1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships

The 3rd European Athletics Indoor Championships were held in 1972 in Grenoble, a city in France.

Medal summary

Men

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

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 metres	Renate Stecher (GDR)	6.25	Annegret Richter (FRG)	6.28	Sylviane Telliez (FRA)	6.31
400 metres	Christel Frese (FRG)	53.36	Inge Bödding (FRG)	54.60	Erika Weinstein (FRG)	54.73
800 metres	Gunhild Hoffmeister (GDR)	2:04.83 CR	Ileana Silai (ROM)	2:05.17	Svetla Zlateva (BUL)	2:05.50
1500 metres	Tamara Pangelova (URS)	4:14.62 CR	Lyudmila Bragina (URS)	4:18.35	Vasilena Amzina (BUL)	4:18.84
50 m hurdles	Annelie Ehrhardt (GDR)	6.85	Teresa Sukniewicz (POL)	6.94	Grażyna Rabsztyn (POL)	7.05
4×180 m relay	West Germany Elfgard Schittenhelm Christine Tackenberg Annegret Kroniger Rita Wilden	1:24.1a	France Michèle Beugnet Christiane Marlet Claudine Meire Nicole Pani	1:37.6a	Austria Christa Kepplinger María Sykora Carmen Mahr Monika Holzschuster	1:29.5a
4×360 m relay	West Germany Rita Wilden Erika Weinstein Christel Frese Inge Bödding	3:10.85	Soviet Union Natalya Chistyakova Lyudmila Aksyonova Lyubov Savyalova Nadezhda Kolesnikova	3:11.20	France Madeleine Thomas Bernadette Martin Nicole Duclos Colette Besson	3:11.65
High jump	Rita Schmidt (GDR)	1.90	Rita Gildemeister (GDR)	1.84	Yordanka Blagoeva (BUL)	1.84
Long jump	Brigitte Roesen (FRG)	6.58	Meta Antenen (SUI)	6.42	Jarmila Nygrýnová (TCH)	6.39
Shot put	Nadezhda Chizhova (URS)	19.41	Antonina Ivanova (URS)	18.54	Marianne Adam (GDR)	18.30

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany	7	1	2	10
2	West Germany	6	6	3	15
3	Soviet Union	5	8	3	16
4	France	2	1	4	7
5	Poland	1	2	2	5
6	Czechoslovakia	1	0	3	4
7	Hungary	1	0	0	1
8	Romania	0	2	0	2
9	Greece	0	1	1	2
10	Sweden	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland	0	1	0	1
12	Bulgaria	0	0	3	3
13	Austria	0	0	1	1
	Finland	0	0	1	1

References

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

External links

• EAA