1968 European Indoor Games

1968 European Indoor Games
Dates	9–10 March 1968
Host city	Madrid Spain
Venue	Palacio de Deportes
Events	23
Participation	205 athletes from 20 nations
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The 1968 European Indoor Games were held between 9–10 March 1968 at Palacio de Deportes, Madrid, the capital of Spain.

The track used for the championships was 182 metres long.

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 metres details	Jobst Hirscht (FRG)	5.72	Bob Frith (GBR)	5.78	(GDR)	5.78
400 metres details	Andrzej Badeński (POL)	47.09u CR	Aleksandr Bratchikov (URS)	47.3	Jan Balachowski (POL)	47.3
800 metres details	Noel Carroll (IRL)	1:56.66u	(ESP)	1:57.7	(URS)	1:58.1
1500 metres details	John Whetton (GBR)	3:50.99u	(ESP)	3:51.7	(URS)	3:51.9
3000 metres details	Viktor Kudinskiy (URS)	8:10.27u	Bernd Diessner (GDR)	8:11.8	(FRG)	8:11.8
50 metres hurdles details	Eddy Ottoz (ITA)	6.57	Günther Nickel (FRG)	6.68	(TCH)	6.73
4 × 364 metres relay details	Poland Waldemar Korycki Jan Balachowski Jan Werner Andrzej Badeński	2:48.9	West Germany Peter Bernreuther Martin Jellinghaus	2:49.7	Soviet Union Boris Savchuk Vasyl Anisimov Aleksandr Bratchikov	2:51.1
Medley relay(1820 m) details	Soviet Union Boris Savchuk	3:52.2	Poland Marian Dudziak Waldemar Korycki Andrzej Badeński Edmund Borowski	3:54.6	Spain José Luis Sánchez Paraíso Ramon Magarinos	4:02.8
3 × 1000 metres relay details	Soviet Union Mikhail Zhelobovskiy Oleg Rayko	7:13.6	Spain	7:23.6	Czechoslovakia	7:40.2
High jump details	Valeriy Skvortsov (URS)	2.17 =CR	Valentin Gavrilov (URS)	2.17 =CR	Kenneth Lundmark (SWE)	2.14
Pole vault details	Wolfgang Nordwig (GDR)	5.20 CR	Hennadiy Bleznitsov (URS)	5.10	(GDR)	5.00
Long jump details	Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (URS)	8.16	Tõnu Lepik (URS)	7.87	(FRG)	7.59
Triple jump details	Nikolay Dudkin (URS)	16.71 CR	Viktor Sanyeyev (URS)	16.69	Luis Felipe Areta (ESP)	16.47
Shot put details	Heinfried Birlenbach (FRG)	18.65 CR	Władysław Komar (POL)	18.40	Nikolay Karasyov (URS)	18.35

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 metres details	Sylviane Telliez (FRA)	6.29	(FRG)	6.43	(FRG)	6.46
400 metres details	Natalya Pechonkina (URS)	55.29u CR	(FRG)	56.2	(URS)	56.3
800 metres details	Karin Burneleit (GDR)	2:07.65u CR	(URS)	2:08.3	(URS)	2:09.4
50 metres hurdles details	Karin Balzer (GDR)	7.08	Bärbel Weidlich (GDR)	7.12	Liudmila Ievleva (URS)	7.14
4 × 182 metres relay details	West Germany Renate Meyer Christa Elsler	1:28.8	Only one finishing team
Medley relay(1820 m) details	Soviet Union Vera Popkova Anna Zimina	4:28.4	Czechoslovakia Vlasta Seifertová	4:39.0	Only two teams started
High jump details	Rita Schmidt (GDR)	1.84 CR	Virginia Bonci (ROM)	1.76	Antonina Okorokova (URS)	1.76
Long jump details	Berit Berthelsen (NOR)	6.43	Bärbel Löhnert (GDR)	6.23	Viorica Viscopoleanu (ROM)	6.23
Shot put details	Nadezhda Chizhova (URS)	18.18 CR	Margitta Gummel (GDR)	17.62	Marita Lange (GDR)	17.19

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	9	6	8	23
2	East Germany (GDR)	4	4	3	11
3	West Germany (FRG)	3	4	3	10
4	Poland (POL)	2	2	1	5
5	France (FRA)	1	0	0	1
	Ireland (IRL)	1	0	0	1
	Italy (ITA)	1	0	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	1	0	0	1
9	Spain (ESP)	0	3	2	5
10	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	1	2	3
11	Romania (ROU)	0	1	1	2
12	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	0	1
13	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 nations)		22	22	21	65

Participating nations[]

References[]

• Results
• Medallists – men at GBRathletics.com
• Medallists – women at GBRathletics.com