The 1965 European Cup was the 1st edition of the European Cup of athletics.^[1]

The Finals were held in West Germany, Stuttgart (men) and Kassel (women).

Final

Held in Stuttgart on 11 and 12 September (men) and Kassel on 19 September (women).^[2]

Team standings

Men

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	Soviet Union	86
2	West Germany	85
3	Poland	69
4	East Germany	69
5	France	60
6	Great Britain	48

Women

Pos.	Nation	Points
1	Soviet Union	56
2	East Germany	42
3	Poland	38
4	West Germany	37
5	Hungary	32
6	Netherlands	26

Results summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (Wind: -1.1 m/s)	Marian Dudziak  Poland	10.3	Manfred Knickenberg  West Germany	10.4	Heinz Erbstösser  East Germany	10.5
200 m (Wind: +2.9 m/s)	Josef Schwarz  West Germany	21.1w	Heinz Erbstösser  East Germany	21.2w	Jocelyn Delecour  France	21.2w
400 m	Andrzej Badeński  Poland	45.9	Manfred Kinder  West Germany	46.6	Joachim Both  East Germany	47.1
800 m	Franz-Josef Kemper  West Germany	1:50.5	Jürgen May  East Germany	1:50.3	Chris Carter  Great Britain	1:50.6
1500 m	Bodo Tümmler  West Germany	3:47.4	Jean Wadoux  France	3:48.0	Jürgen May  East Germany	3:48.4
5000 m	Harald Norpoth  West Germany	14:18.0	Witold Baran  Poland	14:20.0	Derek Graham  Great Britain	14:20.4
10,000 m	Nikolay Dutov  Soviet Union	28:42.2	Lutz Philipp  West Germany	28:44.8	Kazimierz Zimny  Poland	28:46.0
3000 m steeplechase	Viktor Kudinskiy  Soviet Union	8:41.0	Maurice Herriott  Great Britain	8:42.2	Edward Szklarczyk  Poland	8:42.8
110 m hurdles (Wind: -1.7 m/s)	Anatoliy Mikhailov  Soviet Union	13.9	Marcel Duriez  France	14.0	Mike Parker  Great Britain	14.5
400 m hurdles	Robert Poirier  France	50.8	John Cooper  Great Britain	50.9	Rainer Schubert  West Germany	51.9
4 × 100 m	Soviet Union Edvin Ozolin Amin Tuyakov Boris Savchuk Nikolay Politiko	39.4	Poland Andrzej Zieliński Wiesław Maniak Edward Romanowski Marian Dudziak	39.5	West Germany Hartmurt Wilke Gert Metz Dieter Enderlein Fritz Obersiebrasse	39.5
4 × 400 m	West Germany Werner Thiemann Jens Ulbricht Hans Reinermann Manfred Kinder	3:08.3	Poland Stanisław Grędziński Wojciech Lipoński Sławomir Nowakowski Andrzej Badeński	3:08.7	Soviet Union Imants Kuklich Viktor Bychkov Vasily Anisimov Vadim Arkhipchuk	3:09.0
High jump	Valeriy Brumel  Soviet Union	2.14	Wolfgang Schillkowski  West Germany	2.09	Edward Czernik  Poland	2.07
Pole vault	Wolfgang Nordwig  East Germany	5.00	Klaus Lehnertz  West Germany	4.80	Hennadiy Bleznitsov  Soviet Union	4.80
Long jump	Igor Ter-Ovanesyan  Soviet Union	7.86	Jean Cochard  France	7.52	Hans-Helmut Trense  West Germany	7.51
Triple jump	Hans-Jürgen Rückborn  East Germany	16.51	Aleksandr Zolotaryov  Soviet Union	16.40	Józef Schmidt  Poland	16.40
Shot put	Nikolay Karasyov  Soviet Union	19.19	Alfred Sosgórnik  Poland	18.37	Pierre Colnard  France	18.04
Discus throw	Zenon Begier  Poland	58.92	Fritz Kühl  East Germany	55.92	Kim Bukhantsev  Soviet Union	55.00
Hammer throw	Romuald Klim  Soviet Union	67.68	Uwe Beyer  West Germany	67.28	Martin Lotz  East Germany	65.46
Javelin throw	Jānis Lūsis  Soviet Union	82.56	Janusz Sidło  Poland	81.18	Manfred Stolle  East Germany	79.98
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m (Wind: +0.5 m/s)	Ewa Kłobukowska  Poland	11.3	Erika Pollmann  West Germany	11.6	Galina Mitrokhina  Soviet Union	11.6
200 m	Ewa Kłobukowska  Poland	23.0	Ingrid Becker  West Germany	24.0	Vera Popkova  Soviet Union	24.1
400 m	Mariya Itkina  Soviet Union	54.0	Hilde Slaman  Netherlands	54.6	Gertrud Schmidt  East Germany	54.9
800 m	Hannelore Suppe  East Germany	2:04.3	Ilja Laman  Netherlands	2:04.6	Antje Gleichfeld  West Germany	2:04.7
80 m hurdles (Wind: +1.1 m/s)	Irina Press  Soviet Union	10.4 WR	Gundula Diel  East Germany	10.5	Inge Schell  West Germany	10.6
4 × 100 m	Poland Teresa Ciepły Elżbieta Kolejwa Irena Kirszenstein Ewa Kłobukowska	44.9	Soviet Union Galina Mitrokhina Vera Popkova Lyudmila Samotesova Tatyana Talysheva	45.2	East Germany Angela Höhme Ingrid Tiedtke Ursula Böhm Gundula Diel	45.7
High jump	Taisiya Chenchik  Soviet Union	1.70	Karin Rüger  East Germany	1.70	Jarosława Bieda  Poland	1.63
Long jump	Tatyana Shchelkanova  Soviet Union	6.63	Irena Kirszenstein  Poland	6.33	Helga Hoffmann  West Germany	6.30
Shot put	Tamara Press  Soviet Union	18.59 WR	Renate Garisch  East Germany	16.96	Gertrud Schäfer  West Germany	16.17
Discus throw	Jolán Kleiber  Hungary	56.74	Tamara Press  Soviet Union	54.82	Ingrid Lotz  East Germany	53.82
Javelin throw	Yelena Gorchakova  Soviet Union	58.48	Márta Rudas  Hungary	55.78	Anneliese Gerhards  West Germany	52.98
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Semifinals

