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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
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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.

Medalists※

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

Results※

Final※

1 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Bodo Tümmler	West Germany	3:41.9
	Michel Jazy	France	3:42.2
	Harald Norpoth	West Germany	3:42.4
4	Alan Simpson	Great Britain	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	Great Britain	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	Great Britain	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	Great Britain	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※