European Athletics Championships 1966 / men's pole vault

8th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's pole vault
city	Budapest
Stadion	Népstadion
Attendees	27 athletes from 16 countries
Competition phase	August 31 (qualification) September 2 (final)
Medalist
gold	Wolfgang Nordwig ( GDR )
silver	Christos Papanikolaou ( GRE )
bronze	Hervé d'Encausse ( FRA )

The Népstadion at an event
in 1953

The men's pole vault at the European Athletics Championships in 1966 was held on August 31 and September 2, 1966 in Budapest's Népstadion .

European champion was the European record holder Wolfgang Nordwig from the GDR. He won ahead of the Greek Christos Papanikolaou . Bronze went to the French Hervé d'Encausse .

Records

Existing records

World record	5.34 m	John Pennel	Los Angeles , USA	July 23, 1966
European record	5.23 m	Wolfgang Nordwig	Warsaw , Poland	August 14, 1966
EM record	4.80 m	Pentti Nikula	EM in Belgrade , Yugoslavia	September 15, 1962

Record improvement

European champion Wolfgang Nordwig improved the championship record in the final on September 2nd by 30 centimeters to 5.10 meters.  

qualification

Paul Coppejans were eight inches short of entering the final

August 31, 1966, 1:00 p.m.

The 27 participants took part in a joint qualifying round. The qualification height for the direct entry into the final was 4.60 m. Since only five athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best placed athletes (highlighted in light green). So finally sixteen jumpers who had jumped at least 4.40 m reached the final.

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Hervé d'Encausse	France	4.60
	Leszek Butscher	Poland	4.60
	Wolfgang Nordwig	GDR	4.60
	Christos Papanikolaou	Greece	4.60
	Ignacio Sola	Spain	4.60
6th	Renato Dionisi	Italy	4.40
	Włodzimierz Sokołowski	Poland	4.40
	Waldemar Węcek	Poland	4.40
	Mike Bull	Great Britain	4.40 SB
	Rudolf Tomášek	Czechoslovakia	4.40
	Claus Schiprowski	BR Germany	4.40
	Klaus Lehnertz	BR Germany	4.40
	Karl-Gustav Burlin	Sweden	4.40
	Igor field	Soviet Union	4.40
	Altti Alarotu	Finland	4.40
	Jean-Pierre Colusso	France	4.40 PB
17th	Maurice Houvion	France	4.20 PB
18th	Paul Coppejans	Belgium	4.20 PB
19th	Dimitar Khlebarov	Bulgaria	4.20 PB
20th	Pavel Jindra	Czechoslovakia	4.20 PB
NH	František Taftl	Czechoslovakia	without height
	Aldo Righi	Italy
	Risto Ivanoff	Finland
	Hans Lagerqvist	Sweden
	Tapio Mertanen	Sweden
	Hennadij Blesnizow	Soviet Union
	János Miskei	Hungary

final

European champion Wolfgang Nordwig achieved his first international success - later he became, among other things, Olympic champion in 1972

2nd September 1966

space	Surname	nation	Height (m)
1	Wolfgang Nordwig	GDR	5.10 CR
2	Christos Papanikolaou	Greece	5.05 NO
3	Hervé d'Encausse	France	5.00 SB
4th	Renato Dionisi	Italy	4.80 SB
5	Ignacio Sola	Spain	4.80 PB
6th	Włodzimierz Sokołowski	Poland	4.80 SB
7th	Leszek Butscher	Poland	4.80 PB
8th	Claus Schiprowski	BR Germany	4.70 SB
9	Klaus Lehnertz	BR Germany	4.70 SB
10	Igor field	Soviet Union	4.70 PB
11	Waldemar Węcek	Poland	4.70 PB
12	Rudolf Tomášek	Czechoslovakia	4.60 SB
13	Altti Alarotu	Finland	4.60 SB
14th	Karl-Gustav Burlin	Sweden	4.40
15th	Jean-Pierre Colusso	France	4.40 PBe
16	Mike Bull	Great Britain	4.40 SBe

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1966 from european-athletics.org, accessed May 25, 2019
• Men Pole Vault European Championship 1966 Budapest on todor66.com, accessed May 25, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Pole Vault 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, men's pole vault 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 Pole Vault Nordwig , on youtube.com, published March 27, 2019, accessed May 27, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Pole Vault Men , accessed May 25, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, Pole Vault Men , p. 23 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on May 25, 2019 (French / English)