European Athletics Championships 1966/100 m women

8th European Athletics Championships
discipline	100-meter run for women
city	Budapest
Stadion	Népstadion
Participants	23 athletes from 10 countries
Competition phase	August 30th (preliminary) August 31st (semifinals / finals)
Medalists
gold	Ewa Kłobukowska ( POL )
silver	Irena Kirszenstein ( POL )
bronze	Karin Frisch ( FRG )

The Népstadion at an event
in 1953

The 100-meter run for women at the European Athletics Championships in 1966 was held on August 30 and 31, 1966 in Budapest's Népstadion .

In this competition there was a double victory for the sprinters from Poland. Ewa Kłobukowska became European champion . She won in front of the co-owner of the world record Irena Kirszenstein , later Irena Szewińska and here European champion over 200 meters , in the long jump and with the 4 x 100 meter relay . Bronze went to the German Karin Frisch .

Records

Existing records

World record	11.1 s	Irena Kirszenstein	Prague , then Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic )	July 9, 1965
		Wyomia Tyus	Kiev , then Soviet Union (now Ukraine )	July 31, 1965
European record		Irena Kirszenstein	Prague , then Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic )	July 9, 1965
EM record	11.4 s	Jutta Heine	Semi-finals of the European Championship in Belgrade , Yugoslavia	September 13, 1962

Record equalization

European champion Ewa Kłobukowska equalized the existing championship record of 11.4 s twice:  

• 2nd advance on August 30th
• 1st semifinals on August 31st

The headwind in the final meant that there were no further improvements to the EM record.

Preliminary round

August 30, 1966, 6:40 p.m.

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

Forward 1

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Irena Kirszenstein	Poland	11.6
2	Wilma van den Berg	Netherlands	11.8
3	Jutta Stöck	BR Germany	11.9
4th	Ingrid Tiedtke	GDR	11.9
5	Valentyna Bolshova	Soviet Union	12.0
6th	Gabrielle Meyer	France	12.2

Forward 2

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ewa Kłobukowska	Poland	11.4 CRe
2	Eva Lehocká	Czechoslovakia	11.6
3	Nicole Montandon	France	11.8
4th	Daphne Slater	Great Britain	11.9
5	Ursula Boehm	GDR	11.9
6th	Erzsébet Bartos	Hungary	11.9

Forward 3

Myzejen Duli was eliminated in the preliminary round as sixth of her race

Wind: +0.4 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Karin Frisch	BR Germany	11.7
2	Margit Nemesházi	Hungary	11.8
3	Lidy Vonk	Netherlands	11.9
4th	Sylviane Telliez	France	11.9
5	Renāte Lāce	Soviet Union	12.0
6th	Myzejen Duli	Albania	12.7

Forward 4

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Hannelore Trabert	BR Germany	11.7
2	Vera Popkova	Soviet Union	11.8
3	Jill Hall	Great Britain	11.9
4th	Corrie Bakker	Netherlands	12.0
5	Elżbieta Kolejwa	Poland	12.1

Wilma van den Berg did not reach the final as sixth of her semi-final run

Seventh place in her semifinals was not enough for Corrie Bakker to take part in the final

Lidy Vonk (far left) finished seventh in her semifinals and was eliminated

Semifinals

August 31, 1966, 5:30 p.m.

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	Ewa Kłobukowska	Poland	11.4 CRe
2	Karin Frisch	BR Germany	11.7
3	Eva Lehocká	Czechoslovakia	11.8
4th	Jutta Stöck	BR Germany	11.8
5	Nicole Montandon	France	11.9
6th	Wilma van den Berg	Netherlands	11.9
7th	Corrie Bakker	Netherlands	12.0
8th	Daphne Slater	Great Britain	12.0

Run 2

Wind: +0.7 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Irena Kirszenstein	Poland	11.5
2	Margit Nemesházi	Hungary	11.8
3	Hannelore Trabert	BR Germany	11.8
4th	Vera Popkova	Soviet Union	11.8
5	Jill Hall	Great Britain	11.9
6th	Sylviane Telliez	France	11.9
7th	Lidy Vonk	Netherlands	11.9
8th	Ingrid Tiedtke	GDR	11.9

final

August 31, 1966, 6:50 p.m.

Wind: -1.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ewa Kłobukowska	Poland	11.5
2	Irena Kirszenstein	Poland	11.5
3	Karin Frisch	BR Germany	11.8
4th	Eva Lehocká	Czechoslovakia	11.9
5	Vera Popkova	Soviet Union	11.9
6th	Margit Nemesházi	Hungary	11.9
7th	Jutta Stöck	BR Germany	11.9
8th	Hannelore Trabert	BR Germany	12.0

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  European champion Ewa Kłobukowska - at these European championships also runner-up over 200 meters and winner of the 4 x 100 meter relay

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  Vice European champion Irena Kirszenstein, later Irena Szewińska, achieved her first major successes here with victories over 200 meters, in the long jump and with the sprint relay. In the years to come, she became a multiple Olympic champion over 200 and 400 meters as well as with the 4 x 100 meter relay.

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1966 at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 28, 2019
• Women 100m European Championship 1966 Budapest on todor66.com, accessed on May 28, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 100m European Championship 1962 Beograd, p. 402 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 28, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1966 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed May 28, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1966, 100 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on May 28, 2019
• 8th European Athletics Championships 1966 in Budapest, Hungary from ifosta.de, accessed on May 28, 2019

Video

• European Athletics 1966 Budapest 100 Women Klobukowska , on youtube.com, published March 27, 2019, accessed May 28, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 100m women , accessed May 28, 2019
2. ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. 100 m Women on rfea.es, p. 47 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on May 28, 2019