European Athletics Championships 1966/200 m men

8th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 200-meter run
city	Budapest
Stadion	Népstadion
Attendees	30 athletes from 17 countries
Competition phase	September 1st (preliminary / semi-finals) September 2nd (final)
Medalist
gold	Roger Bambuck ( FRA )
silver	Marian Dudziak ( POL )
bronze	Jean-Claude Nallet ( FRA )

The Népstadion at an event
in 1953

The men's 200-meter run at the European Athletics Championships in 1966 was held on September 1 and 2, 1966 in Budapest's Népstadion .

France won two medals with gold and bronze. It was won by the 100 meter vice European champion Roger Bambuck . Second place went to Marian Dudziak from Poland . Bronze went to Jean-Claude Nallet .

Existing records

World record	20.0 s - y	Tommie Smith	Sacramento , USA	June 11, 1966
European record	20.4 s	Sergio Ottolina	Saarbrücken , then BR Germany (now Germany )	June 21, 1964
EM record	20.7 s	Owe Jonsson	EM Belgrade , Yugoslavia	September 16, 1962

Note:
The record run marked with y took place over 220  yards (= 201.17 m).

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

Preliminary note on the results

The electronically determined services can also be found in the time information. At that time, however, as at the Olympic Games, these were still unofficial. Officially, the hand-timed times were evaluated at these European championships, but these are no longer listed in the sources at places with information on electronic timekeeping. For several years there was also a juxtaposition of manually and electronically stopped times for the best lists and records.

Preliminary round

September 1, 1966

The preliminary round was carried out in five runs. The first three athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the fastest sprinter - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semifinals.

Forward 1

Wind: -1.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Sergio Ottolina	Italy	21.3
2	Ladislav Kříž	Czechoslovakia	21.5
3	Josef Schwarz	BR Germany	21.6
4th	Pierre Burrelier	France	21.6
5	Mel Cheskin	Great Britain	21.8

Forward 2

Wind: -0.3 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Livio Berruti	Italy	21.2
2	Marian Dudziak	Poland	21.2
3	Fritz Roderfeld	BR Germany	21.4
4th	Haris Aivaliotis	Greece	21.6
5	José Luis Sánchez	Spain	21.6 PB

Menzies Campbell - here in 2006 as a successful politician - was eliminated at the same time as the third-placed runner in his preliminary run

Heinz Erbstößer (right) missed the third place necessary for the final qualification by a hundredth of a second in his semifinals

In fifth, Leo de Winter was also only a hundredth of a second
short of making it to the final

European chart holder Sergio Ottolina (left) was eliminated in eighth place in his race in the semifinals

Forward 3

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jean-Claude Nallet	France	21.1
2	Amin Tujakov	Soviet Union	21.4
3	Ennio Preatoni	Italy	21.4
4th	Menzies Campbell	Great Britain	21.4
5	Manfred Knickenberg	BR Germany	21.4
6th	Edward Romanowski	Poland	21.5
7th	Jacques Vanhee	Belgium	21.8

Forward 4

Wind: +0.6 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Roger Bambuck	France	21.1
2	Gheorghe Zamfirescu	Romania	21.2
3	Heinz Erbstößer	GDR	21.3
4th	István Gyulai	Hungary	21.3
5	Jiří Kynos	Czechoslovakia	21.6
6th	Sonar Coşan	Turkey	22.3

Forward 5

Wind: +2.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Leo de Winter	Netherlands	21.0
2	Jan Werner	Poland	21.1
3	József Istóczky	Hungary	21.2
4th	Harald Eggers	GDR	21.6
5	Bo Althoff	Sweden	21.6
6th	Nikolai Politiko	Soviet Union	21.7
7th	Rasim Kraja	Albania	22.3

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: +0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Marian Dudziak	Poland	20.90
2	Roger Bambuck	France	21.25
3	Livio Berruti	Italy	21.29
4th	Ennio Preatoni	Italy	21.32
5	Heinz Erbstößer	GDR	21.33
6th	Leo de Winter	Netherlands	21.33
7th	István Gyulai	Hungary	21.58
8th	Josef Schwarz	BR Germany	21.64

Run 2

Wind: +0.9 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Jean-Claude Nallet	France	20.9
2	Jan Werner	Poland	21.0
3	Fritz Roderfeld	BR Germany	21.2
4th	Ladislav Kříž	Czechoslovakia	21.2
5	Amin Tujakov	Soviet Union	21.2
6th	József Istóczky	Hungary	21.2
7th	Gheorghe Zamfirescu	Romania	21.3
8th	Sergio Ottolina	Italy	21.5

final

Livio Berruti (here in 2011) - Olympic champion from 1960 - came in seventh place

2nd September 1966

Wind: ± 0.0 m / s

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)
1	Roger Bambuck	France	20.93 SB
2	Marian Dudziak	Poland	21.0
3	Jean-Claude Nallet	France	21.0
4th	Jan Werner	Poland	21.1
5	Ladislav Kříž	Czechoslovakia	21.3
6th	Fritz Roderfeld	BR Germany	21.4
7th	Livio Berruti	Italy	21.5
8th	Ennio Preatoni	Italy	21.7

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1966 at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 20, 2019
• Men 200m 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. 397f (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, 200 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. ↑ IAAF world records. 200m men , accessed May 6, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 200 m Men , p. 8 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on May 20, 2019 (French / English)