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	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's 200 metres at the 1966 European Athletics Championships was held in Budapest, Hungary, at Népstadion on 1 and 2 September 1966.^[1]

According to an unofficial count, 30 athletes from 17 countries participated in the event.

1 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Sergio Ottolina	Italy	21.3	Q
2	Ladislav Kříž	Czechoslovakia	21.5	Q
3	Josef Schwarz	West Germany	21.6	Q
4	Pierre Burrelier	France	21.6
5	Mel Cheskin	Great Britain	21.8
			Wind: -1.2 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Livio Berruti	Italy	21.2	Q
2	Marian Dudziak	Poland	21.2	Q
3	Fritz Roderfeld	West Germany	21.4	Q
4	Haris Aivaliotis	Greece	21.6
5	José Luis Sánchez Paraíso	Spain	21.6
			Wind: -0.3 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jean-Claude Nallet	France	21.1	Q
2	Amin Tuyakov	Soviet Union	21.4	Q
3	Ennio Preatoni	Italy	21.4	Q
4	Menzies Campbell	Great Britain	21.4
5	Manfred Knickenberg	West Germany	21.4
6	Edward Romanowski	Poland	21.5
7	Jacques Vanhee	Belgium	21.8
			Wind: 0.0 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Roger Bambuck	France	21.1	Q
2	Gheorghe Zamfirescu	Romania	21.2	Q
3	Heinz Erbstösser	East Germany	21.3	Q
4	István Gyulai	Hungary	21.3	Q
5	Jiří Kynos	Czechoslovakia	21.6
6	Sonar Coşan	Turkey	22.3
			Wind: +0.6 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Leo de Winter	Netherlands	21.0	Q
2	Jan Werner	Poland	21.1	Q
3	József Istóczky	Hungary	21.2	Q
4	Harald Eggers	East Germany	21.6
5	Bo Althoff	Sweden	21.6
6	Nikolay Politiko	Soviet Union	21.7
7	Rasim Kraja	Albania	22.3
			Wind: +2.0 m/s

1 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Marian Dudziak	Poland	20.90	Q
2	Roger Bambuck	France	21.25	Q
3	Livio Berruti	Italy	21.29	Q
4	Ennio Preatoni	Italy	21.32	Q
5	Heinz Erbstösser	East Germany	21.33
6	Leo de Winter	Netherlands	21.33
7	István Gyulai	Hungary	21.58
8	Josef Schwarz	West Germany	21.64
			Wind: +0.9 m/s

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jean-Claude Nallet	France	20.9	Q
2	Jan Werner	Poland	21.0	Q
3	Fritz Roderfeld	West Germany	21.2	Q
4	Ladislav Kříž	Czechoslovakia	21.2	Q
5	Amin Tuyakov	Soviet Union	21.2
6	József Istóczky	Hungary	21.2
7	Gheorghe Zamfirescu	Romania	21.3
8	Sergio Ottolina	Italy	21.5
			Wind: +0.9 m/s

2 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Roger Bambuck	France	20.93
	Marian Dudziak	Poland	21.0
	Jean-Claude Nallet	France	21.0
4	Jan Werner	Poland	21.1
5	Ladislav Kříž	Czechoslovakia	21.3
6	Fritz Roderfeld	West Germany	21.4
7	Livio Berruti	Italy	21.5
8	Ennio Preatoni	Italy	21.7
			Wind: 0.0 m/s