1966 European Athletics Championships – Women's high jump

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 women's high jump at the 1966 European Athletics Championships was held in Budapest, Hungary, at Népstadion on 3 and 4 September 1966.^[1]

Medalists[]

Gold	Taisiya Chenchik  Soviet Union
Silver	Soviet Union
Bronze	Jarosława Bieda  Poland

Results[]

Final[]

4 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Taisiya Chenchik	Soviet Union	1.75
		Soviet Union	1.73
	Jarosława Bieda	Poland	1.71
4	Mária Faithová	Czechoslovakia	1.71
5	Olga Pulić	Yugoslavia	1.71
6	Marjan Thomas	Netherlands	1.68
7	Dagmar Melzer	East Germany	1.65
8	Dorothy Shirley	Great Britain	1.65
9		Czechoslovakia	1.65
9	Bärbel Graf	East Germany	1.65
11		Czechoslovakia	1.65
12		East Germany	1.60
12	Geneviève Laureau	France	1.60
14		Finland	1.60
15	Ilona Majdan	Austria	1.60
16		Romania	1.60
17		Denmark	1.60
	Valentina Kozyr	Soviet Union	DNS

Qualification[]

3 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Jarosława Bieda	Poland	1.65	Q
	Mária Faithová	Czechoslovakia	1.65	Q
	Dorothy Shirley	Great Britain	1.65	Q
	Taisiya Chenchik	Soviet Union	1.65	Q
		East Germany	1.65	Q
	Valentina Kozyr	Soviet Union	1.65	Q
	Marjan Thomas	Netherlands	1.65	Q
	Olga Pulić	Yugoslavia	1.65	Q
	Bärbel Graf	East Germany	1.65	Q
		Soviet Union	1.65	Q
	Dagmar Melzer	East Germany	1.60	Q
		Finland	1.60	Q
		Denmark	1.60	Q
		Romania	1.60	Q
		Czechoslovakia	1.60	Q
	Ilona Majdan	Austria	1.60	Q
	Geneviève Laureau	France	1.60	Q
		Czechoslovakia	1.60	Q
		Belgium	1.55
		Yugoslavia	1.55
		Hungary	1.55
	Solveig Rasmussen	Denmark	1.55
		Albania	NH
		Iceland	NH

Participation[]

According to an unofficial count, 24 athletes from 16 countries participated in the event.

References[]