European Athletics Championships 1966 / Men's discus throw

8th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's discus throw
city	Budapest
Stadion	Népstadion
Attendees	24 athletes from 14 countries
Competition phase	August 30th (qualification) August 31st (final)
Medalist
gold	Detlef Thorith ( GDR )
silver	Hartmut Losch ( GDR )
bronze	Lothar Milde ( GDR )

The Népstadion at an event
in 1953

The men's discus throw at the European Athletics Championships in 1966 was held on August 30 and 31, 1966 in Budapest's Népstadion .

In this competition, all three medals went to the throwers from the GDR. Detlef Thorith became European champion . Hartmut Losch won silver . The 1964 Olympic third party Lothar Milde also won the bronze medal here.

Records

Existing records

World record	65.22 m	Ludvík Daněk	Sokolov , then Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic )	October 11, 1965
European record
EM record	57.11 m	Vladimir Trussenev	EM Belgrade , Yugoslavia	September 13, 1962

Record improvement

Witautas Jaras improved the existing championship record at these European championships in qualifying on August 30th by 43 centimeters to 57.54 m.
In the final, Jaras couldn't come close to this distance and finished ninth.

qualification

August 30, 1966, 5:15 p.m.

The 24 participants took part in a joint qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 54.00 m. Exactly twelve athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue) and contested the final on the following day.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Witautas Jaras	Soviet Union	57.54 CR
2	Ludvík Daněk	Czechoslovakia	56.86 SB
3	Edmund Piątkowski	Poland	56.74
4th	Lothar Milde	GDR	56.70
5	Detlef Thorith	GDR	56.42
6th	Hartmut Losch	GDR	55.84
7th	Zenon's desire	Poland	55.30
8th	Ernst Soudek	Austria	54.38 SB
9	Hein-Direck New	BR Germany	54.32 SB
10	Jiří Žemba	Czechoslovakia	54.22 SB
11	Silvano Simeon	Italy	54.20
12	Heimo Reinitzer	Austria	54.08 SB
13	Flavio Asta	Italy	53.60 PB
14th	Géza Fejér	Hungary	53.22 SB
15th	Jens Reimers	BR Germany	53.02 SB
16	Vladimir Trussenev	Soviet Union	53.02 SB
17th	János Faragó	Hungary	52.84 SB
18th	Lars Haglund	Sweden	51.06 SB
19th	Erik Uddebom	Sweden	50.96
20th	Alain Drufin	France	49.84 PB
21st	Bill Tancred	Great Britain	48.36 SB
22nd	Georgios Tsakanikas	Greece	47.96 SB
23	Marcel Hertogs	Belgium	47.36 PB
24	Ramazan Driza	Albania	45.18 PB

final

August 31, 1966, 5:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Detlef Thorith	GDR	57.42
2	Hartmut Losch	GDR	57.34 SB
3	Lothar Milde	GDR	56.80 SB
4th	Edmund Piątkowski	Poland	56.76 SB
5	Ludvík Daněk	Czechoslovakia	56.26
6th	Silvano Simeon	Italy	55.96 SB
7th	Zenon's desire	Poland	55.94 SB
8th	Jiří Žemba	Czechoslovakia	54.20
9	Witautas Jaras	Soviet Union	53.98
10	Heimo Reinitzer	Austria	53.72
11	Hein-Direck New	BR Germany	53.66
12	Ernst Soudek	Austria	53.46

European champion Detlef Thorith achieved the following distances with his six throws in the final:
x - 55.90 m - x - 57.4 m - x - 54.88 m

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  Vice European Champion Hartmut Losch

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  For the world record holder and Olympic champion in 1964, Ludvík Daněk, it was only fifth here

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1966 at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 26, 2019
• Men Discus Throw European Championship 1966 Budapest on todor66.com, accessed May 26, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Discus hrow European Championship 1962 Beograd, p. 400f (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 26, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1966 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed May 26, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1966, discus throw men on sportschau.de, accessed on May 26, 2019
• 8th European Athletics Championships 1966 in Budapest, Hungary from ifosta.de, accessed on May 26, 2019

Video

• 1966 European Athletics Championships - Men's discus throw , on youtube.com, published January 31, 2019, accessed May 26, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Discus throw men , accessed on May 25, 2019