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The 13th European Championships in Athletics were in held at the Olympic Stadium in Athens, a city in Greece. The European Championships in Athletics is an event organized by the European Athletic Association. ... The Olympic Stadium (also known as the Athens Olympic Stadium) is a stadium that is part of the Athens Olympic Sports Complex. ... The Acropolis in central Athens, one of the most important landmarks in world history. ...

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Men's Results

Track

1974 | 1978 | 1982 | 1986 | 1990 | The 11th European Championships in Athletics were in held in Rome, the capital of Italy in 1974. ... The 12th European Championships in Athletics were held in Prague, a city in Czechoslovakia. ... The 14th European Championships in Athletics. ... The 15th European Championships in Athletics were in held in Split a city in Yugoslavia. ...

Event: Gold: Silver: Bronze:
100 m Frank Emmelmann

German D.R. Sprints are races in athletics. ...

10.21 Pier Francesco Pavoni

Italy

10.25 Marian Woronin

Poland

10.28
200 m Olaf Prentzler

German D.R. Sprints are races in athletics. ...

20.46 Cameron Sharp

Great Britain & NI

20.47 Frank Emmelmann

German D.R.

20.60
400 m Harmut Weber

F.R. of Germany Sprints are races in athletics. ...

44.72 Andreas Knebel

German D.R.

45.29 Viktor Markin

Soviet Union Viktor Fedorovich Markin (Виктор Федорович Маркин) (born February 27, 1957) is a former Soviet athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics. ...

45.30
800 m Hans Peter Ferner

F.R. of Germany Middle distance track events are track races longer than sprints up to (and arguably including) 5000 meters. ...

1:46.33 Sebastian Coe

Great Britain & NI Sebastian Newbold Coe, Baron Coe, OBE (born September 29, 1956) is a British athlete, and Conservative Party politician. ...

1:46.66 Jorma Harkonen

Finland

1:46.90
1500 m Steve Cram

Great Britain & NI Middle distance track events are track races longer than sprints up to (and arguably including) 5000 meters. ... Steve Cram (born October 14, 1960) was a British athlete during the countrys domination of middle distance running in the 1980s. ...

3:36.49 Nikolay Kirov

Soviet Union

3:36.99 Jose Manuel Abascal

Spain

3:37.04
5000 m Thomas Wessinghage

F.R. of Germany Long-distance track event races require runners to balance their energy. ...

13:28.90 Werner Schildauer

German D.R.

13:30.03 David Moorcroft

Great Britain & NI David Moorcroft (April 10, 1953) was an English 1500 m and 5000 m runner whose career spanned the late 1970s and early 1980s. ...

13:30.42
10 000 m Alberto Kova

Italy Long-distance track event races require runners to balance their energy. ...

27:41.03 Werner Schildhauer

German D.R.

27:41.21 Martti Vainio

Finland

27:42.51
Marathon Gerard Nijboer

The Netherlands Although marathon sometimes refers to any athletic event requiring great endurance, more specifically it refers to a long-distance road running event of 42,195 m (26 miles and 385 yards). ...

2:15:16 Armand Parmentier

Belgium

2:15:51 Karel Lismont

Belgium

2:16:04
110 m H Thomas Munkelt

German D.R. Hurdling is running over obstacles. ... Thomas Munkelt (born August 3, 1952) was an East German athlete, winner of 110 m hurdles at the 1980 Summer Olympics. ...

13.41 Andrey Prokofyev

Soviet Union Andrey Vassilyevich Prokofyev (Андрей Васильевич Прокофьев) (born June 6, 1959-died June 19, 1989) is a former Soviet athlete, winner of a gold medal in the 4x100 m relay at the 1980 Summer Olympics. ...

13.44 Arto Bryggare

Finland

13.60
400 m H Harald Schmid

F.R. of Germany Hurdling is running over obstacles. ...

47.48 Aleksandr Yatsevich

Soviet Union

48.60 Uwe Ackermann

German D.R.

48.64
3000 m St. Patriz Ilg

F.R. of Germany Long-distance track event races require runners to balance their energy. ...

8:18.52 Bogulsaw Maminski

Poland

8:19.22 Domingo Ramon

Spain

8:20.48
20 km Walk Jose Martin

Spain 20 km walk in Mannerheimintie street in Helsinki, August 6, 2005 Race walking is a special long distance race event in athletics in which the participants must walk. ...

