1966 European Athletics Championships – Men's 20 kilometres walk

The men's 20 kilometres race walk at the 1966 European Athletics Championships was held in Budapest, Hungary, on 30 August 1966.

Medalists

Gold	Dieter Lindner East Germany
Silver	Volodymyr Holubnychy Soviet Union
Bronze	Nikolay Smaga Soviet Union

Results

Final

30 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Dieter Lindner	East Germany	1:29:25.0	CR
	Volodymyr Holubnychy	Soviet Union	1:30:06.0
	Nikolay Smaga	Soviet Union	1:30:18.0
4	Gerhard Sperling	East Germany	1:31:25.8
5	Anatoly Vedyakov	Soviet Union	1:32:00.8
6	Antal Kiss	Hungary	1:32:42.4
7	Peter Fullager	Great Britain	1:33:02.4
8	Henri Delerue	France	1:33:41.2
9	Ron Wallwork	Great Britain	1:34:38.0
10	János Dalmati	Hungary	1:34:42.6
11	Karl-Heinz Pape	West Germany	1:34:48.0
12	Charles Sowa	Luxembourg	1:34:50.0
13	John Webb	Great Britain	1:34:52.0
14	Nicola de Vito	Italy	1:37:07.6
15	Stefan Ingvarsson	Sweden	1:38:39.0
16	Andrzej Czapliński	Poland	1:40:41.0
17	Edmund Paziewski	Poland	1:40:56.0
18	Göte Nygren	Sweden	1:41:22.0
19	Lennart Larsson	Sweden	1:42:20.0
20	Sadik Demiraj	Albania	1:45:33.0
	Alexandr Bílek	Czechoslovakia	DNF
	István Göri	Hungary	DNF
	Eugeniusz Ornoch	Poland	DNF
	Jacques Arnoux	France	DQ
	Stanimir Stoykov	Bulgaria	DQ
	Hans-Georg Reimann	East Germany	DQ
	Dimitar Georgiev	Bulgaria	DQ

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 27 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.

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