European Athletics Championships 1966/100 m men

8th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 100-meter run
city	Budapest
Stadion	Népstadion
Attendees	36 athletes from 18 countries
Competition phase	August 30th (preliminary / semi-finals) August 31st (final)
Medalist
gold	Wiesław Maniak ( POL )
silver	Roger Bambuck ( FRA )
bronze	Claude Piquemal ( FRA )

The Népstadion at an event
in 1953

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

In this competition there were two medals for the sprinters from France: silver and bronze. The European champion was Wiesław Maniak from Poland . He won ahead of Roger Bambuck . Bronze went to defending champion Claude Piquemal .

Existing records

World record	10.0 s	Armin Hary	Zurich , Switzerland	June 21, 1960
		Harry Jerome	Saskatoon , Canada	July 15, 1960
		Horacio Esteves	Caracas , Venezuela	15th August 1964
		Bob Hayes	OS Tokyo , Japan	October 15, 1964
European record		Armin Hary	Zurich , Switzerland	June 21, 1960
Championship record	10.3 s	Marian Foik	EM Belgrade , Yugoslavia	September 12, 1962
		Peter Gamper
		Alfred Hebauf

Note:
The fastest electronically timed time at European Championships - the winning time of the 1958 European Champion Armin Hary in the final on August 20, 1958 with 10.35 seconds - is unofficial as a championship record. Hary's time was unmatched at the 1966 European Championships.

The existing official EM record of 10.3 s was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

Preliminary round

August 30, 1966, 5:35 p.m.

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

Forward 1

Wind: -1.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Wiesław Maniak	Poland	10.7
2	Ipolito Giani	Italy	10.7
3	Menzies Campbell	Great Britain	10.7
4th	Harald Eggers	GDR	10.7
5	Juraj Demeč	Czechoslovakia	10.8
6th	Huba Rozsnyai	Hungary	11.0
DNS	Zhivko Traykov	Bulgaria

Forward 2

Wind: -0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Manfred Knickenberg	BR Germany	10.6
2	Włodzimierz Anielak	Poland	10.8
3	Jacques Vanhee	Belgium	10.8
4th	Ronald Jones	Great Britain	10.8
DSQ	Herbert Bende	Czechoslovakia	2 false starts
DNS	Lewandowski	Poland
	Ole Bernt Skarstein	Sweden

Forward 3

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Roger Bambuck	France	10.4
2	Heinz Erbstößer	GDR	10.6
3	Gert Metz	BR Germany	10.6
4th	Gheorghe Zamfirescu	Romania	10.7
5	Lajos Hajdú	Hungary	10.8
6th	Petr Utekal	Czechoslovakia	10.9
7th	Joseph Cassaglia	Gibraltar	12.4

Forward 4

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Barrie Kelly	Great Britain	10.7
2	Marc Berger	France	10.7
3	Hans-Jürgen Felsen	BR Germany	10.8
4th	Edvīns Ozoliņš	Soviet Union	10.8
5	József Istóczky	Hungary	10.8
6th	Tadeusz Jaworski	Poland	10.9
DNS	Chipokolev	Bulgaria

Forward 5

Wind: -0.1 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Claude Piquemal	France	10.7
2	Angelo Squazzero	Italy	10.8
3	Hans Hönger	Switzerland	10.8
4th	Alexander Lebedev	Soviet Union	10.8
5	José Luis Sánchez	Spain	10.9
6th	Tomi Stefanllari	Albania	11.3

With his 10.8 seconds in the sixth heat, Rob Heemskerk missed the semifinals by one place

Forward 6

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Pasquale Giannattasio	Italy	10.5
2	Nikolai Ivanov	Soviet Union	10.6
3	Panagiotis Nikolaidis	Greece	10.7
4th	Max Barandun	Switzerland	10.8
5	Rob Heemskerk	Netherlands	10.8
6th	Sonar Coşan	Turkey	11.0

Semifinals

August 31, 1966, 5:50 p.m.

In each of the three semi-finals, the first two athletes - highlighted in light blue - and the two fastest sprinters - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Run 1

Heinz Erbstößer (far right) was eliminated in eighth place in the first semi-final run

Wind: +0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
			official (hand-stopped)	unofficial (electronic)
1	Roger Bambuck	France	10.5	10.62
2	Ipolito Giani	Italy	10.6	10.74
3	Barrie Kelly	Great Britain	10.7	10.81
4th	Hans-Jürgen Felsen	BR Germany	10.8	10.82
5	Gheorghe Zamfirescu	Romania	10.8	10.86
6th	Włodzimierz Anielak	Poland	10.8	10.91
7th	Edvīns Ozoliņš	Soviet Union	10.8	10.94
8th	Heinz Erbstößer	GDR	10.8	10.95

Run 2

Wind: -1.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Pasquale Giannattasio	Italy	10.7
2	Claude Piquemal	France	10.7
3	Gert Metz	BR Germany	10.8
4th	Alexander Lebedev	Soviet Union	10.9
5	Ronald Jones	Great Britain	10.9
6th	Panagiotis Nikolaidis	Greece	11.0
7th	Hans Hönger	Switzerland	11.2
DSQ	Harald Eggers	GDR	2 false starts

Menzies Campbell - here as a successful politician in 2008 - could not qualify for the final with fourth place in his semifinals

Run 3

Wind: -0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Manfred Knickenberg	BR Germany	10.6
2	Wiesław Maniak	Poland	10.6
3	Nikolai Ivanov	Soviet Union	10.7
4th	Menzies Campbell	Great Britain	10.8
5	Marc Berger	France	10.8
6th	Jacques Vanhee	Belgium	10.9
7th	Max Barandun	Switzerland	11.0
DNS	Angelo Squazzero	Italy

final

August 31, 1966, 7:05 p.m.

Wind: −0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
			official (hand-stopped)	unofficial (electronic)
1	Wiesław Maniak	Poland	10.5	10.60
2	Roger Bambuck	France	10.5	10.61
3	Claude Piquemal	France	10.5	10.62
4th	Manfred Knickenberg	BR Germany	10.6	10.62
5	Ipolito Giani	Italy	10.6	10.71
6th	Barrie Kelly	Great Britain	10.7	10.76
7th	Nikolai Ivanov	Soviet Union	10.7	10.82
8th	Pasquale Giannattasio	Italy	20.1	k. A.

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  European champion Wiesław Maniak

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  Defending champion Claude Piquemal (left) won bronze this time

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1966 at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 20, 2019
• Men 100m European Championship 1966 Budapest on todor66.com, accessed on May 20, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 200m European Championship 1962 Beograd, p. 397 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 20, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1966 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on May 20, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1966, 100 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on May 20, 2019
• 8th European Athletics Championships 1966 in Budapest, Hungary from ifosta.de, accessed on May 20, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b} IAAF world records. 100m men , accessed May 6, 2019