1966 European Indoor Games
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The 1966 European Indoor Games were the very first edition of what later became the European Athletics Indoor Championships. These games were held in 1966 at Westfalenhalle
, Dortmund
, a city of West Germany
.
Westfalenhalle
Westfalenhallen are three multi-purpose venues, located in Dortmund, Germany. The original building was opened in 1925, but was destroyed during World War II. New halls were built, the Große Westfalenhalle opened in 1952. The capacity of the arena is 16,500...
, Dortmund
Dortmund
Dortmund is a city in Germany. It is located in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Ruhr area. Its population of 585,045 makes it the 7th largest city in Germany and the 34th largest in the European Union....
, a city of West Germany
West Germany
West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....
.
Track
| Discipline | 1st | Time | 2nd | Time | 3rd | Time | |
| 60 m | M | Barrie Kelly Barrie Kelly Barrie Kelly is a former sprinter from Bury, United Kingdom. He was born on the 2 August 1940. He was a member of Bury and Radcliffe athletic club.... (GBR) |
6.6a | Karl-Heinz Erbstößer (GDR) | 6.6a | Viktor Kassatkin (URS) | 6.6a |
| F | Margit Nemesházi (HUN) | 7.3a | Galina Mitrochina (SUN) | 7.3a | Mary Rand Mary Rand Mary Denise Rand, MBE, is a former English track-and-field athlete. She won the gold medal in the long jump at the 1964 Summer Olympics by breaking the world record, becoming the first-ever British female to win an Olympic gold medal in a track and field event.-Early life:She is the daughter of... (GBR) |
7.4a | |
| 400 m | M | Hartmut Koch (GDR) | 47.9a | Manfred Kinder Manfred Kinder Manfred Kinder is a West German former athlete who mainly competed in the 400 metres.He was born in Königsberg.... (FRG) |
48.3a | Vassiliy Anissimov (URS) | 49.0a |
| F | Helga Henning (FRG) | 56.9 | Libuse Macounová (TCH) | 57.2 | Maeve Kyle Maeve Kyle Maeve Esther Enid Kyle, OBE, née Shankey, , is an Irish Olympic athlete and hockey player. She competed in the 100m and 200m in the Melbourne Olympics and subsequently in the Rome Olympics and Tokyo Olympics... (IRL) |
57.3 | |
| 800 m | M | Noel Carroll (IRL) | 1:49.7 | Tomás Jungwirth (TCH) | 1:50.8 | Herbert Missalla (FRG) | 1:51.0 |
| F | Zsuzsa Szabó-Nagy (HUN) | 2:07.9 | Karin Keßler (FRG) | 2:10.8 | Marie Ingrová (TCH) | 2:11.6 | |
| 1500 m | M | John Whetton John Whetton John Whetton is a retired British athlete. He is best noted for winning gold in the 1500 metres at the 1969 European Athletics Championships and reaching the 1500 metre final in both the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics.-Athletics career:Whetton ran amateur athletics for local club Sutton-in-Ashfield... (GBR) |
3:43.8 | Oleg Rayko (URS) | 3:46.7 | Ulf Högberg (SWE) | 3:47.2 |
| 3000 m | M | Harald Norpoth Harald Norpoth Harald Norpoth is a West German former middle and long distance runner. Born in Münster, he won the silver medal over 5000m at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo as a member of the United Team of Germany. He had already competed in the 1962 European Athletics Championships, where he had fallen and... (FRG) |
7:56.0 | Siegfried Herrmann (GDR) | 7:57.2 | István Kiss István Kiss István Kiss was a Hungarian architect.He finished his studies at Budapest University in 1880 and, between 1882 and 1885, traveled overseas on state scholarship... (HUN) |
8:05.0 |
| 60 m hurdles | M | Eddy Ottoz Eddy Ottoz Eddy Ottoz was an Italian athlete who competed mainly in the 110 metre hurdles.He competed for Italy in the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan, and in the 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico City, Mexico where he won the bronze medal in the 110 metre hurdles event.- Achievements... (ITA) |
7.7 | Michael Parker (GBR) | 7.8 | Hinrich John (FRG) | 7.9 |
| F | Irina Press Irina Press Irina Natanovna Press was a Ukrainian athlete.-Career:Press was Jewish. She won two Olympic gold medals for the USSR team, in 80 m hurdles and pentathlon... (URS) |
8.1 | Gundula Diel (GDR) | 8.4 | Inge Schell (FRG) | 8.4 | |
| 4 x 2 laps | M | West Germany | 2:30.1 | Czechoslovakia | 2:31.0 | - | |
| 4x1 lap | F | West Germany | 1:18.4 | Yugoslavia | 1:21.7 | Czechoslovakia | 1:22.3 |
| Medley relay |
M | West Germany | 3:22.0 | Italy | 3:22.2 | Belgium | 3:27.2 |
Field
| Discipline | 1st | Meter | 2nd | Meter | 3rd | Meter | |
