2009 European Team Championships

The first SPAR European Team Championships took place on 20 and 21 June 2009. The track and field athletics tournament run by European Athletics was the successor of the old European Cup competition which was held annually until 2008. The Championships saw a number of new rules introduced, which were criticised by some athletes and observers.[1][2]

2009 European Team Championships

Host city	Leiria, Portugal (Super League)
Nations participating	47
Events	40
Dates	20–21 June 2009
Main venue	Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa (Super League)

New rules

The European Team Championships modified and added to the rules of its predecessor competition, the European Cup. Men and women's team competed under one unified national banner for the first time.[3] Furthermore, the competition was opened to all European Athletics member states and was divided into four leagues: the Super League, First League, Second League, and Third League. The top two leagues each comprised twelve competing nations, while the Second and Third Leagues had eight and fourteen teams, respectively.[4]

Elimination rules were added to the 3000 metres, 3000 metres steeplechase, and 5000 metres races. In the shorter races, the athlete in last place when five, four, and three laps were remaining was eliminated. In the 5000 m the cut off points were at seven, five, and three laps remaining.[4] The rule change caused some confusion in the women's 3000 m when Spain's Natalia Rodriguez was eliminated with three laps remaining, but carried on running and eventually won the race. She was disqualified, however, and Russia's Gulnara Galkina-Samitova was announced as the winner. Rodriguez said that she thought the elimination stage came at a later point in the race,[1] and winner Galkina-Samitova was critical of the change, stating "This new elimination rule shouldn't exist. Everyone should race till the end".[5] Further problems arose in the men's 5000 m, when four athletes reached the five laps remaining mark at the same time. The group slowed, unable to tell who was eliminated, and while awaiting the photo-finish the four dropped away from the other runners. Race winner Mo Farah complied with the elimination rule but stated that every athlete had a right to finish, branding the rule change as "strange".[2] Sections of the press also expressed reservations about the changes.[6][7]

Other rule changes included a 'no false start rule' in all the track events. (Any athlete false starting would have been immediately disqualified and received no points, but this did not occur at the inaugural championships). Athletes in the high jump and pole vault events were permitted a maximum total of four fouls throughout the day's competition. Also, the jumping and throwing events featured elimination rounds: athletes had two trial attempts, then the six best-ranked athletes had a third attempt, then finally the top four athletes had a fourth attempt.[4] The elimination rounds caused some upsets, with highly rated Russian hammer thrower, Aleksey Zagornyi failing to progress beyond the trial rounds.[5]

Many athletes did not fully support the new regulations,[2] and European Athletics President Hansjörg Wirz accepted that the rules needed refinement. However, he was pleased with the competition's reception and stated that the rule changes would make athletics more accessible to a wider audience. Portugal's Rui Silva, who won the 1500 metres, remarked that although the regulations had unusual outcomes, a positive approach to the rules, and further refinement, would be beneficial to the sport.[8]

Calendar

Division	Date	Host city	Host country
Super League	20–21 June 2009	Leiria	Portugal
First League	20–21 June 2009	Bergen	Norway
Second League	20–21 June 2009	Banská Bystrica	Slovakia
Third League	20–21 June 2009	Sarajevo	Bosnia and Herzegovina

League positions

The leagues for the 2009 competition were formed by combination of each country's men and women's performances in the European Cup 2008. As the teams were 46, the winning team received 46 points, the second 45 and so on. The leagues were formed as:[9]

Super League		First League		Second League		Third League
Country	Pts	Country	Pts	Country	Pts	Country	Pts
Russia	1548	Belarus	1217	Ireland	971.5	Moldova	722
Great Britain	1518	Slovenia	1211	Bulgaria	947	Israel	714
Poland	1512	Romania	1182.5	Croatia	942	Denmark	709.5
Germany	1472	Turkey	1166	Latvia	933	Bosnia and Herzegovina	555.5
Italy	1455	Belgium	1139	Slovakia	901	Iceland	550.5
Spain	1426.5	Hungary	1133	Lithuania	839.5	Luxembourg	399.5
France	1423.5	Netherlands	1118	Austria	783	Georgia	356
Ukraine	1412.5	Finland	1072.5	Cyprus	749	Azerbaijan	332.5
Greece	1359.5	Estonia	1035.5			Montenegro	310.5
Sweden	1309	Switzerland	1032.5			Armenia	301.5
Czech Republic	1236	Serbia	1028.5			AASSE	280
Portugal	1222	Norway	974			Albania	191
						Andorra	187
						Macedonia	164

