European Athletics Championships 1966 / men's high jump

8th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's high jump
city	Budapest
Stadion	Népstadion
Attendees	24 athletes from 13 countries
Competition phase	August 31 (qualifying) September 1 (final)
Medalist
gold	Jacques Madubost ( FRA )
silver	Robert Sainte-Rose ( FRA )
bronze	Valery Skvortsov ( URS )

The Népstadion at an event
in 1953

The men's high jump at the European Athletics Championships in 1966 was held on August 31 and September 1, 1966 in Budapest's Népstadion .

In this competition, the French high jumpers won a double victory. European champion was Jacques Madubost . He won ahead of Robert Sainte-Rose. Bronze went to Valeri Skworzow from the USSR.

Existing records

World record	2.28 m	Valery Brumel	Moscow , then Soviet Union (now Russia )	July 21, 1963
European record
EM record	2.21 m		EM Belgrade , Yugoslavia	September 16, 1962

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

qualification

August 31, 1966, 10:00 a.m.

The 24 participants took part in a joint qualifying round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 2.06 m. Since only one athlete jumped this mark (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best placed athletes (highlighted in light green). So finally thirteen jumpers who had managed at least 2.03 m reached the final.

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Ingomar Sieghart	BR Germany	2.06
2	Robert Sainte-Rose	France	2.03
	Jan Dahlgren	Sweden	2.03
	Jacques Madubost	France	2.03
	Yevgeny Jordanov	Bulgaria	2.03
	Wolfgang Schillkowski	BR Germany	2.03
	Valery Skvortsov	Soviet Union	2.03
	Valentin Gavrilov	Soviet Union	2.03
	Kjell-Åke Nilsson	Sweden	2.03
	Bo Jonsson	Sweden	2.03
	János Medovarszki	Hungary	2.03
	Andrei Khmarsky	Soviet Union	2.03
	Edward Czernik	Poland	2.03
14th	Sándor Noszály	Hungary	2.00
15th	Rudolf Huebner	Czechoslovakia	2.00
16	Gilbert Vallaeys	France	2.00
17th	Werner Arrow	GDR	2.00
18th	Milan Haranta	Czechoslovakia	2.00
19th	Rudolf Baudis	Czechoslovakia	2.00
20th	Jón Þordur Ólafsson	Iceland	1.95
21st	Luis Garriga	Spain	1.95
22nd	Erminio Azzaro	Italy	1.95
23	Gunther Spielvogel	BR Germany	1.95
24	Ilia Mazniku	Albania	1.85
DNS	Yves Theisen	Belgium

final

September 1, 1966

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Jacques Madubost	France	2.12 PB
2	Robert Sainte-Rose	France	2.12 SB
3	Valery Skvortsov	Soviet Union	2.09
4th	Edward Czernik	Poland	2.06 SB
5	Andrei Khmarsky	Soviet Union	2.06 PB
6th	Wolfgang Schillkowski	BR Germany	2.06 PB
7th	Valentin Gavrilov	Soviet Union	2.06 SB
8th	Ingomar Sieghart	BR Germany	2.03
	Kjell-Åke Nilsson	Sweden	2.03 SBe
10	Jan Dahlgren	Sweden	2.03 SBe
	János Medovarszki	Hungary	2.03 SBe
12	Bo Jonsson	Sweden	2.03 SBe
13	Yevgeny Jordanov	Bulgaria	1.95

For the three medal winners, the following jumps at the end of their trial series from 2.09 m are known:

• European champion Jacques Madubost - 2.09 m: o / 2.12 m: xo / 2.14 m: xxx
• Vice European Champion Robert Sainte-Rose - 2.09 m: xo / 2.12 m: xxo / 2.14 m: xxx
• Bronze medalist Valery Skworzow - 2.09 m: o / 2.12 m: xxx

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1966 from european-athletics.org, accessed May 25, 2019
• Men High Jump European Championship 1966 Budapest on todor66.com, accessed May 25, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men High Jump European Championship 1962 Beograd, p. 400 (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, high jump 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

Video

• European Athletics 1966 Budapest High Jump Madobust , on youtube.com, published August 30, 2018, accessed May 25, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. High jump , accessed May 25, 2019