2012 European Athletics Championships

21st European Athletics Championships
Dates27 June – 1 July
Host cityHelsinki, Finland
VenueHelsinki Olympic Stadium
LevelSenior
TypeOutdoor
Events42 (21 men, 21 women)
Participation50 nations

The 2012 European Athletics Championships were held in Helsinki, Finland between 27 June and 1 July 2012.[1] This edition marks the beginning of a new two-year cycle of the European Athletics Championships which were previously held every four years.

The decision to grant the games for Helsinki was made by the European Athletics Congress on 9 November 2009.[2] Another city that showed interest in hosting the event was Nuremberg, Germany, however Helsinki was in pole position during the whole process. This was the third time that the city had hosted the event, 1971 and 1994 being the other occasions.

Due to 2012 being an Olympic year, there were no racewalking and marathon competitions.[3]

Event schedule

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

Men's results

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Track

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Chronology: 2006 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016
Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
details
Christophe Lemaitre
 France (FRA)
10.09 Jimmy Vicaut
 France (FRA)
10.12 SB Jaysuma Saidy Ndure
 Norway (NOR)
10.17
200 metres
details
Churandy Martina
 Netherlands (NED)
20.42 Patrick van Luijk
 Netherlands (NED)
20.87 Danny Talbot
 Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
20.95
400 metres
details
Pavel Maslák
 Czech Republic (CZE)
45.24 Marcell Deák-Nagy
 Hungary (HUN)
45.52 SB Yannick Fonsat
 France (FRA)
45.82
800 metres
details
Yuriy Borzakovskiy
 Russia (RUS)
1:48.61 Andreas Bube
 Denmark (DEN)
1:48.69 Pierre-Ambroise Bosse
 France (FRA)
1:48.83
1500 metres
details
Henrik Ingebrigtsen
 Norway (NOR)
3:46.20 Florian Carvalho
 France (FRA)
3:46.33 David Bustos
 Spain (ESP)
3:46.45
5000 metres
details
Mo Farah
 Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
13:29.91 Arne Gabius
 Germany (GER)
13:31.83 Polat Kemboi Arıkan
 Turkey (TUR)
13:32.63
10,000 metres
details
Polat Kemboi Arıkan
 Turkey (TUR)
28:22.27 Daniele Meucci
 Italy (ITA)
28:22.73 Yevgeniy Rybakov
 Russia (RUS)
28:22.95 SB
110 metres hurdles
details
Sergey Shubenkov
 Russia (RUS)
13.16 Garfield Darien
 France (FRA)
13.20 Artur Noga
 Poland (POL)
13.27 NR
400 metres hurdles
details
Rhys Williams
 Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
49.33 SB Emir Bekrić
 Serbia (SRB)
49.49 Stanislav Melnykov
 Ukraine (UKR)
49.69
3000 metres steeplechase
details
Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad
 France (FRA)
8:33.29 Tarık Langat Akdağ
 Turkey (TUR)
8:35.24 Víctor García
 Spain (ESP)
8:35.87
4 × 100 metres relay
details
 Netherlands (NED)
Brian Mariano
Churandy Martina
Giovanni Codrington
Patrick van Luijk
38.34 EL, NR  Germany (GER)
Julian Reus
Tobias Unger
Alexander Kosenkow
Lucas Jakubczyk
38.44  France (FRA)
Ronald Pognon
Christophe Lemaitre
Pierre-Alexis Pessonneaux
Emmanuel Biron
38.46
4 × 400 metres relay
details
 Belgium (BEL)
Antoine Gillet
Jonathan Borlée
Jente Bouckaert
Kévin Borlée
3:01.09 EL  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
Nigel Levine
Conrad Williams
Robert Tobin
Richard Buck
3:01.56  Germany (GER)
Jonas Plass
Kamghe Gaba
Eric Krüger
Thomas Schneider
3:01.77
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)

