# 1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships

The 1973 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held on 10 and 11 March 1973 in Rotterdam, Netherlands at the Ahoy arena.
The track used for the championships was 170 metres long.

## Medal summary
### Men

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 60 metres details | Zenon Nowosz (POL) | 6.64 | Manfred Kokot (GDR) | 6.66 | Raimo Vilén (FIN) | 6.71 |
| 400 metres details | Luciano Sušanj (YUG) | 46.38 CR | Benno Stops (GDR) | 47.31 | Dariusz Podobas (POL) | 47.40 |
| 800 metres details | Francis Gonzalez (FRA) | 1:49.17 | Gerhard Stolle (GDR) | 1:49.32 | Jozef Plachý (TCH) | 1:49.50 |
| 1500 metres details | Henryk Szordykowski (POL) | 3:43.01 | Herman Mignon (BEL) | 3:43.16 | Klaus-Peter Justus (GDR) | 3:43.36 |
| 3000 metres details | Emiel Puttemans (BEL) | 7:44.51 CR | Willy Polleunis (BEL) | 7:51.86 | Pekka Päivärinta (FIN) | 7:52.97 NR |
| 60 metres hurdles details | Frank Siebeck (GDR) | 7.71 CR | Adam Galant (POL) | 7.76 | Thomas Munkelt (GDR) | 7.81 |
| 4 × 340 metres relay details | France Lucien Sainte-Rose Patrick Salvador Francis Kerbiriou Lionel Malingre | 2:46.00 | West Germany Falko Geiger Karl Honz Ulrich Reich Hermann Köhler | 2:46.42 | Only two starting teams | Only two starting teams |
| 4 × 680 metres relay details | West Germany Reinhold Soyka Josef Schmid Thomas Wessinghage Paul-Heinz Wellmann | 6:21.58 | Czechoslovakia Ivan Kováč Jozef Samborský Jozef Plachý Ján Šišovský | 6:21.60 | Poland Krzysztof Linkowski Lesław Zając Czesław Jursza Henryk Sapko | 6:26.95 |
| High jump details | István Major (HUN) | 2.20 | Jiří Palkovský (TCH) | 2.20 | Vasilios Papadimitriou (GRE) | 2.17 |
| Pole vault details | Renato Dionisi (ITA) | 5.40 =CR | Hans-Jürgen Ziegler (FRG) | 5.35 | Jean-Michel Bellot (FRA) | 5.30 |
| Long jump details | Hans Baumgartner (FRG) | 7.85 | Max Klauss (GDR) | 7.83 | Grzegorz Cybulski (POL) | 7.81 |
| Triple jump details | Carol Corbu (ROM) | 16.80 | Michał Joachimowski (POL) | 16.75 | Mikhail Bariban (URS) | 16.38 |
| Shot put details | Jaroslav Brabec (TCH) | 20.29 | Gerd Lochmann (GDR) | 20.12 | Jaromír Vlk (TCH) | 19.68 |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | Bronze |
| 60 metres details | Annegret Richter (FRG) | 7.27 CR | Petra Vogt (GDR) | 7.29 | Sylviane Telliez (FRA) | 7.32 |
| 400 metres details | Verona Bernard (GBR) | 53.04 | Waltraud Dietsch (GDR) | 53.35 | Renate Siebach (GDR) | 53.49 |
| 800 metres details | Stefka Yordanova (BUL) | 2:02.65 CR | Elfi Rost (GDR) | 2:02.83 | Elżbieta Skowrońska (POL) | 2:02.90 |
| 1500 metres details | Ellen Tittel (FRG) | 4:16.17 | Tonka Petrova (BUL) | 4:17.20 | Iris Claus (GDR) | 4:21.49 |
| 60 metres hurdles details | Annelie Ehrhardt (GDR) | 8.02 | Valeria Bufanu (ROM) | 8.16 | Teresa Nowak (POL) | 8.23 |
| 4 × 170 metres relay details | West Germany Christiane Krause Annegret Richter Ingeborg Helten Rita Wilden | 1:21.15 | Austria Brigitte Haest Christa Kepplinger Carmen Mähr Karoline Käfer | 1:23.33 | Only two starting teams | Only two starting teams |
| 4 × 340 metres relay details | West Germany Dagmar Jost Erika Weinstein Annelie Wilden Gisela Ellenberger | 3:10.85 | France Colette Besson Chantal Jouvhomme Chantal Leclerc Nicole Duclos | 3:11.20 | Poland Danuta Manowiecka Marta Skrzypińska Krystyna Kacperczyk Danuta Piecyk | 3:11.65 |
| High jump details | Yordanka Blagoeva (BUL) | 1.92 =CR | Rita Gildemeister (GDR) | 1.86 | Milada Karbanová (TCH) | 1.86 |
| Long jump details | Diana Yorgova (BUL) | 6.45 | Jarmila Nygrýnová (TCH) | 6.30 | Mirosława Sarna (POL) | 6.15 |
| Shot put details | Helena Fibingerová (TCH) | 19.08 | Ludwika Chewińska (POL) | 18.29 | Antonina Ivanova (URS) | 18.25 |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | West Germany (FRG) | 6 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 2 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 3 | East Germany (GDR) | 2 | 9 | 4 | 15 |
| 4 | Poland (POL) | 2 | 3 | 7 | 12 |
| 5 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 |
| 6 | France (FRA) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 7 | Belgium (BEL) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 8 | Romania (ROU) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 | Great Britain (GBR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Hungary (HUN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Italy (ITA) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | Austria (AUT) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | Finland (FIN) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 14 | Soviet Union (URS) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 16 | Greece (GRE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (16 entries) | Totals (16 entries) | 23 | 23 | 21 | 67 |

## Participating nations

* Austria (8)
* Belgium (12)
* Bulgaria (18)
* Czechoslovakia (19)
* Denmark (3)
* East Germany (27)
* Finland (10)
* France (28)
* Great Britain (12)
* Greece (3)
* Hungary (5)
* Iceland (1)
* Italy (10)
* Netherlands (20)
* Norway (2)
* Poland (30)
* Portugal (1)
* Romania (6)
* Soviet Union (20)
* Spain (10)
* Sweden (8)
* Switzerland (3)
* West Germany (44)
* Yugoslavia (4)