2005 European Athletics Indoor Championships
Dates	4 – 6 March
Host city	Madrid, Spain
Venue	Palacio de Deportes
Events	28
Participation	563 athletes from 41 nations
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The 2005 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held at the Palacio de Deportes in Madrid, the capital city of Spain, from Friday, 4 March to Sunday, 6 March 2005. This was the first edition to be held in an odd year since switching to the biennial format, so as not to occur in the same as the outdoor European Athletics Championships and also recently moved IAAF World Indoor Championships. To accommodate this change, there was a two-year gap since the previous edition. It also marked the last time that the 200 metres were contested at the event.

Russia finished on top of the medal table with 17 medals including 9 gold and a clear lead over Sweden and France. The host nation Spain lost only to Russia on the number of medals but won only one gold and finished fifth overall.

Medal summary

Men

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 m details	Jason Gardener ( GBR)	6.55	Ronald Pognon ( FRA)	6.62	Kostyantyn Vasyukov ( UKR)	6.62
200 m details	Tobias Unger ( GER)	20.53	Chris Lambert ( GBR)	20.69	Marcin Urbaś ( POL)	21.04
400 m details	David Gillick ( IRL)	46.30	David Canal ( ESP)	46.64	Sebastian Gatzka ( GER)	46.88
800 m details	Dmitriy Bogdanov ( RUS)	1:48.61	Antonio Manuel Reina ( ESP)	1:48.76	Juan de Dios Jurado ( ESP)	1:49.11
1500 m details	Ivan Heshko ( UKR)	3:36.70 (CR)	Juan Carlos Higuero ( ESP)	3:37.98	Reyes Estévez ( ESP)	3:38.90
3000 m details	Alistair Cragg ( IRL)	7:46.32	John Mayock ( GBR)	7:51.46	Reyes Estévez ( ESP)	7:51.65
60 m hurdles details	Ladji Doucouré ( FRA)	7.50	Felipe Vivancos ( ESP)	7.61	Robert Kronberg ( SWE)	7.65
4 × 400 m relay details	France Richard Maunier Remi Wallard Brice Panel Marc Raquil	3:07.90	Great Britain Dale Garland Daniel Cossins Richard Davenport Gareth Warburton	3:09.53	Russia Andrey Polukeyev Aleksandr Usov Dmitriy Forshev Aleksandr Broshchenko	3:09.63
High jump details	Stefan Holm ( SWE)	2.40 m (CR)	Yaroslav Rybakov ( RUS)	2.38 m	Pavel Fomenko ( RUS)	2.32 m
Pole vault details	Igor Pavlov ( RUS)	5.90 m (CR)	Denys Yurchenko ( UKR)	5.85 m	Tim Lobinger ( GER)	5.80 m
Long jump details	Joan Lino Martínez ( ESP)	8.37 m	Bogdan Tarus ( ROU)	8.14 m	Volodymyr Zyuskov ( UKR)	7.99 m
Triple jump details	Igor Spasovkhodskiy ( RUS)	17.20 m	Mykola Savolainen ( UKR)	17.01 m	Aleksandr Petrenko ( RUS)	16.98 m
Shot put details	Joachim Olsen ( DEN)	21.19 m	Rutger Smith ( NED)	20.79 m	Manuel Martinez ( ESP)	20.51 m
Heptathlon details	Roman Šebrle ( CZE)	6232 pts	Aleksandr Pogorelov ( RUS)	6111 pts	Roland Schwarzl ( AUT)	6064 pts

• Note: Britain's Mark Lewis-Francis, second in men's 60 m (6.59), was later disqualified for doping offence ( tetrahydrocannabinol).

