1966 European Athletics Championships – Men's 20 kilometres walk

The men's 20 kilometres race walk at the 1966 European Athletics Championships was held in Budapest, Hungary, on 30 August 1966.^[1]

Medalists

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

Results

Final

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

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

•   Albania (1)
•   Bulgaria (2)
•   Czechoslovakia (1)
•   East Germany (3)
•   France (2)
•   Hungary (3)
•   Italy (1)
•   Luxembourg (1)
•   Poland (3)
•   Soviet Union (3)
•   Sweden (3)
•   Great Britain (3)
•   West Germany (1)

References

1. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 397–405, retrieved 13 August 2014