| Athletics X Indoor European Championship 1979 Vienna, Austria - Saturday, 24 February and Sunday, 25th February | 
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| old europe indoor 1979 | 210 athletes from 24 nations. Venue: Ferry Dusika Halle. | 
| Men Events | Gold | Silver | Bronze | ||||||
| Men 60m | Marian Woronin |  POL | 6.57s =AR, CR | Leszek Dunecki |  POL | 6.62 | Petar Petrov |  BUL | 6.63 | 
| Men 400m | Karel Kolář |  TCH | 46.21s CR | Stefano Malinverni |  ITA | 46.59 | Horia Toboc |  ROM | 46.86 | 
| Men 800m | Antonio Páez |  ESP | 1:47.4a | Binko Kolev |  BUL | 1:47.8a | András Paróczai |  HUN | 1:48.2a | 
| Men 1500m | Eamonn Coghlan |  IRL | 3:41.8a | Thomas Wessinghage |  FRG | 3:42.2a | John Robson |  GBR | 3:42.8a | 
| Men 3000m | Markus Ryffel |  SUI | 7:44.43 CR | Christoph Herle |  FRG | 7:45.44 | Aleksandr Fedotkin |  URS | 7:45.50 | 
| Men 60m Hurdles | Thomas Munkelt |  GDR | 7.59s CR | Arto Bryggare |  FIN | 7.67 | Eduard Pereverzev |  URS | 7.70 | 
| Men High Jump | Vladimir Yashchenko |  URS | 2.26m | Gennadiy Belkov |  URS | 2.26 | Andre Schneider-Laub |  FRG | |
| Men Pole Vault | Władysław Kozakiewicz |  POL | 5.58m AR, CR | Konstantin Volkov |  URS | 5.45 | Vladimir Trofimenko |  URS | 5.45 | 
| Men Long Jump | Vladimir Tsepelyov |  URS | 7.88m | Valeriy Podluzhniy |  URS | 7.86 | Lutz Franke |  GDR | 7.80 | 
| Men Triple Jump | Gennadiy Valyukevich |  URS | 17.02m | Anatoliy Piskulin |  URS | 16.97 | Jaak Uudmäe |  URS | 16.91 | 
| Men Shot Put | Reijo Ståhlberg |  FIN | 20.47m | Geoff Capes |  GBR | 20.23 | Vladimir Kiselyov |  URS | 20.01 | 
| Women Events | Gold | Silver | Bronze | ||||||
| Women 60m | Marlies Göhr |  GDR | 7.16s | Marita Koch |  GDR | 7.19 | Lyudmila Storozhkova |  URS | 7.22 | 
| Women 400m | Verona Elder |  GBR | 51.80s | Jarmila Kratochvílová |  TCH | 51.81 | Karoline Käfer |  AUT | 51.90 | 
| Women 800m | Nikolina Shtereva |  BUL | 2:02.6 | Anita Weiß |  GDR | 2:02.9a | Fiţa Lovin |  ROM | 2:03.1a | 
| Women 1500m | Natalia Mărășescu |  ROU | 4:03.5a CR | Zamira Zaytseva |  URS | 4:03.9a | Svetlana Guskova |  URS | 4:07.4a | 
| Women 60m Hurdles | Danuta Perka |  POL | 7.95m | Grażyna Rabsztyn |  POL | 8.00 | Nina Morgulina |  URS | 8.09 | 
| Women High Jump | Andrea Mátay |  HUN | 1.92m | Urszula Kielan |  POL | 1.85 | Ulrike Meyfarth |  FRG | 1.80 | 
| Women Long Jump | Siegrun Siegl |  GDR | 6.70m | Jarmila Nygrýnová |  TCH | 6.42 | Lena Johansson |  SWE | 6.27 | 
| Women Shot Put | Ilona Slupianek |  GDR | 21.01m | Marianne Adam |  GDR | 20.11 | Judy Oakes |  GBR | 15.66 |