European Cup (athletics)

Athletics competition

European Athletics Cup

Status| defunct
Genre| sports event
Frequency| annual / biannual
Location(s)| various
Inaugurated| 1965
Most recent| 2008
Organised by| European Athletic Association
Website| www.european-athletics.com
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The European Cup is a former athletics competition for European teams that was replaced by the European Team Championships starting in 2009 and was organized by European Athletics Association. The European Cup saw most of the major nations of Europe compete. Originally known as the Bruno Zauli Cup, it first took place in 1965 in Stuttgart (men) and Kassel (women), West Germany. Initially, the competition was a bi-annual event (tri-annual once); however, from 1993, it took place once every year.

## History

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The main idea of the cup, developed by Bruno Zauli, president of the European Committee of the International Association of Athletics Federations, was to create a competition for all European athletics federations, in which they would face each other in track and field events. Although Zauli died a few months before the launch of the first event, the competition has gone from strength to strength.[clarification needed (unclear wording)]

The competition always had different leagues through which countries had to progress. For the first twenty years, there were different groups (leagues) that took place[clarification needed (unclear wording)] at different times. Smaller nations, like Luxembourg and Switzerland, would compete in preliminary rounds, before larger countries, such as the United Kingdom and France, would join in the semi-finals. The top two countries from three semi-finals would enter into the final.

This formula was fairly successful; however, by 1983 the number of competitions that athletes were expected to compete in made it extremely difficult for countries to send their best team to each event. The format of the cup had to be changed so that each country in the whole cup competed on the same day.

The top league was named the Super League and contained eight male and eight female teams. The male and female teams were separate teams, which meant that the female team of one country could get relegated while their male counterpart would stay in the Super League as long as they had enough points. Below the Super League were the First and Second Leagues, which contained other European countries that did not qualify for the finals.

## European Team Championships

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Main article: European Athletics Team Championships

In 2009, the competition took a new format, European Team Championships. There are now four leagues, which consist of 20 events for men and 20 for women. The Super League and the First League have 12 teams each, while the Second League and the Third League 8 and 14 respectively. Team scores are calculated by combination of men and women's points.

## Scoring system and relegation

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Countries scored points for their performance in each race/event: The winning athlete received 8 points for their country, and this then carried on so second would get 7 points, third 6 points, etc. In the case of an athlete that did not finish a race, was disqualified or did not record a mark (as the case may be), their country would receive zero points for that event.

The male and female team with the most points was declared the winner. The four winning teams from the 'Super League' (two male and two female) went on to compete as individual countries in the IAAF World Cup in Athletics.

Since 1983, the lowest scoring male, and the lowest scoring female teams in the 'Super League' were relegated down into the 'First League'. These were replaced by the highest scoring male and female teams from the 'First League'. This process was repeated for relegation/promotion from the second to the first league. This system allowed countries to progress, and for a wider range of athletes to compete against opposition they might not normally face.

## League positions in 2009

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The leagues for the 2009 competition were formed by combination of each country's men and women's performances in 2008. As the teams are 46, the winning team received 46 points, the second 45 and so on. The new leagues are:[1]

Super League  Country  | Pts

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Russia | 1548
Great Britain | 1518
Poland | 1512
Germany | 1472
Italy | 1455
Spain | 1426.5
France | 1423.5
Ukraine | 1412.5
Greece | 1359.5
Sweden | 1309
Czech Republic | 1236
Portugal | 1222
First League  Country  | Pts

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Belarus | 1217
Slovenia | 1211
Romania | 1182.5
Turkey | 1166
Belgium | 1139
Hungary | 1133
Netherlands | 1118
Finland | 1072.5
Estonia | 1035.5
Switzerland | 1032.5
Serbia | 1028.5
Norway | 974
Second League  Country  | Pts

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Ireland | 971.5
Bulgaria | 947
Croatia | 942
Latvia | 933
Slovakia | 901
Lithuania | 839.5
Austria | 783
Cyprus | 749
Third League  Country  | Pts

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Moldova | 722
Israel | 714
Denmark | 709.5
Bosnia and Herzegovina | 555.5
Iceland | 550.5
Luxembourg | 399.5
Georgia | 356
Azerbaijan | 332.5
Montenegro | 310.5
Armenia | 301.5
AASSE | 280
Albania | 191
Andorra | 187
Macedonia | 164

## Winners

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European Cup highest tier winners  Year  | Finals  | Semi-Finals  | Prelims  | Middle tier  | Lowest tier  | Men's winner  | Women's winner  | Finals host city  | Finals host country

