European Athletics Championships 1966/20 km men's walking

8th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 20km walk
city	Budapest
venue	Streets of Budapest
Attendees	27 athletes from 13 countries
Competition phase	August 30th
Medalist
gold	Dieter Lindner ( GDR )
silver	Volodymyr Holubnychy ( URS )
bronze	Mykola Smaha ( URS )

The men's 20 km walk at the 1966 European Athletics Championships was held on August 30, 1966 in the streets of Budapest .

In this discipline there were two medals for the Soviet walkers, silver and bronze. European champion was the 1964 Olympic runner-up Dieter Lindner from the GDR. He won before the Olympic champion from 1960 , Olympic third from 1964 and EM third from 1962 Volodymyr Holubnytschyj . Bronze went to Mykola Smaha .

Records / best times

Existing records / best times

World record	1:25:58 h	Anatoly Wedjakov	Moscow , then Soviet Union (now Russia )	September 6, 1959
European best time
EM record	1: 33: 09.0 h	Stan Vickers	EM in Stockholm , Sweden	19th August 1958

Panoramic view of Budapest

Note:
At that time, records were not kept in marathon running and street walking because of the different track conditions with the exception of championship records.

Record improvement

European champion Dieter Lindner improved the EM record in the final on August 30th by 3: 43.0 minutes to 1: 29: 25.0 hours.

final

European champion Dieter Lindner (far left) together with other GDR athletes at the 1964 Olympic Games , where Lindner won silver

Silver medalist
Volodymyr Holubnytschyj, who had an extremely successful career - including Olympic champion in 1960 and 1968 / European champion in  1974

August 30, 1966, 4:25 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (h)
1	Dieter Lindner	GDR	1: 29: 25.0 CR
2	Volodymyr Holubnychy	Soviet Union	1: 30: 06.0 SB
3	Mykola Smaha	Soviet Union	1: 30: 18.0 SB
4th	Gerhard Sperling	GDR	1: 31: 25.8 SB
5	Anatoly Wedjakov	Soviet Union	1: 32: 00.8 PB
6th	Antal Kiss	Hungary	1: 32: 42.4 PB
7th	Peter Fullager	Great Britain	1: 33: 02.4 PB
8th	Henri Delerue	France	1: 33: 41.2 PB
9	Ronald Wallwork	Great Britain	1: 34: 38.0 PB
10	János Dalmati	Hungary	1: 34: 42.6 PB
11	Karl-Heinz Pape	BR Germany	1: 34: 48.0 PB
12	Charles Sowa	Luxembourg	1: 34: 50.0 SB
13	John Webb	Great Britain	1: 34: 52.0 PB
14th	Nicola de Vito	Italy	1: 37: 07.6 PB
15th	Stefan Ingvarsson	Sweden	1: 38: 39.0 SB
16	Andrzej Czapliński	Poland	1: 40: 41.0 PB
17th	Edmund Paziewski	Poland	1: 40: 56.0 PB
18th	God Nygren	Sweden	1: 41: 22.0 PB
19th	Lennart Larsson	Sweden	1: 42: 20.0 PB
20th	Sadik Demiraj	Albania	1:45: 33.0 PB
DNF	Alexandr Bílek	Czechoslovakia
	István Göri	Hungary
	Eugeniusz Ornoch	Poland
DSQ	Jacques Arnoux	France
	Stanimir Stoykov	Bulgaria
	Hans-Georg Reimann	GDR
	Dimitar Georgiev	Bulgaria

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  Antal Kiss - here in 2013 - reached number six

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  Hans-Georg Reimann (center) - here with two colleagues from the GDR at the 1976 Olympic Games - was disqualified

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1966 from european-athletics.org, accessed May 25, 2019
• Men 20km Walk European Championship 1966 Budapest on todor66.com, accessed May 25, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 20 km walk European Championship 1962 Beograd, p. 401 (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, 20 km walking men on sportschau.de, accessed on May 25, 2019
• 8th European Athletics Championships 1966 in Budapest, Hungary from ifosta.de, accessed on May 25, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 20 km walking men , accessed May 25, 2019