2022 European Athletics Championships

The 2022 European Athletics Championships were the 25th edition of the European Athletics Championships and were held in Munich, Germany, from 15 to 21 August 2022.^[1]

25th European Athletics Championships
Dates	15–21 August
Host city	Munich, Germany
Venue	Olympiastadion
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	50
Participation	1495 athletes from 48 nations
← 2018 Berlin ← 2020 Paris 2024 Rome →

They were part of the European Championships, a multi-sport tournament which brings together the existing European Championships of some of the continent's sports.

Germany headed the medal table on 7 gold medals, while Great Britain, second on gold medals won with 6, won the most overall medals, 20.

Event schedule

Legend

Key	P	Q	H	½	F
Value	Preliminary round	Qualifiers	Heats	Semifinals	Final

M = morning session, E = evening session

Men[1] Date Aug 15 Aug 16 Aug 17 Aug 18 Aug 19 Aug 20 Aug 21 Event M E M E M E M E M E M E E 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 Marathon F 3000 m steeplechase H F 110 m hurdles H ½ F 400 m hurdles H ½ F Decathlon F High jump Q F Pole vault Q F Long jump Q F Triple jump Q F Shot put Q F Discus throw Q F Hammer throw Q F Javelin throw Q F 20 km walk F 35 km walk F 4 × 100 m relay H F 4 × 400 m relay H F

Women[1] Date Aug 15 Aug 16 Aug 17 Aug 18 Aug 19 Aug 20 Aug 21 Event M E M E M E M E M E M E E 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 Marathon F 3000 m steeplechase H F 100 m hurdles H ½ F 400 m hurdles H ½ F Heptathlon F High jump Q F Pole vault Q F Long jump Q F Triple jump Q F Shot put Q F Discus throw Q F Hammer throw Q F Javelin throw Q F 20 km walk F 35 km walk F 4 × 100 m relay H F 4 × 400 m relay H F

Results

Men

Track

Chronology: 2018 | 2020 | 2022 | 2024 | 2026

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Marcell Jacobs  Italy (ITA)	9.95 =CR, SB	Zharnel Hughes  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	9.99	Jeremiah Azu  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	10.13 PB
200 metres details	Zharnel Hughes  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	20.07 SB	Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	20.17	Filippo Tortu  Italy (ITA)	20.27
400 metres details	Matthew Hudson-Smith  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	44.53	Ricky Petrucciani  Switzerland (SUI)	45.03 SB	Alex Haydock-Wilson  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	45.17
800 metres details	Mariano García  Spain (ESP)	1:44.85 PB	Jake Wightman  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	1:44.91 SB	Mark English  Ireland (IRL)	1:45.19
1500 metres details	Jakob Ingebrigtsen  Norway (NOR)	3:32.76 CR	Jake Heyward  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	3:34.44	Mario García  Spain (ESP)	3:34.88
5000 metres details	Jakob Ingebrigtsen  Norway (NOR)	13:21.13	Mohamed Katir  Spain (ESP)	13:22.98 SB	Yemaneberhan Crippa  Italy (ITA)	13:24.83
10,000 metres details	Yemaneberhan Crippa  Italy (ITA)	27:46.13	Zerei Kbrom Mezngi  Norway (NOR)	27:46.94 PB	Yann Schrub  France (FRA)	27:47.13 PB
Marathon details	Richard Ringer  Germany (GER)	2:10:21 SB	Maru Teferi  Israel (ISR)	2:10:23	Gashau Ayale  Israel (ISR)	2:10:29 SB
	Israel (ISR)	6:31:48	Germany (GER)	6:35:52	Spain (ESP)	6:38:44
110 metres hurdles details	Asier Martínez  Spain (ESP)	13.14 =EL	Pascal Martinot-Lagarde  France (FRA)	13.14 =EL	Just Kwaou-Mathey  France (FRA)	13.33
400 metres hurdles details	Karsten Warholm  Norway (NOR)	47.12 CR	Wilfried Happio  France (FRA)	48.56	Yasmani Copello  Turkey (TUR)	48.78
3000 metres steeplechase details	Topi Raitanen  Finland (FIN)	8:21.80	Ahmed Abdelwahed  Italy (ITA)[2]	8:22.35[3]	Osama Zoghlami  Italy (ITA)	8:23.44
4 × 100 metres relay details	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) Jeremiah Azu Zharnel Hughes Jona Efoloko Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake Harry Aikines-Aryeetey* Tommy Ramdhan*	37.67 CR	France (FRA) Méba-Mickaël Zeze Pablo Matéo Ryan Zeze Jimmy Vicaut	37.94 SB	Poland (POL) Adrian Brzeziński Przemysław Słowikowski Patryk Wykrota Dominik Kopeć Mateusz Siuda*	38.15 NR
4 × 400 metres relay details	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) Matthew Hudson-Smith Charlie Dobson Lewis Davey Alex Haydock-Wilson Joe Brier* Rio Mitcham*	2:59.35 SB	Belgium (BEL) Alexander Doom Julien Watrin Kévin Borlée Dylan Borlée Jonathan Borlée* Jonathan Sacoor*	2:59.49	France (FRA) Gilles Biron Loïc Prévot Téo Andant Thomas Jordier Simon Boypa*	2:59.64 SB
20 kilometres walk details	Álvaro Martín  Spain (ESP)	1:19:11 PB	Perseus Karlström  Sweden (SWE)	1:19:23	Diego García  Spain (ESP)	1:19:45 SB
35 kilometres walk details	Miguel Ángel López  Spain (ESP)	2:26:49	Christopher Linke  Germany (GER)	2:29:30 PB	Matteo Giupponi  Italy (ITA)	2:30:34 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

