Athletics at the 2015 European Games

Athletics at the 2015 European Games took place at the Baku National Stadium and on the streets of Baku, Azerbaijan.

Athletics
at the 2015 European Games
VenueBaku National Stadium
Dates21–22 June 2015
Competitors446
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Program edit

The main athletics programme in the National Stadium was a combined European Games and 2015 European Team Championships Third League competition. It is the lowest league of the Team Championships, with 17 teams from smaller European athletics nations, including Azerbaijan.

600 athletes in total[citation needed] – competed over two days for points in 20 men's and women's track and field events. Points were to be combined to produce national team totals, and games medals awarded to the top three nations. Medals are not awarded for individual events. The top four nations also win promotion from the Third League of the European Team Championships to the Second League.[1]

As required by the European Team Championship format, both genders compete in the non-Olympic 3000m event, while Olympic events longer than 5000m, and combined events, are not held.[2] Athletics at the European Games offers possible qualification standards for the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics.

A second non-medal athletics competition was held as a series of demonstration events on the streets of Baku in a Great City Games format. Events include the high jump and pole vault, and 24 athletes were scheduled to compete.[3] Plans to include street running races were reportedly cancelled.[4]

Athletics was not included in the earliest list of sports confirmed for the 2015 Games, as the European Athletics authorities at that stage were minded not to take part. However, following negotiations with the organising authorities, a compromise was reached in February 2014 between the organisers and European Athletics to hold the two sets of competitions. The agreement was confirmed by Pat Hickey, president of the European Olympic Committees in February 2015.[5]

Medal summary edit

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Mixed team
(details)
  Slovakia
Katarína Belová
Tomáš Benko
Katarína Berešová
Alexandra Bezeková
Andrej Bician
Jakub Bottlík
Matúš Bubeník
Tomáš Celko
Denis Danáč
Paula Habovštiaková
Andrea Holleyová
Martina Hrašnová
Anna Hrvolová
Alexander Jablokov
Zuzana Karaffová
Martin Koch
Lenka Kršáková
Martin Kučera
Veronika Lašová
Marcel Lomnický
Ľubomíra Maníková
Jakub Matúš
Lucia Mokrašová
Matúš Olej
Dušan Páleník
Jozef Pelikán
Michaela Pešková
Lukáš Prevalinec
Iveta Putálová
Jozef Repčík
Silvia Šalgovičová
Marek Šefránek
Lucia Slaničková
Patrícia Slosárová
Alexandra Štuková
Ivona Tomanová
Roman Turčáni
Jozef Urban
Dana Velďáková
Jana Velďáková
Tomáš Veszelka
Juraj Vitko
Ján Volko
Monika Weigertová
Adam Zavacký
Pavol Ženčár
Patrik Ženúch
Ján Zmoray
  Austria
Anita Baielr
Ekemini Bassey
Dominik Distelberger
Elisabeth Eberl
Michaela Egger
Nikolaus Franzmair
Markus Fuchs
Mario Gebhard
Benjamin Grill
Kira Grunberg
Christoph Haslauer
Stefanie Huber
Ina Huemer
Dominik Hufnagl
Thomas Kain
Matthias Kaserer
Julio Kellerer
Paul Kilbertus
Viola Kleiser
Josip Kopic
Anita Baielr
Sarah Lagger
Nina Luyer
Pamela Manzerdorfen
Gunther Matzinger
Gerhard Mayer
Verena Menapace
Elisabeth Niedereder
Valentin Pfeil
Verena Preiner
Brenton Rowe
Roman Schmied
Anita Baielr
Carina Schrempf
Beate Schrott
Julia Schwarzinger
Benjamin Siart
Julia Siart
Dominik Siedlaczek
Christian Smetana
Christian Steinhammer
Alexandra Toth
Andreas Vojta
Susanne Walli
Veronika Watzek
Lukas Weißhaidinger
Jennifer Wenth
Eva-Maria Wimberger
  Israel
Haimro Alame
Tomer Almogy
Girmaw Amare
Maya Aviezer
Noa Barlia
Itamar Bhastekar
Amit Cohen
Hai Cohen
Aviv Dayan
Olga Dogadgo
Marharyta Dorozhon
Alan Ferber
Muket Fetene
Dikla Goldenthal
Amir Hamidulin
Omri Harush
Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko
Dmitry Kroytor
Shanie Landen
Olga Lenskiy
Itamar Levi
Danna Levin
Alexandra Lokshin
Dariya Lokshin
Anastasya Muchkayev
Noam Neeman
Imri Persiado
Margareta Pogorelov
Donald Sanford
Maor Seged
Maayan Shahaf
Itay Shamir
Azaunt Taka
Maor Tiyouri
Gilron Tsabkevich
Diana Vaisman
Kristina Vanyushev
Tom Yakubov
Evgenia Zabolotni
Victor Zagynayko
Efat Zelikovich

Participating countries edit

The following countries are scheduled to take part in the team event.

