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)
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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

H	Heats	Q	Qualifiers	½	Semi-finals	F	Final

**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		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**
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	Christophe Lemaitre (FRA)	10.09	Jimmy Vicaut (FRA)	10.12 SB	Jaysuma Saidy Ndure (NOR)	10.17
200 metres	Churandy Martina (NED)	20.42	Patrick van Luijk (NED)	20.87	Daniel Talbot (GBR)	20.95
400 metres	Pavel Maslák (CZE)	45.24	Marcell Deák-Nagy (HUN)	45.52 SB	Yannick Fonsat (FRA)	45.82
800 metres	Yuriy Borzakovskiy (RUS)	1:48.61	Andreas Bube (DEN)	1:48.69	Pierre-Ambroise Bosse (FRA)	1:48.83
1500 metres	Henrik Ingebrigtsen (NOR)	3:46.20	Florian Carvalho (FRA)	3:46.33	David Bustos (ESP)	3:46.45
5000 metres	Mo Farah (GBR)	13:29.91	Arne Gabius (GER)	13:31.83	Polat Kemboi Arıkan (TUR)	13:32.63
10,000 metres	Polat Kemboi Arıkan (TUR)	28:22.27	Daniele Meucci (ITA)	28:22.73	Yevgeniy Rybakov (RUS)	28:22.95 SB
110 metres hurdles	Sergey Shubenkov (RUS)	13.16	Garfield Darien (FRA)	13.20	Artur Noga (POL)	13.27 NR
400 metres hurdles	Rhys Williams (GBR)	49.33 SB	Emir Bekrić (SRB)	49.49	Stanislav Melnykov (UKR)	49.69
3000 metres steeplechase	Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad (FRA)	8:33.29	Tarık Langat Akdağ (TUR)	8:35.24	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	Robert Grabarz (GBR)	2.31	Raivydas Stanys (LTU)	2.31 PB	Mickaël Hanany (FRA)	2.28
Pole vault	Renaud Lavillenie (FRA)	5.97 WL	Björn Otto (GER)	5.92 PB	Raphael Holzdeppe (GER)	5.77 =SB
Long jump	Sebastian Bayer (GER)	8.34 SB	Luis Felipe Méliz (ESP)	8.21 SB	Michel Tornéus (SWE)	8.17 SB
Triple jump	Fabrizio Donato (ITA)	17.63	Sheryf El-Sheryf (UKR)	17.28	Aliaksei Tsapik (BLR)	16.97
Shot put	David Storl (GER)	21.58 SB	Rutger Smith (NED)	20.55 =SB	Asmir Kolašinac (SRB)	20.36
Discus throw	Robert Harting (GER)	68.30	Gerd Kanter (EST)	66.53	Rutger Smith (NED)	64.02
Javelin throw	Vítězslav Veselý (CZE)	83.72	Valeriy Iordan (RUS)	83.32 PB	Ari Mannio (FIN)	82.63
Hammer throw	Krisztián Pars (HUN)	79.72	Aleksey Zagornyi (RUS)	77.40	Szymon Ziółkowski (POL)	76.67
Decathlon	Pascal Behrenbruch (GER)	8558 EL, PB	Oleksiy Kasyanov (UKR)	8321	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	Ivet Lalova (BUL)	11.28	Olesya Povh (UKR)	11.32	Lina Grinčikaitė (LTU)	11.32 SB
200 metres	Mariya Ryemyen (UKR)	23.05	Hrystyna Stuy (UKR)	23.17	Myriam Soumaré (FRA)	23.21
400 metres	Moa Hjelmer (SWE)	51.13 NR	Ksenia Zadorina (RUS)	51.26 SB	Ilona Usovich (BLR)	51.94
800 metres	Lynsey Sharp (GBR)	2:00.52 PB	Irina Maracheva (RUS)	2:00.66	Maryna Arzamasava (BLR)	2:01.02
1500 metres	Gamze Bulut (TUR)	4:06.04	Anna Mishchenko (UKR)	4:07.74	Nuria Fernández (ESP)	4:08.80
5000 metres	Olga Golovkina (RUS)	15:11.70	Lyudmyla Kovalenko (UKR)	15:12.03	Sara Moreira (POR)	15:12.05
10,000 metres	Ana Dulce Félix (POR)	31:44.75	Joanne Pavey (GBR)	31:49.03	Olha Skrypak (UKR)	31:51.32
100 metres hurdles	Alina Talay (BLR)	12.91	Katsiaryna Paplauskaya (BLR)	12.97	Beate Schrott (AUT)	12.98 =SB
400 metres hurdles	Irina Davydova (RUS)	53.77 WL, PB	Denisa Rosolová (CZE)	54.24 PB	Hanna Yaroshchuk (UKR)	54.35 PB
3000 metres steeplechase	Gülcan Mıngır (TUR)	9:32.96	Antje Möldner-Schmidt (GER)	9:36.37	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	Ruth Beitia (ESP)	1.97 =SB	Tonje Angelsen (NOR)	1.97 PB	Irina Gordeeva (RUS) Emma Green Tregaro (SWE) Olena Holosha (UKR)	1.92
Pole vault	Jiřina Ptáčníková (CZE)	4.60	Martina Strutz (GER)	4.60 SB	Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou (GRE)	4.60 =SB
Long jump	Éloyse Lesueur (FRA)	6.81 SB	Volha Sudarava (BLR)	6.74	Margrethe Renstrøm (NOR)	6.67
Triple jump	Olha Saladukha (UKR)	14.99 WL	Patrícia Mamona (POR)	14.52 NR	Yana Borodina (RUS)	14.36
Shot put	Nadine Kleinert (GER)	19.18	Irina Tarasova (RUS)	18.91	Chiara Rosa (ITA)	18.47
Discus throw	Sandra Perković (CRO)	67.62	Nadine Müller (GER)	65.41	Natalya Semenova (UKR)	62.91
Javelin throw	Vira Rebryk (UKR)	66.86 NR	Christina Obergföll (GER)	65.12	Linda Stahl (GER)	63.69
Hammer throw	Anita Włodarczyk (POL)	74.29	Martina Hrašnová (SVK)	73.34 SB	Anna Bulgakova (RUS)	71.47
Heptathlon	Antoinette Nana Djimou Ida (FRA)	6544 PB	Laura Ikauniece (LAT)	6335 PB	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

