# 1969 European Indoor Games

The 1969 European Indoor Games were held between 8–9 March 1969 in Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia (present-day Serbia). In 1970 the European Indoor Games were replaced by the European Athletics Indoor Championships.
The track used for the championships was 195 metres long.

## Medal summary
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 50 metres details | Zenon Nowosz (POL) | 5.8 | Valeriy Borzov (URS) | 5.8 | Bob Frith (GBR) | 5.8 |
| 400 metres details | Jan Balachowski (POL) | 47.3 | Jan Werner (POL) | 47.4 | Yuriy Zorin (URS) | 47.4 |
| 800 metres details | Dieter Fromm (GDR) | 1:46.6 CR | Henryk Szordykowski (POL) | 1:47.1 | Noel Carroll (IRL) | 1:47.6 |
| 1500 metres details | Edgard Salvé (BEL) | 3:45.9 | Knut Brustad (NOR) | 3:46.2 | Walter Wilkinson (GBR) | 3:46.4 |
| 3000 metres details | Ian Stewart (GBR) | 7:55.4 CR | Javier Álvarez (ESP) | 7:56.2 | Werner Girke (FRG) | 7:56.8 |
| 50 metres hurdles details | Alan Pascoe (GBR) | 6.6 | Werner Trzmiel (FRG) | 6.6 | Nicolae Pertea (ROM) | 6.7 |
| 4 × 390 metres relay details | Poland Jan Werner Jan Radomski Andrzej Badeński Jan Balachowski | 3:01.9 | Soviet Union Leonid Mikishev Aleksandr Bratchikov Valeriy Borzov Yuriy Zorin | 3:01.9 | West Germany Dieter Hübner Herbert Moser Peter Bernreuther Manfred Kinder | 3:04.5 |
| Medley relay details | Poland Edward Romanowski Andrzej Badeński Henryk Szordykowski Jan Radomski | 4:16.4 | Only one finishing team | Only one finishing team | Only one finishing team | Only one finishing team |
| 3 × 1000 metres relay details | West Germany Anton Adam Walter Adams Harald Norpoth | 7:08.0 | Czechoslovakia Ján Šišovský Petr Blaha Pavel Pěnkava | 7:23.1 | Yugoslavia Radovan Piplović Slavko Koprivica Adam Ladik | 7:42.8 |
| High jump details | Valentin Gavrilov (URS) | 2.14 | Henry Elliott (FRA) | 2.14 | Șerban Ioan (ROM) | 2.14 |
| Pole vault details | Wolfgang Nordwig (GDR) | 5.20 =CR | Hennadiy Bleznitsov (URS) | 5.10 | Joachim Bär (GDR) | 5.10 |
| Long jump details | Klaus Beer (GDR) | 7.77 | Lynn Davies (GBR) | 7.76 | Rafael Blanquer (ESP) | 7.63 |
| Triple jump details | Nikolay Dudkin (URS) | 16.73 CR | Zoltán Cziffra (HUN) | 16.46 | Carol Corbu (ROM) | 16.20 |
| Shot put details | Heinfried Birlenbach (FRG) | 19.51 CR | Hartmut Briesenick (GDR) | 19.19 | Heinz-Joachim Rothenburg (GDR) | 18.69 |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 50 metres details | Irena Szewińska (POL) | 6.4 | Sylviane Telliez (FRA) | 6.5 | Madeleine Cobb (GBR) | 6.5 |
| 400 metres details | Colette Besson (FRA) | 54.0 CR | Christel Frese (FRG) | 54.8 | Rosemary Stirling (GBR) | 54.8 |
| 800 metres details | Barbara Wieck (GDR) | 2:05.3 CR | Magdolna Kulcsár (HUN) | 2:07.5 | Anna Zimina (URS) | 2:08.0 |
| 50 metres hurdles details | Karin Balzer (GDR) | 7.2 | Meta Antenen (SUI) | 7.3 | Christine Perera (GBR) | 7.4 |
| 4 × 195 metres relay details | France Odette Ducas Sylviane Telliez Colette Besson Christiane Martinetto | 1:34.3 | Soviet Union Galina Bukharina Vera Popkova Lyudmila Golomazova Lyudmila Samotyosova | 1:34.6 | Yugoslavia Darja Marolt Verica Ambrozi Ljiljana Petnjarić Marijana Lubej | 1:36.9 |
| Medley relay details | Soviet Union Vera Popkova Lyudmila Samotyosova Raisa Nikonorova Anna Zimina | 4:52.4 | Poland Irena Szewińska Zdzisława Robaszewska Elżbieta Skowrońska Zofia Kołakowska | 4:53.2 | Yugoslavia Verica Ambrozi Ika Maričić Mirjana Kovačev Ninoslava Tikvicki | 5:05.9 |
| High jump details | Rita Schmidt (GDR) | 1.82 | Yordanka Blagoeva (BUL) | 1.82 | Antonina Lazareva (URS) | 1.79 |
| Long jump details | Irena Szewińska (POL) | 6.38 | Sue Scott (GBR) | 6.18 | Meta Antenen (SUI) | 6.15 |
| Shot put details | Marita Lange (GDR) | 17.52 | Ivanka Khristova (BUL) | 16.94 | Ingeburg Friedrich (GDR) | 16.42 |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | East Germany (GDR) | 7 | 1 | 3 | 11 |
| 2 | Poland (POL) | 6 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 3 | Soviet Union (URS) | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 |
| 4 | Great Britain (GBR) | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 |
| 5 | West Germany (FRG) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| 6 | France (FRA) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 7 | Belgium (BEL) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | Spain (ESP) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | Switzerland (SUI) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 12 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Norway (NOR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | Romania (ROU) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 14 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 16 | Ireland (IRL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (16 entries) | Totals (16 entries) | 23 | 22 | 22 | 67 |

## Participating nations

* Austria (5)
* Belgium (3)
* Bulgaria (9)
* Czechoslovakia (15)
* Denmark (2)
* East Germany (14)
* Finland (2)
* France (13)
* Great Britain (14)
* Hungary (13)
* Ireland (1)
* Italy (5)
* Norway (2)
* Poland (21)
* Romania (9)
* Soviet Union (21)
* Spain (6)
* Sweden (7)
* Switzerland (5)
* Turkey (2)
* West Germany (22)
* Yugoslavia (29)