2014 European Athletics Championships

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.

22nd European Athletics Championships
Dates	12–17 August
Host city	Zürich, Switzerland
Venue	Letzigrund
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	47
Participation	1,439 athletes from 50 nations
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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 round	Qualifiers	Heats	Semifinals	Final

Men[2][failed verification] Date Aug 12 Aug 13 Aug 14 Aug 15 Aug 16 Aug 17 Event M A 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 H F 10,000 m F 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 20 km walk F 50 km walk 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[2][failed verification] Date Aug 12 Aug 13 Aug 14 Aug 15 Aug 16 Aug 17 Event M A 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 H F 10,000 m F 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 20 km walk 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: 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016 | 2018

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	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 details	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 details	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 details	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 details	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 details	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 details	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 details	Daniele Meucci  Italy (ITA)	2:11:08	Yared Shegumo  Poland (POL)	2:12:00	Aleksey Reunkov  Russia (RUS)	2:12:15
110 metres hurdles details	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 details	Kariem Hussein  Switzerland (SUI)	48.96	Rasmus Mägi  Estonia (EST)	49.06	Denis Kudryavtsev  Russia (RUS)	49.16
3000 metres steeplechase details[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 details	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 details	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 details	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 details	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 details	Bohdan Bondarenko  Ukraine (UKR)	2.35	Andriy Protsenko  Ukraine (UKR)	2.33	Jaroslav Bába  Czech Republic (CZE)	2.30
Pole vault details	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 details	Greg Rutherford  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	8.29	Louis Tsatoumas  Greece (GRE)	8.15	Kafétien Gomis  France (FRA)	8.14
Triple jump details	Benjamin Compaoré  France (FRA)	17.46 EL	Aleksey Fyodorov  Russia (RUS)	17.04	Yoann Rapinier  France (FRA)	17.01
Shot put details	David Storl  Germany (GER)	21.41	Borja Vivas  Spain (ESP)	20.86	Tomasz Majewski  Poland (POL)	20.83
Discus throw details	Robert Harting  Germany (GER)	66.07	Gerd Kanter  Estonia (EST)	64.75	Robert Urbanek  Poland (POL)	63.81
Javelin throw details	Antti Ruuskanen  Finland (FIN)	88.01 EL, PB	Vítězslav Veselý  Czech Republic (CZE)	84.79	Tero Pitkämäki  Finland (FIN)	84.40
Hammer throw details	Krisztián Pars  Hungary (HUN)	82.69 WL, PB	Paweł Fajdek  Poland (POL)	82.05	Pavel Kryvitski  Belarus (BLR)	78.50
Decathlon details	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 details	Dafne Schippers  Netherlands (NED)	11.12	Myriam Soumaré  France (FRA)	11.16	Ashleigh Nelson  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	11.22
200 metres details	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 details	Libania Grenot  Italy (ITA)	51.10	Olha Zemlyak  Ukraine (UKR)	51.36	Indira Terrero  Spain (ESP)	51.38 SB
800 metres details	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 details	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 details	Meraf Bahta  Sweden (SWE)	15:31.39	Sifan Hassan  Netherlands (NED)	15:31.79	Susan Kuijken  Netherlands (NED)	15:32.82
10,000 metres details	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 details	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 details	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 details	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 details	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 details	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 details	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 details	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 details	Ruth Beitia  Spain (ESP)	2.01 WL	Mariya Kuchina  Russia (RUS)	1.99	Ana Šimić  Croatia (CRO)	1.99 PB
Pole vault details	Anzhelika Sidorova  Russia (RUS)	4.65	Katerina Stefanidi  Greece (GRE)	4.60	Angelina Zhuk-Krasnova  Russia (RUS)	4.60
Long jump details	Éloyse Lesueur  France (FRA)	6.85	Ivana Španović  Serbia (SRB)	6.81	Darya Klishina  Russia (RUS)	6.65
Triple jump details	Olha Saladuha  Ukraine (UKR)	14.73 SB	Ekaterina Koneva  Russia (RUS)	14.69	Irina Gumenyuk  Russia (RUS)	14.46 SB
Shot put details	Christina Schwanitz  Germany (GER)	19.90	Anita Márton  Hungary (HUN)	19.04 NR	Yuliya Leantsiuk  Belarus (BLR)	18.68
Discus throw details	Sandra Perković  Croatia (CRO)	71.08 WL, NR	Mélina Robert-Michon  France (FRA)	65.33	Shanice Craft  Germany (GER)	64.33
Javelin throw details	Barbora Špotáková  Czech Republic (CZE)	64.41	Tatjana Jelača  Serbia (SRB)	64.21 NR	Linda Stahl  Germany (GER)	63.91
Hammer throw details	Anita Włodarczyk  Poland (POL)	78.76 WL, CR, NR	Martina Hrašnová  Slovakia (SVK)	74.66	Joanna Fiodorow  Poland (POL)	73.67
Heptathlon details	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

