2016 European Athletics Championships

23rd European Athletics Championships
23rd European Athletics Championships
Dates	6–10 July
Host city	Amsterdam
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	44
Participation	1,329 athletes from ; 50 nations
	← 2014 Zürich 2018 Berlin →

The 2016 European Athletics Championships was held in Amsterdam, Netherlands, between 6 and 10 July 2016.^[1] It was the first time the Netherlands hosted the event.

Due to 2016 being an Olympic year, there was no racewalking and the marathon competition was replaced by half marathon. The Russian team did not participate due to the suspension of the All-Russia Athletic Federation by the International Association of Athletics Federations.^[2] However, Yuliya Stepanova was individually cleared by the IAAF to compete as an independent athlete; she participated in the European championships under the flag of the European Athletic Association.^[3]^[4]

Germany and Great Britain topped the medal table with 16, with Poland winning 12 medals. Poland won and topped the victory column with 6 gold medals (Germany & Great Britain tied with 5).

Event schedule

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

Men^[5]
Date	Jul 6		Jul 7			Jul 8			Jul 9			Jul 10
Event	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													F
10,000 m							F
Half 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
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^[5]
Date	Jul 6		Jul 7			Jul 8			Jul 9		Jul 10
Event	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										F
10,000 m		F
Half 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
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: 2012 \| 2014 \| 2016 \| 2018 \| 2020

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Churandy Martina Netherlands (NED)	10.07 SB	Jak Ali Harvey Turkey (TUR)	10.07	Jimmy Vicaut France (FRA)	10.08
200 metres details	Bruno Hortelano Spain (ESP)	20.45	Ramil Guliyev Turkey (TUR)	20.51	Daniel Talbot Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	20.56
400 metres details	Martyn Rooney Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	45.29	Pavel Maslák Czech Republic (CZE)	45.36	Liemarvin Bonevacia Netherlands (NED)	45.41 SB
800 metres details	Adam Kszczot Poland (POL)	1:45.18	Marcin Lewandowski Poland (POL)	1:45.54	Elliot Giles Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	1:45.54 PB
1500 metres details	Filip Ingebrigtsen Norway (NOR)	3:46.65	David Bustos Spain (ESP)	3:46.90	Henrik Ingebrigtsen Norway (NOR)	3:47.18
5000 metres details	Ilias Fifa Spain (ESP)	13:40.85	Adel Mechaal Spain (ESP)	13:40.85	Richard Ringer Germany (GER)	13:40.85 SB
10,000 metres details	Polat Kemboi Arıkan Turkey (TUR)	28:18.52	Ali Kaya Turkey (TUR)	28:21.42	Antonio Abadía Spain (ESP)	28:26.07
Half marathon details	Tadesse Abraham Switzerland (SUI)	1:02:03	Kaan Kigen Özbilen Turkey (TUR)	1:02:27	Daniele Meucci Italy (ITA)	1:02:38
Half marathon details	Switzerland (SUI)	3:12:04	Spain (ESP)	3:12:06	Italy (ITA)	3:12:41
110 metres hurdles details	Dimitri Bascou France (FRA)	13.25	Balázs Baji Hungary (HUN)	13.28 NR	Wilhem Belocian France (FRA)	13.33
400 metres hurdles details	Yasmani Copello Turkey (TUR)	48.98	Sérgio Fernández Spain (ESP)	49.06	Kariem Hussein Switzerland (SUI)	49.10
3000 metres steeplechase details	Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad France (FRA)	8:25.63	Aras Kaya Turkey (TUR)	8:29.91 PB	Yoann Kowal France (FRA)	8:30.79
4 × 100 metres relay details	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) James Dasaolu Adam Gemili James Ellington Chijindu Ujah	38.17	France (FRA) Marvin René Stuart Dutamby Mickael-Meba Zeze Jimmy Vicaut	38.38 SB	Germany (GER) Julian Reus Sven Knipphals Roy Schmidt Lucas Jakubczyk	38.47
4 × 400 metres relay details	Belgium (BEL) Julien Watrin Jonathan Borlée Dylan Borlée Kévin Borlée	3:01:10 EL	Poland (POL) Rafał Omelko Kacper Kozłowski Łukasz Krawczuk Jakub Krzewina	3:01:18 SB	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) Rabah Yousif Delano Williams Jack Green Matthew Hudson-Smith	3:01:44 SB
WR world record \| ER European record \| CR championship record \| NR national record \| WL world leading \| EL European leading \| PB personal best \| SB seasonal best