Super League

Place: Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa, Leiria, Portugal

Participating countries

Czech Republic  France  Germany  Great Britain  Greece  Italy

Poland  Portugal  Russia  Spain  Sweden  Ukraine

For full event details see 2009 European Team Championships Super League

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Dwain Chambers  Great Britain	10.07	Francis Obikwelu  Portugal	10.20 SB	Emanuele di Gregorio  Italy	10.21 PB
200 m	Dwain Chambers  Great Britain	20.55	Arnaldo Abrantes  Portugal	20.62 SB	Martial Mbandjock  France	20.67 PB
400 m	Timothy Benjamin  Great Britain	45.57	Johan Wissman  Sweden	45.81 SB	Kamghe Gaba  Germany	45.88 SB
800 m	Miguel Quesada  Spain	1:47.76	Oleksandr Osmolovych  Ukraine	1:48.05	Jeff Lastennet  France	1:48.29
1500 m	Rui Silva  Portugal	3:42.07	Diego Ruiz  Spain	3:42.54	Yoann Kowal  France	3:42.73
3000 m	Jesús España  Spain	8:01.73 SB	Sergey Ivanov  Russia	8:02.18 SB	Daniele Meucci  Italy	8:02.22
5000 m	Mo Farah  Great Britain	13:43.01 SB	Carles Castillejo  Spain	13:49.54	Serhiy Lebid  Ukraine	13:59.85 SB
3000 m steeplechase	Mustafa Mohamed  Sweden	8:28.09	Vincent Zouaoui Dandrieux  France	8:32.05 SB	Ildar Minshin  Russia	8:34.06 SB
110 m hurdles	Andy Turner  Great Britain	13.42	Jackson Quiñónez  Spain	13.53 SB	Matthias Bühler  Germany	13.57
400 m hurdles	Dai Greene  Great Britain	49.26	Fadil Bellaabouss  France	49.91 SB	Periklis Iakovakis  Greece	50.09
4 × 100 m	Giovanni Tomasicchio Simone Collio Emanuele di Gregorio Fabio Cerutti  Italy	38.77	Stefan Schwab Till Helmke Alexander Kosenkow Martin Keller  Germany	38.78	Ronald Pognon Martial Mbandjock Eddy De Lépine Christophe Lemaitre  France	38.80
4 × 400 m	Conrad Williams Robert Tobin Richard Strachan Timothy Benjamin  Great Britain	3:00.82	Miguel Rigau Kamghe Gaba Simon Kirch Thomas Schneider  Germany	3:02.30	Aleksandr Derevyagin Valentin Kruglyakov Konstantin Svechkar Denis Alekseyev  Russia	3:02.42
High jump	Yuriy Krymarenko  Ukraine	2.31 SB	Jaroslav Bába  Czech Republic	2.31	Aleksandr Shustov  Russia	2.31
Pole vault	Renaud Lavillenie  France	6.01 NR WL	Malte Mohr  Germany	5.75	Łukasz Michalski  Poland	5.70
Long jump	Eusebio Cáceres  Spain	8.00 PB	Nelson Évora  Portugal	7.94	Louis Tsatoumas  Greece	7.91
Triple jump	Nelson Évora  Portugal	17.59	Phillips Idowu  Great Britain	17.50	Fabrizio Schembri  Italy	16.64
Shot put	Tomasz Majewski  Poland	20.81	Manuel Martínez  Spain	20.39 SB	Antonin Žalský  Czech Republic	20.11 SB
Discus	Piotr Małachowski  Poland	66.24	Robert Harting  Germany	65.40	Mario Pestano  Spain	64.66
Hammer	Nicola Vizzoni  Italy	78.15	Szymon Ziółkowski  Poland	78.01 SB	Markus Esser  Germany	77.62
Javelin	Mark Frank  Germany	78.63	Ilya Korotkov  Russia	77.56	Igor Janik  Poland	76.48
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 events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Emily Freeman  Great Britain	11.42	Nataliya Pohrebnyak  Ukraine	11.49	Carima Louami  France	11.50 SB
200 m	Yuliya Gushchina  Russia	23.01	Marta Jeschke  Poland	23.34	Christine Ohuruogu  Great Britain	23.40
400 m	Libania Grenot  Italy	51.16 SB	Lyudmila Litvinova  Russia	51.23 SB	Nataliya Pyhyda  Ukraine	51.86
800 m	Yuliya Krevsun  Ukraine	1:58.62 WL	Yekaterina Kostetskaya  Russia	1:59.43 SB	Élodie Guégan  France	1:59.79 SB
1500 m	Nuria Fernández  Spain	4:08.00	Elisa Cusma Piccione  Italy	4:08.72 PB	Hannah England  Great Britain	4:09.25
3000 m	Gulnara Samitova-Galkina  Russia	8:46.88 SB	Sylwia Ejdys  Poland	8:58.26 PB	Inês Monteiro  Portugal	9:00.83 SB
5000 m	Dolores Checa  Spain	15:28.87 SB	Silvia Weissteiner  Italy	15:31.33 SB	Sabrina Mockenhaupt  Germany	15:37.67
3000 m steeplechase	Antje Möldner  Germany	9:32.65	Sophie Duarte  France	9:33.63 SB	Yelena Sidorchenkova  Russia	9:36.88
100 m hurdles	Lucie Škrobáková  Czech Republic	12.94 SB	Yuliya Kondakova  Russia	12.94 SB	Olena Krasovska  Ukraine	13.02
400 m hurdles	Anna Jesień  Poland	54.82	Anastasiya Rabchenyuk  Ukraine	55.05	Zuzana Hejnová  Czech Republic	55.29 SB
4 × 100 m	Yevgeniya Polyakova Natalia Rusakova Yuliya Gushchina Yuliya Chermoshanskaya  Russia	43.35	Laura Turner Kadi-Ann Thomas Emily Freeman Joice Maduaka  Great Britain	43.44	Katja Wakan Anne Möllinger Cathleen Tschirch Marion Wagner  Germany	43.57
4 × 400 m	Yelena Voinova Tatyana Firova Anastasiya Kapachinskaya Lyudmila Litvinova  Russia	3:25.25	Daniela Reina Maria Enrica Spacca Marta Milani Libania Grenot  Italy	3:28.77	Vicki Barr Eilidh Child Jenny Meadows Lee McConnell  Great Britain	3:29.29
High jump	Ariane Friedrich  Germany	2.02	Ruth Beitia  Spain	2.00 SB	Antonietta Di Martino  Italy	2.00 SB
Pole vault	Monika Pyrek  Poland	4.70	Yuliya Golubchikova  Russia	4.65 SB	Silke Spiegelburg  Germany	4.60 SB
Long jump	Naide Gomes  Portugal	6.83	Olga Kucherenko  Russia	6.73	Teresa Dobija  Poland	6.45
Triple jump	Teresa Nzola Meso Ba  France	14.40 SB	Anna Pyatykh  Russia	14.10	Magdelín Martínez  Italy	14.01
Shot put	Nadine Kleinert  Germany	19.59	Chiara Rosa  Italy	18.57	Laurence Manfredi  France	18.16 SB
Discus	Natalya Semenova  Ukraine	61.58	Mélina Robert-Michon  France	61.41	Věra Cechlová  Czech Republic	60.50
Hammer	Anita Włodarczyk  Poland	75.23	Betty Heidler  Germany	74.97 SB	Stiliani Papadopoulou  Greece	71.18
Javelin	Christina Obergföll  Germany	68.59 WL	Barbora Špotáková  Czech Republic	65.89	Mariya Abakumova  Russia	62.01
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)

