2012 European Athletics Championships

21st European Athletics Championships
Host city Helsinki, Finland
Date(s) 27 June – 1 July 2012
Main stadium Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Level Senior
Type Outdoor
Participation 50 nations
Events 42 (21 men, 21 women)


The 2012 European Athletics Championships were held in Helsinki, Finland between 27 June and 1 July 2012.[1] This edition marks the beginning of a new two-year cycle of the European Athletics Championships which were previously held every four years.

The decision to grant the games for Helsinki was made by the European Athletics Congress on 9 November 2009. [2] Another city that showed interest in hosting the event was Nuremberg, Germany, however Helsinki was in pole position during the whole process. This was the third time that the city had hosted the event, 1971 and 1994 being the other occasions.

Due to 2012 being an Olympic year, there were no racewalking and marathon competitions.[3]

Event schedule

HHeats QQualifiers ½Semi-finals FFinal

Men
Date → 27 28 29 30 1
Event ↓ M A M A M A M A 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
110 m hurdles H ½F
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
Date → 27 28 29 30 1
Event ↓ M A M A M A M A A
100 m H ½ F
200 m H ½ F
400 m H ½ F
800 m H F
1500 m H F
5000 m F
10,000 m 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

Men's results

Track

Chronology: 2006 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016
Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
France Christophe Lemaitre (FRA) 10.09 France Jimmy Vicaut (FRA) 10.12 SB Norway Jaysuma Saidy Ndure (NOR) 10.17
200 metres
Netherlands Churandy Martina (NED) 20.42 Netherlands Patrick van Luijk (NED) 20.87 United Kingdom Daniel Talbot (GBR) 20.95
400 metres
Czech Republic Pavel Maslák (CZE) 45.24 Hungary Marcell Deák-Nagy (HUN) 45.52 SB France Yannick Fonsat (FRA) 45.82
800 metres
Russia Yuriy Borzakovskiy (RUS) 1:48.61 Denmark Andreas Bube (DEN) 1:48.69 France Pierre-Ambroise Bosse (FRA) 1:48.83
1500 metres
Norway Henrik Ingebrigtsen (NOR) 3:46.20 France Florian Carvalho (FRA) 3:46.33 Spain David Bustos (ESP) 3:46.45
5000 metres
United Kingdom Mo Farah (GBR) 13:29.91 Germany Arne Gabius (GER) 13:31.83 Turkey Polat Kemboi Arıkan (TUR) 13:32.63
10,000 metres
Turkey Polat Kemboi Arıkan (TUR) 28:22.27 Italy Daniele Meucci (ITA) 28:22.73 Russia Yevgeniy Rybakov (RUS) 28:22.95 SB
110 metres hurdles
Russia Sergey Shubenkov (RUS) 13.16 France Garfield Darien (FRA) 13.20 Poland Artur Noga (POL) 13.27 NR
400 metres hurdles
United Kingdom Rhys Williams (GBR) 49.33 SB Serbia Emir Bekrić (SRB) 49.49 Ukraine Stanislav Melnykov (UKR) 49.69
3000 metres steeplechase
France Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad (FRA) 8:33.29 Turkey Tarık Langat Akdağ (TUR) 8:35.24 Spain Víctor García (ESP) 8:35.87
4 × 100 metres relay
 Netherlands (NED)
Brian Mariano
Churandy Martina
Giovanni Codrington
Patrick van Luijk
38.34 EL, NR  Germany (GER)
Julian Reus
Tobias Unger
Alexander Kosenkow
Lucas Jakubczyk
38.44  France (FRA)
Ronald Pognon
Christophe Lemaitre
Pierre-Alexis Pessonneaux
Emmanuel Biron
38.46
4 × 400 metres relay
 Belgium (BEL)
Antoine Gillet
Jonathan Borlée
Jente Bouckaert
Kevin Borlée
3:01.09 EL  Great Britain (GBR)
Nigel Levine
Conrad Williams
Robert Tobin
Richard Buck
3:01.56  Germany (GER)
Jonas Plass
Kamghe Gaba
Eric Krüger
Thomas Schneider
3:01.77

WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Field

Chronology: 2006 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016
Event Gold Silver Bronze
High jump
United Kingdom Robert Grabarz (GBR) 2.31 Lithuania Raivydas Stanys (LTU) 2.31 PB France Mickaël Hanany (FRA) 2.28
Pole vault
France Renaud Lavillenie (FRA) 5.97 WL Germany Björn Otto (GER) 5.92 PB Germany Raphael Holzdeppe (GER) 5.77 =SB
Long jump
Germany Sebastian Bayer (GER) 8.34 SB Spain Luis Felipe Méliz (ESP) 8.21 SB Sweden Michel Tornéus (SWE) 8.17 SB
Triple jump
Italy Fabrizio Donato (ITA) 17.63 Ukraine Sheryf El-Sheryf (UKR) 17.28 Belarus Aliaksei Tsapik (BLR) 16.97
Shot put
Germany David Storl (GER) 21.58 SB Netherlands Rutger Smith (NED) 20.55 =SB Serbia Asmir Kolašinac (SRB) 20.36
Discus throw
Germany Robert Harting (GER) 68.30 Estonia Gerd Kanter (EST) 66.53 Netherlands Rutger Smith (NED) 64.02
Javelin throw
Czech Republic Vítězslav Veselý (CZE) 83.72 Russia Valeriy Iordan (RUS) 83.32 PB Finland Ari Mannio (FIN) 82.63
Hammer throw
Hungary Krisztián Pars (HUN) 79.72 Russia Aleksey Zagornyi (RUS) 77.40 Poland Szymon Ziółkowski (POL) 76.67
Decathlon
Germany Pascal Behrenbruch (GER) 8558 EL, PB Ukraine Oleksiy Kasyanov (UKR) 8321 Russia Ilya Shkurenyov (RUS) 8219 PB

WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Women's results

Track

Chronology: 2006 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016
Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
Bulgaria Ivet Lalova (BUL) 11.28 Ukraine Olesya Povh (UKR) 11.32 Lithuania Lina Grinčikaitė (LTU) 11.32 SB
200 metres
Ukraine Mariya Ryemyen (UKR) 23.05 Ukraine Hrystyna Stuy (UKR) 23.17 France Myriam Soumaré (FRA) 23.21
400 metres
Sweden Moa Hjelmer (SWE) 51.13 NR Russia Ksenia Zadorina (RUS) 51.26 SB Belarus Ilona Usovich (BLR) 51.94
800 metres
United Kingdom Lynsey Sharp (GBR) 2:00.52 PB Russia Irina Maracheva (RUS) 2:00.66 Belarus Maryna Arzamasava (BLR) 2:01.02
1500 metres
Turkey Gamze Bulut (TUR) 4:06.04 Ukraine Anna Mishchenko (UKR) 4:07.74 Spain Nuria Fernández (ESP) 4:08.80
5000 metres
Russia Olga Golovkina (RUS) 15:11.70 Ukraine Lyudmyla Kovalenko (UKR) 15:12.03 Portugal Sara Moreira (POR) 15:12.05
10,000 metres
Portugal Ana Dulce Félix (POR) 31:44.75 United Kingdom Joanne Pavey (GBR) 31:49.03 Ukraine Olha Skrypak (UKR) 31:51.32
100 metres hurdles
Belarus Alina Talay (BLR) 12.91 Belarus Katsiaryna Paplauskaya (BLR) 12.97 Austria Beate Schrott (AUT) 12.98 =SB
400 metres hurdles
Russia Irina Davydova (RUS) 53.77 WL, PB Czech Republic Denisa Rosolová (CZE) 54.24 PB Ukraine Hanna Yaroshchuk (UKR) 54.35 PB
3000 metres steeplechase
Turkey Gülcan Mıngır (TUR) 9:32.96 Germany Antje Möldner-Schmidt (GER) 9:36.37 Germany Gesa Felicitas Krause (GER) 9:38.20
4 × 100 metres relay
 Germany (GER)
Leena Günther
Anne Cibis
Tatjana Lofamakanda Pinto
Verena Sailer
42.51 EL  Netherlands (NED)
Kadene Vassell
Dafne Schippers
Eva Lubbers
Jamile Samuel
42.80 NR  Poland (POL)
Marika Popowicz
Daria Korczyńska
Marta Jeschke
Ewelina Ptak
43.06
4 × 400 metres relay
 Ukraine (UKR)
Yuilya Olishevska
Olha Zemlyak
Nataliya Pyhyda
Alina Lohvynenko
3:25.07 EL  France (FRA)
Phara Anacharsis
Lenora Guion Firmin
Marie Gayot
Floria Guei
3:25.49  Czech Republic (CZE)
Zuzana Hejnová
Zuzana Bergrová
Jitka Bartoničková
Denisa Rosolová
3:26.02

WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Field

Chronology: 2006 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016
Event Gold Silver Bronze
High jump
Spain Ruth Beitia (ESP) 1.97 =SB Norway Tonje Angelsen (NOR) 1.97 PB Russia Irina Gordeeva (RUS)
Sweden Emma Green Tregaro (SWE)
Ukraine Olena Holosha (UKR)
1.92
Pole vault
Czech Republic Jiřina Ptáčníková (CZE) 4.60 Germany Martina Strutz (GER) 4.60 SB Greece Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou (GRE) 4.60 =SB
Long jump
France Éloyse Lesueur (FRA) 6.81 SB Belarus Volha Sudarava (BLR) 6.74 Norway Margrethe Renstrøm (NOR) 6.67
Triple jump
Ukraine Olha Saladukha (UKR) 14.99 WL Portugal Patrícia Mamona (POR) 14.52 NR Russia Yana Borodina (RUS) 14.36
Shot put
Germany Nadine Kleinert (GER) 19.18 Russia Irina Tarasova (RUS) 18.91 Italy Chiara Rosa (ITA) 18.47
Discus throw
Croatia Sandra Perković (CRO) 67.62 Germany Nadine Müller (GER) 65.41 Ukraine Natalya Semenova (UKR) 62.91
Javelin throw
Ukraine Vira Rebryk (UKR) 66.86 NR Germany Christina Obergföll (GER) 65.12 Germany Linda Stahl (GER) 63.69
Hammer throw
Poland Anita Włodarczyk (POL) 74.29 Slovakia Martina Hrašnová (SVK) 73.34 SB Russia Anna Bulgakova (RUS) 71.47
Heptathlon
France Antoinette Nana Djimou Ida (FRA) 6544 PB Latvia Laura Ikauniece (LAT) 6335 PB Latvia Aiga Grabuste (LAT) 6325 SB

WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Medal table

      Host nation

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Germany 6 7 4 17
2  France 5 4 5 14
3  Ukraine 4 5 6 15
4  Russia 4 5 5 14
5  Great Britain 4 2 1 7
6  Czech Republic 3 1 1 5
7  Netherlands 2 3 1 6
8  Turkey 2 2 1 5
9  Norway 1 1 2 4
9  Spain 1 1 2 4
11  Italy 1 1 1 3
11  Portugal 1 1 1 3
13  Hungary 1 1 0 2
14  Poland 1 0 3 4
15  Sweden 1 0 2 3
16  Belgium 1 0 0 1
16  Bulgaria 1 0 0 1
16  Croatia 1 0 0 1
19  Belarus 0 2 4 6
20  Latvia 0 1 1 2
20  Lithuania 0 1 1 2
20  Serbia 0 1 1 2
23  Denmark 0 1 0 1
23  Estonia 0 1 0 1
23  Slovakia 0 1 0 1
26  Finland 0 0 1 1
26  Greece 0 0 1 1
Total 42 42 44 128

Participating nations

In brackets: Squad size

Broadcasting

Territory Rights holder
 Belgium
 Croatia
 Denmark
 Estonia
 Finland
 France
 Germany
 Hungary
 Italy
 Latvia
 Lithuania
 Poland
 Portugal
 Serbia
 Slovenia
 Spain
 Sweden
 Turkey

References

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