1968 European Indoor Games
Dates	9–10 March 1968
Host city	Madrid Spain
Venue	Palacio de Deportes
Events	23
Participation	206 athletes from 20 nations
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The1968 European Indoor Games were held between 9–10 March 1968 atPalacio de Deportes,Madrid, the capital ofSpain.

The track used for the championships was 182 metres long.

Event	Gold		Silver		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)	47.09uCR	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)	5.20CR	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)	16.71CR	Viktor Sanyeyev (URS)	16.69	Luis Felipe Areta (ESP)	16.47
Shot put details	Heinfried Birlenbach (FRG)	18.65CR	Władysław Komar (POL)	18.40	Nikolay Karasyov (URS)	18.35

Event	Gold		Silver		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)	55.29uCR	Gisela Köpke (FRG)	56.2	Tatyana Arnautova (URS)	56.3
800 metres details	Karin Burneleit (GDR)	2:07.65uCR	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
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
High jump details	Rita Schmidt (GDR)	1.84CR	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)	18.18CR	Margitta Gummel (GDR)	17.62	Marita Lange (GDR)	17.19

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
	Ireland (IRL)	1	0	0	1
	Italy (ITA)	1	0	0	1
	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)		22	22	21	65

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

• 1968 European Indoor Games
• European Athletics Indoor Championships
• 1968 in the sport of athletics
• Sports competitions in Madrid
• International athletics competitions hosted by Spain
• 1968 in Spanish sport
• 1960s in Madrid
• March 1968 sports events in Europe

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