Final standings

Pos	Country	Pts
1	Germany	327.5
2	Russia	308
3	Great Britain	304
4	France	302
5	Poland	290
6	Italy	279
7	Ukraine	267
8	Spain	258
9	Greece	217
10	Czech Republic	214.5
11	Portugal	201
12	Sweden	139

Score table

Event		CZE	FRA	GER	GBR	GRE	ITA	POL	POR	RUS	ESP	SWE	UKR
100 metres	M	2.5	9	7	12	4	10	8	11	1	5.5	2.5	5.5
	W	2	10	8	12	4	8	8	5	6	1	3	11
200 metres	M	2	10	9	12	4	5	3	11	6	8	1	7
	W	2	9	7	10	4	8	6	11	12	5	3	–
400 metres	M	5	9	10	12	6	1	4	11	8	2	11	3
	W	3	7	8	9	4	12	6	2	11	6	1	10
800 metres	M	5	10	6	9	8	7	4	3	2	12	1	11
	W	8	10	7	9	5	6	2	3	11	4	1	12
1500 metres	M	2	10	9	8	1	6	7	12	3	11	4	5
	W	2	6	3	10	5	10	8	7	0	12	4	9
3000 metres	M	5	2	8	9	4	10	6	7	11	12	3	–
	W	3	8	–	9	5	7	11	10	12	–	4	6
5000 metres	M	4	6	5	12	1	7	3	8	9	11	2	10
	W	–	7	10	6	–	11	5	8	9	12	4	–
3000 metre steeple	M	6	11	8	5	2	3	7	1	10	9	12	4
	W	1	11	12	8	6	3	5	9	10	7	2	4
110/100 metre hurdles	M	2.5	9	10	12	2.5	5	7	1	8	11	6	4
	W	12	8	9	2	4	5	7	3	11	6	1	10
400 metre hurdles	M	6	11	7	12	10	4	5	3	9	2	1	8
	W	10	7	8	9	2	6	12	–	5	4	3	11
4 x 100 metres relay	M	–	10	11	3	5	12	8	9	7	6	4	–
	W	3	–	10	11	5	7	8	6	12	2	4	9
4 x 400 metres relay	M	4	8	11	12	5	6	9	2	10	3	1	7
	W	6	8	9	10	3	11	–	4	12	5	2	7
High jump	M	11	2.5	2.5	4	7	5	8	1	10	6	9	12
	W	5	2.5	12	2.5	6.5	10	4	1	9	11	8	6.5
Pole vault	M	6.5	12	11	6.5	9	4	10	3	8	2	5	1
	W	8	6	10	9	7	4	12	3	11	5	1	2
Long jump	M	9	6	3	8	10	1	2	11	7	12	4	5
	W	5	7	6	3	9	4	10	12	11	2	1	8
Triple jump	M	2	8	4	11	7	10	3	12	5	6	1	9
	W	4	12	2	3	7	10	9	5	11	6	1	8
Shot put	M	10	8	9	7	3	2	12	4	5	11	1	6
	W	6	10	12	1	7	11	9	2	5	3	8	4
Discus throw	M	5	3	11	6	7	8	12	2	4	10	1	9
	W	10	11	9	4	5	7	8	2	1	3	6	12
Hammer throw	M	8	4	10	1	7	12	11	2	5	6	3	9
	W	5	8	11	7	10	9	12	2	–	6	3	4
Javelin throw	M	7	4	12	5	8	1	10	3	11	6	2	9
	W	11	2	12	3	8	9	5	1	10	7	4	6
Event		CZE	FRA	GER	GBR	GRE	ITA	POL	POR	RUS	ESP	SWE	UKR

Records

Country	Name	Event	Results	Notes
Great Britain	Kate Dennison	Women's Pole Vault	4.55	NR
France	Renaud Lavillenie	Men's Pole Vault	6.01	NR
Portugal	Eva Vital	Women's 100 m hurdles	13.66	NJR

