1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships

Host City Grenoble
Country FRA
Held 11 – 12 March 1972
Competitors 98
Countries 14

Events

Event Gender Held Status Competitors Countries
50 m Men 11 March 1972 Medal 3 2
400 m Men 11 – 12 March 1972 Medal 3 2
800 m Men 11 – 12 March 1972 Medal 3 3
1,500 m Men 12 March 1972 Medal 3 3
3,000 m Men 12 March 1972 Medal 3 2
50 m Hurdles Men 12 March 1972 Medal 3 3
4 x 400 m Relay Men 11 March 1972 Medal 12 3
4 x 800 m Relay Men 12 March 1972 Medal 12 3
High Jump Men 11 March 1972 Medal 3 2
Pole Vault Men 12 March 1972 Medal 3 3
Long Jump Men 11 March 1972 Medal 3 3
Triple Jump Men 11 March 1972 Medal 3 2
Shot Put Men 11 March 1972 Medal 3 3
50 m Women 12 March 1972 Medal 3 3
400 m Women 11 – 12 March 1972 Medal 3 1
800 m Women 11 – 12 March 1972 Medal 3 3
1,500 m Women 12 March 1972 Medal 3 2
50 m Hurdles Women 11 March 1972 Medal 4 3
4 x 200 m Relay Women 11 March 1972 Medal 12 3
4 x 400 m Relay Women 12 March 1972 Medal 12 3
High Jump Women 12 March 1972 Medal 3 2
Long Jump Women 12 March 1972 Medal 3 3
Shot Put Women 11 March 1972 Medal 3 2

Medal table

Pos Country 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze Total
1 East Germany GDR 7 1 2 10
2 Germany GER 6 6 3 15
3 Soviet Union URS 5 8 3 16
4 France FRA 2 1 4 7
5 Poland POL 1 2 2 5
6 Czechoslovakia TCH 1 0 3 4
7 Hungary HUN 1 0 0 1
8 Romania ROU 0 2 0 2
9 Greece GRE 0 1 1 2
= Switzerland SUI 0 1 1 2
11 Sweden SWE 0 1 0 1
12 Bulgaria BUL 0 0 3 3
13 Austria AUT 0 0 1 1
= Finland FIN 0 0 1 1

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
50 m, Men Valery Borzov URS Aleksandr Kornelyuk URS Vasilios Papageorgopoulos GRE
400 m, Men Georg Nückles GER Ulrich Reich GER Wolfgang Müller GDR
800 m, Men Jozef Plachý TCH Ivan Ivanov URS Francis Gonzalez FRA
1,500 m, Men Jacky Boxberger FRA Spilios Zakharopoulos GRE Jürgen May GER
3,000 m, Men Juris Grustins URS Yury Aleksashin URS Ulrich Brugger GER
50 m Hurdles, Men Guy Drut FRA Manfred Schumann GER Anatoly Moshiashvili URS
4 x 400 m Relay, Men Poland POL Germany GER France FRA
4 x 800 m Relay, Men Germany GER Soviet Union URS Poland POL
High Jump, Men István Major HUN Kęstutis Šapka URS Jüri Tarmak URS
Pole Vault, Men Wolfgang Nordwig GDR Hans Lagerqvist SWE Antti Kalliomäki FIN
Long Jump, Men Max Klauß GDR Hans Baumgartner GER Jaroslav Brož TCH
Triple Jump, Men Viktor Saneyev URS Carol Corbu ROU Valentyn Shevchenko URS
Shot Put, Men Hartmut Briesenick GDR Władysław Komar POL Jaroslav Brabec TCH
50 m, Women Renate Stecher GDR Annegret Richter GER Sylviane Telliez FRA
400 m, Women Christel Frese GER Inge Bödding GER Erika Weinstein GER
800 m, Women Gunhild Hoffmeister GDR Ileana Silai ROU Svetla Zlateva BUL
1,500 m, Women Tamara Pangelova URS Lyudmila Bragina URS Vasilena Amzina BUL
50 m Hurdles, Women Annelie Ehrhardt GDR Teresa Sukniewicz POL Grażyna Rabsztyn
Meta Antenen 		POL
SUI
4 x 200 m Relay, Women Germany GER France FRA Austria AUT
4 x 400 m Relay, Women Germany GER Soviet Union URS France FRA
High Jump, Women Rita Schmidt GDR Rita Gildemeister GDR Yordanka Blagoeva BUL
Long Jump, Women Brigitte Roesen GER Meta Antenen SUI Jarmila Nygrýnová TCH
Shot Put, Women Nadezhda Chizhova URS Antonina Ivanova URS Marianne Adam GDR