The European Athletics Championships is a biennial athletics event organised by the European Athletics Association. First held in 1934 in Turin, the Championships have taken place every four years, with a few exceptions. Since 2010, they have been organised every two years, and when they coincide with the Summer Olympics, the marathon and racewalking events are not contested. From 2018, European Championships not held in an Olympic year will form part of the European Championships, a new quadrennial multi-sport event designed and held by individual European sports federations.
60 metres hurdles is a distance in hurdling which is generally run in indoor competitions. It is equivalent with the first 60 metres including the first 5 hurdles of a standard outdoor hurdle race. The current women's and men's world records are 7.68 seconds and 7.29 seconds, respectively.
The European Marathon Cup is a quadrennial team marathon competition between European countries. Initially a stand-alone championship race inaugurated in 1981, the race has been held in conjunction with the European Athletics Championships since 1994. Individual medallists are now included in the European Championships medal table, while team medals are awarded separately from the main championships.
The sports under the umbrella of athletics, particularly track and field, use a variety of statistics. In order to report that information efficiently, numerous abbreviations have grown to be common in the sport. Starting in 1948 by Bert Nelson and Cordner Nelson, Track & Field News became the leader in creating and defining abbreviations in this field. These abbreviations have also been adopted by, among others, World Athletics; the world governing body, various domestic governing bodies, the Association of Track and Field Statisticians, the Association of Road Racing Statisticians, the Associated Press, and the individual media outlets who receive their reports. These abbreviations also appear in Wikipedia.
The 2018 European Athletics Championships were held in Berlin, Germany, from 6 to 12 August 2018. The championships were part of the first European Championships with other events happening in the United Kingdom.
Yassine Rachik is a Moroccan-born Italian long-distance runner who won the Italian Athletics Championships three times and also won an individual bronze medal at the 2018 European Athletics Championships. He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Marathon.
The women's 100 metres at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympiastadion on 6 and 7 August.
The women's 200 metres at the 2018 European Athletics Championships takes place at the Olympiastadion on 10 and 11 August.
The women's marathon at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place in the inner districts of Berlin on 12 August.
The women's high jump at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 8 and 10 August.
The women's long jump at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 9 and 11 August.
The women's triple jump at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 8 and 10 August.
The women's shot put at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 7 and 8 August.
The women's discus throw at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 9 and 11 August.
The women's javelin throw at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 9 and 10 August.
The men's marathon at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place in the inner districts of Berlin on 12 August.
The 2018 European Marathon Cup was the 11th edition of the European Marathon Cup of athletics and were held in Berlin, Germany on 12 August, inside of the 2018 European Championships.
The men's 20 kilometres race walk at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 7 August.
The men's 50 kilometres race walk at the 2018 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 7 August.