First League

• Place: Fana Stadion, Bergen, Norway

Participating countries

Belarus  Belgium  Estonia  Finland  Hungary  Netherlands

Norway  Romania  Serbia  Slovenia   Switzerland  Turkey

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Jaysuma Saidy Ndure  Norway	10.14 SB	Kristof Beyens  Belgium	10.37 SB	Patrick van Luijk  Netherlands	10.38
200 m	Jaysuma Saidy Ndure  Norway	20.94	Kristof Beyens  Belgium	21.03	Patrick van Luijk  Netherlands	21.03
400 m	Cédric Van Branteghem  Belgium	46.59	Matti Välimäki  Finland	46.83 PB	Sebastjan Jagarinec  Slovenia	47.20
800 m	Tamás Kazi  Hungary	1:48.99	Ioan Zaizin  Romania	1:49.37	Robert Lathouwers  Netherlands	1:49.48
1500 m	Halil Akkaş  Turkey	3:40.81 SB	Arnoud Okken  Netherlands	3:41.04 SB	Goran Nava  Serbia	3:42.73
3000 m	Selim Bayrak  Turkey	8:00.45 SB	Mirko Petrović  Serbia	8:06.38 SB	Tiidrek Nurme  Estonia	8:02.22
5000 m	Selim Bayrak  Turkey	13:58.71	Carles Castillejo  Netherlands	14:02.43	Stsiapan Rahautsou  Belarus	14:03.70 SB
3000 m steeplechase	Jukka Keskisalo  Finland	8:30.89	Halil Akkaş  Turkey	8:31.85 SB	Bjørnar Ustad Kristensen  Norway	8:35.18
110 m hurdles	Maksim Lynsha  Belarus	13.86	Damien Broothaerts  Belgium	13.95	Juha Sonck  Finland	14.04
400 m hurdles	Jussi Heikkilä  Finland	50.49	Vincent Vanryckeghem  Belgium	50.50 SB	Vincent Kerssies  Netherlands	51.14 SB
4 × 100 m	Gregory Sedoc Caimin Douglas Guus Hoogmoed Patrick van Luijk  Netherlands	39.04	Pascal Mancini Marc Schneeberger Marco Cribari Reto Schenkel   Switzerland	39.55	Bostjan Fridrih Matic Osovnikar Joze Vrtacic Gregor Kokalovic  Slovenia	39.82
4 × 400 m	Arnaud Ghislain Vincent van Ryckeghem Nils Duerinck Antoine Gillet  Belgium	3:07.30	Joeri Moerman Steven de Jesus Steven Zwerink Dennis Spillekom  Netherlands	3:07.57	Marcell Deák-Nagy László Bartha Dávid Takács Zoltán Kovács  Hungary	3:08.54
High jump	Dragutin Topić  Serbia	2.29 SB	Jaroslav Bába  Czech Republic	2.29 PB	Aleksandr Shustov  Belgium	2.26 PB
Pole vault	Robbert Jansen  Netherlands	5.50	Jurij Rovan  Slovenia	5.40	Denis Goossens  Belgium	5.40
Long jump	Tommi Evilä  Finland	7.90 SB	Julien Fivaz   Switzerland	7.83 SB	Boštjan Fridrih  Slovenia	7.66
Triple jump	Alin Anghel  Romania	16.51 SB	Fabian Florant  Netherlands	16.41	Dzmitry Platnitski  Belarus	16.32
Shot put	Yury Bialou  Belarus	19.74	Lajos Kürthy  Hungary	19.61	Miran Vodovnik  Slovenia	19.53
Discus	Gerd Kanter  Estonia	67.00	Zoltán Kővágó  Hungary	63.44	Frantz Kruger  Finland	59.97
Hammer	Krisztián Pars  Hungary	77.78	Primož Kozmus  Slovenia	77.34	Pavel Kryvitski  Belarus	77.21
Javelin	Tero Pitkämäki  Finland	86.78 SB	Andreas Thorkildsen  Norway	85.04	Stefan Müller   Switzerland	79.08
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 events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Ezinne Okparaebo  Norway	11.51	Aksana Drahun  Belarus	11.68	Olivia Borlée  Belgium	11.69 SB
200 m	Olivia Borlée  Belgium	23.82	Andreea Ograzeanu  Romania	23.89	Sabina Veit  Slovenia	23.96
400 m	Barbara Petráhn  Hungary	52.94 SB	Merve Aydin  Turkey	53.48 PB	Katsiaryna Bobryk  Belarus	53.63 SB
800 m	Yvonne Hak  Netherlands	2:01.50	Yeliz Kurt  Turkey	2:01.54	Natallia Kareiva  Belarus	2:02.06 SB
1500 m	Sonja Roman  Slovenia	4:13.75	Yeliz Kurt  Turkey	4:14.00	Natallia Kareiva  Belarus	4:14.17
3000 m	Dudu Karakaya  Turkey	9:02.57 PB	Sonja Roman  Slovenia	9:03.99 PB	Krisztina Papp  Hungary	9:10.46 SB
5000 m	Dudu Karakaya  Turkey	15:24.86 SB	Olivera Jevtić  Serbia	15:29.12	Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal  Norway	15:29.82 NJR
3000 m steeplechase	Ancuţa Bobocel  Romania	9:42.87	Türkan Erişmiş  Turkey	9:43.25 SB	Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal  Norway	9:47.66 PB
100 m hurdles	Nevin Yanit  Turkey	13.10	Lisa Urech   Switzerland	13.27 NJR	Jelena Jotanovic  Serbia	13.44
400 m hurdles	Krystsina Viadzernikava  Belarus	58.59 SB	Angela Moroşanu  Romania	58.77	Hege Vold  Norway	58.86
4 × 100 m	Siri Eritsland Folake Akinyemi Elisabeth Slettum Ezinne Okparaebo  Norway	44.47	Yuliya Balykina Volha Aatashka Anna Bagdanovich Aksana Drahun  Belarus	44.79	Eline Berings Hanna Mariën Frauke Penen Olivia Borlée  Belgium	44.97
4 × 400 m	Florina Rusu Anamaria Ioniţă Elena Mirela Lavric Angela Moroşanu  Romania	3:35.18	Bianka Varga Anna Mátyus Barbara Petráhn Natalia Zsigovics  Hungary	3:35.55	Sanne Verstegen Yvonne Hak Romara van Noort Annemarie Schulte  Netherlands	3:36.26
High jump	Stine Kufaas  Norway	1.91 PB	Anna Iljuštšenko  Estonia	1.86 SB	Hannelore Desmet  Belgium	1.86
Pole vault	Nicole Büchler   Switzerland	4.10 SB	Minna Nikkanen  Finland	4.10	Rianna Galiart  Netherlands	4.10
Long jump	Nastassia Mironchyk  Belarus	6.74	Karin Mey Melis  Turkey	6.57	Viorica Tigau  Romania	6.42
Triple jump	Snežana Rodić  Slovenia	13.44	Sirkka-Liisa Kivine  Estonia	13.39	Natallia Viatkina  Belarus	13.37
Shot put	Anca Heltne  Romania	18.43	Melissa Boekelman  Netherlands	17.19	Alena Kopets  Belarus	17.08
Discus	Nicoleta Grasu  Romania	62.51	Dragana Tomašević  Serbia	55.84	Hanna Mazhunova  Belarus	52.53
Hammer	Merja Korpela  Finland	69.34 PB	Sviatlana Sudak  Turkey	66.95	Alena Matoshka  Belarus	63.87
Javelin	Kirsi Ahonen  Finland	55.68 SB	Moonika Aava  Estonia	54.97	Maryna Novik  Belarus	54.90
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)