Field

Chronology: 2012 \| 2014 \| 2016 \| 2018 \| 2020

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Gianmarco Tamberi Italy (ITA)	2.32	Robbie Grabarz Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	2.29	Chris Baker Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) Eike Onnen Germany (GER)	2.29
Pole vault details	Robert Sobera Poland (POL)	5.60	Jan Kudlička Czech Republic (CZE)	5.60	Robert Renner Slovenia (SLO)	5.50
Long jump details	Greg Rutherford Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	8.25	Michel Tornéus Sweden (SWE)	8.21 SB	Ignisious Gaisah Netherlands (NED)	7.93
Triple jump details	Max Hess Germany (GER)	17.20 EL	Karol Hoffmann Poland (POL)	17.16 PB	Julian Reid Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	16.76 SB
Shot put details	David Storl Germany (GER)	21.31 EL	Michał Haratyk Poland (POL)	21.19	Tsanko Arnaudov Portugal (POR)	20.59 SB
Discus throw details	Piotr Małachowski Poland (POL)	67.06	Philip Milanov Belgium (BEL)	65.71	Gerd Kanter Estonia (EST)	65.27 SB
Javelin throw details	Zigismunds Sirmais Latvia (LAT)	86.66 PB	Vítězslav Veselý Czech Republic (CZE)	83.59	Antti Ruuskanen Finland (FIN)	82.44
Hammer throw details	Paweł Fajdek Poland (POL)	80.93	Ivan Tikhon Belarus (BLR)	78.84	Wojciech Nowicki Poland (POL)	77.53
Decathlon details	Thomas Van der Plaetsen Belgium (BEL)	8218	Adam Helcelet Czech Republic (CZE)	8157 SB	Mihail Dudaš Serbia (SRB)	8153
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: 2012 \| 2014 \| 2016 \| 2018 \| 2020

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Dafne Schippers Netherlands (NED)	10.90	Ivet Lalova-Collio Bulgaria (BUL)	11.20	Mujinga Kambundji Switzerland (SUI)	11.25
200 metres details	Dina Asher-Smith Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	22.37 SB	Ivet Lalova-Collio Bulgaria (BUL)	22.52 SB	Gina Lückenkemper Germany (GER)	22.74
400 metres details	Libania Grenot Italy (ITA)	50.73	Floria Gueï France (FRA)	51.21	Anyika Onuora Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	51.47 SB
800 metres details	Nataliya Pryshchepa Ukraine (UKR)	1:59.70	Rénelle Lamote France (FRA)	2:00.19	Lovisa Lindh Sweden (SWE)	2:00.37 PB
1500 metres details	Angelika Cichocka Poland (POL)	4:33.00	Sifan Hassan Netherlands (NED)	4:33.76	Ciara Mageean Ireland (IRL)	4:33.78
5000 metres details	Yasemin Can Turkey (TUR)	15:18.15	Meraf Bahta Sweden (SWE)	15:20.54	Stephanie Twell Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	15:20.70
10,000 metres details	Yasemin Can Turkey (TUR)	31:12.86 EL, EU23	Dulce Félix Portugal (POR)	31:19.03 PB	Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal Norway (NOR)	31:23.45 PB
Half marathon details	Sara Moreira Portugal (POR)	1:10:19	Veronica Inglese Italy (ITA)	1:10:35	Jéssica Augusto Portugal (POR)	1:10:55
Half marathon details	Portugal (POR)	3:33:53	Italy (ITA)	3:36:38	Turkey (TUR)	3:39:59
100 metres hurdles details	Cindy Roleder Germany (GER)	12.62 EL	Alina Talay Belarus (BLR)	12.68	Tiffany Porter Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	12.76
400 metres hurdles details	Sara Slott Petersen Denmark (DEN)	55.12 SB	Joanna Linkiewicz Poland (POL)	55.33	Léa Sprunger Switzerland (SUI)	55.41
3000 metres steeplechase details	Gesa-Felicitas Krause Germany (GER)	9:18.85 EL	Luiza Gega Albania (ALB)	9:28.52 NR	Özlem Kaya Turkey (TUR)	9:35.05 SB
4 × 100 metres relay details	Netherlands (NED) Jamile Samuel Dafne Schippers Tessa van Schagen Naomi Sedney	42.04 NR	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) Asha Philip Dina Asher-Smith Bianca Williams Daryll Neita	42.45 SB	Germany (GER) Tatjana Pinto Lisa Mayer Gina Lückenkemper Rebekka Haase	42.48
4 × 400 metres relay details	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) Emily Diamond Anyika Onuora Eilidh Doyle Seren Bundy-Davies	3:25.05 WL	France (FRA) Phara Anacharsis Brigitte Ntiamoah Marie Gayot Floria Gueï	3:25.96 SB	Italy (ITA) Maria Benedicta Chigbolu Maria Enrica Spacca Chiara Bazzoni Libania Grenot	3:27.49 SB
WR world record \| ER European record \| CR championship record \| NR national record \| WL world leading \| EL European leading \| PB personal best \| SB seasonal best

