European Athletics Championships 1966/50 km men's walk

8th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 50 km walk
city	Budapest
venue	Streets of Budapest
Attendees	26 athletes from 12 countries
Competition phase	September 3
Medalist
gold	Abdon Pamich ( ITA )
silver	Gennady Agapov ( URS )
bronze	Oleksandr Shcherbyna ( URS )

The men's 50 km walk at the 1966 European Athletics Championships was held on the streets of Budapest on September 3, 1966 .

In this discipline there were two medals for the Soviet Union with silver and bronze. European champion was the Italian defending champion and 1964 Olympic champion Abdon Pamich . He won ahead of the world record holder Gennady Agapov. Bronze went to Alexander Scherbina.

Existing records

World record	3:55:36 h	Gennady Agapov	Alma-Ata , then Soviet Union today ( Kazakhstan )	October 17, 1965
European best time
EM record	4: 17: 15.4 h	Yevgeny Maskinskov	EM Stockholm , Sweden	August 24, 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.

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

final

Kurt Sakowski took fourth place

3rd September 1966

space	Surname	nation	Time (h)
1	Abdon Pamich	Italy	4: 18: 42.2 SB
2	Gennady Agapov	Soviet Union	4: 20: 01.2 PB
3	Oleksandr Shcherbyna	Soviet Union	4: 20: 47.2 SB
4th	Kurt Sakowski	GDR	4: 22: 35.0 SB
5	Ray Middleton	Great Britain	4: 23: 01.0 PB
6th	Henri Delerue	France	4: 24: 30.4 PB
7th	Günter Rieger	GDR	4: 25: 50.8 PB
8th	Vittorio Visini	Italy	4: 26: 22.4 SB
9	Don Thompson	Great Britain	4: 27: 11.2 SB
10	Charles Sowa	Luxembourg	4:30: 13.6 SB
11	Peter Selzer	GDR	4: 33: 57.4 SB
12	István Havasi	Hungary	4: 35: 11.0 SB
13	Alexandr Bílek	Czechoslovakia	4: 36: 59.8 SB
14th	Erwin Stutz	Switzerland	4: 37: 51.4 PB
15th	Bernhard Nermerich	BR Germany	4: 39: 04.8 SB
16	Stig Lindberg	Sweden	4: 40: 39.6 SB
17th	Anatoly Penek	Soviet Union	4: 41: 23.2 PB
18th	Gerhard Weidner	BR Germany	4: 44: 04.2 SB
19th	Charles Fogg	Great Britain	4: 45: 15.6 PB
20th	Oldřich Stránský	Czechoslovakia	4: 49: 57.8 PB
21st	Eugeniusz Ornoch	Poland	4: 56: 13.4 PB
22nd	Werner Hupfeld	BR Germany	5: 02: 41.8 PB
DNF	Ingvar Pettersson	Sweden
	Jacques Arnoux	France
DSQ	Béla Dinesz	Hungary
	Max Sjöholm	Sweden

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1966 from european-athletics.org, accessed May 25, 2019
• Men 50km Walk European Championship 1966 Budapest on todor66.com, accessed May 25, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 50 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, 50 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. 50k men's walk , accessed May 25, 2019