European Swimming Championships 1966

11th European Swimming Championships
Host location	Utrecht
Host country	Netherlands
Beginning	20th August 1966
The End	August 27, 1966
Venues	"Den Hommel" swimming pool
Disciplines	Swimming , water polo , water jumping
Number of athletes
← 1962 Leipzig	1970 Barcelona →
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The 11th European Swimming Championships took place in Utrecht from August 20 to 27, 1966 and were organized by the Ligue Européenne de Natation (LEN).

The 1966 European Swimming Championships included competitions in swimming , art and high diving as well as the men's water polo tournament.

Pool swimming

Results men

competition	gold		silver		bronze
100 m freestyle	Bobby McGregor Great Britain	53.7	Leonid Ilyichev Soviet Union	54.3	Udo Poser GDR	54.8
400 m freestyle	Frank Wiegand GDR	4: 11.1	Semjon Beliz-Geiman Soviet Union	4: 13.2	Alain Mosconi France	4: 13.6
1500 m freestyle	Semjon Beliz-Geiman Soviet Union	16: 58.5	Alan Kimber Great Britain	17: 13.2	Alexander Pletnyov Soviet Union	17: 17.9
200 m back	Yuri Gromak Soviet Union	2: 12.9	Jaime Monzó Spain	2: 15.7	Joachim Rother GDR	2: 16.7
200 m chest	Georgi Prokopenko Soviet Union	2: 30.0	Aleksandre Tutakaewi Soviet Union	2: 30.3	Egon Henninger GDR	2: 30.5
200 m butterfly	Valentin Kuzmin Soviet Union	2: 10.2	Horst-Günter Gregor GDR	2: 10.6	Anatoly Skawronsky Soviet Union	2: 11.2
400 m layers	Frank Wiegand GDR	4: 47.9	Andrei Dunayev Soviet Union	4: 48.7	Klaus Katzur GDR	4: 55.7
4 × 100 m freestyle relay	German Democratic Republic	3: 36.8	Soviet Union	3: 37.5	Sweden	3: 39.0
4 × 200 m freestyle relay	Soviet Union	8: 00.2	German Democratic Republic	8: 01.6	Sweden	8: 04.3
4 × 100 m individual relay	Soviet Union	4: 02.4	German Democratic Republic	4: 02.9	Hungary	4: 05.9

Results women

competition	gold		silver		bronze
100 m freestyle	Martina Grunert GDR	1: 01.2	Judit Turóczy Hungary	1: 02.1	Pauline Sillett Great Britain	1: 02.5
400 m freestyle	Claude Mandonnaud France	4: 48.2	Ada Kok Netherlands	4: 48.7	Tamara Sosnowa Soviet Union	4: 50.1
100 m back	Christine Caron France	1: 08.1	Linda Ludgrove Great Britain	1: 08.9	Cristina Balaban Romania	1: 09.7
200 m chest	Galina Prosumenschtschikowa Soviet Union	2: 40.8	Irina Posdnyakova Soviet Union	2: 41.9	Jill Slattery Great Britain	2: 47.9
100 m butterfly	Ada Kok Netherlands	1: 05.6	Heike Hustede Federal Republic of Germany	1: 06.3	Eila Pyrhönen Finland	1: 07.8
400 m layers	Bettie Heukels Netherlands	5: 25.0	Heidi Pechstein GDR	5: 26.0	Lyudmila Kasiyeva Soviet Union	5: 28.4
4 × 100 m freestyle relay	Soviet Union	4: 11.3	Sweden	4: 12.2	Netherlands	4: 13.1
4 × 100 m individual relay	Netherlands	4: 36.4	Soviet Union	4: 38.2	United Kingdom	4: 38.4

Art and high diving

Results men

competition	gold	silver	bronze
3 m	Mikhail Safonov Soviet Union	Tord Andersson Sweden	Giorgio Cagnotto Italy
10 m	Klaus Dibiasi Italy	Brian Phelps Great Britain	Jerzy Kowalewski Poland

Results women

competition	gold	silver	bronze
3 m	Vera Baklanova Soviet Union	Delia Reinhardt GDR	Tamara Fedosova Soviet Union
10 m	Natalia Kuznetsova Soviet Union	Ingeborg Pertmayr Austria	Gabriele Krauss GDR

Water polo

Results men

competition	gold	silver	bronze
team	Soviet Union	BR Germany	Yugoslavia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Results of swimming men
2. ↑ Results of swimming women
3. ↑ ^{a b} Results of high diving