Field

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Chronology: 2006 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016
Event Gold Silver Bronze
High jump
details
Robert Grabarz
 Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
2.31 Raivydas Stanys
 Lithuania (LTU)
2.31 PB Mickaël Hanany
 France (FRA)
2.28
Pole vault
details
Renaud Lavillenie
 France (FRA)
5.97 WL Björn Otto
 Germany (GER)
5.92 PB Raphael Holzdeppe
 Germany (GER)
5.77 =SB
Long jump
details
Sebastian Bayer
 Germany (GER)
8.34 SB Luis Felipe Méliz
 Spain (ESP)
8.21 SB Michel Tornéus
 Sweden (SWE)
8.17 SB
Triple jump
details
Fabrizio Donato
 Italy (ITA)
17.63 Sheryf El-Sheryf
 Ukraine (UKR)
17.28 Aliaksei Tsapik
 Belarus (BLR)
16.97
Shot put
details
David Storl
 Germany (GER)
21.58 SB Rutger Smith
 Netherlands (NED)
20.55 =SB Asmir Kolašinac
 Serbia (SRB)
20.36
Discus throw
details
Robert Harting
 Germany (GER)
68.30 Gerd Kanter
 Estonia (EST)
66.53 Rutger Smith
 Netherlands (NED)
64.02
Javelin throw
details
Vítězslav Veselý
 Czech Republic (CZE)
83.72 Valeriy Iordan
 Russia (RUS)
83.32 PB Ari Mannio
 Finland (FIN)
82.63
Hammer throw
details
Krisztián Pars
 Hungary (HUN)
79.72 Aleksey Zagornyi
 Russia (RUS)
77.40 Szymon Ziółkowski
 Poland (POL)
76.67
Decathlon
details
Pascal Behrenbruch
 Germany (GER)
8558 EL, PB Oleksiy Kasyanov
 Ukraine (UKR)
8321 Ilya Shkurenyov
 Russia (RUS)
8219 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)

Women's results

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Track

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Chronology: 2006 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016
Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
details
Ivet Lalova
 Bulgaria (BUL)
11.28 Olesya Povh
 Ukraine (UKR)
11.32 Lina Grinčikaitė
 Lithuania (LTU)
11.32 SB
200 metres
details
Mariya Ryemyen
 Ukraine (UKR)
23.05 Hrystyna Stuy
 Ukraine (UKR)
23.17 Myriam Soumaré
 France (FRA)
23.21
400 metres
details
Moa Hjelmer
 Sweden (SWE)
51.13 NR Ksenia Zadorina
 Russia (RUS)
51.26 SB Ilona Usovich
 Belarus (BLR)
51.94
800 metres
details ≠1
Lynsey Sharp
 Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
2:00.52 PB Maryna Arzamasava
 Belarus (BLR)
2:01.02 Liliya Lobanova
 Ukraine (UKR)
2:01.29
1500 metres
details ≠2
Nuria Fernández
 Spain (ESP)
4:08.80 Diana Sujew
 Germany (GER)
4:09.28 Tereza Čapková
 Czech Republic (CZE)
4:10.17
5000 metres
details
Olga Golovkina
 Russia (RUS)
15:11.70 Sara Moreira
 Portugal (POR)
15:12.05 Julia Bleasdale
 Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
15:12.77
10,000 metres
details
Ana Dulce Félix
 Portugal (POR)
31:44.75 Joanne Pavey
 Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
31:49.03 Olha Skrypak
 Ukraine (UKR)
31:51.32
100 metres hurdles
details ≠3
Alina Talay
 Belarus (BLR)
12.91 Katsiaryna Paplauskaya
 Belarus (BLR)
12.97 Beate Schrott
 Austria (AUT)
12.98 =SB
400 metres hurdles
details
Denisa Rosolová
 Czech Republic (CZE)
54.24 PB Hanna Yaroshchuk
 Ukraine (UKR)
54.35 PB Zuzana Hejnová
 Czech Republic (CZE)
54.49
3000 metres steeplechase
details ≠4
Gülcan Mıngır
 Turkey (TUR)
9:32.96 Antje Möldner-Schmidt
 Germany (GER)
9:36.37 Gesa Felicitas Krause
 Germany (GER)
9:38.20
4 × 100 metres relay
details
 Germany (GER)
Leena Günther
Anne Cibis
Tatjana Lofamakanda Pinto
Verena Sailer
42.51 EL  Netherlands (NED)
Kadene Vassell
Dafne Schippers
Eva Lubbers
Jamile Samuel
42.80 NR  Poland (POL)
Marika Popowicz
Daria Korczyńska
Marta Jeschke
Ewelina Ptak
43.06
4 × 400 metres relay
details
 Ukraine (UKR)
Yuilya Olishevska
Olha Zemlyak
Nataliya Pyhyda
Alina Lohvynenko
3:25.07 EL  France (FRA)
Phara Anacharsis
Lenora Guion Firmin
Marie Gayot
Floria Gueï
3:25.49  Czech Republic (CZE)
Zuzana Hejnová
Zuzana Bergrová
Jitka Bartoničková
Denisa Rosolová
3:26.02
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)
Doping :

