European Athletics Championships
The European Athletics Championships are competitions organized by the European Athletic Association , the European continental federation, to determine European champions in the individual athletics disciplines.
history
The European title competitions have been around much longer than the World Athletics Championships, which were held for the first time in 1983 . From 1934 to 1966, with a war interruption in 1942, they were always held at the "half-time" of an Olympiad . After deviations in 1969 and 1971, the four-year cycle prevailed again from 1974 and was in place for almost four decades.
With the European Championships in Helsinki in 2012 , a two-year rhythm was introduced, which has existed at the World Championships since 1991. Since then, the European and World Championship years have alternated, so that every second European Championship now takes place in an Olympic year, but then with a program reduced from 42 instead of 47 disciplines without the walking and marathon competitions .
Since the Women's World Games in 1934 were still the high point of women's athletics, the first European Athletics Championships were only held by men. In 1938, the men's and women's competitions were held in two different locations and on different dates.
While three participants per country were allowed to take part in the women's competitions from 1938 (exception 1946: two instead of three), only two participants were allowed to take part in the men until 1958.
Germany was not invited to the championships in 1946 and 1950. In 1954, the FRG alone provided the German team. In 1958 and 1962, a joint German team of athletes from the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic was formed in elimination proceedings. After that, both German states took part with their own teams until 1990.
In 1969 the athletes in Germany boycotted the individual competitions and only took part in the relay competitions for the sake of form. The reason was the non-admission of the middle-distance runner Jürgen May, who had recently fled from the GDR .
At least eight athletes were only allowed to compete in the final of each discipline from 1966, before that sometimes only six because the stadiums sometimes only had six round tracks.
At the closing ceremony of the 1990 European Championships in Split, German athletes from East and West knotted the two flags of their countries as a symbol for an era of two athletics associations that was coming to an end and a new start.
Events
Notes: ♂ - men, ♀ - women
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Medal table
Eternal medal table from 1934 to 2016. Former countries in italics .
| country | gold | silver | bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Soviet Union |
121 | 109 | 103 | 333 |
 United Kingdom
|
111 | 82 | 94 | 287 |
 Germany
|
93 | 95 | 105 | 293 |
 German Democratic Republic |
90 | 83 | 65 | 238 |
 France
|
66 | 61 | 56 | 183 |
 Russia
|
53 | 53 | 60 | 166 |
 Poland
|
47 | 47 | 59 | 153 |
 Italy
|
40 | 45 | 42 | 127 |
 Finland
|
33 | 28 | 39 | 100 |
 Sweden
|
28 | 40 | 39 | 107 |
 Spain
|
25th | 22nd | 31 | 78 |
 Netherlands
|
24 | 22nd | 17th | 63 |
 Ukraine
|
18th | 27 | 16 | 61 |
 Hungary
|
17th | 21st | 24 | 62 |
 Czechoslovakia |
16 | 16 | 27 | 59 |
 Portugal
|
14th | 12 | 9 | 35 |
 Bulgaria
|
12 | 15th | 12 | 39 |
 Turkey
|
11 | 7th | 7th | 25th |
 Norway
|
10 | 13 | 16 | 39 |
 Belgium
|
9 | 11 | 10 | 30th |
 Belarus
|
8th | 11 | 8th | 27 |
 Greece
|
8th | 5 | 10 | 23 |
 Romania
|
7th | 21st | 10 | 38 |
 Switzerland
|
7th | 10 | 12 | 29 |
 Czech Republic
|
6th | 12 | 7th | 25th |
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6th | 6th | 3 | 15th |
 Croatia
|
5 | 1 | 3 | 9 |
 Denmark
|
4th | 7th | 3 | 14th |
 Latvia
|
4th | 2 | 3 | 9 |
 Ireland
|
3 | 6th | 5 | 14th |
 Estonia
|
3 | 6th | 3 | 12 |
 Iceland
|
3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
 Austria
|
2 | 1 | 4th | 7th |
 Slovenia
|
2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
 Israel
|
2 | 1 | 1 | 4th |
 Serbia
|
1 | 4th | 2 | 7th |
 Lithuania
|
1 | 3 | 3 | 7th |
 Slovakia
|
1 | 3 | 0 | 4th |
 Azerbaijan
|
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
 Albania
|
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Luxembourg
|
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Moldova
|
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| total | 912 | 915 | 913 | 2740 |
The individual medal winners can be found in the list of European champions in athletics / medal winners . The individual medal winners can be found in the list of European champions in athletics / medal winners .
Web links
- European Athletics Association (EAA )
- History and structure
- European records
- EM history (I): From Turin to Brussels or when the EM learned to walk
- EM history (II): Double European champion Heinz Fütterer the hero of Bern
- EM history (III): Karin Balzer proudly collects ten medals
- EM history (IV): Patriz Ilg becomes famous with gold and a knee fall
- EM history (V): Harald Schmid the hero in glamorous championships in Stuttgart
- EM history (VI): First all-German team under the sign of the change
- EM history (VII): Sabine Braun says goodbye in Munich with silver
- EM history (VIII): Verena Sailer crowns herself Sprint Queen of Barcelona
- German EM faces (I): Ingo Schultz Goldjunge in Munich 2002
- German EM faces (II): Rosi Ackermann provides a sporting historical moment
- German EM faces (III): Astrid Kumbernuss from EM in Berlin electrified
- German EM faces (IV): Guido Kratschmer - from world record holder to fan
- German EM faces (V): Ruth Fuchs - The first female Olympic champion in the Bundestag
- German EM faces (VI): Harald Schmid collects five EM gold medals
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ewald Walker: EM history (VI): First all-German team under the sign of the change , series, on: Leichtathletik.de, from February 10, 2018, accessed February 10, 2018
- ↑ zeit.de: European Athletics Championships 2020 will take place in Paris Article from April 28, 2017