1966 European Aquatics Championships

11th European Aquatics Championships

Host city	Utrecht
Country	Netherlands
Events	23
Opening	20 August 1966 (1966-08-20)
Closing	27 August 1966 (1966-08-27)

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

4×100m medley relay women podium. From left to right: Soviet Union, Netherlands and Great Britain

  *   Host nation (Netherlands)

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
	Spain	0	1	0	1
	West Germany	0	1	0	1
12	Finland	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
	Romania	0	0	1	1
	Yugoslavia	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 entries)		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 WR	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 Pozdnyakova (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 Khazieva (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

• List of European Championships records in swimming

References

• "European Swimming Championships (Men)". GBRSPORTS.COM. Archived from the original on 15 June 2011. Retrieved 11 June 2011.
• "European Swimming Championships (Women)". GBRSPORTS.COM. Archived from the original on 15 June 2011. Retrieved 11 June 2011.