2014 European Athletics Championships

22nd European Athletics Championships
Host city	Zürich, Switzerland
Date(s)	12–17 August
Main stadium	Letzigrund
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Participation	1,439 athletes from 50 nations
Events	47
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The 2014 European Athletics Championships was held in Zürich, Switzerland, between 12–17 August 2014.^[1] It was the first time that Switzerland had hosted the European Athletics Championships since 1954.

Great Britain headed the medal table, with 12 gold medals, comfortably their best return from a European championships, despite winning only one field event medal. France, second on gold medals won with 9, were equal top with Great Britain on medals won, 23, only one ahead of Russia's 22.

Event schedule

H

Heats

Q

Qualifiers

½

Semi-finals

F

Final

Men Date → 12 13 14 15 16 17 Event ↓ M A M A M A M A M A M A 100 m H ½ F 200 m H ½ F 400 m H ½ F 800 m H ½ F 1500 m H F 5000 m H F 10,000 m F Marathon F 110 m hurdles H ½ F 400 m hurdles H ½ F 3000 m steeplechase H F 4 × 100 m relay H F 4 × 400 m relay H F 20 km walk F 50 km walk F Long jump Q F Triple jump Q F High jump Q F Pole vault Q F Shot put Q F Discus throw Q F Hammer throw Q F Javelin throw Q F Decathlon F

Women Date 12 13 14 15 16 17 Event ↓ M A M A M A M A M A M A 100 m H ½ F 200 m H ½ F 400 m H ½ F 800 m H ½ F 1500 m H F 5000 m H F 10,000 m F Marathon F 100 m hurdles H ½ F 400 m hurdles H ½ F 3000 m steeplechase H F 4 × 100 m relay H F 4 × 400 m relay H F 20 km walk F — Long jump Q F Triple jump Q F High jump Q F Pole vault Q F Shot put Q F Discus throw Q F Hammer throw Q F Javelin throw Q F Heptathlon F

Results

Men

Track

Chronology: 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016 | 2018

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	James Dasaolu (GBR)	10.06	Christophe Lemaitre (FRA)	10.13	Harry Aikines-Aryeetey (GBR)	10.22
200 metres	Adam Gemili (GBR)	19.98 EL	Christophe Lemaitre (FRA)	20.15	Serhiy Smelyk (UKR)	20.30 PB
400 metres	Martyn Rooney (GBR)	44.71 EL	Matthew Hudson-Smith (GBR)	44.75 PB	Donald Sanford (ISR)	45.27 NR
800 metres	Adam Kszczot (POL)	1:44.15 SB	Artur Kuciapski (POL)	1:44.89 PB	Mark English (IRL)	1:45.03 =SB
1500 metres	Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad (FRA)	3:45.60	Henrik Ingebrigtsen (NOR)	3:46.10	Chris O'Hare (GBR)	3:46.18
5000 metres	Mo Farah (GBR)	14:05.82	Hayle Ibrahimov (AZE)	14:08.32	Andy Vernon (GBR)	14:09.48
10,000 metres	Mo Farah (GBR)	28:08.11	Andy Vernon (GBR)	28:08.66 SB	Ali Kaya (TUR)	28:08.72 PB
Marathon	Daniele Meucci (ITA)	2:11:08	Yared Shegumo (POL)	2:12:00	Aleksey Reunkov (RUS)	2:12:15
110 metres hurdles	Sergey Shubenkov (RUS)	13.19	William Sharman (GBR)	13.27	Pascal Martinot-Lagarde (FRA)	13.29
400 metres hurdles	Kariem Hussein (SUI)	48.96	Rasmus Mägi (EST)	49.06	Denis Kudryavtsev (RUS)	49.16
3000 metres steeplechase ^[a]	Yoann Kowal (FRA)	8:26.66	Krystian Zalewski (POL)	8:27.11	Ángel Mullera (ESP)	8:29.16
4 × 100 metres relay	Great Britain (GBR) Adam Gemili Richard Kilty Harry Aikines-Aryeetey James Ellington Daniel Talbot*	37.93 EL	Germany (GER) Julian Reus Sven Knipphals Alexander Kosenkow Lucas Jakubczyk	38.09 SB	France (FRA) Pierre Vincent Christophe Lemaitre Teddy Tinmar Ben Bassaw	38.47
4 × 400 metres relay	Great Britain (GBR) Martyn Rooney Michael Bingham Conrad Williams Matthew Hudson-Smith Nigel Levine* Rabah Yousif*	2:58.79 EL	Russia (RUS) Maksim Dyldin Pavel Ivashko Nikita Uglov Vladimir Krasnov Pavel Trenikhin*	2:59.38 SB	Poland (POL) Rafał Omelko Kacper Kozłowski Łukasz Krawczuk Jakub Krzewina Michał Pietrzak* Andrzej Jaros*	2:59.85 SB
20 kilometres walk	Miguel Ángel López (ESP)	1:19:44	Aleksandr Ivanov (RUS)	1:19:45 PB	Denis Strelkov (RUS)	1:19:46 PB
50 kilometres walk	Yohann Diniz (FRA)	3:32:33 WR	Matej Tóth (SVK)	3:36:21 NR	Ivan Noskov (RUS)	3:37:41
WR world record | ER European record | CR championship record | NR national record | WL world leading | EL European leading | PB personal best | SB seasonal best

