1968 European Indoor Games – Women's 50 metres hurdles

1968 European Indoor Games
Track events
50 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
3000 m	men
50 m hurdles	men
4 × 182 m relay		women
4 × 364 m relay	men
Medley relay	men	women
3 × 1000 m relay	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women

The women's 50 metres hurdles event at the 1968 European Indoor Games was held on 9 March in Madrid.^[1]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Karin Balzer  East Germany	Bärbel Podeswa  East Germany	Liudmila Ievleva  Soviet Union

First 4 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Galina Zarubina	Soviet Union	7.07	Q
2	3	Karin Balzer	East Germany	7.10	Q
3	1	Liudmila Ievleva	Soviet Union	7.12	Q
4	2	Inge Schell	West Germany	7.16	Q
5	1	Ulla-Britt Wieslander	Sweden	7.18	Q
5	3	Meta Antenen	Switzerland	7.18	Q
7	2	Valeria Ștefănescu	Romania	7.19	Q
8	2	Bärbel Podeswa	East Germany	7.20	Q
9	1	Vlasta Seifertová	Czechoslovakia	7.23	Q
10	2	Danièle Guéneau	France	7.32	Q
11	2	Marijana Lubej	Yugoslavia	7.36
12	1	Françoise Masse	France	7.37	Q
13	1	Ulla Farthmann	West Germany	7.37
14	3	Đurđa Fočić	Yugoslavia	7.60	Q

First 3 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Karin Balzer	East Germany	6.90	Q
2	2	Liudmila Ievleva	Soviet Union	7.12	Q
3	1	Bärbel Podeswa	East Germany	7.14	Q
4	1	Inge Schell	West Germany	7.14	Q
5	1	Galina Zarubina	Soviet Union	7.16	Q
6	1	Meta Antenen	Switzerland	7.16
7	1	Vlasta Seifertová	Czechoslovakia	7.24
8	2	Valeria Ștefănescu	Romania	7.28	Q
9	2	Ulla-Britt Wieslander	Sweden	7.31
10	1	Danièle Guéneau	France	7.57
	2	Françoise Masse	France	DNS
	2	Đurđa Fočić	Yugoslavia	DNS

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	6	Karin Balzer	East Germany	7.03
	2	Bärbel Podeswa	East Germany	7.07
	1	Liudmila Ievleva	Soviet Union	7.09
4	3	Inge Schell	West Germany	7.13
5	4	Valeria Ștefănescu	Romania	7.19
6	5	Galina Zarubina	Soviet Union	7.22