The European Athletics Championships is a biennial (from 2010)

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event organised by the

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and is recognised as the elite continental outdoor athletics championships for Europe.

Editions

First held, for men only, in 1934 in

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, and separately for women for the first time in

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in 1938, the Championships took place every four years following the end of the

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, with the exception of the 1969 and 1971 editions, becoming a joint men's and women's competition from the third edition in 1946 in

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. Since 2010, they have been organised every two years, and when they coincide with the

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, the

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and

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events are not contested. From 2016, a

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has been held in those Olympic years, and both the marathon and half-marathon events held as part of the Championships also function as the principle European elite team events at those distances. In 2018 and 2022, the European Athletics Championships formed part of the quadrennial multi-sport

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, a new event designed and held by individual European sports federations. In 2022, European Athletics announced its intention to withdraw from the multi-sport event for 2026. The 2020 edition set for Charlety Stadium in Paris was cancelled due to the

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, making this the first cancellation of the event since the 1942 championship was abandoned due to

. The event was not moved to an alternative date, with Munich continuing as the scheduled host in 2022. An indoor equivalent, the

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, is organised by the European Athletic Association in odd numbered years. While the European Games of 2015 featured athletics, and shall do so again in 2023, these events are not editions of the European Athletics Championships. The championships were long dominated, especially on the women's side by

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and

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. About 30 years after the dissolution of both countries, Great Britain & Northern Ireland finally took the lead in the all-time medal table following the 2022 edition although German athletes who historically completed for various national teams (

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) won much more medals in total. Notes: ♂ – men, ♀ – women

All-time medal table

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are pointed in ''italic''. Team medals in half marathon and marathon are not included into this table (see European Half Marathon Cup and

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).
* was the name, under which Russian athletes competed in the

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and

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Championships. Their medals were not included in the official medal table. As of 2022,

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have yet to win a

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competed once in

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without winning a

Championship records

Multiple winners

Boldface denotes active athletes and highest medal count among all athletes (including these who not included in these tables) per type. Discus thrower

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of Croatia holds the record for most gold medals at six.

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of East Germany is the only other athlete to have won 6 gold medals, winning the 400 metres and 4 x 400 metres relay double on three occasions between 1978 and 1986. French steeple-chaser Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad won six finals at European championships, but was disqualified post-race having won the 2014 men's steeplechase in Zurich for removing his vest in the home straight.

Men

Women

Multiple medallists

A total of 11 men and 13 women have won six or more medals at the competition.

Men

Women

Most medals in the same event

A total of 17 men and 8 women have won four or more medals in the same event.

of Croatia is the only athlete, male or female, to win the same event, the women's

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six times between 2010 and 2022.

Men

Women

Most appearances

A total of 36 men and 29 women have at least 6 appearances.

Men

* including participation at one European Championships at which he was disqualified for a doping offence

Women

* including participation at one European Championships at which she was disqualified for a doping offence

Notes

References

External links

Official European Athletics websiteBerlin 2018 official website

Paris 2020 official website
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Editions

All-time medal table

Championship records

Multiple winners

Men

Women

Multiple medallists

Men

Women

Most medals in the same event

Men

Women

Most appearances

Men

Women

See also

Notes

References

External links