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European Weightlifting Championships | |
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Status | Active |
Genre | Sports Event |
Date(s) | Usually April |
Frequency | Annual |
Location(s) | Various |
Inaugurated | 1896 |
Organised by | EWF |
European Weightlifting Championships is an annual event organised by the European Weightlifting Federation (EWF). It has been held since 1896. A separate event for women was held from 1988 to 1997, after which both championships have been held as one event.
1896-1924: Different combined events until 1924
1896-1907: No bodyweight categories
Triathlon and Duathlon 1929 - 1992
1929 - 1972 the competed triathlon included the exercises press, snatch and clean & jerk. Except 1933 - left hand snatch, right hand snatch, two hand press, two hand snatch, two hand clean & jerk. From 1973 onwards, it is reduced to a duathlon after deletion of press. Since 1969, there are also European Championship medals awarded in the single exercises.
In 1993, the IWF introduced new bodyweight categories.
Ranking by Big (Total result) medals:
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Soviet Union | 202 | 89 | 34 | 325 |
2 | Bulgaria | 185 | 142 | 101 | 428 |
3 | Russia | 90 | 86 | 51 | 227 |
4 | Turkey | 73 | 48 | 58 | 179 |
5 | Poland | 50 | 78 | 99 | 227 |
6 | Ukraine | 43 | 42 | 38 | 123 |
7 | Armenia | 40 | 43 | 39 | 122 |
8 | Romania | 35 | 46 | 46 | 127 |
9 | Germany | 34 | 53 | 39 | 126 |
10 | Hungary | 30 | 61 | 64 | 155 |
11 | Belarus | 25 | 19 | 29 | 73 |
12 | Italy | 21 | 37 | 35 | 93 |
13 | France | 21 | 26 | 46 | 93 |
14 | Georgia | 20 | 29 | 10 | 59 |
15 | Great Britain | 20 | 23 | 22 | 65 |
16 | Greece | 18 | 24 | 27 | 69 |
17 | Austria | 13 | 16 | 31 | 60 |
18 | Latvia | 13 | 5 | 11 | 29 |
19 | Spain | 11 | 27 | 34 | 72 |
20 | Albania | 9 | 13 | 12 | 34 |
21 | East Germany | 7 | 24 | 52 | 83 |
22 | Moldova | 7 | 11 | 21 | 39 |
23 | Azerbaijan | 7 | 4 | 7 | 18 |
24 | Finland | 6 | 14 | 25 | 45 |
25 | Sweden | 6 | 9 | 15 | 30 |
26 | Unified Team | 6 | 3 | 3 | 12 |
27 | West Germany | 4 | 8 | 8 | 20 |
28 | Denmark | 4 | 4 | 1 | 9 |
29 | Norway | 4 | 3 | 3 | 10 |
30 | Egypt | 4 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
31 | Belgium | 3 | 4 | 9 | 16 |
32 | Czechoslovakia | 2 | 15 | 32 | 49 |
33 | Croatia | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
34 | Netherlands | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
35 | Lithuania | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 |
36 | Portugal | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
37 | Slovakia | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
38 | Czech Republic | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
39 | Luxembourg | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
40 | Switzerland | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 |
41 | Israel | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
42 | Cyprus | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
43 | Estonia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
44 | Serbia | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
45 | Ireland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Totals (45 entries) | 1023 | 1023 | 1031 | 3077 |
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