Host city | Glasgow |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Sport | 4 |
Events | 30 |
Opening | 2 August 2018 |
Closing | 12 August 2018 |
Website | glasgow2018 |
The 2018 European Road Championships and European Track Championships were held in Glasgow, United Kingdom, from 2 to 12 August 2018, the championships were part of the first European Championships with other six sports events happening in Glasgow and Berlin. [1]
In 2018 for the first time the European championships of four cycling specialties (Road, Track, BMX and Mountain bike), were held in a single period and a single venue, and the events were part of the program of the first edition of the European Championships. [2]
Competition dates by discipline and titles are. [1]
● | Event Competitions | 1 | Number of Gold Medal Events |
August | 2 Thu | 3 Fri | 4 Sat | 5 Sun | 6 Mon | 7 Tue | 8 Wed | 9 Thu | 10 Fri | 11 Sat | 12 Sun | Gold medal event | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cycling | Track | ● | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 30 | |||||
Road | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
Mountain Bike | 2 | ||||||||||||
BMX | ● | 2 |
In the table the official medal table of the 2018 European Championships. [3]
* Host nation (Great Britain)
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Netherlands (NED) | 7 | 3 | 3 | 13 |
2 | Great Britain (GBR)* | 5 | 4 | 3 | 12 |
3 | Italy (ITA) | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
4 | Germany (GER) | 3 | 4 | 7 | 14 |
5 | Russia (RUS) | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 |
6 | Belgium (BEL) | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
7 | Switzerland (SUI) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
8 | France (FRA) | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 |
9 | Ukraine (UKR) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
10 | Denmark (DEN) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
11 | Poland (POL) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
12 | Portugal (POR) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
13 | Spain (ESP) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
14 | Belarus (BLR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
15 | Austria (AUT) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Totals (15 entries) | 30 | 30 | 30 | 90 |
* Host nation (Great Britain)
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Netherlands (NED) | 5 | 0 | 3 | 8 |
2 | Great Britain (GBR)* | 4 | 3 | 3 | 10 |
3 | Germany (GER) | 3 | 4 | 4 | 11 |
4 | Russia (RUS) | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
5 | Italy (ITA) | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
6 | France (FRA) | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
7 | Belgium (BEL) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
8 | Ukraine (UKR) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
9 | Poland (POL) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
10 | Denmark (DEN) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
11 | Portugal (POR) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
12 | Switzerland (SUI) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
13 | Belarus (BLR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
14 | Austria (AUT) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Totals (14 entries) | 22 | 22 | 22 | 66 |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Men's Events | ||||||
Road race | Matteo Trentin Italy | Mathieu van der Poel Netherlands | Wout van Aert Belgium | |||
Time trial | Victor Campenaerts Belgium | Jonathan Castroviejo Spain | Maximilian Schachmann Germany | |||
Women's Events | ||||||
Road race | Marta Bastianelli Italy | Marianne Vos Netherlands | Lisa Brennauer Germany | |||
Time trial | Ellen van Dijk Netherlands | Anna van der Breggen Netherlands | Trixi Worrack Germany |
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Italy (ITA) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
2 | Netherlands (NED) | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
3 | Belgium (BEL) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
4 | Spain (ESP) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
5 | Germany (GER) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
Totals (5 entries) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Men's Events | ||||||
Cross-country | Lars Förster Switzerland | Luca Braidot Italy | David Valero Spain | |||
Women's Events | ||||||
Cross-country | Jolanda Neff Switzerland | Pauline Ferrand-Prévot France | Githa Michiels Belgium |
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Switzerland (SUI) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
2 | France (FRA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Italy (ITA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
4 | Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Spain (ESP) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (5 entries) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Men's Events | ||||||
Men | Kyle Evans Great Britain | Kye Whyte Great Britain | Sylvain Andre France | |||
Women's Events | ||||||
Women | Laura Smulders Netherlands | Simone Christensen Denmark | Yaroslava Bondarenko Russia |
* Host nation (Great Britain)
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Great Britain (GBR)* | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
2 | Netherlands (NED) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
3 | Denmark (DEN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
4 | France (FRA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Russia (RUS) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (5 entries) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
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