1980 European Athletics Indoor Championships

1980 European Athletics Indoor Championships
Dates	1–2 March 1980
Host city	Sindelfingen West Germany
Venue	Glaspalast
Events	19
Participation	234 athletes from 26 nations
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The 1980 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held in Sindelfingen, a city in West Germany, on 1 and 2 March 1980. The championships were boycotted by East Germany. The middle-distance races were hand-timed.

The host nation topped the medal table with 12 medals, including 5 golds, followed closely by Poland and the Soviet Union.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres details	Marian Woronin (POL)	6.62	Christian Haas (FRG)	6.62	Aleksandr Aksinin (URS)	6.63
400 metres details	Nikolay Chernetskiy (URS)	46.29	Karel Kolář (TCH)	46.55	Remigijus Valiulis (URS)	46.75
800 metres details	Roger Milhau (FRA)	1:50.2a	András Paróczai (HUN)	1:50.3a	Herbert Wursthorn (FRG)	1:50.4a
1500 metres details	Thomas Wessinghage (FRG)	3:37.6a CR	Ray Flynn (IRL)	3:38.5a	Pierre Délèze (SUI)	3:38.9a
3000 metres details	Karl Fleschen (FRG)	7:57.5a	Klaas Lok (NED)	7:57.9a	Hans-Jürgen Orthmann (FRG)	7:59.9a
60 metres hurdles details	Yuriy Chervanyov (URS)	7.54 CR	Romuald Giegiel (POL)	7.73	Javier Moracho (ESP)	7.75
High jump details	Dietmar Mögenburg (FRG)	2.31	Jacek Wszoła (POL)	2.29	Adrian Proteasa (ROM)	2.29
Pole vault details	Konstantin Volkov (URS)	5.60 CR	Vladimir Polyakov (URS)	5.60	Patrick Abada (FRA)	5.55
Long jump details	Winfried Klepsch (FRG)	7.98	Nenad Stekić (YUG)	7.91	Stanisław Jaskułka (POL)	7.85
Triple jump details	Béla Bakosi (HUN)	16.86	Jaak Uudmäe (URS)	16.51	Gennadiy Kovtunov (URS)	16.45
Shot put details	Zlatan Saracevic (YUG)	20.43	Jaromír Vlk (TCH)	20.19	Ivan Ivančić (YUG)	19.48

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres details	Sofka Popova (BUL)	7.11	Linda Haglund (SWE)	7.14	Lyudmila Kondratyeva (URS)	7.15
400 metres details	Elke Decker (FRG)	52.28	Karoline Käfer (AUT)	52.70	Tatyana Goyshchik (URS)	52.71
800 metres details	Jolanta Januchta (POL)	2:00.6a CR	Anne-Marie Van Nuffel (BEL)	2:00.9a	Liz Barnes (GBR)	2:01.5a
1500 metres details	Tamara Koba (URS)	4:12.5a	Anna Bukis (POL)	4:13.1a	Mary Purcell (IRL)	4:14.2a
60 metres hurdles details	Zofia Bielczyk (POL)	7.77 WR	Grażyna Rabsztyn (POL)	7.89	Natalya Lebedeva (URS)	8.04
High jump details	Sara Simeoni (ITA)	1.95 CR	Andrea Mátay (HUN)	1.93	Urszula Kielan (POL)	1.93
Long jump details	Anna Włodarczyk (POL)	6.74 CR	Anke Weigt (FRG)	6.68	Sabine Everts (FRG)	6.54
Shot put details	Helena Fibingerová (TCH)	19.92	Eva Wilms (FRG)	19.66	Beatrix Philipp (FRG)	17.59

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	West Germany (FRG)	5	3	4	12
2	Poland (POL)	4	4	2	10
3	Soviet Union (URS)	4	2	6	12
4	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	2	0	3
	Hungary (HUN)	1	2	0	3
6	Yugoslavia (YUG)	1	1	1	3
7	France (FRA)	1	0	1	2
8	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	0	0	1
	Italy (ITA)	1	0	0	1
10	Ireland (IRL)	0	1	1	2
11	Austria (AUT)	0	1	0	1
	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
15	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	Romania (ROU)	0	0	1	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (18 entries)		19	19	19	57

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