1966 European Athletics Championships – Men's 50 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

The men's 50 kilometres race walk at the 1966 European Athletics Championships was held in Budapest, Hungary, on 3 September 1966.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Abdon Pamich  Italy
Silver	Gennadiy Agapov  Soviet Union
Bronze	Aleksandr Shcherbina  Soviet Union

Results

Final

3 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Abdon Pamich	Italy	4:18:42.0
	Gennadiy Agapov	Soviet Union	4:20:01.2
	Aleksandr Shcherbina	Soviet Union	4:20:47.2
4	Kurt Sakowski	East Germany	4:21:35.0
5	Ray Middleton	United Kingdom	4:23:01.0
6	Henri Delerue	France	4:24:37.4
7	Günther Rieger	East Germany	4:25:50.8
8	Vittorio Visini	Italy	4:26:22.4
9	Donald Thompson	United Kingdom	4:27:11.2
10	Charles Sowa	Luxembourg	4:30:13.6
11	Peter Selzer	East Germany	4:33:57.4
12	István Havasi	Hungary	4:35:11.0
13	Alexandr Bílek	Czechoslovakia	4:36:59.8
14	Erwin Stutz	Switzerland	4:37:51.4
15	Bernhard Nermerich	West Germany	4:39:04.8
16	Stig Lindberg	Sweden	4:40:39.8
17	Anatoliy Penek	Soviet Union	4:41:23.2
18	Gerhard Weidner	West Germany	4:44:04.2
19	Charles Fogg	United Kingdom	4:45:16.6
20	Oldřich Stránský	Czechoslovakia	4:49:57.8
21	Eugeniusz Ornoch	Poland	4:56:13.4
22	Werner Hupfeld	West Germany	5:02:41.8
	Ingvar Pettersson	Sweden	DNF
	Jacques Arnoux	France	DNF
	Béla Dinesz	Hungary	DQ
	Max Sjöholm	Sweden	DQ

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 26 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.

References