1966 European Athletics Championships – Women's 800 metres

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
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The women's 800 metres at the 1966 European Athletics Championships was held in Budapest, Hungary, at Népstadion on 2, 3, and 4 September 1966.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Vera Nikolić  Yugoslavia
Silver	Zsuzsa Szabó  Hungary
Bronze	Antje Gleichfeld  West Germany

Results

Final

4 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Vera Nikolić	Yugoslavia	2:02.8	=CR, NR
	Zsuzsa Szabó	Hungary	2:03.1	NR
	Antje Gleichfeld	West Germany	2:03.7	NR
4	Pam Piercy	Great Britain	2:04.1
5	Alla Krivoshchekova	Soviet Union	2:04.2
6	Vera Mukhanova	Soviet Union	2:04.8
7	Ilja Laman	Netherlands	2:05.2
8	Waltraud Pöhlitz	East Germany	2:12.1

Semi-finals

3 September

Semi-final 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Vera Nikolić	Yugoslavia	2:04.2	Q
2	Antje Gleichfeld	West Germany	2:04.9	Q
3	Zsuzsa Szabó	Hungary	2:05.2	Q
4	Vera Mukhanova	Soviet Union	2:05.5	Q
5	Ileana Silai	Romania	2:08.0
6	Karin Kessler	West Germany	2:08.0
7	Patricia Lowe	Great Britain	2:08.4
	Regina Kleinau	East Germany	DQ

Semi-final 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Waltraud Pöhlitz	East Germany	2:05.1	Q
2	Alla Krivoshchekova	Soviet Union	2:05.1	Q
3	Ilja Laman	Netherlands	2:05.4	Q
4	Pam Piercy	Great Britain	2:05.5	Q
5	Sára Szenteleki	Hungary	2:05.8
6	Anita Wörner	West Germany	2:05.9
7	Tamara Babincheva	Soviet Union	2:06.3
8	Paola Pigni	Italy	2:09.2

Heats

2 September

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Vera Nikolić	Yugoslavia	2:08.5	Q
2	Waltraud Pöhlitz	East Germany	2:08.9	Q
3	Anita Wörner	West Germany	2:09.0	Q
4	Patricia Lowe	Great Britain	2:09.4	Q
5	Zofia Kaliszczuk	Poland	2:10.3
6	Britt Ramstad	Norway	2:10.4	NR
7	Florentina Stancu	Romania	2:11.9

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ilja Laman	Netherlands	2:08.8	Q
2	Ileana Silai	Romania	2:08.8	Q
3	Karin Kessler	West Germany	2:09.2	Q
4	Tamara Babincheva	Soviet Union	2:09.5	Q
5	Teresa Jędrak	Poland	2:09.9
6	Jette Andersen	Denmark	2:10.0
7	Katalin Nagy	Hungary	2:10.8

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Antje Gleichfeld	West Germany	2:05.5	Q
2	Alla Krivoshchekova	Soviet Union	2:05.6	Q
3	Sára Szenteleki	Hungary	2:05.6	Q
4	Regina Kleinau	East Germany	2:05.8	Q
5	Danuta Wierzbowska	Poland	2:06.1
6	Marie Ingrova	Czechoslovakia	2:07.5	NR
7	Elisabeta Baciu	Romania	2:09.2

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Zsuzsa Szabó	Hungary	2:06.9	Q
2	Pam Piercy	Great Britain	2:07.2	Q
3	Vera Mukhanova	Soviet Union	2:07.3	Q
4	Paola Pigni	Italy	2:07.5	Q
5	Dobroslava Žáková	Czechoslovakia	2:09.5
6	Francine Peyskens	Belgium	2:12.8	NR
7	Maeve Kyle	Ireland	2:13.2
8	Adile Dani	Albania	2:13.2	NR

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 29 athletes from 16 countries participated in the event.

References

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