The 1987 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held at Stade Couvert Régional in Liévin, France, on 21 and 22 February 1987.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres details	Marian Woronin (POL)	6.51 CR	Pierfrancesco Pavoni (ITA)	6.58	František Ptáčník (TCH)  Antonio Ullo (ITA)	6.61
200 metres details	Bruno Marie-Rose (FRA)	20.36 WR-CR	Vladimir Krylov (URS)	20.53	John Regis (GBR)	20.54
400 metres details	Todd Bennett (GBR)	46.81	Momchil Kharizanov (BUL)	46.89	Paul Harmsworth (GBR)	46.92
800 metres details	Rob Druppers (NED)	1:48.12	Vladimir Graudyn (URS)	1:49.14	Ari Suhonen (FIN)	1:49.56
1500 metres details	Han Kulker (NED)	3:44.79	Jens-Peter Herold (GDR)	3:45.36	Klaus-Peter Nabein (FRG)	3:45.84
3000 metres details	José Luis González (ESP)	7:52.27	Dieter Baumann (FRG)	7:53.93	Pascal Thiébaut (FRA)	7:54.03
60 metres hurdles details	Arto Bryggare (FIN)	7.59	Colin Jackson (GBR)	7.63	Nigel Walker (GBR)	7.65
5000 metres walk details	Jozef Pribilinec (TCH)	19:08.44 CR	Ronald Weigel (GDR)	19:08.93	Roman Mrázek (TCH)	19:10.77
High jump details	Patrik Sjöberg (SWE)	2.38 CR	Carlo Thränhardt (FRG)	2.36	Hennadiy Avdyeyenko (URS)	2.36
Pole vault details	Thierry Vigneron (FRA)	5.85 =CR	Ferenc Salbert (FRA)	5.85	Marian Kolasa (POL)	5.80
Long jump details	Robert Emmiyan (URS)	8.49 CR	Giovanni Evangelisti (ITA)	8.26	Christian Thomas (FRG)	8.12
Triple jump details	Serge Hélan (FRA)	17.15	Khristo Markov (BUL)	17.12	Nikolay Musiyenko (URS)	17.00
Shot put details	Ulf Timmermann (GDR)	22.19 CR	Werner Günthör (SUI)	21.53	Sergey Smirnov (URS)	20.97

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres details	Nelli Fiere-Cooman (NED)	7.01	Anelia Nuneva (BUL)	7.06	Marlies Göhr (GDR)	7.12
200 metres details	Kirsten Emmelmann (GDR)	23.10	Blanca Lacambra (ESP)	23.19	Marie-Christine Cazier (FRA)	23.40
400 metres details	Mariya Pinigina (URS)	51.27	Gisela Kinzel (FRG)	52.29	Cristina Pérez (ESP)	52.63
800 metres details	Christine Wachtel (GDR)	1:59.89	Sigrun Wodars (GDR)	2:00.59	Lyubov Kiryukhina (URS)	2:01.85
1500 metres details	Sandra Gasser (SUI)	4:08.76	Svetlana Kitova (URS)	4:09.01	Ivana Walterová (TCH)	4:09.09
3000 metres details	Yvonne Murray (GBR)	8:46.06 CR	Elly van Hulst (NED)	8:51.40	Brigitte Kraus (FRG)	8:53.01
60 metres hurdles details	Yordanka Donkova (BUL)	7.79	Gloria Uibel (GDR)	7.89	Ginka Zagorcheva (BUL)	7.92
3000 metres walk details	Natalya Dmitrochenko (URS)	12:57.29	Giuliana Salce (ITA)	12:59.11	Monica Gunnarsson (SWE)	13:06.46
High jump details	Stefka Kostadinova (BUL)	1.97	Tamara Bykova (URS)	1.94	Susanne Beyer (GDR)  Elżbieta Trylińska (POL)	1.91
Long jump details	Heike Drechsler (GDR)	7.12	Galina Chistyakova (URS)	6.89	Yelena Belevskaya (URS)	6.76
Shot put details	Natalya Akhrimenko (URS)	20.84	Heidi Krieger (GDR)	20.02	Heike Hartwig (GDR)	20.00

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	4	5	4	13
2	East Germany (GDR)	4	5	3	12
3	France (FRA)	3	1	2	6
4	Netherlands (NED)	3	1	0	4
5	Bulgaria (BUL)	2	3	1	6
6	Great Britain (GBR)	2	1	2	5
7	Spain (ESP)	1	1	1	3
8	Switzerland (SUI)	1	1	0	2
9	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	0	3	4
10	Poland (POL)	1	0	2	3
11	Finland (FIN)	1	0	1	2
	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	1	2
13	West Germany (FRG)	0	3	3	6
14	Italy (ITA)	0	3	1	4
Totals (14 entries)		24	24	24	72

• 1987 in athletics (track and field)

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