European Athletics Championships 1966 / Women's long jump

8th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Long jump of women
city	Budapest
Stadion	Népstadion
Participants	24 athletes from 16 countries
Competition phase	September 2nd (qualification) September 3rd (final)
Medalists
gold	Irena Kirszenstein ( URS )
silver	Diana Jorgowa ( BUL )
bronze	Helga Hoffmann ( FRG )

The Népstadion at an event
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	Mary Rand	OS Tokyo , Japan	October 14, 1964
European record
Championship record	6.38 m	Tatiana Shchelkanova	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

Oddrun Hokland ( here as a hurdler) - 1962 under her then name Oddrun Lange EM -Elfte– was eliminated from the qualification this time

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.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Diana Jorgowa	Bulgaria	6.30
2	Viorica Viscopoleanu	Romania	6.26
3	Burghild Wieczorek	GDR	6.22 SB
4th	Renāte Lāce	Soviet Union	6.21 PB
5	Eva Kucmanová	Czechoslovakia	6.19 SB
6th	Tatiana Talysheva	Soviet Union	6.19
7th	Corrie Bakker	Netherlands	6.16
8th	Mary Rand	Great Britain	6.15
9	Helga Hoffmann	BR Germany	6.12
10	Meta antennas	Switzerland	6.12
11	Irena Kirszenstein	Poland	6.12
12	Berit Berthelsen	Norway	6.05 SB
13	Sheila Parkin	Great Britain	6.05
14th	Ursula Künzel	BR Germany	6.04 PB
15th	Ingrid Becker	BR Germany	5.94 SB
16	Etelka Kispál	Hungary	5.94 PB
17th	Gerda Mittenzwei	GDR	5.92
18th	Elena Vintilă	Romania	5.84
19th	Marie-Magdalena Le Dévéhat	France	5.77 PB
20th	Oddrun Hokland	Norway	5.68
21st	Charoula Sasagianni	Greece	5.62 PB
22nd	Nina Hansen	Denmark	5.60
23	Zhuljeta Muco	Albania	5.03

final

The three-time European champion from Budapest Irena Kirszenstein (here 1975 with a teammate)

September 3, 1966, 5:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Irena Kirszenstein	Poland	6.55 CR
2	Diana Jorgowa	Bulgaria	6.45 PB
3	Helga Hoffmann	BR Germany	6.38 PB
4th	Corrie Bakker	Netherlands	6.34 NO
5	Viorica Viscopoleanu	Romania	6.33
6th	Tatiana Talysheva	Soviet Union	6.33 SB
7th	Sheila Parkin	Great Britain	6.30 SB
8th	Meta antennas	Switzerland	6.23 NO
9	Burghild Wieczorek	GDR	6.22 SBe
10	Renāte Lāce	Soviet Union	6.19
11	Mary Rand	Great Britain	6.16
12	Eva Kucmanová	Czechoslovakia	5.98
DNS	Berit Berthelsen	Norway

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

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  Corrie Bakker - eliminated over 100 meters in the semi-finals - reached fourth place

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  The Olympic fifth from 1964 Viorica Viscopoleanu also came in fifth here - in 1968 she became Olympic champion with a  world record

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  Burghild Wieczorek finished eighth

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  1964 Olympic champion Mary Rand finished eleventh in that final

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

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Long jump women , accessed June 2, 2019