2021 World Para Athletics European Championships

World Para Athletics European Championships
Host city	Bydgoszcz
Country	Poland
Nations	44
Athletes	674
Dates	1–5 June 2021
Main venue	Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak Stadium
	← 2018 Berlin

Last updated January 30, 2025

The 2021 World Para Athletics European Championships was a track and field competition for athletes with a disability open to International Paralympic Committee (IPC) affiliated countries within Europe and a refugee team with one athlete.^[1] This was the 7th edition of the event.^[1]^[2] This was also the first time that the event was held in Poland. Around 670 athletes competed at the event.

History

The event was originally scheduled to be held between 3 and 7 June 2020. On 26 March 2020, it was announced that the event would be postponed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic,^[3] and in June it was confirmed that the postponement would be until 2021.^[4]

Venue

The venue for the event was the Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak Stadium.

Schedule

As of June 2021.^[5]

Date →		Tues 1 June	Wed 2 June	Thurs 3 June	Fri 4 June	Sat 5 June
100 m	Men Details	T47 T53 T54	T13 T35 T36 T37 T63 T64	T38 T52	RR1 RR3	T11 T12 T33/34 T51
100 m	Women Details	T11 T53 T54 T63	T13 T38	T34 T64	RR1 RR3 T12 T36	T35 T37 T47
200 m	Men Details		T51	T64	T37	T35
200 m	Women Details		T35 T36	T37 T47		T11 T12 T64
400 m	Men Details	T20 T52	T38	T11 T13 T37 T47 T53 T54	T12 T62	T36 T44
400 m	Women Details	T37 T47	T12 T20	T53 T54	T11 T13 T20 T62	T38
800 m	Men Details				T53 T54
800 m	Women Details				T53 T54	T34
1500 m	Men Details		T46 T54		T11 T13 T20 T52	T38
1500 m	Women Details	T11 T13	T20 T54
5000 m	Men Details	T13	T11			T54
5000 m	Women Details					T54
4×100 m relay	Universal Details				Mixed
High jump	Men Details			T42/44/63/64 T47
Long jump	Men Details	T11 T38 T64	T12	T36 T63	T20	T13 T37 T47
Long jump	Women Details		T11 T37 T47	T12 T63	T20 T38 T64	T62
Shot put	Men Details	F12 F33 F40 F41 F55	F11 F20 F34	F37 F53	F32 F35 F36 F46	F57 T63
Shot put	Women Details	F20	F40 F54 F57	F34 F36 F37 F41	F12 F32	F33 F35
Discus throw	Men Details			F56	F52 F64	F11 F37
Discus throw	Women Details	F38 F55 F64	F11/12		F53	F41
Javelin throw	Men Details	F46	F37/38 F57 F64		F13 F34	F41 F54
Javelin throw	Women Details	F34		F13 F56		F46 F54
Club throw	Men Details	F32	F51
Club throw	Women Details		F51	F32

Summary

Medal table

* Host nation (Poland)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	31	25	18	74
2	Ukraine (UKR)	17	13	9	39
3	Poland (POL)*	15	20	14	49
4	Great Britain (GBR)	14	9	14	37
5	France (FRA)	8	11	11	30
6	Netherlands (NED)	8	11	4	23
7	Switzerland (SUI)	8	4	6	18
8	Turkey (TUR)	6	7	4	17
9	Spain (ESP)	5	12	10	27
10	Germany (GER)	5	5	6	16
11	Finland (FIN)	5	1	2	8
12	Serbia (SRB)	4	3	4	11
13	Czech Republic (CZE)	4	3	1	8
14	Greece (GRE)	4	2	5	11
15	Croatia (CRO)	4	2	4	10
16	Azerbaijan (AZE)	3	1	2	6
17	Denmark (DEN)	2	2	2	6
18	Italy (ITA)	2	1	7	10
19	Hungary (HUN)	2	1	1	4
19	Ireland (IRL)	2	1	1	4
21	Austria (AUT)	2	0	1	3
22	Lithuania (LTU)	1	4	2	7
23	Portugal (POR)	1	1	3	5
24	Belgium (BEL)	1	1	1	3
25	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	1	0	2
25	Norway (NOR)	1	1	0	2
27	Latvia (LAT)	1	0	1	2
28	Belarus (BLR)	0	5	1	6
29	Slovakia (SVK)	0	3	0	3
30	Iceland (ISL)	0	1	1	2
30	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	1	2
32	Luxembourg (LUX)	0	1	0	1
33	Montenegro (MNE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (33 entries)		157	153	137	447

