European Athletics Championships 1966 / men's hammer throw

8th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's hammer throw
city	Budapest
Stadion	Népstadion
Attendees	17 athletes from 10 countries
Competition phase	September 3 (qualification) September 4 (final)
Medalist
gold	Ramuald Klim ( URS )
silver	Gyula Zsivótzky ( HUN )
bronze	Uwe Beyer ( FRG )

The Népstadion at an event
in 1953

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

In this competition the medal rankings were the same as in the 1964 Olympic Games . The European champion was the Soviet thrower Ramuald Klim . The Hungarian defending champion Gyula Zsivótzky took silver . Bronze went to the German Uwe Beyer .

Records

Existing records

World record	73.74 m	Gyula Zsivótzky	Debrecen , Hungary	4th September 1965
European record
Championship record	69.64 m		EM Belgrade , Yugoslavia	September 16, 1962

Record improvement

European champion Ramuald Klim improved the existing EM record at these European championships in the final on September 4th by 38 centimeters to 70.02 m.  

qualification

Tadeusz Rut - among other things European champion in 1958 - missed the final by one place

4th September 1966

The seventeen participants competed in a common qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 62.00 m. Since only eleven athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best placed athlete to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 61.78 m was enough for the final.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Gyula Zsivótzky	Hungary	68.40
2	Uwe Beyer	BR Germany	67.00
3	Ramuald Klim	Soviet Union	66.82
4th	Ernst Ammann	Switzerland	65.70 NO
5	Gheorghe Costache	Hungary	64.88 PB
6th	Hans Fahsl	BR Germany	64.28 PB
7th	Gennady Kondrashov	Soviet Union	64.20 SB
8th	Lázár Lovász	Hungary	64.04
9	Sándor Eckschmiedt	Hungary	63.90
10	Manfred Losch	GDR	63.20
11	Martin Lotz	GDR	62.02
12	Vladimir Tribunski	Soviet Union	61.78
13	Tadeusz Ruth	Poland	61.26 SB
14th	John Lawlor	Ireland	57.08 SB
15th	Frangiskos Politis	Greece	55.18 PB
16	Marcel Hertogs	Belgium	52.36 PB
17th	Kujtim Shehu	Albania	50.70 PB
DNS	Heinrich Thun	Austria

final

After winning the Olympic bronze in 1964 , Uwe Beyer also won the bronze medal here

3rd September 1966

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Ramuald Klim	Soviet Union	70.02 CR
2	Gyula Zsivótzky	Hungary	68.62 SB
3	Uwe Beyer	BR Germany	67.28 SB
4th	Manfred Losch	GDR	65.84 PB
5	Vladimir Tribunski	Soviet Union	65.28 PB
6th	Lázár Lovász	Hungary	65.28 SB
7th	Sándor Eckschmiedt	Hungary	64.52 SB
8th	Martin Lotz	GDR	63.16 PB
9	Hans Fahsl	BR Germany	63.00
10	Gheorghe Costache	Hungary	62.60
11	Gennady Kondrashov	Soviet Union	62.38
NW	Ernst Ammann	Switzerland	without space

Series of the first and second placed thrower in the final:

• European champion Ramuald Klim: 69.42 m - 70.02 m - 69.08 m - 69.82 m - 69.20 m - 68.30 m
• Vice European Champion Gyula Zsivótzky: 68.62 m - 68.50 m - 67.74 m - x - 67.84 m - 66.20 m

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  Manfred Losch reached fourth place

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  Martin Lotz came in eighth place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1966 at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 26, 2019
• Men Hammer Throw European Championship 1966 Budapest on todor66.com, accessed May 26, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Hammer Throw European Championship 1962 Beograd, p. 401 (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, men's hammer throw on sportschau.de, accessed on May 26, 2019
• 8th European Athletics Championships 1966 in Budapest, Hungary from ifosta.de, accessed on May 26, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Hammer Throw Men , accessed May 25, 2019