1979 European Athletics Indoor Championships
Host venue (shown in 2007)
Dates	24–25 February 1979
Host city	Vienna Austria
Venue	Ferry Dusika Halle
Events	19
Participation	210 athletes from 24 nations
Records set	2 AR, 6 CR
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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.

Event	Gold		Silver		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

Event	Gold		Silver		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

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
	Spain (ESP)	1	0	0	1
	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
	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		19	19	19	57

• Results - men at GBRathletics.com
• Results - women at GBRathletics.com
• EAA