European Athletics Championships 1966/1500 m men

8th European Athletics Championships
discipline	1500 meter run of men
city	Budapest
Stadion	Népstadion
Attendees	32 athletes from 19 countries
Competition phase	August 30th (preliminary) September 1st (final)
Medalist
gold	Bodo Bottlenose Dolphin ( FRG )
silver	Michel Jazy ( FRA )
bronze	Harald Norpoth ( FRG )

The Népstadion at an event
in 1953

The men's 1500 meter run at the European Athletics Championships in 1966 was held on August 30 and September 1, 1966 in Budapest's Népstadion .

With gold and bronze, there were two medals for German runners. Bodo Tümmler became European champion . He won ahead of the French defending champion and European record holder Michel Jazy . Bronze went to Harald Norpoth .

Records

Existing records

World record	3: 35.6 min	Herb Elliott	OS Rome , Italy	2nd September 1960
European record	3: 36.3 min	Michel Jazy	Sochaux , France	June 25, 1966
Championship record	3: 40.8 min	Olavi Vuorisalo	EM Stockholm , Sweden	August 24, 1958

Record improvement

In the second run, André De Hertoghe , who finished sixth in the final two days later, improved the existing EM record by a tenth of a second to 3: 40.7 minutes.

Preliminary round

With his eighth place in the first heat, Henk Snepvangers did not reach the final

The Olympic runner-up
from 1964 Josef Odložil was eliminated as fifth in his heat

Eighth place in his preliminary run was not enough for Simo Važić to take part in the final

August 31, 1966

The preliminary round was carried out in three runs. The first four athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Harald Norpoth	BR Germany	3: 44.9
2	Michel Jazy	France	3: 45.1
3	Walter Wilkinson	Great Britain	3: 45.4 SB
4th	Stanislav Hoffman	Czechoslovakia	3: 45.4
5	Arne Kvalheim	Norway	3: 45.7 SB
6th	Oleg Rayko	Soviet Union	3: 46.7
7th	Roland Brehmer	Poland	3: 49.0 PB
8th	Henk Snepvangers	Netherlands	3: 51.5 SB
9	Frank Murphy	Ireland	3: 52.4 SB
10	Gani Alia	Albania	3: 57.2 PB

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	André De Hertoghe	Belgium	3: 40.7 CR / NR
2	Bodo Bottlenose Dolphin	BR Germany	3: 41.1 SB
3	Jürgen May	GDR	3: 41.2 SB
4th	Claude Nicolas	France	3: 41.4 SB
5	Josef Odložil	Czechoslovakia	3: 42.1
6th	Mart Wilt	Soviet Union	3: 42.7
7th	Roman Tkaczyk	Poland	3: 45.1
8th	Simo Važić	Yugoslavia	3: 45.6 SB
9	Preben Glue	Denmark	3: 45.9 SB
10	Gergely Szentivanyi	Hungary	3: 47.2 PB

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Jean Wadoux	France	3: 45.3
2	Alan Simpson	Great Britain	3: 45.3
3	Eugène Allonsius	Belgium	3: 45.5 SB
4th	Henryk Szordykowski	Poland	3: 45.6 SB
5	Gärderud is different	Sweden	3: 45.7 SB
6th	Hans-Rudolf Knill	Switzerland	3: 45.8 PB
7th	Francesco Arese	Italy	3: 46.3 SB
8th	Stig Rekdal	Norway	3: 46.3
9	Wolf-Jochen Schulte-Hillen	BR Germany	3: 46.5
10	Mikhail Shelobovsky	Soviet Union	3: 48.4 SB
11	Manuel de Oliveira	Portugal	3: 48.9 SB
12	Muharrem Dalkılıç	Turkey	3: 56.4 SB

European champion Bodo Tümmler (third from the right) was also third in the 800 meters three days later , in 1968 he won the Olympic bronze in the 1500 meters - to the right of him, the European Championship third Harald Norpoth

final

September 1, 1966

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Bodo Bottlenose Dolphin	BR Germany	3: 41.9
2	Michel Jazy	France	3: 42.2
3	Harald Norpoth	BR Germany	3: 42.4
4th	Alan Simpson	Great Britain	3: 43.8 SB
5	Jürgen May	GDR	3: 44.1
6th	André De Hertoghe	Belgium	3: 44.3
7th	Jean Wadoux	France	3: 44.5 SB
8th	Henryk Szordykowski	Poland	3: 45.8
9	Eugène Allonsius	Belgium	3: 46.2
10	Stanislav Hoffman	Czechoslovakia	3: 46.5
11	Walter Wilkinson	Great Britain	3: 46.9
12	Claude Nicolas	France	3: 48.1

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  The defending champion and European record holder Michel Jazy (left, ahead of Harald Norpoth in 1963) became vice European champion - three days later he won the
  5000 meter run

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  Alan Simpson (left) came in fourth

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  Eugène Allonsius finished ninth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1966 at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 21, 2019
• Men 1500m European Championship 1966 Budapest on todor66.com, accessed on May 21, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 1500m European Championship 1962 Beograd, p. 398 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 21, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1966 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on May 21, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1966, 1500 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on May 21, 2019
• 8th European Athletics Championships 1966 in Budapest, Hungary from ifosta.de, accessed on May 21, 2019

Video

• European Athletics 1966 Budapest 1500 Tummler , on youtube.com, published March 27, 2019, accessed May 27, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 1500m men , accessed May 21, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 1500 m Men , p. 12 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on May 21, 2019 (French / English)