# 1972 European Athletics Indoor Championships

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.

## Medal summary
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | 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 | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | 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 |
| 10 | Switzerland (SUI) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 13 | Austria (AUT) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | Finland (FIN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (14 entries) | Totals (14 entries) | 23 | 23 | 23 | 69 |

## Participating nations

* Austria (6)
* Belgium (4)
* Bulgaria (9)
* Czechoslovakia (17)
* Denmark (7)
* East Germany (12)
* Finland (7)
* France (38)
* Great Britain (17)
* Greece (3)
* Hungary (6)
* Iceland (1)
* Italy (11)
* Netherlands (2)
* Norway (1)
* Poland (23)
* Romania (12)
* Soviet Union (32)
* Spain (5)
* Sweden (6)
* Switzerland (6)
* West Germany (34)
* Yugoslavia (5)