1:23:43 Jozef Pribilinec

Czechoslovakia

1:25:55 Pavol Blasek

Czechoslovakia

1:26:13
50 km Walk Reima Salonen

Finland 20 km walk in Mannerheimintie street in Helsinki, August 6, 2005 Race walking is a special long distance race event in athletics in which the participants must walk. ...

3:55:29 Jose Marin

Spain

3:59:18 Bo Gustafsson

Sweden

4:01:21
4 X 100 m Sergey Sokolov
Aleksandr Aksinin
Andrei Prokofyev
Nikolay Sidorov, URS
38.60 Detlef Kubeck
Olaf Prenzler
Thomas Munkelt
Frank Emmelmann, GDR
38.71 Christian Zirkelbach
Christian Haas
Peter Klein
Erwin Skamrahl, FRG
38.71
4 X 400 m Erwin Skamrahl
Harald Schmid
Thomas Giessing
Hartmut Weber, FRG
3.00.51 David Jenkins
Gary Cook
Todd Bennett
Phil Brown, GBR
3.00.68 Aleksandr Troschilo
Pavel Roshchin
Pavel Konovalov
Viktor Markin, URS
3.00.80

During a relay race, members of a team take turns swimming or running (usually with a baton) parts of a circuit or performing a certain action. ... Aleksandr Timofeyevich Aksinin (Александр Тимофеевич Аксинин) (born November 4, 1954) is a former Soviet athlete, winner of gold medal in 4x100 m relay at the 1980 Summer Olympics. ... Nikolay Aleksandrovich Sidorov (Николай Александрович Сидоров) (born November 23, 1956) is a former Soviet athlete, winner of the gold medal in the 4x100 m relay at the 1980 Summer Olympics. ... Thomas Munkelt (born August 3, 1952) was an East German athlete, winner of 110 m hurdles at the 1980 Summer Olympics. ... Peter Klein, a professor of philosophy at Rutgers University, New Jersey, is the author of Certainty: A Refutation of Skepticism (1982) and a variety of articles and reviews addressing issues in epistemology. ... During a relay race, members of a team take turns swimming or running (usually with a baton) parts of a circuit or performing a certain action. ... There have been several well-known individuals with the name David Jenkins. ... Phil Brown on the set of Star Wars with Mark Hamill and George Lucas Phil Brown, born January 1st 1916 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is an American actor, who despite a long career in Hollywood, is best known for his role as Luke Skywalkers uncle, Owen Lars, in Star Wars... Viktor Fedorovich Markin (Виктор Федорович Маркин) (born February 27, 1957) is a former Soviet athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics. ...

Field

1974 | 1978 | 1982 | 1986 | 1990 | The 11th European Championships in Athletics were in held in Rome, the capital of Italy in 1974. ... The 12th European Championships in Athletics were held in Prague, a city in Czechoslovakia. ... The 14th European Championships in Athletics. ... The 15th European Championships in Athletics were in held in Split a city in Yugoslavia. ...

Event: Gold: Silver: Bronze:
High Jump Dietmar Mogenburg

F.R. of Germany Gold medal winner Ethel Catherwood of Canada scissors over the bar at the 1928 Summer Olympics. ...

2.30 Janusz Trzepizur

Poland

2.27 Gerd Nagel

F.R. of Germany

2.24
Long Jump Lutz Dombrovski

German D.R. Officials watch as Salim Sdiri of France gives his all at the GE Money Grand Prix in Helsinki, July 2005. ...

8.41 (w) Antonio Corgos

Spain

8.19 Jan Leitner

Czechoslovakia

8.08
Pole Vault Aleksandr Krupskiy

Soviet Union Pole vaulting is an athletics event where competitors use a long, flexible pole as an aid to leap over a bar, similar to the high jump, but at much greater heights. ...

5.60 Vladimir Polyakov

Soviet Union

5.60 Atanas Tarev

Bulgaria

5.60
Triple Jump Keith Connor

Great Britain & NI The triple jump is an athletics (track and field) event, previously also known as hop, step and jump, whose various names describe the actions a competitor takes. ...

17.29 Vasiliy Grishchenkov

Soviet Union

17.15 Bela Bakosi

Hungary

17.04
Shot Put Udo Beyer

German D.R. Shot put The shot put is an athletics (track and field) event involving putting (throwing in a pushing motion) a heavy metal ball, also called the shot, as far as possible. ...

