European Athletics Championships 1966 / 10,000 m men

8th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 10,000-meter run
city	Budapest
Stadion	Népstadion
Attendees	23 athletes from 13 countries
Competition phase	August 30th
Medalist
gold	Jürgen Haase ( GDR )
silver	Lajos Mecser ( HUN )
bronze	Leonid Mikitenko ( URS )

The Népstadion at an event
in 1953

The men's 10,000-meter run at the 1966 European Athletics Championships was held on August 30, 1966 in Budapest's Népstadion .

GDR runner Jürgen Haase became European champion . He won ahead of the Hungarian Lajos Mecser. Bronze went to Leonid Mikitenko from the Soviet Union.

Records

Existing records

World record	27: 39.4 min	Ron Clarke	Oslo , Norway	July 14, 1965
European record	28: 10.6 min	Gaston Roelants		August 21, 1965
Championship record	28: 54.0 min	Pyotr Bolotnikov	EM in Belgrade , Yugoslavia	September 12, 1962

Record improvement

In the final of these European championships on August 30th, European champion Jürgen Haase improved the European championship record by 28 seconds to 28: 26.0 minutes.

execution

The competition was held without previous eliminations. All 23 participants started together for the final.

final

Gaston Roelants, 1964 Olympic champion over 3000 meters obstacle , finished eighth

August 30, 1966, 4:15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Jürgen Haase	GDR	28: 26.0 CR
2	Lajos Mecser	Hungary	28: 27.0 PB
3	Leonid Mikitenko	Soviet Union	28: 32.2 SB
4th	Manfred Letzerich	BR Germany	28: 36.8 SB
5	Allan Rushmer	Great Britain	28: 37.8 PB
6th	Bruce Tulloh	Great Britain	28: 50.4 PB
7th	János Szerényi	Hungary	28: 52.2 SB
8th	Gaston Roelants	Belgium	28: 59.6 SB
9	Jim Alder	Great Britain	28: 59.8 SB
10	Gennady Klistov	Soviet Union	29: 00.6 SB
11	Franc Červan	Yugoslavia	29: 00.8 NO
12	Lutz Philipp	BR Germany	29: 07.8 SB
13	József Sütő	Hungary	29: 24.8 SB
14th	Peter Kubicki	BR Germany	29: 26.0
15th	Bengt Nåjde	Sweden	29: 28.8 SB
16	Gert Eisenberg	GDR	29: 29.8 SB
17th	Nicolae Mustafa	Romania	29: 40.0 PB
18th	Kazimierz Zimny	Poland	29: 51.2 SB
19th	Josef Tomáš	Czechoslovakia	29: 56.0 SB
20th	Şükrü Saban	Turkey	30: 30.8 SB
DNF	Mikko Ala-Leppilampi	Finland
	Andrei Barabaş	Romania
	Henri Clerckx	Belgium

Note:
Henri Clerckx, listed here among the runners who did not finish, is only mentioned in the sources at todor66.com. The Belgian is not listed on european-athletics.org or in the Statistics Handbook for the European Championships.

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  Franc Červan - eliminated over 5000 meters in the heat - came in eleventh place

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  Peter Kubicki (on the photo as the winner of a race in 1963) came in fourteen

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  Kazimierz Zimny (here in 2013) - over 5000 meters EM - second in 1958 and 1962 as well as Olympic third in 1960 - finished eighteenth in this final

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1966 at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 22, 2019
• Men 10000m European Championship 1966 Budapest on todor66.com, accessed on May 22, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 10000m European Championship 1962 Beograd, p. 399 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 22, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1966 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on May 22, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1966, 10,000 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on May 22, 2019
• 8th European Athletics Championships 1966 in Budapest, Hungary from ifosta.de, accessed on May 22, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 10,000 m men , accessed May 22, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 10000 m Men , p. 14 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on May 22, 2019 (French / English)
3. ↑ Men 10000m European Championship 1966 Budapest , accessed on May 22, 2019
4. ^ European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1966 , accessed on May 22, 2019
5. ↑ European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , accessed on May 22, 2019