1967 European Cup (athletics)

The 1967 European Cup was the 2nd edition of the international team competition in athletics between European nations, organised by the European Athletic Association.^[1]

1967 European Cup
Host city	Kyiv, Soviet Union
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	31
← 1965 Stuttgart/Kassel 1970 Stockholm/Budapest →

The tournament consisted of three sections. Three preliminary competitions were held for men's teams of smaller nations on 24–25 June, held in Copenhagen, Athens and Dublin. Netherlands, Switzerland and Belgium progressed to the next round as winners. Three semi-finals were conducted for both men's and women's teams, with the men's held on 22–23 July in Ostrava, Duisburg and Stockholm, and the women's was held on 16 July Dresden, Oslo and Wuppertal . The top two teams in each semi-final qualified for the Finals held in Kyiv, Soviet Union.

Final

Held in Kyiv on 15 September (women) and on 16–17 September (men).^[2]

Team standings

Men Pos. Nation Points 1  Soviet Union 81 2  East Germany 80 3  West Germany 79 4  Poland 68 5  France 57 6  Hungary 53

Women Pos. Nation Points 1  Soviet Union 51 2  East Germany 43 3  West Germany 36 4  Poland 35 5  Great Britain 34 6  Hungary 32

Results summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (Wind: +1.3 m/s)	Vladislav Sapeya  Soviet Union	10.3	Harmut Wilke  West Germany	10.4	Harald Eggers  East Germany	10.5
200 m	Jean-Claude Nallet  France	20.9	Jan Werner  Poland	20.9	László Mihályfi  Hungary	21.1
400 m	Jean-Claude Nallet  France	46.3	Fritz Roderfeld  West Germany	46.4	Andrzej Badeński  Poland	46.8
800 m	Manfred Matuschewski  East Germany	1:46.9	Franz-Josef Kemper  West Germany	1:46.9	Jean-Pierre Dufresne  France	1:48.2
1500 m	Manfred Matuschewski  East Germany	3:40.2	Bodo Tümmler  West Germany	3:40.5	Oleg Rayko  Soviet Union	3:41.2
5000 m	Harald Norpoth  West Germany	15:26.8	Jürgen Haase  East Germany	15:27.8	György Kiss  Hungary	15:29.2
10,000 m	Jürgen Haase  East Germany	28:54.2	Lajos Mecser  Hungary	28:55.6	Anatoliy Makarov  Soviet Union	28:58.6
3000 m steeplechase	Anatoliy Kuryan  Soviet Union	8:38.8	Manfred Letzerich  West Germany	8:39.6	Guy Texereau  France	8:41.2
110 m hurdles	Viktor Balikhin  Soviet Union	14.0	Adam Kołodziejczyk  Poland	14.2	Pierre Schoebel  France	14.2
400 m hurdles	Gerhard Hennige  West Germany	50.2	Wilhelm Weistand  Poland	50.5	Joachim Singer  East Germany	50.8
4 × 100 m	France Marc Berger Jocelyn Delecour Claude Piquemal Gérard Fenouil	39.2	West Germany Jobst Hirscht Gert Metz Hartmut Wilk Horst Assion	39.3 NR	East Germany Heinz Erbstosser Peter Haase Hermann Burde Harald Eggers	39.4
4 × 400 m	Poland Stanisław Grędziński Edmund Borowski Jan Werner Andrzej Badeński	3:04.4	West Germany Helmar Müller Ingo Roper Jens Ulbricht Fritz Roderfeld	3:04.5	East Germany Wolfgang Müller Michael Zerbes Günter Klann Wilfried Weiland	3:05.8
High jump	Valentin Gavrilov  Soviet Union	2.09	Wolfgang Schillkowski  West Germany	2.07	Sándor Noszály  Hungary	2.07
Pole vault	Wolfgang Nordwig  East Germany	5.10	Hennadiy Bleznitsov  Soviet Union	5.05	Klaus Lehnertz  West Germany	4.90
Long jump	Igor Ter-Ovanesyan  Soviet Union	8.14w	Andrzej Stalmach  Poland	7.88w	Josef Schwarz  West Germany	7.85w
Triple jump	Viktor Sanyeyev  Soviet Union	16.67	Hans-Jürgen Rückborn  East Germany	16.49	Józef Schmidt  Poland	16.29
Shot put	Vilmos Varjú  Hungary	19.25	Heinfried Birlenbach  West Germany	19.20	Dieter Prollius  East Germany	18.82
Discus throw	Edmund Piątkowski  Poland	59.10	Detlef Thorith  East Germany	57.86	Vitautas Jaras  Russia	56.60
Hammer throw	Romuald Klim  Soviet Union	70.58	Gyula Zsivótzky  Hungary	68.12	Uwe Beyer  West Germany	66.80
Javelin throw	Jānis Lūsis  Soviet Union	85.38	Manfred Stolle  East Germany	81.14	Gergely Kulcsár  Hungary	79.46
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		Silver		Bronze
100 m (Wind: +0.5 m/s)	Irena Kirszenstein  Poland	11.2	Renate Heldt  East Germany	11.5	Margit Nemesházi  Hungary	11.6
200 m (Wind: +0.5 m/s)	Irena Kirszenstein  Poland	23.0	Annamária Tóth  Hungary	23.4	Vera Popkova  Soviet Union	23.4
400 m	Lillian Board  Great Britain	53.7	Antónia Munkácsi  Hungary	54.1	Lyudmila Samotyosova  Soviet Union	54.3
800 m	Laine Erik  Soviet Union	2:06.8	Danuta Sobieska  Poland	2:07.0	Anita Rottmüller  West Germany	2:07.2
80 m hurdles (Wind: +0.8 m/s)	Karin Balzer  East Germany	10.8	Pat Jones  Great Britain	10.9	Inge Schell  West Germany	11.0
4 × 100 m	Soviet Union Galina Bukharina Liliya Tkachenko Vera Popkova Lyudmila Samotyosova	45.0	Great Britain Anita Neil Maureen Tranter Jenny Pawsey Della James	45.3	East Germany Ingrid Tiedtke Angela Vogel Christina Heinich Renate Heldt	45.3
High jump	Antonina Okorokova  Soviet Union	1.79	Rita Schmidt  East Germany	1.70	Dorothy Shirley  Great Britain	1.67
Long jump	Ingrid Becker  West Germany	6.63	Tatyana Talysheva  Soviet Union	6.49	Mary Rand  Great Britain	6.26
Shot put	Nadezhda Chizhova  Soviet Union	18.24	Margitta Gummel  East Germany	17.66	Judit Bognár  Hungary	16.58
Discus throw	Karin Illgen  East Germany	58.26	Lyudmila Muravyova  Soviet Union	56.70	Jolán Kleiber  Hungary	56.70
Javelin throw	Daniela Jaworska  Poland	56.88	Ameli Koloska  West Germany	54.22	Ruth Fuchs  East Germany	53.18
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 22 and 23 July.^[2]

