European Athletics Championships 1966/4 × 100 m women

6th European Athletics Championships
discipline	4 × 100 m relay of women
city	Budapest
Stadion	Népstadion
Participants	10 relays with 40 athletes
Competition phase	September 3rd (preliminary) September 4th (final)
Medalists
gold	Poland
silver	BR Germany
bronze	Soviet Union

The Népstadion at an event
in 1953

The women's 4 x 100 meter relay at the European Athletics Championships in 1966 was held on September 3 and 4, 1966 in Budapest's Népstadion .

The defending champions from Poland with Elżbieta Bednarek , Danuta Straszyńska , Irena Kirszenstein and Ewa Kłobukowska became European champions . The BR Germany relay won the silver medal with the cast of Renate Meyer , Hannelore Trabert , Karin Frisch and Jutta Stöck . Bronze went to the Soviet Union ( Wera Popkowa , Walentyna Bolschowa , Lyudmila Samotjossowa and Renāte Lāce ).

Records

Existing records

World record	43.9 s	USA ( Willye White , Wyomia Tyus , Marilyn White , Edith McGuire )	OS Tokyo , Japan	October 21, 1964
European record	44.0 s	Great Britain ( Janet Simpson , Mary Rand , Daphne Arden , Dorothy Hyman )
EM record	44.5 s	Poland ( Teresa Ciepły , Barbara Sobotta , Elżbieta Szyroka , Maria Piątkowska )	EM Belgrade , Yugoslavia	September 16, 1962

Comment on the world and European records:
The final over 4 × 100 meters at the Olympic Games in 1964 was won by the relay from Poland with final runner Ewa Kłobukowska in 43.6 seconds. This time was initially recognized as a world and European record. In 1969, however , the IAAF canceled all world records in which Ewa Kłobukowska was involved because she was classified as a hermaphrodite after a sex test in 1967 . The athlete, however, was allowed to keep her title. The silver medalists from the USA held the world record. The third placed British women were the European record holders.

Record improvement

The relay of the European champions from Poland ( Elżbieta Bednarek , Danuta Straszyńska , Irena Kirszenstein , Ewa Kłobukowska ) improved the existing championship record at these European championships in the final on September 4th by a tenth of a second to 44.4 s.

Preliminary round

3rd September 1966

The preliminary round was held in two runs. The first three seasons per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Poland	Elżbieta Bednarek Danuta Straszyńska Irena Kirszenstein Ewa Kłobukowska	44.7
2	GDR	Ingrid Tiedtke Ursula Böhm Christina Heinich Renate Heldt	45.3
3	Hungary	Margit Nemesházi Erzsébet Bartos Annamária Tóth Ida Such	45.3
4th	Great Britain	Maureen Tranter Janet Simpson Daphne Slater Jill Hall	45.3
5	Norway	Maj Lena Lundström Tove Bakkejord Berit Berthelsen Kirsten Rothe	45.6

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	BR Germany	Renate Meyer Hannelore Trabert Karin Frisch Jutta Stöck	44.9
2	Soviet Union	Renāte Lāce Walentyna Bolschowa Lyudmila Samotjossowa Vera Popkowa	45.0
3	France	Danielle Guéneau Sylviane Telliez Gabrielle Meyer Nicole Montandon	45.8
4th	Netherlands	Truus Hennipman Martha Klaasen Wilma van Gool Lidy Vonk	45.9
5	Czechoslovakia	Eva Lehocká Eva Šuranová Vlasta Přikrylová Alena Hiltscherová	46.0

final

4th September 1966

space	Surname	nation	official time (s) hand-stopped	unofficial time (s) electronically
1	Poland	Elżbieta Bednarek Danuta Straszyńska Irena Kirszenstein Ewa Kłobukowska	44.4 CR	44.49
2	BR Germany	Renate Meyer Hannelore Trabert Karin Frisch Jutta Stöck	44.5	44.60
3	Soviet Union	Wera Popkowa Walentyna Bolschowa Lyudmila Samotjossowa Renāte Lāce	44.6	44.70
4th	Hungary	Margit Nemesházi Erzsébet Bartos Annamária Tóth Ida Such	45.1	k. A.
5	GDR	Ingrid Tiedtke Ursula Böhm Christina Heinich Renate Heldt	45.3	k. A.
6th	France	Danielle Guéneau Sylviane Telliez Gabrielle Meyer Nicole Montandon	45.7	k. A.

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1966 at european-athletics.org, accessed June 1, 2019
• 4x100m Relay European Championship 1966 Budapest on todor66.com, accessed June 1, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 4x100 meters relay European Championship 1966 Budapest, p. 404f (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 1, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1966 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed June 1, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1966, 4 × 100 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on June 1, 2019
• 8th European Athletics Championships 1966 in Budapest, Hungary from ifosta.de, accessed on June 1, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 4 × 100 m women , accessed June 1, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 4 × 100 m Women , p. 70 (PDF, 271 kB), French / English, accessed on June 1, 2019