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European Athletics Championships

The European Athletics Championships is a biennial athletics event organised by the European Athletics Association. First held in 1934 in Turin, the Championships have taken place every four years, with a few exceptions. Since 2010, they have been organised every two years, and when they coincide with the Summer Olympics, the marathon and racewalking events are not contested.

In 1932, the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) created a special committee to explore the possibility of organising a European Championships in Athletics.

The following year, the IAAF Council appointed a permanent European Committee.

The Committee met for the first time in Budapest on 7 January 1934 and the first European Athletics Championships were staged later that year in Torino.

European Championships-Medalists(men) by event

European Championships-Medalists(women) by event

European Championships - Records

European Championships - Statistics

Editions

#YearCityCountryDatesVenueNationsAthletes
1 1934 Turin Italy 7–9 September Stadio Benito Mussolini 23 226
2 1938 Paris France 3–5 September Stade Olympique de Colombes 23 272
1938 Vienna Germany[1] 17–18 September Praterstadion 14 80
3 1946 Oslo Norway 22–25 August Bislett stadion 20 353
4 1950 Brussels Belgium 23–27 August Heysel Stadium 24 454
5 1954 Bern Switzerland 25–29 August Stadion Neufeld 28 686
6 1958 Stockholm Sweden 19–24 August Stockholms Olympiastadion 26 626
7 1962 Belgrade Yugoslavia 12–16 September Stadion JNA 29 670
8 1966 Budapest Hungary 30 August – 4 September Népstadion 30 769
9 1969 Athens Greece 16–21 September Karaïskákis Stadium 30 674
10 1971 Helsinki Finland 10–15 August Olympiastadion 29 857
11 1974 Rome Italy 2–8 September Stadio Olimpico 29 745
12 1978 Prague Czechoslovakia 29 August – 3 September Stadion Evžena Rošického 29 1004
13 1982 Athens Greece 3–9 September Olympiakó Stádio 29 756
14 1986 Stuttgart West Germany 26–31 August Neckarstadion 31 906
15 1990 Split Yugoslavia 26 August – 2 September Stadion Poljud 33 952
16 1994 Helsinki Finland 7–14 August Olympiastadion 44 1113
17 1998 Budapest Hungary 18–23 August Népstadion 44 1259
18 2002 Munich Germany 6–11 August Olympiastadion 48 1244
19 2006 Gothenburg Sweden 7–13 August Ullevi 48 1288
20 2010 Barcelona Spain 27 July – 1 August Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys 50 1323
21 2012 Helsinki Finland 27 June – 1 July Olympiastadion 50 1230
22 2014 Zürich Switzerland 12–17 August Letzigrund 50 1439
23 2016 Amsterdam Netherlands 6–10 July Olympisch Stadion    
24 2018 Berlin Germany 7–12 August Olympiastadion    
25 2020 Paris or Tbilisi France or Georgia 24-28 June Stade de France or Boris Paichadze Stadium Decision: May 2016
  • [1] The championships took place in Vienna; Austria had been a province of Germany since the Anchluss in April 1938.
See all the detailed information and the full results for every edition
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1934 1st European Championships - Turin 1938 2nd European Championships - Paris(men) 1946 3rd European Championships - Oslo
  1938 2nd European Championships - Vienna(women)  
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1950 4th European Championships - Brussels 1954 5th European Championships - Bern 1958 6th European Championships - Stockholm
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1962 7th European Championships - Belgrade 1966 8th European Championships - Budapest 1969 9th European Championships - Athens
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1971 10th European Championships - Helsinki 1974 11th European Championships - Rome 1978 12th European Championships - Prague
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1982 13th European Championships - Athens 1986 14th European Championships - Stuttgart 1990 15th European Championships - Split
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1994 16th European Championships - Helsinki 1998 17th European Championships - Budapest 2002 18th European Championships - Munich
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2006 19th European Championships - Goteborg (Overview) 2010 20th European Championships - Barcelona (Overview) 2012 21st European Championships - Helsinki (Overview)
2006 19th European Championships - Goteborg-(Results) 2010 20th European Championships - Barcelona-(Men's Results) 2012 21st European Championships - Helsinki-(Men's Results)
  2010 20th European Championships - Barcelona(Women's Results) 2012 21st European Championships - Helsinki-(Women's Results)
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2014 22rd European Championships - Zürich (Overview) 2016 23rd European Championships - Amsterdam  
2014 22rd European Championships - Zürich-(Men's Results)    
2014 22rd European Championships - Zürich-(Women's Results)    

Ten great moments at the European Athletics Championships

 Any selection of 10 great moments in the history of a championship, especially one with an illustrious 82-year history like the European Athletics Championships, is a
subjective affair.

