2017 European Athletics Indoor Championships

The 34th European Athletics Indoor Championships were held between 3 and 5 March 2017 at the Kombank Arena in Belgrade, Serbia. This was the second time this event was held in the city after the 1969 edition then known as the European Indoor Games, and the first time in more than 30 years that the competition was held in Eastern Europe. The three-day competition featured 13 men's and 13 women's athletics events and took place over two morning and three afternoon sessions.[1]

2017 European Athletics Indoor Championships
Dates	3–5 March
Host city	Belgrade, Serbia
Venue	Kombank Arena
Events	26
Participation	525 athletes from 48 nations
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The decision of Belgrade as the host-city was announced on 4 May 2014 in Frankfurt am Main, beating bids from Istanbul and Polish city Toruń. The host nation's leading athlete was Ivana Španović, who returned to defend her European indoor title in the long jump.[2] The 2017 Balkan Indoor Athletics Championships was held at the Kombank Arena a week prior to the competition.[3] Former athlete Slobodan Branković led the local organising committee. The event had an official website and a social media presence on Twitter and Facebook. The event mascot was decided by competition among Serbian schoolchildren, with the winning design coming from Sladjana Ljubic. A white lion named “Bela”, it reflects Belgrade Zoo's breeding programme for the animals. The event logo was simply a stylised version of the phrase "Belgrade 2017", rendered in a font resembling the natural straights and curves of an athletics track.[4]

Only one Russian athlete, women's long jumper Darya Klishina, was present at the competition, due to the international ban of the All-Russia Athletic Federation in place since November 2015 following systemic doping. Klishina competed as a neutral athlete. Three other Russians were cleared to compete as neutrals, but did not attend.[5][6] Russia had led the medal table at the competition in both 2013 and 2015.

Poland and Great Britain dominated the medal table, taking 12 of the twenty six golds available between them (7 for the Poles, 5 for the Britons) - of the other competing nations, only Germany and France won more than a single gold, with two each. In the placings table, Great Britain and Poland were inseparable on 103 points each, but Germany came a much closer third.

Men's results

Track

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres	Richard Kilty  Great Britain	6.54 EL	Ján Volko  Slovakia	6.58 NR	Austin Hamilton  Sweden	6.63 PB
400 metres	Pavel Maslák  Czech Republic	45.77 EL	Rafał Omelko  Poland	46.08 PB	Liemarvin Bonevacia  Netherlands	46.26 NR
800 metres	Adam Kszczot  Poland	1:48.87	Andreas Bube  Denmark	1:49.32	Álvaro de Arriba  Spain	1:49.68
1500 metres	Marcin Lewandowski  Poland	3:44.82	Kalle Berglund  Sweden	3:45.56	Filip Sasínek  Czech Republic	3:45.89
3000 metres	Adel Mechaal  Spain	8:00.60	Henrik Ingebrigtsen  Norway	8:00.93	Richard Ringer  Germany	8:01.01
60 metres hurdles	Andrew Pozzi  Great Britain	7.51	Pascal Martinot-Lagarde  France	7.52	Petr Svoboda  Czech Republic	7.53 SB
4 × 400 metres relay	Poland Kacper Kozłowski Łukasz Krawczuk Przemysław Waściński Rafał Omelko	3:06.99	Belgium Robin Vanderbemden Julien Watrin Kevin Borlée Dylan Borlée	3:07.80	Czech Republic Patrik Šorm Jan Tesař Jan Kubista Pavel Maslák	3:08.60

Field

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump	Sylwester Bednarek  Poland	2.32	Robbie Grabarz  Great Britain	2.30 SB	Pavel Seliverstau  Belarus	2.27
Pole vault	Piotr Lisek  Poland	5.85	Konstadinos Filippidis  Greece	5.85 NR	Paweł Wojciechowski  Poland	5.85 SB
Long jump	Izmir Smajlaj  Albania	8.08 NR	Michel Tornéus  Sweden	8.08 SB	Serhiy Nykyforov  Ukraine	8.07
Triple jump	Nelson Évora  Portugal	17.20 SB	Fabrizio Donato  Italy	17.13	Max Heß  Germany	17.12
Shot put	Konrad Bukowiecki  Poland	21.97 WL NR AUR	Tomáš Staněk  Czech Republic	21.43 PB	David Storl  Germany	21.30

