1966 European Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres hurdles

None Men's 400 metres hurdles European Athletics Championships The men's 400 metres hurdles at the 1966 European Athletics Championships was held in Budapest, Hungary, at Népstadion on 31 August, 1 and 2 September 1966. European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK http://www.european-athletics.org/mm/Document/EventsMeetings/General/01/27/31/44/StatisticsHandbookZ%C3%BCrich2014_Neutral.pdf 397–405 European Athletics Association 13 August 2014 Medalists Gold Roberto Frinolli ITASilver Gerd Lössdorfer FRGBronze Robert Poirier FRA Results Final 2 September Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Roberto Frinolli ITA 49.8 Gerd Lössdorfer FRG 50.3 Robert Poirier FRA 50.5 4 Vasyl Anisimov URS 1955 50.5 5 Jaakko Tuominen FIN 50.9 6 Horst Gieseler FRG 51.2 7 Jean-Jacques Behm FRA 51.3 8 Alain Hébrard FRA 52.9 Semi-finals 1 September Semi-final 1 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Roberto Frinolli ITA 50.3 Q 2 Alain Hébrard FRA 50.7 Q 3 Gerd Lössdorfer FRG 50.7 Q 4 Jaakko Tuominen FIN 50.9 Q 5 Bertil Vistam SWE 52.1 6 Robin Woodland GBR 52.3 7 Edvīns Zāģeris URS 1955 52.3 8 Helmut Haid AUT 53.6 Semi-final 2 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Horst Gieseler FRG 50.5 Q 2 Robert Poirier FRA 50.6 Q 3 Vasyl Anisimov URS 1955 50.7 Q 4 Jean-Jacques Behm FRA 50.7 Q 5 John Sherwood GBR 50.7 6 Wilfried Geeroms BEL 51.0 7 Stanisław Gubiec POL 51.7 8 Peter Warden GBR 53.4 Heats 31 August Heat 1 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Gerd Lössdorfer FRG 52.0 Q 2 Alain Hébrard FRA 52.1 Q 3 Helmut Haid AUT 52.8 Q 4 John Sherwood GBR 54.2 Q 5 Cengiz Akıncı TUR 55.0 6 Vincenc Kacagjeli ALB 55.8 Heat 2 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Roberto Frinolli ITA 51.0 Q 2 Jean-Jacques Behm FRA 52.2 Q 3 Bertil Vistam SWE 52.3 Q 4 Robin Woodland GBR 52.7 Q 5 Gerd Hennige FRG 54.6 Heat 3 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Horst Gieseler FRG 51.1 Q 2 Vasyl Anisimov URS 1955 51.8 Q 3 Stanisław Gubiec POL 52.1 Q 4 Peter Warden GBR 52.4 Q 5 John Skjelvaag NOR 52.6 6 Ferenc Oros HUN 1957 53.4 Heat 4 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Robert Poirier FRA 51.3 Q 2 Jaakko Tuominen FIN 51.6 Q 3 Edvīns Zāģeris URS 1955 52.1 Q 4 Wilfried Geeroms BEL 52.4 Q 5 Leif Librand SWE 52.6 6 Luigi Carrozza ITA 52.9 Participation According to an unofficial count, 23 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event. 22em ALB (1) AUT (1) BEL (1) FIN (1) FRA (3) HUN 1957 (1) ITA (2) NOR (1) POL (1) URS 1955 (2) SWE (2) TUR (1) GBR (3) FRG (3) References Category:400 metres hurdles at the European Athletics Championships Category:Men's events at the 1966 European Athletics Championships