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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.
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 |
The track used for the championships was 160 metres long.
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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60 metres |
Barrie Kelly (GBR) | 6.6 =WB | Heinz Erbstößer (GDR) | 6.6 =WB | Viktor Kasatkin (URS) | 6.6 =WB |
400 metres |
Hartmut Koch (GDR) | 47.9 | Manfred Kinder (FRG) | 48.3 | Vasyl Anisimov (URS) | 49.0 |
800 metres |
Noel Carroll (IRL) | 1:49.7 | Tomáš Jungwirth (TCH) | 1:50.8 | Herbert Missalla (FRG) | 1:51.0 |
1500 metres |
John Whetton (GBR) | 3:43.8 | Oleg Rayko (URS) | 3:46.7 | Ulf Högberg (SWE) | 3:47.2 |
3000 metres |
Harald Norpoth (FRG) | 7:56.0 | Siegfried Herrmann (GDR) | 7:57.2 | István Kiss (HUN) | 8:05.0 |
60 metres hurdles |
Eddy Ottoz (ITA) | 7.7 =WB | Michael Parker (GBR) | 7.8 | Hinrich John (FRG) | 7.9 |
4 × 320 metres relay(1280 m) |
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) |
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 |
Valeriy Skvortsov (URS) | 2.17 | Wolfgang Schillkowski (FRG) | 2.11 | Kjell-Åke Nilsson (SWE) | 2.08 |
Pole vault |
Hennadiy Bleznitsov (URS) | 4.90 | Rudolf Tomášek (TCH) | 4.80 | Rainer Liese (FRG) | 4.70 |
Long jump |
Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (URS) | 8.23 WB | Armin Baumert (FRG) | 7.79 | Jochen Eigenherr (FRG) | 7.63 |
Triple jump |
Şerban Ciochină (ROM) | 16.43 | Michael Sauer (FRG) | 16.35 | Petr Nemsovský (TCH) | 16.28 |
Shot put |
Vilmos Varjú (HUN) | 19.05 | Dieter Hoffmann (GDR) | 18.25 | Jiří Skobla (TCH) | 18.08 |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
60 metres |
Margit Nemesházi (HUN) | 7.3 | Galina Mitrokhina (URS) | 7.3 | Mary Rand (GBR) | 7.4 |
400 metres |
Helga Henning (FRG) | 56.9 | Libuše Macounová (TCH) | 57.2 | Maeve Kyle (IRL) | 57.3 |
800 metres |
Zsuzsa Szabó-Nagy (HUN) | 2:07.9 | Karin Kessler (FRG) | 2:10.8 | Marie Ingrová (TCH) | 2:11.6 |
60 metres hurdles |
Irina Press (URS) | 8.1 WB | Gundula Diel (GDR) | 8.4 | Inge Schell (FRG) | 8.4 |
4 × 160 metres relay |
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 |
Iolanda Balaș (ROM) | 1.76 | Olga Gere-Pulić (YUG) | 1.73 | Ilia Hans (FRG) | 1.65 |
Long jump |
Tatyana Shchelkanova (URS) | 6.73 WB | Mary Rand (GBR) | 6.53 | Heide Rosendahl (FRG) | 6.54 |
Shot put |
Margitta Gummel (GDR) | 17.30 | Tamara Press (URS) | 17.00 | Nadezhda Chizhova (URS) | 16.95 |
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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