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1965 | Final | Semi-Final | Preliminaries | — |  Soviet Union |  Soviet Union | Stuttgart/Kassel |  West Germany
1967 | Final | Semi-Final | Preliminaries |  Soviet Union |  Soviet Union | Kiev |  Soviet Union
1970 | Final | Semi-Final | Preliminaries |  East Germany |  East Germany | Stockholm/Budapest |  Sweden/ Hungary
1973 | Final | Semi-Final | Preliminaries |  Soviet Union |  East Germany | Edinburgh |  Great Britain
1975 | Final | Semi-Final | Preliminaries |  East Germany |  East Germany | Nice |  France
1977 | "A" Final | Semi-Final | Preliminaries | "B" Final | — |  East Germany |  East Germany | Helsinki |  Finland
1979 | "A" Final | Semi-Final | Preliminaries | "B" Final |  East Germany |  East Germany | Turin |  Italy
1981 | "A" Final | Semi-Final | Preliminaries | "B" Final |  East Germany |  East Germany | Zagreb |  Yugoslavia
1983 | "A" Final | — | "B" Final | "C" Final |  East Germany |  East Germany | London |  Great Britain
1985 | "A" Final | "B" Final | "C" Final |  Soviet Union |  Soviet Union | Moscow |  Soviet Union
1987 | "A" Final | "B" Final | "C" Final |  Soviet Union |  East Germany | Prague |  Czechoslovakia
1989 | "A" Final | "B" Final | "C" Final |  Great Britain |  East Germany | Gateshead |  Great Britain
1991 | "A" Final | "B" Final | "C" Final |  Soviet Union |  Germany | Frankfurt |  Germany
1993 | Super League | First League | Second League |  Russia |  Russia | Rome |  Italy
1994 | Super League | First League | Second League |  Germany |  Germany | Birmingham |  Great Britain
1995 | Super League | First League | Second League |  Germany |  Russia | Villeneuve d'Ascq |  France
1996 | Super League | First League | Second League |  Germany |  Germany | Madrid |  Spain
1997 | Super League | First League | Second League |  Great Britain |  Russia | Munich |  Germany
1998 | Super League | First League | Second League |  Great Britain |  Russia | Saint Petersburg |  Russia
1999 | Super League | First League | Second League |  Germany |  Russia | Paris |  France
2000 | Super League | First League | Second League |  Great Britain |  Russia | Gateshead |  Great Britain
2001 | Super League | First League | Second League |  Poland |  Russia | Bremen |  Germany
2002 | Super League | First League | Second League |  Great Britain |  Russia | Annecy |  France
2003 | Super League | First League | Second League |  France |  Russia | Florence |  Italy
2004 | Super League | First League | Second League |  Germany |  Russia | Bydgoszcz |  Poland
2005 | Super League | First League | Second League |  Germany |  Russia | Florence |  Italy
2006 | Super League | First League | Second League |  France |  Russia | Málaga |  Spain
2007 | Super League | First League | Second League |  France |  Russia | Munich |  Germany
2008 | Super League | First League | Second League |  Great Britain |  Russia | Annecy |  France

## Best performances

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Below is a list of the events that took place at the championships, and what is the European Cup record, who set it, what country they represented and which year.

### Men

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100 m: 10.04 – Linford Christie, Great Britain 1996, 1997
200 m: 20.11 – Linford Christie, Great Britain, 1995
400 m: 44.75 – David Grindley, Great Britain, 1993
800 m: 1:44.28 – Wilson Kipketer, Denmark, 2002
1,500 m: 3:33.63 – José Manuel Abascal, Spain, 1983
3,000 m: 7:41.08 – Dieter Baumann, Germany, 1997
5,000 m: 13:21.68 – Salvatore Antibo, Italy, 1991
10,000 m: 27:32.85 – Fernando Mamede, Portugal, 1983
3,000 m Steeplechase: 8:13.32 – Mariano Scartezzini, Italy, 1981
110 m Hurdles: 13.10 – Colin Jackson, Great Britain, 1993
400 m Hurdles: 47.85 – Harald Schmid, West Germany, 1979, 1985
4 × 100 m Relay: 38.16 – Great Britain (Jason Gardener, Darren Campbell, Marlon Devonish, Julian Golding), 1999
4 × 400 m Relay: 2:59.46 – Great Britain (Roger Black, Jamie Baulch, Ewan Thomas, Mark Richardson), 1997

High Jump: 2.40 m – Patrik Sjöberg, Sweden, 1989
Pole Vault: 6.00 m – Radion Gataullin, Russia, 1993
=Long Jump: 8.38 – Robert Emmiyan, Soviet Union, 1987
=Long Jump: 8.38 – Kirill Sosunov, Russia, 1998
Triple Jump: 17.77 – Khristo Markov, Bulgaria, 1985
Shot put: 22.05 – Sergey Smirnov, Soviet Union, 1985
Hammer: 82.90 – Jüri Tamm, Soviet Union, 1985
Discus: 68.76 – Lars Riedel, Germany, 1995
Javelin: 92.41 – Aki Parviainen, Finland, 2001

