2017 European Athletics Indoor Championships

2017 European Athletics Indoor Championships
2017 European Athletics Indoor Championships
Dates	3–5 March
Host city	Belgrade, Serbia
Venue	Kombank Arena
Events	26
Participation	525 athletes from ; 48 nations
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The 2017 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held between 3 and 5 March 2017 at the Kombank Arena in Belgrade, Serbia. This was the second time this event was held in the city after the 1969 edition then known as the European Indoor Games, and the first time in more than 30 years that the competition was held in Eastern Europe. The three-day competition featured 13 men's and 13 women's athletics events and took place over two morning and three afternoon sessions.^[1]

The decision of Belgrade as the host-city was announced on 4 May 2014 in Frankfurt am Main, beating bids from Istanbul and Polish city Toruń. The host nation's leading athlete was Ivana Španović, who returned to defend her European indoor title in the long jump.^[2] The 2017 Balkan Indoor Athletics Championships was held at the Kombank Arena a week prior to the competition.^[3] Former athlete Slobodan Branković led the local organising committee. The event had an official website and a social media presence on Twitter and Facebook. The event mascot was decided by competition among Serbian schoolchildren, with the winning design coming from Sladjana Ljubic. A white lion named "Bela", it reflects Belgrade Zoo's breeding programme for the animals. The event logo was simply a stylised version of the phrase "Belgrade 2017", rendered in a font resembling the natural straights and curves of an athletics track.^[4]

Only one Russian athlete, women's long jumper Darya Klishina, was present at the competition, due to the international ban of the All-Russia Athletic Federation in place since November 2015 following systemic doping. Klishina competed as a neutral athlete. Three other Russians were cleared to compete as neutrals, but did not attend.^[5]^[6] Russia had led the medal table at the competition in both 2013 and 2015.

Poland and Great Britain dominated the medal table, taking 12 of the twenty six golds available between them (7 for the Poles, 5 for the Britons) - of the other competing nations, only Germany and France won more than a single gold, with two each. In the placings table, Great Britain and Poland were inseparable on 103 points each, but Germany came a much closer third.

Men's results edit

Track edit

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres details	Richard Kilty Great Britain	6.54 EL	Ján Volko Slovakia	6.58 NR	Austin Hamilton Sweden	6.63 PB
400 metres details	Pavel Maslák Czech Republic	45.77 EL	Rafał Omelko Poland	46.08 PB	Liemarvin Bonevacia Netherlands	46.26 NR
800 metres details	Adam Kszczot Poland	1:48.87	Andreas Bube Denmark	1:49.32	Álvaro de Arriba Spain	1:49.68
1500 metres details	Marcin Lewandowski Poland	3:44.82	Kalle Berglund Sweden	3:45.56	Filip Sasínek Czech Republic	3:45.89
3000 metres details	Adel Mechaal Spain	8:00.60	Henrik Ingebrigtsen Norway	8:00.93	Richard Ringer Germany	8:01.01
60 metres hurdles details	Andrew Pozzi Great Britain	7.51	Pascal Martinot-Lagarde France	7.52	Petr Svoboda Czech Republic	7.53 SB
4 × 400 metres relay details	Poland Kacper Kozłowski Łukasz Krawczuk Przemysław Waściński Rafał Omelko	3:06.99	Belgium Robin Vanderbemden Julien Watrin Kevin Borlée Dylan Borlée	3:07.80	Czech Republic Patrik Šorm Jan Tesař Jan Kubista Pavel Maslák	3:08.60

Field edit

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Sylwester Bednarek Poland	2.32	Robbie Grabarz Great Britain	2.30 SB	Pavel Seliverstau Belarus	2.27
Pole vault details	Piotr Lisek Poland	5.85	Konstadinos Filippidis Greece	5.85 NR	Paweł Wojciechowski Poland	5.85 SB
Long jump details	Izmir Smajlaj Albania	8.08 NR	Michel Tornéus Sweden	8.08 SB	Serhiy Nykyforov Ukraine	8.07
Triple jump details	Nelson Évora Portugal	17.20 SB	Fabrizio Donato Italy	17.13	Max Heß Germany	17.12
Shot put details	Konrad Bukowiecki Poland	21.97 WL NR AUR	Tomáš Staněk Czech Republic	21.43 PB	David Storl Germany	21.30

Combined edit

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Heptathlon details	Kevin Mayer France	6479 ER	Jorge Ureña Spain	6227	Adam Helcelet Czech Republic	6110

Women's results edit

Track edit

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres details	Asha Philip Great Britain	7.06 EL NR	Ewa Swoboda Poland	7.10 SB	Mujinga Kambundji Switzerland	7.16 SB
400 metres details	Floria Gueï France	51.90 PB	Zuzana Hejnová Czech Republic	52.42	Justyna Święty Poland	52.52
800 metres details	Selina Büchel Switzerland	2:00.38 NR	Shelayna Oskan-Clarke Great Britain	2:00.39 PB	Aníta Hinriksdóttir Iceland	2:01.25
1500 metres details	Laura Muir Great Britain	4:02.39 CR NR	Konstanze Klosterhalfen Germany	4:04.45 PB	Sofia Ennaoui Poland	4:06.59
3000 metres details	Laura Muir Great Britain	8:35.67 CR	Yasemin Can Turkey	8:43.46 NR	Eilish McColgan Great Britain	8:47.43
60 metres hurdles details	Cindy Roleder Germany	7.88	Alina Talay Belarus	7.92	Pamela Dutkiewicz Germany	7.95
4 × 400 metres relay details	Poland Patrycja Wyciszkiewicz Małgorzata Hołub Iga Baumgart Justyna Święty	3:29.94	Great Britain Eilidh Doyle Phillipa Lowe Mary Iheke Laviai Nielsen	3:31.05	Ukraine Olha Bibik Tetyana Melnyk Anastasiya Bryzhina Olha Lyakhova	3:32.10

