# 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.
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 | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres details | Wiesław Maniak (POL) | 10.5 | Roger Bambuck (FRA) | 10.5 | Claude Piquemal (FRA) | 10.5 |
| 200 metres details | Roger Bambuck (FRA) | 20.9 | Marian Dudziak (POL) | 21.0 | Jean-Claude Nallet (FRA) | 21.0 |
| 400 metres details | Stanisław Grędziński (POL) | 46.0 | Andrzej Badeński (POL) | 46.2 | Manfred Kinder (FRG) | 46.3 |
| 800 metres details | Manfred Matuschewski (GDR) | 1:45.9 CR | Franz-Josef Kemper (FRG) | 1:46.0 | Bodo Tümmler (FRG) | 1:46.3 |
| 1500 metres details | Bodo Tümmler (FRG) | 3:41.9 | Michel Jazy (FRA) | 3:42.2 | Harald Norpoth (FRG) | 3:42.4 |
| 5000 metres details | Michel Jazy (FRA) | 13:42.8 CR | Harald Norpoth (FRG) | 13:44.0 | Bernd Diessner (GDR) | 13:47.8 |
| 10,000 metres details | Jürgen Haase (GDR) | 28:26.0 CR | Lajos Mecser (HUN) | 28:27.0 | Leonid Mikitenko (URS) | 28:32.2 |
| 110 metres hurdles details | Eddy Ottoz (ITA) | 13.7 =CR | Hinrich John (FRG) | 14.0 | Marcel Duriez (FRA) | 14.0 |
| 400 metres hurdles details | Roberto Frinolli (ITA) | 49.8 | Gerd Lossdorfer (FRG) | 50.3 | Robert Poirier (FRA) | 50.5 |
| 3000 metres steeplechase details | Viktor Kudinskiy (URS) | 8:26.6 CR | Anatoliy Kuryan (URS) | 8:28.0 | Gaston Roelants (BEL) | 8:28.0 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay details | 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 details | 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 details | Jim Hogan (GBR) | 2:20:04.6 | Aurèle Vandendriessche (BEL) | 2:21:43.6 | Gyula Tóth (HUN) | 2:22:02.0 |
| 20 kilometres walk details | 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 details | Abdon Pamich (ITA) | 4:18:42.0 | Genhady Agapov (URS) | 4:20:01.2 | Oleksandr Shcherbyna (URS) | 4:20:47.2 |
| High jump details | Jacques Madubost (FRA) | 2.12 m | Robert Sainte-Rose (FRA) | 2.12 m | Valeriy Skvortsov (URS) | 2.09 m |
| Pole vault details | Wolfgang Nordwig (GDR) | 5.10 m CR | Christos Papanikolaou (GRE) | 5.05 m | Hervé d'Encausse (FRA) | 5.00 m |
| Long jump details | Lynn Davies (GBR) | 7.98 m CR | Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (URS) | 7.88 m | Jean Cochard (FRA) | 7.88 m |
| Triple jump details | Georgi Stoykovski (BUL) | 16.67 m CR | Hans-Jürgen Rückborn (GDR) | 16.66 m | Henrik Kalocsai (HUN) | 16.59 m |
| Shot put details | Vilmos Varjú (HUN) | 19.43 m CR | Nikolay Karasev (URS) | 18.82 m | Władysław Komar (POL) | 18.68 m |
| Discus throw details | Detlef Thorith (GDR) | 57.42 m CR | Hartmut Losch (GDR) | 57.34 m | Lothar Milde (GDR) | 56.80 m |
| Javelin throw details | Jānis Lūsis (URS) | 84.48 m CR | Władysław Nikiciuk (POL) | 81.76 m | Gergely Kulcsár (HUN) | 80.54 m |
| Hammer throw details | Romuald Klim (URS) | 70.02 m CR | Gyula Zsivótzky (HUN) | 68.62 m | Uwe Beyer (FRG) | 67.28 m |
| Decathlon details | Werner von Moltke (FRG) | 7740 pts | Jörg Mattheis (FRG) | 7614 pts | Horst Beyer (FRG) | 7562 pts |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 100 metres details | Ewa Kłobukowska (POL) | 11.5 | Irena Kirszenstein (POL) | 11.5 | Karin Frisch (FRG) | 11.8 |
| 200 metres details | Irena Kirszenstein (POL) | 23.1 CR | Ewa Kłobukowska (POL) | 23.4 | Vera Popkova (URS) | 23.7 |
| 400 metres details | Anna Chmelková (TCH) | 52.9 CR | Antónia Munkácsi (HUN) | 53.9 | Monique Noirot (FRA) | 54.0 |
| 800 metres details | Vera Nikolić (YUG) | 2:02.8 =CR | Zsuzsa Szabóné Nagy (HUN) | 2:03.1 | Antje Gleichfeld (FRG) | 2:03.7 |
| 80 metres hurdles details | Karin Balzer (GDR) | 10.7 | Karin Frisch (FRG) | 10.7 | Elzbieta Bednarek (POL) | 10.7 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay details | 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 details | Taisia Chenchik (URS) | 1.75 m | Ludmila Komleva (URS) | 1.73 m | Jarosława Bieda (POL) | 1.71 m |
| Long jump details | Irena Kirszenstein (POL) | 6.55 m CR | Diana Yorgova (BUL) | 6.45 m | Helga Hoffmann (FRG) | 6.38 m |
| Shot put details | Nadezhda Chizhova (URS) | 17.22 m | Margitta Gummel (GDR) | 17.05 m | Marita Lange (GDR) | 16.96 m |
| Discus throw details | Christine Spielberg (GDR) | 57.76 m CR | Liesel Westermann (FRG) | 57.38 m | Anita Hentschel (GDR) | 56.80 m |
| Javelin throw details | Marion Lüttge (GDR) | 58.74 m CR | Mihaela Peneş (ROM) | 56.94 m | Valentina Popova (URS) | 56.70 m |
| Pentathlon details | 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

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | East Germany (GDR) | 8 | 3 | 6 | 17 |
| 2 | Poland (POL) | 7 | 5 | 3 | 15 |
| 3 | Soviet Union (URS) | 6 | 7 | 7 | 20 |
| 4 | France (FRA) | 4 | 3 | 7 | 14 |
| 5 | Italy (ITA) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 6 | West Germany (FRG) | 2 | 10 | 9 | 21 |
| 7 | Great Britain (GBR) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | Hungary (HUN) | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 |
| 9 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 13 | Greece (GRE) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Romania (ROU) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Totals (14 entries) | Totals (14 entries) | 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.
* Albania (20)
* Austria (11)
* Belgium (16)
* Bulgaria (14)
* Czechoslovakia (49)
* Denmark (7)
* East Germany (61)
* Finland (16)
* France (52)
* Gibraltar (1)
* Greece (15)
* Hungary (68)
* Iceland (3)
* Ireland (8)
* Italy (35)
* Luxembourg (3)
* Netherlands (19)
* Norway (15)
* Poland (56)
* Portugal (1)
* Romania (18)
* Soviet Union (83)
* Spain (7)
* Sweden (25)
* Switzerland (13)
* Turkey (10)
* Great Britain (57)
* West Germany (74)
* Yugoslavia (13)