2012 European Athletics Championships

21st European Athletics Championships
21st European Athletics Championships
Dates	27 June – 1 July
Host city	Helsinki, Finland
Venue	Helsinki Olympic Stadium
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	42 (21 men, 21 women)
Participation	50 nations
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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

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

Men^[4]
Date	Jun 27		Jun 28		Jun 29		Jun 30		Jul 1
Event	M	A	M	A	M	A	M	A	A
100 m	H	½		F
200 m					H	½		F
400 m	H			½		F
800 m	H			½		F
1500 m							H		F
5000 m		F
10,000 m								F
110 m hurdles							H		½	F
400 m hurdles	H		½			F
3000 m steeplechase		H				F
4 × 100 m relay							H		F
4 × 400 m relay								H	F
Long jump					Q				F
Triple jump			Q					F
High jump		Q				F
Pole vault							Q		F
Shot put	Q					F
Discus throw					Q			F
Hammer throw			Q					F
Javelin throw		Q		F
Decathlon	F

Women^[4]
Date	Jun 27		Jun 28		Jun 29		Jun 30			Jul 1
Event ↓	M	A	M	A	M	A	M	A		A
100 m	H	½		F
200 m					H	½		F
400 m		H		½		F
800 m				H		F
1500 m							H			F
5000 m				F
10,000 m										F
100 m hurdles					H			½	F
400 m hurdles	H		½			F
3000 m steeplechase			H					F
4 × 100 m relay							H			F
4 × 400 m relay								H		F
Long jump	Q			F
Triple jump	Q					F
High jump	Q			F
Pole vault			Q					F
Shot put			Q			F
Discus throw							Q			F
Hammer throw					Q					F
Javelin throw	Q					F
Heptathlon					F

Men's results

Track

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

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

Track

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 for doping violation.. 2. Official result following disqualification for Aslı Çakır Alptekin , Yekaterina Ishova , Gamze Bulut and Anna Mishchenko for doping violations. 3. Official result following disqualification for Nevin Yanıt for doping violation. 4. Official result following disqualification for Svitlana Shmidt for doping violation.

Field

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

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		Zoltán Kővágó	Hungary	26 July 2012	^[5]	Rutger Smith	4
Women's 800 m		Elena Arzhakova	Russia	29 January 2013	^[6]	Lynsey Sharp Maryna Arzamasava Liliya Lobanova	4 5
Women's 800 m		Irina Maracheva	Russia	25 January 2016	^[7]	Lynsey Sharp Maryna Arzamasava Liliya Lobanova	4 5
Women's 1500 m		Aslı Çakır Alptekin	Turkey	17 August 2015	^[8]	Nuria Fernández Diana Sujew Tereza Čapková	5 6 7
		Gamze Bulut	Turkey	1 June 2016	^[9]
		Anna Mishchenko	Ukraine	26 February 2016	^[8]
	4th	Yekaterina Ishova	Russia		^[8]
Women's 3000 m steeplechase		Svitlana Shmidt	Ukraine	12 April 2015	^[10]	Antje Möldner-Schmidt Gesa Felicitas Krause	4
Women's 100 m hurdles		Nevin Yanit	Turkey	29 August 2013	^[11]	Alina Talay Katsiaryna Paplauskaya Beate Schrott	4
Women's heptathlon		Lyudmyla Yosypenko	Ukraine	30 December 2012	^[12]	Laura Ikauniece Aiga Grabuste	4

