European Athletics Championships 1966 / Men's Shot Put

8th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Shot Put Men
city	Budapest
Stadion	Népstadion
Attendees	16 athletes from 10 countries
Competition phase	September 2nd (qualification) September 3rd (final)
Medalist
gold	Vilmos Varjú ( HUN )
silver	Nikolai Karassjow ( URS )
bronze	Władysław Komar ( POL )

The Népstadion at an event
in 1953

The shot put men at the 1966 European Athletics Championships was on 2 and 3 September 1966 in Budapest Népstadion discharged.

The Hungarian defending champion and Olympic bronze medalist from 1964 Vilmos Varjú became European champion . Second place went to Nikolai Karassjow from the Soviet Union. Bronze went to Władysław Komar from Poland .

Records

Existing records

World record	21.52 m	Randy Matson	College Station , USA	May 8, 1965
European record	19.62 m	Vilmos Varjú	Budapest , Hungary	4th June 1966
Championship record	19.02 m		EM Belgrade , Yugoslavia	September 14, 1962

Record improvement

European champion Vilmos Varjú improved his own EM record twice at these European championships :  

• 18.05 m - qualification on September 2nd
• 19.43 m - final on September 3rd

qualification

2nd September 1966

The sixteen participants competed in a joint qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 18.00 m. Since only ten athletes exceeded this mark (highlighted in light blue), the final field was filled with the next best placed athletes to twelve throwers (highlighted in light green). So finally 17.62 m was enough for the final.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Vilmos Varjú	Hungary	19.05 CR
2	Heinfried Birlenbach	BR Germany	18.59 SB
3	Wladyslaw Komar	Poland	18.53
4th	Nikolai Karassev	Soviet Union	18.38
5	Eduard Gushchin	Soviet Union	18.23 SB
6th	Tomo Suker	Yugoslavia	18.01 SB
7th	Bjørn Bang Andersen	Norway	18.01 SB
8th	Alfred Sosgórnik	Poland	18.01
9	Matti Yrjölä	Finland	17.90
10	Pierre Colnard	France	17.75
11	Pero Barišić	Yugoslavia	17.69 PB
12	Dieter Hoffmann	GDR	17.62
13	Milija Jocović	Yugoslavia	17.61 PB
14th	Géza Fejér	Hungary	17.57 PB
15th	Bengt Bendeus	Sweden	17.40 SB
16	Alain Drufin	France	16.91 PB

final

3rd September 1966

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Vilmos Varjú	Hungary	19.43 CR
2	Nikolai Karassev	Soviet Union	18.82 SB
3	Wladyslaw Komar	Poland	18.68 SB
4th	Alfred Sosgórnik	Poland	18.38 SB
5	Heinfried Birlenbach	BR Germany	18.37
6th	Matti Yrjölä	Finland	18.19 SB
7th	Pierre Colnard	France	18.15 NO
8th	Dieter Hoffmann	GDR	18.02 SB
9	Bjørn Bang Andersen	Norway	17.84
10	Tomo Suker	Yugoslavia	17.74
11	Pero Barišić	Yugoslavia	17.66
12	Eduard Gushchin	Soviet Union	17.64

In the final, European champion Vilmos Varjú achieved the following distances with his six attempts:
19.43 m - 18.82 m - x - x - x - x.

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  The EM fourth from 1962 Władysław Komar won bronze - in 1972 he was Olympic champion

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  Dieter Hoffmann reached eighth place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1966 at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 26, 2019
• Men Shot Put European Championship 1966 Budapest on todor66.com, accessed May 26, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Shot Put European Championship 1962 Beograd, p. 400 (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 shot put 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. Shot put men , accessed May 26, 2019
2. ^ Progression of the European Outdoor Records. Shot Put on rfea.es, p. 28 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on May 26, 2019