European Athletics Championships 1966 / women's javelin

8th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's javelin throw
city	Budapest
Stadion	Népstadion
Participants	16 athletes from 8 countries
Competition phase	September 2nd (qualification) September 3rd (final)
Medalists
gold	Marion Lüttge ( GDR )
silver	Mihaela Peneș ( ROM )
bronze	Valentina Popova ( URS )

The Népstadion at an event
in 1953

The women's javelin at the European Athletics Championships in 1966 was held on September 2 and 3, 1966 in Budapest's Népstadion .

The GDR thrower Marion Lüttge became the European champion . She won ahead of the Romanian Olympic champion from 1964 Mihaela Peneș . Bronze went to Valentina Popova from the Soviet Union.

Records

Existing records

World record	62.40 m	Jelena Gorchakova	OS Tokyo , Japan	October 16, 1964
European record
EM record	56.02 m	Dana Zátopková	EM in Stockholm , Sweden	19th August 1958

Record improvement

European champion Marion Lüttge improved the existing EM record in qualifying on September 2nd by 3.68 m to 59.70 m.  

qualification

As fifteenth, Angéla Ránky retired from the qualification - under her name Angéla Németh, she became Olympic champion two years later

2nd September 1966

The sixteen participants took part in a joint qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 50.00 m. Since only eleven athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best placed athlete to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 49.74 m was enough for the final.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Marion Lüttge	GDR	59.70 CR / NO
2	Márta Rudas	Hungary	57.72
3	Valentina Popova	Soviet Union	55.32
4th	Mihaela Peneș	Romania	55.02
5	Ameli Koloska	BR Germany	53.04 SB
6th	Eva Egger	Austria	52.12 SB
7th	Jelena Gorchakova	Soviet Union	52.08
8th	Elvīra Ozoliņa	Soviet Union	51.34
9	Erika Strasser	Austria	50.68 SB
10	Daniela Tarkowska	Poland	50.58 SB
11	Gertrud Schönauer	Austria	50.52 PB
12	Nataša Urbančič	Yugoslavia	49.74 SB
13	Ágnes Radnai	Hungary	49.34 PB
14th	Anneliese Gerhards	BR Germany	49.26 SB
15th	Angéla Ránky	Hungary	49.14 SB
16	Marilena Ciurea	Romania	45.82 PB

final

European champion Marion Lüttge - as Marion Gräfe she was tenth in the European Championship in 1962

3rd September 1966

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Marion Lüttge	GDR	58.74
2	Mihaela Peneș	Romania	56.94 SB
3	Valentina Popova	Soviet Union	56.70 PB
4th	Jelena Gorchakova	Soviet Union	55.96 SB
5	Elvīra Ozoliņa	Soviet Union	55.52 SB
6th	Márta Rudas	Hungary	54.30
7th	Daniela Tarkowska	Poland	49.70
8th	Erika Strasser	Austria	49.26
9	Gertrud Schönauer	Austria	48.56
10	Eva Egger	Austria	48.54
11	Ameli Koloska	BR Germany	47.90
NM	Nataša Urbančič	Yugoslavia

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  The 1964 Olympic champion Mihaela Peneș became vice European champion

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  The Olympic bronze medalist from 1964 Jelena Gorchakova came fourth - in 1968 she repeated her success from 1964 with an Olympic bronze

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  The defending champion and Olympic champion from 1960 Elvīra Ozoliņa had to be content with fifth place

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  The EM fifth in 1962 - at that time under her name Márta Antál - and Olympic runner-up in 1964 Márta Rudas was sixth in this final

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  Nataša Urbančič qualified for the final but had no valid attempt there

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1966 at european-athletics.org, accessed June 3, 2019
• Women Javelin Throw European Championship 1966 Budapest on todor66.com, accessed June 3, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Javelin Throw European Championship 1962 Beograd, p. 404 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 3, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1966 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed June 3, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1966, javelin women on sportschau.de, accessed on June 3, 2019
• 8th European Athletics Championships 1966 in Budapest, Hungary from ifosta.de, accessed on June 3, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Javelin women , accessed June 3, 2019