title: 1966 European Athletics Championships – Men's 20 kilometres walk
text: # 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)
  