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 5000 metres at the 1966 European Athletics Championships was held in Budapest, Hungary, at Népstadion on 2 and 4 September 1966.^[1]

Gold	Michel Jazy  France
Silver	Harald Norpoth  West Germany
Bronze	Bernd Dießner  East Germany

4 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Michel Jazy	France	13:42.8	CR
	Harald Norpoth	West Germany	13:44.0
	Bernd Dießner	East Germany	13:47.8
4	Derek Graham	Great Britain	13:48.0
5	Lajos Mecser	Hungary	13:48.0
6	Bengt Nåjde	Sweden	13:48.2
7	István Kiss	Hungary	13:48.2
8	Jean-Luc Salomon	France	13:52.0
9	Manuel de Oliveira	Portugal	13:52.6
10	Werner Girke	West Germany	13:53.2
11	Jürgen Haase	East Germany	13:55.6
12	Edward Stawiarz	Poland	13:56.4
13	Gennadiy Khlistovs	Soviet Union	14:00.0
14	René Kilburg	Luxembourg	14:06.2
15	Eugène Allonsius	Belgium	14:19.4

2 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jean-Luc Salomon	France	13:49.4	CR Q
2	Harald Norpoth	West Germany	13:50.2	Q
3	Lajos Mecser	Hungary	13:50.2	Q
4	Edward Stawiarz	Poland	13:50.8	Q
5	Manuel de Oliveira	Portugal	13:51.4	NR Q
6	Dick Taylor	Great Britain	13:54.8
7	Siegfried Herrmann	East Germany	13:57.8
8	Franc Červan	Yugoslavia	14:00.0
9	Renzo Finelli	Italy	14:10.0

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jürgen Haase	East Germany	13:59.0	Q
2	István Kiss	Hungary	13:59.6	Q
3	Gennadiy Khlistovs	Soviet Union	13:59.8	Q
4	René Kilburg	Luxembourg	13:59.8	NR Q
5	Eugène Allonsius	Belgium	14:00.0	Q
6	Hans Gerlach	West Germany	14:00.6
7	Mariano Haro	Spain	14:07.2
8	No Opdenoordt	Netherlands	14:09.8
9	Andrei Barabaș	Romania	14:14.0
10	Thor Helland	Norway	14:23.2
11	Tim Briault	Great Britain	14:28.6
12	Czesław Kołodyński	Poland	14:41.4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Michel Jazy	France	13:54.8	Q
2	Derek Graham	Great Britain	13:55.0	Q
3	Bernd Dießner	East Germany	13:55.0	Q
4	Werner Girke	West Germany	13:55.4	Q
5	Bengt Nåjde	Sweden	13:55.8	Q
6	György Kiss	Hungary	13:57.0
7	Simo Važić	Yugoslavia	13:57.8
8	Anatoliy Makarov	Soviet Union	13:58.6
9	Tom O'Riordan	Ireland	14:12.4
10	Henryk Piotrowski	Poland	14:26.4
11	Muharrem Dalkılıç	Turkey	14:45.6

According to an unofficial count, 32 athletes from 19 countries participated in the event.