# 1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships

The 1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held in 1970 at Wiener Stadthalle, Vienna, the capital of Austria, between 14–15 March 1970. It replaced the European Indoor Games, an indoor athletics competition which had been held since 1966.

## Medals
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 60 metres details | Valeriy Borzov (URS) | 6.6 =WB | Zenon Nowosz (POL) | 6.7 | Jarkko Tapola (FIN) | 6.7 |
| 400 metres details | Aleksandr Bratchikov (URS) | 46.8 | Andrzej Badeński (POL) | 46.9 | Yuriy Zorin (URS) | 48.4 |
| 800 metres details | Yevgeniy Arzhanov (URS) | 1:51.0 | Juan Borroz (ESP) | 1:51.9 | Jože Međimurec (YUG) | 1:51.9 |
| 1500 metres details | Henryk Szordykowski (POL) | 3:48.8 | Frank Murphy (IRL) | 3:49.0 | Volodymyr Panteley (URS) | 3:49.8 |
| 3000 metres details | Ricky Wilde (GBR) | 7:46.85 WB | Harald Norpoth (FRG) | 7:49.50 | Javier Álvarez (ESP) | 7:52.45 |
| 60 metres hurdles details | Günther Nickel (FRG) | 7.8a | Frank Siebeck (GDR) | 7.8a | Guy Drut (FRA) | 7.8a |
| 4 × 400 metres relay details | Soviet Union Yevgeniy Borisenko Yuriy Zorin Boris Savchuk Aleksandr Bratchikov | 3:05.9 | Poland Jan Werner Stanisław Grędziński Jan Balachowski Andrzej Badeński | 3:07.5 | West Germany Dieter Hübner Karl-Hermann Tofaute Ulrich Strohhacker Helmar Müller | 3:10.7 |
| Medley relay details (2800 m) | Soviet Union Aleksander Konnikov Sergey Kryuchek Vladimir Kolesnikov Ivan Ivanov | 6:18.0 | Poland Edmund Borowski Stanisław Waśkiewicz Kazimierz Wardak Eryk Żelazny | 6:18.8 | West Germany Horst Hasslinger Lothar Hirsch Manfred Henne Ingo Sensburg | 6:19.6 |
| High jump details | Valentin Gavrilov (URS) | 2.20 | Gerd Dührkop (GDR) | 2.17 | Șerban Ioan (ROM) | 2.17 |
| Pole vault details | François Tracanelli (FRA) | 5.30 | Kjell Isaksson (SWE) | 5.25 | Wolfgang Nordwig (GDR) | 5.20 |
| Long jump details | Tõnu Lepik (URS) | 8.05 | Klaus Beer (GDR) | 7.99 | Rafael Blanquer (ESP) | 7.92 |
| Triple jump details | Viktor Sanyeyev (URS) | 16.95 WB | Jörg Drehmel (GDR) | 16.74 | Șerban Ciochină (ROM) | 16.47 |
| Shot put details | Hartmut Briesenick (GDR) | 20.22 | Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg (GDR) | 19.70 | Pierre Colnard (FRA) | 18.96 |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 60 metres details | Renate Meissner (GDR) | 7.4 | Sylviane Telliez (FRA) | 7.5 | Wilma van den Berg (NED) | 7.5 |
| 400 metres details | Marilyn Neufville (GBR) | 53.01 WB | Christel Frese (FRG) | 53.13 | Colette Besson (FRA) | 53.63 |
| 800 metres details | Maria Sykora (AUT) | 2:07.0 | Lyudmila Bragina (URS) | 2:07.5 | Zofia Kołakowska (POL) | 2:07.6 |
| 60 metres hurdles details | Karin Balzer (GDR) | 8.2 WB | Liya Khitrina (URS) | 8.2 WB | Teresa Sukniewicz (POL) | 8.5 |
| 4 × 200 metres relay details | Soviet Union Nadezhda Besfamilnaya Vera Popkova Galina Bukharina Lyudmila Samotyosova | 1:35.7 | West Germany Elfgard Schittenhelm Annelie Wilden Marianne Bolling Annegret Kroniger | 1:37.6 | Austria Maria Sykora Brigitte Ortner Christa Kepplinger Hanni Burger | 1:40.8 |
| Medley relay details (2000 m) | France Sylviane Telliez Mireille Testanière Colette Besson Nicole Duclos | 4:58.4 | West Germany Elfgard Schittenhelm Heidi Gerhard Christa Merten Jutta Haase | 5:01.1 | Soviet Union Lyudmila Golomazova Olga Klein Nadezhda Kolesnikova Svetlana Moshchenok | 5:02.2 |
| High jump details | Ilona Gusenbauer (AUT) | 1.88 WB | Cornelia Popescu (ROM) | 1.82 | Rita Schmidt (GDR) | 1.82 |
| Long jump details | Viorica Viscopoleanu (ROM) | 6.56 | Heide Rosendahl (FRG) | 6.55 | Mirosława Sarna (POL) | 6.54 |
| Shot put details | Nadezhda Chizhova (URS) | 18.80 WB | Hannelore Friedel (GDR) | 18.39 | Marita Lange (GDR) | 18.09 |

### Table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Soviet Union (URS) | 10 | 2 | 3 | 15 |
| 2 | East Germany (GDR) | 3 | 6 | 3 | 12 |
| 3 | France (FRA) | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 4 | Austria (AUT) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Great Britain (GBR) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 | West Germany (FRG) | 1 | 5 | 2 | 8 |
| 7 | Poland (POL) | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 |
| 8 | Romania (ROU) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 9 | Spain (ESP) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 10 | Ireland (IRL) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Finland (FIN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Netherlands (NED) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 12 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (14 entries) | Totals (14 entries) | 22 | 22 | 22 | 66 |

## Participating nations

* Austria (21)
* Belgium (6)
* Bulgaria (7)
* Czechoslovakia (14)
* Denmark (4)
* East Germany (15)
* Finland (4)
* France (21)
* Great Britain (12)
* Greece (1)
* Hungary (8)
* Ireland (3)
* Italy (9)
* Netherlands (3)
* Norway (7)
* Poland (26)
* Romania (10)
* Soviet Union (45)
* Spain (8)
* Sweden (7)
* Switzerland (5)
* Turkey (4)
* West Germany (33)
* Yugoslavia (8)