1969 European Indoor Games

The 4th European Indoor Games were held in 1969 in Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia (present-day Serbia). In 1970 the European Indoor Games were replaced by the European Athletics Indoor Championships.

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m	Zenon Nowosz (POL)	5.8	Valeriy Borzov (URS)	5.8	Bob Frith (GBR)	5.8
400 metres	Jan Balachowski (POL)	47.3	Jan Werner (POL)	47.4	Yuriy Zorin (URS)	47.4
800 metres	Dieter Fromm (GDR)	1:46.6 CR	Henryk Szordykowski (POL)	1:47.1	Noel Carroll (IRL)	1:47.6
1500 metres	Edgard Salvé (BEL)	3:45.9	Knut Brustad (NOR)	3:46.2	Walter Wilkinson (GBR)	3:46.4
3000 metres	Ian Stewart (GBR)	7:55.4 CR	Javier Álvarez (ESP)	7:56.2	Werner Girke (FRG)	7:56.8
50 m hurdles	Alan Pascoe (GBR)	6.6	Werner Trzmiel (FRG)	6.6	Nicolae Pertea (ROM)	6.7
4×390 m relay	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 (1950 m)	Poland Edward Romanowski Andrzej Badenski Henryk Szordykowski Jan Radomski	4:16.4	Only one finishing team
3×1000 m relay	West Germany Anton Adam Walter Adams Harald Norpoth	7:08.0	Czechoslovakia Jan Sisovsky Petr Blaha Pavel Penkava	7:23.1	Yugoslavia Radovan Piplovic Slavko Koprivica Adam Ladik	7:42.8
Pole vault	Wolfgang Nordwig (GDR)	5.20 =CR	Gennadiy Bliznetsov (URS)	5.10	Joachim Bär (GDR)	5.10
High jump	Valentin Gavrilov (URS)	2.14	Henry Elliott (FRA)	2.14	Serban Ioan (ROM)	2.14
Long jump	Klaus Beer (GDR)	7.77	Lynn Davies (GBR)	7.76	Rafael Blanquer (ESP)	7.63
Triple jump	Nikolay Dudkin (URS)	16.73 CR	Zoltán Cziffra (HUN)	16.46	Carol Corbu (ROM)	16.20
Shot put	Heinfried Birlenbach (FRG)	19.51 CR	Hartmut Briesenick (GDR)	19.19	Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg (GDR)	18.69

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 m	Irena Szewińska (POL)	6.4	Sylviane Telliez (FRA)	6.5	Madeleine Cobb (GBR)	6.5
400 metres	Colette Besson (FRA)	54.0 CR	Christel Frese (FRG)	54.8	Rosemary Stirling (GBR)	54.8
800 metres	Barbara Wieck (GDR)	2:05.3 CR	Magdolna Kulcsár (HUN)	2:07.5	Anna Zimina (URS)	2:08.0
50 m hurdles	Karin Balzer (GDR)	7.2	Meta Antenen (SUI)	7.3	Christine Perera (GBR)	7.4
4×195 m relay	France Odette Ducas Sylviane Telliez Colette Besson Christiane Martinetto	1:34.3	Soviet Union Galina Bucharina Vera Popkova Lyudmila Golomazova Lyudmila Samotyosova	1:34.6	Yugoslavia Darja Marolt Verica Ambrozi Ljiljana Petnjarić Marijana Lubej	1:36.9
Medley relay (1950 m)	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	Rita Schmidt (GDR)	1.82	Yordanka Blagoeva (BUL)	1.82	Antonina Lazareva (URS)	1.79
Long jump	Irena Szewińska (POL)	6.38	Sue Scott (GBR)	6.18	Meta Antenen (SUI)	6.15
Shot put	Marita Lange (GDR)	17.52	Ivanka Khristova (BUL)	16.94	Ingeburg Friedrich (GDR)	16.42

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Poland	6	3	0	9
2	East Germany	6	1	3	10
3	Soviet Union	4	4	3	11
4	United Kingdom	2	2	5	9
5	West Germany	2	2	2	6
6	France	2	2	0	4
7	Belgium	1	0	0	1
8	Bulgaria	0	2	0	2
	Hungary	0	2	0	2
10	Spain	0	1	1	2
	Switzerland	0	1	1	2
12	Czechoslovakia	0	1	0	1
	Norway	0	1	0	1
14	Romania	0	0	3	3
	Yugoslavia	0	0	3	3
16	Ireland	0	0	1	1

References

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