1966 European Athletics Championships – Men's discus throw

The men's discus throw at the 1966 European Athletics Championships was held in Budapest, Hungary, at Népstadion on 30 and 31 August 1966.[1]

Medalists

31 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result
	Detlef Thorith	East Germany	57.42
	Hartmut Losch	East Germany	57.34
	Lothar Milde	East Germany	56.80
4	Edmund Piątkowski	Poland	56.76
5	Ludvík Daněk	Czechoslovakia	56.24
6	Silvano Simeon	Italy	55.96
7	Zenon Begier	Poland	55.94
8	Jiří Žemba	Czechoslovakia	54.20
9	Vytautas Jaras	Soviet Union	53.98
10	Heimo Reinitzer	Austria	53.72
11	Hein-Direck Neu	West Germany	53.66
12	Ernst Soudek	Austria	53.46

30 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Vytautas Jaras	Soviet Union	57.54	CR Q
2	Ludvík Daněk	Czechoslovakia	56.86	Q
3	Edmund Piątkowski	Poland	56.74	Q
4	Lothar Milde	East Germany	56.70	Q
5	Detlef Thorith	East Germany	56.42	Q
6	Hartmut Losch	East Germany	55.84	Q
7	Zenon Begier	Poland	55.30	Q
8	Ernst Soudek	Austria	54.38	Q
9	Hein-Direck Neu	West Germany	54.32	Q
10	Jiří Žemba	Czechoslovakia	54.22	Q
11	Silvano Simeon	Italy	54.20	Q
12	Heimo Reinitzer	Austria	54.08	Q
13	Flavio Asta	Italy	53.60
14	Géza Fejér	Hungary	53.22
15	Jens Reimers	West Germany	53.02
16	Vladimir Trusenyev	Soviet Union	53.02
17	János Faragó	Hungary	52.84
18	Lars Haglund	Sweden	51.06
19	Erik Uddebom	Sweden	50.96
20	Alain Drufin	France	49.84
21	Bill Tancred	Great Britain	48.36
22	Georgios Tsakanikas	Greece	47.96
23	Marcel Hertogs	Belgium	47.36
24	Ramazan Driza	Albania	45.18

According to an unofficial count, 24 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.

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

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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

Discus throw at the European Athletics Championships
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