European Games 2015

I. European Games

Venue:	Baku , Azerbaijan
Stadion:	Baku National Stadium
Opening ceremony:	June 12, 2015
Closing ceremony:	June 28, 2015
Opened by:	İlham Əliyev
Competitions:	255 in 20 sports
Countries:	50
Athletes:	6000+
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Medal table (final result after 253 competitions)
space	country				total
1	Russia Russia	79	40	45	164
2	Azerbaijan Azerbaijan	21st	15th	20th	56
3	United Kingdom United Kingdom	18th	10	19th	47
4th	Germany Germany	16	17th	33	66
5	France France	12	13	18th	43
6th	Italy Italy	10	26th	11	47
7th	Belarus Belarus	10	11	22nd	43
8th	Ukraine Ukraine	8th	14th	24	46
9	Netherlands Netherlands	8th	12	9	29
10	Spain Spain	8th	11	11	30th
Complete medal table

The mascots of the 2015 European Games Jeyran the gazelle and Nar the pomegranate

The European Games in 2015 (1st European Games) were from 12 to 28 June 2015 in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku held. The European Olympic Committees organized the first edition of these games .

Baku was the only candidate to host the Games and was elected with 38 votes to 8. Azerbaijan had previously failed with its applications for the 2016 and 2020 Olympic Games as well as for the Paralympics of the respective years.

A total of 20 sports were represented, 16 Olympic and four non-Olympic. The European Olympic Committees expected more than 6000 athletes. 253 medal decisions were planned in 31 disciplines. Eleven sports offered direct or indirect qualification opportunities for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. However, no top athletes participated in the core Olympic sports of athletics and swimming. Their associations are against the European Games, so the third division of the European Athletics Team Championships 2015 was held in Baku .

The competitions were held in 18 sports venues, twelve permanent and six temporary, including the new Baku National Stadium and the National Gymnastics Arena . The athletes' village for the participants had 3755 bedrooms.

Comparable continental games have long existed on the other four continents: the Asian Games (since 1951), the Pacific Games (since 1963), the African Games (since 1965) and the Pan-American Games (since 1951).

Entrance ticket to the European Games in Baku

Free buses transported the audience to the different venues

Competitions

aerobics

A total of two aerobics competitions were held from June 17 to 21, 2015. In the mixed pairs, the Spanish couple Sara Moreno López and Vicente Lli Lloris won . Hungary won gold in the mixed team.

badminton

From June 22 to 28, 2015, a total of five badminton competitions took place, an individual and a team competition for women and men, plus a team mixed competition. The favorites from Denmark took first place with 3 gold medals. Bulgaria and Spain shared second place with one gold and one bronze each.

Basketball 3x3

Two basketball competitions were held from June 23 to 26, 2015. There was competition for women and men. The rules of 3 × 3 basketball were played . A total of 16 teams each competed, each consisting of four players (three active players and one substitute).

Russia won gold in both women and men. Spain won silver for men and bronze for women. Silver went to the team from Ukraine in the women's category, while the team from Serbia won the men's bronze medal.

Beach soccer

A men's beach soccer competition was held from June 24th to 28th, 2015. A total of eight teams competed, each consisting of five active players and seven other substitutes.

Beach soccer world champion Russia won the final just 3-2 against Italy. Portugal beat the Swiss team 6-5 in the match for third place.

beach volleyball

A total of two beach volleyball competitions were held from June 16 to 21, 2015. There was one competition for women and one for men.

In the women's category, the Swiss team won the gold medal against the Austrians, Lithuania defeated the Czech Republic in the game for third place. In the men's category, Latvia took gold, Russia silver and the Czech Republic bronze.

Archery

A total of five archery competitions were held from June 16 to 22, 2015, an individual and a team competition for women and men as well as a team mixed competition. In the nations ranking Italy was with 2 gold medals ahead of Spain, Ukraine and Germany with one gold each.

