1968 European Athletics Indoor Championships

Host City Madrid
Country ESP
Held 9 – 10 March 1968
Competitors 89
Countries 13

Known as European Indoor Games.

Events

Event Gender Held Status Competitors Countries
50 m Men 9 March 1968 Medal 3 3
400 m Men 10 March 1968 Medal 3 2
800 m Men 9 March 1968 Medal 3 3
1,500 m Men 10 March 1968 Medal 3 3
3,000 m Men 10 March 1968 Medal 3 3
50 m Hurdles Men 10 March 1968 Medal 3 3
3 x 1,000 m Relay Men 10 March 1968 Medal 9 3
4 x 400 m Relay Men 9 March 1968 Medal 12 3
Medley Relay Men 10 March 1968 Medal 12 3
High Jump Men 10 March 1968 Medal 3 2
Pole Vault Men 10 March 1968 Medal 3 2
Long Jump Men 9 March 1968 Medal 3 2
Triple Jump Men 10 March 1968 Medal 3 2
Shot Put Men 9 March 1968 Medal 3 3
50 m Women 10 March 1968 Medal 3 2
400 m Women 9 March 1968 Medal 3 2
800 m Women 10 March 1968 Medal 3 2
50 m Hurdles Women 9 March 1968 Medal 3 2
4 x 200 m Relay Women 10 March 1968 Medal 8 2
Medley Relay Women 9 March 1968 Medal 8 2
High Jump Women 9 March 1968 Medal 3 3
Long Jump Women 9 March 1968 Medal 3 3
Shot Put Women 10 March 1968 Medal 3 2

Medal table

Pos Country 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze Total
1 Soviet Union URS 9 6 8 23
2 East Germany GDR 4 4 3 11
3 Germany GER 3 4 3 10
4 Poland POL 2 2 1 5
5 Great Britain GBR 1 1 0 2
6 France FRA 1 0 0 1
= Ireland IRL 1 0 0 1
= Italy ITA 1 0 0 1
= Norway NOR 1 0 0 1
10 Spain ESP 0 3 2 5
11 Czechoslovakia TCH 0 1 2 3
12 Romania ROU 0 1 1 2
13 Sweden SWE 0 0 1 1

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
50 m, Men Jobst Hirscht GER Bob Frith GBR Günter Gollos GDR
400 m, Men Andrzej Badeński POL Aleksandr Bratchikov URS Jan Balachowski POL
800 m, Men Noel Carroll IRL Alberto Esteban ESP Sergey Kryuchok URS
1,500 m, Men John Whetton GBR José María Morera ESP Igor Potapchenko URS
3,000 m, Men Viktor Kudynskiy URS Bernd Dießner GDR Wolfgang Zur GER
50 m Hurdles, Men Eddy Ottoz ITA Günther Nickel GER Milan Kotík TCH
3 x 1,000 m Relay, Men Soviet Union URS Spain ESP Czechoslovakia TCH
4 x 400 m Relay, Men Poland POL Germany GER Soviet Union URS
Medley Relay, Men Soviet Union URS Poland POL Spain ESP
High Jump, Men Valery Skvortsov URS Valentin Gavrilov URS Kenneth Lundmark SWE
Pole Vault, Men Wolfgang Nordwig GDR Hennadiy Bleznitsov URS Jörg Milack GDR
Long Jump, Men Igor Ter-Ovanesyan URS Tõnu Lepik URS Bernhard Stierle GER
Triple Jump, Men Nikolay Dudkin URS Viktor Saneyev URS Luis Felipe Areta ESP
Shot Put, Men Heinfried Birlenbach GER Władysław Komar POL Nikolay Karasyov URS
50 m, Women Sylviane Telliez FRA Erika Rost GER Hannelore Trabert GER
400 m, Women Nataliya Pechonkina URS Gisela Köpke GER Tatyana Arnautova URS
800 m, Women Karin Burneleit GDR Alla Kolesnikova URS Valentina Lukyanova URS
50 m Hurdles, Women Karin Balzer GDR Bärbel Weidlich GDR Liudmila Ievleva URS
4 x 200 m Relay, Women Germany GER
Medley Relay, Women Soviet Union URS Czechoslovakia TCH
High Jump, Women Rita Schmidt GDR Virginia Bonci ROU Antonina Okorokova URS
Long Jump, Women Berit Berthelsen NOR Bärbel Löhnert GDR Viorica Viscopoleanu ROU
Shot Put, Women Nadezhda Chizhova URS Margitta Gummel GDR Marita Lange GDR