1968 European Indoor Games
The 3rd European Indoor Games were held in 1968 at Palacio de Deportes, Madrid, the capital of Spain.
Medal summary
Men
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50 m |  Jobst Hirscht (FRG) | 5.77u |  Bob Frith (GBR) | 5.83u |  Günter Gollos (GDR) | 5.83u |
| 400 metres |  Andrzej Badeński (POL) | 47.09u CR |  Aleksandr Bratchikov (URS) | 47.3 | Jan Balachowski (POL) | 47.3 |
| 800 metres |  Noel Carroll (IRL) | 1:56.66u |  Alberto Estebán (ESP) | 1:57.7 | Sergey Kryuchok (URS) | 1:58.1 |
| 1500 metres | John Whetton (GBR) | 3:50.99u | José María Morera (ESP) | 3:51.7 | Igor Potapchenko (URS) | 3:51.9 |
| 3000 metres | Viktor Kudinskiy (URS) | 8:10.27u | Bernd Diessner (GDR) | 8:11.8 | Wolfgang Zur (FRG) | 8:11.8 |
| 50 m hurdles |  Eddy Ottoz (ITA) | 6.57u | Günther Nickel (FRG) | 6.68u |  Milan Kotík (TCH) | 6.73u |
| 4×364 m relay | Poland Waldemar Korycki Jan Balachowski Jan Werner Andrzej Badenski | 2:48.9 | West Germany Horst Daverkausen Peter Bernreuther Ingo Roper Martin Jellinghaus | 2:49.7 | Soviet Union Boris Savchuk Vassiliy Anisimov Sergey Abalichin Aleksandr Bratchikov | 2:51.1 |
| Medley relay (1820 m) |
Soviet Union Alexander Lebedyev Boris Savchuk Igor Potapchenko Sergey Kryuchek | 3:52.2 | Poland Marian Dudziak Waldemar Korycki Andrzej Badeński Edmund Borowski | 3:54.6 | Spain José Luis Sánchez-Paraiso Ramon Magarinos Alfonso Gabernet José María Reina | 4:02.8 |
| 3×1000 m relay | Soviet Union Michail Shelobovskiy Oleg Rayko Anatoliy Verlan | 7:13.6 | Spain Alberto Esteban Enrique Bondia Virgilio González | 7:23.6 | Czechoslovakia Pavel Hruska Ján Kasal Miroslav Juza | 7:40.2 |
| Pole vault | Wolfgang Nordwig (GDR) | 5.20 CR | Gennadiy Bliznetsov (URS) | 5.10 | Jörge Milack (GDR) | 5.00 |
| High jump | Valeriy Skvortsov (URS) | 2.17 =CR | Valentin Gavrilov (URS) | 2.17 =CR |  Kenneth Lundmark (SWE) | 2.14 |
| Long jump | Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (URS) | 8.16 | Tõnu Lepik (URS) | 7.87 | Bernhard Stierle (FRG) | 7.59 |
| Triple jump | Nikolay Dudkin (URS) | 16.71 CR | Viktor Sanyeyev (URS) | 16.69 | Luis Felipe Areta (ESP) | 16.47 |
| Shot put | Heinfried Birlenbach (FRG) | 18.65 CR | Władysław Komar (POL) | 18.40 | Nikolay Karasyov (URS) | 18.35 |
Women
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50 m |  Sylviane Telliez (FRA) | 6.29u | Erika Rost (FRG) | 6.43u | Hannelore Trabert (FRG) | 6.46u |
| 400 metres | Natalya Pechonkina (URS) | 55.29u CR | Gisela Köpke (FRG) | 56.2 | Tatyana Arnautova (URS) | 56.3 |
| 800 metres | Karin Burneleit (GDR) | 2:07.65u CR | Alla Kolesnikova (URS) | 2:08.3 | Valentina Lukyanova (URS) | 2:09.4 |
| 50 m hurdles | Karin Balzer (GDR) | 7.08u | Bärbel Weidlich (GDR) | 7.12u | Lyudmila Iyevleva (URS) | 7.14u |
| 4×182 m relay | West Germany Renate Meyer Hannelore Trabert Christa Elsler Erika Rost | 1:28.8 | Only one finishing team | |||
| Medley relay (1820 m) |
Soviet Union Liliya Tkachenko Vera Popkova Nadeshda Syeropegina Anna Zimina | 4:28.4 | Czechoslovakia Eva Putnová Vlasta Seifertová Libuše Macounová Emilie Ovadková | 4:39.0 | Only two teams started | |
| High jump | Rita Schmidt (GDR) | 1.84 CR |  Virginia Bonci (ROM) | 1.76 | Antonina Okorokova (URS) | 1.76 |
| Long jump |  Berit Berthelsen (NOR) | 6.43 | Bärbel Löhnert (GDR) | 6.23 | Viorica Viscopoleanu (ROM) | 6.23 |
| Shot put | 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 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 23 |
| 2 | East Germany | 4 | 4 | 3 | 11 |
| 3 | West Germany | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 |
| 4 | Poland | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 5 | France | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Ireland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Italy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Norway | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 9 | .svg.png){kind=small} Spain | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 10 | Czechoslovakia | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 11 | .svg.png){kind=small} Romania | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 12 | United Kingdom | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Sweden | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
References
- Results - men at GBRathletics.com
- Results - women at GBRathletics.com
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