European Marathon Cup

European Marathon Cup
Status	active
Genre	Road running competitions
Date(s)	August
Frequency	quadrennial
Location(s)	various
Inaugurated	1981 (1981)
Organised by	EAA

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. ^[1]

Each national team may enter six runner and the team score is the sum of the times of the team's three fastest finishers. The IAAF World Marathon Cup (first held in 1985) follows a similar format.

The event alternates biennially with the European Half Marathon Cup which is contested under similar rules when the European Athletics Championships are held in Olympic years

Editions

Edition	Year	Host country	Host city	Date	Notes
1st	1981	France	Agen	13 September
2nd	1983	Spain	Laredo	19 June
3rd	1985	Italy	Rome	15 September
4th	1988	Belgium	Huy	30 April
5th	1994	Finland	Helsinki	7, 14 August
6th	1998	Hungary	Budapest	22–23 August
7th	2002	Germany	Munich	10–11 August
8th	2006	Sweden	Gothenburg	12–13 August
9th	2010	Spain	Barcelona	31 July–1 August
10th	2014	Finland	Helsinki	17 August	[2]
11th	2018	Germany	Berlin	12 August	[3]
12th	2022		Munich	15 August

Rules

Each country can deploy a single team with a maximum of six athletes, the total time is scored on the time of the first three classified, but the other athletes of the team that finished the race will be also awarded with the medal. ^[4]

Medallists

Men

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1981	Italy 30 pt 1. Massimo Magnani 8. Giampaolo Messina 9. Gianni Poli 12. Armando Scozzari	Soviet Union 72 pt	Poland 80 pt
1983	East Germany 22 pt 1. Waldemar Cierpinski 2. Jürgen Eberding	Italy 28 pt 3. Gianni Poli 4. Marco Marchei 8. Giampaolo Messina 13. Antonio Erotavo	Spain 45 pt
1985	East Germany 32 pt 1. Michael Heilmann 3. Jörg Peter	France 36 pt 2. Jacques Lefrand	Italy 38 pt 4. Alessio Faustini 7. Gelindo Bordin 13. Aldo Fantoni 14. Loris Pimazzoni
1988	Soviet Union 1. Ravil Kashapov	France 3. Alain Lazare	Belgium
1994	Spain 1. Martín Fiz 2. Diego García 3. Alberto Juzdado	Portugal 6. António Rodrigues 7. Manuel Matias 9. António Pinto	France 10. Dominique Chauvelier 11. Noureddine Sobhi 18. Bruno Le Stum
1998	Italy 1. Stefano Baldini 2. Danilo Goffi 3. Vincenzo Modica 7. Giovanni Ruggiero 20. Ottaviano Andriani	Spain 4. Julio Rey 5. Alejandro Gómez 6. Antoni Peña	Portugal 9. João Lopes 10. António Salvador 15. Paulo Catarino
2002	Spain 3. Julio Rey 5. Alberto Juzdado 6. Alejandro Gómez	Italy 4. Daniele Caimmi 10. Migidio Bourifa 12. Alberico di Cecco 13. Danilo Goffi 19. Ottaviano Andriani 21. Sergio Chiesa	Portugal 23. José Santos 27. Manuel Pita 29. António Sousa
2006	Italy 1. Stefano Baldini 5. Francesco Ingargiola 11. Danilo Goffi	Portugal 8. Alberto Chaíça 10. Luís Jesus 15. Hélder Ornelas	Russia 6. Dmitriy Semyonov 13. Dmitriy Burmakin 17. Grigoriy Andreyev
2010	Spain 2. José Manuel Martínez 5. Pablo Villalobos 6. Rafael Iglesias	Russia 3. Dmitriy Safronov 9. Aleksey Sokolov 15. Oleg Kulkov	Italy 4. Ruggero Pertile 7. Migidio Bourifa 11. Ottaviano Andriani 31. Daniele Caimmi
2014	Russia Aleksey Reunkov Stepan Kiselev Sergey Rybin Aleksey Sokolov	France	Switzerland
2018	Italy 3. Yassine Rachik 5. Eyob Faniel 12. Stefano La Rosa	Spain 4. Javier Guerra 6. Jesus Espana 16. Camilo Raul Santiago 22. Petro Nimo 34. Iraitz Arrospide	Austria 8. Lamawork Ketema 10. Peter Herzog 41. Christian Steinhammer
2022	Israel Marhu Teferi Gashau Ayale Yimer Getahun Girmaw Amare Omer Ramon Bukayawe Malede	Germany Richard Ringer Amanal Petros Johannes Motschmann Hendrik Pfeiffer Konstantin Wedel Simon Boch	Spain Ayad Lamdassem Jorge Blanco Daniel Mateo Yago Rojo Abdelaziz Merzougui

