1968 European Indoor Games

The 3rd European Indoor Games were held in 1968 at Palacio de Deportes, Madrid, the capital of Spain.

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m	Jobst Hirscht (FRG)	5.77u	Bob Frith (GBR)	5.83u	Günter Gollos (GDR)	5.83u
400 metres	Andrzej Badeński (POL)	47.09u CR	Aleksandr Bratchikov (URS)	47.3	Jan Balachowski (POL)	47.3
800 metres	Noel Carroll (IRL)	1:56.66u	Alberto Estebán (ESP)	1:57.7	Sergey Kryuchok (URS)	1:58.1
1500 metres	John Whetton (GBR)	3:50.99u	José María Morera (ESP)	3:51.7	Igor Potapchenko (URS)	3:51.9
3000 metres	Viktor Kudinskiy (URS)	8:10.27u	Bernd Diessner (GDR)	8:11.8	Wolfgang Zur (FRG)	8:11.8
50 m hurdles	Eddy Ottoz (ITA)	6.57u	Günther Nickel (FRG)	6.68u	Milan Kotík (TCH)	6.73u
4×364 m relay	Poland Waldemar Korycki Jan Balachowski Jan Werner Andrzej Badenski	2:48.9	West Germany Horst Daverkausen Peter Bernreuther Ingo Roper Martin Jellinghaus	2:49.7	Soviet Union Boris Savchuk Vassiliy Anisimov Sergey Abalichin Aleksandr Bratchikov	2:51.1
Medley relay (1820 m)	Soviet Union Alexander Lebedyev Boris Savchuk Igor Potapchenko Sergey Kryuchek	3:52.2	Poland Marian Dudziak Waldemar Korycki Andrzej Badeński Edmund Borowski	3:54.6	Spain José Luis Sánchez-Paraiso Ramon Magarinos Alfonso Gabernet José María Reina	4:02.8
3×1000 m relay	Soviet Union Michail Shelobovskiy Oleg Rayko Anatoliy Verlan	7:13.6	Spain Alberto Esteban Enrique Bondia Virgilio González	7:23.6	Czechoslovakia Pavel Hruska Ján Kasal Miroslav Juza	7:40.2
Pole vault	Wolfgang Nordwig (GDR)	5.20 CR	Gennadiy Bliznetsov (URS)	5.10	Jörge Milack (GDR)	5.00
High jump	Valeriy Skvortsov (URS)	2.17 =CR	Valentin Gavrilov (URS)	2.17 =CR	Kenneth Lundmark (SWE)	2.14
Long jump	Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (URS)	8.16	Tõnu Lepik (URS)	7.87	Bernhard Stierle (FRG)	7.59
Triple jump	Nikolay Dudkin (URS)	16.71 CR	Viktor Sanyeyev (URS)	16.69	Luis Felipe Areta (ESP)	16.47
Shot put	Heinfried Birlenbach (FRG)	18.65 CR	Władysław Komar (POL)	18.40	Nikolay Karasyov (URS)	18.35

Women

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

References

• Results - men at GBRathletics.com
• Results - women at GBRathletics.com