# 1966 European Junior Games

The 1966 European Junior Games was the second edition of the biennial athletics competition for European athletes aged under twenty. It was the first edition to have received official support from the European Athletic Association, following the unofficial first edition in 1964. The event was held at the Central Stadium Chornomorets in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, on 24 and 25 September.

## Men's results

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres | Bernd Jacob (FRG) | 10.7 | Jochen Eigenherr (FRG) | 10.7 | Gérard Coupat (FRA) | 10.8 |
| 200 metres | Jochen Eigenherr (FRG) | 21.0 | Jean-Claude Nallet (FRA) | 21.3 | István Batori (HUN) | 21.5 |
| 400 metres | Aleksandr Bratchikov (URS) | 47.3 | István Batori (HUN) | 47.5 | Jan Balachowski (POL) | 47.8 |
| 800 metres | Bernard Hebert (FRA) | 1:51.5 | Jaroslav Včeliš (TCH) | 1:51.6 | Dieter Fromm (GDR) | 1:51.9 |
| 1500 metres | Roberto Gervasini (ITA) | 3:51.0 | Werner Gosewinkel (FRG) | 3:51.2 | Vladan Đorđević (YUG) | 3:52.6 |
| 3000 metres | Klaus Tietz (GDR) | 8:22.4 | Gerhard Fontana (FRG) | 8:23.0 | Jan-Olof Nilsson (SWE) | 8:23.2 |
| 110 m hurdles | Yuriy Gorskiy (URS) | 14.6 | Aleksandr Demus (URS) | 14.6 | Dan Hidiosanu (ROM) | 14.7 |
| 400 m hurdles | Mikhail Dolgy (URS) | 53.3 | Viktor Basilevich (URS) | 53.4 | Michel Montgermont (FRA) | 53.5 |
| 1500 m s'chase | Otto Knarr (FRG) | 4:09.7 | Ulrich Hobeck (GDR) | 4:10.8 | Kazimierz Maranda (POL) | 4:11.6 |
| 10,000 m walk | Mikhail Yefimovich (URS) | 46:53.0 | Aleksandr Popov (URS) | 47:10.8 | Vladislav Boháč (TCH) | 47:31.0 |
| 4 × 100 m relay | France (FRA) Gérard Coupat Charles Tétaria Jean-Claude Nallet Charles Ducasse | 40.6 | West Germany (FRG) Heiko Griese Hartmut Menzel Bernd Jacob Joachim Eigenherr | 40.8 | Poland (POL) Tadeusz Rostek Henryk Cieciora Andrzej Nowak Stanisław Wagner | 41.0 |
| 4 × 400 m relay | Soviet Union (URS) Aleksander Ogorodnikov Mikhail Dolgy Viktor Lipagin Aleksandr Bratchikov | 3:14.3 | Poland (POL) Waldemar Pyrzyński Wiesław Stryczek Stanisław Waśkiewicz Jan Balachowski | 3:14.7 | Yugoslavia (YUG) Jovan Mušković Stojan Puač Miloš Bucevski Istvan Danko | 3:16.1 |
| Pole vault | Antti Kalliomäki (FIN) | 4.60 | Heinfried Engel (FRG) | 4.60 | Zygmunt Dobrosz (POL) | 4.60 |
| High jump | Bo Jonsson (SWE) | 2.06 | Anatoliy Moroz (URS) | 2.03 | Rudolf Baudis (TCH) | 2.03 |
| Long jump | Max Klauss (GDR) | 7.59 | Vladimir Skibenko (URS) | 7.57 | Marcin Święcicki (POL) | 7.33 |
| Triple jump | Anatoliy Kaynov (URS) | 15.97 | Nikolay Dudkin (URS) | 15.75 | Carol Corbu (ROM) | 15.43 |
| Shot put | Aleksander Tammert (URS) | 16.71 | Hans-Peter Gies (GDR) | 16.55 | František Žemba (TCH) | 15.79 |
| Discus throw | Ferenc Tégla (HUN) | 52.92 | Klaus-Peter Hennig (FRG) | 52.20 | František Žemba (TCH) | 49.98 |
| Hammer throw | Yuriy Ashmarin (URS) | 60.94 | Reinhard Theimer (GDR) | 60.10 | Vladimir Ambrosyev (URS) | 56.28 |
| Javelin throw (old model) | Renzo Cramerotti (ITA) | 73.32 | Harry Abraham (FRG) | 72.88 | Valeriy Belan (URS) | 71.18 |
| Decathlon | Viktor Chelnokov (URS) | 7225 pts | Hans Nerlich (FRG) | 7138 pts | Joachim Kirst (GDR) | 6845 pts |

