1966 European Athletics Championships – Men's hammer throw

The men's hammer throw at the 1966 European Athletics Championships was held in Budapest, Hungary, at Népstadion on 3 and 4 September 1966.^[1]

Medalists

4 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Romuald Klim	Soviet Union	70.02	CR
	Gyula Zsivótzky	Hungary	68.62
	Uwe Beyer	West Germany	67.28
4	Manfred Losch	East Germany	65.84
5	Vladimir Tribunskiy	Soviet Union	65.28
6	Lázár Lovász	Hungary	65.28
7	Sándor Eckschmiedt	Hungary	64.52
8	Martin Lotz	East Germany	63.16
9	Hans Fahsl	West Germany	63.00
10	Gheorghe Costache	Romania	62.60
11	Gennadiy Kondrashov	Soviet Union	62.38
	Ernst Ammann	Switzerland	NM

3 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Gyula Zsivótzky	Hungary	68.40	Q
2	Uwe Beyer	West Germany	67.00	Q
3	Romuald Klim	Soviet Union	66.82	Q
4	Ernst Ammann	Switzerland	65.70	NR Q
5	Gheorghe Costache	Romania	64.88	Q
6	Hans Fahsl	West Germany	64.28	Q
7	Gennadiy Kondrashov	Soviet Union	64.20	Q
8	Lázár Lovász	Hungary	64.04	Q
9	Sándor Eckschmiedt	Hungary	63.90	Q
10	Manfred Losch	East Germany	63.20	Q
11	Martin Lotz	East Germany	62.02	Q
12	Vladimir Tribunskiy	Soviet Union	61.78	Q
13	Tadeusz Rut	Poland	61.26
14	John Lawlor	Ireland	57.08
15	Frangiskos Politis	Greece	55.18
16	Marcel Hertogs	Belgium	52.36
17	Kujtim Shehu	Albania	50.70

According to an unofficial count, 17 athletes from 10 countries participated in the event.

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

Hammer throw at the European Athletics Championships
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