Field

Chronology: 2018 | 2020 | 2022 | 2024 | 2026

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Gianmarco Tamberi  Italy (ITA)	2.30	Tobias Potye  Germany (GER)	2.27	Andriy Protsenko  Ukraine (UKR)	2.27
Pole vault details	Armand Duplantis  Sweden (SWE)	6.06 CR	Bo Kanda Lita Baehre  Germany (GER)	5.85	Pål Haugen Lillefosse  Norway (NOR)	5.75
Long jump details	Miltiadis Tentoglou  Greece (GRE)	8.52 CR, WL	Thobias Montler  Sweden (SWE)	8.06	Jules Pommery  France (FRA)	8.06
Triple jump details	Pedro Pichardo  Portugal (POR)	17.50	Andrea Dallavalle  Italy (ITA)	17.04	Jean-Marc Pontvianne  France (FRA)	16.94
Shot put details	Filip Mihaljević  Croatia (CRO)	21.88 SB	Armin Sinančević  Serbia (SRB)	21.39	Tomáš Staněk  Czech Republic (CZE)	21.26
Discus throw details	Mykolas Alekna  Lithuania (LTU)	69.78 CR	Kristjan Čeh  Slovenia (SLO)	68.28	Lawrence Okoye  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	67.14 SB
Javelin throw details	Julian Weber  Germany (GER)	87.66	Jakub Vadlejch  Czech Republic (CZE)	87.28	Lassi Etelätalo  Finland (FIN)	86.44 PB
Hammer throw details	Wojciech Nowicki  Poland (POL)	82.00 WL	Bence Halász  Hungary (HUN)	80.92 PB	Eivind Henriksen  Norway (NOR)	79.45
WR world record | ER European record | CR championship record | NR national record | WL world leading | EL European leading | PB personal best | SB seasonal best

Combined

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Decathlon details	Niklas Kaul  Germany (GER)	8545 SB	Simon Ehammer  Switzerland (SUI)	8468 NR	Janek Õiglane  Estonia (EST)	8346