Field edit

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Airinė Palšytė Lithuania	2.01 WL NR	Ruth Beitia Spain	1.94	Yuliya Levchenko Ukraine	1.94 PB
Pole vault details	Katerina Stefanidi Greece	4.85 WL SB	Lisa Ryzih Germany	4.75 PB	Angelica Bengtsson Sweden Maryna Kylypko Ukraine	4.55
Long jump details	Ivana Španović Serbia	7.24 WL NR	Lorraine Ugen Great Britain	6.97 NR	Claudia Salman-Rath Germany	6.94 PB
Triple jump details	Kristin Gierisch Germany	14.37 EL	Patrícia Mamona Portugal	14.32 SB	Paraskevi Papachristou Greece	14.24 SB
Shot put details	Anita Márton Hungary	19.28 WL	Radoslava Mavrodieva Bulgaria	18.36 PB	Yuliya Leantsiuk Belarus	18.32

Combined edit

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Pentathlon details	Nafissatou Thiam Belgium	4870 WL	Ivona Dadic Austria	4767 NR	Györgyi Zsivoczky-Farkas Hungary	4723 PB

Medal table edit

The host country is highlighted in blue


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Poland (POL)	7	2	3	12
2	Great Britain (GBR)	5	4	1	10
3	Germany (GER)	2	2	5	9
4	France (FRA)	2	1	0	3
5	Czech Republic (CZE)	1	2	4	7
6	Spain (ESP)	1	2	1	4
7	Greece (GRE)	1	1	1	3
8	Belgium (BEL)	1	1	0	2
8	Portugal (POR)	1	1	0	2
10	Hungary (HUN)	1	0	1	2
10	Switzerland (SUI)	1	0	1	2
12	Albania (ALB)	1	0	0	1
	Lithuania (LTU)	1	0	0	1
	Serbia (SRB)*	1	0	0	1
15	Sweden (SWE)	0	2	2	4
16	Belarus (BLR)	0	1	2	3
17	Austria (AUT)	0	1	0	1
	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	0	1
	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	0	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	1	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	1	0	1
	Slovakia (SVK)	0	1	0	1
	Turkey (TUR)	0	1	0	1
24	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	4	4
25	Iceland (ISL)	0	0	1	1
25	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
Totals (26 entries)		26	26	27	79

Placing table edit

In the placing table the points were awarded for every place in the top eight of each event: 8 for 1st, 7 for 2nd, 6 for 3rd, etc.^[7]

Rank	Nation	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	Total
1	Poland	56	14	18	10	–	6	–	–	104
2	Great Britain	40	28	6	5	12	6	4	2	103
3	Germany	16	14	30	–	20	12	4	3	99
4	Sweden	–	14	11.5	20	8	5.5	2	1	62
5	France	16	7	–	10	12	9	4	3.5	61.5
6	Spain	8	14	6	10	8	12	2	1	61
7	Czech Republic	8	14	24	5	–	6	–	1	58
8	Ukraine	–	7	23.5	10	4	–	2	–	46.5
9	Belarus	–	7	12	–	–	–	4	2	25
10	Italy	–	7	–	5	–	6	6	1	25
11	Portugal	8	7	–	5	–	–	4	–	24
12	Netherlands	–	–	6	5	8	–	4	–	23
13	Greece	8	7	6	–	–	–	–	–	21
14	Switzerland	8	–	–	5	4	3	–	–	20
15	Hungary	8	–	6	5	–	–	–	–	19
16	Denmark	–	7	–	5	4	–	–	2	18
17	Belgium	8	7	–	–	–	–	–	1	16
18	Serbia	8	–	–	–	4	3	–	1	16
19	Austria	–	7	–	5	–	3	–	–	15
20	Bulgaria	–	7	–	5	–	–	–	1	13
21	Albania	8	–	–	–	4	–	–	–	12
22	Norway	–	7	–	–	4	–	–	–	11
22	Slovakia	–	7	–	–	4	–	–	–	11
24	Turkey	–	7	–	–	–	3	–	–	10
25	Lithuania	8	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	8
26	Croatia	–	–	–	–	4	–	4	–	8
27	Iceland	–	–	6	–	–	–	–	–	6
28	Finland	–	–	6	–	–	2.5	2	1.5	6
29	Latvia	–	–	–	5	–	–	–	0.5	5.5
30	Independent Athletes	–	–	–	5	–	–	–	–	5
30	Azerbaijan	–	–	–	5	–	–	–	–	5
32	Estonia	–	–	–	–	4	–	–	–	4
33	Cyprus	–	–	–	–	–	3	–	–	3
33	Montenegro	–	–	–	–	–	3	–	–	3
35	Bosnia and Herzegovina	–	–	–	–	–	–	2	–	2
36	Slovenia	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0.5	0.5

Participating nations edit

There was a total of 525 participants (out of the 567 initially entered) from 48 nations. The only federations missing were Georgia, Kosovo, and Liechtenstein.