2012 IPC Athletics European Championships

IPC Athletics European Championships

Host city	Stadskanaal, Netherlands
Nations	38
Athletes	550
Events	Track and field
Dates	23 – 28 June
Main venue	Stadskanaal Stadium
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The 2012 IPC Athletics European Championships was a track and field competition for athletes with a disability open to International Paralympic Committee (IPC) affiliated countries within Europe. It was held in Stadskanaal, Netherlands and lasted from 23 to 28 June. The event was held in the Stadskanaal Stadium and was the last major European disability athletics event before the forthcoming 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. Approximately 550 athletes from 38 countries attended the games.^[1] Several countries used the Championships to finalise the remaining places for the Paralympics.^[2]

Stadskanaal

The event was held at the Stadskanaal Stadium.

The 2012 IPC Athletics European Championships was an invitational tournament taking in track and field events. No combined sports were included in the 2012 Championships. Not all events were open to all classifications, with several throwing and jumping events being contested between classifications, which were then decided on a points system. The men's 100m relay was the only event to use mixed classifications as a team, with each leg of the relay contested by a different classification athlete. There were no women's relay events. In total there were 144 events held over 17 disciplines.

Athletes finishing in first place are awarded the gold medal, second place the silver medal and third place the bronze. If only three competitors are available to challenge for an event then no bronze medal is awarded. Some events were classed as 'no medal' events.

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To ensure competition is as fair and balanced as possible, athletes are classified dependent on how their disability impacts on their chosen event/s. Thus athletes may compete in an event against competitors with a different disability to themselves. Where there are more than one classification in one event, (for example discus throw F54/55/56), a points system is used to determine the winner.^[3]

• F = field athletes
• T = track athletes
• 11-13 – visually impaired, 11 and 12 compete with a sighted guide
• 20 – intellectual disability
• 31-38 – cerebral palsy or other conditions that affect muscle co-ordination and control. Athletes in class 31-34 compete in a seated position; athletes in class 35-38 compete standing.
• 41-46 – amputation, les autres
• 51-58 – wheelchair athletes

The medal table at the end of Day 5 (28 June).

  *   Host nation (Netherlands)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	29	28	19	76
2	Ukraine (UKR)	17	14	10	41
3	Germany (GER)	11	14	4	29
4	Poland (POL)	11	6	12	29
5	Spain (ESP)	8	9	5	22
6	Greece (GRE)	8	8	5	21
7	Netherlands (NED)*	8	8	4	20
8	Great Britain (GBR)	7	7	12	26
9	Bulgaria (BUL)	5	5	3	13
10	Serbia (SRB)	5	1	2	8
11	Belarus (BLR)	4	4	3	11
12	Italy (ITA)	4	0	6	10
13	Finland (FIN)	3	2	4	9
14	Sweden (SWE)	3	2	3	8
15	Azerbaijan (AZE)	3	0	0	3
16	Switzerland (SUI)	2	4	4	10
17	Denmark (DEN)	2	4	1	7
18	Czech Republic (CZE)	2	3	8	13
19	Portugal (POR)	2	3	4	9
20	Lithuania (LTU)	2	1	1	4
21	Cyprus (CYP)	2	1	0	3
22	Croatia (CRO)	1	4	5	10
23	Slovakia (SVK)	1	3	2	6
24	Turkey (TUR)	1	2	4	7
25	Ireland (IRL)	1	2	0	3
26	Norway (NOR)	1	0	0	1
	Romania (ROU)	1	0	0	1
28	Austria (AUT)	0	4	0	4
29	Iceland (ISL)	0	1	2	3
	Slovenia (SLO)	0	1	2	3
31	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
32	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	2	2
33	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)	0	0	1	1
Totals (34 entries)		144	142	129	415

Source: paralympic.org

World Records

Event	Round	Name	Nation	Time/Distance	Date
Men's 200m T42	Final	Richard Whitehead	United Kingdom	24.93	27 June
Men's 800m T36	Final	Evgenii Shvetcov	Russia	2:05.05	26 June
Men's Shot Put F40	Final	Paschalis Stathelakos	Greece	13.01m	28 June
Men's Shot Put F46	Final	Dmytro Ibragimov	Ukraine	15.46m	28 June
Men's Discus Throw F32	Final	Frantisek Serbus	Czech Republic	20.41m	28 June
Women's 100m T42	Final	Martina Caironi	Italy	15.89	26 June
Women's 1500m T11	Final	Annalisa Minetti	Italy	4:51.75	28 June
Women's 4x100m Relay T35-38	Final	Russian women's relay team	Russia	54.77	28 June
Women's Long Jump F38	Final	Inna Stryzhak	Ukraine	4.96m	26 June
Women's Shot Put F34	Final	Birgit Kober	Germany	10.06m	28 June
Women's Shot Put F35	Final	Mariia Pomazan	Ukraine	11.34	25 June
Women's Discus Throw F35	Final	Mariia Pomazan	Ukraine	28.88	26 June

Athletes who have obtained at least three medals.

Name	Nationality	Medals	Events
Margarita Goncharova	Russia	Gold  Gold  Gold  Silver	Women's 100m T38 Women's 200m T38 Women's 4x100m relay T35-38 Women's long jump T38
Evgenii Shvetcov	Russia	Gold  Gold  Gold	Men's 100m T36 Men's 400m T36 Men's 800m T36
Luis Goncalves	Portugal	Gold  Gold  Silver	Men's 200m T12 Men's 400m T12 Men's 4x100m relay T11-13
Roman Kapranov	Russia	Gold  Gold  Silver	Men's 100m T37 Men's 400m T37 Men's 200m T37
Roger Puigbo Verdaguer	Spain	Gold  Gold  Silver	Men's 400m T53 Men's 800m T53 Men's 5000m T54
Maria Seifert	Germany	Gold  Gold  Silver	Women's 100m T37 Women's 200m T37 Women's 4x100m relay T35-38
Roman Pavlyk	Ukraine	Gold  Silver  Silver	Men's 200m T36 Men's 100m T36 Men's long jump T36
Drazenko Mitrovic	Serbia	Gold  Gold  Bronze	Men's discus throw F54 Men's shot put F54 Men's javelin throw F54
Radoslav Zlatanov	Bulgaria	Silver  Silver  Bronze	Men's 200m T13 Men's long jump T13 Men's 100m T13

Below is the list of countries who agreed to participate in the Championships and the requested number of athlete places for each.

• 2012 European Athletics Championships

Notes

References

• Official web-site