(*) Heat only.

^a In the 3000m steeplechase, Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad of France won the race, but he was later disqualified after he took off his shirt while running down the home straight. Yoann Kowal (France) was then awarded gold, Krystian Zalewski (Poland) silver and Angel Mullera (Spain) bronze.^[2]

Field

Chronology: 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016 | 2018

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump	Bohdan Bondarenko (UKR)	2.35	Andriy Protsenko (UKR)	2.33	Ivan Ukhov (RUS)	2.30
Pole vault	Renaud Lavillenie (FRA)	5.90	Paweł Wojciechowski (POL)	5.70	Jan Kudlička (CZE)  Kévin Menaldo (FRA)	5.70
Long jump	Greg Rutherford (GBR)	8.29	Louis Tsatoumas (GRE)	8.15	Kafétien Gomis (FRA)	8.14
Triple jump	Benjamin Compaoré (FRA)	17.46 EL	Lyukman Adams (RUS)	17.09	Aleksey Fyodorov (RUS)	17.04
Shot put	David Storl (GER)	21.41	Borja Vivas (ESP)	20.86	Tomasz Majewski (POL)	20.83
Discus throw	Robert Harting (GER)	66.07	Gerd Kanter (EST)	64.75	Robert Urbanek (POL)	63.81
Javelin throw	Antti Ruuskanen (FIN)	88.01 EL, PB	Vítězslav Veselý (CZE)	84.79	Tero Pitkämäki (FIN)	84.40
Hammer throw	Krisztián Pars (HUN)	82.69 WL, PB	Paweł Fajdek (POL)	82.05	Sergej Litvinov (RUS)	79.35 SB
Decathlon	Andrei Krauchanka (BLR)	8616 WL	Kévin Mayer (FRA)	8521 PB	Ilya Shkurenyov (RUS)	8498 PB
WR world record | ER European record | CR championship record | NR national record | WL world leading | EL European leading | PB personal best | SB seasonal best

