1966_European_Indoor_Games
1966 European Indoor Games
International athletics championship event
The 1966 European Indoor Games were the first edition of what later became the European Athletics Indoor Championships. These games took place on 27 March 1966 at Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, a city of West Germany. It was the only edition held on a single day – since 1967 the duration was extended to two days and since 1992 to three.
Quick Facts Dates, Host city ...
1966 European Indoor Games | |
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Dates | 27 March 1966 |
Host city | Dortmund West Germany |
Venue | Westfalenhalle |
Events | 21 |
Participation | 186 athletes from 22 nations |
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The track used for the championships was 160 metres long.
Men
More information Event, Gold ...
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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60 metres details |
Barrie Kelly (GBR) | 6.6 =WB | Heinz Erbstößer (GDR) | 6.6 =WB | Viktor Kasatkin (URS) | 6.6 =WB |
400 metres details |
Hartmut Koch (GDR) | 47.9 | Manfred Kinder (FRG) | 48.3 | Vasyl Anisimov (URS) | 49.0 |
800 metres details |
Noel Carroll (IRL) | 1:49.7 | Tomáš Jungwirth (TCH) | 1:50.8 | Herbert Missalla (FRG) | 1:51.0 |
1500 metres details |
John Whetton (GBR) | 3:43.8 | Oleg Rayko (URS) | 3:46.7 | Ulf Högberg (SWE) | 3:47.2 |
3000 metres details |
Harald Norpoth (FRG) | 7:56.0 | Siegfried Herrmann (GDR) | 7:57.2 | István Kiss (HUN) | 8:05.0 |
60 metres hurdles details |
Eddy Ottoz (ITA) | 7.7 =WB | Michael Parker (GBR) | 7.8 | Hinrich John (FRG) | 7.9 |
4 × 320 metres relay(1280 m) details |
West Germany Jörg Jüttner Rainer Kunter Hans Reinermann Jens Ulbrich | 2:30.1 | Czechoslovakia Miroslav Veruk Juraj Demeč Ladislav Kriz Josef Trousil | 2:31.0 | Only two teams started | |
Medley relay(1600 m) details |
West Germany Leonhard Händl Werner Krönke Rolf Krüsmann Jürgen Schröter | 3:22.0 | Italy Bruno Bianchi Ito Giani Sergio Ottolina Sergio Bello | 3:22.2 | Belgium Werner Oijzers Willy Vandewyngaerden Georges Wijnants Albert van Hoorn | 3:27.2 |
High jump details |
Valeriy Skvortsov (URS) | 2.17 | Wolfgang Schillkowski (FRG) | 2.11 | Kjell-Åke Nilsson (SWE) | 2.08 |
Pole vault details |
Hennadiy Bleznitsov (URS) | 4.90 | Rudolf Tomášek (TCH) | 4.80 | Rainer Liese (FRG) | 4.70 |
Long jump details |
Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (URS) | 8.23 WB | Armin Baumert (FRG) | 7.79 | Jochen Eigenherr (FRG) | 7.63 |
Triple jump details |
Şerban Ciochină (ROM) | 16.43 | Michael Sauer (FRG) | 16.35 | Petr Nemsovský (TCH) | 16.28 |
Shot put details |
Vilmos Varjú (HUN) | 19.05 | Dieter Hoffmann (GDR) | 18.25 | Jiří Skobla (TCH) | 18.08 |
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Women
More information Event, Gold ...
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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60 metres details |
Margit Nemesházi (HUN) | 7.3 | Galina Mitrokhina (URS) | 7.3 | Mary Rand (GBR) | 7.4 |
400 metres details |
Helga Henning (FRG) | 56.9 | Libuše Macounová (TCH) | 57.2 | Maeve Kyle (IRL) | 57.3 |
800 metres details |
Zsuzsa Szabó-Nagy (HUN) | 2:07.9 | Karin Kessler (FRG) | 2:10.8 | Marie Ingrová (TCH) | 2:11.6 |
60 metres hurdles details |
Irina Press (URS) | 8.1 WB | Gundula Diel (GDR) | 8.4 | Inge Schell (FRG) | 8.4 |
4 × 160 metres relay details |
West Germany Renate Meyer Erika Rost Hannelore Trabert Kirsten Roggenkamp | 1:18.4 | Yugoslavia Ljiljana Petnjarić Marijana Lubej Jelisaveta Đanić Olga Šikovec | 1:21.7 | Czechoslovakia Libuše Macounová Alena Hiltscherová Eva Kucmanová Eva Lehocká | 1:22.3 |
High jump details |
Iolanda Balaș (ROM) | 1.76 | Olga Gere-Pulić (YUG) | 1.73 | Ilia Hans (FRG) | 1.65 |
Long jump details |
Tatyana Shchelkanova (URS) | 6.73 WB | Mary Rand (GBR) | 6.53 | Heide Rosendahl (FRG) | 6.54 |
Shot put details |
Margitta Gummel (GDR) | 17.30 | Tamara Press (URS) | 17.00 | Nadezhda Chizhova (URS) | 16.95 |
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More information Rank, Nation ...
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | West Germany (FRG) | 5 | 5 | 7 | 17 |
2 | Soviet Union (URS) | 5 | 3 | 3 | 11 |
3 | Hungary (HUN) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
4 | East Germany (GDR) | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
5 | Great Britain (GBR) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
6 | Romania (ROU) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
7 | Italy (ITA) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
8 | Ireland (IRL) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
9 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 0 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
10 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
11 | Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
12 | Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Totals (12 entries) | 21 | 21 | 20 | 62 |
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- Austria (1)
- Belgium (13)
- Czechoslovakia (19)
- Denmark (3)
- East Germany (8)
- France (11)
- Great Britain (8)
- Greece (2)
- Hungary (8)
- Iceland (1)
- Ireland (2)
- Italy (12)
- Netherlands (2)
- Norway (4)
- Romania (3)
- Soviet Union (13)
- Spain (6)
- Sweden (8)
- Switzerland (9)
- Turkey (2)
- West Germany (40)
- Yugoslavia (11)
- 1966 European Indoor Games Results
- Medallists – men at GBRathletics.com
- Medallists – women at GBRathletics.com