2012 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
		Irina Maracheva	Russia	25 January 2016	[7]
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

See also

• List of stripped European Athletics Championships medals

References

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 – Archived 2011-06-11 at the Wayback Machine
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.
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 ]}

External links

• Organizing Committee official website
• EAA Official website
• EAA calendar