1. Official result following disqualifications for Elena Arzhakova and Irina Maracheva Russia for doping violation.Russia.
2. Official result following disqualification for Aslı Çakır Alptekin Turkey, Yekaterina Ishova Russia, Gamze Bulut Turkey and Anna Mishchenko Ukraine for doping violations.
3. Official result following disqualification for Nevin Yanıt Turkey for doping violation.
4. Official result following disqualification for Svitlana Shmidt Ukraine for doping violation.

Field

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Chronology: 2006 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016
Event Gold Silver Bronze
High jump
details
Ruth Beitia
 Spain (ESP)
1.97 =SB Tonje Angelsen
 Norway (NOR)
1.97 PB Irina Gordeeva
 Russia (RUS)
Emma Green Tregaro
 Sweden (SWE)
Olena Holosha
 Ukraine (UKR)
1.92
Pole vault
details
Jiřina Ptáčníková
 Czech Republic (CZE)
4.60 Martina Strutz
 Germany (GER)
4.60 SB Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou
 Greece (GRE)
4.60 =SB
Long jump
details
Éloyse Lesueur
 France (FRA)
6.81 SB Volha Sudarava
 Belarus (BLR)
6.74 Margrethe Renstrøm
 Norway (NOR)
6.67
Triple jump
details
Olha Saladukha
 Ukraine (UKR)
14.99 WL Patrícia Mamona
 Portugal (POR)
14.52 NR Yana Borodina
 Russia (RUS)
14.36
Shot put
details
Nadine Kleinert
 Germany (GER)
19.18 Irina Tarasova
 Russia (RUS)
18.91 Chiara Rosa
 Italy (ITA)
18.47
Discus throw
details
Sandra Perković
 Croatia (CRO)
67.62 Nadine Müller
 Germany (GER)
65.41 Natalya Semenova
 Ukraine (UKR)
62.91
Javelin throw
details
Vira Rebryk
 Ukraine (UKR)
66.86 NR Christina Obergföll
 Germany (GER)
65.12 Linda Stahl
 Germany (GER)
63.69
Hammer throw
details
Anita Włodarczyk
 Poland (POL)
74.29 Martina Hrašnová
 Slovakia (SVK)
73.34 SB Anna Bulgakova
 Russia (RUS)
71.47
Heptathlon
details
Antoinette Nana Djimou Ida
 France (FRA)
6544 PB Laura Ikauniece
 Latvia (LAT)
6335 PB Aiga Grabuste
 Latvia (LAT)
6325 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)

Stripped medals

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At the Championships 9 medals was stripped, 1 men and 8 women.

Event Medal Disqualified Country Variation
date
Notes New Podium Original
rank
Men's discus throw 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Zoltán Kővágó  Hungary 26 July 2012 [5] 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Netherlands Rutger Smith 4
Women's 800 m 1st place, gold medalist(s) Elena Arzhakova  Russia 29 January 2013 [6] 1st place, gold medalist(s) United Kingdom Lynsey Sharp
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Belarus Maryna Arzamasava
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Ukraine Liliya Lobanova
2nd place, silver medalist(s)
4
5
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Irina Maracheva  Russia 25 January 2016 [7]
Women's 1500 m 1st place, gold medalist(s) Aslı Çakır Alptekin  Turkey 17 August 2015 [8] 1st place, gold medalist(s) Spain Nuria Fernández
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Germany Diana Sujew
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Czech Republic Tereza Čapková
5
6
7
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Gamze Bulut  Turkey 1 June 2016 [9]
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Anna Mishchenko  Ukraine 26 February 2016 [8]
4th Yekaterina Ishova  Russia [8]
Women's 3000 m steeplechase 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Svitlana Shmidt  Ukraine 12 April 2015 [10] 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Germany Antje Möldner-Schmidt
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Germany Gesa Felicitas Krause
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
4
Women's 100 m hurdles 1st place, gold medalist(s) Nevin Yanit  Turkey 29 August 2013 [11] 1st place, gold medalist(s) Belarus Alina Talay
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Belarus Katsiaryna Paplauskaya
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Austria Beate Schrott
2nd place, silver medalist(s)
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
4
Women's heptathlon 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Lyudmyla Yosypenko  Ukraine 30 December 2012 [12] 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Latvia Laura Ikauniece
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Latvia Aiga Grabuste
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
4

