European Athletics Championships 1966/80 m hurdles for women

8th European Athletics Championships
discipline	80-meter hurdles for women
city	Budapest
Stadion	Népstadion
Participants	26 athletes from 16 countries
Competition phase	September 2nd (preliminary) September 3rd (semi-finals) September 4th (final)
Medalists
gold	Karin Balzer ( GDR )
silver	Karin Frisch ( FRG )
bronze	Elżbieta Bednarek ( POL )

The Népstadion at an event
in 1953

The women's 80-meter hurdles at the European Athletics Championships in 1966 was held from September 2nd to 4th, 1966 in Budapest's Népstadion .

The European champion was the 1964 Olympic champion and the 1962 vice European champion Karin Balzer from the GDR. The German bronze medalist in the 100 meters and third in the European Championship in 1962 Karin Frisch won silver. Third place went to Elżbieta Bednarek from Poland .

Existing records

World record	10.3 s	Irina Press	Tbilisi , then Soviet Union (now Georgia )	October 24, 1965
European record
EM record	10.6 s	Teresa Ciepły	EM in Belgrade , Yugoslavia	September 16, 1962
		Karin Balzer
		Maria Piątkowska
		Erika fish

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

Preliminary round

2nd September 1966

The preliminary round was held in four runs. The first four athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the semi-finals.

As in some other running competitions, the organizers made the preliminary races very strange. There were two runs with seven participants each, one run with eight participants. In the fourth race, only four athletes started, who only had to reach the finish in order to advance to the next lap, while in the other races three and four hurdles were eliminated twice.

Forward 1

Pat Pryce did not reach the semi-finals as sixth of their prelim

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Karin Balzer	GDR	10.9
2	Karin Frisch	BR Germany	10.9
3	Vlasta Přikrylová	Czechoslovakia	11.1
4th	Vera Korsakova	Soviet Union	11.2
5	Magaly Vettorazzo	Italy	11.2
6th	Pat Pryce	Great Britain	11.2
7th	Françoise Masse	France	11.5
8th	Melek Aydınoğlu	Turkey	12.4

Forward 2

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Danuta Straszyńska	Poland	10.9
2	Danielle Guéneau	France	11.1
3	Rimma Larionova	Soviet Union	11.1
4th	Regina Höfer	GDR	11.2
5	Maxine Botley	Great Britain	11.4
6th	Mária Pethö	Hungary	11.6
7th	Charoula Sasagianni	Greece	12.1

Forward 3

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Elżbieta Bednarek	Poland	10.7
2	Inge Schell	BR Germany	10.8
3	Gundula Diel	GDR	11.0
4th	Rita van Slooten	Netherlands	11.1
5	Sirkka Norrlund	Finland	11.1
6th	Alena Hiltscherová	Czechoslovakia	11.2
7th	Marjana Lubej	Yugoslavia	11.6

Forward 4

Wind: +0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Renate Balck	BR Germany	10.9
2	Nilija Kulkowa	Soviet Union	10.9
3	Meta antennas	Switzerland	11.2
4th	Snezhana Zhalova	Bulgaria	11.3
DNS	Mary Rand	Great Britain

Semifinals

3rd September 1966

In each of the two semi-finals, the first four athletes - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Run 1

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Renate Balck	BR Germany	10.8
2	Elżbieta Bednarek	Poland	10.9
3	Inge Schell	BR Germany	10.9
4th	Gundula Diel	GDR	11.1
5	Vlasta Přikrylová	Czechoslovakia	11.1
6th	Rimma Larionova	Soviet Union	11.2
7th	Snezhana Zhalova	Bulgaria	11.2
DNS	Meta antennas	Switzerland

Run 2

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Danuta Straszyńska	Poland	10.8
2	Karin Frisch	BR Germany	10.8
3	Karin Balzer	GDR	10.9
4th	Nilija Kulkowa	Soviet Union	10.9
5	Danielle Guéneau	France	11.1
6th	Rita van Slooten	Netherlands	11.1
7th	Vera Korsakova	Soviet Union	11.1
8th	Regina Höfer	GDR	11.2

final

After her Olympic victory in 1964 , Karin Balzer also won the title of European champion here

4th September 1966

Wind: +0.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Karin Balzer	GDR	10.7
2	Karin Frisch	BR Germany	10.7
3	Elżbieta Bednarek	Poland	10.7
4th	Renate Balck	BR Germany	10.7
5	Inge Schell	BR Germany	10.8
6th	Nilija Kulkowa	Soviet Union	10.9
7th	Danuta Straszyńska	Poland	10.9
8th	Gundula Diel	GDR	11.0

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  Danuta Straszyńska reached seventh place

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  Gundula Diel finished eighth in this final

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1966 at european-athletics.org, accessed June 1, 2019
• Women 80m Hurdles European Championship 1966 Budapest on todor66.com, accessed June 1, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 80m Hurdles European Championship 1962 Beograd, p. 403 (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, 80 m hurdles 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

Video

• European Athletics 1966 Budapest 80 Hs Karin Balzer , on youtube.com, published March 27, 2019, accessed June 1, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ World Records Progression 80m Hurdles Women , accessed June 1, 2019