Women

Track

Chronology: 2018 | 2020 | 2022 | 2024 | 2026

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Gina Lückenkemper  Germany (GER)	10.99 =SB	Mujinga Kambundji  Switzerland (SUI)	10.99	Daryll Neita  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	11.00
200 metres details	Mujinga Kambundji  Switzerland (SUI)	22.32	Dina Asher-Smith  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	22.43	Ida Karstoft  Denmark (DEN)	22.72
400 metres details	Femke Bol  Netherlands (NED)	49.44 EL, NR	Natalia Kaczmarek  Poland (POL)	49.94	Anna Kiełbasińska  Poland (POL)	50.29
800 metres details	Keely Hodgkinson  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	1:59.04	Rénelle Lamote  France (FRA)	1:59.49	Anna Wielgosz  Poland (POL)	1:59.87
1500 metres details	Laura Muir  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	4:01.08	Ciara Mageean  Ireland (IRL)	4:02.56	Sofia Ennaoui  Poland (POL)	4:03.59
5000 metres details	Konstanze Klosterhalfen  Germany (GER)	14:50.47	Yasemin Can  Turkey (TUR)	14:56.91	Eilish McColgan  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	14:59.34
10,000 metres details	Yasemin Can  Turkey (TUR)	30:32.57	Eilish McColgan  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	30:41.05	Lonah Chemtai Salpeter  Israel (ISR)	30:46.37
Marathon details	Aleksandra Lisowska  Poland (POL)	2:28:36 SB	Matea Parlov Koštro  Croatia (CRO)	2:28:42	Nienke Brinkman  Netherlands (NED)	2:28:52
	Germany (GER)	7:28:48	Spain (ESP)	7:39:25	Poland (POL)	7:40:54
100 metres hurdles details	Pia Skrzyszowska  Poland (POL)	12.53	Luca Kozák  Hungary (HUN)	12.69 =NR	Ditaji Kambundji  Switzerland (SUI)	12.74
400 metres hurdles details	Femke Bol  Netherlands (NED)	52.67 CR	Viktoriya Tkachuk  Ukraine (UKR)	54.30	Anna Ryzhykova  Ukraine (UKR)	54.86
3000 metres steeplechase details	Luiza Gega  Albania (ALB)	9:11.31 CR	Lea Meyer  Germany (GER)	9:15.35 PB	Elizabeth Bird  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	9:23.18
4 × 100 metres relay details	Germany (GER) Alexandra Burghardt Lisa Mayer Gina Lückenkemper Rebekka Haase Jessica-Bianca Wessolly*	42.34	Poland (POL) Pia Skrzyszowska Anna Kiełbasińska Marika Popowicz-Drapała Ewa Swoboda Magdalena Stefanowicz* Martyna Kotwiła*	42.61 NR	Italy (ITA) Zaynab Dosso Dalia Kaddari Anna Bongiorni Alessia Pavese Gloria Hooper*	42.84
4 × 400 metres relay details	Netherlands Eveline Saalberg Lieke Klaver Lisanne de Witte Femke Bol Andrea Bouma* Laura de Witte*	3:20.87 EL, NR	Poland Anna Kiełbasińska Iga Baumgart-Witan Justyna Święty-Ersetic Natalia Kaczmarek Kinga Gacka* Małgorzata Hołub-Kowalik*	3:21.68 SB	Great Britain Victoria Ohuruogu Ama Pipi Jodie Williams Nicole Yeargin Zoey Clark* Laviai Nielsen*	3:21.74 SB
20 kilometres walk details	Antigoni Drisbioti  Greece (GRE)	1:29:03 PB	Katarzyna Zdziebło  Poland (POL)	1:29:20	Saskia Feige  Germany (GER)	1:29:25 PB
35 kilometres walk details	Antigoni Drisbioti  Greece (GRE)	2:47:00	Raquel González  Spain (ESP)	2:49:10	Viktória Madarász  Hungary (HUN)	2:49:58 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

Field

Chronology: 2018 | 2020 | 2022 | 2024 | 2026

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Yaroslava Mahuchikh  Ukraine (UKR)	1.95	Marija Vuković  Montenegro (MNE)	1.95	Angelina Topić  Serbia (SRB)	1.93
Pole vault details	Wilma Murto  Finland (FIN)	4.85 =CR, NR	Katerina Stefanidi  Greece (GRE)	4.75 SB	Tina Šutej  Slovenia (SLO)	4.75
Long jump details	Ivana Vuleta  Serbia (SRB)	7.06 =SB	Malaika Mihambo  Germany (GER)	7.03	Jazmin Sawyers  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	6.80
Triple jump details	Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk  Ukraine (UKR)	15.02 EL	Kristiina Mäkelä  Finland (FIN)	14.64 NR	Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko  Israel (ISR)	14.45
Shot put details	Jessica Schilder  Netherlands (NED)	20.24 EL	Auriol Dongmo  Portugal (POR)	19.82 NR	Jorinde van Klinken  Netherlands (NED)	18.94
Discus throw details	Sandra Perković  Croatia (CRO)	67.95	Kristin Pudenz  Germany (GER)	67.87 PB	Claudine Vita  Germany (GER)	65.20 SB
Javelin throw details	Elina Tzengko  Greece (GRE)	65.81 PB	Adriana Vilagoš  Serbia (SRB)	62.01	Barbora Špotáková  Czech Republic (CZE)	60.68
Hammer throw details	Bianca Ghelber  Romania (ROU)	72.72	Ewa Różańska  Poland (POL)	72.12 PB	Sara Fantini  Italy (ITA)	71.58
WR world record | ER European record | CR championship record | NR national record | WL world leading | EL European leading | PB personal best | SB seasonal best