Medal table

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  *   Host nation (Finland)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Germany (GER)68418
2 France (FRA)54514
3 Ukraine (UKR)45514
4 Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)4228
5 Czech Republic (CZE)4037
6 Russia (RUS)34512
7 Netherlands (NED)2316
8 Spain (ESP)2125
9 Turkey (TUR)2114
10 Belarus (BLR)1326
11 Portugal (POR)1203
12 Norway (NOR)1124
13 Italy (ITA)1113
14 Hungary (HUN)1102
15 Poland (POL)1034
16 Sweden (SWE)1023
17 Belgium (BEL)1001
 Bulgaria (BUL)1001
 Croatia (CRO)1001
20 Latvia (LAT)0112
 Lithuania (LTU)0112
 Serbia (SRB)0112
23 Denmark (DEN)0101
 Estonia (EST)0101
 Slovakia (SVK)0101
26 Austria (AUT)0011
 Finland (FIN)*0011
 Greece (GRE)0011
Totals (28 entries)424244128

Participating nations

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In brackets: Squad size

Broadcasting

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Territory Rights holder
 Belgium VRT
 Croatia
 Denmark DR2
 Estonia ERR
 Finland Yle
 France
 Germany
 Hungary
 Italy Rai
 Latvia LTV
 Lithuania Eurosport
 Poland
 Portugal
 Serbia
 Slovenia RTV SLO
 Spain
 Sweden SVT
 Turkey

See also

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References

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  1. ^ EAA calendar Archived 2009-06-29 at the Portuguese Web Archive
  2. ^ "It's Helsinki! European Athletics awards 2012 European Athletics Championships to Finnish capital". EAA. Archived from the original on 2012-02-24.
  3. ^ European Athletics Championships 2012 in Helsinki – [1] Archived 2011-06-11 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ a b 2012 European Athletics Championships Programme. Helsinki2012. Retrieved on 2012-06-14.
  5. ^ "Hungarian discus thrower banned for doping offense". reuters.com. 26 July 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  6. ^ "Pishchalnikova given 10-year doping ban". reuters.com. 30 April 2013. Retrieved 28 August 2018. In a separate case, European 800 meters champion Yelena Arzhakova was banned for two years, starting from January 29, 2013
  7. ^ "Russian runner stripped of European silver medal for doping". businessinsider.com. 25 January 2016. Archived from the original on 29 August 2018. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  8. ^ a b c "The dirtiest race in history?". sportsintegrityinitiative.com. 7 March 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2018. In this race, both Alptekin and Bulut finished first and second respectively, while the Ukraine's Anna Mischenko, who finished third, and Russia's Ekaterina Ishova, who finished fourth, have both since been disqualified by the IAAF for an ADRV and abnormal ABP results respectively.
  9. ^ "Gamze Bulut'un madalyası alındı" (in Turkmen). haberturk.com. 1 June 2016. Archived from the original on 14 August 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
  10. ^ "Ukraine apologise to WADA and IAAF over embarrassing amnesty claim for drugs cheats". insidethegames.biz. 12 April 2017. Retrieved 29 August 2018. Anna Mishchenko and Svitlana Shmidt also lost the silver medals they had won in the 1500 and 3,000 metres steeplechase respectively at the 2012 European Championships in Helsinki following the retests.
  11. ^ "Nevin Yanit: Drugs ban for European hurdles champion". bbc.co.uk. 29 August 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
  12. ^ "Yosypenko banned for doping". trackandfieldnews.com. 12 August 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2018.[permanent dead link]
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