## Women's results

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres | Brigitte Geyer (GDR) | 12.2 | Ljiljana Petnjaric (YUG) | 12.2 | Else Hadrup (DEN) | 12.2 |
| 200 metres | Christina Heinich (GDR) | 24.2 | Nicole Montandon (FRA) | 24.3 | Mirna Jansen (NED) | 24.5 |
| 400 metres | Ljiljana Petnjarić (YUG) | 55.9 | Wil Wokke (NED) | 56.2 | Ingrida Verbele (URS) | 56.7 |
| 800 metres | Vera Nikolić (YUG) | 2:03.4 | Eeva-Liisa Kalliolahti (FIN) | 2:08.1 | Barbara Wieck (GDR) | 2:09.0 |
| 80 m hurdles | Meta Antenen (SUI) | 11.1 | Teresa Sukniewicz (POL) | 11.3 | Nadezhda Betska (URS) | 11.3 |
| 4 × 100 m relay | East Germany (GDR) Bärbel Schrickel Renate Meissner Brigitte Geyer Christina Heinich | 46.2 | France (FRA) Dominique Descatoire Jacqueline Peruzetto Marie-France Vincent Nicole Montandon | 46.6 | Soviet Union (URS) Nadezhda Shelsara Nadezhda Besfamilnaya Yelena Molodtsova Marina Nikiforova | 46.9 |
| High jump | Alena Prosková (TCH) | 1.64 | Valentyna Kozyr (URS) | 1.61 | Gun Nordlund (FIN) | 1.61 |
| Long jump | Tamara Kapysheva (URS) | 5.98 | Ivanka Koshnicharska (BUL) | 5.97 | Maria Solomon (ROM) | 5.82 |
| Shot put | Lyubov Kostushenko (URS) | 14.25 | Hannelore Friedel (GDR) | 14.24 | Barbara Schubert (GDR) | 13.84 |
| Discus throw | Hannelore Friedel (GDR) | 46.56 | Vladimíra Srbová (TCH) | 45.62 | Zsuzsa Nyitrai (HUN) | 44.94 |
| Javelin throw (old model) | Kaisa Launela (FIN) | 51.82 | Marilena Ciurea (ROM) | 50.50 | Ewa Gryziecka (POL) | 48.14 |
| Pentathlon | Meta Antenen (SUI) | 4609 pts | Britt Johansson (SWE) | 4370 pts | Margit Papp (HUN) | 4319 pts |

## Medal table

* Host nation (Soviet Union)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Soviet Union (URS)* | 11 | 7 | 5 | 23 |
| 2 | East Germany (GDR) | 6 | 4 | 4 | 14 |
| 3 | West Germany (FRG) | 3 | 8 | 0 | 11 |
| 4 | France (FRA) | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
| 5 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 6 | Finland (FIN) | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | Italy (ITA) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | Switzerland (SUI) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| 10 | Hungary (HUN) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 11 | Sweden (SWE) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 12 | Poland (POL) | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| 13 | Romania (ROM) | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 14 | Netherlands (NED) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 15 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | Denmark (DEN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (16 entries) | Totals (16 entries) | 33 | 33 | 33 | 99 |