1966 European Athletics Championships – Men's 1500 metres

Events at the 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 1500 metres at the 1966 European Athletics Championships was held in Budapest, Hungary, at Népstadion on 30 August and 1 September 1966.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Bodo Tümmler  West Germany
Silver	Michel Jazy  France
Bronze	Harald Norpoth  West Germany

Results

Final

1 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Bodo Tümmler	West Germany	3:41.9
02 !	Michel Jazy	France	3:42.2
03 !	Harald Norpoth	West Germany	3:42.4
4	Alan Simpson	United Kingdom	3:43.8
5	Jürgen May	East Germany	3:44.1
6	André De Hertoghe	Belgium	3:44.3
7	Jean Wadoux	France	3:44.5
8	Henryk Szordykowski	Poland	3:45.8
9	Eugène Allonsius	Belgium	3:46.2
10	Stanislav Hoffman	Czechoslovakia	3:46.5
11	Walter Wilkinson	United Kingdom	3:46.9
12	Claude Nicolas	France	3:48.1

Heats

30 August

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Harald Norpoth	West Germany	3:44.9	Q
2	Michel Jazy	France	3:45.1	Q
3	Walter Wilkinson	United Kingdom	3:45.4	Q
4	Stanislav Hoffman	Czechoslovakia	3:45.4	Q
5	Arne Kvalheim	Norway	3:45.7
6	Oleg Rayko	Soviet Union	3:46.7
7	Roland Brehmer	Poland	3:49.0
8	Henk Snepvangers	Netherlands	3:51.5
9	Frank Murphy	Ireland	3:52.4
10	Gani Alia	Albania	3:57.2

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	André De Hertoghe	Belgium	3:40.7	CR NR Q
2	Bodo Tümmler	West Germany	3:41.1	Q
3	Jürgen May	East Germany	3:41.2	Q
4	Claude Nicolas	France	3:41.4	Q
5	Josef Odložil	Czechoslovakia	3:42.1
6	Mart Vilt	Soviet Union	3:42.7
7	Roman Tkaczyk	Poland	3:45.1
8	Simo Važić	Yugoslavia	3:45.6
9	Preben Glue	Denmark	3:45.9
10	Gergely Szentivanyi	Hungary	3:47.2

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jean Wadoux	France	3:45.3	Q
2	Alan Simpson	United Kingdom	3:45.5	Q
3	Eugene Allonsius	Belgium	3:45.6	Q
4	Henryk Szordykowski	Poland	3:45.7	Q
5	Anders Gärderud	Sweden	3:45.8
6	Hans-Rudolf Knill	Switzerland	3:46.3
7	Franco Arese	Italy	3:46.3
8	Stig Rekdal	Norway	3:46.3
9	Wolf Schulte-Hillen	West Germany	3:46.5
10	Mikhail Zhelobovskiy	Soviet Union	3:48.4
11	Manuel de Oliveira	Portugal	3:48.9
12	Muharrem Dalkılıç	Turkey	3:56.4

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 32 athletes from 20 countries participated in the event.

References