1967 European Cup (athletics)

1967 European Cup
Host city	Kyiv, Soviet Union
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	31
← 1965 Stuttgart/Kassel 1970 Stockholm/Budapest →

The 1967 European Cup was the 2nd edition of the international team competition in athletics between European nations, organised by the European Athletic Association. ^[1]

The tournament consisted of three sections. Three preliminary competitions were held for men's teams of smaller nations on 24–25 June, held in Copenhagen, Athens and Dublin. Netherlands, Switzerland and Belgium progressed to the next round as winners. Three semi-finals were conducted for both men's and women's teams, with the men's held on 22–23 July in Ostrava, Duisburg and Stockholm, and the women's was held on 16 July Dresden, Oslo and Wuppertal . The top two teams in each semi-final qualified for the Finals held in Kyiv, Soviet Union.

Final

Main article: 1967 European Cup Final (athletics)

Held in Kyiv on 15 September (women) and on 16–17 September (men). ^[2]

Team standings

Men Pos. Nation Points 1   Soviet Union 81 2   East Germany 80 3   West Germany 79 4 Poland 68 5   France 57 6   Hungary 53

Women Pos. Nation Points 1   Soviet Union 51 2   East Germany 43 3   West Germany 36 4 Poland 35 5   Great Britain 34 6   Hungary 32

Results summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (Wind: +1.3 m/s)	Vladislav Sapeya   Soviet Union	10.3	Harmut Wilke   West Germany	10.4	Harald Eggers   East Germany	10.5
200 m	Jean-Claude Nallet   France	20.9	Jan Werner   Poland	20.9	László Mihályfi   Hungary	21.1
400 m	Jean-Claude Nallet   France	46.3	Fritz Roderfeld   West Germany	46.4	Andrzej Badeński   Poland	46.8
800 m	Manfred Matuschewski   East Germany	1:46.9	Franz-Josef Kemper   West Germany	1:46.9	Jean-Pierre Dufresne   France	1:48.2
1500 m	Manfred Matuschewski   East Germany	3:40.2	Bodo Tümmler   West Germany	3:40.5	Oleg Rayko   Soviet Union	3:41.2
5000 m	Harald Norpoth   West Germany	15:26.8	Jürgen Haase   East Germany	15:27.8	György Kiss   Hungary	15:29.2
10,000 m	Jürgen Haase   East Germany	28:54.2	Lajos Mecser   Hungary	28:55.6	Anatoliy Makarov   Soviet Union	28:58.6
3000 m steeplechase	Anatoliy Kuryan   Soviet Union	8:38.8	Manfred Letzerich   West Germany	8:39.6	Guy Texereau   France	8:41.2
110 m hurdles	Viktor Balikhin   Soviet Union	14.0	Adam Kołodziejczyk   Poland	14.2	Pierre Schoebel   France	14.2
400 m hurdles	Gerhard Hennige   West Germany	50.2	Wilhelm Weistand   Poland	50.5	Joachim Singer   East Germany	50.8
4 × 100 m	France Marc Berger Jocelyn Delecour Claude Piquemal Gérard Fenouil	39.2	West Germany Jobst Hirscht Gert Metz Hartmut Wilk Horst Assion	39.3 NR	East Germany Heinz Erbstosser Peter Haase Hermann Burde Harald Eggers	39.4
4 × 400 m	Poland Stanisław Grędziński Edmund Borowski Jan Werner Andrzej Badeński	3:04.4	West Germany Helmar Müller Ingo Roper Jens Ulbricht Fritz Roderfeld	3:04.5	East Germany Wolfgang Müller Michael Zerbes Günter Klann Wilfried Weiland	3:05.8
High jump	Valentin Gavrilov   Soviet Union	2.09	Wolfgang Schillkowski   West Germany	2.07	Sándor Noszály   Hungary	2.07
Pole vault	Wolfgang Nordwig   East Germany	5.10	Hennadiy Bleznitsov   Soviet Union	5.05	Klaus Lehnertz   West Germany	4.90
Long jump	Igor Ter-Ovanesyan   Soviet Union	8.14w	Andrzej Stalmach   Poland	7.88w	Josef Schwarz   West Germany	7.85w
Triple jump	Viktor Sanyeyev   Soviet Union	16.67	Hans-Jürgen Rückborn   East Germany	16.49	Józef Schmidt   Poland	16.29
Shot put	Vilmos Varjú   Hungary	19.25	Heinfried Birlenbach   West Germany	19.20	Dieter Prollius   East Germany	18.82
Discus throw	Edmund Piątkowski   Poland	59.10	Detlef Thorith   East Germany	57.86	Vitautas Jaras   Russia	56.60
Hammer throw	Romuald Klim   Soviet Union	70.58	Gyula Zsivótzky   Hungary	68.12	Uwe Beyer   West Germany	66.80
Javelin throw	Jānis Lūsis   Soviet Union	85.38	Manfred Stolle   East Germany	81.14	Gergely Kulcsár   Hungary	79.46
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Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (Wind: +0.5 m/s)	Irena Kirszenstein   Poland	11.2	Renate Heldt   East Germany	11.5	Margit Nemesházi   Hungary	11.6
200 m (Wind: +0.5 m/s)	Irena Kirszenstein   Poland	23.0	Annamária Tóth   Hungary	23.4	Vera Popkova   Soviet Union	23.4
400 m	Lillian Board   Great Britain	53.7	Antónia Munkácsi   Hungary	54.1	Lyudmila Samotyosova   Soviet Union	54.3
800 m	Laine Erik   Soviet Union	2:06.8	Danuta Sobieska   Poland	2:07.0	Anita Rottmüller   West Germany	2:07.2
80 m hurdles (Wind: +0.8 m/s)	Karin Balzer   East Germany	10.8	Pat Jones   Great Britain	10.9	Inge Schell   West Germany	11.0
4 × 100 m	Soviet Union Galina Bukharina Liliya Tkachenko Vera Popkova Lyudmila Samotyosova	45.0	Great Britain Anita Neil Maureen Tranter Jenny Pawsey Della James	45.3	East Germany Ingrid Tiedtke Angela Vogel Christina Heinich Renate Heldt	45.3
High jump	Antonina Okorokova   Soviet Union	1.79	Rita Schmidt   East Germany	1.70	Dorothy Shirley   Great Britain	1.67
Long jump	Ingrid Becker   West Germany	6.63	Tatyana Talysheva   Soviet Union	6.49	Mary Rand   Great Britain	6.26
Shot put	Nadezhda Chizhova   Soviet Union	18.24	Margitta Gummel   East Germany	17.66	Judit Bognár   Hungary	16.58
Discus throw	Karin Illgen   East Germany	58.26	Lyudmila Muravyova   Soviet Union	56.70	Jolán Kleiber   Hungary	56.70
Javelin throw	Daniela Jaworska   Poland	56.88	Ameli Koloska   West Germany	54.22	Ruth Fuchs   East Germany	53.18
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Semifinals