Final standings

Pos	Country	Pts
1	Belarus	332
2	Finland	289
3	Norway	279
4	Netherlands	274
5	Belgium	269.5
6	Turkey	266.5
7	Romania	262.5
8	Hungary	260
9	Slovenia	252.5
10	Estonia	223
11	Switzerland	203
12	Serbia	191

Records

Country	Name	Event	Results	Notes
Estonia	Lembi Vaher	Women's Pole Vault	4.00	=NR
Norway	Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal	Women's 5000 m	15:29.82	NJR
Switzerland	Lisa Urech	Women's 100 m hurdles	13.17	NJR

Second League

• Place: Banska Bystrica, Slovakia

Participating countries

Austria  Bulgaria  Croatia  Cyprus

Ireland  Latvia  Lithuania  Slovakia

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Ryan Moseley  Austria	10.35	Panayiotis Ioannou  Cyprus	10.44	Rytis Sakalauskas  Lithuania	10.47
200 m	Paul Hession  Ireland	20.56 SB	Ryan Moseley  Austria	21.02	Elvijs Misāns  Latvia	21.05 PB
400 m	Clemens Zeller  Austria	46.41	Željko Vincek  Croatia	46.97 SB	Brian Gregan  Ireland	47.01
800 m	Thomas Chamney  Ireland	1:50.33	Jozef Repčík  Slovakia	1:50.90	Vitalij Kozlov  Lithuania	1:50.91
1500 m	Alan Obrien  Ireland	3:50.17 PB	Slavko Petrović  Croatia	3:50.57 SB	Felix Kernbichler  Austria	3:50.84
3000 m	Georg Mlynek  Austria	8:21.00 SB	Sean Connolly  Ireland	8:21.71	Slavko Petrović  Croatia	8:26.69
5000 m	Michael Schmid  Austria	14:17.20	Mark Hanrahan  Ireland	14:20.30	Mareks Floroseks  Latvia	14:36.87 SB
3000 m steeplechase	Konstantins Savcuks  Latvia	9:10.82	Mark Kirwan  Ireland	9:19.02	Yolo Nikolov  Bulgaria	9:28.33
110 m hurdles	Jurica Grabušić  Croatia	13.69 SB	Ian McDonald  Ireland	14.11	Karlis Daube  Latvia	14.16
400 m hurdles	Minás Alozídis  Cyprus	51.35 PB	Valdas Valintelis  Lithuania	52.00 PB	Tom Carey  Ireland	52.34
4 × 100 m	Toms Bergs Janis Mezitis Maris Grenis Elvijs Misāns  Lithuania	40.19	Milen Tsvetanov Yordan Yovchev Nikolai Todorov Desislav Gunev  Bulgaria	40.28	Jason Smyth Paul Hession Darragh Graham Steven Colvert Tate  Ireland	40.33
4 × 400 m	Roman Turčáni Jozef Pelikán Juraj Mokráš Jozef Repčík  Slovakia	3:11.97	Mirko Hižman Ivan Rimac Marko Babič Željko Vincek  Croatia	3:12.38	Arturas Kulnis Vitalij Kozlov Egidijus Svegzda Linas Bruzas  Lithuania	3:13.35
High jump	Kyriakos Ioannou  Cyprus	2.19	Peter Horák  Slovakia	2.16	Angel Kararadev  Bulgaria	2.16
Pole vault	Spas Buhalov  Bulgaria	5.50 SB	Mareks Ārents  Latvia	5.30 PB	Tomáš Čekan  Slovakia	5.00
Long jump	Povilas Mykolaitis  Lithuania	7.89 SB	Nikolay Atanasov  Bulgaria	7.83	Jaroslav Dobrovodský  Slovakia	7.43
Triple jump	Momchil Karailiev  Bulgaria	17.08	Povilas Mykolaitis  Lithuania	16.24	Elvijs Misans  Latvia	15.96
Shot put	Milan Haborák  Slovakia	19.74	Nedžad Mulabegović  Croatia	19.33	Māris Urtāns  Latvia	19.25
Discus	Gerhard Mayer  Austria	61.53	Apostolos Parellis  Cyprus	60.94 NR	Martin Marić  Croatia	57.99
Hammer	Libor Charfreitag  Slovakia	75.62	András Haklits  Croatia	74.04	Benjamin Siart  Austria	71.99 PB
Javelin	Kolio Neshev  Bulgaria	73.38	Tomas Intas  Lithuania	69.89	Martin Strasser  Austria	68.67 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)

