# 1965 European Cup (athletics)

The 1965 European Cup was the 1st edition of the European Cup of athletics.
The Finals were held in West Germany, Stuttgart (men) and Kassel (women).

## Final

Held in Stuttgart on 11 and 12 September (men) and Kassel on 19 September (women).

### Team standings

Men :
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | Soviet Union | 86 |
| 2 | West Germany | 85 |
| 3 | Poland | 69 |
| 4 | East Germany | 69 |
| 5 | France | 60 |
| 6 | Great Britain | 48 |
Women :
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | Soviet Union | 56 |
| 2 | East Germany | 42 |
| 3 | Poland | 38 |
| 4 | West Germany | 37 |
| 5 | Hungary | 32 |
| 6 | Netherlands | 26 |

### Results summary
#### Men's events

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 m (Wind: -1.1 m/s) | Marian Dudziak Poland | 10.3 | Manfred Knickenberg West Germany | 10.4 | Heinz Erbstösser East Germany | 10.5 |
| 200 m (Wind: +2.9 m/s) | Josef Schwarz West Germany | 21.1w | Heinz Erbstösser East Germany | 21.2w | Jocelyn Delecour France | 21.2w |
| 400 m | Andrzej Badeński Poland | 45.9 | Manfred Kinder West Germany | 46.6 | Joachim Both East Germany | 47.1 |
| 800 m | Franz-Josef Kemper West Germany | 1:50.5 | Jürgen May East Germany | 1:50.3 | Chris Carter Great Britain | 1:50.6 |
| 1500 m | Bodo Tümmler West Germany | 3:47.4 | Jean Wadoux France | 3:48.0 | Jürgen May East Germany | 3:48.4 |
| 5000 m | Harald Norpoth West Germany | 14:18.0 | Witold Baran Poland | 14:20.0 | Derek Graham Great Britain | 14:20.4 |
| 10,000 m | Nikolay Dutov Soviet Union | 28:42.2 | Lutz Philipp West Germany | 28:44.8 | Kazimierz Zimny Poland | 28:46.0 |
| 3000 m steeplechase | Viktor Kudinskiy Soviet Union | 8:41.0 | Maurice Herriott Great Britain | 8:42.2 | Edward Szklarczyk Poland | 8:42.8 |
| 110 m hurdles (Wind: -1.7 m/s) | Anatoliy Mikhailov Soviet Union | 13.9 | Marcel Duriez France | 14.0 | Mike Parker Great Britain | 14.5 |
| 400 m hurdles | Robert Poirier France | 50.8 | John Cooper Great Britain | 50.9 | Rainer Schubert West Germany | 51.9 |
| 4 × 100 m | Soviet Union Edvin Ozolin Amin Tuyakov Boris Savchuk Nikolay Politiko | 39.4 | Poland Andrzej Zieliński Wiesław Maniak Edward Romanowski Marian Dudziak | 39.5 | West Germany Hartmurt Wilke Gert Metz Dieter Enderlein Fritz Obersiebrasse | 39.5 |
| 4 × 400 m | West Germany Werner Thiemann Jens Ulbricht Hans Reinermann Manfred Kinder | 3:08.3 | Poland Stanisław Grędziński Wojciech Lipoński Sławomir Nowakowski Andrzej Badeński | 3:08.7 | Soviet Union Imants Kuklich Viktor Bychkov Vasily Anisimov Vadim Arkhipchuk | 3:09.0 |
| High jump | Valeriy Brumel Soviet Union | 2.14 | Wolfgang Schillkowski West Germany | 2.09 | Edward Czernik Poland | 2.07 |
| Pole vault | Wolfgang Nordwig East Germany | 5.00 | Klaus Lehnertz West Germany | 4.80 | Hennadiy Bleznitsov Soviet Union | 4.80 |
| Long jump | Igor Ter-Ovanesyan Soviet Union | 7.86 | Jean Cochard France | 7.52 | Hans-Helmut Trense West Germany | 7.51 |
| Triple jump | Hans-Jürgen Rückborn East Germany | 16.51 | Aleksandr Zolotaryov Soviet Union | 16.40 | Józef Schmidt Poland | 16.40 |
| Shot put | Nikolay Karasyov Soviet Union | 19.19 | Alfred Sosgórnik Poland | 18.37 | Pierre Colnard France | 18.04 |
| Discus throw | Zenon Begier Poland | 58.92 | Fritz Kühl East Germany | 55.92 | Kim Bukhantsev Soviet Union | 55.00 |
| Hammer throw | Romuald Klim Soviet Union | 67.68 | Uwe Beyer West Germany | 67.28 | Martin Lotz East Germany | 65.46 |
| Javelin throw | Jānis Lūsis Soviet Union | 82.56 | Janusz Sidło Poland | 81.18 | Manfred Stolle East Germany | 79.98 |
| WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season) |||||| |

