At the 1966 GANEFO, the athletics events were held in

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, Cambodia in November and December.Bell, Daniel (2003). ''Encyclopedia of International Games''. McFarland and Company, Inc. Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina. . A total of 21 men's and 12 women's athletics events were contested at the competition.GANEFO Games
GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-01-14. The program was the same as the previous edition, except that the men's

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and

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events were dropped. Composed entirely of athletes from Asian nations, the events served as a counterpart to the athletics at the 1966 Asian Games, which featured largely Western-allied Asian nations.Asian Games
GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2015-01-14. Continuing on from the first GANEFO, China dominated the athletics competition, winning nineteen of the gold medals on offer. North Korea was the next most successful with ten gold medals. North Vietnam,

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and Cambodia each won one gold medal each. Ni Zhiqin, China's leading men's

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er, was the only man to defend his title from the 1963 games.

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, a former world record holder, added the high jump gold to the defence of her women's pentathlon title and also an 80 metres hurdles bronze. The most successful athlete of the tournament was

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, who won the

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and 800 metres titles – this meant she managed to defend all her 1963 titles.

Medal summary

Men

Women

References

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