1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships

1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships
Dates	11–12 March 1972
Host city	Grenoble France
Venue	Palais des Sports
Events	23
Participation	264 athletes from 23 nations
Records set	7 WB, 11 CR
← 1971 Sofia 1973 Rotterdam →

The 1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held between 11–12 March 1972 in Grenoble, France.

The track used for the championships was 180 metres long.^[1]

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 metres details	Valeriy Borzov (URS)	5.75 =WB	Aleksandr Kornelyuk (URS)	5.81	Vasilis Papageorgopoulos (GRE)	5.82
400 metres details	Georg Nückles (FRG)	47.24	Ulrich Reich (FRG)	47.42	Wolfgang Müller (GDR)	47.42
800 metres details	Jozef Plachý (TCH)	1:48.84	Ivan Ivanov (URS)	1:49.05	Francis Gonzalez (FRA)	1:49.17
1500 metres details	Jacky Boxberger (FRA)	3:45.66	Spylios Zacharopoulos (GRE)	3:46.08	Jürgen May (FRG)	3:46.42
3000 metres details	Juris Grustiņš (URS)	8:02.85	(URS)	8:03.20	Ulrich Brugger (FRG)	8:05.07
50 metres hurdles details	Guy Drut (FRA)	6.51 WB	Manfred Schumann (FRG)	6.58	Anatoliy Moshiashvili (URS)	6.59
4 × 360 metres relay details	Poland Jan Werner Waldemar Korycki Jan Balachowski Andrzej Badeński	3:11.1	West Germany Peter Bernreuther Rolf Krüsmann Georg Nückles Ulrich Reich	3:11.9	France Gilles Bertould	3:15.6
4 × 720 metres relay details	West Germany Thomas Wessinghage Harald Norpoth Paul-Heinz Wellmann Franz-Josef Kemper	6:26.4a	Soviet Union Ivan Ivanov	6:27.0a	Poland Zenon Szordykowski Krzysztof Linkowski Stanisław Waśkiewicz Andrzej Kupczyk	6:27.6a
High jump details	István Major (HUN)	2.24 CR	Kęstutis Šapka (URS)	2.22	Jüri Tarmak (URS)	2.22
Pole vault details	Wolfgang Nordwig (GDR)	5.40 =CR	Hans Lagerqvist (SWE)	5.40	Antti Kalliomäki (FIN)	5.30
Long jump details	Max Klauss (GDR)	8.02	Hans Baumgartner (FRG)	7.99	Jaroslav Brož (TCH)	7.88
Triple jump details	Viktor Sanyeyev (URS)	16.97 WB	Carol Corbu (ROM)	16.89	Valentyn Shevchenko (URS)	16.73
Shot put details	Hartmut Briesenick (GDR)	20.67 AR	Władysław Komar (POL)	20.32	Jaroslav Brabec (TCH)	19.94

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 metres details	Renate Stecher (GDR)	6.25 WB	Annegret Richter (FRG)	6.28	Sylviane Telliez (FRA)	6.31
400 metres details	Christel Frese (FRG)	53.36	Inge Bödding (FRG)	54.60	(FRG)	54.73
800 metres details	Gunhild Hoffmeister (GDR)	2:04.83 CR	Ileana Silai (ROM)	2:05.17	Svetla Zlateva (BUL)	2:05.50
1500 metres details	Tamara Pangelova (URS)	4:14.62 WB	Lyudmila Bragina (URS)	4:18.35	Vasilena Amzina (BUL)	4:18.84
50 metres hurdles details	Annelie Ehrhardt (GDR)	6.85 =WB	Teresa Sukniewicz (POL)	6.94	Grażyna Rabsztyn (POL)	7.05
4 × 180 metres relay details	West Germany Elfgard Schittenhelm Annegret Kroniger Rita Wilden	1:24.1a	France Michèle Beugnet Christiane Marlet Claudine Meire Nicole Pani	1:27.6a	Austria Maria Sykora	1:29.5a
4 × 360 metres relay details	West Germany Rita Wilden Christel Frese Inge Bödding	3:10.85	Soviet Union Natalya Chistyakova Lyudmila Aksyonova Nadezhda Kolesnikova	3:11.20	France Bernadette Martin Nicole Duclos Colette Besson	3:11.65
High jump details	Rita Schmidt (GDR)	1.90 WB	Rita Gildemeister (GDR)	1.84	Yordanka Blagoeva (BUL)	1.84
Long jump details	Brigitte Roesen (FRG)	6.58	Meta Antenen (SUI)	6.42	Jarmila Nygrýnová (TCH)	6.39
Shot put details	Nadezhda Chizhova (URS)	19.41	Antonina Ivanova (URS)	18.54	Marianne Adam (GDR)	18.30

Medal table[]

Silver 2nd place medal, European Athletic Indoor Championships, Grenoble, France 11–12 March 1972

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (GDR)	7	1	2	10
2	West Germany (FRG)	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
10	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
12	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	0	3	3
13	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 nations)		23	23	23	69

Participating nations[]

References[]

• Results - men at GBR Athletics
• Results - women at GBR Athletics
• Detailed results at Die Leichtatletik-Statistik-Seite

External links[]

• EAA