I think there will be broad agreement
on some of the feats listed below but,
inevitably, many people will feel that other
stunning achievements should have been
included instead of the ones I’ve chosen.
Space and a certain numerical symmetry
only permit me to list 10 ‘Great Moments’.
However, I hope that this list stimulates
some interesting debates among athletics
fans, whether you will be in Helsinki’s
Olympic Stadium or in front of your TV
screen at home.
Phil Minshull

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1950 Fanny Blankers-Koen (NED)

The 32-year-old Flying Housewife
was the undoubted star of the 1950
Championships in Brussels, winning
firstly the 100m, then the 80m
hurdles and finally the 200m before
anchoring the Netherlands to the
silver medal in the 4x100m relay. She
is still the only person to win three
individual gold medals at a single
European Athletics Championships.

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1954 Vladimir Kuts (RUS)

At the 1954 Championships in Berne,the Soviet runner demonstrated that the legendary Emil Zatopek was human after all. In the 5000 m final, Kuts went straight into the lead and blazed through thefirst kilometre in a brutal 2:44.0, a pace which no one dared follow. He carried on
to win in a world record 13:56.6 to leave Britain’s Chris Chataway and Zatopek trailing in his wake, almost 100 metres in arrears.

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1982 Urlike Meyfarth (FRG)

The high jump heroine of the Munich Olympics
a decade earlier returned to the top of
the podium at a major championships in 1982
with a world record of 2.02 m, adding
a centimetre to the standard set by Italy’s
Sara Simeoni in Prague four years earlier.

 

 

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2002 Robert Korzeniowski (POL)

Arguably the greatest walker ever, Korzeniowski produced a 50 km world record of 3:36:39 around the streets of Munich in 2002, beating the former mark by almost a minute.

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1962 Salvatore Morale (ITA)

The Italian, running in lane four, equalled the 400m hurdles world record of 49.2 at the 1962 Championships, one of three world records set in Belgrade 50 years ago. He won by more than a second from the silver medallist, Germany’s Jörg Neumann, and took half-a-second off his own European record set the year before.

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1969 Nicole Duclos (FRA)

Collette Besson (FRA)

The French pair, joint European record holders at 52.0, had a terrific battle over one lap of the track at the 1969 Championships in Athens. Besson started the quicker andwas clearly in the lead coming into the home straightbut Duclos clawed back the advantage and edged in front in the final 10 metres. After a 20 minute delay,Duclos got the verdict but both women were given ashare of the world record of 51.7, although electronic timing showed that Duclos had clocked 51.77 to Besson’s 51.79.

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1934 Matti Järvinen (FIN)

The bespectacled Finnish javelin thrower produced a world record of 76.66m
at the inaugural European Athletics Championships in 1934, which were held
in the Italian city of Torino. Curiously, when weighed, his javelin was actually 20 grammes heavier than the usual 800gm implement.

 

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1978 Martia Koch (GDR)

The East German was the first runner to go under 49 seconds for 400m when she clocked 48.94 m at the 1978 Championships in Prague, winning from her compatriot Christina Brehmer by the massive margin of more than a second. Koch was to set another 400 m world record at the Championships four years later in Athens when she ran 48.16.

 

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1986 Yuriy Sedykh (RUS)

The Soviet hammer thrower reached the phenomenal
distance of 86.74 m at the 1986 Championships inStuttgart, a world record which still stands at the time of writing. Four of his other five throws also went over 85 metres and he beat his compatriot andrival Sergey Litvinov by exactly a metre.

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1980 Daley Thompson (GBR)

The British multievents exponent was
expected to have a close battle in the
1982 decathlon in Athens with his
German rival Jürgen Hingsen but, instead,
the 1980 Olympic champion won by
more than 200 points in a world record tally
of 8743 points

 

All-time medal table (1934–2014)

Of all the countries, 41 have won a medal in this outdoor event. Some countries still have to win a medal, such as Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Bosnia, Cyprus, Georgia, Gibraltar, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Malta, Monaco and San Marino.