Field

Chronology: 2012 \| 2014 \| 2016 \| 2018 \| 2020

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Ruth Beitia Spain (ESP)	1.98 SB	Mirela Demireva Bulgaria (BUL) Airinė Palšytė Lithuania (LTU)	1.96 1.96 SB	Not awarded
Pole vault details	Ekaterini Stefanidi Greece (GRE)	4.81 CR	Lisa Ryzih Germany (GER)	4.70 SB	Angelica Bengtsson Sweden (SWE)	4.65 SB
Long jump details	Ivana Španović Serbia (SRB)	6.94	Jazmin Sawyers Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	6.86	Malaika Mihambo Germany (GER)	6.65
Triple jump details	Patrícia Mamona Portugal (POR)	14.58 NR	Hanna Minenko Israel (ISR)	14.51	Paraskevi Papachristou Greece (GRE)	14.47
Shot put details	Christina Schwanitz Germany (GER)	20.17 EL	Anita Márton Hungary (HUN)	18.72	Emel Dereli Turkey (TUR)	18.22
Discus throw details	Sandra Perković Croatia (CRO)	69.97	Julia Fischer Germany (GER)	65.77	Shanice Craft Germany (GER)	63.89
Javelin throw details	Tatsiana Khaladovich Belarus (BLR)	66.34 NR	Linda Stahl Germany (GER)	65.25 SB	Sara Kolak Croatia (CRO)	63.50 NR
Hammer throw details	Anita Włodarczyk Poland (POL)	78.14	Betty Heidler Germany (GER)	75.77 SB	Hanna Skydan Azerbaijan (AZE)	73.83
Heptathlon details	Anouk Vetter Netherlands (NED)	6626 NR	Antoinette Nana Djimou France (FRA)	6458 SB	Ivona Dadic Austria (AUT)	6408 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

Medal table

* Host nation (Host nation)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Poland (POL)	6	5	1	12
2	Germany (GER)	5	4	7	16
3	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	5	3	8	16
4	Turkey (TUR)	4	5	2	11
5	Netherlands (NED)*	4	1	2	7
6	Spain (ESP)	3	3	1	7
7	France (FRA)	2	5	3	10
8	Italy (ITA)	2	1	2	5
8	Portugal (POR)	2	1	2	5
10	Belgium (BEL)	2	1	0	3
11	Belarus (BLR)	1	2	0	3
12	Switzerland (SUI)	1	0	3	4
13	Norway (NOR)	1	0	2	3
14	Croatia (CRO)	1	0	1	2
	Greece (GRE)	1	0	1	2
	Serbia (SRB)	1	0	1	2
17	Denmark (DEN)	1	0	0	1
	Latvia (LAT)	1	0	0	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	1	0	0	1
20	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	4	0	4
21	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	3	0	3
22	Sweden (SWE)	0	2	2	4
23	Hungary (HUN)	0	2	0	2
24	Albania (ALB)	0	1	0	1
	Israel (ISR)	0	1	0	1
	Lithuania (LTU)	0	1	0	1
27	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Azerbaijan (AZE)	0	0	1	1
	Estonia (EST)	0	0	1	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	Ireland (IRL)	0	0	1	1
	Slovenia (SLO)	0	0	1	1
Totals (32 entries)		44	45	44	133