Medal table

* Host nation (Finland)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Germany (GER)	6	8	4	18
2	France (FRA)	5	4	5	14
3	Ukraine (UKR)	4	5	5	14
4	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	4	2	2	8
5	Czech Republic (CZE)	4	0	3	7
6	Russia (RUS)	3	4	5	12
7	Netherlands (NED)	2	3	1	6
8	Spain (ESP)	2	1	2	5
9	Turkey (TUR)	2	1	1	4
10	Belarus (BLR)	1	3	2	6
11	Portugal (POR)	1	2	0	3
12	Norway (NOR)	1	1	2	4
13	Italy (ITA)	1	1	1	3
14	Hungary (HUN)	1	1	0	2
15	Poland (POL)	1	0	3	4
16	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	2	3
17	Belgium (BEL)	1	0	0	1
	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	0	0	1
	Croatia (CRO)	1	0	0	1
20	Latvia (LAT)	0	1	1	2
	Lithuania (LTU)	0	1	1	2
	Serbia (SRB)	0	1	1	2
23	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	0	1
	Estonia (EST)	0	1	0	1
	Slovakia (SVK)	0	1	0	1
26	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Finland (FIN)*	0	0	1	1
	Greece (GRE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (28 entries)		42	42	44	128

Participating nations

Albania (ALB) (3)
Andorra (AND) (4)
Armenia (ARM) (5)
Austria (AUT) (9)
Azerbaijan (AZE) (4)
Belarus (BLR) (28)
Belgium (BEL) (22)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH) (4)
Bulgaria (BUL) (26)
Croatia (CRO) (11)
Cyprus (CYP) (11)
Czech Republic (CZE) (43)
Denmark (DEN) (10)
Estonia (EST) (21)
Finland (FIN) (53) (host)
France (FRA) (68)
Georgia (GEO) (5)
Germany (GER) (88)
Gibraltar (GIB) (2)
Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) (73)
Greece (GRE) (24)
Hungary (HUN) (21)
Iceland (ISL) (5)
Ireland (IRL) (24)
Israel (ISR) (12)
Italy (ITA) (61)
Latvia (LAT) (22)
Liechtenstein (LIE) (1)
Lithuania (LTU) (24)
Luxembourg (LUX) (4)
Macedonia (MKD) (2)
Malta (MLT) (2)
Moldova (MDA) (6)
Monaco (MON) (1)
Montenegro (MNE) (4)
Netherlands (NED) (35)
Norway (NOR) (28)
Poland (POL) (57)
Portugal (POR) (37)
Romania (ROM) (28)
Russia (RUS) (69)
San Marino (SMR) (1)
Serbia (SRB) (11)
Slovakia (SVK) (12)
Slovenia (SLO) (19)
Spain (ESP) (70)
Sweden (SWE) (41)
Switzerland (SUI) (27)
Turkey (TUR) (44)
Ukraine (UKR) (70)

In brackets: Squad size

Broadcasting

Territory	Rights holder
Belgium	VRT
Croatia	HRT SPTV
Denmark	DR2
Estonia	ERR
Finland	Yle
France	France Télévisions Eurosport
Germany	ARD ZDF Eurosport
Hungary	m2 Eurosport
Italy	Rai
Latvia	LTV
Lithuania	Eurosport
Poland	TVP Sport Eurosport
Portugal	RTP Eurosport
Serbia	RTS Eurosport
Slovenia	RTV SLO
Spain	Teledeporte Eurosport
Sweden	SVT
Turkey	TRT 3 Eurosport

References

^ EAA calendar Archived 2009-06-29 at the Portuguese Web Archive
^ "It's Helsinki! European Athletics awards 2012 European Athletics Championships to Finnish capital". EAA. Archived from the original on 2012-02-24.
^ European Athletics Championships 2012 in Helsinki – [1] Archived 2011-06-11 at the Wayback Machine
^ ^a ^b 2012 European Athletics Championships Programme. Helsinki2012. Retrieved on 2012-06-14.
^ "Hungarian discus thrower banned for doping offense". reuters.com. 26 July 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
^ "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
^ "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.
^ ^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.
^ "Gamze Bulut'un madalyası alındı" (in Turkmen). haberturk.com. 1 June 2016. Archived from the original on 14 August 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
^ "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.
^ "Nevin Yanit: Drugs ban for European hurdles champion". bbc.co.uk. 29 August 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
^ "Yosypenko banned for doping". trackandfieldnews.com. 12 August 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2018.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

External links

[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

[eac_programme-4] 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.

[FOUR-8] "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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See also

References

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