1966 European Athletics Championships – Men's 50 kilometres walk

The men's 50 kilometres race walk at the 1966 European Athletics Championships was held in Budapest, Hungary, on 3 September 1966.

Medalists

Gold	Abdon Pamich Italy
Silver	Gennadiy Agapov Soviet Union
Bronze	Oleksandr Shcherbyna Soviet Union

Results

Final

3 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Abdon Pamich	Italy	4:18:42.0
	Gennadiy Agapov	Soviet Union	4:20:01.2
	Oleksandr Shcherbyna	Soviet Union	4:20:47.2
4	Kurt Sakowski	East Germany	4:21:35.0
5	Ray Middleton	Great Britain	4:23:01.0
6	Henri Delerue	France	4:24:37.4
7	Günther Rieger	East Germany	4:25:50.8
8	Vittorio Visini	Italy	4:26:22.4
9	Donald Thompson	Great Britain	4:27:11.2
10	Charles Sowa	Luxembourg	4:30:13.6
11	Peter Selzer	East Germany	4:33:57.4
12	István Havasi	Hungary	4:35:11.0
13	Alexandr Bílek	Czechoslovakia	4:36:59.8
14	Erwin Stutz	Switzerland	4:37:51.4
15	Bernhard Nermerich	West Germany	4:39:04.8
16	Stig Lindberg	Sweden	4:40:39.8
17	Anatoliy Penek	Soviet Union	4:41:23.2
18	Gerhard Weidner	West Germany	4:44:04.2
19	Charles Fogg	Great Britain	4:45:16.6
20	Oldřich Stránský	Czechoslovakia	4:49:57.8
21	Eugeniusz Ornoch	Poland	4:56:13.4
22	Werner Hupfeld	West Germany	5:02:41.8
	Ingvar Pettersson	Sweden	DNF
	Jacques Arnoux	France	DNF
	Béla Dinesz	Hungary	DQ
	Max Sjöholm	Sweden	DQ

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 26 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.

• Czechoslovakia (2)
• East Germany (3)
• France (2)
• Hungary (2)
• Italy (2)
• Luxembourg (1)
• Poland (1)
• Soviet Union (3)
• Sweden (3)
• Switzerland (1)
• Great Britain (3)
• West Germany (3)