Combined

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Heptathlon details	Nafissatou Thiam  Belgium (BEL)	6628	Adrianna Sułek  Poland (POL)	6532	Annik Kälin  Switzerland (SUI)	6515 NR

Medal table

After all 50 events.^[4]

  *   Host nation (Germany)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)*	7	7	2	16
2	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	6	6	8	20
3	Spain (ESP)	4	3	3	10
4	Greece (GRE)	4	1	0	5
5	Netherlands (NED)	4	0	2	6
6	Poland (POL)	3	6	5	14
7	Italy (ITA)	3	2	6	11
8	Norway (NOR)	3	1	2	6
9	Ukraine (UKR)	2	1	2	5
10	Finland (FIN)	2	1	1	4
11	Croatia (CRO)	2	1	0	3
12	Switzerland (SUI)	1	3	2	6
13	Serbia (SRB)	1	2	1	4
14	Sweden (SWE)	1	2	0	3
15	Israel (ISR)	1	1	3	5
16	Turkey (TUR)	1	1	1	3
17	Belgium (BEL)	1	1	0	2
	Portugal (POR)	1	1	0	2
19	Albania (ALB)	1	0	0	1
	Lithuania (LTU)	1	0	0	1
	Romania (ROM)	1	0	0	1
22	France (FRA)	0	4	5	9
23	Hungary (HUN)	0	2	1	3
24	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	1	2	3
25	Ireland (IRL)	0	1	1	2
	Slovenia (SLO)	0	1	1	2
27	Montenegro (MNE)	0	1	0	1
28	Denmark (DEN)	0	0	1	1
	Estonia (EST)	0	0	1	1
Totals (29 entries)		50	50	50	150

Placing table

After 50 events of 50.^[5]

Rank	Nation	1st		2nd		3rd		4th		5th		6th		7th		8th		Total
		Pl	Pts	Pl	Pts	Pl	Pts	Pl	Pts	Pl	Pts	Pl	Pts	Pl	Pts	Pl	Pts
1	Great Britain	6	48	6	42	8	48	4	20	5	20	8	24	7	13	5	5	220
2	Germany	7	56	7	49	2	12	4	20	7	28	6	18	3	6	8	8	197
3	Italy	3	24	2	14	6	36	4	20	6	24	2	6	8	15,5	3	3	142,5
4	Spain	4	32	3	21	3	18	7	35	1	4	5	15	3	6	1	1	132
5	Poland	3	24	6	42	5	30	3	15	2	8	2	6	1	2	1	1	128
6	France		0	4	28	5	30	3	15	4	16	4	12	4	8	6	6	115
7	Netherlands	4	32		0	2	12	7	35	4	16	1	3		0	1	1	99
8	Switzerland	1	8	3	21	2	12	3	14,5	2	8		0	3	6		0	69,5
9	Ukraine	2	16	1	7	2	12	3	15	2	8	1	3	1	2	1	1	64
10	Sweden	1	8	2	14		0	5	25	1	4	1	3	2	4	2	2	60
11	Norway	3	24	1	7	2	12		0	1	4	2	6	2	4		0	57
12	Belgium	1	8	1	7		0	3	15	2	8	3	9	1	2	3	3	52
13	Finland	2	16	1	7	1	6		0	2	8	1	3	1	2	1	1	43
14	Israel	1	8	1	7	3	18		0	1	4		0	2	4	2	2	43
15	Greece	4	32	1	7		0		0		0	1	3		0		0	42
16	Ireland		0	1	7	1	6		0	3	12	3	9	1	2	2	2	38
17	Czech Republic		0	1	7	2	12	1	5		0	2	6	3	6	1	1	37
18	Serbia	1	8	2	14	1	6		0		0		0	1	2	1	1	31
19	Hungary		0	2	14	1	6	1	5	1	4		0	1	2		0	31
20	Turkey	1	8	1	7	1	6		0	1	4		0	2	4		0	29
21	Croatia	2	16	1	7		0		0		0	1	3		0	1	1	27
22	Portugal	1	8	1	7		0		0	2	8		0		0	2	2	25
23	Slovenia		0	1	7	1	6		0	1	4		0	1	1,5		0	18,5
24	Lithuania	1	8		0		0		0		0	2	6		0		0	14
25	Romania	1	8		0		0		0		0	1	3	1	2	1	1	14
26	Denmark		0		0	1	6	1	4,5		0	1	3		0		0	13,5
27	Estonia		0		0	1	6		0	1	4	1	3		0		0	13
28	Slovakia		0		0		0	1	5		0	1	3	1	2		0	10
29	Albania	1	8		0		0		0		0		0		0		0	8
30	Montenegro		0	1	7		0		0		0		0		0		0	7
31	Latvia		0		0		0		0		0	1	3	1	2	1	1	6
32	Azerbaijan		0		0		0	1	5		0		0		0		0	5
33	Moldova		0		0		0		0		0		0	1	2		0	2
34	Bulgaria		0		0		0		0		0		0		0	1	1	1
34	Cyprus		0		0		0		0		0		0		0	1	1	1

