1966 European Aquatics Championships

The 1966 European Aquatics Championships were held in Utrecht, Netherlands from 20 to 27 August 1966. Titles were contested in swimming, diving and water polo (men).

Medal table

  Host nation

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Soviet Union 12 7 5 24
2  East Germany 4 6 5 15
3  Netherlands 3 1 1 5
4  France 2 0 1 3
5  Great Britain 1 3 3 7
6  Italy 1 0 1 2
7  Sweden 0 2 2 4
8  Hungary 0 1 1 2
9  Austria 0 1 0 1
9  Spain 0 1 0 1
9  West Germany 0 1 0 1
12  Finland 0 0 1 1
12  Poland 0 0 1 1
12  Romania 0 0 1 1
12  Yugoslavia 0 0 1 1
Total 23 23 23 69

Medal summary

Diving

Men's events
Event Gold Silver Bronze
3 m springboard  Mikhail Safonov (URS) 155.27  Tord Andersson (SWE) 146.30  Franco Cagnotto (ITA) 146.21
10 m platform  Klaus Dibiasi (ITA) 162.92  Brian Phelps (GBR) 152.01  Jerzy Kowalewski (POL) 143.13
Women's events
Event Gold Silver Bronze
3 m springboard  Vera Baklanova (URS) 136.59  Delia Reinhard (GDR) 136.05  Tamara Fyedosova (URS) 133.23
10 m platform  Natalya Kuznetsova (URS) 100.93  Ingeborg Pertmayr (AUT) 94.52  Gabriele Krauss Schöpe (GDR) 91.22

Swimming

Men's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m freestyle  Bobby McGregor (GBR) 53.7  Leonid Ilyichev (URS) 54.3  Udo Poser (GDR) 54.8
400 m freestyle  Frank Wiegand (GDR) 4:11.1  Semyon Belits-Geiman (URS) 4:13.2  Alain Mosconi (FRA) 4:13.6
1500 m freestyle  Semyon Belits-Geiman (URS) 16:58.5  Alan Kimber (GBR) 17:13.2  Aleksandr Pletnyev (URS) 17:17.9
200 m backstroke  Yuriy Gromak (URS) 2:12.9  Jaime Monzó (ESP) 2:15.7  Joachim Rother (GDR) 2:16.7
200 m breaststroke  Georgiy Prokopenko (URS) 2:30.0  Aleksandr Tutakayev (URS) 2:30.3  Egon Henninger (GDR) 2:30.5
200 m butterfly  Valentin Kuzmin (URS) 2:10.2  Horst-Günter Gregor (GDR) 2:10.6  Anatoliy Skavronskiy (URS) 2:11.2
400 m individual medley  Frank Wiegand (GDR) 4:47.9  Andrey Dunayev (URS) 4:48.7  Klaus Katzur (GDR) 4:55.7
4×100 m freestyle relay  East Germany
Frank Wiegand
Udo Poser
Horst-Günter Gregor
Peter Sommer
3:36.8  Soviet Union
Leonid Ilyichev
Viktor Mazanov
Georgiy Kulikov
Vladimir Shuvalov
3:37.5  Sweden
Lester Eriksson
Göran Jansson
Yngvar Eriksson
Jan Lundin
3:39.0
4×200 m freestyle relay  Soviet Union
Leonid Ilyichev
Semyon Belits-Geiman
Aleksandr Pletnev
Yevgeniy Novikov
8:00.2  East Germany
Horst-Günter Gregor
Alfred Müller
Udo Poser
Frank Wiegand
8:01.6  Sweden
Lester Eriksson
Olle Ferm
Ingvar Eriksson
Jan Lundin
8:04.3
4×100 m medley relay  Soviet Union
Viktor Mazanov
Georgiy Prokopenko
Valentin Kuzmin
Leonid Ilyichev
4:02.4  East Germany
Jürgen Dietze
Egon Henninger
Horst-Günter Gregor
Frank Wiegand
4:02.9  HUN
József Csikány
Ferenc Lenkei
Ákos Gulyás
István Szentirmay
4:05.9

Women's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m freestyle  Martina Grunert (GDR) 1:01.2  Judit Turóczy (HUN) 1:02.1  Pauline Sillett (GBR) 1:02.5
400 m freestyle  Claude Mandonnaud (FRA) 4:48.2  Ada Kok (NED) 4:48.7  Tamara Sosnova (URS) 4:50.1
100 m backstroke  Christine Caron (FRA) 1:08.1  Linda Ludgrove (GBR) 1:08.9  Cristina Balaban (ROM) 1:09.7
200 m breaststroke  Galina Prozumenshchikova (URS) 2:40.8  Irina Posdnyakova (URS) 2:41.9  Jill Slattery (GBR) 2:47.9
100 m butterfly  Ada Kok (NED) 1:05.6  Heike Hustede (FRG) 1:06.3  Eila Pyrhönen (FIN) 1:07.8
400 m individual medley  Betty Heukels (NED) 5:25.0  Heidi Pechstein (GDR) 5:26.0  Lyudmila Kasiyeva (URS) 5:28.4
4×100 m freestyle relay  Soviet Union
Natalya Sipchenko
Antonina Rudenko
Natalya Ustinova
Tamara Sosnova
4:11.3  Sweden
Ingrid Gustavsson
Ulla Jafvert
Ann-charlott Lilja
Anne-Christine Hagberg
4:12.2  Netherlands
Toos Beumer
Mirjam van Hemert
Bep Weeteling
Lydia Schaap
4:12.8
4×100 m medley relay  Netherlands
Cobie Sikkens
Gretta Kok
Ada Kok
Toos Beumer
4:36.4  Soviet Union
Natalya Mikhaylova
Galina Prozumenshchikova
Tatyana Devyatova
Antonina Rudenko
4:38.2  Great Britain
Linda Ludgrove
Diana Harris
Mary-Anne Cotterill
Pauline Sillett
4:38.4

Water polo

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's competition  Soviet Union  East Germany  Yugoslavia

See also

References

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