2014 European Athletics Championships

The 2014 European Athletics Championships was held in Zürich, Switzerland, between 12 and 17 August 2014.[1] It was the first time that Switzerland had hosted the European Athletics Championships since 1954.

22nd European Athletics Championships
Dates12–17 August
Host cityZürich, Switzerland
VenueLetzigrund
LevelSenior
TypeOutdoor
Events47
Participation1,439 athletes from
50 nations

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, won the most medals, 25.

Event schedule

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Key P Q H ½ F
Value Preliminary round Qualifiers Heats Semifinals Final

Results

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Track

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
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James Dasaolu
  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
10.06 Christophe Lemaitre
  France (FRA)
10.13 Harry Aikines-Aryeetey
  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
10.22
200 metres
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Adam Gemili
  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
19.98 EL Christophe Lemaitre
  France (FRA)
20.15 Serhiy Smelyk
  Ukraine (UKR)
20.30 PB
400 metres
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Martyn Rooney
  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
44.71 EL Matthew Hudson-Smith
  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
44.75 PB Donald Sanford
  Israel (ISR)
45.27 NR
800 metres
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Adam Kszczot
  Poland (POL)
1:44.15 SB Artur Kuciapski
  Poland (POL)
1:44.89 PB Mark English
  Ireland (IRL)
1:45.03 =SB
1500 metres
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Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad
  France (FRA)
3:45.60 Henrik Ingebrigtsen
  Norway (NOR)
3:46.10 Chris O'Hare
  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
3:46.18
5000 metres
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Mo Farah
  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
14:05.82 Hayle Ibrahimov
  Azerbaijan (AZE)
14:08.32 Andy Vernon
  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
14:09.48
10,000 metres
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Mo Farah
  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
28:08.11 Andy Vernon
  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
28:08.66 SB Ali Kaya
  Turkey (TUR)
28:08.72 PB
Marathon
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Daniele Meucci
  Italy (ITA)
2:11:08 Yared Shegumo
  Poland (POL)
2:12:00 Aleksey Reunkov
  Russia (RUS)
2:12:15
110 metres hurdles
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Sergey Shubenkov
  Russia (RUS)
13.19 William Sharman
  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
13.27 Pascal Martinot-Lagarde
  France (FRA)
13.29
400 metres hurdles
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Kariem Hussein
  Switzerland (SUI)
48.96 Rasmus Mägi
  Estonia (EST)
49.06 Denis Kudryavtsev
  Russia (RUS)
49.16
3000 metres steeplechase
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Yoann Kowal
  France (FRA)
8:26.66 Krystian Zalewski
  Poland (POL)
8:27.11 Ángel Mullera
  Spain (ESP)
8:29.16
4 × 100 metres relay
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  Great Britain & N.I. (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
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  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
Martyn Rooney
Michael Bingham
Conrad Williams
Matthew Hudson-Smith
Nigel Levine*
Rabah Yousif*
2:58.79 EL   Poland (POL)
Rafał Omelko
Kacper Kozłowski
Łukasz Krawczuk
Jakub Krzewina
Michał Pietrzak*
Andrzej Jaros*
2:59.85 SB   France (FRA)
Mame-Ibra Anne
Teddy Atine-Venel
Mamoudou Hanne
Thomas Jordier
2:59.89 SB
20 kilometres walk
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Miguel Ángel López
  Spain (ESP)
1:19:44 Denis Strelkov
  Russia (RUS)
1:19:46 PB Ruslan Dmytrenko
  Ukraine (UKR)
1:19:46
50 kilometres walk
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Yohann Diniz
  France (FRA)
3:32:33 WR Matej Tóth
  Slovakia (SVK)
3:36:21 NR Ivan Noskov
  Russia (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.[3]

Field

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
High jump
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Bohdan Bondarenko
  Ukraine (UKR)
2.35 Andriy Protsenko
  Ukraine (UKR)
2.33 Jaroslav Bába
  Czech Republic (CZE)
2.30
Pole vault
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Renaud Lavillenie
  France (FRA)
5.90 Paweł Wojciechowski
  Poland (POL)
5.70 Jan Kudlička
  Czech Republic (CZE)
Kévin Menaldo
  France (FRA)
5.70
Long jump
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Greg Rutherford
  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
8.29 Louis Tsatoumas
  Greece (GRE)
8.15 Kafétien Gomis
  France (FRA)
8.14
Triple jump
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Benjamin Compaoré
  France (FRA)
17.46 EL Aleksey Fyodorov
  Russia (RUS)
17.04 Yoann Rapinier
  France (FRA)
17.01
Shot put
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David Storl
  Germany (GER)
21.41 Borja Vivas
  Spain (ESP)
20.86 Tomasz Majewski
  Poland (POL)
20.83
Discus throw
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Robert Harting
  Germany (GER)
66.07 Gerd Kanter
  Estonia (EST)
64.75 Robert Urbanek
  Poland (POL)
63.81
Javelin throw
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Antti Ruuskanen
  Finland (FIN)
88.01 EL, PB Vítězslav Veselý
  Czech Republic (CZE)
84.79 Tero Pitkämäki
  Finland (FIN)
84.40
Hammer throw
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Krisztián Pars
  Hungary (HUN)
82.69 WL, PB Paweł Fajdek
  Poland (POL)
82.05 Pavel Kryvitski
  Belarus (BLR)
78.50
Decathlon
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Andrei Krauchanka
  Belarus (BLR)
8616 WL Kévin Mayer
  France (FRA)
8521 PB Ilya Shkurenyov
  Russia (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