### Women

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100 m: 10.77 – Ivet Lalova, Bulgaria 2004
200 m: 21.99 – Silke Gladisch, East Germany, 1987
=400 m: 48.60 – Marita Koch, East Germany, 1979
=400 m: 48.60 – Olga Vladykina, Soviet Union, 1985
800 m: 1:55.91 – Jarmila Kratachvilova, Czechoslovakia, 1985
1,500 m: 3:58.40 – Ravilya Agletdinova, Soviet Union, 1985
3,000 m: 8:35.32 – Zola Budd, Great Britain, 1985
5,000 m: 14:29.11 – Paula Radcliffe, Great Britain, 2004
10,000 m: 31:03.62 – Kathrin Ullrich, Germany, 1991
3,000 m Steeplechase: 9:35.95 – Cristina Casandra, Romania, 2005
110 m Hurdles: 12.47 – Cornelia Oschkenat, East Germany, 1987
400 m Hurdles: 53.38 – Yuliya Pechonkina, Russia, 2002
4 × 100 m Relay: 41.65 – East Germany (Silke Gladisch, Marita Koch, Ingrid Auerswald-Lange, Marlies Göhr), 1985
4 × 400 m Relay: 3:18.58 – Soviet Union (Olga Nazarova, Nadiya Olizarenko, Mariya Pinigina, Olga Vladykina), 1985

High Jump: 2.06m – Stefka Kostadinova, Bulgaria, 1985
Pole Vault: 4.75m – Monika Pyrek, Poland, 2006
Long Jump: 7.42 – Tatyana Kotova, Russia, 2002
Triple Jump: 14.98 – Tatyana Lebedeva, Russia, 2000
Shot put: 21.56 – Natalya Lisovskaya, Soviet Union, 1987
Hammer: 76.50 – Tatyana Lysenko, Russia, 2006
Discus: 73.90 – Diana Gansky, East Germany, 1987
Javelin: 70.20 – Christina Obergföll, Germany, 2007

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## Hosts

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#  | Year  | A Final  | B Final

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1  | 1965 |  Stuttgart (men), Kassel (women)  |
2  | 1967 |  Kiev
3  | 1970 |  Stockholm
4  | 1973 |  Edinburgh
5  | 1975 |  Nice
6  | 1977 |  Helsinki |  Gothenburg (men),  Třinec (women)
7  | 1979 |  Turin |  Karlovac (men),  Paris (women)
8  | 1981 |  Zagreb |  Athens (men),  Pescara (women)
9  | 1983 |  London |  Prague (men),  Sittard (women)
10  | 1985 |  Moscow |  Budapest (men),  Budapest (women)
11  | 1987 |  Prague |  Gothenburg (men),  Gothenburg (women)
12  | 1989 |  Gateshead |  Brussels (men),  Strasbourg (women)
13  | 1991 |  Frankfurt |  Barcelona
14  | 1993 |  Rome |  Brussels
15  | 1994 |  Birmingham |  Valencia
16  | 1995 |  Villeneuve d'Ascq |  Basel,  Turku
17  | 1996 |  Madrid |  Lisbon,  Bergen
18  | 1997 |  Munich |  Prague,  Dublin
19  | 1998 |  St. Petersburg |  Budapest,  Malmö
20  | 1999 |  Paris |  Lahti,  Athens
21  | 2000 |  Gateshead |  Oslo,  Bydgoszcz
21  | 2001 |  Bremen |  Vaasa,  Budapest
22  | 2002 |  Annecy |  Banská Bystrica,  Seville
23  | 2003 |  Florence |  Lappeenranta,  Velenje
24  | 2004 |  Bydgoszcz |  Plovdiv,  Istanbul
25  | 2005 |  Florence |  Gävle,  Leiria
26  | 2006 |  Málaga |  Prague,  Thessaloniki
27  | 2007 |  Munich |  Vaasa,  Milan
28  | 2008 |  Annecy |  Leiria,  Istanbul

## Medals (1965–2008)

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European Cup Finals :[2]

Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Russia| 163| 112| 99| 374
2|  Great Britain| 158| 116| 117| 391
3|  Germany| 152| 198| 188| 538
4|  East Germany| 142| 85| 65| 292
5|  Soviet Union| 100| 115| 83| 298
6|  France| 96| 88| 108| 292
7|  Poland| 53| 87| 99| 239
8|  Italy| 52| 62| 90| 204
9|  Spain| 30| 33| 31| 94
10|  Romania| 29| 33| 26| 88
11|  Ukraine| 25| 43| 42| 110
12|  Greece| 16| 19| 25| 60
13|  Czech Republic| 15| 18| 23| 56
14|  Bulgaria| 11| 15| 20| 46
15|  Belarus| 10| 10| 16| 36
16|  Sweden| 9| 9| 9| 27
17|  Finland| 6| 11| 14| 31
18|  Hungary| 4| 10| 16| 30
19|  Norway| 1| 2| 1| 4
20|  Belgium| 1| 0| 0| 1
Slovenia| 1| 0| 0| 1
22|  Netherlands| 0| 5| 0| 5
23|  Yugoslavia| 0| 1| 1| 2
Totals (23 entries)| 1,074| 1,072| 1,073| 3,219

## See also

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* European Athletics Association
* European Athletics Indoor Cup
* European Athletics Team Championships
* European Champion Clubs Cup (athletics)
* European Champion Clubs Cup for Juniors
* European Champion Clubs Cup Cross Country

## References

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1. ^ "Overall Qualification Ranking 2008". European Athletics. Archived from the original on June 26, 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-26.
2. ^ "Athletics Podium".

## External links

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* Málaga 2006 Official Website Archived 2013-10-05 at the Wayback Machine
* Málaga 2006 Schedule
* European Cup Memories
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