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
v t e

The men's 10,000 metres at the 1966 European Athletics Championships was held in Budapest, Hungary, at Népstadion on 30 August 1966.^[1]

Gold	Jürgen Haase  East Germany
Silver	Lajos Mecser  Hungary
Bronze	Leonid Mikitenko  Soviet Union

30 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Jürgen Haase	East Germany	28:26.0
	Lajos Mecser	Hungary	28:27.0
	Leonid Mikitenko	Soviet Union	28:32.2
4	Manfred Letzerich	West Germany	28:36.8
5	Allan Rushmer	Great Britain	28:37.8
6	Bruce Tulloh	Great Britain	28:50.4
7	Janos Szerenyi	Hungary	28:52.2
8	Gaston Roelants	Belgium	28:59.6
9	Jim Alder	Great Britain	28:59.8
10	Gennadiy Khlistovs	Soviet Union	29:00.6
11	Franc Červan	Yugoslavia	29:00.8	NR
12	Lutz Philipp	West Germany	29:07.8
13	József Sütő	Hungary	29:24.8
14	Peter Kubicki	West Germany	29:26.0
15	Bengt Nåjde	Sweden	29:28.8
16	Gert Eisenberg	East Germany	29:29.8
17	Nicolae Mustafa	Romania	29:40.0
18	Kazimierz Zimny	Poland	29:51.2
19	Josef Tomáš	Czechoslovakia	29:56.0
20	Şükrü Saban	Turkey	30:30.8
	Mikko Ala-Leppilampi	Finland	DNF
	Andrei Barabaș	Romania	DNF

According to an unofficial count, 22 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.^{[citation needed]}