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Lina Grinčikaitė  Lithuania	11.59 SB	Eleni Artymata  Cyprus	11.62	Bettina Müller-Weissina  Austria	11.63
200 m	Eleni Artymata  Cyprus	23.39	Lina Grinčikaitė  Lithuania	23.82	Inna Eftimova  Bulgaria	24.00
400 m	Agnė Orlauskaitė  Lithuania	53.44	Ieva Zunda  Latvia	53.65 SB	Danijela Grgic  Croatia	54.31
800 m	Lucia Klocová  Slovakia	2:03.54	Eglė Balčiūnaitė  Lithuania	2:04.12	Kelly McNeice  Ireland	2:05.18
1500 m	Irina Krakoviak  Lithuania	4:15.15	Deirdre Byrne  Ireland	4:16.32	Agata Strausa  Latvia	4:24.79
3000 m	Inna Poluškina  Latvia	9:09.00 SB	Kerry Harty  Ireland	9:09.50 PB	Yana Georgieva  Bulgaria	9:38.45 PB
5000 m	Rasa Drazdauskaitė  Lithuania	16:25.23	Lisa Stublic  Croatia	16:26.28 NR	Ava Hutchinson  Ireland	16:50.78
3000 m steeplechase	Fionnuala Britton  Ireland	10:05.70	Polina Jelizarova  Latvia	10:18.26 SB	Lisa Stublic  Croatia	10:24.10
100 m hurdles	Derval O'Rourke  Ireland	13.17	Miriam Bobková  Slovakia	13.22 SB	Sonata Tamošaitytė  Lithuania	13.52
400 m hurdles	Vania Stambolova  Bulgaria	55.86	Nikolina Horvat  Croatia	57.02 SB	Michelle Carey  Ireland	58.02
4 × 100 m	Silvija Peseckaitė Lina Grinčikaitė Sonata Tamošaitytė Audra Dagelytė  Lithuania	44.79	Kelly Proper Louise Kiernan Claire Bergin Niamh Whelan  Ireland	45.17	Bianca Dürr Doris Röser Beate Schrott Bettina Müller-Weissina  Austria	45.50
4 × 400 m	Aina Valatkevičiūtė Eglė Balčiūnaitė Kristina Jasinskaitė Agnė Orlauskaitė  Lithuania	3:36.15	Romana Tea Kirinić Anita Banović Nikolina Horvat Danijela Grgić  Croatia	3:37.25	Michelle Carey Joanne Cuddihy Fiona O'Friel Claire Bergin  Ireland	3:38.18
High jump	Blanka Vlašić  Croatia	2.04	Venelina Veneva  Bulgaria	1.90	Karina Vnukova  Lithuania	1.81
Pole vault	Marianna Zachariadou  Cyprus	4.35 PB	Daniela Höllwarth  Austria	3.70	Claire Wilkinson  Israel	3.70
Long jump	Jana Velďáková  Slovakia	6.54	Kelly Proper  Ireland	6.42	Lauma Griva  Latvia	6.26
Triple jump	Dana Veldáková  Slovakia	14.17	Andriana Banova  Bulgaria	13.65 SB	Jolanta Verseckaitė  Lithuania	12.75
Shot put	Austra Skujytė  Lithuania	17.21	Bettina Schasse  Austria	14.16 PB	Florentia Kappa  Cyprus	13.99
Discus	Zinaida Sendriūtė  Lithuania	56.63	Vera Begic  Croatia	55.24	Dace Šteinerte  Latvia	49.05
Hammer	Martina Hrašnová  Slovakia	74.95	Eileen O'Keeffe  Ireland	68.25 SB	Laura Igaune  Latvia	59.60 NR
Javelin	Elisabeth Pauer  Austria	55.80	Madara Palameika  Latvia	53.93	Indrė Jakubaitytė  Lithuania	52.37
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)