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
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Dafne Schippers
  Netherlands (NED)
11.12 Myriam Soumaré
  France (FRA)
11.16 Ashleigh Nelson
  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
11.22
200 metres
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Dafne Schippers
  Netherlands (NED)
22.03 WL, NR Jodie Williams
  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
22.46 PB Myriam Soumaré
  France (FRA)
22.58
400 metres
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Libania Grenot
  Italy (ITA)
51.10 Olha Zemlyak
  Ukraine (UKR)
51.36 Indira Terrero
  Spain (ESP)
51.38 SB
800 metres
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Maryna Arzamasava
  Belarus (BLR)
1:58.15 EL Lynsey Sharp
  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
1:58.80 PB Joanna Jóźwik
  Poland (POL)
1:59.63 PB
1500 metres
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Sifan Hassan
  Netherlands (NED)
4:04.18 Abeba Aregawi
  Sweden (SWE)
4:05.08 Laura Weightman
  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
4:06.32
5000 metres
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Meraf Bahta
  Sweden (SWE)
15:31.39 Sifan Hassan
  Netherlands (NED)
15:31.79 Susan Kuijken
  Netherlands (NED)
15:32.82
10,000 metres
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Joanne Pavey
  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
32:22.39 Clémence Calvin
  France (FRA)
32:23.58 Laila Traby
  France (FRA)
32:26.03 PB
Marathon
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Christelle Daunay
  France (FRA)
2:25:14 CR Valeria Straneo
  Italy (ITA)
2:25:27 Jéssica Augusto
  Portugal (POR)
2:25:41
100 metres hurdles
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Tiffany Porter
  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
12.76 Cindy Billaud
  France (FRA)
12.79 Cindy Roleder
  Germany (GER)
12.82 PB
400 metres hurdles
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Eilidh Child
  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
54.48 Anna Titimets
  Ukraine (UKR)
54.56 PB Denisa Rosolová
  Czech Republic (CZE)
54.70
3000 metres steeplechase
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Antje Möldner-Schmidt
  Germany (GER)
9:29:43 SB Charlotta Fougberg
  Sweden (SWE)
9:30:16 Diana Martín
  Spain (ESP)
9:30:70 PB
4 × 100 metres relay
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  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
Asha Philip
Ashleigh Nelson
Jodie Williams
Desirèe 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
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  France (FRA)
Marie Gayot
Muriel Hurtis-Houairi
Agnès Raharolahy
Floria Gueï
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 & N.I. (GBR)
Eilidh Child
Kelly Massey
Shana Cox
Margaret Adeoye
Emily Diamond*
Victoria Ohuruogu*
3:24.34 SB
20 kilometres walk
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Elmira Alembekova
  Russia (RUS)
1:27:56 Lyudmyla Olyanovska
  Ukraine (UKR)
1:28:07 Anežka Drahotová
  Czech Republic (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

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
High jump
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Ruth Beitia
  Spain (ESP)
2.01 WL Mariya Kuchina
  Russia (RUS)
1.99 Ana Šimić
  Croatia (CRO)
1.99 PB
Pole vault
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Anzhelika Sidorova
  Russia (RUS)
4.65 Katerina Stefanidi
  Greece (GRE)
4.60 Angelina Zhuk-Krasnova
  Russia (RUS)
4.60
Long jump
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Éloyse Lesueur
  France (FRA)
6.85 Ivana Španović
  Serbia (SRB)
6.81 Darya Klishina
  Russia (RUS)
6.65
Triple jump
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Olha Saladuha
  Ukraine (UKR)
14.73 SB Ekaterina Koneva
  Russia (RUS)
14.69 Irina Gumenyuk
  Russia (RUS)
14.46 SB
Shot put
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Christina Schwanitz
  Germany (GER)
19.90 Anita Márton
  Hungary (HUN)
19.04 NR Yuliya Leantsiuk
  Belarus (BLR)
18.68
Discus throw
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Sandra Perković
  Croatia (CRO)
71.08 WL, NR Mélina Robert-Michon
  France (FRA)
65.33 Shanice Craft
  Germany (GER)
64.33
Javelin throw
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Barbora Špotáková
  Czech Republic (CZE)
64.41 Tatjana Jelača
  Serbia (SRB)
64.21 NR Linda Stahl
  Germany (GER)
63.91
Hammer throw
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Anita Włodarczyk
  Poland (POL)
78.76 WL, CR, NR Martina Hrašnová
  Slovakia (SVK)
74.66 Joanna Fiodorow
  Poland (POL)
73.67
Heptathlon
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Antoinette Nana Djimou
  France (FRA)
6551 SB Nadine Broersen
  Netherlands (NED)
6498 Nafissatou Thiam
  Belgium (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

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Dafne Schippers won the women's 100 and 200 metres

  *   Host nation (Switzerland)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)125623
2  France (FRA)98825
3  Germany (GER)4138
4  Russia (RUS)34815
5  Netherlands (NED)3216
6  Poland (POL)26412
7  Ukraine (UKR)2529
8  Spain (ESP)2136
9  Italy (ITA)2103
10  Belarus (BLR)2024
11  Sweden (SWE)1203
12  Czech Republic (CZE)1146
13  Hungary (HUN)1102
14  Croatia (CRO)1012
  Finland (FIN)1012
16  Switzerland (SUI)*1001
17  Estonia (EST)0202
  Greece (GRE)0202
  Serbia (SRB)0202
  Slovakia (SVK)0202
21  Azerbaijan (AZE)0101
  Norway (NOR)0101
23  Belgium (BEL)0011
  Ireland (IRL)0011
  Israel (ISR)0011
  Portugal (POR)0011
  Turkey (TUR)0011
Totals (27 entries)474748142

Participating nations

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Athletes from a total of 50 member federations of the European Athletics Association are competing at these Championships.[4]

See also

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References

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