Boxing

Teymur Məmmədov won gold against Valentino Manfredonia in boxing in the 81 kg class

From June 16 to 27, 2015, a total of 263 fights took place in Olympic boxing, 201 of them for men and 62 for women. The men boxed in ten weight classes with fights of three rounds of three minutes each and a one-minute break between the rounds. As usual since 2013, the men box without head protection. For the women, five weight classes were set up with four rounds of two minutes per fight, with a one-minute break between the rounds. The women also continued to wear head protection.

The most successful boxing team was that of the host nation Azerbaijan with six gold, one silver and four bronze medals. Russia follows with four gold medals, followed by Ireland with two gold medals. The UK team also won two gold medals. A gold medal went to the Netherlands.

fencing

A total of twelve fencing competitions were held from June 22nd to 27th, 2015. There are six competitions for women and six for men, team and individual competitions in foil, epee and saber. Italy won the most gold medals with three and the most medals in total with twelve. The Romanian fencing team finished second with two golds ahead of France and Ukraine. The German team fell short of their own expectations with only one bronze medal.

Judo

In judo in the class over 91 kg for the visually impaired, the Azerbaijani İlham Zəkiyev won against the Ukrainian Oleksandr Pominow

A total of 18 judo competitions took place from June 25 to 28, 2015, nine of which were for men and nine for women. The competitions also represented the 2015 European Judo Championships. France was the most successful team with three gold, two silver, three bronze medals. Russia and the Netherlands followed with three gold medals each. Georgia came fourth ahead of Germany, with the German team winning the most judo medals with one gold, four silver and six bronze medals with a total of 11.

canoe

A total of sixteen canoeing competitions were held from June 14 to 16, 2015 (nine for men, six for women). Hungary was the most successful canoeist nation with five gold medals, followed by Germany with three and Belarus with three gold medals. Serbia followed with two, Poland and Lithuania each won a gold medal.

karate

A total of twelve karate competitions were held on June 13 and 14, 2015 (six each for women and men). Two of them were for the kata . The host nation Azerbaijan was the most successful with four gold medals and two bronze medals. Another three gold medals went to Turkey, two each to France and Spain and one to Croatia.

athletics

In addition to the opening and closing ceremonies, the athletics competitions were also held in the Baku National Stadium.

Athletics competitions were held in the Baku National Stadium from June 21-22, 2015 . The competition also hosted the third division of the 2015 European Athletics Team Championship . The best four teams rose to the second division.

Gold went to Austria, silver to Slovakia and bronze to Israel. Fourth place went to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Cycling

The mountain biker Jolanda Neff won in cross country and thus the first medal in the history of the European Games. Nino Schurter won the men's mountain bike race and secured the third gold medal for Switzerland.

Rhythmic sports gymnastics

All gymnastics competitions took place in the Milli Gimnastika Arenası.

Wrestling

From June 13 to 18, 2015, a total of 24 wrestling competitions were held, 8 for women and 16 for men. In the men’s eight freestyle wrestling and eight Greco-Roman wrestling. As usual, the women only competed in freestyle.

Russia dominated the wrestling and achieved 1st place with 11 gold, 2 silver and 5 bronze. Host Azerbaijan took 2nd place ahead of Turkey.

Sambo

swim

A total of 42 swimming competitions were held from June 23 to 27, 2015. 17 individual competitions were held for men and women, the other eight competitions were relay and mixed races.

Since the European swimming federation LEN only agreed to the inclusion of swimming at the European Games after renegotiations, only pure junior competitions were held. The age limit for male adolescents was eighteen and sixteen for girls. The European Games were thus also the 2015 European Youth Championships.

By far the most successful nation was Russia with a total of 42 medals. With 23 gold medals, Russia won more than half of all competitions. The second-placed United Kingdom only won a total of 23 medals, seven of which were gold. Germany followed with three gold medals out of a total of 13 medals. A total of five new age group world records (WJR) were set.

Sports acrobatics

Sport shooting

From June 16-22, 2015, a total of nineteen sports shooting competitions were held, nine for men, six for women and four mixed competitions. Italy was the most successful team with four gold, three silver and bronze and a total of 10 medals. Serbia reached second place with four gold medals. The German team came third with three gold and three bronze medals.

