1966 European Athletics Championships – Men's marathon

1966 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's marathon at the 1966 European Athletics Championships was held in Budapest, Hungary, on 4 September 1966.^[1]

Medalists[]

Gold	Jim Hogan  Great Britain
Silver	Aurèle Vandendriessche  Belgium
Bronze	Gyula Tóth  Hungary

Results[]

Final[]

4 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Jim Hogan	Great Britain	2:20:04.6
	Aurèle Vandendriessche	Belgium	2:21:43.6
	Gyula Tóth	Hungary	2:22:02.0
4	Carlos Pérez	Spain	2:22:23.8
5		Soviet Union	2:23:14.8
6	Anatoliy Sukharkov	Soviet Union	2:23:33.8
7		Finland	2:23:38.6
8	Pavel Kantorek	Czechoslovakia	2:23:49.4
9	Gioacchino de Palma	Italy	2:25:10.6
10		West Germany	2:25:11.4
11	Maurice Peiren	Belgium	2:25:48.2
12	Ron Hill	Great Britain	2:26:04.8
13		Soviet Union	2:26:08.6
14	Karl-Heinz Sievers	West Germany	2:26:50.8
15		Hungary	2:27:51.4
16	İsmail Akçay	Turkey	2:28:18.8
17	Gerhard Hönicke	East Germany	2:29:23.0
18	Václav Chudomel	Czechoslovakia	2:30:34.2
19		France	2:31:37.0
20		East Germany	2:32:10.0
21	Heinrich Hagen	East Germany	2:33:26.2
22	Hüseyin Aktaş	Turkey	2:36:00.0
23		Poland	2:37:04.8
24		Albania	2:37:41.8
25		Great Britain	2:38:26.0
26		Albania	2:46:02.0
	Jean Aniset	Luxembourg	DNF
	Luigi Conti	Italy	DNF
	Antonio Ambu	Italy	DNF
	Franc Červan	Yugoslavia	DNF
	James McNamara	Ireland	DNF
	Henri Clerckx	Belgium	DNF
	József Sütő	Hungary	DNF
	Thyge Thøgersen	Denmark	DNF
	Aad Steylen	Netherlands	DNF

Participation[]

According to an unofficial count, 35 athletes from 19 countries participated in the event.

References[]