Women

Track

Chronology: 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016 | 2018

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres	Dafne Schippers (NED)	11.12	Myriam Soumaré (FRA)	11.16	Ashleigh Nelson (GBR)	11.22
200 metres	Dafne Schippers (NED)	22.03 WL, NR	Jodie Williams (GBR)	22.46 PB	Myriam Soumaré (FRA)	22.58
400 metres	Libania Grenot (ITA)	51.10	Olha Zemlyak (UKR)	51.36	Indira Terrero (ESP)	51.38 SB
800 metres	Maryna Arzamasava (BLR)	1:58.15 EL	Lynsey Sharp (GBR)	1:58.80 PB	Joanna Jóźwik (POL)	1:59.63 PB
1500 metres	Sifan Hassan (NED)	4:04.18	Abeba Aregawi (SWE)	4:05.08	Laura Weightman (GBR)	4:06.32
5000 metres	Meraf Bahta (SWE)	15:31.39	Sifan Hassan (NED)	15:31.79	Susan Kuijken (NED)	15:32.82
10,000 metres	Joanne Pavey (GBR)	32:22.39	Clémence Calvin (FRA)	32:23.58	Laila Traby (FRA)	32:26.03 PB
Marathon	Christelle Daunay (FRA)	2:25:14 CR	Valeria Straneo (ITA)	2:25:27	Jéssica Augusto (POR)	2:25:41
100 metres hurdles	Tiffany Porter (GBR)	12.76	Cindy Billaud (FRA)	12.79	Cindy Roleder (GER)	12.82 PB
400 metres hurdles	Eilidh Child (GBR)	54.48	Anna Titimets (UKR)	54.56 PB	Irina Davydova (RUS)	54.60 SB
3000 metres steeplechase	Antje Möldner-Schmidt (GER)	9:29:43 SB	Charlotta Fougberg (SWE)	9:30:16	Diana Martín (ESP)	9:30:70 PB
4 × 100 metres relay	Great Britain (GBR) Asha Philip Ashleigh Nelson Jodie Williams Desiree Henry Anyika Onuora*	42.24 EL NR	France (FRA) Céline Distel-Bonnet Ayodelé Ikuesan Myriam Soumaré Stella Akakpo	42.45	Russia (RUS) Marina Panteleyeva Natalia Rusakova Kristina Sivkova Yelizaveta Savlinis Yekaterina Vukolova*	43.22 SB
4 × 400 metres relay	France (FRA) Marie Gayot Muriel Hurtis-Houairi Agnès Raharolahy Floria Guei Estelle Perrossier* Phara Anacharsis*	3:24.27 EL	Ukraine (UKR) Nataliya Pyhyda Hrystyna Stuy Hanna Ryzhykova Olha Zemlyak Daryna Prystupa* Olha Lyakhova*	3:24.32 SB	Great Britain (GBR) Eilidh Child Kelly Massey Shana Cox Margaret Adeoye Emily Diamond* Victoria Ohuruogu*	3:24.34 SB
20 kilometres walk	Elmira Alembekova (RUS)	1:27:56	Lyudmyla Olyanovska (UKR)	1:28:07	Anežka Drahotová (CZE)	1:28:08 NR
WR world record | ER European record | CR championship record | NR national record | WL world leading | EL European leading | PB personal best | SB seasonal best

(*) Heat only.

Field

Chronology: 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016 | 2018

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump	Ruth Beitia (ESP)	2.01 WL	Mariya Kuchina (RUS)	1.99	Ana Šimić (CRO)	1.99 PB
Pole vault	Anzhelika Sidorova (RUS)	4.65	Ekateríni Stefanídi (GRE)	4.60	Angelina Zhuk-Krasnova (RUS)	4.60
Long jump	Éloyse Lesueur (FRA)	6.85	Ivana Španović (SRB)	6.81	Darya Klishina (RUS)	6.65
Triple jump	Olha Saladuha (UKR)	14.73 SB	Ekaterina Koneva (RUS)	14.69	Irina Gumenyuk (RUS)	14.46 SB
Shot put	Christina Schwanitz (GER)	19.90	Yevgeniya Kolodko (RUS)	19.39 SB	Anita Márton (HUN)	19.04 NR
Discus throw	Sandra Perković (CRO)	71.08 WL, NR	Mélina Robert-Michon (FRA)	65.33	Shanice Craft (GER)	64.33
Javelin throw	Barbora Špotáková (CZE)	64.41	Tatjana Jelača (SRB)	64.21 NR	Linda Stahl (GER)	63.91
Hammer throw	Anita Włodarczyk (POL)	78.76 WL, CR, NR	Martina Hrašnová (SVK)	74.66	Joanna Fiodorow (POL)	73.67
Heptathlon	Antoinette Nana Djimou (FRA)	6551 SB	Nadine Broersen (NED)	6498	Nafissatou Thiam (BEL)	6423
WR world record | ER European record | CR championship record | NR national record | WL world leading | EL European leading | PB personal best | SB seasonal best