Men

All semifinals were held on 21 and 22 August.^[2]

Semifinal 1 Held in Rome Pos. Nation Points 1  West Germany 96 2  Poland 85 3  Czechoslovakia 81 4  Italy 67 5  Bulgaria 45 6  Switzerland 45

Semifinal 2 Held in Zagreb Pos. Nation Points 1  East Germany 90 2  Great Britain 89 3  Sweden 81 4  Romania 66 5  Yugoslavia 52 6  Netherlands 41

Semifinal 3 Held in Oslo Pos. Nation Points 1  Soviet Union 94 2  France 92 3  Hungary 72 4  Finland 64 5  Norway 51 6  Belgium 41

Women

All semifinals were held on 22 August.^[2]

Semifinal 1 Held in Leipzig Pos. Nation Points 1  East Germany 58 2  Poland 56 3  Czechoslovakia 39 4  Sweden 30 5  Italy 24 6  Denmark 23

Semifinal 2 Held in Fontainebleau Pos. Nation Points 1  Hungary 50 2  Netherlands 47 3  Great Britain 46 4  France 38 5  Bulgaria 33 6  Belgium 14

Semifinal 3 Held in Constanța Pos. Nation Points 1  Soviet Union 53 2  West Germany 53 3  Romania 49.5 4  Yugoslavia 25.5 5  Norway 25 6  Austria 24

Preliminaries

Men

All preliminaries were held on 26-27 July.

Preliminary 1 Held in Vienna Pos. Nation Points 1  Switzerland 62 2  Austria 61 3  Greece 47 4  Luxembourg 27

Preliminary 2 Held in Enschede Pos. Nation Points 1  Netherlands 60 2  Spain 58 3  Denmark 49 4  Portugal 33