Final standings

Pos	Country	Pts
1	Lithuania	216
2	Ireland	200.5
3	Latvia	181
4	Austria	180.5
5	Slovakia	180
6	Croatia	174
7	Bulgaria	163
8	Cyprus	140

Records

Country	Name	Event	Results	Notes
Cyprus	Mariánna Zahariádi	Women's Pole Vault	4.35	NJR
Cyprus	Apostolos Parellis	Men's Discus	60.94	NR
Croatia	Lisa Stublic	Women's 5000 m	16:26.28	NR
Latvia	Laura Igaune	Women's Hammer	59.60	NR

Third League

• Place: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Participating countries

Athletic Association of Small States of Europe ( Liechtenstein,  Malta,  Monaco,  San Marino)  Andorra  Armenia  Azerbaijan  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Denmark

Georgia  Iceland  Israel  Luxembourg  North Macedonia  Moldova  Montenegro

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Ramil Quliyev  Azerbaijan	10.76	Nedim Čović  Bosnia and Herzegovina	10.86	Martin Krabbe  Denmark	10.89
200 m	Ramil Quliyev  Azerbaijan	20.71	Nedim Čović  Bosnia and Herzegovina	21.48	Tal Mor  Israel	21.89
400 m	Andreas Bube  Denmark	47.06 PB	Yuriy Shapsai  Israel	47.77	Endrik Zilbershtein  Georgia	47.92 NJR
800 m	David Fiegen  Luxembourg	1:50.73	Dušan Babić  Bosnia and Herzegovina	1:51.77	Aram Davtyan  Armenia	1:51.95 PB
1500 m	Hayle Ibrahimov  Azerbaijan	3:46.77 NJR	Gezachw Yossef  Israel	3:48.06 SB	Darko Rosić  Bosnia and Herzegovina	3:53.02 PB
3000 m	Hayle Ibrahimov  Azerbaijan	8:08.13	Toft Munkholm Morten  Denmark	8:22.97 SB	Goran Stojiljković  Montenegro	8:24.06 SB
5000 m	Goran Stojiljković  Montenegro	14:36.48 SB	Tilahun Aliyev  Azerbaijan	14:38.08 NJR	Brihon Voba  Israel	14:41.62
3000 m steeplechase	Ion Luchianov  Moldova	8:50.69	Noam Ne'eman  Israel	9:14.43	Benjamin Wolthers  Denmark	9:20.55
110 m hurdles	David Ilariani  Georgia	14.02 SB	Adnan Malkić  Bosnia and Herzegovina	14.34	Jon Yde Bentsen  Denmark	14.43
400 m hurdles	Björgvin Víkingsson  Iceland	52.41	Jacques Frisch  Luxembourg	52.44	Alexei Cravcenco  Moldova	53.14
4 × 100 m	Valentin Bulichev Ramil Quliyev Ruslan Abbasov Pavel Setin  Azerbaijan	39.78 NR	Martin Krabbe Jesper Simonsen Daniel B. Christensen Nicklas Hyde  Denmark	40.31	Asaf Malka Ram Mor Tal Mor Micky Bar-Yeoshua  Israel	40.64
4 × 400 m	Jakob Riis Nicklas Hyde Daniel B. Christensen Andreas Bube  Denmark	3:09.09	German Florentz Yuriy Shapsai Tarass Shcherenko Gil Shelleg  Israel	3:10.34 NR	Vadim Ryabikhin Ibrahim Ahmadov Pavel Setin Valentin Bulichev  Azerbaijan	3:12.83
High jump	Dmitriy Kroyter  Israel	2.14	Janick Klausen  Denmark	2.08	Anton Balan  Moldova	2.08
Pole vault	Alex Averbukh  Israel	5.40	Goran Pejić  Bosnia and Herzegovina	4.70 PB	Andrei Fedotov  Moldova	4.50
Long jump	Vardan Pahlevanyan  Armenia	7.82 PB	Yochai Halevi  Israel	7.58	Borislav Skhirtladze  Georgia	7.43 SB
Triple jump	Teymur Abbasov  Azerbaijan	16.37	Yochai Halevi  Israel	16.34 PB	Vladimir Letnicov  Moldova	16.30
Shot put	Hamza Alić  Bosnia and Herzegovina	19.97	Ivan Emilianov  Moldova	18.31	Zurab Gigaia  Georgia	15.95 SB
Discus	Vadim Hranovschi  Moldova	58.58	Kemal Mešić  Bosnia and Herzegovina	50.56	Felix Gromadskiy  Israel	49.86
Hammer	Bergur Ingi Pétursson  Iceland	70.93	Torben Wolf  Denmark	63.95	Samir Vilić  Bosnia and Herzegovina	58.89 SB
Javelin	Dmitri Tarabin  Moldova	69.63 PB	Lars Møller Laursen  Denmark	68.38	Asmir Kolašinac  Bosnia and Herzegovina	66.54
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 events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m	Rita Pogorelov  Israel	12.15	Anna Olsson  Denmark	12.21	Anastasia Gherteva  Moldova	12.33
200 m	Sara Petersen  Denmark	24.34 PB	Rita Pogorelov  Israel	24.67	Anastasia Gherteva  Moldova	24.92
400 m	Jasna Horozic  Bosnia and Herzegovina	55.11	Olesea Cojuhari  Moldova	55.68 SB	Charline Mathias  Luxembourg	56.51 PB
800 m	Olesea Smovjenco  Moldova	2:09.79 SB	Layes Abdullayeva  Azerbaijan	2:11.21 PB	Vladana Gavranovic  Bosnia and Herzegovina	2:12.58 PB
1500 m	Gezashign Safarova  Azerbaijan	4:26.14	Olesea Smovjenco  Moldova	4:29.72	Biljana Cvijanovic  Bosnia and Herzegovina	4:30.36 PB
3000 m	Mare Ibrahimova  Azerbaijan	9:27.05	Maria Stig Moeller  Denmark	9:38.59 PB	Valentina Delion  Moldova	10:06.39 SB
5000 m	Mare Ibrahimova  Azerbaijan	16:02.58 NR	Maria Stig Moeller  Denmark	16:16.81 PB	Natalia Cerches  Moldova	16:36.18
3000 m steeplechase	Layes Abdullayeva  Azerbaijan	10:40.59 NR	Laila Laursen  Denmark	10:52.09	Biljana Cvijanovic  Bosnia and Herzegovina	11:00.65
100 m hurdles	Irina Lenskiy  Israel	13.25	Anne Moller  Denmark	14.09	Gorana Cvijetic  Bosnia and Herzegovina	14.10 PB
400 m hurdles	Sara Petersen  Denmark	56.70 NR	Kim Reuland  Luxembourg	59.74 NR	Gorana Cvijetic  Bosnia and Herzegovina	1:01.32 SB
4 × 100 m	Rita Pogarelov Irina Lensky Rotem Batat Olga Lensky  Israel	46.59	Anne Moller Anna Olsson Tine Ejlersen Helena Scherer  Denmark	47.37	Linda Larusdottir Helga Thorsteinssd Hafdis Sigurdard Hrafnhild Hermodsd  Iceland	47.46
4 × 400 m	Kathrina Mikkeyisen Helena Sherer Anna Olsson Sara Petersen  Denmark	3:46.32	Chantal Hayen Martine Nobili Charlne Mathias Kim Reuland  Luxembourg	3:46.69 NR	Olesea Cajuhaur Anastasia Cherteve Anna Bezfinferi Valentina Dobzeu  Moldova	3:49.81
High jump	Ma'ayan Foreman  Israel	1.85	Marija Vuković  Montenegro	1.78	Liz Kuffer  Luxembourg	1.68
Pole vault	Caroline Bonde Holm  Denmark	4.15	Moran Azizi  Israel	3.80 SB	Hulda Thorsteinsdottir  Iceland	3.70
Long jump	Johanna Ingadottir  Iceland	6.09 PB	Rotem Batat  Israel	5.90 SB	Milena Milacevic  Montenegro	5.85 SB
Triple jump	Tatiana Cicanci  Moldova	13.10	Haykanush Beklaryan  Armenia	13.07 NR	Johanna Ingadottir  Iceland	12.84 PB
Shot put	Sivan Abali  Israel	14.67	Helga Ma Thorsteinsdottir  Iceland	13.78	Natalia Artic  Moldova	13.45
Discus	Natalia Artic  Moldova	49.58	Salome Rigishvili  Georgia	45.06 SB	Sivan Jean  Israel	44.83
Hammer	Zalina Marghieva  Moldova	68.26	Yevgeniya Zabolotniy  Israel	52.57	Pasa Sehic  Bosnia and Herzegovina	51.32
Javelin	Maria Jensen  Denmark	49.99 NJR	Valentina Croitori  Moldova	43.42	Noemie Pleimling  Luxembourg	42.77 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)

