UEC European Track Championships

The European Track Cycling Championships are a set of elite level competition events held annually for the various disciplines and distances in track cycling, exclusively for European cyclists, and regulated by the European Cycling Union (UEC). They were first held in their current format in 2010, when elite level cyclists competed for the first time following an overhaul of European track cycling.

This article is about the elite level championships inaugurated in 2010. It is not to be confused with UEC European Track Championships (under-23 & junior).
The European Champions Jersey

The UEC agreed with the governing bodies of six other major European sports from 2018 to integrate its four Olympic-class events, including track cycling, into the new European Championships event on a quadrennial basis. Beginning with 2018, every fourth edition of the competition will form part of the multi-sport event.

While track cycling will also form part of the 2019 European Games in Minsk, these events will not be European Championships, and the UEC event will also be held later in the same year.

In line with cycling tradition, winners of an event at the championships are presented with, in addition to the gold medal, a special, identifiable jersey. This UEC European Champion jersey is a blue jersey with gold European stars.

Pre-History

The first European Track Championships were held in Berlin in 1886 and featured only 5 km and 10 km men's scratch races.[1]

Age group championships

Prior to 2010, championship events were run under the same name, but solely for junior and under-23 cyclists, and the 2010 event is recognised as the first elite level senior championships. Since 2010, separate annual European championships for under-23 and junior riders have continued, described explicitly as such.

European Track Cycling Championships have been held for junior and under-23 athletes for a long time, though records in earlier editions are incomplete. They provided useful experience for young riders with winners automatically qualifying to compete at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in which no age limit applied, and the world's best track cyclists competed.[2]

A European Masters Track Championships also exists for riders over 35 years old.

Derny, Madison and Omnium championships

Men's European Track Championships for the "motor-paced" or "derny" track cycling discipline have been held since 1896. A separate European Madison championship event was also run for men.

Separate elite European Omnium Championships have been held since 1959, which were later incorporated into the senior European Track Championships on their introduction in 2010.[3][4]

Founding of the modern Elite Championships

In 2010 the UEC instigated a significant overhaul of how cyclists qualify for the Olympic Games. As a result, the European Championships was also introduced for elite level European cyclists. The first elite championships thereafter took place at the beginning of November 2010. It followed the same ten event schedule for the 2012 Olympics but also included the Madison "due to popular demand".[5]

The Under 23 and Junior championships thereafter were run as an annual separate event.

Competitions

Elite
NumberYearDateCountryCityVelodromeEvents
120105–7 November PolandPruszkówBGŻ Arena11
2201121–23 October NetherlandsApeldoornOmnisport Apeldoorn13
3201219–21 October LithuaniaPanevėžysCido Arena [6]13
4201318–20 October NetherlandsApeldoornOmnisport Apeldoorn[7]13
5201416–19 October FranceBaie-Mahault, GuadeloupeVélodrome Amédée Détraux19
6201514–18 October  SwitzerlandGrenchenVelodrome Suisse21
7201619–23 October FranceSaint-Quentin-en-YvelinesVélodrome de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines22
8201718–22 October GermanyBerlinVelodrom23
92018[lower-alpha 1]2–7 August Great BritainGlasgowSir Chris Hoy Velodrome22
10201916–20 October NetherlandsApeldoornOmnisport Apeldoorn22
11202011–14 NovemberTBA22

All-time medal table (2010-2019)
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Great Britain36171871
2 Russia23242471
3 Germany22322478
4 Netherlands21172159
5 France20201858
6 Italy1291233
7 Poland7111331
8 Denmark77216
9 Spain74516
10 Lithuania63716
11 Belgium59519
12 Czech Republic40610
13 Ukraine36918
14  Switzerland36312
15 Belarus25613
16 Austria1012
17 Portugal0325
18 Greece0314
19 Ireland0224
20 Hungary0101
Totals (20 nations)179179179537

Juniors and U23's and Open Omnium
Main article: UEC European Track Championships (under-23 & junior)

Exclude Men's Open Madison events from 2001-2009 and include Open Omnium events from 2001–2009.

NumberYearUnder 23JuniorEvents
CountryCityCountryCity
as European Track Championships
12001 Czech RepublicBrno ItalyFiorenzuola25
22002 GermanyButtgen GermanyButtgen27
32003 RussiaMoscow RussiaMoscow32
42004 SpainValencia SpainValencia32
52005 ItalyFiorenzuola ItalyFiorenzuola32
62006 GreeceAthens GreeceAthens32
72007 GermanyCottbus GermanyCottbus33
82008 PolandPruszków PolandPruszków37
92009 BelarusMinsk BelarusMinsk37
as UEC European Track Championships (under-23 & junior)
102010 RussiaSt Petersburg RussiaSt Petersburg38
112011 PortugalAnadia PortugalAnadia38
122012 PortugalAnadia PortugalAnadia38
132013 PortugalAnadia PortugalAnadia38
142014 PortugalAnadia PortugalAnadia38
152015 GreeceAthens GreeceAthens38
162016 ItalyMontichiari ItalyMontichiari38
172017 PortugalSangalhos PortugalSangalhos44
182018  SwitzerlandAigle  SwitzerlandAigle44
192019 BelgiumGhent BelgiumGhent44
202020 PortugalAnadia PortugalAnadia

All-time medal table (2001-2019)

Exclude Men's Open Madison events from 2001-2009 and include Open Omnium events from 2001–2009.

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Russia135124111370
2 Italy854957191
3 France849477255
4 Great Britain837268223
5 Germany747465213
6 Netherlands444755146
7 Poland365762155
8 Ukraine36221573
9 Belgium25312884
10 Czech Republic23253987
11  Switzerland16181953
12 Spain8112443
13 Denmark811726
14 Belarus891835
15 Lithuania6151637
16 Greece46717
17 Ireland29516
18 Portugal27413
19 Latvia2125
20 Armenia2002
21 Moldova1214
22 Slovenia1001
 Turkey1001
24 Austria0123
25 Slovakia0101
Totals (25 nations)6866866822054
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See also

Notes
  1. Part of the European Championships

References
  1. Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill (2011). Historical Dictionary of Cycling. Scarecrow Press. p. 74. ISBN 978-0-8108-7175-5.
  2. "UK European Track Championships team". Cycling News. 11 July 2001. Retrieved 11 September 2008.
  3. "European Championship, Track, Omnium, Elite". www.cyclingarchives.com.
  4. "European Championship, Track, Omnium, Elite (F)". www.cyclingarchives.com.
  5. "European Track Championships". Track Cycling News. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
  6. "2012 m. Europos dviračių treko čempionatas vyks Panevėžyje". delfi.lt.
  7. "2013 Calendar". uec-federation.eu. Archived from the original on 29 December 2012.
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