1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships

The 4th European Athletics Indoor Championships were held in 1973 in Rotterdam, a city in the Netherlands.

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres	Zenon Nowosz (POL)	6.64	Manfred Kokot (GDR)	6.66	Raimo Vilén (FIN)	6.71
400 metres	Luciano Sušanj (YUG)	46.38 CR	Benno Stops (GDR)	47.31	Dariusz Podobas (POL)	47.40
800 metres	Francis Gonzalez (FRA)	1:49.17	Gerhard Stolle (GDR)	1:49.32	Jozef Plachý (TCH)	1:49.50
1500 metres	Henryk Szordykowski (POL)	3:43.01	Herman Mignon (BEL)	3:43.16	Klaus-Peter Justus (GDR)	3:43.36
3000 metres	Emiel Puttemans (BEL)	7:44.51 CR	Willy Polleunis (BEL)	7:51.86	Pekka Päivärinta (FIN)	7:52.97 NR
60 metres hurdles	Frank Siebeck (GDR)	7.71 CR	Adam Galant (POL)	7.76	Thomas Munkelt (GDR)	7.81
4×360 m relay	France Lucien Sainte Rose Patrick Salvador Francis Kerbiriou Lionel Malingre	2:46.00	West Germany Falko Geiger Karl Honz Ulrich Reich Hermann Köhler	2:46.42	Only two starting teams
4×720 m relay	West Germany Reinhold Soyka Josef Schmid Thomas Wessinghage Paul-Heinz Wellmann	6:21.58	Czechoslovakia Ivan Kovac Józef Samborsky Jozef Plachý Ján Sisovsky	6:21.60	Poland Krzysztof Linkowski Leslaw Zajac Czeslaw Jursza Henryk Sapko	6:26.95
Pole vault	Renato Dionisi (ITA)	5.40 =CR	Hans-Jürgen Ziegler (FRG)	5.35	Jean-Michel Bellot (FRA)	5.30
High jump	István Major (HUN)	2.20	Jiří Palkovský (TCH)	2.20	Vassilios Papadimitriou (GRE)	2.17
Long jump	Hans Baumgartner (FRG)	7.85	Max Klauss (GDR)	7.83	Grzegorz Cybulski (POL)	7.81
Triple jump	Carol Corbu (ROM)	16.80	Michał Joachimowski (POL)	16.75	Mikhail Bariban (URS)	16.38
Shot put	Jaroslav Brabec (TCH)	20.29	Gerd Lochmann (GDR)	20.12	Jaromír Vlk (TCH)	19.68

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres	Annegret Richter (FRG)	7.27 CR	Petra Vogt (GDR)	7.29	Sylviane Telliez (FRA)	7.32
400 metres	Verona Bernard (GBR)	53.04	Waltraud Dietsch (GDR)	53.35	Renate Siebach (GDR)	53.49
800 metres	Stefka Yordanova (BUL)	2:02.65 CR	Elfi Rost (GDR)	2:02.83	Elżbieta Skowrońska (POL)	2:02.90
1500 metres	Ellen Tittel (FRG)	4:16.17	Tonka Petrova (BUL)	4:17.20	Iris Claus (GDR)	4:21.49
60 metres hurdles	Annelie Ehrhardt (GDR)	8.02	Valeria Bufanu (ROM)	8.16	Teresa Nowak (POL)	8.23
4×180 m relay	West Germany Christiane Krause Annegret Richter Ingeborg Helten Rita Wilden	1:21.15	Austria Brigitte Haest Christa Kepplinger Carmen Mahr Karoline Käfer	1:23.33	Only two starting teams
4×360 m relay	West Germany Dagmar Jost Erika Weinstein Annelie Wilden Gisela Ellenberger	3:10.85	France Colette Besson Chantal Jouvhomme Chantal Leclerc Nicole Duclos	3:11.20	Poland Danuta Manowiecka Marta Skrzypinska Krystyna Kacperczyk Danuta Piecyk	3:11.65
High jump	Yordanka Blagoeva (BUL)	1.92 =CR	Rita Gildemeister (GDR)	1.86	Milada Karbanová (TCH)	1.86
Long jump	Diana Yorgova (BUL)	6.45	Jarmila Nygrýnová (TCH)	6.30	Mirosława Sarna (POL)	6.15
Shot put	Helena Fibingerová (TCH)	19.08	Ludwika Chewińska (POL)	18.29	Antonina Ivanova (URS)	18.25

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	West Germany	6	2	0	8
2	Bulgaria	3	1	0	4
3	East Germany	2	9	4	15
4	Poland	2	3	7	12
5	Czechoslovakia	2	3	3	8
6	France	2	1	2	5
7	Belgium	1	2	0	3
8	Romania	1	1	0	2
9	Hungary	1	0	0	1
	Italy	1	0	0	1
	United Kingdom	1	0	0	1
	Yugoslavia	1	0	0	1
13	Austria	0	1	0	1
14	Finland	0	0	2	2
	Soviet Union	0	0	2	2
16	Greece	0	0	1	1

References

• Results - men at GBR Athletics
• Results - women at GBR Athletics
• Detailed results at Die Leichtatletik-Statistik-Seite
• EAA