1966 European Indoor Games

1966 European Indoor Games
Dates	27 March 1966
Host city	Dortmund West Germany
Venue	Westfalenhalle
Events	21
Participation	186 athletes from 22 nations
1967 Prague →

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.

The track used for the championships was 160 metres long.

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres details	Barrie Kelly (GBR)	6.6 =WB	Heinz Erbstößer (GDR)	6.6 =WB	(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	(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	(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	2:30.1	Czechoslovakia Juraj Demeč Ladislav Kriz Josef Trousil	2:31.0	Only two teams started
Medley relay(1600 m) details	West Germany Rolf Krüsmann	3:22.0	Italy Bruno Bianchi Ito Giani Sergio Ottolina Sergio Bello	3:22.2	Belgium	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	(FRG)	4.70
Long jump details	Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (URS)	8.23 WB	(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

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
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	(TCH)	57.2	Maeve Kyle (IRL)	57.3
800 metres details	Zsuzsa Szabó-Nagy (HUN)	2:07.9	Karin Kessler (FRG)	2:10.8	(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	1:18.4	Yugoslavia Marijana Lubej Olga Šikovec	1:21.7	Czechoslovakia Alena Hiltscherová Eva Kucmanová Eva Lehocká	1:22.3
High jump details	Iolanda Balaș (ROM)	1.76	Olga Gere-Pulić (YUG)	1.73	(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

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
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 nations)		21	21	20	62

Participating nations[]

References[]

• 1966 European Indoor Games Results
• Medallists – men at GBRathletics.com
• Medallists – women at GBRathletics.com