Synchronized swimming

Taekwondo

In addition to boxing, karate, fencing and volleyball, Taekwondo competitions also took place in Bakı Kristal Zalı

Table tennis

Trampoline exercise

Triathlon

The two triathlon competitions were held on June 13 and 14, 2015 - one for women and one for men. The “Olympic distance” in triathlon includes 1.5 kilometers of swimming, 40 kilometers of cycling and a 10,000-meter run. The venue was Bilgah Beach. Nicola Spirig won the race in Baku with 1:16 minutes ahead of Rachel Klamer from the Netherlands and Lisa Nordén took third place. Briton Gordon Benson won the men's race and secured the first gold medal for the United Kingdom.

Apparatus gymnastics

volleyball

The women's volleyball final between Turkey and Poland

Two volleyball competitions were held from June 14 to 28, 2015, one for women and one for men. In the men’s final, Germany beat Bulgaria 3-1 in the final and won the gold medal. In the game for third place, Russia also beat Poland 3-1. In the women's category, the Turkish national team clearly won 3-0 against the Poles. In the game for third place, the Serbians needed the decisive 5th set to secure the bronze medal against Azerbaijan 3-2.

Water polo

Game at water polo in the group stage of group B Hungary against Germany.

Two water polo competitions, one for women and one for men, were held from June 12 to 21, 2015. In the men's final, Serbia beat Spain 8: 7, Greece defeated Croatia 11:10 in the match for third place. For women, Russia won the gold medal against Spain 17:16. In the game for third place, the Greeks were able to prevail 8: 7 against the Italians.

Diving

Andreas Larsen jumping from the 3 m board

A total of eight water jumping competitions were held from June 18 to 21, 2015. The competitions also functioned as the European Junior Diving Championships 2015. The most successful nation here was Great Britain with 4 gold medals, ahead of Russia with three gold medals. Germany with a gold medal by Louisa Stawczynski and Saskia Oettinghaus in synchronized jumping from the 3 m board landed in third place.

List of sports

The sports aerobics, beach soccer, karate and sambo were not Olympic sports.

¹ = The IOC summarized the competitions in swimming, synchronized swimming, water polo and diving under the name water sports .
² = The IOC summarized the competitions in aerobics, apparatus gymnastics, sports acrobatics, trampoline gymnastics and rhythmic gymnastics under the term gymnastics .
³ = The IOC summarized the competitions in BMX, mountain bike and road cycling under the heading of cycling .

Participating Nations

All members of the EOK were eligible to participate

participating countries

Albania Albania (28)
Andorra Andorra (31)
Armenia Armenia (25)
Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (289)
Belgium Belgium (117)
Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina (56)
Bulgaria Bulgaria (127)
Denmark Denmark (65)
Germany Germany (268)
Estonia Estonia (59)
Faroese Faroe Islands * (5)
Finland Finland (106)
France France (250)
Georgia Georgia (105)
Gibraltar Gibraltar * (5)
Greece Greece (138)
Ireland Ireland (62)
Iceland Iceland (18)

Israel Israel (141)
Italy Italy (291)
Kosovo Kosovo (19)
Croatia Croatia (109)
Latvia Latvia (67)
Liechtenstein Liechtenstein (10)
Lithuania Lithuania (72)
Luxembourg Luxembourg (58)
Malta Malta (61)
Macedonia 1995 Macedonia (45)
Moldova Republic Moldova (87)
Monaco Monaco (5)
Montenegro Montenegro (55)
Netherlands Netherlands (117)
Norway Norway (53)
Austria Austria (143)
Poland Poland (212)
Portugal Portugal (100)

Romania Romania (146)
Russia Russia (346)
San Marino San Marino (15)
Sweden Sweden (72)
Switzerland Switzerland (140)
Serbia Serbia (132)
Slovakia Slovakia (179)
Slovenia Slovenia (80)
Spain Spain (216)
Turkey Turkey (191)
Czech Republic Czech Republic (126)
Hungary Hungary (200)
Ukraine Ukraine (243)
United Kingdom United Kingdom (160)
Belarus Belarus (150)
Cyprus Republic Cyprus (22)

* As the Faroe Islands and Gibraltar are not members of the European Olympic Committee , the Faroe Islands participants competed for the Ligue Européenne de Natation and the Gibraltar participants for the Athletic Association of Small States of Europe .

