1996 European Athletics Indoor Championships

1996 European Athletics Indoor Championships
Dates	8–10 March
Host city	Stockholm Sweden
Venue	Globe Arena
Events	26
Participation	463 athletes from 44 nations
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The host venue (shown during an ice hockey game)

The 24th European Athletics Indoor Championships were held at the Globe Arena, Stockholm, the capital city of Sweden from Friday, 8 March to Sunday, 10 March 1996.^[1]

This was the first edition to feature women's pole vault.

Medal summary[]

Men[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres details	Marc Blume (GER)	6.62	Jason John (GBR)	6.64	Peter Karlsson (SWE)	6.64
200 metres details	Erik Wijmeersch (BEL)	21.04	Alexis Alexopoulos (GRE)	21.05	Torbjörn Eriksson (SWE)	21.07
400 metres details	Du'aine Ladejo (GBR)	46.12	Pierre-Marie Hilaire (FRA)	46.82	Ashraf Saber (ITA)	46.86
800 metres details	Roberto Parra (ESP)	1:47.74	Giuseppe D'Urso (ITA)	1:48.04	Wojciech Kałdowski (POL)	1:48.40
1500 metres details	Mateo Cañellas (ESP)	3:44.50	Anthony Whiteman (GBR)	3:44.78	Abdelkader Chékhémani (FRA)	3:45.96
3000 metres details	Anacleto Jiménez (ESP)	7:50.06	Christophe Impens (BEL)	7:50.19	Panagiotis Papoulias (GRE)	7:50.80
60 metres hurdles details	Igors Kazanovs (LAT)	7.59	Guntis Peders (LAT)	7.65	Jonathan Nsenga (BEL)	7.66
High jump details	Dragutin Topić (FR Yugoslavia)	2.35	Leonid Pumalainen (RUS)	2.33	Steinar Hoen (NOR)	2.31
Pole vault details	Dmitriy Markov (BLR)	5.85	Viktor Chistyakov (RUS)	5.80	Pyotr Bochkaryov (RUS)	5.80
Long jump details	Mattias Sunneborn (SWE)	8.06	Bogdan Tarus (ROM)	8.03	Spyridon Vasdekis (GRE)	8.03
Triple jump details	Māris Bružiks (LAT)	16.97	Francis Agyepong (GBR)	16.93	Armen Martirosyan (ARM)	16.74
Shot put details	Paolo Dal Soglio (ITA)	20.50	Dirk Urban (GER)	20.04	Oliver-Sven Buder (GER)	19.91
Heptathlon details	Erki Nool (EST)	6188	Tomáš Dvořák (CZE)	6114	Jón Arnar Magnússon (ISL)	6069

Women[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres details	Ekaterini Thanou (GRE)	7.15	Odiah Sidibé (FRA)	7.15	Jerneja Perc (SLO)	7.28
200 metres details	Sandra Myers (ESP)	23.15	Erika Suchovská (CZE)	23.16	Zlatka Georgieva (BUL)	23.40
400 metres details	Grit Breuer (GER)	50.81	Olga Kotlyarova (RUS)	51.70	Tatyana Chebykina (RUS)	51.71
800 metres details	Patricia Djaté (FRA)	2:01.71	Stella Jongmans (NED)	2:01.88	Svetlana Masterkova (RUS)	2:02.61
1500 metres details	Carla Sacramento (POR)	4:08.95	Yekaterina Podkopayeva (RUS)	4:09.65	Małgorzata Rydz (POL)	4:10.50
3000 metres details	Fernanda Ribeiro (POR)	8:39.48	Sara Wedlund (SWE)	8:50.32	Marta Domínguez (ESP)	8:53.34
60 metres hurdles details	Patricia Girard-Léno (FRA)	7.89	Brigita Bukovec (SLO)	7.90	Monique Tourret (FRA)	8.09
High jump details	Alina Astafei (GER)	1.98	Níki Bakogiánni (GRE)	1.96	Olga Bolşova (MDA)	1.94 NR
Pole vault details	Vala Flosadóttir (ISL)	4.16	Christine Adams (GER)	4.05	Gabriela Mihalcea (ROM)	4.05
Long jump details	Renata Nielsen (DEN)	6.76	Yelena Sinchukova (RUS)	6.75	Claudia Gerhardt (GER)	6.74
Triple jump details	Iva Prandzheva (BUL)	14.54	Šárka Kašpárková (CZE)	14.50	Ólga Vasdéki (GRE)	14.30
Shot put details	Astrid Kumbernuss (GER)	19.79	Irina Khudoroshkina (RUS)	19.07	Valentina Fedyushina (UKR)	18.90
Pentathlon details	Yelena Lebedenko (RUS)	4685	Urszula Włodarczyk (POL)	4597	Irina Vostrikova (RUS)	4545

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	4	2	2	8
2	Spain (ESP)	4	0	1	5
3	France (FRA)	2	2	2	6
4	Latvia (LAT)	2	1	0	3
5	Portugal (POR)	2	0	0	2
6	Russia (RUS)	1	6	4	11
7	Great Britain (GBR)	1	3	0	4
8	Greece (GRE)	1	2	3	6
9	Sweden (SWE)	1	1	2	4
10	Belgium (BEL)	1	1	1	3
	Italy (ITA)	1	1	1	3
12	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	0	1	2
	Iceland (ISL)	1	0	1	2
14	Belarus (BLR)	1	0	0	1
	Denmark (DEN)	1	0	0	1
	Estonia (EST)	1	0	0	1
	FR Yugoslavia (FR Yugoslavia)	1	0	0	1
18	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	3	0	3
19	Poland (POL)	0	1	2	3
20	Romania (ROM)	0	1	1	2
	Slovenia (SLO)	0	1	1	2
22	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	0	1
23	Armenia (ARM)	0	0	1	1
	Moldova (MDA)	0	0	1	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (26 nations)		26	26	26	78

Participating nations[]

References[]