1966 European Junior Games

The 1966 European Junior Games was the second edition of the biennial athletics competition for European athletes aged under twenty. It was the first edition to have received official support from the European Athletic Association, following the unofficial first edition in 1964. The event was held at the Central Stadium Chornomorets in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, on 24 and 25 September.^[1]

Men's results[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	(FRG)	10.7	Jochen Eigenherr (FRG)	10.7	(FRA)	10.8
200 metres	Jochen Eigenherr (FRG)	21.0	Jean-Claude Nallet (FRA)	21.3	(HUN)	21.5
400 metres	Aleksandr Bratchikov (URS)	47.3	(HUN)	47.5	Jan Balachowski (POL)	47.8
800 metres	(FRA)	1:51.5	(TCH)	1:51.6	Dieter Fromm (GDR)	1:51.9
1500 metres	Roberto Gervasini (ITA)	3:51.0	(FRG)	3:51.2	(YUG)	3:52.6
3000 metres	(GDR)	8:22.4	(FRG)	8:23.0	(SWE)	8:23.2
110 m hurdles	(URS)	14.6	(URS)	14.6	(ROM)	14.7
400 m hurdles	(URS)	53.3	(URS)	53.4	(FRA)	53.5
1500 m s'chase	(FRG)	4:09.7	(GDR)	4:10.8	Kazimierz Maranda (POL)	4:11.6
10,000 m walk	(URS)	46:53.0	(URS)	47:10.8	(TCH)	47:31.0
4 × 100 m relay	France (FRA) Jean-Claude Nallet	40.6	West Germany (FRG) Joachim Eigenherr	40.8	Poland (POL) Stanisław Wagner	41.0
4 × 400 m relay	Soviet Union (URS) Aleksandr Bratchikov	3:14.3	Poland (POL) Stanisław Waśkiewicz Jan Balachowski	3:14.7	Yugoslavia (YUG)	3:16.1
Pole vault	Antti Kalliomäki (FIN)	4.60	Heinfried Engel (FRG)	4.60	(POL)	4.60
High jump	(SWE)	2.06	Anatoliy Moroz (URS)	2.03	(TCH)	2.03
Long jump	Max Klauss (GDR)	7.59	(URS)	7.57	Marcin Święcicki (POL)	7.33
Triple jump	(URS)	15.97	Nikolay Dudkin (URS)	15.75	Carol Corbu (ROM)	15.43
Shot put	(URS)	16.71	Hans-Peter Gies (GDR)	16.55	(TCH)	15.79
Discus throw	Ferenc Tégla (HUN)	52.92	Klaus-Peter Hennig (FRG)	52.20	(TCH)	49.98
Hammer throw	(URS)	60.94	Reinhard Theimer (GDR)	60.10	(URS)	56.28
Javelin throw (old model)	Renzo Cramerotti (ITA)	73.32	(FRG)	72.88	(URS)	71.18
Decathlon	(URS)	7225 pts	(FRG)	7138 pts	Joachim Kirst (GDR)	6845 pts

Women's results[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	(GDR)	12.2	(YUG)	12.2	(DEN)	12.2
200 metres	Christina Heinich (GDR)	24.2	Nicole Montandon (FRA)	24.3	Mirna Jansen (NED)	24.5
400 metres	(YUG)	55.9	(NED)	56.2	Ingrida Verbele (URS)	56.7
800 metres	Vera Nikolić (YUG)	2:03.4	(FIN)	2:08.1	Barbara Wieck (GDR)	2:09.0
80 m hurdles	Meta Antenen (SUI)	11.1	Teresa Sukniewicz (POL)	11.3	(URS)	11.3
4 × 100 m relay	East Germany (GDR) Bärbel Schrickel Renate Meissner Christina Heinich	46.2	France (FRA) Nicole Montandon	46.6	Soviet Union (URS) Nadezhda Besfamilnaya Marina Nikiforova	46.9
High jump	Alena Prosková (TCH)	1.64	Valentyna Kozyr (URS)	1.61	(FIN)	1.61
Long jump	(URS)	5.98	(BUL)	5.97	(ROM)	5.82
Shot put	(URS)	14.25	(GDR)	14.24	(GDR)	13.84
Discus throw	(GDR)	46.56	(TCH)	45.62	(HUN)	44.94
Javelin throw (old model)	Kaisa Launela (FIN)	51.82	(ROM)	50.50	Ewa Gryziecka (POL)	48.14
Pentathlon	Meta Antenen (SUI)	4609 pts	(SWE)	4370 pts	Margit Papp (HUN)	4319 pts

Medal table[]

  *   Host nation (Soviet Union)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)*	11	7	5	23
2	East Germany (GDR)	6	4	4	14
3	West Germany (FRG)	3	8	0	11
4	France (FRA)	2	3	2	7
5	Yugoslavia (YUG)	2	1	2	5
6	Finland (FIN)	2	1	1	4
7	Italy (ITA)	2	0	0	2
	Switzerland (SUI)	2	0	0	2
9	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	2	4	7
10	Hungary (HUN)	1	1	3	5
11	Sweden (SWE)	1	1	1	3
12	Poland (POL)	0	2	6	8
13	Romania (ROM)	0	1	3	4
14	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	1	2
15	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	0	1
16	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 nations)		33	33	33	99

References[]

Results

• European Junior Championships 1966 - Men's results. Retrieved on 2018-07-19.
• European Junior Championships 1966 - Women's results. Retrieved on 2018-07-19.