Men

All semifinals were held on 22 and 23 July. ^[2]

Semifinal 1 Held in Ostrava Pos. Nation Points 1 Poland 94 2   France 93 3   Czechoslovakia 79 4   Italy 71 5 Romania 51 6   Netherlands 31

Semifinal 2 Held in Duisburg Pos. Nation Points 1   West Germany 105 2   Hungary 78 3   Great Britain 77 4   Switzerland 56 5 Bulgaria 54 6   Yugoslavia 37

Semifinal 3 Held in Stockholm Pos. Nation Points 1   Soviet Union 105 2   East Germany 87 3   Sweden 69 4   Norway 55 5   Belgium 53 6   Finland 51

Women

All semifinals were held on 16 July. ^[2]

Semifinal 1 Held in Dresden Pos. Nation Points 1   East Germany 45 2   Hungary 39 3   Netherlands 36 4 Bulgaria 29 5   Italy 15

Semifinal 2 Held in Wuppertal Pos. Nation Points 1 Poland 55 2   West Germany 54 3   Czechoslovakia 38 4   France 37 5   Yugoslavia 25 6   Austria 22

Semifinal 3 Held in Oslo Pos. Nation Points 1   Soviet Union 55 2   Great Britain 47 3   Sweden 42 4 Romania 42 5   Norway 23 6   Denmark 21

Preliminaries

Men

All preliminaries were held on 24–25 June.

Preliminary 1 Held in Copenhagen [3] Pos. Nation Points 1   Netherlands 59 2   Denmark 56 3   Austria 53 4   Turkey 31

Preliminary 2 Held in Athens Pos. Nation Points 1   Switzerland 65 2 Spain 54 3 Greece 48 4   Portugal 33

Preliminary 3 Held in Dublin Pos. Nation Points 1   Belgium 115 2   Ireland 98.5 3   Iceland 86.5

References

1. "The SPAR European Cup: Memories of Europe's premier team athletics event". european-athletics.org. Archived from the original on 6 October 2013. Retrieved 3 November 2012.
2. 2010 Italian almanach Archived 2021-08-28 at the Wayback Machine (p466)
3. "Nederland in volgende ronde Europese Beker" (in Dutch). Tubantia. 26 June 1967. p. 13. Retrieved 2 January 2022.

• Full Results. Sport Olympic. Retrieved 2020-10-24.
• European Cup results (Men) from GBR Athletics
• European Cup results (Women) from GBR Athletics