Multi-medalists

Medalists who have won at least three medals or more.^[6]

Rank	Name	Country	Medal	Event
1	Pierre Fairbank	France	Gold Gold Gold	Men's 100m T53 Men's 400m T53 Men's 800m T53
	Marcel Hug	Switzerland	Gold Gold Gold	Men's 800m T54 Men's 1500m T54 Men's 5000m T54
	Andrei Vdovin	Russia	Gold Gold Gold	Men's 100m T37 Men's 200m T37 Men's 400m T37
4	Merle Menje	Germany	Gold Gold Silver Silver	Women's 400m T54 Women's 5000m T54 Women's 100m T54 Women's 800m T54
5	Luca Ekler	Hungary	Gold Gold Silver	Women's 400m T38 Women's long jump T38 Women's 100m T38
5	Saska Sokolov	Serbia	Gold Gold Silver	Women's 100m T47 Women's 200m T47 Women's javelin throw F46
7	Anastasiia Soloveva	Russia	Gold Gold Bronze Bronze	Women's 400m T47 Universal 4x100m relay Women's 100m T47 Women's 200m T47
8	Catherine Debrunner	Switzerland	Gold Gold Bronze	Women's 100m T53 Women's 400m T53 Women's 1500m T54
	Mandy Francois-Elie	France	Gold Gold Bronze	Women's 100m T37 Women's 200m T37 Universal 4x100m relay
	Yuliia Pavlenko	Ukraine	Gold Gold Bronze	Women's 100m T11 Women's long jump T11 Women's 200m T11
11	Nataliia Kobzar	Ukraine	Gold Silver Silver	Women's 400m T37 Women's 100m T37 Women's 200m T37
11	Marlene van Gansewinkel	Netherlands	Gold Silver Silver	Women's 200m T64 Women's 100m T64 Women's long jump T64
13	Aleksei Bychenok	Russia	Gold Silver Bronze	Universal 4x100m relay Men's 5000m T54 Men's 1500m T54
14	Viktoriia Slanova	Russia	Gold Bronze Bronze Bronze	Universal 4x100m relay Women's 100m T37 Women's 200m T37 Women's 400m T37
15	Hamide Kurt	Turkey	Silver Silver Silver	Women's 100m T53 Women's 400m T53 Women's 800m T53
16	Nikita den Boer	Netherlands	Silver Silver Bronze	Women's 1500m T54 Women's 5000m T54 Women's 800m T54
	Gerard Descarrega Puigdevall	Spain	Silver Silver Bronze	Men's 400m T11 Men's long jump T11 Men's 100m T11
	Margarita Goncharova	Russia	Silver Silver Bronze	Women's 400m T38 Women's long jump T38 Women's 100m T38
	Vitalii Gritsenko	Russia	Silver Silver Bronze	Men's 400m T53 Men's 800m T54 Men's 100m T53
20	Nicolas Brignone	France	Silver Bronze Bronze	Men's 100m T53 Men's 400m T53 Men's 800m T53
	Julien Casoli	France	Silver Bronze Bronze	Men's 800m T54 Men's 5000m T54 Universal 4x100m relay
	Chermen Kobesov	Russia	Silver Bronze Bronze	Men's long jump T37 Men's 100m T37 Men's 200m T37
	Nathan Maguire	Great Britain	Silver Bronze Bronze	Universal 4x100m relay Men's 400m T54 Men's 800m T54

Representing countries

As of 30 April 2021.^[7]

Armenia (3)
Austria (4)
Azerbaijan (6)
Belarus (16)
Belgium (8)
Bosnia and Herzegovina (1)
Bulgaria (8)
Croatia (15)
Cyprus (3)
Czech Republic (25)
Denmark (15)
Estonia (1)
Finland (10)
France (40)
Georgia (2)
Germany (15)
Great Britain (43)
Greece (31)
Hungary (7)
Iceland (5)
Ireland (6)
Israel (2)
Italy (20)
Latvia (5)
Lithuania (16)
Luxembourg (1)
Malta (1)
Moldova (5)
Montenegro (5)
Netherlands (17)
Norway (8)
Poland (74) Host country
Portugal (19)
IPC Refugee Para Team (1)
Romania (7)
Russia (80)
Serbia (14)
Slovakia (8)
Slovenia (1)
Spain (43)
Sweden (6)
Switzerland (12)
Turkey (30)
Ukraine (31)

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