# 1979 European Athletics Indoor Championships

The 1979 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held in Vienna, the capital city in Austria, on 24 and 25 February 1979. It was the second time the championships had been held in that city.

## Medal summary
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 60 metres details | Marian Woronin (POL) | 6.57 =AR, CR | Leszek Dunecki (POL) | 6.62 | Petar Petrov (BUL) | 6.63 |
| 400 metres details | Karel Kolář (TCH) | 46.21 CR | Stefano Malinverni (ITA) | 46.59 | Horia Toboc (ROM) | 46.86 |
| 800 metres details | Antonio Páez (ESP) | 1:47.4a | Binko Kolev (BUL) | 1:47.8a | András Paróczai (HUN) | 1:48.2a |
| 1500 metres details | Eamonn Coghlan (IRL) | 3:41.8a | Thomas Wessinghage (FRG) | 3:42.2a | John Robson (GBR) | 3:42.8a |
| 3000 metres details | Markus Ryffel (SUI) | 7:44.43 CR | Christoph Herle (FRG) | 7:45.44 | Aleksandr Fedotkin (URS) | 7:45.50 |
| 60 metres hurdles details | Thomas Munkelt (GDR) | 7.59 CR | Arto Bryggare (FIN) | 7.67 | Eduard Pereverzev (URS) | 7.70 |
| High jump details | Vladimir Yashchenko (URS) | 2.26 | Gennadiy Belkov (URS) | 2.26 | Andre Schneider-Laub [de] (FRG) | 2.24 |
| Pole vault details | Władysław Kozakiewicz (POL) | 5.58 AR, CR | Konstantin Volkov (URS) | 5.45 | Vladimir Trofimenko (URS) | 5.45 |
| Long jump details | Vladimir Tsepelyov (URS) | 7.88 | Valeriy Podluzhniy (URS) | 7.86 | Lutz Franke (GDR) | 7.80 |
| Triple jump details | Gennadiy Valyukevich (URS) | 17.02 | Anatoliy Piskulin (URS) | 16.97 | Jaak Uudmäe (URS) | 16.91 |
| Shot put details | Reijo Ståhlberg (FIN) | 20.47 | Geoff Capes (GBR) | 20.23 | Vladimir Kiselyov (URS) | 20.01 |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 60 metres details | Marlies Göhr (GDR) | 7.16 | Marita Koch (GDR) | 7.19 | Lyudmila Storozhkova (URS) | 7.22 |
| 400 metres details | Verona Elder (GBR) | 51.80 | Jarmila Kratochvílová (TCH) | 51.81 | Karoline Käfer (AUT) | 51.90 |
| 800 metres details | Nikolina Shtereva (BUL) | 2:02.6a | Anita Weiß (GDR) | 2:02.9a | Fiţa Lovin (ROM) | 2:03.1a |
| 1500 metres details | Natalia Mărășescu (ROM) | 4:03.5a CR | Zamira Zaytseva (URS) | 4:03.9a | Svetlana Guskova (URS) | 4:07.4a |
| 60 metres hurdles details | Danuta Perka (POL) | 7.95 | Grażyna Rabsztyn (POL) | 8.00 | Nina Morgulina (URS) | 8.09 |
| High jump details | Andrea Mátay (HUN) | 1.92 | Urszula Kielan (POL) | 1.85 | Ulrike Meyfarth (FRG) | 1.80 |
| Long jump details | Siegrun Siegl (GDR) | 6.70 | Jarmila Nygrýnová (TCH) | 6.42 | Lena Johansson (SWE) | 6.27 |
| Shot put details | Ilona Slupianek (GDR) | 21.01 | Marianne Adam (GDR) | 20.11 | Judy Oakes (GBR) | 15.66 |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | East Germany (GDR) | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 2 | Soviet Union (URS) | 3 | 5 | 8 | 16 |
| 3 | Poland (POL) | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 4 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | Great Britain (GBR) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 6 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | Finland (FIN) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | Romania (ROU) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 9 | Hungary (HUN) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | Ireland (IRL) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Spain (ESP) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Switzerland (SUI) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | West Germany (FRG) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 14 | Italy (ITA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | Austria (AUT) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 15 | Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (16 entries) | Totals (16 entries) | 19 | 19 | 19 | 57 |

## Participating nations

* Austria (14)
* Belgium (5)
* Bulgaria (10)
* Czechoslovakia (11)
* Denmark (2)
* East Germany (17)
* Finland (12)
* France (10)
* Great Britain (10)
* Hungary (7)
* Ireland (3)
* Italy (16)
* Netherlands (4)
* Norway (2)
* Poland (13)
* Portugal (1)
* Romania (4)
* Soviet Union (28)
* Spain (5)
* Sweden (4)
* Switzerland (6)
* Turkey (1)
* West Germany (16)
* Yugoslavia (9)