Semifinal 1 Held in Ostrava Pos. Nation Points 1  Poland 94 2  France 93 3  Czechoslovakia 79 4  Italy 71 5  Romania 51 6  Netherlands 31

Semifinal 2 Held in Duisburg Pos. Nation Points 1  West Germany 105 2  Hungary 78 3  Great Britain 77 4  Switzerland 56 5  Bulgaria 54 6  Yugoslavia 37

Semifinal 3 Held in Stockholm Pos. Nation Points 1  Soviet Union 105 2  East Germany 87 3  Sweden 69 4  Norway 55 5  Belgium 53 6  Finland 51

Women

All semifinals were held on 16 July.^[2]

Semifinal 1 Held in Dresden Pos. Nation Points 1  East Germany 45 2  Hungary 39 3  Netherlands 36 4  Bulgaria 29 5  Italy 15

Semifinal 2 Held in Wuppertal Pos. Nation Points 1  Poland 55 2  West Germany 54 3  Czechoslovakia 38 4  France 37 5  Yugoslavia 25 6  Austria 22

Semifinal 3 Held in Oslo Pos. Nation Points 1  Soviet Union 55 2  Great Britain 47 3  Sweden 42 4  Romania 42 5  Norway 23 6  Denmark 21

Preliminaries

Men

All preliminaries were held on 24–25 June.

Preliminary 1 Held in Copenhagen[3] Pos. Nation Points 1  Netherlands 59 2  Denmark 56 3  Austria 53 4  Turkey 31

Preliminary 2 Held in Athens Pos. Nation Points 1  Switzerland 65 2  Spain 54 3  Greece 48 4  Portugal 33

Preliminary 3 Held in Dublin Pos. Nation Points 1  Belgium 115 2  Ireland 98.5 3  Iceland 86.5

References

1. "The SPAR European Cup: Memories of Europe's premier team athletics event". european-athletics.org. Archived from the original on 6 October 2013. Retrieved 3 November 2012.
2. 2010 Italian almanach Archived 2021-08-28 at the Wayback Machine (p466)
3. "Nederland in volgende ronde Europese Beker" (in Dutch). Tubantia. 26 June 1967. p. 13. Retrieved 2 January 2022.

• Full Results. Sport Olympic. Retrieved 2020-10-24.
• European Cup results (Men) from GBR Athletics
• European Cup results (Women) from GBR Athletics