European Athletics Championships 1966/5000 m men

8th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 5000 meter run
city	Budapest
Stadion	Népstadion
Attendees	32 athletes from 19 countries
Competition phase	September 2nd (preliminary) September 4th (final)
Medalist
gold	Michel Jazy ( FRA )
silver	Harald Norpoth ( FRG )
bronze	Bernd Dießner ( GDR )

The Népstadion at an event
in 1953

The men's 5000-meter run at the European Athletics Championships in 1966 was held on September 2 and September 4, 1966 in Budapest's Népstadion .

The European champion was the Frenchman Michel Jazy - three days earlier the runner-up in the 1500 meters . He won before the German Olympic runner-up in 1964 Harald Norpoth , who had won bronze over 1500 meters here in Budapest. Third place went to GDR runner Bernd Dießner .

Records

Existing records

World record	13: 16.6 min	Ron Clarke	Stockholm , Sweden	5th July 1966
European record	13: 27.6 min	Michel Jazy	Helsinki , Finland	June 30, 1965
Championship record	13: 53.4 min	Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak	EM Stockholm , Sweden	23rd August 1958
		Peter Kubicki	EM Belgrade , Yugoslavia	August 13, 1962
		Pyotr Bolotnikov

Record improvements

At these European championships, the existing EM record was improved twice:

• 13: 49.4 min - Jean-Luc Salomon, first run on September 2nd
• 13: 42.8 min - Michel Jazy , final on September 4th 

Siegfried Herrmann was seventh in his run and was eliminated

As eighth of his heat, Franc Červan did not reach the final

Preliminary round

2nd September 1966

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

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Jean-Luc Salomon	France	13; 49.4 CR
2	Harald Norpoth	BR Germany	13: 50.2
3	Lajos Mecser	Hungary	13: 50.2
4th	Edward Stawiarz	Poland	13: 50.8 SB
5	Manuel de Oliveira	Portugal	13: 51.4 NO
6th	Dick Taylor	Great Britain	13: 54.8 SB
7th	Siegfried Herrmann	GDR	13: 57.8 SB
8th	Franc Červan	Yugoslavia	14: 00.0 PB
9	Renzo Finelli	Italy	14: 10.0 PB

Forward 2

Mariano Haro's seventh place in his preliminary run was not enough to make it to the final

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Jürgen Haase	GDR	13: 59.0
2	István Kiss	Hungary	13: 59.6
3	Gennady Klistov	Soviet Union	13: 59.8 SB
4th	René Kilburg	Luxembourg	13: 59.8 PB
5	Eugène Allonsius	Belgium	14: 00.0 PB
6th	Hans Gerlach	BR Germany	14: 00.6 SB
7th	Mariano Haro	Spain	14: 07.2 SB
8th	No Opdenoordt	Netherlands	14: 09.8 PB
9	Andrei Barabaş	Romania	14: 14.0 SB
10	Thor Helland	Norway	14: 23.2 SB
11	Tim Briault	Great Britain	14: 28.6 PB
12	Czesław Kołodyński	Poland	14: 41.4 PB

Forward 3

Like over 1500 meters , Simo Važić did not make it to the final

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Michel Jazy	France	13: 54.8
2	Derek Graham	Great Britain	13: 55.0
3	Bernd Dießner	GDR	13: 55.0
4th	Werner Girke	BR Germany	13: 55.4
5	Bengt Nåjde	Sweden	13: 55.8
6th	György Kiss	Hungary	13: 57.0 PB
7th	Simo Važić	Yugoslavia	13: 57.8 PB
8th	Anatoly Makarov	Soviet Union	13: 58.6 SB
9	Tom O'Riordan	Ireland	14: 12.4 PB
10	Henryk Piotrowski	Poland	14: 26.4 SB
11	Muharrem Dalkılıç	Turkey	14: 45.6 SB

final

September 4, 1966, 4:15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Michel Jazy	France	13: 42.8 CR
2	Harald Norpoth	BR Germany	13: 44.0 SB
3	Bernd Dießner	GDR	13: 47.8 SB
4th	Derek Graham	Great Britain	13: 48.0 SB
5	Lajos Mecser	Hungary	13: 48.0 SB
6th	Bengt Nåjde	Sweden	13: 48.2 SB
7th	István Kiss	Hungary	13: 48.2 SB
8th	Jean-Luc Salomon	France	13: 52.0
9	Manuel de Oliveira	Portugal	13: 52.6
10	Werner Girke	BR Germany	13: 53.2 SB
11	Jürgen Haase	GDR	13: 55.6 SB
12	Edward Stawiarz	Poland	13: 56.4
13	Gennady Klistov	Soviet Union	14: 00.0
14th	René Kilburg	Luxembourg	14: 06.2
15th	Eugène Allonsius	Belgium	14: 19.4

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  European Champion Michel Jazy (in a leading position) and Vice European Champion Harald Norpoth in a race in 1963

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  Eugène Allonsius, ninth over 1500 meters , came in fifteenth

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1966 at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 22, 2019
• Men 5000m European Championship 1966 Budapest on todor66.com, accessed May 22, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 5000m European Championship 1962 Beograd, p. 398f (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 22, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1966 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on May 22, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1966, 5000 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on May 22, 2019
• 8th European Athletics Championships 1966 in Budapest, Hungary from ifosta.de, accessed on May 22, 2019

Video

• European Athletics Championships (1966), 5000m Men , on youtube.com, published April 13, 2014, accessed May 22, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 5000 m men , accessed May 22, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 5000 m Men , p. 13 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on May 22, 2019 (French / English)