Entry standards

Entry standards and conditions were published in August 2021.^[6]

For the entry standards and for the rankings, the valid qualification period was:

• 12 months, from 27 July 2021 to 26 July 2022, for all events but the following,
• From 1 January 2021 to 26 July 2022 for each relay teams (16 teams for each event);^[7]
• 18 months, from 27 January 2021 to 26 July 2022, for the 10,000m, Marathons, 20 km & 35 km Race Walks and Combined Events.

Event	Men	Women	Target number
100 metres	10.16	11.24	36
200 metres	20.43	23.05	36
400 metres	45.70	51.70	36
800 metres	1:45.90	2:00.40	32
1500 metres	3:36.00	4:06.00	30
5000 metres	13:24.00	15:25.00	30
10,000 metres	28:15.00	32:20.00	27
3000 metres steeplechase	8:30.00	9:39.00	34
110/100 metre hurdles	13.50	12.93	36
400 metres hurdles	49.50	55.85	36
Marathon	2:14.30	2:32.00	60
20 kilometres race walk	1:22:10	1:32:15	35
35 kilometres race walk	2:35:30 (or 3:54:00 in 50km RW)	2:55:00 (or 4:25:00 in 50km RW)	35
High jump	2.30 m	1.95 m	26
Pole vault	5.75 m	4.60 m	26
Long jump	8.10 m	6.79 m	26
Triple jump	16.95 m	14.25 m	26
Shot put	20.85 m	18.20 m	26
Discus throw	65.20 m	60.50 m	26
Hammer throw	77.00 m	71.80 m	26
Javelin throw	84.00 m	62.50 m	26
Decathlon/Heptathlon	8100	6250	24
4 × 100 metres relay	–	–	16
4 × 400 metres relay	–	–	16

Participating nations

1495 athletes, 713 females and 782 males, from 48 countries, including the Athlete Refugee Team, are expected to participate.^[8] As a result of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, athletes from Russia and Belarus are banned from competing at the 2022 European Championships.^[9] No athlete represented Liechtenstein or Monaco in athletics these championships.^[10]

•  Albania (ALB) (1)
•  Andorra (AND) (1)
•  Armenia (ARM) (2)
•  Athlete Refugee Team (ART) (2)
•  Austria (AUT) (14)
•  Azerbaijan (AZE) (4)
•  Belgium (BEL) (61)
•  Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH) (2)
•  Bulgaria (BUL) (6)
•  Croatia (CRO) (11)
•  Cyprus (CYP) (7)
•  Czech Republic (CZE) (53)
•  Denmark (DEN) (28)
•  Estonia (EST) (12)
•  Finland (FIN) (75)
•  France (FRA) (99)
•  Georgia (GEO) (2)
•  Germany (GER) (120)
•  Gibraltar (GIB) (2)
•  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) (116)
•  Greece (GRE) (40)
•  Hungary (HUN) (46)
•  Iceland (ISL) (3)
•  Ireland (IRL) (38)
•  Israel (ISR) (15)
•  Italy (ITA) (98)
•  Kosovo (KOS) (2)
•  Latvia (LAT) (8)
•  Lithuania (LTU) (19)
•  Luxembourg (LUX) (4)
•  Malta (MLT) (2)
•  Moldova (MDA) (7)
•  Montenegro (MNE) (2)
•  Netherlands (NED) (59)
•  North Macedonia (MKD) (2)
•  Norway (NOR) (46)
•  Poland (POL) (80)
•  Portugal (POR) (45)
•  Romania (ROM) (21)
•  San Marino (SMR) (2)
•  Serbia (SRB) (14)
•  Slovakia (SVK) (19)
•  Slovenia (SLO) (22)
•  Spain (ESP) (89)
•  Sweden (SWE) (52)
•  Switzerland (SUI) (48)
•  Turkey (TUR) (41)
•  Ukraine (UKR) (53)