Medal table

  Host nation

Dafne Schippers won the women's 100 and 200 metres

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain	12	5	6	23
2	France	9	8	6	23
3	Germany	4	1	3	8
4	Russia	3	6	13	22
5	Netherlands	3	2	1	6
6	Poland	2	5	5	12
7	Ukraine	2	5	1	8
8	Spain	2	1	3	6
9	Italy	2	1	0	3
10	Belarus	2	0	0	2
11	Sweden	1	2	0	3
12	Czech Republic	1	1	2	4
13	Croatia	1	0	1	2
13	Finland	1	0	1	2
13	Hungary	1	0	1	2
16	Switzerland	1	0	0	1
17	Estonia	0	2	0	2
17	Greece	0	2	0	2
17	Serbia	0	2	0	2
17	Slovakia	0	2	0	2
21	Azerbaijan	0	1	0	1
21	Norway	0	1	0	1
23	Belgium	0	0	1	1
23	Ireland	0	0	1	1
23	Israel	0	0	1	1
23	Portugal	0	0	1	1
23	Turkey	0	0	1	1
	Total	47	47	48	142

Participating nations

Athletes from a total of 50 member federations of the European Athletics Association are competing at these Championships.^[3]

•  Albania (ALB) (2)
•  Andorra (AND) (2)
•  Armenia (ARM) (3)
•  Austria (AUT) (13)
•  Azerbaijan (AZE) (2)
•  Belarus (BLR) (29)
•  Belgium (BEL) (35)
•  Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH) (4)
•  Bulgaria (BUL) (22)
•  Croatia (CRO) (23)
•  Cyprus (CYP) (7)
•  Czech Republic (CZE) (42)
•  Denmark (DEN) (14)
•  Estonia (EST) (26)
•  Finland (FIN) (36)
•  France (FRA) (57)
•  Georgia (GEO) (3)
•  Germany (GER) (93)
•  Gibraltar (GIB) (3)
•  Great Britain (GBR) (74)
•  Greece (GRE) (26)
•  Hungary (HUN) (27)
•  Iceland (ISL) (5)
•  Ireland (IRL) (25)
•  Israel (ISR) (10)
•  Italy (ITA) (78)
•  Latvia (LAT) (26)
•  Liechtenstein (LIE) (1)
•  Lithuania (LTU) (35)
•  Luxembourg (LUX) (4)
•  Macedonia (MKD) (2)
•  Malta (MLT) (2)
•  Moldova (MDA) (3)
•  Monaco (MON) (1)
•  Montenegro (MNE) (1)
•  Netherlands (NED) (43)
•  Norway (NOR) (40)
•  Poland (POL) (62)
•  Portugal (POR) (44)
•  Romania (ROU) (20)
•  Russia (RUS) (93)
•  San Marino (SMR) (2)
•  Serbia (SRB) (11)
•  Slovakia (SVK) (25)
•  Slovenia (SLO) (15)
•  Spain (ESP) (74)
•  Sweden (SWE) (60)
•   Switzerland (SUI) (53) (host)
•  Turkey (TUR) (29)
•  Ukraine (UKR) (70)

See also

• 2014 African Championships in Athletics

References

1. "Zürich to host 2014 European Championships". IAAF. 1 May 2010. Retrieved 30 July 2010.
2. "European Championships: Athlete loses gold for removing shirt". BBC Sport. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
3. Final Entries List

External links

• Official website