European Athletics Championships 1966/20 km men's walking
8th European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | Men's 20km walk |
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venue | Streets of Budapest |
Attendees | 27 athletes from 13 countries |
Competition phase | August 30th |
Medalist | |
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Dieter Lindner ( GDR )
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Volodymyr Holubnychy ( URS )
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Mykola Smaha ( URS )
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The men's 20 km walk at the 1966 European Athletics Championships was held on August 30, 1966 in the streets of Budapest .
In this discipline there were two medals for the Soviet walkers, silver and bronze. European champion was the 1964 Olympic runner-up Dieter Lindner from the GDR. He won before the Olympic champion from 1960 , Olympic third from 1964 and EM third from 1962 Volodymyr Holubnytschyj . Bronze went to Mykola Smaha .
Records / best times
Existing records / best times
World record | 1:25:58 h |
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Moscow , then Soviet Union (now Russia ) | September 6, 1959 |
European best time | ||||
EM record | 1: 33: 09.0 h |
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EM in Stockholm , Sweden | 19th August 1958 |
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Note:
At that time, records were not kept in marathon running and street walking because of the different track conditions with the exception of championship records.
Record improvement
European champion Dieter Lindner improved the EM record in the final on August 30th by 3: 43.0 minutes to 1: 29: 25.0 hours.
final
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August 30, 1966, 4:25 p.m.
Hans-Georg Reimann (center) - here with two colleagues from the GDR at the 1976 Olympic Games - was disqualified
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1966 from european-athletics.org, accessed May 25, 2019
- Men 20km Walk European Championship 1966 Budapest on todor66.com, accessed May 25, 2019
- European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 20 km walk European Championship 1962 Beograd, p. 401 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 25, 2019
- Track and Field Statistics, EM 1966 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed May 25, 2019
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1966, 20 km walking men on sportschau.de, accessed on May 25, 2019
- 8th European Athletics Championships 1966 in Budapest, Hungary from ifosta.de, accessed on May 25, 2019
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. 20 km walking men , accessed May 25, 2019