| High Jump | M | Valeriy Skvortsov Valeriy Skvortsov Valeriy Sergeyevich Skvortsov is a former high jumper who represented the USSR in the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics.Skvortsov was first noticed by Soviet high jump coach Viktor Lonsky, who offered him training in a converted sports gym located within the walls of an old Catholic cathedral... (URS) |
2.17 | Wolfgang Schillkowski (FRG) | 2.11 | Kjell-Åke Nilsson (SWE) | 2.08 |
| F | Iolanda Balaş Iolanda Balas Iolanda Balaş is a former Romanian athlete of Hungarian descent, Olympic champion and world record holder in high jump, who is considered one of the greatest high jumpers ever.-Early life:... (ROM) |
1.76 | Olga Gere-Pulić (YUG) | 1.73 | Ilia Hans (FRG) | 1.65 | |
| Long Jump | M | Igor Ter-Ovanesyan Igor Ter-Ovanesyan Igor Aramovich Ter-Ovanesyan is a Ukrainian athlete of Armenian ethnicity, and Olympic medalist in the long jump for the USSR.Ter-Ovanesyan trained at Burevestnik, first in Kiev, later in Lviv and then in Moscow. He participated in the Olympic Games five times and twice won a bronze medal... (URS) |
8.23 WR | Armin Baumert (FRG) | 7.79 | Jochen Eigenherr (FRG) | 7.63 |
| F | Tatyana Shchelkanova Tatyana Shchelkanova Tatyana Shchelkanova is a Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the Long Jump.Shchelkanova trained at Burevestnik in Leningrad. She competed for the USSR in the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan in the Long Jump where she won the bronze medal.-References:*... (URS) |
6.73 WR | Mary Rand Mary Rand Mary Denise Rand, MBE, is a former English track-and-field athlete. She won the gold medal in the long jump at the 1964 Summer Olympics by breaking the world record, becoming the first-ever British female to win an Olympic gold medal in a track and field event.-Early life:She is the daughter of... (GBR) |
6.53 | Heide Rosendahl Heide Rosendahl Heidemarie Ecker-Rosendahl is a retired German athlete who competed mainly in the pentathlon and long jump... (FRG) |
6.54 | |
| Triple Jump | M | Şerban Ciochină Serban Ciochina Şerban Ciochină is a retired Romanian triple jump athlete. He achieved 5th place at the 1964 Summer Olympics, and won the Romanian triple jump championship six years in a row from 1963 to 1968. He was also European Champion in Dortmund, Germany in 1966.- References :*... (ROM) |
16.43 | Michael Sauer (FRG) | 16.35 | Petr Nemsovský (TCH) | 16.28 |
| Pole Vault | M | Gennadiy Bliznetsov Gennadiy Bliznetsov Gennady Alexeyevich Bliznetsov is a retired pole vaulter who represented the USSR. He trained at Burevestnik and later at the Armed Forces sports society in Kharkov. -Achievements:-References:... (URS) |
4.90 | Rudolf Tomásek Rudolf Tomášek Rudolf Tomášek is a retired pole vaulter who represented Czechoslovakia.He was born in Karlovy Vary, and represented the clubs RH Praha... (TCH) |
4.80 | Rainer Liese (FRG) | 4.70 |
| Shot Put | M | Vilmos Varjú Vilmos Varjú Vilmos Varjú was a Hungarian athlete who competed mainly in the shot putt.... (HUN) |
19.05 | Dieter Hoffmann (GDR) | 18.25 | Jiří Skobla Jirí Skobla Jiří Skobla was a Czechoslovakian athlete who competed mainly in the shot put.He competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia in the shot put where he won the bronze medal.... (TCH) |
18.08 |
| F | Margitta Gummel Margitta Gummel Margitta Gummel is a German former Olympic gold medalist. She competed for the Unified German team in the 1964 Summer Olympics, East Germany in the 1968 Summer Olympics, and East Germany again at the 1972 Summer Olympics... (GDR) |
17.30 | Tamara Press Tamara Press Tamara Natanovna Press is a former Soviet shot putter and discus thrower in the 1960s.-Career:Press is Jewish. She competed for VSS Trud... (URS) |
17.00 | Nadezhda Chizhova Nadezhda Chizhova Nadezhda Vladimirovna Chizhova is a Soviet shot putter who won three Olympic medals and set seven new world records. Nadezhda Chizhova trained at VSS Spartak. She became the first woman to break both the 20 metre and 21 metre barrier... (URS) |
16.95 |
Medal table
| 1 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 17 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 11 | |
| 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | |
| 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 | |
| 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |
| 6 |  Romania |
2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 9 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 8 | |
| 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| 11 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| 12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
External links
- Results - men at GBRathletics.com
- Results - women at GBRathletics.com