1966 European Athletics Championships / men's marathon

8th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's marathon
city	Budapest
place	Round trip through Budapest
Attendees	34 athletes from 17 countries
Competition phase	4th September 1966
Medalist
gold	Jim Hogan ( GBR )
silver	Aurèle Vandendriessche ( BEL )
bronze	Gyula Tóth ( GBR )

The men's marathon at the 1966 European Athletics Championships took place on September 4, 1966 in Budapest , Hungary .

The Briton Jim Hogan won the race in 2: 20: 04.6 hours. The Belgian Aurèle Vandendriessche was vice European champion ahead of the Hungarian Gyula Tóth.

Existing records / best performances

World record	Morio Shigematsu	2:12:00 h	Chiswick , UK	June 12, 1965
European best time	Alastair Wood	2:13:45 h	Forres-Inverness , UK	July 9, 1966
EM record	Sergei Popov	2: 15: 17.0 h	EM in Stockholm , Sweden	August 24, 1958

Panoramic view of Budapest

Note:
At that time, records were not kept in marathon running and street walking because of the different track conditions with the exception of championship records.

Result

Silver medalist
Aurèle Vandendriessche, Belgium ( as winner of the Boston Marathon 1964 )

Pavel Kantorek, Czechoslovakia - eighth place

space	athlete	country	Time (h)
	Jim Hogan	Great Britain	2: 20: 04.6 PB
	Aurèle Vandendriessche	Belgium	2: 21: 43.6 SB
	Gyula Tóth	Hungary	2: 22: 02.0 SB
04th	Carlos Perez	Spain	2: 22: 23.8 PB
05	Anatoly Skripnik	Soviet Union	2: 23: 14.8 PB
06th	Anatoly Sukharkov	Soviet Union	2: 23: 33.8 PB
07th	Kalevi Ihaksi	Finland	2: 23: 38.6 PB
08th	Pavel Kantorek	Czechoslovakia	2: 23: 49.4 PB
09	Gioacchino de Palma	Italy	2: 25: 10.6 PB
10	Friedel Wiggershaus	BR Germany	2: 25: 11.4 PB
11	Maurice Peiren	Belgium	2: 25: 48.2 SB
12	Ron Hill	Great Britain	2: 26: 04.8 SB
13	Rudolf Salov	Soviet Union	2: 26: 08.6 PB
14th	Karl-Heinz Sievers	BR Germany	2: 26: 50.8 PB
15th	Attila Tormási	Hungary	2: 27: 51.4 PB
16	İsmail Akçay	Turkey	2: 28: 18.8 SB
17th	Gerhard Hönicke	GDR	2: 29: 23.0 PB
18th	Václav Chudomel	Czechoslovakia	2:30: 34.2 SB
19th	André Lacour	France	2: 31: 37.0 PB
20th	Gerhard Lange	GDR	2: 32: 10.0 PB
21st	Heinrich Hagen	GDR	2: 33: 26.2 PB
22nd	Huseyin Aktaş	Turkey	2: 36: 00.0 SB
23	Zdzisław Bogusz	Poland	2: 37: 04.8 SB
24	Njazi Dajçi	Albania	2: 37: 41.8 PB
25th	Graham Taylor	Great Britain	2: 38: 26.0 PB
26th	Daut Falli	Albania	2: 46: 02.0 PB
	Jean Aniset	Luxembourg	DNF
	Luigi Conti	Italy
	Antonio Ambu	Italy
	Franc Červan	Yugoslavia
	Henri Clerckx	Belgium
	József Sütő	Hungary
	Thyge Thøgersen	Denmark
	Aad Steylen	Netherlands
	James McNamara	Ireland	DNS
	Rene Combes	France

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  Ron Hill, Great Britain - Twelfth place

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  Ismail Akçay, Turkey ( here second from left in 1967 in Enschede ) - sixteenth place

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  Gerhard Hönicke, GDR ( here at a railroad competition in 1961 ) - seventeenth place

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  Václav Chudomel, Czechoslovakia - 18th place

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  Zdzisław Bogusz, Poland ( Enschede award ceremony 1969: far left ) - 23rd place

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  Franc Červan, Yugoslavia ( here during a track competition in 1965 ) - race not finished

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  Henri Clerckx, Belgium ( here after a cross-country run in 1963 ) - race not finished

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  Aad Steylen, Netherlands - race not finished

Web links and sources

• Men Marathon European Championships 1966 Budapest on todor66.com, accessed February 27, 2019
• European Marathon Championships at marathonspiegel.de, accessed on February 27, 2019
• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1966 from european-athletics.org, accessed February 27, 2019

Video

• 2754 European Track & Field 1966 Marathon Men on youtube.com, published October 17, 2015, accessed February 27, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF records. Men's marathon , accessed February 27, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, Marathon Men , p. 14 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on May 21, 2019 (French / English)