Combined

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Heptathlon	Kevin Mayer  France	6479 ER	Jorge Ureña  Spain	6227	Adam Helcelet  Czech Republic	6110

Women's results

Track

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres	Asha Philip  Great Britain	7.06 EL NR	Ewa Swoboda  Poland	7.10 SB	Mujinga Kambundji   Switzerland	7.16 SB
400 metres	Floria Gueï  France	51.90 PB	Zuzana Hejnová  Czech Republic	52.42	Justyna Święty  Poland	52.52
800 metres	Selina Büchel   Switzerland	2:00.38 NR	Shelayna Oskan-Clarke  Great Britain	2:00.39 PB	Aníta Hinriksdóttir  Iceland	2:01.25
1500 metres	Laura Muir  Great Britain	4:02.39 CR NR	Konstanze Klosterhalfen  Germany	4:04.45 PB	Sofia Ennaoui  Poland	4:06.59
3000 metres	Laura Muir  Great Britain	8:35.67 CR	Yasemin Can  Turkey	8:43.46 NR	Eilish McColgan  Great Britain	8:47.43
60 metres hurdles	Cindy Roleder  Germany	7.88	Alina Talay  Belarus	7.92	Pamela Dutkiewicz  Germany	7.95
4 × 400 metres relay	Poland Patrycja Wyciszkiewicz Małgorzata Hołub Iga Baumgart Justyna Święty	3:29.94	Great Britain Eilidh Doyle Phillipa Lowe Mary Iheke Laviai Nielsen	3:31.05	Ukraine Olha Bibik Tetyana Melnyk Anastasiya Bryzhina Olha Lyakhova	3:32.10

Field

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump	Airinė Palšytė  Lithuania	2.01 WL NR	Ruth Beitia  Spain	1.94	Yuliya Levchenko  Ukraine	1.94 PB
Pole vault	Katerina Stefanidi  Greece	4.85 WL SB	Lisa Ryzih  Germany	4.75 PB	Angelica Bengtsson  Sweden Maryna Kylypko  Ukraine	4.55
Long jump	Ivana Španović  Serbia	7.24 WL NR	Lorraine Ugen  Great Britain	6.97 NR	Claudia Salman-Rath  Germany	6.94 PB
Triple jump	Kristin Gierisch  Germany	14.37 EL	Patrícia Mamona  Portugal	14.32 SB	Paraskevi Papachristou  Greece	14.24 SB
Shot put	Anita Márton  Hungary	19.28 WL	Radoslava Mavrodieva  Bulgaria	18.36 PB	Yuliya Leantsiuk  Belarus	18.32

Combined

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Pentathlon	Nafissatou Thiam  Belgium	4870 WL	Ivona Dadic  Austria	4767 NR	Györgyi Zsivoczky-Farkas  Hungary	4723 PB

Medal table

  The host country is highlighted in blue

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Poland (POL)	7	2	3	12
2	Great Britain (GBR)	5	4	1	10
3	Germany (GER)	2	2	5	9
4	France (FRA)	2	1	0	3
5	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	2	4	7
6	Spain (ESP)	1	2	1	4
7	Greece (GRE)	1	1	1	3
8	Belgium (BEL)	1	1	0	2
	Portugal (POR)	1	1	0	2
10	Hungary (HUN)	1	0	1	2
	Switzerland (SUI)	1	0	1	2
12	Albania (ALB)	1	0	0	1
	Lithuania (LTU)	1	0	0	1
	Serbia (SRB)*	1	0	0	1
15	Sweden (SWE)	0	2	2	4
16	Belarus (BLR)	0	1	2	3
17	Austria (AUT)	0	1	0	1
	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	0	1
	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	0	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	1	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	1	0	1
	Slovakia (SVK)	0	1	0	1
	Turkey (TUR)	0	1	0	1
24	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	4	4
25	Iceland (ISL)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
Totals (26 nations)		26	26	27	79

Placing table

In the placing table the points were awarded for every place in the top eight of each event: 8 for 1st, 7 for 2nd, 6 for 3rd, etc.[7]

