1966 European Indoor Games

The 1966 European Indoor Games were the first edition of what later became the European Athletics Indoor Championships. These games took place on 27 March 1966 at Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, a city of West Germany. It was the only edition held on a single day – since 1967 the duration was extended to two days and since 1992 to three.

1966 European Indoor Games
Dates	27 March 1966
Host city	Dortmund West Germany
Venue	Westfalenhalle
Events	21
Participation	186 athletes from 22 nations
1967 Prague →

The track used for the championships was 160 metres long.

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres	Barrie Kelly (GBR)	6.6 =WB	Heinz Erbstößer (GDR)	6.6 =WB	Viktor Kasatkin (URS)	6.6 =WB
400 metres	Hartmut Koch (GDR)	47.9	Manfred Kinder (FRG)	48.3	Vasyl Anisimov (URS)	49.0
800 metres	Noel Carroll (IRL)	1:49.7	Tomáš Jungwirth (TCH)	1:50.8	Herbert Missalla (FRG)	1:51.0
1500 metres	John Whetton (GBR)	3:43.8	Oleg Rayko (URS)	3:46.7	Ulf Högberg (SWE)	3:47.2
3000 metres	Harald Norpoth (FRG)	7:56.0	Siegfried Herrmann (GDR)	7:57.2	István Kiss (HUN)	8:05.0
60 metres hurdles	Eddy Ottoz (ITA)	7.7 =WB	Michael Parker (GBR)	7.8	Hinrich John (FRG)	7.9
4 × 320 metres relay(1280 m)	West Germany Jörg Jüttner Rainer Kunter Hans Reinermann Jens Ulbrich	2:30.1	Czechoslovakia Miroslav Veruk Juraj Demeč Ladislav Kriz Josef Trousil	2:31.0	Only two teams started
Medley relay(1600 m)	West Germany Leonhard Händl Werner Krönke Rolf Krüsmann Jürgen Schröter	3:22.0	Italy Bruno Bianchi Ito Giani Sergio Ottolina Sergio Bello	3:22.2	Belgium Werner Oijzers Willy Vandewyngaerden Georges Wijnants Albert van Hoorn	3:27.2
High jump	Valeriy Skvortsov (URS)	2.17	Wolfgang Schillkowski (FRG)	2.11	Kjell-Åke Nilsson (SWE)	2.08
Pole vault	Hennadiy Bleznitsov (URS)	4.90	Rudolf Tomášek (TCH)	4.80	Rainer Liese (FRG)	4.70
Long jump	Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (URS)	8.23 WB	Armin Baumert (FRG)	7.79	Jochen Eigenherr (FRG)	7.63
Triple jump	Şerban Ciochină (ROM)	16.43	Michael Sauer (FRG)	16.35	Petr Nemsovský (TCH)	16.28
Shot put	Vilmos Varjú (HUN)	19.05	Dieter Hoffmann (GDR)	18.25	Jiří Skobla (TCH)	18.08

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres	Margit Nemesházi (HUN)	7.3	Galina Mitrokhina (URS)	7.3	Mary Rand (GBR)	7.4
400 metres	Helga Henning (FRG)	56.9	Libuše Macounová (TCH)	57.2	Maeve Kyle (IRL)	57.3
800 metres	Zsuzsa Szabó-Nagy (HUN)	2:07.9	Karin Kessler (FRG)	2:10.8	Marie Ingrová (TCH)	2:11.6
60 metres hurdles	Irina Press (URS)	8.1 WB	Gundula Diel (GDR)	8.4	Inge Schell (FRG)	8.4
4 × 160 metres relay	West Germany Renate Meyer Erika Rost Hannelore Trabert Kirsten Roggenkamp	1:18.4	Yugoslavia Ljiljana Petnjarić Marijana Lubej Jelisaveta Đanić Olga Šikovec	1:21.7	Czechoslovakia Libuše Macounová Alena Hiltscherová Eva Kucmanová Eva Lehocká	1:22.3
High jump	Iolanda Balaș (ROM)	1.76	Olga Gere-Pulić (YUG)	1.73	Ilia Hans (FRG)	1.65
Long jump	Tatyana Shchelkanova (URS)	6.73 WB	Mary Rand (GBR)	6.53	Heide Rosendahl (FRG)	6.54
Shot put	Margitta Gummel (GDR)	17.30	Tamara Press (URS)	17.00	Nadezhda Chizhova (URS)	16.95

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	West Germany (FRG)	5	5	7	17
2	Soviet Union (URS)	5	3	3	11
3	Hungary (HUN)	3	0	1	4
4	East Germany (GDR)	2	4	0	6
5	Great Britain (GBR)	2	2	1	5
6	Romania (ROU)	2	0	0	2
7	Italy (ITA)	1	1	0	2
8	Ireland (IRL)	1	0	1	2
9	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	4	4	8
10	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	2	0	2
11	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	2	2
12	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		21	21	20	62

Participating nations

• Austria (1)
• Belgium (13)
• Czechoslovakia (19)
• Denmark (3)
• East Germany (8)
• France (11)
• Great Britain (8)
• Greece (2)
• Hungary (8)
• Iceland (1)
• Ireland (2)
• Italy (12)
• Netherlands (2)
• Norway (4)
• Romania (3)
• Soviet Union (13)
• Spain (6)
• Sweden (8)
• Switzerland (9)
• Turkey (2)
• West Germany (40)
• Yugoslavia (11)

References

• 1966 European Indoor Games Results
• Medallists – men at GBRathletics.com
• Medallists – women at GBRathletics.com