#### Women's events

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 m (Wind: +0.5 m/s) | Ewa Kłobukowska Poland | 11.3 | Erika Pollmann West Germany | 11.6 | Galina Mitrokhina Soviet Union | 11.6 |
| 200 m | Ewa Kłobukowska Poland | 23.0 | Ingrid Becker West Germany | 24.0 | Vera Popkova Soviet Union | 24.1 |
| 400 m | Mariya Itkina Soviet Union | 54.0 | Hilde Slaman Netherlands | 54.6 | Gertrud Schmidt East Germany | 54.9 |
| 800 m | Hannelore Suppe East Germany | 2:04.3 | Ilja Laman Netherlands | 2:04.6 | Antje Gleichfeld West Germany | 2:04.7 |
| 80 m hurdles (Wind: +1.1 m/s) | Irina Press Soviet Union | 10.4 WR | Gundula Diel East Germany | 10.5 | Inge Schell West Germany | 10.6 |
| 4 × 100 m | Poland Teresa Ciepły Elżbieta Kolejwa Irena Kirszenstein Ewa Kłobukowska | 44.9 | Soviet Union Galina Mitrokhina Vera Popkova Lyudmila Samotesova Tatyana Talysheva | 45.2 | East Germany Angela Höhme Ingrid Tiedtke Ursula Böhm Gundula Diel | 45.7 |
| High jump | Taisiya Chenchik Soviet Union | 1.70 | Karin Rüger East Germany | 1.70 | Jarosława Bieda Poland | 1.63 |
| Long jump | Tatyana Shchelkanova Soviet Union | 6.63 | Irena Kirszenstein Poland | 6.33 | Helga Hoffmann West Germany | 6.30 |
| Shot put | Tamara Press Soviet Union | 18.59 WR | Renate Garisch East Germany | 16.96 | Gertrud Schäfer West Germany | 16.17 |
| Discus throw | Jolán Kleiber Hungary | 56.74 | Tamara Press Soviet Union | 54.82 | Ingrid Lotz East Germany | 53.82 |
| Javelin throw | Yelena Gorchakova Soviet Union | 58.48 | Márta Rudas Hungary | 55.78 | Anneliese Gerhards West Germany | 52.98 |
| WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season) |||||| |

## Semifinals
### Men

All semifinals were held on 21 and 22 August.
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | West Germany | 96 |
| 2 | Poland | 85 |
| 3 | Czechoslovakia | 81 |
| 4 | Italy | 67 |
| 5 | Bulgaria | 45 |
| 6 | Switzerland | 45 |
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | East Germany | 90 |
| 2 | Great Britain | 89 |
| 3 | Sweden | 81 |
| 4 | Romania | 66 |
| 5 | Yugoslavia | 52 |
| 6 | Netherlands | 41 |
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | Soviet Union | 94 |
| 2 | France | 92 |
| 3 | Hungary | 72 |
| 4 | Finland | 64 |
| 5 | Norway | 51 |
| 6 | Belgium | 41 |

### Women

All semifinals were held on 22 August.
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | East Germany | 58 |
| 2 | Poland | 56 |
| 3 | Czechoslovakia | 39 |
| 4 | Sweden | 30 |
| 5 | Italy | 24 |
| 6 | Denmark | 23 |
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | Hungary | 50 |
| 2 | Netherlands | 47 |
| 3 | Great Britain | 46 |
| 4 | France | 38 |
| 5 | Bulgaria | 33 |
| 6 | Belgium | 14 |
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | Soviet Union | 53 |
| 2 | West Germany | 53 |
| 3 | Romania | 49.5 |
| 4 | Yugoslavia | 25.5 |
| 5 | Norway | 25 |
| 6 | Austria | 24 |

## Preliminaries
### Men

All preliminaries were held on 26-27 July.
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | Switzerland | 62 |
| 2 | Austria | 61 |
| 3 | Greece | 47 |
| 4 | Luxembourg | 27 |
| Pos. | Nation | Points |
| 1 | Netherlands | 60 |
| 2 | Spain | 58 |
| 3 | Denmark | 49 |
| 4 | Portugal | 33 |