Rank	Nation	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	Total
1	Poland	56	14	18	10	–	6	–	–	104
2	Great Britain	40	28	6	5	12	6	4	2	103
3	Germany	16	14	30	–	20	12	4	3	99
4	Sweden	–	14	11.5	20	8	5.5	2	1	62
5	France	16	7	–	10	12	9	4	3.5	61.5
6	Spain	8	14	6	10	8	12	2	1	61
7	Czech Republic	8	14	24	5	–	6	–	1	58
8	Ukraine	–	7	23.5	10	4	–	2	–	46.5
9	Belarus	–	7	12	–	–	–	4	2	25
10	Italy	–	7	–	5	–	6	6	1	25
11	Portugal	8	7	–	5	–	–	4	–	24
12	Netherlands	–	–	6	5	8	–	4	–	23
13	Greece	8	7	6	–	–	–	–	–	21
14	Switzerland	8	–	–	5	4	3	–	–	20
15	Hungary	8	–	6	5	–	–	–	–	19
16	Denmark	–	7	–	5	4	–	–	2	18
17	Belgium	8	7	–	–	–	–	–	1	16
18	Serbia	8	–	–	–	4	3	–	1	16
19	Austria	–	7	–	5	–	3	–	–	15
20	Bulgaria	–	7	–	5	–	–	–	1	13
21	Albania	8	–	–	–	4	–	–	–	12
22	Norway	–	7	–	–	4	–	–	–	11
22	Slovakia	–	7	–	–	4	–	–	–	11
24	Turkey	–	7	–	–	–	3	–	–	10
25	Lithuania	8	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	8
26	Croatia	–	–	–	–	4	–	4	–	8
27	Iceland	–	–	6	–	–	–	–	–	6
28	Finland	–	–	6	–	–	2.5	2	1.5	6
29	Latvia	–	–	–	5	–	–	–	0.5	5.5
30	Independent Athletes	–	–	–	5	–	–	–	–	5
30	Azerbaijan	–	–	–	5	–	–	–	–	5
32	Estonia	–	–	–	–	4	–	–	–	4
33	Cyprus	–	–	–	–	–	3	–	–	3
33	Montenegro	–	–	–	–	–	3	–	–	3
35	Bosnia and Herzegovina	–	–	–	–	–	–	2	–	2
36	Slovenia	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0.5	0.5

Participating nations

There was a total of 525 participants (out of the 567 initially entered) from 48 nations. The only federations missing were Georgia, Kosovo, and Liechtenstein.

•  Albania (2)
•  Andorra (2)
•  Armenia (5)
•  Austria (8)
•  Azerbaijan (1)
•  Belarus (19)
•  Belgium (8)
•  Bosnia and Herzegovina (3)
•  Bulgaria (8)
•  Croatia (7)
•  Cyprus (5)
•  Czech Republic (24)
•  Denmark (6)
•  Estonia (6)
•  Finland (11)
•  France (31)
•  Germany (41)
•  Gibraltar (3)
•  Great Britain (30)
•  Greece (7)
•  Hungary (14)
• Independent Athletes (EAA) (1)
•  Iceland (2)
•  Ireland (10)
•  Israel (1)
•  Italy (26)
•  Latvia (5)
•  Lithuania (5)
•  Luxembourg (2)
•  Macedonia (2)
•  Malta (2)
•  Moldova (1)
•  Monaco (1)
•  Montenegro (2)
•  Netherlands (13)
•  Norway (8)
•  Poland (29)
•  Portugal (10)
•  Romania (12)
•  San Marino (1)
•  Serbia (11)
•  Slovakia (15)
•  Slovenia (5)
•  Spain (34)
•  Sweden (29)
•   Switzerland (13)
•  Turkey (13)
•  Ukraine (31)

References

1. Timetable. Belgrade2017. Retrieved on 2017-03-04.
2. "Belgrade to host 2017 Indoor Champs". Time to Run. 5 May 2014. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
3. Balkan Indoor Championships. Kombank Arena (2017-02-25). Retrieved on 2017-03-04.
4. Media Guide. Belgrade2017. Retrieved on 2017-03-04.
5. IAAF clears 3 Russians to compete at European indoor championships. CBC (2017-02-23). Retrieved on 2017-03-04.
6. Russian athlete Darya Klishina going solo again as ban brings back 'stressful' Rio memories. Evening Standard (2017-03-03). Retrieved on 2017-03-04.
7. "EUROPEAN ATHLETICS INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS BELGRADE 2017 PLACING TABLE". european-athletics.org. Retrieved 21 July 2018.

External links

• Official website
• EAA competition website
• Full results