Women

Games	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 m details	Kim Gevaert ( BEL)	7.16	Yeoryia Kokloni ( GRE)	7.18	Maria Karastamati ( GRE)	7.25
200 m details	Ivet Lalova ( BUL)	22.91 (NR)	Karin Mayr-Krifka ( AUT)	22.94	Jacqueline Poelman ( NED)	23.42
400 m details	Svetlana Pospelova ( RUS)	50.41	Sviatlana Usovich ( BLR)	50.55	Irina Rosikhina ( RUS)	52.05
800 m details	Larisa Chzhao ( RUS)	1:59.97	Mayte Martínez ( ESP)	2:00.52	Natalya Tsyganova ( RUS)	2:01.62
1500 m details	Elena Iagăr ( ROM)	4:03.09	Corina Dumbravean ( ROM)	4:05.88	Hind Dehiba ( FRA)	4:07.20
3000 m details	Lidia Chojecka ( POL)	8:43.76	Susanne Pumper ( AUT)	8:47.74 (*)	Sabrina Mockenhaupt ( GER)	8:47.76
60 m hurdles details	Susanna Kallur ( SWE)	7.80	Jenny Kallur ( SWE)	7.99	Kirsten Bolm ( GER)	8.00
4 × 400 m details	Russia Tatyana Levina Yuliya Pechonkina Irina Rosikhina Svetlana Pospelova	3:28.00 (CR)	Poland Anna Pacholak Monika Bejnar Marta Chrust-Rożej Małgorzata Pskit	3:29.37	United Kingdom Melanie Purkiss Donna Fraser Catherine Murphy Lee McConnell	3:29.81
High jump details	Anna Chicherova ( RUS)	2.01 m	Ruth Beitia ( ESP)	1.99 m	Venelina Veneva ( BUL)	1.97 m
Pole vault details	Yelena Isinbayeva ( RUS)	4.90 m (WR)	Anna Rogowska ( POL)	4.75 m	Monika Pyrek ( POL)	4.70 m
Long jump details	Naide Gomes ( POR)	6.70 m	Stiliani Pilatou ( GRE)	6.64 m	Adina Anton ( ROM)   Bianca Kappler ( GER)	6.59 m 6.53 (**)
Triple jump details	Viktoriya Gurova ( RUS)	14.74 m	Magdelín Martínez ( ITA)	14.54 m	Carlota Castrejana ( ESP)	14.45 m
Shot put details	Nadzeya Astapchuk ( BLR)	19.37 m	Krystyna Zabawska ( POL)	18.96 m	Olga Ryabinkina ( RUS)	18.83 m
Pentathlon details	Carolina Klüft ( SWE)	4948 pts	Kelly Sotherton ( GBR)	4733 pts	Natalya Dobrynska ( UKR)	4667 pts

• Notes:
  • (*) Turkey's Tezeta Desalegn-Dengersa originally won the 3,000 m silver medal in 8:46.65, but was later disqualified for doping offence ( metenolone). This was announced on April 6, 2006.
  • (**) Bianca Kappler was awarded joint bronze medal as final jump was incorrectly measured. The jump was misread, putting her in first place, but she pointed out the mistake and was awarded the medal for fair play.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	9	2	6	17
2	Sweden (SWE)	3	1	1	5
3	France (FRA)	2	1	1	4
4	Ireland (IRL)	2	0	0	2
5	Spain (ESP)	1	6	5	12
6	Great Britain (GBR)	1	4	1	6
7	Poland (POL)	1	3	2	6
8	Ukraine (UKR)	1	2	3	6
9	Romania (ROM)	1	2	1	4
10	Belarus (BLR)	1	1	0	2
11	Germany (GER)	1	0	5	6
12	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	0	1	2
13	Belgium (BEL)	1	0	0	1
	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	0	0	1
	Denmark (DEN)	1	0	0	1
	Portugal (POR)	1	0	0	1
17	Austria (AUT)	0	2	1	3
	Greece (GRE)	0	2	1	3
19	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	1	2
20	Italy (ITA)	0	1	0	1
Totals (20 entries)		28	28	29	85

Participating nations

See also

• 2005 in athletics (track and field)

References

• Athletix