1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships
Dates	11–12 March 1972
Host city	Grenoble France
Venue	Palais des Sports
Events	23
Participation	264 athletes from 23 nations
Records set	7 WB, 11 CR
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The 1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held between 11–12 March 1972 in Grenoble, France.

The track used for the championships was 180 metres long.^[1]

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 metres details	Valeriy Borzov (URS)	5.75 =WB	Aleksandr Kornelyuk (URS)	5.81	Vasilis Papageorgopoulos (GRE)	5.82
400 metres details	Georg Nückles (FRG)	47.24	Ulrich Reich (FRG)	47.42	Wolfgang Müller (GDR)	47.42
800 metres details	Jozef Plachý (TCH)	1:48.84	Ivan Ivanov (URS)	1:49.05	Francis Gonzalez (FRA)	1:49.17
1500 metres details	Jacky Boxberger (FRA)	3:45.66	Spylios Zacharopoulos (GRE)	3:46.08	Jürgen May (FRG)	3:46.42
3000 metres details	Juris Grustiņš (URS)	8:02.85	Yuriy Aleksashin (URS)	8:03.20	Ulrich Brugger (FRG)	8:05.07
50 metres hurdles details	Guy Drut (FRA)	6.51 WB	Manfred Schumann (FRG)	6.58	Anatoliy Moshiashvili (URS)	6.59
4 × 360 metres relay details	Poland Jan Werner Waldemar Korycki Jan Balachowski Andrzej Badeński	3:11.1	West Germany Peter Bernreuther Rolf Krüsmann Georg Nückles Ulrich Reich	3:11.9	France Patrick Salvador André Paoli Michel Dach Gilles Bertould	3:15.6
4 × 720 metres relay details	West Germany Thomas Wessinghage Harald Norpoth Paul-Heinz Wellmann Franz-Josef Kemper	6:26.4a	Soviet Union Aleksey Taranov Valeriy Taratynov Ivan Ivanov Stanislav Meshcherskikh	6:27.0a	Poland Zenon Szordykowski Krzysztof Linkowski Stanisław Waśkiewicz Andrzej Kupczyk	6:27.6a
High jump details	István Major (HUN)	2.24 CR	Kęstutis Šapka (URS)	2.22	Jüri Tarmak (URS)	2.22
Pole vault details	Wolfgang Nordwig (GDR)	5.40 =CR	Hans Lagerqvist (SWE)	5.40	Antti Kalliomäki (FIN)	5.30
Long jump details	Max Klauss (GDR)	8.02	Hans Baumgartner (FRG)	7.99	Jaroslav Brož (TCH)	7.88
Triple jump details	Viktor Sanyeyev (URS)	16.97 WB	Carol Corbu (ROM)	16.89	Valentyn Shevchenko (URS)	16.73
Shot put details	Hartmut Briesenick (GDR)	20.67 AR	Władysław Komar (POL)	20.32	Jaroslav Brabec (TCH)	19.94

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
50 metres details	Renate Stecher (GDR)	6.25 WB	Annegret Richter (FRG)	6.28	Sylviane Telliez (FRA)	6.31
400 metres details	Christel Frese (FRG)	53.36	Inge Bödding (FRG)	54.60	Erika Weinstein (FRG)	54.73
800 metres details	Gunhild Hoffmeister (GDR)	2:04.83 CR	Ileana Silai (ROM)	2:05.17	Svetla Zlateva (BUL)	2:05.50
1500 metres details	Tamara Pangelova (URS)	4:14.62 WB	Lyudmila Bragina (URS)	4:18.35	Vasilena Amzina (BUL)	4:18.84
50 metres hurdles details	Annelie Ehrhardt (GDR)	6.85 =WB	Teresa Sukniewicz (POL)	6.94	Grażyna Rabsztyn (POL)	7.05
4 × 180 metres relay details	West Germany Elfgard Schittenhelm Christine Tackenberg Annegret Kroniger Rita Wilden	1:24.1a	France Michèle Beugnet Christiane Marlet Claudine Meire Nicole Pani	1:27.6a	Austria Christa Kepplinger Maria Sykora Carmen Mähr Monika Holzschuster	1:29.5a
4 × 360 metres relay details	West Germany Rita Wilden Erika Weinstein Christel Frese Inge Bödding	3:10.85	Soviet Union Natalya Chistyakova Lyudmila Aksyonova Lyubov Zavyalova Nadezhda Kolesnikova	3:11.20	France Madeleine Thomas Bernadette Martin Nicole Duclos Colette Besson	3:11.65
High jump details	Rita Schmidt (GDR)	1.90 WB	Rita Gildemeister (GDR)	1.84	Yordanka Blagoeva (BUL)	1.84
Long jump details	Brigitte Roesen (FRG)	6.58	Meta Antenen (SUI)	6.42	Jarmila Nygrýnová (TCH)	6.39
Shot put details	Nadezhda Chizhova (URS)	19.41	Antonina Ivanova (URS)	18.54	Marianne Adam (GDR)	18.30

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (GDR)	7	1	2	10
2	West Germany (FRG)	6	6	3	15
3	Soviet Union (URS)	5	8	3	16
4	France (FRA)	2	1	4	7
5	Poland (POL)	1	2	2	5
6	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	0	3	4
7	Hungary (HUN)	1	0	0	1
8	Romania (ROU)	0	2	0	2
9	Greece (GRE)	0	1	1	2
10	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	1	0	1
12	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	0	3	3
13	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		23	23	23	69

Participating nations