European Athletics Championships 1966 / men's long jump

8th European Athletics Championships
discipline	Long jump of men
city	Budapest
Stadion	Népstadion
Attendees	20 athletes from 12 countries
Competition phase	August 30th (qualification) August 31st (final)
Medalist
gold	Lynn Davies ( GBR )
silver	Igor Ter-Owanessjan ( URS )
bronze	Jean Cochard ( FRA )

The Népstadion at an event
in 1953

The men's long jump at the European Athletics Championships in 1966 was held on August 30 and 31, 1966 in Budapest's Népstadion .

European champion was the British Olympic champion in 1964 Lynn Davies . He won ahead of the defending champion, European record holder and two-time Olympic third party from 1960 and 1964, Igor Ter-Owanessjan from the USSR. Bronze went to the French Jean Cochard.

Records

Existing records

World record	8.35 m	Ralph Boston	Modesto , USA	May 29, 1965
European record	8.31 m	Igor Ter-Ovansyan	Yerevan , then Soviet Union (now Armenia )	June 10, 1962
Championship record	7.87 m		EM Belgrade , Yugoslavia	September 14, 1962

Record improvement

European champion Lynn Davies improved the European Championship record in the final on August 31, 1966 to 7.98 m.  

qualification

August 30, 1966, 5:15 p.m.

The twenty participants competed in a joint qualifying round. The qualification distance for the direct entry into the final was 7.40 m. Thirteen athletes surpassed this mark (highlighted in light blue) and made it into the final.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Igor Ter-Ovansyan	Soviet Union	7.67
2	Rainer Stenius	Finland	7.60
3	Jean Cochard	France	7.60
4th	Lynn Davies	Great Britain	7.59
5	Leonid Barkowskyj	Soviet Union	7.55
6th	Jack Pani	France	7.54 SB
7th	Pertti Pousi	Finland	7.53 SB
8th	Hermann Latzel	BR Germany	7.52
9	Miroslav Hutter	Czechoslovakia	7.49 PB
10	Andrzej Stalmach	Poland	7.47 SB
11	Ali Brakchi	France	7.44 SB
12	Pentti Eskola	Finland	7.42
13	German Klimow	Soviet Union	7.42 SB
14th	Raycho Tsonev	Bulgaria	7.36 PB
15th	Dimosthenios Manglaras	Greece	7.35 PB
16	Adrian Samungi	Romania	7.30 PB
17th	József Hossala	Hungary	7.27 PB
18th	Vasile Sarucan	Romania	7.07 SB
19th	Béla Margitics	Hungary	6.72 PB
20th	Alfred Bajada	Malta	6.02 PB
DNS	Yves Theisen	Belgium

final

August 31, 1966, 5:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Width (m)
1	Lynn Davies	Great Britain	7.98 CR
2	Igor Ter-Ovansyan	Soviet Union	7.88 SB
3	Jean Cochard	France	7.88 NO
4th	Leonid Barkowskyj	Soviet Union	7.74 SB
5	Rainer Stenius	Finland	7.68
6th	Hermann Latzel	BR Germany	7.59 SB
7th	Pentti Eskola	Finland	7.51 SB
8th	Pertti Pousi	Finland	7.46
9	Miroslav Hutter	Czechoslovakia	7.33
10	Andrzej Stalmach	Poland	7.31
11	Jack Pani	France	7.31
12	German Klimow	Soviet Union	7.30
13	Ali Brakchi	France	7.21

In the final, European champion Lynn Davies achieved the following lengths with his six attempts:
7.48 m - 7.63 m - 7.51 m - 7.66 m - 7.70 m - 7.98 m .
This shows that Davies won the European Championship title with his last jump. Before that, he had finished fourth and would have been without a medal.

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  After his Olympic victory in 1964 , Lynn Davies was now also European champion

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  Vice European Champion Igor Ter-Owanessjan - after two European championship titles, this time runner-up

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1966 from european-athletics.org, accessed May 25, 2019
• Men Long Jump European Championship 1966 Budapest on todor66.com, accessed May 25, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men Long Jump European Championship 1962 Beograd, p. 400 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on May 25, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1966 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed May 25, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1966, long jump men on sportschau.de, accessed on May 25, 2019
• 8th European Athletics Championships 1966 in Budapest, Hungary from ifosta.de, accessed on May 25, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. Long jump , accessed May 25, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, Long Jump Men , p. 25 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on May 25, 2019 (French / English)