21.50 Janis Bojars

Soviet Union

20.81 Remigius Machura

Czechoslovakia

20.59
Discus Imrich Bugar

Czechoslovakia The discus throw is an athletics (track and field) throwing event. ...

66.64 Igor Duginyets

Soviet Union

65.60 Wolfgang Warnemunde

German D.R.

64.20
Javelin Uwe Hohn

German D.R. The javelin throw is an athletics (track and field) throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear-like object made of metal, fibreglass and in some javelins, carbon fibre. ...

91.34 Heino Puuste

Soviet Union

89.56 Detlef Michel

German D.R.

89.32
Hammer Yuriy Sedykh

Soviet Union The modern or Olympic hammer throw is an athletic throwing event where the object to be thrown is a heavy steel ball attached to a wire rope (max 4 long) with a handle on the end of the rope. ... Yuriy Sedykh (born June 11, 1955) was a Ukrainian athlete who specialised in the hammer throw. ...

81.66 Igor Nikulin

Soviet Union

79.44 Sergey Litvinov

Soviet Union

78.66
Decathlon Daley Thompson

Great Britain & NI A decathlon is a sportive contest made up of 10 events. ... Francis Morgan Daley Thompson, born July 30th, 1958 in London, England, is a former British decathlete. ...

8774 Jurgen Hingsen

F.R. of Germany

8517 Siegfried Stark

German D.R.

8433

Women's Results

Track

1974 | 1978 | 1982 | 1986 | 1990 | The 11th European Championships in Athletics were in held in Rome, the capital of Italy in 1974. ... The 12th European Championships in Athletics were held in Prague, a city in Czechoslovakia. ... The 14th European Championships in Athletics. ... The 15th European Championships in Athletics were in held in Split a city in Yugoslavia. ...

Event: Gold: Silver: Bronze:
100 m Marlies Göhr

German D.R. Sprints are races in athletics. ... Marlies Göhr (born March 21, 1958 in Gera, Germany) was an East German athlete, the winner of the 100 m at the inaugural World Championships in 1983. ...

11.01 Barbel Wockel

German D.R. Bärbel Wöckel (born in Germany, 1955-03-21) is a German Olympic track and field athlete who won four gold medals, two each in the 1976 and 1980 Olympics. ...

11.20 Rose Aimee Baccoul

France

11.29
200 m Barbel Wockel

German D.R. Sprints are races in athletics. ... Bärbel Wöckel (born in Germany, 1955-03-21) is a German Olympic track and field athlete who won four gold medals, two each in the 1976 and 1980 Olympics. ...

22.04 Kathy Smallwood

Great Britain & NI Kathy Cook nee Smallwood born 06/05/60 is the most the successful female sprinter in British Athletics history. ...

22.13 Sabine Rieger

German D.R.

22.51
400 m Marita Koch

German D.R. Sprints are races in athletics. ... Marita Koch (b. ...

48.16 Jarmila Kratochvilova

Czechoslovakia Jarmila Kratochvílová was a late-developing Czech 400m runner whose career was dogged by injury and illness. ...

48.85 Tatiana Kocembova

Czechoslovakia

50.55
800 m Olga Mineyeva

Soviet Union Middle distance track events are track races longer than sprints up to (and arguably including) 5000 meters. ...

1:55.41 Lyudmila Veselkova

Soviet Union

1:55.96 Margrit Klinger

F.R. of Germany

1:57.22
1500 m Olga Dvirna

Soviet Union Middle distance track events are track races longer than sprints up to (and arguably including) 5000 meters. ...

3:57.80 Zamira Zaytseva

Soviet Union

3:58.82 Gabriella Dorio

Italy

3:59.02
3000 m Svetlana Ulmasova

Soviet Union Middle distance track events are track races longer than sprints up to (and arguably including) 5000 meters. ...

8:30.28 Maricica Puica

Romania

8:33.33 Yelena Sipatova

Soviet Union

8:34.06
Marathon Rosa Mota

Portugal Although marathon sometimes refers to any athletic event requiring great endurance, more specifically it refers to a long-distance road running event of 42,195 m (26 miles and 385 yards). ... Rosa Mota is a Portuguese former marathonist, one of her countrys foremost athletes. ...

