1966 European Indoor Games – Men's medley relay

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The men's 160 + 320 + 480 + 640 medley relay event at the 1966 European Indoor Games was held on 27 March in Dortmund. [1] The first athlete ran one lap of the 160-metre track, the second two, the third three and the anchor four, which gave in total 10 laps or 1600 metres.

1966 European Indoor Games 1966 edition of the European Indoor Games

The 1966 European Indoor Games were the very first edition of what later became the European Athletics Indoor Championships. These games were held on 27 March 1966 at Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, a city of West Germany.

Dortmund Place in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Dortmund is, with a population of 586,600 (2017), the third largest city of Germany's most populous federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and Germany's eighth largest city. It is the largest city of the Ruhr, Germany's largest urban area with some 5.1 million (2011) inhabitants, as well as the largest city of Westphalia. On the Emscher and Ruhr rivers, it lies in the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region and is considered the administrative, commercial and cultural centre of the eastern Ruhr.

Results

RankNationCompetitorsTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svgFlag of Germany.svg  West Germany Leonhard Händl
Werner Krönke
Rolf Krüsmann
Jürgen Schröter
3:22.0
Silver medal icon.svgFlag of Italy.svg  Italy Bruno Bianchi
Ito Giani
Sergio Ottolina
Sergio Bello
3:22.2
Bronze medal icon.svgFlag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium Werner Oijzers
Willy Vandewyngaerden
Georges Wijnants
Albert van Hoorn
3:27.2

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References

  1. "Results". European Athletics . Retrieved 28 March 2019.