# 1980 European Athletics Indoor Championships

The 1980 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held in Sindelfingen, a city in West Germany, on 1 and 2 March 1980. The championships were boycotted by East Germany. The middle-distance races were hand-timed.
The host nation topped the medal table with 12 medals, including 5 golds, followed closely by Poland and the Soviet Union.

## Medal summary
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 60 metres details | Marian Woronin (POL) | 6.62 | Christian Haas (FRG) | 6.62 | Aleksandr Aksinin (URS) | 6.63 |
| 400 metres details | Nikolay Chernetskiy (URS) | 46.29 | Karel Kolář (TCH) | 46.55 | Remigijus Valiulis (URS) | 46.75 |
| 800 metres details | Roger Milhau (FRA) | 1:50.2a | András Paróczai (HUN) | 1:50.3a | Herbert Wursthorn (FRG) | 1:50.4a |
| 1500 metres details | Thomas Wessinghage (FRG) | 3:37.6a CR | Ray Flynn (IRL) | 3:38.5a | Pierre Délèze (SUI) | 3:38.9a |
| 3000 metres details | Karl Fleschen (FRG) | 7:57.5a | Klaas Lok (NED) | 7:57.9a | Hans-Jürgen Orthmann (FRG) | 7:59.9a |
| 60 metres hurdles details | Yuriy Chervanyov (URS) | 7.54 CR | Romuald Giegiel (POL) | 7.73 | Javier Moracho (ESP) | 7.75 |
| High jump details | Dietmar Mögenburg (FRG) | 2.31 | Jacek Wszoła (POL) | 2.29 | Adrian Proteasa (ROM) | 2.29 |
| Pole vault details | Konstantin Volkov (URS) | 5.60 CR | Vladimir Polyakov (URS) | 5.60 | Patrick Abada (FRA) | 5.55 |
| Long jump details | Winfried Klepsch (FRG) | 7.98 | Nenad Stekić (YUG) | 7.91 | Stanisław Jaskułka (POL) | 7.85 |
| Triple jump details | Béla Bakosi (HUN) | 16.86 | Jaak Uudmäe (URS) | 16.51 | Gennadiy Kovtunov (URS) | 16.45 |
| Shot put details | Zlatan Saracevic (YUG) | 20.43 | Jaromír Vlk (TCH) | 20.19 | Ivan Ivančić (YUG) | 19.48 |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 60 metres details | Sofka Popova (BUL) | 7.11 | Linda Haglund (SWE) | 7.14 | Lyudmila Kondratyeva (URS) | 7.15 |
| 400 metres details | Elke Decker (FRG) | 52.28 | Karoline Käfer (AUT) | 52.70 | Tatyana Goyshchik (URS) | 52.71 |
| 800 metres details | Jolanta Januchta (POL) | 2:00.6a CR | Anne-Marie Van Nuffel (BEL) | 2:00.9a | Liz Barnes (GBR) | 2:01.5a |
| 1500 metres details | Tamara Koba (URS) | 4:12.5a | Anna Bukis (POL) | 4:13.1a | Mary Purcell (IRL) | 4:14.2a |
| 60 metres hurdles details | Zofia Bielczyk (POL) | 7.77 WR | Grażyna Rabsztyn (POL) | 7.89 | Natalya Lebedeva (URS) | 8.04 |
| High jump details | Sara Simeoni (ITA) | 1.95 CR | Andrea Mátay (HUN) | 1.93 | Urszula Kielan (POL) | 1.93 |
| Long jump details | Anna Włodarczyk (POL) | 6.74 CR | Anke Weigt (FRG) | 6.68 | Sabine Everts (FRG) | 6.54 |
| Shot put details | Helena Fibingerová (TCH) | 19.92 | Eva Wilms (FRG) | 19.66 | Beatrix Philipp (FRG) | 17.59 |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | West Germany (FRG) | 5 | 3 | 4 | 12 |
| 2 | Poland (POL) | 4 | 4 | 2 | 10 |
| 3 | Soviet Union (URS) | 4 | 2 | 6 | 12 |
| 4 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 4 | Hungary (HUN) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 6 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | France (FRA) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Italy (ITA) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Ireland (IRL) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 11 | Austria (AUT) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Netherlands (NED) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 15 | Romania (ROU) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 15 | Spain (ESP) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 15 | Switzerland (SUI) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (18 entries) | Totals (18 entries) | 19 | 19 | 19 | 57 |

## Participating nations

* Austria (4)
* Belgium (11)
* Bulgaria (13)
* Cyprus (1)
* Czechoslovakia (9)
* Denmark (1)
* Finland (5)
* France (14)
* Great Britain (4)
* Greece (3)
* Hungary (11)
* Iceland (1)
* Ireland (4)
* Italy (15)
* Netherlands (5)
* Norway (3)
* Poland (21)
* Portugal (1)
* Romania (4)
* Soviet Union (29)
* Spain (10)
* Sweden (6)
* Switzerland (8)
* Turkey (1)
* West Germany (42)
* Yugoslavia (8)