2:36:04 Laura Fogli

Italy

2:36:29 Ingrid Kristiansen

Norway Ingrid Kristiansen (March 21, 1956 - ) was in the second half of the 1980s the world’s best female long distance runner. ...

2:36:39
100 m H Lucyna Kalek

Poland Hurdling is running over obstacles. ...

12.45 Yordanka Donkova

Bulgaria

12.54 Kerstin Knabe

German D.R.

12.54
400 m H Ann Louise Skoglund

Sweden Hurdling is running over obstacles. ...

54.58 Petra Pfaff

German D.R.

54.89 Chantal Rega

France

54.93
4 X 100 m Gesine Walther
Barbel Wockel (Eckert)
Sabine Rieger
Marlies Göhr (Oelsner), GDR
42.19 Wendy Hoyte
Kathy Smallwood
Bev Goddard
Shirley Thomas, GBR
42.66 Laurence Bily
Marie-Christine Cazier
Rose-Aimee Bacoul
Liliane Gaschet, FRA
42.69
4 X 400 m Kirsten Siemon
Sabine Busch
Dagmar Rubsam
Marita Koch, GDR
3:19.05
WR
Vera Tylova
Milena Matejkovicova
Tatana Kocembova
Jarmila Kratochvilova, TCH
3:22.17 Yelena Korban
Irina Olkhovnikova
Olga Mineyeva
Irina Baskakova, URS
3:22.79

During a relay race, members of a team take turns swimming or running (usually with a baton) parts of a circuit or performing a certain action. ... Bärbel Wöckel (born in Germany, 1955-03-21) is a German Olympic track and field athlete who won four gold medals, two each in the 1976 and 1980 Olympics. ... Marlies Göhr (born March 21, 1958 in Gera, Germany) was an East German athlete, the winner of the 100 m at the inaugural World Championships in 1983. ... Kathy Cook nee Smallwood born 06/05/60 is the most the successful female sprinter in British Athletics history. ... During a relay race, members of a team take turns swimming or running (usually with a baton) parts of a circuit or performing a certain action. ... Marita Koch (b. ... Jarmila Kratochvílová was a late-developing Czech 400m runner whose career was dogged by injury and illness. ...

Field

1974 | 1978 | 1982 | 1986 | 1990 | The 11th European Championships in Athletics were in held in Rome, the capital of Italy in 1974. ... The 12th European Championships in Athletics were held in Prague, a city in Czechoslovakia. ... The 14th European Championships in Athletics. ... The 15th European Championships in Athletics were in held in Split a city in Yugoslavia. ...

Event: Gold: Silver: Bronze:
High Jump Urlike Meyfarth

German D.R. Gold medal winner Ethel Catherwood of Canada scissors over the bar at the 1928 Summer Olympics. ...

2.02 Tamara Bykova

Soviet Union

1.97 Sara Simeoni

Italy

1.97
Long Jump Vali Ionescu

Romania Officials watch as Salim Sdiri of France gives his all at the GE Money Grand Prix in Helsinki, July 2005. ...

6.79 Anisoara Stanciu

Romania

6.73 Yelena Ivanova

Soviet Union

6.73
Shot Put Ilona Slupianek

German D.R. Shot put The shot put is an athletics (track and field) event involving putting (throwing in a pushing motion) a heavy metal ball, also called the shot, as far as possible. ...

21.59 Helena Fibingerova

Czechoslovakia

20.94 Nina Abashidze

Soviet Union

20.82
Discus Tsvetanka Khristova

Bulgaria The discus throw is an athletics (track and field) throwing event. ...

68.34 Mariya Vergova

Bulgaria

67.94 Galina Savinkova

Soviet Union

67.82
Javelin Anna Verouli

Greece The javelin throw is an athletics (track and field) throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear-like object made of metal, fibreglass and in some javelins, carbon fibre. ...

70.02 Antje Kempe

German D.R.

67.94 Sofia Sakorafa

Greece

67.04
Heptathlon Ramona Neubert

German D.R. A heptathlon is a sportive contest made up of seven events (from the Greek hepta (seven) and athlon (contest)). More specifically, the term heptathlon refers to an athletic (track and field) event consisting of seven events. ...

6664 Sabine Mobius

German D.R.

