European Athletics Championships 1966/800 m women

8th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Women's 800-meter run
city	Budapest
Stadion	Népstadion
Participants	29 athletes from 16 countries
Competition phase	September 2nd (preliminary) September 3rd (semi-finals) September 4th (final)
Medalists
gold	Vera Nikolić ( YUG )
silver	Zsuzsa Szabó ( HUN )
bronze	Antje Gleichfeld ( FRG )

The Népstadion at an event
in 1953

The 800-meter run for women at the European Athletics Championships in 1966 was held from September 2nd to 4th, 1966 in Budapest's Népstadion .

The European champion was the Yugoslav Vera Nikolić . Second place went to Hungarian Zsuzsa Szabó. Bronze went to the German runner Antje Gleichfeld .

Records

Existing records

World record	2: 01.1 min	Ann Packer	OS Tokyo , Japan	October 20, 1964
European record
Championship record	2: 02.8 min	Gerda Kraan	EM Belgrade , Yugoslavia	September 16, 1962

Record equalization

European champion Vera Nikolić equalized the existing EM record of 2: 02.8 min in the final on September 4th .  

Preliminary round

2nd September 1966

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

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Vera Nikolić	Yugoslavia	2: 08.5
2	Waltraud Pöhlitz	GDR	2: 08.9
3	Anita Woerner	BR Germany	2: 09.0
4th	Pat Lowe	Great Britain	2: 09.4
5	Zofia Kaliszczuk	Poland	2: 10.3 PB
6th	Britt Ramstad	Norway	2: 10.4 NO
7th	Florentina Stancu	Romania	2: 11.9 PB

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Ilya Laman	Netherlands	2: 08.8
2	Ileana Silai	Romania	2: 08.8
3	Karin Kessler	BR Germany	2: 09.2
4th	Tamara Babintschewa	Soviet Union	2: 09.5
5	Teresa Jędrak	Poland	2: 09.9 PB
6th	Jette Andersen	Denmark	2: 10.0
7th	Katalin Nagy	Hungary	2: 10.8 PB

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Antje Gleichfeld	BR Germany	2: 05.5
2	Alla Krivosheeva	Soviet Union	2: 05.6
3	Sára Szenteleki	Hungary	2: 05.6
4th	Regine Kleinau	GDR	2: 05.8 PB
5	Danuta Wierzbowska	Poland	2: 06.1 PB
6th	Marie Ingrova	Czechoslovakia	2: 07.5 NO
7th	Elisabeta Baciu	Romania	2: 09.2 PB

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Zsuzsa Szabó	Hungary	2: 06.9
2	Pam Piercy	Great Britain	2: 07.2
3	Vera Mukhanova	Soviet Union	2: 07.3
4th	Paola Pigni	Italy	2: 07.5 PB
5	Dobroslava Žáková	Czechoslovakia	2: 09.5 PB
6th	Francine Peyskens	Belgium	2: 12.8 NO
7th	Maeve Kyle	Ireland	2: 13.2 SB
8th	Adile Dani	Albania	2: 13.2 NO

Semifinals

3rd September 1966

In each of the two semi-finals, the first four athletes - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Run 1

Ileana Silai missed the final by one place

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Vera Nikolić	Yugoslavia	2: 04.2
2	Antje Gleichfeld	BR Germany	2: 04.9
3	Zsuzsa Szabó	Hungary	2: 05.2
4th	Vera Mukhanova	Soviet Union	2: 05.5
5	Ileana Silai	Romania	2: 08.0 SB
6th	Karin Kessler	BR Germany	2: 08.0 PB
7th	Pat Lowe	Great Britain	2: 08.4 SB
DSQ	Regine Kleinau	GDR

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Waltraud Pöhlitz	GDR	2: 05.1 SB
2	Alla Krivosheeva	Soviet Union	2: 05.1
3	Ilya Laman	Netherlands	2: 05.4
4th	Pam Piercy	Great Britain	2: 05.5
5	Sára Szenteleki	Hungary	2: 05.8
6th	Anita Woerner	BR Germany	2: 05.9 PB
7th	Tamara Babintschewa	Soviet Union	2: 06.3 PB
8th	Paola Pigni	Italy	2: 09.2

European champion Vera Nikolić

final

4th September 1966

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Vera Nikolić	Yugoslavia	2: 02.8 CRe / NO
2	Zsuzsa Szabó	Hungary	2: 03.1 NO
3	Antje Gleichfeld	BR Germany	2: 03.7 DR
4th	Pam Piercy	Great Britain	2: 04.1 PB
5	Alla Krivosheeva	Soviet Union	2: 04.2 PB
6th	Vera Mukhanova	Soviet Union	2: 04.8 PB
7th	Ilya Laman	Netherlands	2: 05.2 SB
8th	Waltraud Pöhlitz	GDR	2: 12.1

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  Vice European Champion Zsuzsa Szabó - three days earlier seventh over 400 meters

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  Bronze medalist Antje Gleichfeld - Olympic fifth in 1960 and 1964

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  Ilja Laman - later also successful over 1500 meters under her name Ilja Keizer - took seventh place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1966 at european-athletics.org, accessed May 31, 2019
• Women 800m European Championship 1966 Budapest on todor66.com, accessed May 31, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 800m European Championship 1962 Beograd, p. 403 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 31, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1966 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed May 31, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1966, 800 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on May 31, 2019
• 8th European Athletics Championships 1966 in Budapest, Hungary from ifosta.de, accessed on May 31, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 800m women , accessed May 31, 2019