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 10.510.510.520.921.021.046.046.246.31:45.9 1:46.01:46.33:41.93:42.23:42.413:42.8 13:44.013:47.828:26.0 28:27.028:32.213.7 =14.014.049.850.350.58:26.6 8:28.08:28.0Marc BergerJocelyn DelecourClaude PiquemalRoger Bambuck39.4 Edvin OzolinArmin TuyakovBoris SavchukNikolay Ivanov39.8Hans-Jürgen FelsenGert MetzDieter EnderleinManfred Knickenberg39.8Jan WernerEdmund BorowskiStanisław GrędzińskiAndrzej Badeński3:04.5 Friedrich RoderfeldJens UlbrichtRolf KrusmannManfred Kinder3:04.8Joachim BothGünter KlannMichael ZerbesWilfried Weiland3:05.72:20:04.62:21:43.62:22:02.01:29:25.0 1:30:06.01:30:18.04:18:42.0 4:20:01.24:20:47.22.12 m2.12 m2.09 m5.10 m 5.05 m5.00 m7.98 m 7.88 m7.88 m16.67 m 16.66 m16.59 m19.43 m 18.82 m18.68 m57.42 m 57.34 m56.80 m84.48 m 81.76 m80.54 m70.02 m 68.62 m67.28 m7740 pts7614 pts7562 pts
Women 11.511.511.823.1 23.423.752.9 53.954.02:02.8 =2:03.12:03.710.710.710.7Elzbieta BednarekDanuta StraszynskaIrena KirszensteinEwa Kłobukowska44.4 Renate MeyerHannelore TrabertKarin FrischJutta Stöck44.5Vera PopkovaValentyna BolshovaLyudmila SamotyosovaRenāte Lāce44.61.75 m1.73 m1.71 m6.55 m 6.45 m6.38 m17.22 m17.05 m16.96 m57.76 m 57.38 m56.80 m58.74 m 56.94 m56.70 m4787 pts4765 pts4713 pts The women's 100 metres gold medallist Ewa Kłobukowska equalled the championship record twice in qualifying, running 11.4 seconds.
Medal table
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.
(20) (11) (16) (14) (49) (7) (61) (16) (52) (1) (15) (68) (3) (8) (35) (3) (19) (15) (56) (1) (18) (83) (7) (25) (13) (10) (57) (74) (13)
References
Results
External links EAA