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