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 pole vault at the 1966 European Athletics Championships was held in Budapest, Hungary, at Népstadion on 31 August and 2 September 1966.^[1]

Gold	Wolfgang Nordwig  East Germany
Silver	Christos Papanikolaou  Greece
Bronze	Hervé d'Encausse  France

2 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Wolfgang Nordwig	East Germany	5.10	CR
	Christos Papanikolaou	Greece	5.05	NR
	Hervé d'Encausse	France	5.00
4	Renato Dionisi	Italy	4.80
5	Ignacio Sola	Spain	4.80
6	Włodzimierz Sokołowski	Poland	4.80
7	Leszek Butscher	Poland	4.80
8	Claus Schiprowski	West Germany	4.70
9	Klaus Lehnertz	West Germany	4.70
10	Igor Feld	Soviet Union	4.70
11	Waldemar Węcek	Poland	4.70
12	Rudolf Tomášek	Czechoslovakia	4.60
13	Altti Alarotu	Finland	4.60
14	Karl-Gustav Burlin	Sweden	4.60
15	Jean-Pierre Colusso	France	4.40
16	Mike Bull	Great Britain	4.40

31 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
	Christos Papanikolaou	Greece	4.60	Q
	Ignacio Sola	Spain	4.60	Q
	Hervé d'Encausse	France	4.60	Q
	Leszek Butscher	Poland	4.60	Q
	Wolfgang Nordwig	East Germany	4.60	Q
	Klaus Lehnertz	West Germany	4.40	Q
	Karl-Gustav Burlin	Sweden	4.40	Q
	Renato Dionisi	Italy	4.40	Q
	Igor Feld	Soviet Union	4.40	Q
	Włodzimierz Sokołowski	Poland	4.40	Q
	Altti Alarotu	Finland	4.40	Q
	Waldemar Węcek	Poland	4.40	Q
	Jean-Pierre Colusso	France	4.40	Q
	Mike Bull	Great Britain	4.40	Q
	Rudolf Tomášek	Czechoslovakia	4.40	Q
	Claus Schiprowski	West Germany	4.40	Q
	Maurice Houvion	France	4.20
	Paul Coppejans	Belgium	4.20
	Dimitar Khlebarov	Bulgaria	4.20
	Pavel Jindra	Czechoslovakia	4.20
	František Taftl	Czechoslovakia	NH
	Aldo Righi	Italy	NH
	Risto Ivanoff	Finland	NH
	Hans Lagerqvist	Sweden	NH
	Tapio Mertanen	Sweden	NH
	Hennadiy Bleznitsov	Soviet Union	NH
	János Miskei	Hungary	NH

According to an unofficial count, 27 athletes from 15 countries participated in the event.