Albania (ALB) (3)
Andorra (AND) (4)
Armenia (ARM) (5)
Austria (AUT) (9)
Azerbaijan (AZE) (4)
Belarus (BLR) (28)
Belgium (BEL) (22)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH) (4)
Bulgaria (BUL) (26)
Croatia (CRO) (11)
Cyprus (CYP) (11)
Czech Republic (CZE) (43)
Denmark (DEN) (10)
Estonia (EST) (21)
Finland (FIN) (53) (host)
France (FRA) (68)
Georgia (GEO) (5)

Germany (GER) (88)
Gibraltar (GIB) (2)
Great Britain (GBR) (73)
Greece (GRE) (24)
Hungary (HUN) (21)
Iceland (ISL) (5)
Ireland (IRL) (24)
Israel (ISR) (12)
Italy (ITA) (61)
Latvia (LAT) (22)
Liechtenstein (LIE) (1)
Lithuania (LTU) (24)
Luxembourg (LUX) (4)
Macedonia (MKD) (2)
Malta (MLT) (2)
Moldova (MDA) (6)
Monaco (MON) (1)

Montenegro (MNE) (4)
Netherlands (NED) (35)
Norway (NOR) (28)
Poland (POL) (57)
Portugal (POR) (37)
Romania (ROU) (28)
Russia (RUS) (69)
San Marino (SMR) (1)
Serbia (SRB) (11)
Slovakia (SVK) (12)
Slovenia (SLO) (19)
Spain (ESP) (70)
Sweden (SWE) (41)
Switzerland (SUI) (27)
Turkey (TUR) (44)
Ukraine (UKR) (70)

In brackets: Squad size

Broadcasting

Territory	Rights holder
Belgium	VRT
Croatia	HRT SPTV
Denmark	DR2
Estonia	ERR
Finland	Yle
France	France Télévisions Eurosport
Germany	ARD ZDF Eurosport
Hungary	m2 Eurosport
Italy	Rai
Latvia	LTV
Lithuania	Eurosport
Poland	TVP Sport Eurosport
Portugal	RTP Eurosport
Serbia	RTS Eurosport
Slovenia	RTV SLO
Spain	Teledeporte Eurosport
Sweden	SVT
Turkey	TRT 3 Eurosport

References

↑ EAA calendar
↑ "It's Helsinki! European Athletics awards 2012 European Athletics Championships to Finnish capital". EAA.
↑ European Athletics Championships 2012 in Helsinki –

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