1983 European Athletics Indoor Championships

1983 European Athletics Indoor Championships
Dates	5–6 March 1983
Host city	Budapest Hungary
Venue	Budapest Sportcsarnok
Events	23
Participation	261 athletes from 24 nations
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The 1983 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held at Sportcsarnok in Budapest, the capital city of Hungary, on 5 and 6 March 1983. ^{[1] [2]}

Sportcsarnok, also known as Budapest Sports Arena, served as the venue for this prestigious event. Athletes from various European countries participated in the championships, competing in a range of indoor track and field disciplines. The event provided an opportunity for athletes to showcase their skills and compete for titles and medals in front of an enthusiastic audience.

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres details	Stefano Tilli  (ITA)	6.63	Christian Haas  (FRG)	6.64	Valentin Atanasov  (BUL)	6.66
200 metres details	Aleksandr Yevgenyev  (URS)	20.97 CR	Jacques Borlée  (BEL)	21.13	István Nagy  (HUN)	21.18
400 metres details	Yevgeniy Lomtev  (URS)	46.20 CR	Ainsley Bennett  (GBR)	46.43	Ángel Heras  (ESP)	46.57
800 metres details	Colomán Trabado  (ESP)	1:46.91	Peter Elliott  (GBR)	1:47.58	Thierry Tonnelier  (FRA)	1:47.68
1500 metres details	Thomas Wessinghage  (FRG)	3:39.82	José Manuel Abascal  (ESP)	3:40.69	Antti Loikkanen  (FIN)	3:41.31
3000 metres details	Dragan Zdravković  (YUG)	7:54.73	Valeriy Abramov  (URS)	7:57.79	Uwe Mönkemeyer  (FRG)	7:58.11
60 metres hurdles details	Thomas Munkelt  (GDR)	7.48 CR	Arto Bryggare  (FIN)	7.60 NR	Andreas Oschkenat  (GDR)	7.63
5000 metres walk details	Anatoliy Solomin  (URS)	19:19.93	Yevgeniy Yevsyukov  (URS)	19:41.66	Erling Andersen  (NOR)	20:00.68
High jump details	Carlo Thränhardt  (FRG)	2.32	Gerd Nagel  (FRG)	2.30	Massimo Di Giorgio  (ITA)   Mirosław Włodarczyk  (POL)	2.27
Pole vault details	Vladimir Polyakov  (URS)	5.60	Aleksandrs Obižajevs  (URS)	5.60	Patrick Abada  (FRA)	5.55
Long jump details	László Szalma  (HUN)	7.95	Gyula Pálóczi  (HUN)	7.90	Jens Knipphals  (FRG)	7.82
Triple jump details	Nikolay Musiyenko  (URS)	17.12	Gennadiy Valyukevich  (URS)	16.94	Béla Bakosi  (HUN)	16.90
Shot put details	Jānis Bojārs  (URS)	20.56	Aleksandr Baryshnikov  (URS)	20.44	Ivan Ivančić  (YUG)	20.26

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres details	Marlies Göhr  (GDR)	7.09 CR	Silke Gladisch  (GDR)	7.12	Marisa Masullo  (ITA)	7.19
200 metres details	Marita Koch  (GDR)	22.39 CR	Joan Baptiste  (GBR)	23.37	Christina Sussiek  (FRG)	23.61
400 metres details	Jarmila Kratochvílová  (TCH)	49.69	Kirsten Siemon  (GDR)	51.70	Rositsa Stamenova  (BUL)	52.36
800 metres details	Svetlana Kitova  (URS)	2:01.28	Zuzana Moravčíková  (TCH)	2:01.66	Olga Simakova  (URS)	2:02.25
1500 metres details	Brigitte Kraus  (FRG)	4:16.14	Maria Radu  (ROM)	4:17.16	Ivana Kleinová  (TCH)	4:17.21
3000 metres details	Yelena Sipatova  (URS)	9:04.40	Agnese Possamai  (ITA)	9:04.41	Yelena Malykhina  (URS)	9:04.52
60 metres hurdles details	Bettine Jahn  (GDR)	7.75 WR	Kerstin Knabe  (GDR)	7.96	Tatyana Malyuvanyets  (URS)	8.07
High jump details	Tamara Bykova  (URS)	2.03 CR	Larisa Kositsyna  (URS)	1.94	Maryse Ewanjé-Epée  (FRA)	1.92
Long jump details	Eva Murková  (TCH)	6.77 =CR	Helga Radtke  (GDR)	6.63	Heike Daute  (GDR)	6.61
Shot put details	Helena Fibingerová  (TCH)	20.61	Helma Knorscheidt  (GDR)	20.35	Zdenka Šilhavá  (TCH)	19.56

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union  (URS)	9	6	3	18
2	East Germany  (GDR)	4	5	2	11
3	West Germany  (FRG)	3	2	3	8
4	Czechoslovakia  (TCH)	3	1	2	6
5	Hungary  (HUN)	1	1	2	4
	Italy  (ITA)	1	1	2	4
7	Spain  (ESP)	1	1	1	3
8	Yugoslavia  (YUG)	1	0	1	2
9	Great Britain  (GBR)	0	3	0	3
10	Finland  (FIN)	0	1	1	2
11	Belgium  (BEL)	0	1	0	1
	Romania  (ROU)	0	1	0	1
13	France  (FRA)	0	0	3	3
14	Bulgaria  (BUL)	0	0	2	2
15	Norway  (NOR)	0	0	1	1
	Poland  (POL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		23	23	24	70

Participating nations

•   Austria (8)
•   Belgium (4)
• Bulgaria (12)
•   Czechoslovakia (18)
•   East Germany (15)
•   Finland (7)
•   France (20)
•   Great Britain (13)
•   Greece (3)
•   Hungary (31)
•   Ireland (2)
•   Italy (16)
•   Netherlands (3)
•   Norway (1)
•   Poland (10)
•   Portugal (1)
• Romania (6)
•   Soviet Union (33)
•   Spain (10)
•   Sweden (10)
•   Switzerland (5)
•   Turkey (3)
•   West Germany (25)
•   Yugoslavia (5)

See also

• 1983 in athletics (track and field)

References

1. 2017 EIC Statistics Handbook (p. 470)
2. L'Athletisme (April 1983, pp8-9)

• Medallists – men at GBRathletics.com
• Medallists – women at GBRathletics.com