1968 European Indoor Games
# 1968 European Indoor Games

The 1968 European Indoor Games were held between 9–10 March 1968 at Palacio de Deportes, Madrid, the capital of Spain.

The track used for the championships was 182 metres long.

## Medal summary

### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 50 metres details | Jobst Hirscht (FRG) | 5.72 | Bob Frith (GBR) | 5.78 | Günter Gollos (GDR) | 5.78 |
| 400 metres details | Andrzej Badeński (POL) | 47.09u CR | Aleksandr Bratchikov (URS) | 47.3 | Jan Balachowski (POL) | 47.3 |
| 800 metres details | Noel Carroll (IRL) | 1:56.66u | Alberto Estebán (ESP) | 1:57.7 | Sergey Kryuchok (URS) | 1:58.1 |
| 1500 metres details | John Whetton (GBR) | 3:50.99u | José María Morera (ESP) | 3:51.7 | Igor Potapchenko (URS) | 3:51.9 |
| 3000 metres details | Viktor Kudinskiy (URS) | 8:10.27u | Bernd Diessner (GDR) | 8:11.8 | Wolfgang Zur (FRG) | 8:11.8 |
| 50 metres hurdles details | Eddy Ottoz (ITA) | 6.57 | Günther Nickel (FRG) | 6.68 | Milan Kotík (TCH) | 6.73 |
| 4 × 364 metres relay details | Poland Waldemar Korycki Jan Balachowski Jan Werner Andrzej Badeński | 2:48.9 | West Germany Horst Daverkausen Peter Bernreuther Ingo Roper Martin Jellinghaus | 2:49.7 | Soviet Union Boris Savchuk Vasyl Anisimov Sergey Abalichin Aleksandr Bratchikov | 2:51.1 |
| Medley relay(1820 m) details | Soviet Union Aleksandr Lebedev Boris Savchuk Igor Potapchenko Sergey Kryuchok | 3:52.2 | Poland Marian Dudziak Waldemar Korycki Andrzej Badeński Edmund Borowski | 3:54.6 | Spain José Luis Sánchez Paraíso Ramon Magarinos Alfonso Gabernet José María Reina | 4:02.8 |
| 3 × 1000 metres relay details | Soviet Union Mikhail Zhelobovskiy Oleg Rayko Anatoliy Verlan | 7:13.6 | Spain Alberto Estebán Enrique Bondia Virgilio González | 7:23.6 | Czechoslovakia Pavel Hruška Ján Kasal Miroslav Jůza | 7:40.2 |
| High jump details | Valeriy Skvortsov (URS) | 2.17 =CR | Valentin Gavrilov (URS) | 2.17 =CR | Kenneth Lundmark (SWE) | 2.14 |
| Pole vault details | Wolfgang Nordwig (GDR) | 5.20 CR | Hennadiy Bleznitsov (URS) | 5.10 | Jörge Milack (GDR) | 5.00 |
| Long jump details | Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (URS) | 8.16 | Tõnu Lepik (URS) | 7.87 | Bernhard Stierle (FRG) | 7.59 |
| Triple jump details | Nikolay Dudkin (URS) | 16.71 CR | Viktor Sanyeyev (URS) | 16.69 | Luis Felipe Areta (ESP) | 16.47 |
| Shot put details | Heinfried Birlenbach (FRG) | 18.65 CR | Władysław Komar (POL) | 18.40 | Nikolay Karasyov (URS) | 18.35 |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 50 metres details | Sylviane Telliez (FRA) | 6.29 | Erika Rost (FRG) | 6.43 | Hannelore Trabert (FRG) | 6.46 |
| 400 metres details | Natalya Pechonkina (URS) | 55.29u CR | Gisela Köpke (FRG) | 56.2 | Tatyana Arnautova (URS) | 56.3 |
| 800 metres details | Karin Burneleit (GDR) | 2:07.65u CR | Alla Kolesnikova (URS) | 2:08.3 | Valentina Lukyanova (URS) | 2:09.4 |
| 50 metres hurdles details | Karin Balzer (GDR) | 7.08 | Bärbel Weidlich (GDR) | 7.12 | Liudmila Ievleva (URS) | 7.14 |
| 4 × 182 metres relay details | West Germany Renate Meyer Hannelore Trabert Christa Elsler Erika Rost | 1:28.8 | Only one finishing team | Only one finishing team | Only one finishing team | Only one finishing team |
| Medley relay(1820 m) details | Soviet Union Liliya Tkachenko Vera Popkova Nadezhda Syeropegina Anna Zimina | 4:28.4 | Czechoslovakia Eva Putnová Vlasta Seifertová Libuše Macounová Emilie Ovadková | 4:39.0 | Only two teams started | Only two teams started |
| High jump details | Rita Schmidt (GDR) | 1.84 CR | Virginia Bonci (ROM) | 1.76 | Antonina Okorokova (URS) | 1.76 |
| Long jump details | Berit Berthelsen (NOR) | 6.43 | Bärbel Löhnert (GDR) | 6.23 | Viorica Viscopoleanu (ROM) | 6.23 |
| Shot put details | 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 (URS) | 9 | 6 | 8 | 23 |
| 2 | East Germany (GDR) | 4 | 4 | 3 | 11 |
| 3 | West Germany (FRG) | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 |
| 4 | Poland (POL) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 5 | France (FRA) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Ireland (IRL) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Italy (ITA) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Norway (NOR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Spain (ESP) | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 10 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 11 | Romania (ROU) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 12 | Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (13 entries) | Totals (13 entries) | 22 | 22 | 21 | 65 |

## Participating nations

* Bulgaria (5)
* Czechoslovakia (16)
* Denmark (2)
* East Germany (15)
* France (12)
* Great Britain (7)
* Greece (2)
* Ireland (1)
* Italy (8)
* Norway (5)
* Poland (12)
* Portugal (3)
* Romania (6)
* Soviet Union (41)
* Spain (16)
* Sweden (7)
* Switzerland (6)
* Turkey (2)
* West Germany (28)
* Yugoslavia (11)