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European Athletics Championships Rome 1974 Medal

Participation Medal: European Athletics 1946
Athletics European Championships Stuttgart 1986
 
Coin > 100 drachmas, 1982 - Greece  (XIII European Athletics Championships, Athens 1982 - Pole Vault) - reverse
Greece 100 drachmas, 1982
XIII European Athletics Championships, Athens 1982
Pole Vault
 
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  USSR 121 109 103 333
2  Great Britain 106 79 86 271
3  East Germany 91 82 65 238
4  Germany 87 96 97 280
5  France 64 56 53 173
6  Russia 53 53 60 166
7  Poland 41 42 58 141
8  Italy 38 43 39 120
9  Finland 33 28 38 99
10  Sweden 28 38 37 103
11  Spain 22 18 30 70
12  Netherlands 20 21 15 56
13  Ukraine 17 27 16 60
14  Hungary 17 19 24 60
15  Czechoslovakia 16 16 27 59
16  Bulgaria 12 12 12 36
17  Portugal 11 11 7 29
18  Norway 9 13 14 36
19  Romania 7 21 10 38
20  Belgium 7 10 10 27
21  Belarus 7 9 8 24
22  Greece 7 5 9 21
23  Turkey 7 2 4 13
24  Czech Republic 6 8 7 21
25  Yugoslavia 6 6 3 15
26   Switzerland 5 10 9 24
27  Croatia 4 1 2 7
28  Denmark 3 7 3 13
29  Ireland 3 6 4 13
30  Estonia 3 6 2 11
31  Latvia 3 2 3 8
32  Iceland 3 1 1 5
33  Austria 2 1 3 6
34  Slovenia 2 1 1 4
35  Israel 2 0 1 3
36  Slovakia 1 3 0 4
37  Lithuania 1 2 3 6
38  Serbia 0 4 1 5
39  Azerbaijan 0 1 1 2
40  Luxembourg 0 1 0 1
41  Moldova 0 0 1 1
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All time Placing Table (1934 – 2014)
Rk Country Gold Silver Bronze 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th Points
1 URS 120 114 101 76 90 81 44 40 3471,5
2 GBR 111 79 87 66 61 71 47 51 2891
3 GDR 89 77 67 70 53 46 42 32 2465,5
4 FRA 65 59 52 63 57 52 55 68 2117
5 POL 40 37 57 51 68 54 51 37 1745
6 RUS 51 54 58 47 39 27 28 25 1683
7 GER 49 49 43 46 44 48 36 27 1639
8 ITA 38 40 38 50 51 62 65 56 1633
9 FRG 29 36 46 36 31 28 37 33 1252,5
10 SWE 28 38 39 37 40 29 35 24 1247
11 FIN 31 30 39 31 28 32 31 27 1142
12 ESP 22 17 31 26 30 31 25 25 898
13 HUN 18 19 22 24 33 40 27 28 862
14 NED 20 22 13 25 17 21 18 18 700,5
15 TCH 16 15 28 14 18 18 28 27 678,5
16 UKR 17 27 14 21 13 19 12 10 654
17 ROU 7 21 9 20 26 20 21 20 581
18 BUL 13 12 12 24 17 16 14 18 540
19 NOR 9 13 15 22 11 13 14 15 488,5
20 SUI 6 10 10 13 18 22 13 16 422,5
21 BEL 6 11 10 9 14 9 12 17 354
22 POR 11 11 7 9 5 13 10 14 345
23 CZE 6 9 7 7 13 14 13 6 311,5
24 YUG 5 6 4 11 12 12 19 12 295
25 GRE 7 5 8 6 8 8 13 14 264
26 IRL 3 7 4 7 5 6 5 12 191,5
27 DEN 3 8 3 6 4 2 9 11 179
28 AUT 2 1 5 5 5 5 10 5 138
29 TUR 7 1 4 3 4 3 1 3 131,5
30 LAT 3 3 3 6 5 4 1 3 130
31 EST 3 6 2 4 5 1 3 4 129,5
32 LTU 1 2 3 3 3 2 6 1 86
33 ISL 3 1 1 4 3 2 4 1 84
34 SVK 1 3 0 2 2 4 9 3 79,5
35 CRO 4 1 2 3 2 0 0 0 73,5
36 SRB 0 4 1 3 2 3 1 4 71,5
37 SLO 2 1 1 1 1 5 2 3 60
38 BLR 2 0 0 3 2 0 2 0 43
39 ISR 2 0 1 1 0 1 1 2 33
40 LUX 0 1 0 0 0 4 2 1 24
41 AZE 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 20
42 MDA 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 1 17
43 CYP 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 7
44 GEO 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 4
45 BIH 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3
46 LIE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
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