European Athletics Championships 1966 / Women's long jump
8th European Athletics Championships | |
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discipline | Long jump of women |
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Stadion | Népstadion |
Participants | 24 athletes from 16 countries |
Competition phase | September 2nd (qualification) September 3rd (final) |
Medalists | |
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Irena Kirszenstein ( URS )
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Diana Jorgowa ( BUL )
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Helga Hoffmann ( FRG )
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in 1953
The women's long jump at the European Athletics Championships in 1966 was held on September 2 and 3, 1966 in Budapest's Népstadion .
The European champion was Irena Kirszenstein from Poland, who came second in 1964 and was also European champion over 200 meters and with the 4 x 100 meter relay as well as vice European champion over 100 meters . She won ahead of the Bulgarian Diana Jorgowa . Bronze went to the West German European Championship third in 1962 in the pentathlon Helga Hoffmann .
Records
Existing records
World record | 6.76 m |
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OS Tokyo , Japan | October 14, 1964 |
European record | ||||
Championship record | 6.38 m |
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EM Belgrade , Yugoslavia | September 15, 1962 |
Record improvements
European champion Irena Kirszenstein improved the existing EM record in the final on September 3rd by seventeen centimeters to 6.55 m.
qualification
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September 2, 1966, 4:25 p.m.
The 23 participants took part in a joint qualification round. The qualification distance for direct entry into the final was 6.05 m. Thirteen athletes surpassed this mark (highlighted in light blue) and thus won the right to participate in the finals on the following day. One of them, the Norwegian Berit Berthelsen, did not make it to the final.
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1 | Diana Jorgowa |
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6.30 |
2 | Viorica Viscopoleanu |
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6.26 |
3 | Burghild Wieczorek |
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6.22 SB |
4th | Renāte Lāce |
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6.21 PB |
5 | Eva Kucmanová |
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6.19 SB |
6th | Tatiana Talysheva |
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6.19 |
7th | Corrie Bakker |
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6.16 |
8th | Mary Rand |
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6.15 |
9 | Helga Hoffmann |
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6.12 |
10 | Meta antennas |
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6.12 |
11 | Irena Kirszenstein |
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6.12 |
12 | Berit Berthelsen |
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6.05 SB |
13 | Sheila Parkin |
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6.05 |
14th | Ursula Künzel |
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6.04 PB |
15th | Ingrid Becker |
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5.94 SB |
16 | Etelka Kispál |
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5.94 PB |
17th | Gerda Mittenzwei |
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5.92 |
18th | Elena Vintilă |
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5.84 |
19th | Marie-Magdalena Le Dévéhat |
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5.77 PB |
20th | Oddrun Hokland |
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5.68 |
21st | Charoula Sasagianni |
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5.62 PB |
22nd | Nina Hansen |
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5.60 |
23 | Zhuljeta Muco |
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5.03 |
final
September 3, 1966, 5:30 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Width (m) |
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1 | Irena Kirszenstein |
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6.55 CR |
2 | Diana Jorgowa |
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6.45 PB |
3 | Helga Hoffmann |
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6.38 PB |
4th | Corrie Bakker |
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6.34 NO |
5 | Viorica Viscopoleanu |
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6.33 |
6th | Tatiana Talysheva |
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6.33 SB |
7th | Sheila Parkin |
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6.30 SB |
8th | Meta antennas |
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6.23 NO |
9 | Burghild Wieczorek |
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6.22 SBe |
10 | Renāte Lāce |
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6.19 |
11 | Mary Rand |
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6.16 |
12 | Eva Kucmanová |
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5.98 |
DNS | Berit Berthelsen |
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The final series of the European champion Irena Kirszenstein was as follows:
6.37 m - 6.25 m - 6.40 m - 6.43 m - 6.55 m - x
Corrie Bakker - eliminated over 100 meters in the semi-finals - reached fourth place
The Olympic fifth from 1964 Viorica Viscopoleanu also came in fifth here - in 1968 she became Olympic champion with a world record
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1966 at european-athletics.org, accessed June 2, 2019
- Women Long Jump European Championship 1966 Budapest on todor66.com, accessed June 2, 2019
- European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women Long Jump European Championship 1962 Beograd, p. 403f (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, long jump women on sportschau.de, accessed on June 2, 2019
- 8th European Athletics Championships 1966 in Budapest, Hungary from ifosta.de, accessed on June 2, 2019
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. Long jump women , accessed June 2, 2019