The 1966 European Wrestling Championships were held in the Greco-Romane style and in Essen 13 - 16 May 1966; the men's Freestyle style in Karlsruhe 05 – 08 May 1966.^[1][2][3]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	10	3	1	14
2	Turkey	3	3	4	10
3	West Germany	1	1	0	2
4	Romania	1	0	2	3
5	East Germany	1	0	0	1
6	Bulgaria	0	2	2	4
	Sweden	0	2	2	4
8	Hungary	0	2	1	3
9	Czechoslovakia	0	1	1	2
	Yugoslavia	0	1	1	2
11	Finland	0	1	0	1
12	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)		16	16	16	48

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
52 kg	Mehmet Esenceli  Turkey	Paul Neff  West Germany	Lesław Kropp  Poland
57 kg	Aydin Ibrahimov  Soviet Union	Yancho Patrikov  Bulgaria}	Hasan Sevinç  Turkey
63 kg	Yelkan Tedeyev  Soviet Union	Enyu Todorov  Bulgaria	Nihat Kabanlı  Turkey
70 kg	Zarbeg Beriashvili  Soviet Union	Seyit Ahmet Ağralı  Turkey	Stoyan Bimbalov  Bulgaria
78 kg	Yury Shakhmuradov  Soviet Union	Mahmut Atalay  Turkey	Turan Aladzhikov  Bulgaria
87 kg	Hasan Güngör  Turkey	Josef Urban  Czechoslovakia	Andrei Tsjovrebov  Soviet Union
97 kg	Shota Lomidze  Soviet Union	Ahmet Ayık  Turkey	József Csatári  Hungary
97+ kg	Aleksandr Medved  Soviet Union	Arne Robertsson  Sweden	Gıyasettin Yılmaz  Turkey

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
52 kg	Vladimir Bakulin  Soviet Union	Boško Marinko  Yugoslavia	Maurice Mewis  Belgium
57 kg	Fritz Stange  West Germany	Armais Sayadov  Soviet Union	Ion Baciu  Romania
63 kg	Sergey Agamov  Soviet Union	Leif Freij  Sweden	Simion Popescu  Romania
70 kg	Klaus Pohl  East Germany	Antal Steer  Hungary	Branislav Martinović  Yugoslavia
78 kg	Vladislav Ivlev  Soviet Union	Martti Laakso  Finland	Ali Kazan  Turkey
87 kg	Tevfik Kış  Turkey	Anatoly Kirov  Soviet Union	Stig Persson  Sweden
97 kg	Nicolae Martinescu  Romania	Alexei Karmatski  Soviet Union	Pelle Svensson  Sweden
97+ kg	Anatoly Roshchin  Soviet Union	István Kozma  Hungary	Petr Kment  Czechoslovakia

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