European Competitions in Athletics
01. European Championships - Overview
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- Parent Category: European Competitions in Athletics
- Category: European Championships
- Last Updated: 06 June 2016
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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 |
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Ten great moments at the European Athletics Championships |
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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 I think there will be broad agreement |
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. |
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 |
1982 Urlike Meyfarth (FRG)The high jump heroine of the Munich Olympics
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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. |
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. |
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. |
1934 Matti Järvinen (FIN)The bespectacled Finnish javelin thrower produced a world record of 76.66m
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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 |
1980 Daley Thompson (GBR)The British multievents exponent was |