European Athletics Championships 1966/200 m women

8th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's 200-meter run
city	Budapest
Stadion	Népstadion
Participants	19 athletes from 14 countries
Competition phase	August 31st (preliminary) September 1st (semi-finals) September 2nd (final)
Medalists
gold	Irena Kirszenstein ( POL )
silver	Ewa Kłobukowska ( POL )
bronze	Vera Popkova ( URS )

The Népstadion at an event
in 1953

The 200-meter run for women at the European Athletics Championships in 1966 was held from August 31 to September 2, 1966 in Budapest's Népstadion .

In this competition, the two Poles, who were already successful over 100 meters , swapped the order of European champion, the world record holder Irena Kirszenstein , who also won gold in the long jump and with the 4 x 100 meter relay . Ewa Kłobukowska won silver and , together with Irena Kirszenstein, also won the sprint relay. In third place came Vera Popkova from the Soviet Union.

Records

Existing records

World record	22.7 s	Irena Kirszenstein	Warsaw , Poland	August 8, 1965
European record
Championship record	23.5 s	Jutta Heine	EM in Belgrade , Yugoslavia	September 15, 1962

Record improvement

In the final on September 2nd, European champion Irena Kirszenstein improved the existing EM record by four tenths of a second to 23.1 seconds.

Preliminary round

August 31, 1966

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

In this competition, too, the division of the prelims was very unbalanced. In the second race two runners were eliminated, in the third it was a sprinter who did not reach the next lap. In the first and fourth heats, on the other hand, the participants only had to cross the finish line, regardless of their running time, to be in the semi-finals. For example, the later European Champion Irena Kirszenstein trotted to the finish line fourth and last in the fourth heat and was more than two seconds slower than in the final.

Forward 1

Wind: +3.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Truus Hennipman	Netherlands	24.0
2	Ioana Petrescu	Romania	24.5
3	Maureen Tranter	Great Britain	24.7
4th	Gabrielle Meyer	France	25.6

Forward 2

Wind: +0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Ewa Kłobukowska	Poland	23.6
2	Christina Heinich	GDR	23.8
3	Karin Wallgren	Sweden	24.4
4th	Valentyna Bolshova	Soviet Union	24.4
5	Olimbi Moçka	Albania	27.2

Forward 3

Wind: +2.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Vera Popkova	Soviet Union	23.7
2	Kirsten Roggenkamp	BR Germany	23.7
3	Ingrid Tiedtke	GDR	23.9
4th	Eva Lehocká	Czechoslovakia	24.3
5	Janet Simpson	Great Britain	24.6
6th	Erzsébet Bartos	Hungary	24.8

Forward 4

Wind: +5.2 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Hannelore Trabert	BR Germany	24.6
2	Donata Govoni	Italy	24.7
3	Ljiljana Petnjarić	Yugoslavia	25.2
4th	Irena Kirszenstein	Poland	25.2

Semifinals

September 1, 1966

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	23.8
2	Vera Popkova	Soviet Union	23.9
3	Ingrid Tiedtke	GDR	24.1
4th	Hannelore Trabert	BR Germany	24.1
5	Karin Wallgren	Sweden	24.4
6th	Ljiljana Petnjarić	Yugoslavia	25.0
7th	Gabrielle Meyer	France	25.2
DNF	Ioana Petrescu	Romania

Run 2

Wind: +1.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Irena Kirszenstein	Poland	23.6
2	Kirsten Roggenkamp	BR Germany	23.8
3	Truus Hennipman	Netherlands	24.0
4th	Eva Lehocká	Czechoslovakia	24.1
5	Valentyna Bolshova	Soviet Union	24.3
6th	Maureen Tranter	Great Britain	24.3
7th	Christine Heinich	GDR	24.5
8th	Donata Govoni	Italy	24.9

final

European champion Irena Kirszenstein - three-time winner of  Budapest

2nd September 1966

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Irena Kirszenstein	Poland	23.1 CR
2	Ewa Kłobukowska	Poland	23.4
3	Vera Popkova	Soviet Union	23.7
4th	Kirsten Roggenkamp	BR Germany	23.8
5	Ingrid Tiedtke	GDR	23.9
6th	Eva Lehocká	Czechoslovakia	24.0
7th	Hannelore Trabert	BR Germany	24.2
8th	Truus Hennipman	Netherlands	24.3

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  Vice European Champion Ewa Kłobukowska - winner over 100 meters and with the sprint relay

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  Truus Hennipman finished eighth in this final

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1966 from european-athletics.org, accessed on May 29, 2019
• Women 200m European Championship 1966 Budapest on todor66.com, accessed May 29, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 200m European Championship 1962 Beograd, p. 402f (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 29, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1966 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed May 29, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1966, 200 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on May 29, 2019
• 8th European Athletics Championships 1966 in Budapest, Hungary from ifosta.de, accessed on May 29, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 200m women , accessed May 29, 2019