Final standings

Pos	Country	Pts
1	Israel	401.5
2	Moldova	393.5
3	Denmark	391
4	Bosnia and Herzegovina	357
5	Azerbaijan	327.5
6	Iceland	327
7	Luxembourg	292
8	Armenia	245.5
9	Georgia	227
10	Montenegro	217.5
11	AASSE	135
12	Andorra	123
13	North Macedonia	116.5

Records

Country	Name	Event	Results	Notes
Armenia	Kristine Harutyunyan	Women's Javelin	39.26	NR, NJR
Armenia	Haykanush Beklaryan	Women's Triple jump	13.07	NR, NJR
Azerbaijan		Men's 4 × 100 m	39.78	NR
Azerbaijan	Layes Abdullayeva	Women's 3000 m steeplechase	10:40.59	NR, NJR
Azerbaijan	Ulkar Ganbarova	Women's Pole Vault	2.80	NR
Azerbaijan	Hayle Ibrahimov	Men's 1500 m	3:46.77	NJR
Azerbaijan	Tilahun Aliyev	Men's 5000 m	14:38.08	NJR
Denmark	Sara Petersen	Women's 400 m hurdles	56.70	NR
Denmark	Maria L. Jensen	Women's Javelin	49.99	NJR
Georgia	Endrik Zilbershtein	Men's 200 m	21.94	NJR
Georgia	Endrik Zilbershtein	Men's 400 m	47.92	NJR
Israel		Men's 4 × 400 m	3:10.34	NR
Luxembourg	Kim Reuland	Women's 400 m hurdles	59.74	NR
Luxembourg		Men's 4 × 400 m	3:15.10	NR
Luxembourg		Women's 4 × 400 m	3:46.69	NR
San Marino	Martina Pretelli	Women's 400 m	60.17	NJR

References

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External links

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