Participating nations

Athletes from a total of 50 member federations of the European Athletics Association competed at these Championships.^[6] Russia, suspended, did not participate. EAA accepted the participation of Russian-born athlete Yuliya Stepanova as an independent neutral athlete.^[7]

Albania (ALB) (2)
Andorra (AND) (3)
Armenia (ARM) (3)
Austria (AUT) (15)
Azerbaijan (AZE) (5)
Belarus (BLR) (39)
Belgium (BEL) (30)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH) (5)
Bulgaria (BUL) (17)
Croatia (CRO) (11)
Cyprus (CYP) (14)
Czech Republic (CZE) (46)
Denmark (DEN) (12)
Estonia (EST) (23)
Finland (FIN) (36)
France (FRA) (60)
Georgia (GEO) (2)
Germany (GER) (96)
Gibraltar (GIB) (2)
Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) (85)
Greece (GRE) (35)
Hungary (HUN) (29)
Independent Athletes (EAA) (1)
Iceland (ISL) (5)
Ireland (IRL) (38)
Israel (ISR) (17)
Italy (ITA) (73)
Kosovo (KOS) (2)
Latvia (LAT) (16)
Liechtenstein (LIE) (1)
Lithuania (LTU) (19)
Luxembourg (LUX) (2)
Macedonia (MKD) (1)
Malta (MLT) (2)
Moldova (MDA) (8)
Monaco (MON) (1)
Montenegro (MNE) (4)
Netherlands (NED) (52) (host)
Norway (NOR) (48)
Poland (POL) (67)
Portugal (POR) (32)
Romania (ROM) (22)
San Marino (SMR) (1)
Serbia (SRB) (9)
Slovakia (SVK) (21)
Slovenia (SLO) (18)
Spain (ESP) (75)
Sweden (SWE) (57)
Switzerland (SUI) (44)
Turkey (TUR) (44)
Ukraine (UKR) (81)

References

^ "EK atletiek in 2016 in Amsterdam". NOS. 4 November 2011. Retrieved 2011-11-04.
^ "No Russian teams in Amsterdam". Amsterdam2016.org. 17 June 2016. Archived from the original on 27 June 2016. Retrieved 28 June 2016.
^ "Russian whistleblower Yuliya Stepanova to compete as 'neutral athlete' in Rio". The Guardian. July 2016. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
^ Ingle, Sean (6 July 2016). "Yuliya Stepanova makes her return but injury could end her Rio hopes". The Guardian.
^ ^a ^b Programme.
^ "Final Entries List" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-08-03. Retrieved 2016-06-28.
^ "European Athletics competitions | European Athletics | European Athletics".

External links

[1] "EK atletiek in 2016 in Amsterdam". NOS. 4 November 2011. Retrieved 2011-11-04.

[2] "No Russian teams in Amsterdam". Amsterdam2016.org. 17 June 2016. Archived from the original on 27 June 2016. Retrieved 28 June 2016.

[guardian-yuliya-3] "Russian whistleblower Yuliya Stepanova to compete as 'neutral athlete' in Rio". The Guardian. July 2016. Retrieved 15 July 2016.

[GN160706-4] Ingle, Sean (6 July 2016). "Yuliya Stepanova makes her return but injury could end her Rio hopes". The Guardian.

[eac_schedule-5] Programme.

[6] "Final Entries List" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-08-03. Retrieved 2016-06-28.

[7] "European Athletics competitions | European Athletics | European Athletics".

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