1966 European Athletics Championships – Women's discus throw

1966 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The women's discus throw at the 1966 European Athletics Championships was held in Budapest, Hungary, at Népstadion on 31 August and 1 September 1966.^[1]

Gold	Christine Spielberg  East Germany
Silver	Liesel Westermann  West Germany
Bronze	Anita Hentschel  East Germany

1 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Christine Spielberg	East Germany	57.76	CR
	Liesel Westermann	West Germany	57.38	NR
	Anita Hentschel	East Germany	56.80
4	Jolán Kleiber	Hungary	56.24
5	Verzhinia Mikhailova	Bulgaria	53.68
6	Ingrid Lotz	East Germany	53.34
7	Jiřina Němcová	Czechoslovakia	52.40
8	Štěpánka Mertová	Czechoslovakia	51.64
9	Lyudmila Shcherbakova	Soviet Union	50.56
10	Judit Stugner	Hungary	49.96
11	Kriemhild Limberg	West Germany	49.20
12	Elivia Ricci	Italy	48.80

31 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Liesel Westermann	West Germany	56.42	Q
2	Lyudmila Shcherbakova	Soviet Union	55.96	Q
3	Christine Spielberg	East Germany	53.94	Q
4	Štěpánka Mertová	Czechoslovakia	53.52	Q
5	Jolán Kleiber	Hungary	53.28	Q
6	Judit Stugner	Hungary	53.12	Q
7	Anita Hentschel	East Germany	52.10	Q
8	Kriemhild Limberg	West Germany	52.02	Q
9	Ingrid Lotz	East Germany	51.60	Q
10	Verzhinia Mikhailova	Bulgaria	51.56	Q
11	Elivia Ricci	Italy	51.46	Q
12	Jiřina Němcová	Czechoslovakia	49.66	Q
13	Lia Manoliu	Romania	49.44
14	Pina Thani	Albania	42.12

According to an unofficial count, 14 athletes from 9 countries participated in the event.