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

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.

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

Legend
Key P Q H ½ F
Value Preliminary roundQualifiersHeatsSemifinalsFinal

Results

Men

Track

Chronology: 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016 | 2018
Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Daniele Meucci
 Italy (ITA)
2:11:08 Yared Shegumo
 Poland (POL)
2:12:00 Aleksey Reunkov
 Russia (RUS)
2:12:15
110 metres hurdles
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
Kariem Hussein
 Switzerland (SUI)
48.96 Rasmus Mägi
 Estonia (EST)
49.06 Denis Kudryavtsev
 Russia (RUS)
49.16
3000 metres steeplechase
[a]
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
 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
 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
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
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

Chronology: 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016 | 2018
Event Gold Silver Bronze
High jump
Bohdan Bondarenko
 Ukraine (UKR)
2.35 Andriy Protsenko
 Ukraine (UKR)
2.33 Jaroslav Bába
 Czech Republic (CZE)
2.30
Pole vault
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
Greg Rutherford
 Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
8.29 Louis Tsatoumas
 Greece (GRE)
8.15 Kafétien Gomis
 France (FRA)
8.14
Triple jump
Benjamin Compaoré
 France (FRA)
17.46 EL Aleksey Fyodorov
 Russia (RUS)
17.04 Yoann Rapinier
 France (FRA)
17.01
Shot put
David Storl
 Germany (GER)
21.41 Borja Vivas
 Spain (ESP)
20.86 Tomasz Majewski
 Poland (POL)
20.83
Discus throw
Robert Harting
 Germany (GER)
66.07 Gerd Kanter
 Estonia (EST)
64.75 Robert Urbanek
 Poland (POL)
63.81
Javelin throw
Antti Ruuskanen
 Finland (FIN)
88.01 EL, PB Vítězslav Veselý
 Czech Republic (CZE)
84.79 Tero Pitkämäki
 Finland (FIN)
84.40
Hammer throw
Krisztián Pars
 Hungary (HUN)
82.69 WL, PB Paweł Fajdek
 Poland (POL)
82.05 Sergej Litvinov
 Russia (RUS)
79.35 SB
Decathlon
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

Track

Chronology: 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016 | 2018
Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
Dafne Schippers
 Netherlands (NED)
11.12 Myriam Soumaré
 France (FRA)
11.16 Ashleigh Nelson
 Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
11.22
200 metres
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
Libania Grenot
 Italy (ITA)
51.10 Olha Zemlyak
 Ukraine (UKR)
51.36 Indira Terrero
 Spain (ESP)
51.38 SB
800 metres
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
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
Meraf Bahta
 Sweden (SWE)
15:31.39 Sifan Hassan
 Netherlands (NED)
15:31.79 Susan Kuijken
 Netherlands (NED)
15:32.82
10,000 metres
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
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
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
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
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
 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
 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
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

Chronology: 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016 | 2018
Event Gold Silver Bronze
High jump
Ruth Beitia
 Spain (ESP)
2.01 WL Mariya Kuchina
 Russia (RUS)
1.99 Ana Šimić
 Croatia (CRO)
1.99 PB
Pole vault
Anzhelika Sidorova
 Russia (RUS)
4.65 Katerina Stefanidi
 Greece (GRE)
4.60 Angelina Zhuk-Krasnova
 Russia (RUS)
4.60
Long jump
Éloyse Lesueur
 France (FRA)
6.85 Ivana Španović
 Serbia (SRB)
6.81 Darya Klishina
 Russia (RUS)
6.65
Triple jump
Olha Saladuha
 Ukraine (UKR)
14.73 SB Ekaterina Koneva
 Russia (RUS)
14.69 Irina Gumenyuk
 Russia (RUS)
14.46 SB
Shot put
Christina Schwanitz
 Germany (GER)
19.90 Yevgeniya Kolodko
 Russia (RUS)
19.39 SB Anita Márton
 Hungary (HUN)
19.04 NR
Discus throw
Sandra Perković
 Croatia (CRO)
71.08 WL, NR Mélina Robert-Michon
 France (FRA)
65.33 Shanice Craft
 Germany (GER)
64.33
Javelin throw
Barbora Špotáková
 Czech Republic (CZE)
64.41 Tatjana Jelača
 Serbia (SRB)
64.21 NR Linda Stahl
 Germany (GER)
63.91
Hammer throw
Anita Włodarczyk
 Poland (POL)
78.76 WL, CR, NR Martina Hrašnová
 Slovakia (SVK)
74.66 Joanna Fiodorow
 Poland (POL)
73.67
Heptathlon
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

  *   Host nation (Switzerland)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)125623
2 France (FRA)98825
3 Germany (GER)4138
4 Russia (RUS)35917
5 Netherlands (NED)3216
6 Poland (POL)26412
7 Ukraine (UKR)2529
8 Spain (ESP)2136
9 Italy (ITA)2103
10 Belarus (BLR)2002
11 Sweden (SWE)1203
12 Czech Republic (CZE)1146
13 Croatia (CRO)1012
 Finland (FIN)1012
 Hungary (HUN)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

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

See also

References

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