Appointment calendar

The games comprised 253 competitions.

EZ	Opening ceremony	●	Competitions	G	Gala	1	final	AZ	graduation ceremony

June	12. Fri.	13th Sat	14. So	15. Mon.	16. Tue	17th Wed	18th Thursday	19. Fri.	20 Sat	21. Sun	22. Mon.	23 Tuesday	24. Wed	25th Thursday	26 Fri	27 Sat	28. So	Medal competition
ceremony	EZ																AZ
badminton											●	●	●	●	●	2	3	5
Basketball (3x3)												●	●	●	2			2
Beach soccer													●	●	●	●	1	1
beach volleyball					●	●	●	●	1	1								2
Archery					●	1	2	●	●	1	1							5
Boxing					●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	5	5	5		15th
fencing												2	2	2	3	3		12
Judo														5	6th	5	2	18th
Canoe racing			●	5	10													15th
karate		6th	6th															12
athletics										●	1							1
Cycling - BMX															●	●	2	2
Cycling - mountain bike		2																2
Cycling - road cycling							2		1	1								4th
Wrestling		4th	4th	4th	4th	4th	4th											24
Sambo											8th							8th
Sport shooting					3	3	2	2	3	3	3							19th
Taekwondo					2	2	2	2										8th
Table tennis		●	●	2	●	●	●	2										4th
Triathlon		1	1															2
Gymnastics - aerobics						●		●		2								2
Gymnastics - acrobatics						●		2		4th								6th
Gymnastics - apparatus gymnastics			●	2			2		10	G								14th
Gymnastics - rhythmic gymnastics						1		1		6th								8th
Gymnastics - trampoline						●		●		4th								4th
volleyball		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	1	1	2
Water sports - swimming												7th	8th	9	7th	11		42
Water sports - synchronized swimming	●	●	●	2	2													4th
Water sports - water polo	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	1	1								2
Water sports - diving							2	2	2	2								8th
Total		13	11	15th	21st	11	16	11	18th	25th	13	9	10	21st	23	27	9	253
June	12. Fri.	13th Sat	14. So	15. Mon.	16. Tue	17th Wed	18th Thursday	19. Fri.	20 Sat	21. Sun	22. Mon.	23 Tuesday	24. Wed	25th Thursday	26 Fri	27 Sat	28. So	Medal competition

accident

The European Games were overshadowed by an accident. On the morning of June 11, 2015, a shuttle bus in the athletes' village got out of control for reasons not yet known. He drove onto the sidewalk and rammed a group of Austrian synchronized swimmers . The accident was recorded by a surveillance camera. 15-year-old Vanessa Sahinovic was seriously injured and then had to be placed in an artificial coma . She suffered injuries to the pelvic area and spine. Her teammates Verena Breit and Luna Pajer suffered minor injuries. In questioning the driver should, according to the Austrian Olympic Committee, which refers to the local police, have indicated that they have confused brake and accelerator pedals, and he in custody was taken. The media criticized the fact that the accidents of Sahinovic and Kira Grünberg (on July 30, 2015) received different media attention. It was also criticized that Grünberg's accident was classified as an accident at work with entitlement to a disability pension, while Sahinovic's accident was classified as a leisure accident.

Television broadcast

From the opening ceremony
Europe on the bull
Feminine and masculine principle in balance
A scene from the Panopticon

The games were broadcast in 33 European countries. There were also 14 other countries where the games were broadcast outside of Europe.