6594 Sabine Everts

F.R. of Germany

6418

Medals Table

Position: Nation: Gold: Silver: Bronze: Total:
1. German D.R. 14 8 7 29
2. F.R. of Germany 7 1 4 12
3. Soviet Union 6 12 8 26
4. Great Britain & NI 3 5 1 9
5. Czechoslovakia 1 3 3 7
6. Italy 1 2 2 5
7= Bulgaria 1 2 1 4
7= Poland 1 2 1 4
9. Romania 1 2 0 3
10. Spain 1 1 2 4
11. Finland 1 0 3 4
12. Greece 1 0 1 2
13= Sweden 1 0 0 1
13= Portugal 1 0 0 1
13= Netherlands 1 0 0 1
16. Belgium 0 1 1 2
17. France 0 0 3 3
18= Hungary 0 0 1 1
19= Norway 0 0 1 1



East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR), German Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR), was a communist state that existed from 1949 to 1990 in the former Soviet occupation zone of Germany. ... West Germany was the informal but almost universally used name for the Federal Republic of Germany from 1949 until 1990, during which years the Federal Republic did not yet include East Germany. ... Motto: Dieu et mon droit (Royal motto) (French: God and my right)2 Anthem: God Save the Queen3 Capital London 51°30′ N 0°7′ W Largest city London Official languages None; English de facto 4 Government Queen Prime Minister Constitutional monarchy Elizabeth II Tony Blair Establishment 18015 Area  â€¢ Total...

European Athletic Association
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The European Athletic Association is the European governing body for the sport of athletics. ... The European Championships in Athletics is an event organized by the European Athletic Association. ... The 1st European Championships in Athletics were held in Turin, Italy in 1934. ... The 2nd European Championships in Athletics were held in two places in 1938. ... The 3rd European Championships in Athletics were held in 1946. ... The 4th European Championships in Athletics were held in the Belgian capital Brussels in 1950. ... The 5th European Championships in Athletics were held in Bern, the Swiss capital, in 1954. ... The 6th European Championships in Athletics were held in 1958. ... The 7th European Championships in Athletics were held in 1962. ... The 8th European Championships in Athletics were held in Budapest, Hungary in 1966. ... The 9th European Championships in Athletics were held in Athens, the capital ofGreece in 1969. ... The 10th European Championships in Athletics were held in Helsinki, the capitalFinland, in 1971. ... The 11th European Championships in Athletics were in held in Rome, the capital of Italy in 1974. ... The 12th European Championships in Athletics were held in Prague, a city in Czechoslovakia. ... The 14th European Championships in Athletics. ... The 15th European Championships in Athletics were in held in Split a city in Yugoslavia. ... The 16th European Championships in Athletics were in held in Helsinki, Finland. ... The 17th European Championships in Athletics were in held in Budapest a city in Hungary. ... The 2002 European Championships in Athletics were in held in Munich a city in Germany. ... The 2006 European Championships in Athletics were in held in Gothenburg a city in Sweden. ... The European Indoor Championships were held for the first time in 1970. ... The 17th European Indoor Championships in Athletics were held in Madrid, a city in Spain, in 1986. ... The 18th European Indoor Championships in Athletics were held in Lievin, a city in France, in 1987. ... The 19th European Indoor Championships in Athletics were held in Budapest, a city in Hungary, in 1988. ... The 20th European Indoor Championships in Athletics were held in The Hague, a city in The Netherlands, in 1989. ... The 21st European Indoor Championships in Athletics were held in Glasgow, the capital of Scotland (Great Britain), in 1990. ... The 22nd European Indoor Championships in Athletics were held in Genova, a city in Italy, in 1992. ... The 23rd European Indoor Championships in Athletics were held in Paris, the capital of France in 1994. ... The 24th European Indoor Championships in Athletics were held in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden in 1996. ... The 1998 European Indoor Championships in athletics were in held in Valencia, a city in Spain. ... The 2000 European Indoor Championships in athletics were in held in Ghent, Belgium. ... The 2002 European Indoor Championships in athletics were in held in Vienna, the capital of Austria. ... The 2005 European Indoor Championships in Athletics were in held in Madrid, the capital of Spain, between March 4 and March 6, 2005. ... The 29th European Indoor Championships in Athletics are being held in Birmingham, a city in England (UK), in 2007. ...

Notes

Differences to competition format since the 1978 European Championships The 12th European Championships in Athletics were held in Prague, a city in Czechoslovakia. ...


New events added:

Womens heptathlon replaces the pentathlon.

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