Women

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1985	East Germany 1. Katrin Dörre 2. Gabriele Martins 3. Birgit Weinhold	Italy 6. Laura Fogli 7. Emma Scaunich 9. Rita Marchisio	Soviet Union
1988	Soviet Union 2. Raisa Smekhnova 3. Zoya Ivanova	France	East Germany 1. Katrin Dörre
1994	Italy 2. Maria Curatolo 4. Ornella Ferrara 8. Rosanna Munerotto 9. Anna Villani 21. Bettina Sabatini DNF Laura Fogli	Romania	France
1998	Russia 2. Madina Biktagirova 7. Lyubov Morgunova 8. Yelena Razdrogina 9. Lyudmila Petrova 18. Irina Timofeyeva	Italy 3. Maura Viceconte 4. Franca Fiacconi 19. Gigliola Borghini 24. Francesca Zanusso 30. Paola Vignati DNF Patrizia Ritondo	Germany
2002	Germany	Russia	Only two teams entered
2006	Italy 5. Bruna Genovese 7. Deborah Toniolo 8. Giovanna Volpato 9. Anna Incerti 21. Marcella Mancini DNF Rosaria Console	Russia	Germany
2010	Russia 2. Nailya Yulamanova 9. Irina Timofeyeva 11. Silviya Skvortsova 28. Yevgeniya Danilova 29. Margarita Plaksina DNF Tatyana Pushkareva	Italy 3. Anna Incerti 8. Rosaria Console 10. Deborah Toniolo	Great Britain 14. Michelle Ross-Cope 16. Susan Partridge 20. Holly Rush 21. Helen Decker 24. Rebecca Robinson 25. Jo Wilkinson
2014	Italy Valeria Straneo Anna Incerti Nadia Ejjafini Emma Quaglia Deborah Toniolo Rosaria Console	Portugal Jessica Augusto Filomena Costa Marisa Barros	Russia Natalya Puchkova Albina Mayorova Gulnara Vygovskaya
2018	Belarus Volha Mazuronak Maryna Damantsevich Nastassia Ivanova Nina Savina Iryna Somava	Italy Sara Dossena Catherine Bertone Fatna Maraoui Laura Gotti	Spain Trihas Gebre Maria Azucena Diaz Elena Loyo Marta Galimany Clara Simal
2022	Germany Miriam Dattke Domenika Mayer Deborah Schöneborn Rabea Schöneborn Katharina Steinruck Kristina Hendel	Spain Marta Galimany Irene Pelayo Elena Loyo Laura Méndez Esquer	Poland Aleksandra Lisowska Angelika Mach Monika Jackiewicz Izabela Paszkiewicz Katarzyna Jankowska

All-time medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy  (ITA)	7	6	2	15
2	Spain  (ESP)	3	3	3	9
3	Russia  (RUS)	3	3	2	8
4	East Germany	3	0	1	4
5	Germany  (GER)	2	1	2	5
6	Soviet Union	2	1	1	4
7	Belarus  (BLR)	1	0	0	1
	Israel  (ISR)	1	0	0	1
9	France  (FRA)	0	4	2	6
10	Portugal  (POR)	0	3	2	5
11	Romania  (ROM)	0	1	0	1
12	Poland  (POL)	0	0	2	2
13	Austria  (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Belgium  (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain  (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland  (SUI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		22	22	21	65

See also

• IAAF World Marathon Cup

References

1. European Marathon Cup. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2011-12-17.
2. "2014 European Athletics Championships Results - European Marathon Cup Men Final". european-athletics.org. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
3. "2018 European Athletics Championships Results - European Marathon Cup Men Final" (PDF). european-athletics.org. p. 82. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
4. "2018 European Athletics Championships - Team Manual" (PDF). european-athletics.org. p. 115. Retrieved 11 September 2018. 12.6.10 EUROPEAN MARATHON CUP SCORING AND TIE - The times of the first three finishing runners in each Team will be aggregated in order to determine the finishing order, the Team with the lowest aggregate time being the winner, and so on. A tie will be resolved in favour of the Team whose last scoring runner finishes nearest to first place. A Team finishing with fewer than three runners will not be classified in the Team result. All runners finishing the race will be classified individually and eligible for individual awards.

External links

• Athletics Marathon European Cup - Men
• Athletics Marathon European Cup - Women