The Sport1 broadcaster broadcast the games live in Germany, Austria and Switzerland . The channel broadcast a total of more than 100 hours live on free TV - from the opening ceremony on June 12th to the closing ceremony on June 28th.

Furthermore, all games were broadcast live on YouTube .

Europe
country	Broadcaster	reference
Albania Albania	Tring Media
Azerbaijan Azerbaijan	AzTV
Belgium Belgium	Sport 10
Bulgaria Bulgaria	BNT HD
Denmark Denmark	TV 2
Germany Germany	Sport1
Estonia Estonia	ERR
Finland Finland	Yle
France France	L'Equipe 21
Georgia Georgia	GPB
Greece Greece	ERT
Ireland Ireland	Setanta Sports
Israel Israel	Sport 5 • Sport1
Italy Italy	Sky sports
Croatia Croatia	SPTV
Kosovo Kosovo	RTK
Latvia Latvia	LTV
Lithuania Lithuania	TV6
Luxembourg Luxembourg	RTL Group
North Macedonia North Macedonia	MKRTV

Europe
country	Broadcaster	reference
Moldova Republic Moldova	Moldova Sport TV
Monaco Monaco	L'Équipe 21
Netherlands Netherlands	NOS
Norway Norway	TV 2
Austria Austria	ORF
Poland Poland	Polsat
Portugal Portugal	Sports TV
Romania Romania	DigiSport
Russia Russia	Russia-2, Sport-1
Switzerland Switzerland	Sport1
Serbia Serbia	RTS
Slovakia Slovakia	DigiSport
Slovenia Slovenia	Sport TV
Spain Spain	RTVE
Czech Republic Czech Republic	ČT • DigiSport
Turkey Turkey	NTV Spor
Ukraine Ukraine	NTU
Hungary Hungary	DigiSport
United Kingdom United Kingdom	BT Sport
Belarus Belarus	BTRC

rest of the world
country	Broadcaster	reference
African Union African Union	Fox Sports Africa
Angola Angola	Sports TV
Arab League Arab League	ASBU
Australia Australia	Seven Network
Canada Canada	Universal Sports
China People's Republic People's Republic of China	CCTV
Cuba Cuba	ICRT
Hong Kong Hong Kong	TVB
India India	NEO Sports
Iran Iran	GEM GROUP
Japan Japan	TBS
Latin America	América Móvil
Mozambique Mozambique	Sports TV
Korea South South Korea	SBS
New Zealand New Zealand	Sky sports
Turkmenistan Turkmenistan	Setanta Sports
United States United States	ESPN
Uzbekistan Uzbekistan	Setanta Sports

criticism

In the run-up to the games, 100 political prisoners were counted. Many of these prisoners were arrested the year before the Games. The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights commented that these arrests should be viewed as preparation for the Games. It is common practice to include entry bans for foreign politicians, journalists and activists. The NGO laws are also extremely restrictive, which makes their work almost impossible. The Azerbaijani government rejects this criticism. A senior member of the Azerbaijan government, Ali Hasanov, said at a conference the day before the opening of the European Games that there were no political prisoners in Azerbaijan, only people who had committed crimes. Azerbaijan is a constitutional state and every citizen can turn to the European Court of Human Rights. The Azerbaijani embassy in Berlin also complained in a press release that a “dirt campaign” was being carried out against the host country.

Media boycott

Der Spiegel boycotted coverage of the competitions for political reasons.

Web links

Commons : European Games 2015 - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website. Retrieved February 14, 2014 .
eurolympic.org: European Olympic Committees (English / French)

Individual evidence

↑ Medal table, baku2015.com. Retrieved June 25, 2015.

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[1] Medal table, baku2015.com. Retrieved June 25, 2015.

[2] EOC LAUNCHES EUROPEAN GAMES ( memento of December 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), eurolympic.org (English), accessed on December 10, 2012. no longer online, version of December 12, 2012 ( memento of December 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) in the Web Archive

[3] Baku to host first European Games in 2015 , insidethegames.biz (English), accessed on December 10, 2012