1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships

1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships
Dates	8–9 March 1975
Host city	Katowice Poland
Venue	Rondo
Events	21
Participation	270 athletes from 24 nations
Records set	1 WR, 2 CR
← 1974 Gothenburg 1976 Munich →

The 1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held in 1975 in Katowice, Poland.

The track used for these championships was 160 metres long. A two-lap relay race was organised over an unusual distance of 320 metres for each leg. This was the last edition to feature relay races until 2000.

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres details	Valeriy Borzov  Soviet Union	6.59	Aleksandr Aksinin  Soviet Union	6.67	Zenon Licznerski  Poland	6.74
400 metres details	Hermann Köhler  West Germany	48.76	Josip Alebić  Yugoslavia	49.04	Soviet Union	49.33
800 metres details	Gerhard Stolle  East Germany	1:49.8	Ivo Van Damme  Belgium	1:50.1	Vladimir Ponomaryov  Soviet Union	1:50.2
1500 metres details	Thomas Wessinghage  West Germany	3:44.6	Soviet Union	3:45.5	Gheorghe Ghipu  Romania	3:45.4
3000 metres details	Ian Stewart  Great Britain	7:58.6	Pekka Päivärinta  Finland	7:58.6	Boris Kuznetsov  Soviet Union	8:01.2
60 metres hurdles details	Leszek Wodzyński  Poland	7.69	Frank Siebeck  East Germany	7.69	Soviet Union	7.74
4 × 320 metres relay details	Klaus Ehl Franz-Peter Hofmeister Karl Honz Hermann Köhler  West Germany	2:29.9	Poland	2:31.4	Yanko Bratanov  Bulgaria	2:32.1
High jump details	Vladimír Malý  Czechoslovakia	2.21	Endre Kelemen  Hungary	2.19	Rune Almén  Sweden	2.19
Pole vault details	Antti Kalliomäki  Finland	5.35	Wojciech Buciarski  Poland	5.30	Władysław Kozakiewicz  Poland	5.30
Long jump details	Jacques Rousseau  France	7.94	Hans-Jürgen Berger  West Germany	7.87	Zbigniew Beta  Poland	7.82
Triple jump details	Viktor Sanyeyev  Soviet Union	17.01	Michał Joachimowski  Poland	16.90	Gennady Bessonov  Soviet Union	16.78
Shot put details	Valcho Stoev  Bulgaria	20.19	Geoff Capes  Great Britain	19.98	Soviet Union	19.44

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres details	Andrea Lynch  Great Britain	7.17	Monika Meyer  East Germany	7.24	Irena Szewińska  Poland	7.26
400 metres details	Verona Elder  Great Britain	52.68	Nadezhda Ilyina  Soviet Union	53.21	Inta Kļimoviča  Soviet Union	53.91
800 metres details	Anita Barkusky  East Germany	2:05.6	Soviet Union	2:06.2	Rositsa Pekhlivanova  Bulgaria	2:06.3
1500 metres details	Natalia Andrei  Romania	4:14.7	Tatyana Kazankina  Soviet Union	4:14.8	Ellen Wellmann  West Germany	4:16.2
60 metres hurdles details	Grażyna Rabsztyn  Poland	8.04	Annelie Ehrhardt  East Germany	8.12	Tatyana Anisimova  Soviet Union	8.21
4 × 320 metres relay details	Inta Kļimoviča Ingrida Barkane Lyudmila Aksyonova Nadezhda Ilyina  Soviet Union	2:46.1	Elke Barth Silvia Hollmann Rita Wilden  West Germany	2:47.3	Genowefa Nowaczyk Krystyna Kacperczyk Danuta Piecyk  Poland	2:49.6
High jump details	Rosemarie Ackermann  East Germany	1.92 =CR	Marie-Christine Debourse  France	1.83	Netherlands	1.80
Long jump details	Dorina Catineanu  Romania	6.31	Lidiya Alfeyeva  Soviet Union	6.29	Meta Antenen   Switzerland	6.28
Shot put details	Marianne Adam  East Germany	20.05	Helena Fibingerová  Czechoslovakia	20.06	Ivanka Khristova  Bulgaria	18.35

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (GDR)	4	3	0	7
2	Soviet Union (URS)	3	6	8	17
3	West Germany (FRG)	3	2	1	6
4	Great Britain (GBR)	3	1	0	4
5	Poland (POL)	2	3	5	10
6	Romania (ROU)	2	0	1	3
7	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	1	0	2
	Finland (FIN)	1	1	0	2
	France (FRA)	1	1	0	2
10	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	0	3	4
11	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	0	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	0	1
	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	1	0	1
14	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 nations)		21	21	21	63

Participating nations[]

External links[]

• Results - men at GBRathletics.com
• Results - women at GBRathletics.com
• The EAA