# 1988 European Athletics Indoor Championships

The 1988 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held in Budapest, Hungary on 5 and 6 March 1988.

## Medal summary
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 60 metres details | Linford Christie (GBR) | 6.57 | Ronald Desruelles (BEL) | 6.60 | Valentin Atanasov (BUL) | 6.60 |
| 200 metres details | Nikolay Razgonov (URS) | 20.62 | Nikolay Antonov (BUL) | 20.65 | Linford Christie (GBR) | 20.83 |
| 400 metres details | Jens Carlowitz (GDR) | 45.63 | Brian Whittle (GBR) | 45.98 | Ralf Lübke (FRG) | 46.25 |
| 800 metres details | David Sharpe (GBR) | 1:49.17 | Rob Druppers (NED) | 1:49.45 | Gert Kilbert (SUI) | 1:49.46 |
| 1500 metres details | Ari Suhonen (FIN) | 3:45.72 | Ronny Olsson (SWE) | 3:46.16 | Rüdiger Horn (GDR) | 3:46.51 |
| 3000 metres details | José Luis González (ESP) | 7:55.29 | Markus Hacksteiner (SUI) | 7:56.04 | Mikhail Dasko (URS) | 7:56.51 |
| 60 metres hurdles details | Aleš Höffer (TCH) | 7.56 | Jon Ridgeon (GBR) | 7.57 | Carlos Sala (ESP) | 7.67 |
| 5000 metres walk details | Jozef Pribilinec (TCH) | 18:44.40 | Roman Mrázek (TCH) | 18:44.91 | Sándor Urbanik (HUN) | 18:45.91 |
| High jump details | Patrik Sjöberg (SWE) | 2.39 | Dietmar Mögenburg (FRG) | 2.37 | Sorin Matei (ROM) | 2.35 |
| Pole vault details | Rodion Gataullin (URS) | 5.75 | Nikolai Nikolov (BUL) | 5.70 | Atanas Tarev (BUL) | 5.70 |
| Long jump details | Frans Maas (NED) | 8.06 | László Szalma (HUN) | 8.03 | Giovanni Evangelisti (ITA) | 8.00 |
| Triple jump details | Oleg Sakirkin (URS) | 17.30 | Béla Bakosi (HUN) | 17.25 | Vasif Asadov (URS) | 17.23 |
| Shot put details | Remigius Machura (TCH) | 21.42 | Karsten Stolz (FRG) | 20.22 | Georgi Todorov (BUL) | 19.98 |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 60 metres details | Nelli Fiere-Cooman (NED) | 7.04 | Silke Gladisch (GDR) | 7.05 | Marlies Göhr (GDR) | 7.07 |
| 200 metres details | Ewa Kasprzyk (POL) | 22.69 | Tatyana Papilina (URS) | 22.79 | Silke Knoll (FRG) | 23.12 |
| 400 metres details | Petra Müller (GDR) | 50.28 | Helga Arendt (FRG) | 51.06 | Dagmar Neubauer (GDR) | 51.57 |
| 800 metres details | Sabine Zwiener (FRG) | 2:01.19 | Olga Nelyubova (URS) | 2:01.61 | Gabi Lesch (FRG) | 2:01.85 |
| 1500 metres details | Doina Melinte (ROM) | 4:05.77 | Mitica Junghiatu (ROM) | 4:06.16 | Brigitte Kraus (FRG) | 4:07.06 |
| 3000 metres details | Elly van Hulst (NED) | 8:44.50 | Vera Michallek (FRG) | 8:46.97 | Wendy Sly (GBR) | 8:51.04 |
| 60 metres hurdles details | Cornelia Oschkenat (GDR) | 7.77 | Marjan Olyslager (NED) | 7.92 | Mihaela Pogăcean (ROM) | 7.92 |
| 3000 metres walk details | María Reyes Sobrino (ESP) | 12:48.99 | Dana Vavracová (TCH) | 12:51.08 | Mari Cruz Díaz (ESP) | 12:55.03 |
| High jump details | Stefka Kostadinova (BUL) | 2.04 | Heike Redetzky (FRG) | 1.97 | Larisa Kositsyna (URS) | 1.97 |
| Long jump details | Heike Drechsler (GDR) | 7.30 | Galina Chistyakova (URS) | 7.24 | Jolanta Bartczak (POL) | 6.62 |
| Shot put details | Claudia Losch (FRG) | 20.39 | Larisa Peleshenko (URS) | 20.23 | Kathrin Neimke (GDR) | 20.20 |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | East Germany (GDR) | 4 | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| 2 | Soviet Union (URS) | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 |
| 3 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 3 | Netherlands (NED) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 5 | West Germany (FRG) | 2 | 5 | 4 | 11 |
| 6 | Great Britain (GBR) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| 7 | Spain (ESP) | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 8 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 9 | Romania (ROU) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 10 | Sweden (SWE) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 11 | Poland (POL) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 12 | Finland (FIN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 14 | Switzerland (SUI) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 15 | Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | Italy (ITA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (16 entries) | Totals (16 entries) | 24 | 24 | 24 | 72 |

## Participating nations

* Austria (9)
* Belgium (7)
* Bulgaria (24)
* Cyprus (1)
* Czechoslovakia (19)
* Denmark (3)
* East Germany (17)
* Finland (10)
* France (19)
* Great Britain (24)
* Greece (4)
* Hungary (45)
* Ireland (3)
* Italy (27)
* Netherlands (14)
* Norway (4)
* Poland (8)
* Portugal (8)
* Romania (8)
* San Marino (1)
* Soviet Union (24)
* Spain (28)
* Sweden (10)
* Switzerland (4)
* Turkey (3)
* West Germany (32)
* Yugoslavia (8)