European Athletics Championships 1966 / Women's Shot Put

8th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot Put Women
city	Budapest
Stadion	Népstadion
Participants	14 athletes from 9 countries
Competition phase	August 30th
Medalists
gold	Nadezhda Tschischowa ( URS )
silver	Margitta Gummel ( GDR )
bronze	Marita Lange ( GDR )

The Népstadion at an event
in 1953

The shot put women at the 1966 European Athletics Championships was on 30 August 1966 at the Budapest Népstadion discharged.

In this competition, the athletes from the GDR won two medals, silver and bronze. Nadezhda Tschischowa from the Soviet Union became European champion . Margitta Gummel was second, Marita Lange was third.

Existing records

World record	18.59 m	Tamara Press	Kassel , then BR Germany (now Germany )	September 19, 1965
European record
EM record	18.55 m		EM in Belgrade , Yugoslavia	September 12, 1962

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

execution

With only fourteen participants they did not qualify, all athletes stood together for the final.

final

Vice European champion Margitta Gummel - two years later  Olympic champion

August 30, 1966, 5:20 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Nadezhda Tschischowa	Soviet Union	17.22 SB
2	Margitta Gummel	GDR	17.05 SB
3	Marita Lange	GDR	16.96 SB
4th	Galina Sybina	Soviet Union	16.65 SB
5	Maria Chorbova	Bulgaria	15.97 PB
6th	Gertrud Schäfer	BR Germany	15.95 PB
7th	Marlene Fuchs	BR Germany	15.89 SB
8th	Ana Sălăgean	Romania	15.48 SB
9	Judit Bognár	Hungary	15.17 SB
10	Ludmila Duchoňová	Czechoslovakia	14.93 PB
11	Mary Peters	Great Britain	14.81 PB
12	Lidia Sharamovich	Bulgaria	14.61 PB
13	Judit Mikuss	Hungary	14.35 PB
14th	Pina Thani	Albania	12.63 PB

The European champion Nadezhda Tschischowa achieved the following series in the final:
17.22 m - 17.22 m - x - x - 16.55 m - 16.88 m - 16.65 m

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  Bronze medalist Marita Lange - in 1968 she finished second in the Olympics

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  Galina Sybina - here as Olympic champion from 1952 - came fourth

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  The European Championship twelfth from 1962 Mary Peters (here in 2008) improved by one place - in 1972 she became Olympic champion in the pentathlon

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1966 at european-athletics.org, accessed June 2, 2019
• Women Shot Put European Championship 1966 Budapest on todor66.com, accessed June 2, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Shot Put European Championship 1962 Beograd, p. 404 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 2, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1966 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed June 2, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1966, women's shot put on sportschau.de, accessed on June 2, 2019
• 8th European Athletics Championships 1966 in Budapest, Hungary from ifosta.de, accessed on June 2, 2019

Video

• European Athletics 1966 Budapest Shot Put Women Tchizova , on youtube.com, published March 27, 2019, accessed June 2, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Shot put women , accessed June 2, 2019