European Athletics Championships 1966 / men's triple jump

8th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's triple jump
city	Budapest
Stadion	Népstadion
Attendees	24 athletes from 15 countries
Competition phase	September 3 (qualification) September 1 (final)
Medalist
gold	Georgi Stojkowski ( BUL )
silver	Hans-Jürgen Rückborn ( GDR )
bronze	Henrik Kalocsai ( HUN )

The Népstadion at an event
in 1953

The men's triple jump at the European Athletics Championships in 1966 was held on September 3 and 4, 1966 in Budapest's Népstadion .

The Bulgarian Georgi Stojkowski became European champion . The GDR jumper Hans-Jürgen Rückborn came in second place . The Hungarian Henrik Kalocsai won the bronze medal.

Records

Existing records

World record	17.03 m	Józef Szmidt	Olsztyn , Poland	5th August 1960
European record
Championship record	16.55 m		EM Belgrade , Yugoslavia	September 13, 1962

Record improvement

European champion Georgi Stojkowski improved the existing EM record in the final on September 4th by twelve centimeters to 16.67 m.  

qualification

3rd September 1966

The 24 participants took part in a joint qualifying round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 15.80 m. Sixteen athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue) and thus qualified for the final.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Michael Sauer	BR Germany	16.46 NO
2	Șerban Ciochină	Romania	16.42 NO
3	Giuseppe Gentile	Italy	16.41 SB
4th	Henrik Kalocsai	Hungary	16.28
5	Hans-Jürgen Rückborn	GDR	16.11
6th	Vladimir Kurkievich	Soviet Union	16.11 SB
7th	Anatoly Alyabev	Soviet Union	16.09 SB
8th	Petr Nemšovský	Czechoslovakia	16.07
9	Józef Szmidt	Poland	16.05
10	Jan Jaskólski	Poland	16.00
11	Zoltán Cziffra	Hungary	15.99 SB
12	Georgi Stojkowski	Bulgaria	15.91
13	Siegfried Dähne	GDR	15.91
14th	Mikalaj Dudkin	Soviet Union	15.84 SB
15th	Fred Alsop	Great Britain	15.83
16	Dodyu Patarinski	Yugoslavia	15.82 PB
17th	Pertti Pousi	Finland	15.67 SB
18th	František Krupala	Czechoslovakia	15.60 PB
19th	Martin Jensen	Norway	15.58 SB
20th	Günther Krivec	BR Germany	15.58 PB
21st	Andrzej Puławski	Poland	15.55 PB
22nd	Aşkın Tuna	Turkey	15.53 PB
23	Evangelos Vlassis	Greece	15.39 PB
24	Dragan Ivanov	Hungary	15.22 SB

final

Vice European Champion Hans-Jürgen Rückborn

4th September 1966

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Georgi Stojkowski	Bulgaria	16.67 CR / NO
2	Hans-Jürgen Rückborn	GDR	16.66 NO
3	Henrik Kalocsai	Hungary	16.59 NO
4th	Jan Jaskólski	Poland	16.57
5	Józef Szmidt	Poland	16.45 SB
6th	Michael Sauer	BR Germany	16.39
7th	Șerban Ciochină	Romania	16.22
8th	Siegfried Dähne	GDR	16.17 SB
9	Giuseppe Gentile	Italy	16.15
10	Petr Nemšovský	Czechoslovakia	16.14 SB
11	Vladimir Kurkievich	Soviet Union	16.00
12	Fred Alsop	Great Britain	15.93 SB
13	Anatoly Alyabev	Soviet Union	15.77
14th	Zoltán Cziffra	Hungary	15.73
15th	Dodyu Patarinski	Yugoslavia	15.65
16	Mikalaj Dudkin	Soviet Union	15.46

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  The defending champion and world record holder Józef Szmidt, Olympic champion in 19604 and 1964 , had to be satisfied with fifth place here

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  Siegfried Dähne came in eighth place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1966 from european-athletics.org, accessed May 25, 2019
• Men Triple Jump European Championship 1966 Budapest on todor66.com, accessed May 25, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Triple Jump European Championship 1962 Beograd, p. 400 (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, triple jump 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. Triple jump men , accessed May 25, 2019