1966 European Athletics Championships – Men's 20 kilometres walk

1966 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's 20 kilometres race walk at the 1966 European Athletics Championships was held in Budapest, Hungary, on 30 August 1966.^[1]

Medalists[edit]

Gold	Dieter Lindner  East Germany
Silver	Volodymyr Holubnychy  Soviet Union
Bronze	Nikolay Smaga  Soviet Union

Results[edit]

Final[edit]

30 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Dieter Lindner	East Germany	1:29:25.0	CR
	Volodymyr Holubnychy	Soviet Union	1:30:06.0
	Nikolay Smaga	Soviet Union	1:30:18.0
4	Gerhard Sperling	East Germany	1:31:25.8
5	Anatoly Vedyakov	Soviet Union	1:32:00.8
6	Antal Kiss	Hungary	1:32:42.4
7	Peter Fullager	Great Britain	1:33:02.4
8	Henri Delerue	France	1:33:41.2
9	Ron Wallwork	Great Britain	1:34:38.0
10	János Dalmati	Hungary	1:34:42.6
11	Karl-Heinz Pape	West Germany	1:34:48.0
12	Charles Sowa	Luxembourg	1:34:50.0
13	John Webb	Great Britain	1:34:52.0
14	Nicola de Vito	Italy	1:37:07.6
15	Stefan Ingvarsson	Sweden	1:38:39.0
16	Andrzej Czapliński	Poland	1:40:41.0
17	Edmund Paziewski	Poland	1:40:56.0
18	Göte Nygren	Sweden	1:41:22.0
19	Lennart Larsson	Sweden	1:42:20.0
20	Sadik Demiraj	Albania	1:45:33.0
	Alexandr Bílek	Czechoslovakia	DNF
	István Göri	Hungary	DNF
	Eugeniusz Ornoch	Poland	DNF
	Jacques Arnoux	France	DQ
	Stanimir Stoykov	Bulgaria	DQ
	Hans-Georg Reimann	East Germany	DQ
	Dimitar Georgiev	Bulgaria	DQ

Participation[edit]

According to an unofficial count, 27 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.

References[edit]