1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships

1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships
1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships
Dates	14–15 March 1970
Host city	Vienna; Austria
Venue	Wiener Stadthalle
Events	23
Participation	281 athletes from ; 24 nations
Records set	1 =WB, 6 WB
	← 1969 Belgrade 1971 Sofia →

The 1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held in 1970 at Wiener Stadthalle, Vienna, the capital of Austria, between 14–15 March 1970. It replaced the European Indoor Games, an indoor athletics competition which had been held since 1966.

Medals

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres details	Valeriy Borzov (URS)	6.6 =WB	Zenon Nowosz (POL)	6.7	Jarkko Tapola (FIN)	6.7
400 metres details	Aleksandr Bratchikov (URS)	46.8	Andrzej Badeński (POL)	46.9	Yuriy Zorin (URS)	48.4
800 metres details	Yevgeniy Arzhanov (URS)	1:51.0	Juan Borroz (ESP)	1:51.9	Jože Međimurec (YUG)	1:51.9
1500 metres details	Henryk Szordykowski (POL)	3:48.8	Frank Murphy (IRL)	3:49.0	Volodymyr Panteley (URS)	3:49.8
3000 metres details	Ricky Wilde (GBR)	7:46.85 WB	Harald Norpoth (FRG)	7:49.50	Javier Álvarez (ESP)	7:52.45
60 metres hurdles details	Günther Nickel (FRG)	7.8a	Frank Siebeck (GDR)	7.8a	Guy Drut (FRA)	7.8a
4 × 400 metres relay details	Soviet Union Yevgeniy Borisenko Yuriy Zorin Boris Savchuk Aleksandr Bratchikov	3:05.9	Poland Jan Werner Stanisław Grędziński Jan Balachowski Andrzej Badeński	3:07.5	West Germany Dieter Hübner Karl-Hermann Tofaute Ulrich Strohhacker Helmar Müller	3:10.7
Medley relay details (2800 m)	Soviet Union Aleksander Konnikov Sergey Kryuchek Vladimir Kolesnikov Ivan Ivanov	6:18.0	Poland Edmund Borowski Stanisław Waśkiewicz Kazimierz Wardak Eryk Żelazny	6:18.8	West Germany Horst Hasslinger Lothar Hirsch Manfred Henne Ingo Sensburg	6:19.6
High jump details	Valentin Gavrilov (URS)	2.20	Gerd Dührkop (GDR)	2.17	Șerban Ioan (ROM)	2.17
Pole vault details	François Tracanelli (FRA)	5.30	Kjell Isaksson (SWE)	5.25	Wolfgang Nordwig (GDR)	5.20
Long jump details	Tõnu Lepik (URS)	8.05	Klaus Beer (GDR)	7.99	Rafael Blanquer (ESP)	7.92
Triple jump details	Viktor Sanyeyev (URS)	16.95 WB	Jörg Drehmel (GDR)	16.74	Șerban Ciochină (ROM)	16.47
Shot put details	Hartmut Briesenick (GDR)	20.22	Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg (GDR)	19.70	Pierre Colnard (FRA)	18.96

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres details	Renate Meissner (GDR)	7.4	Sylviane Telliez (FRA)	7.5	Wilma van den Berg (NED)	7.5
400 metres details	Marilyn Neufville (GBR)	53.01 WB	Christel Frese (FRG)	53.13	Colette Besson (FRA)	53.63
800 metres details	Maria Sykora (AUT)	2:07.0	Lyudmila Bragina (URS)	2:07.5	Zofia Kołakowska (POL)	2:07.6
60 metres hurdles details	Karin Balzer (GDR)	8.2 WB	Liya Khitrina (URS)	8.2 WB	Teresa Sukniewicz (POL)	8.5
4 × 200 metres relay details	Soviet Union Nadezhda Besfamilnaya Vera Popkova Galina Bukharina Lyudmila Samotyosova	1:35.7	West Germany Elfgard Schittenhelm Annelie Wilden Marianne Bolling Annegret Kroniger	1:37.6	Austria Maria Sykora Brigitte Ortner Christa Kepplinger Hanni Burger	1:40.8
Medley relay details (2000 m)	France Sylviane Telliez Mireille Testanière Colette Besson Nicole Duclos	4:58.4	West Germany Elfgard Schittenhelm Heidi Gerhard Christa Merten Jutta Haase	5:01.1	Soviet Union Lyudmila Golomazova Olga Klein Nadezhda Kolesnikova Svetlana Moshchenok	5:02.2
High jump details	Ilona Gusenbauer (AUT)	1.88 WB	Cornelia Popescu (ROM)	1.82	Rita Schmidt (GDR)	1.82
Long jump details	Viorica Viscopoleanu (ROM)	6.56	Heide Rosendahl (FRG)	6.55	Mirosława Sarna (POL)	6.54
Shot put details	Nadezhda Chizhova (URS)	18.80 WB	Hannelore Friedel (GDR)	18.39	Marita Lange (GDR)	18.09

Table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	10	2	3	15
2	East Germany (GDR)	3	6	3	12
3	France (FRA)	2	1	3	6
4	Austria (AUT)	2	0	1	3
5	Great Britain (GBR)	2	0	0	2
6	West Germany (FRG)	1	5	2	8
7	Poland (POL)	1	4	3	8
8	Romania (ROU)	1	1	2	4
9	Spain (ESP)	0	1	2	3
10	Ireland (IRL)	0	1	0	1
10	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
12	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		22	22	22	66