1969 European Indoor Games

The 1969 European Indoor Games were held between 8–9 March 1969 in Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia (present-day Serbia). In 1970 the European Indoor Games were replaced by the European Athletics Indoor Championships.

1969 European Indoor Games
Dates	8–9 March 1969
Host city	Belgrade Yugoslavia
Venue	Belgrade Fair – Hall 1
Events	23
Participation	220 athletes from 22 nations
← 1968 Madrid 1970 Vienna →

The track used for the championships was 195 metres long.

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 metres details	Zenon Nowosz (POL)	5.8	Valeriy Borzov (URS)	5.8	Bob Frith (GBR)	5.8
400 metres details	Jan Balachowski (POL)	47.3	Jan Werner (POL)	47.4	Yuriy Zorin (URS)	47.4
800 metres details	Dieter Fromm (GDR)	1:46.6 CR	Henryk Szordykowski (POL)	1:47.1	Noel Carroll (IRL)	1:47.6
1500 metres details	Edgard Salvé (BEL)	3:45.9	Knut Brustad (NOR)	3:46.2	Walter Wilkinson (GBR)	3:46.4
3000 metres details	Ian Stewart (GBR)	7:55.4 CR	Javier Álvarez (ESP)	7:56.2	Werner Girke (FRG)	7:56.8
50 metres hurdles details	Alan Pascoe (GBR)	6.6	Werner Trzmiel (FRG)	6.6	Nicolae Pertea (ROM)	6.7
4 × 390 metres relay details	Poland Jan Werner Jan Radomski Andrzej Badeński Jan Balachowski	3:01.9	Soviet Union Leonid Mikishev Aleksandr Bratchikov Valeriy Borzov Yuriy Zorin	3:01.9	West Germany Dieter Hübner Herbert Moser Peter Bernreuther Manfred Kinder	3:04.5
Medley relay details	Poland Edward Romanowski Andrzej Badeński Henryk Szordykowski Jan Radomski	4:16.4	Only one finishing team
3 × 1000 metres relay details	West Germany Anton Adam Walter Adams Harald Norpoth	7:08.0	Czechoslovakia Ján Šišovský Petr Blaha Pavel Pěnkava	7:23.1	Yugoslavia Radovan Piplović Slavko Koprivica Adam Ladik	7:42.8
High jump details	Valentin Gavrilov (URS)	2.14	Henry Elliott (FRA)	2.14	Șerban Ioan (ROM)	2.14
Pole vault details	Wolfgang Nordwig (GDR)	5.20 =CR	Hennadiy Bleznitsov (URS)	5.10	Joachim Bär (GDR)	5.10
Long jump details	Klaus Beer (GDR)	7.77	Lynn Davies (GBR)	7.76	Rafael Blanquer (ESP)	7.63
Triple jump details	Nikolay Dudkin (URS)	16.73 CR	Zoltán Cziffra (HUN)	16.46	Carol Corbu (ROM)	16.20
Shot put details	Heinfried Birlenbach (FRG)	19.51 CR	Hartmut Briesenick (GDR)	19.19	Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg (GDR)	18.69

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 metres details	Irena Szewińska (POL)	6.4	Sylviane Telliez (FRA)	6.5	Madeleine Cobb (GBR)	6.5
400 metres details	Colette Besson (FRA)	54.0 CR	Christel Frese (FRG)	54.8	Rosemary Stirling (GBR)	54.8
800 metres details	Barbara Wieck (GDR)	2:05.3 CR	Magdolna Kulcsár (HUN)	2:07.5	Anna Zimina (URS)	2:08.0
50 metres hurdles details	Karin Balzer (GDR)	7.2	Meta Antenen (SUI)	7.3	Christine Perera (GBR)	7.4
4 × 195 metres relay details	France Odette Ducas Sylviane Telliez Colette Besson Christiane Martinetto	1:34.3	Soviet Union Galina Bukharina Vera Popkova Lyudmila Golomazova Lyudmila Samotyosova	1:34.6	Yugoslavia Darja Marolt Verica Ambrozi Ljiljana Petnjarić Marijana Lubej	1:36.9
Medley relay details	Soviet Union Vera Popkova Lyudmila Samotyosova Raisa Nikonorova Anna Zimina	4:52.4	Poland Irena Szewińska Zdzisława Robaszewska Elżbieta Skowrońska Zofia Kołakowska	4:53.2	Yugoslavia Verica Ambrozi Ika Maričić Mirjana Kovačev Ninoslava Tikvicki	5:05.9
High jump details	Rita Schmidt (GDR)	1.82	Yordanka Blagoeva (BUL)	1.82	Antonina Lazareva (URS)	1.79
Long jump details	Irena Szewińska (POL)	6.38	Sue Scott (GBR)	6.18	Meta Antenen (SUI)	6.15
Shot put details	Marita Lange (GDR)	17.52	Ivanka Khristova (BUL)	16.94	Ingeburg Friedrich (GDR)	16.42

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (GDR)	7	1	3	11
2	Poland (POL)	6	3	0	9
3	Soviet Union (URS)	3	4	3	10
4	Great Britain (GBR)	2	2	5	9
5	West Germany (FRG)	2	2	2	6
6	France (FRA)	2	2	0	4
7	Belgium (BEL)	1	0	0	1
8	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	2	0	2
	Hungary (HUN)	0	2	0	2
10	Spain (ESP)	0	1	1	2
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	1	2
12	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	1	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	1	0	1
14	Romania (ROU)	0	0	3	3
	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	0	3	3
16	Ireland (IRL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		23	22	22	67

Participating nations

•  Austria (5)
•  Belgium (3)
•  Bulgaria (9)
•  Czechoslovakia (15)
•  Denmark (2)
•  East Germany (14)
•  Finland (2)
•  France (13)
•  Great Britain (14)
•  Hungary (13)
•  Ireland (1)
•  Italy (5)
•  Norway (2)
•  Poland (21)
•  Romania (9)
•  Soviet Union (21)
•  Spain (6)
•  Sweden (7)
•  Switzerland (5)
•  Turkey (2)
•  West Germany (22)
•  Yugoslavia (29)

References

• Results
• Medallists – men at GBRathletics.com
• Medallists – women at GBRathletics.com