1976 European Athletics Indoor Championships
# 1976 European Athletics Indoor Championships

The 1976 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held at Olympiahalle in Munich, West Germany, in February 1976. The track used at this edition was 179 metres long.

## Medal summary

### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 60 metres details | Valeriy Borzov (URS) | 6.58 =CR | Vassilios Papageorgopoulos (GRE) | 6.67 | Petar Petrov (BUL) | 6.68 |
| 400 metres details | Yanko Bratanov (BUL) | 47.79 | Hermann Köhler (FRG) | 48.19 | Grzegorz Mądry (POL) | 48.46 |
| 800 metres details | Ivo Van Damme (BEL) | 1:49.2a | Josef Schmid (FRG) | 1:49.8a | Milovan Savić (YUG) | 1:49.9a |
| 1500 metres details | Paul-Heinz Wellmann (FRG) | 3:45.1a | Thomas Wessinghage (FRG) | 3:45.3a | Gheorghe Ghipu (ROM) | 3:46.1a |
| 3000 metres details | Ingo Sensburg (FRG) | 8:01.6a | Józef Ziubrak (POL) | 8:02.0a | Ray Smedley (GBR) | 8:02.2a |
| 60 metres hurdles details | Viktor Myasnikov (URS) | 7.78 | Berwyn Price (GBR) | 7.80 | Zbigniew Jankowski (POL) | 7.92 |
| High jump details | Sergey Senyukov (URS) | 2.22 | Jacques Aletti (FRA) | 2.19 | Walter Boller (FRG) | 2.19 |
| Pole vault details | Yuriy Prokhorenko (URS) | 5.45 CR | Antti Kalliomäki (FIN) | 5.40 | Renato Dionisi (ITA) | 5.30 |
| Long jump details | Jacques Rousseau (FRA) | 7.90 | Valeriy Podluzhniy (URS) | 7.79 | Joachim Busse (FRG) | 7.72 |
| Triple jump details | Viktor Sanyeyev (URS) | 17.10 CR | Carol Corbu (ROM) | 16.75 | Bernard Lamitié (FRA) | 16.68 |
| Shot put details | Geoff Capes (GBR) | 20.64 | Gerd Lochmann (GDR) | 20.29 | Aleksandr Baryshnikov (URS) | 20.02 |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 60 metres details | Linda Haglund (SWE) | 7.24 | Sonia Lannaman (GBR) | 7.25 | Elvira Possekel (FRG) | 7.28 |
| 400 metres details | Rita Wilden (FRG) | 52.26 WR | Jelica Pavličić (YUG) | 52.47 | Inta Kļimoviča (URS) | 52.80 |
| 800 metres details | Nikolina Shtereva (BUL) | 2:02.2a CR | Lilyana Tomova (BUL) | 2:02.6a | Gisela Klein (FRG) | 2:03.2a |
| 1500 metres details | Brigitte Kraus (FRG) | 4:15.2a | Natalia Mărășescu (ROM) | 4:15.6a | Rositsa Pekhlivanova (BUL) | 4:15.8a |
| 60 metres hurdles details | Grażyna Rabsztyn (POL) | 7.96 CR | Natalya Lebedeva (URS) | 8.08 | Bożena Nowakowska (POL) | 8.14 |
| High jump details | Rosemarie Ackermann (GDR) | 1.92 =CR | Ulrike Meyfarth (FRG) | 1.89 | Milada Karbanová (TCH) | 1.89 |
| Long jump details | Lidiya Alfeyeva (URS) | 6.64 | Jarmila Nygrýnová (TCH) | 6.57 | Galina Gopchenko (URS) | 6.48 |
| Shot put details | Ivanka Khristova (BUL) | 20.45 | Svetlana Krachevskaya (URS) | 20.06 | Ilona Schoknecht (GDR) | 19.36 |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Soviet Union (URS) | 6 | 3 | 3 | 12 |
| 2 | West Germany (FRG) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |
| 3 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 4 | Great Britain (GBR) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | Poland (POL) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 6 | East Germany (GDR) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | France (FRA) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | Belgium (BEL) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Sweden (SWE) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Romania (ROU) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 11 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 11 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 13 | Finland (FIN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Greece (GRE) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | Italy (ITA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (15 entries) | Totals (15 entries) | 19 | 19 | 19 | 57 |

## Participating nations

* Austria (3)
* Belgium (7)
* Bulgaria (17)
* Czechoslovakia (14)
* Denmark (1)
* East Germany (8)
* Finland (6)
* France (22)
* Great Britain (7)
* Greece (10)
* Hungary (6)
* Iceland (1)
* Italy (4)
* Liechtenstein (2)
* Netherlands (3)
* Norway (1)
* Poland (25)
* Portugal (1)
* Romania (8)
* Soviet Union (28)
* Spain (6)
* Sweden (9)
* Switzerland (3)
* West Germany (30)
* Yugoslavia (4)
