1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships
# 1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships

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 | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | 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 | Semyon Kocher 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 | Pyotr Anisim 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 | Eduard Pereverzev Soviet Union | 7.74 |
| 4 × 320 metres relay details | Klaus Ehl Franz-Peter Hofmeister Karl Honz Hermann Köhler West Germany | 2:29.9 | Wiesław Puchalski Roman Siedlecki Jerzy Włodarczyk Wojciech Romanowski Poland | 2:31.4 | Krassimir Gutev Narzis Popov Yordan Yordanov 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 | Valeriy Voykin Soviet Union | 19.44 |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | 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 | Sarmīte Štūla 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 Brigitte Koczelnik Silvia Hollmann Rita Wilden West Germany | 2:47.3 | Zofia Zwolińska 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 | Annemieke Bouma 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 |
| 7 | Finland (FIN) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | France (FRA) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 11 | Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | Netherlands (NED) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 14 | Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 14 | Switzerland (SUI) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (16 entries) | Totals (16 entries) | 21 | 21 | 21 | 63 |

## Participating nations

* Austria (1)
* Belgium (9)
* Bulgaria (19)
* Czechoslovakia (21)
* Denmark (2)
* East Germany (18)
* Finland (9)
* France (20)
* Great Britain (8)
* Greece (6)
* Hungary (5)
* Italy (7)
* Luxembourg (1)
* Netherlands (4)
* Norway (3)
* Poland (40)
* Romania (8)
* Soviet Union (43)
* Spain (7)
* Sweden (6)
* Switzerland (3)
* Turkey (4)
* West Germany (25)
* Yugoslavia (1)