Dafne Schippers won the women's 100 and 200 metres

  *   Host nation (Switzerland)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	12	5	6	23
2	France (FRA)	9	8	8	25
3	Germany (GER)	4	1	3	8
4	Russia (RUS)	3	4	8	15
5	Netherlands (NED)	3	2	1	6
6	Poland (POL)	2	6	4	12
7	Ukraine (UKR)	2	5	2	9
8	Spain (ESP)	2	1	3	6
9	Italy (ITA)	2	1	0	3
10	Belarus (BLR)	2	0	2	4
11	Sweden (SWE)	1	2	0	3
12	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	1	4	6
13	Hungary (HUN)	1	1	0	2
14	Croatia (CRO)	1	0	1	2
	Finland (FIN)	1	0	1	2
16	Switzerland (SUI)*	1	0	0	1
17	Estonia (EST)	0	2	0	2
	Greece (GRE)	0	2	0	2
	Serbia (SRB)	0	2	0	2
	Slovakia (SVK)	0	2	0	2
21	Azerbaijan (AZE)	0	1	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	1	0	1
23	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Ireland (IRL)	0	0	1	1
	Israel (ISR)	0	0	1	1
	Portugal (POR)	0	0	1	1
	Turkey (TUR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (27 entries)		47	47	48	142

Participating nations

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

•  Albania (ALB) (2)
•  Andorra (AND) (2)
•  Armenia (ARM) (3)
•  Austria (AUT) (13)
•  Azerbaijan (AZE) (2)
•  Belarus (BLR) (29)
•  Belgium (BEL) (35)
•  Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH) (4)
•  Bulgaria (BUL) (22)
•  Croatia (CRO) (23)
•  Cyprus (CYP) (7)
•  Czech Republic (CZE) (42)
•  Denmark (DEN) (14)
•  Estonia (EST) (26)
•  Finland (FIN) (36)
•  France (FRA) (57)
•  Georgia (GEO) (3)
•  Germany (GER) (93)
•  Gibraltar (GIB) (3)
•  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) (74)
•  Greece (GRE) (26)
•  Hungary (HUN) (27)
•  Iceland (ISL) (5)
•  Ireland (IRL) (25)
•  Israel (ISR) (10)
•  Italy (ITA) (78)
•  Latvia (LAT) (26)
•  Liechtenstein (LIE) (1)
•  Lithuania (LTU) (35)
•  Luxembourg (LUX) (4)
•  Macedonia (MKD) (2)
•  Malta (MLT) (2)
•  Moldova (MDA) (3)
•  Monaco (MON) (1)
•  Montenegro (MNE) (1)
•  Netherlands (NED) (43)
•  Norway (NOR) (40)
•  Poland (POL) (62)
•  Portugal (POR) (44)
•  Romania (ROM) (20)
•  Russia (RUS) (93)
•  San Marino (SMR) (2)
•  Serbia (SRB) (11)
•  Slovakia (SVK) (25)
•  Slovenia (SLO) (15)
•  Spain (ESP) (74)
•  Sweden (SWE) (60)
•  Switzerland (SUI) (53) (host)
•  Turkey (TUR) (29)
•  Ukraine (UKR) (70)

See also

• List of stripped European Athletics Championships medals
• 2014 African Championships in Athletics