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 triple jump at the 1966 European Athletics Championships was held in Budapest, Hungary, at Népstadion on 3 and 4 September 1966.^[1]

Gold	Georgi Stoykovski  Bulgaria
Silver	Hans-Jürgen Rückborn  East Germany
Bronze	Henrik Kalocsai  Hungary

4 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Georgi Stoykovski	Bulgaria	16.67	CR NR
	Hans-Jürgen Rückborn	East Germany	16.66	NR
	Henrik Kalocsai	Hungary	16.59	NR
4	Jan Jaskólski	Poland	16.57
5	Józef Szmidt	Poland	16.45
6	Michael Sauer	West Germany	16.39
7	Șerban Ciochină	Romania	16.22
8	Siegfried Dähne	East Germany	16.17
9	Giuseppe Gentile	Italy	16.15
10	Petr Nemšovský	Czechoslovakia	16.14
11	Vladimir Kurkyevich	Soviet Union	16.00
12	Fred Alsop	Great Britain	15.93
13	Anatoliy Alyabyev	Soviet Union	15.77
14	Zoltán Cziffra	Hungary	15.73
15	Dodyu Patarinski	Bulgaria	15.65
16	Nikolay Dudkin	Soviet Union	15.46

3 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Michael Sauer	West Germany	16.46	NR Q
2	Șerban Ciochină	Romania	16.42	NR Q
3	Giuseppe Gentile	Italy	16.41	Q
4	Henrik Kalocsai	Hungary	16.28	Q
5	Hans-Jürgen Rückborn	East Germany	16.11	Q
6	Vladimir Kurkyevich	Soviet Union	16.11	Q
7	Anatoliy Alyabyev	Soviet Union	16.09	Q
8	Petr Nemšovský	Czechoslovakia	16.07	Q
9	Józef Szmidt	Poland	16.05	Q
10	Jan Jaskólski	Poland	16.00	Q
11	Zoltán Cziffra	Hungary	15.99	Q
12	Georgi Stoykovski	Bulgaria	15.91	Q
13	Siegfried Dähne	East Germany	15.91	Q
14	Nikolay Dudkin	Soviet Union	15.84	Q
15	Fred Alsop	Great Britain	15.83	Q
16	Dodyu Patarinski	Bulgaria	15.82	Q
17	Pertti Pousi	Finland	15.67
18	František Krupala	Czechoslovakia	15.60
19	Martin Jensen	Norway	15.58
20	Günther Krivec	West Germany	15.58
21	Andrzej Puławski	Poland	15.55
22	Aşkın Tuna	Turkey	15.53
23	Evangelos Vlassis	Greece	15.39
24	Dragán Ivanov	Hungary	15.22

According to an unofficial count, 24 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.