| 1976 European Athletics Indoor Championships | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Dates | 21–22 February 1976 |
| Host city | Munich  West Germany |
| Venue | Olympiahalle |
| Events | 19 |
| Participation | 226 athletes from 25 nations |
| Records set | 1 WR , 7 CR |
The 1976 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held at Olympiahalle in Munich, West Germany, in February 1976. The track used at this edition was 179 metres long.
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 60 metres |  Valeriy Borzov (URS) | 6.58 =CR |  Vassilios Papageorgopoulos (GRE) | 6.67 |  Petar Petrov (BUL) | 6.68 |
| 400 metres | Yanko Bratanov (BUL) | 47.79 | Hermann Köhler (FRG) | 48.19 |  Grzegorz Mądry (POL) | 48.46 |
| 800 metres |  Ivo Van Damme (BEL) | 1:49.2a | Josef Schmid (FRG) | 1:49.8a |  Milovan Savić (YUG) | 1:49.9a |
| 1500 metres | Paul-Heinz Wellmann (FRG) | 3:45.1a | Thomas Wessinghage (FRG) | 3:45.3a |  Gheorghe Ghipu (ROM) | 3:46.1a |
| 3000 metres | Ingo Sensburg (FRG) | 8:01.6a | Józef Ziubrak (POL) | 8:02.0a |  Ray Smedley (GBR) | 8:02.2a |
| 60 metres hurdles | Viktor Myasnikov (URS) | 7.78 | Berwyn Price (GBR) | 7.80 | Zbigniew Jankowski (POL) | 7.92 |
| High jump | Sergey Senyukov (URS) | 2.22 |  Jacques Aletti (FRA) | 2.19 | Walter Boller (FRG) | 2.19 |
| Pole vault | Yuriy Prokhorenko (URS) | 5.45 CR |  Antti Kalliomäki (FIN) | 5.40 |  Renato Dionisi (ITA) | 5.30 |
| Long jump | Jacques Rousseau (FRA) | 7.90 | Valeriy Podluzhniy (URS) | 7.79 | Joachim Busse (FRG) | 7.72 |
| Triple jump | Viktor Sanyeyev (URS) | 17.10 CR | Carol Corbu (ROM) | 16.75 | Bernard Lamitié (FRA) | 16.68 |
| Shot put | Geoff Capes (GBR) | 20.64 |  Gerd Lochmann (GDR) | 20.29 | Aleksandr Baryshnikov (URS) | 20.02 |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 60 metres |  Linda Haglund (SWE) | 7.24 | Sonia Lannaman (GBR) | 7.25 | Elvira Possekel (FRG) | 7.28 |
| 400 metres | Rita Wilden (FRG) | 52.26 WR | Jelica Pavličić (YUG) | 52.47 | Inta Kļimoviča (URS) | 52.80 |
| 800 metres | Nikolina Shtereva (BUL) | 2:02.2a CR | Lilyana Tomova (BUL) | 2:02.6a | Gisela Klein (FRG) | 2:03.2a |
| 1500 metres | Brigitte Kraus (FRG) | 4:15.2a | Natalia Mărășescu (ROM) | 4:15.6a | Rositsa Pekhlivanova (BUL) | 4:15.8a |
| 60 metres hurdles | Grażyna Rabsztyn (POL) | 7.96 CR | Natalya Lebedeva (URS) | 8.08 | Bożena Nowakowska (POL) | 8.14 |
| High jump | Rosemarie Ackermann (GDR) | 1.92 =CR | Ulrike Meyfarth (FRG) | 1.89 |  Milada Karbanová (TCH) | 1.89 |
| Long jump | Lidiya Alfeyeva (URS) | 6.64 | Jarmila Nygrýnová (TCH) | 6.57 | Galina Gopchenko (URS) | 6.48 |
| Shot put | Ivanka Khristova (BUL) | 20.45 | Svetlana Krachevskaya (URS) | 20.06 | Ilona Schoknecht (GDR) | 19.36 |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soviet Union (URS) | 6 | 3 | 3 | 12 |
| 2 | West Germany (FRG) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |
| 3 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 4 | Great Britain (GBR) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | Poland (POL) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 6 | East Germany (GDR) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| France (FRA) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| 8 | Belgium (BEL) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Sweden (SWE) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 10 | Romania (ROU) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 11 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Yugoslavia (YUG) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 13 | Finland (FIN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Greece (GRE) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 15 | Italy (ITA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (15 entries) | 19 | 19 | 19 | 57 | |
Austria (3) Belgium (7) Bulgaria (17) Czechoslovakia (14)
Denmark (1) East Germany (8) Finland (6) France (22) Great Britain (7) Greece (10)
Hungary (6)
Iceland (1) Italy (4)
Liechtenstein (2)
Netherlands (3)
Norway (1) Poland (25)
Portugal (1) Romania (8) Soviet Union (28)
Spain (6) Sweden (9)
Switzerland (3) West Germany (30) Yugoslavia (4)
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