 Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	53.9	Template:Flagathlete	54.0
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	2:02.8 =Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	2:03.1	Template:Flagathlete	2:03.7
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	10.7	Template:Flagathlete	10.7	Template:Flagathlete	10.7
Template:AthleticsLink	Elzbieta Bednarek Danuta Straszynska Irena Kirszenstein Ewa Kłobukowska	44.4 Template:AthAbbr	Renate Meyer Hannelore Trabert Karin Frisch Jutta Stöck	44.5	Vera Popkova Valentyna Bolshova Lyudmila Samotyosova Renāte Lāce	44.6
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	1.75 m	Template:Flagathlete	1.73 m	Template:Flagathlete	1.71 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	6.55 m Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	6.45 m	Template:Flagathlete	6.38 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	17.22 m	Template:Flagathlete	17.05 m	Template:Flagathlete	16.96 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	57.76 m Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	57.38 m	Template:Flagathlete	56.80 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	58.74 m Template:AthAbbr	Template:Flagathlete	56.94 m	Template:Flagathlete	56.70 m
Template:AthleticsLink	Template:Flagathlete	4787 pts	Template:Flagathlete	4765 pts	Template:Flagathlete	4713 pts

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

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. Template:Div col

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References

Results

External links

• EAA
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