1 Consists of athletes from San Marino (9), Gibraltar (4), Liechtenstein (4) and Monaco (1).

Results edit

Score table edit

Event   AASSE   ALB   AND   AUT   AZE   BIH   GEO   ISR   LUX   MKD   MLT   MDA   MNE   SVK
100 metres M 2 0 3 12 11 4 8 10 5 13 6 7 9 14
W 1 6 7 11 9 4 5 14 10 2 13 8 3 12
200 metres M 2 0 4 7 10 6 13 12 3 8 5 9 11 14
W 1 4 5 12 8 7 6 14 10 2 11 9 3 13
400 metres M 2 7 1 11 10 12 8 14 3 6 5 13 4 9
W 3 4 1 13 10 9 7 8 6 5 11 12 2 14
800 metres M 9 11 6 8 7 14 5 10 4 1 3 12 2 13
W 1 13 4 11 12 8 5 7 14 2 6 9 3 10
1500 metres M 7 0 5 12 14 10 3 9 8 2 4 11 6 13
W 2 14 7 11 0 9 8 13 12 3 5 6 4 10
3000 metres M 8 2 4 13 14 6 5 9 11 3 7 12 1 10
W 5 0 4 14 12 11 2 13 8 3 6 7 9 10
5000 metres M 0 9 5 11 14 2 8 12 6 4 7 13 3 10
W 5 0 0 14 13 12 7 9 10 4 6 0 8 11
3000 metre steeplechase M 0 10 5 13 6 12 9 11 4 3 7 14 2 8
W 0 0 0 11 0 13 9 12 7 0 8 14 6 10
110/100 metre hurdles M 0 0 5 14 13 12 8 10 11 6 0 9 0 7
W 0 0 4 14 9 12 0 10 11 5 7 8 6 13
400 metre hurdles M 9 0 3 13 7 10 5 12 8 4 0 11 6 14
W 0 3 2 14 6 9 5 10 13 8 7 11 4 12
4 x 100 metres relay M 4 0 5 13 10 7 9 14 6 0 0 8 11 12
W 0 0 7 12 11 8 0 13 0 0 10 9 6 14
4 x 400 metres relay M 0 0 3 8 11 13 9 12 6 4 5 10 7 14
W 0 0 4 13 10 7 6 9 11 5 8 12 3 14
High jump M 9 0 4 10 8 6 11 12 7 2 4 13 4 14
W 0 0 8.5 7 6 11 13 12 10 4 3 5 14 8.5
Pole vault M 0 0 10 13 0 7 6 12 11 0 5 9 8 14
W 9 0 5.5 14 11 0 7 12 13 0 5.5 8 0 10
Long jump M 5 13 1 12 8 4 14 11 6 3 10 2 7 9
W 0 3 4 12 10 7 11 0 8 6 13 9 5 14
Triple jump M 5 10 2 8 14 4 11 12 3 0 7 13 6 9
W 0 0 7 11 12 6 10 14 4 3 8 9 5 13
Shot put M 0 6 2 12 7 14 4 8 11 3 5 13 9 10
W 0 0 3 7 10 8 6 12 9 5 4 13 14 11
Discus throw M 0 0 3 14 6 12 7 11 9 4 5 13 10 8
W 7 0 2 10 12 9 4 11 6 5 3 14 13 8
Hammer throw M 0 0 5 12 0 6 11 10 9 4 8 13 7 14
W 0 0 7 10 13 9 0 11 8 4 5 12 6 14
Javelin throw M 0 0 3 10 4 7 13 12 9 5 8 11 6 14
W 4 0 2 13 5 11 7 14 9 3 6 12 10 8
Country   AASSE   ALB   AND   AUT   AZE   BIH   GEO   ISR   LUX   MKD   MLT   MDA   MNE   SVK
Total 100 115 163 460 353 338 285 441 319 144 246.5 403 243 459.5

Final standings edit

Pos Country Pts
    Slovakia 459.5
    Austria 449
    Israel 441
4   Moldova 403
5   Azerbaijan 353
6   Bosnia and Herzegovina 338
7   Luxembourg 319
8   Georgia 285
9   Malta 246.5
10   Montenegro 243
11   Andorra 163
12   Macedonia 144
13   Albania 115
14   AASSE 100

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Doping edit

Azerbaijan's Chaltu Beji – the winner of the women's steeplechase event – was disqualified after her in-competition drug test came back positive for the banned substance ostarine.[7]

Azerbaijan's Dzmitry Marshin was suspended for four years after he failed a drug test. This subsequent doping disqualification led to changes in final standings. Austria received an additional point and overhauled Slovakia.[8][9]

In 2022 Elisabeth Niedereder of Austria had all her results since May 2015 annulled by World Athletics and Austria were docked 11 points meaning that the gold medal reverted back to Slovakia after 7 years [10]

References edit

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  2. ^ "Athletics qualification for Baku 2015 published" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2014-07-21.
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  5. ^ "Athletics part of Baku 2015". Archived from the original on 2014-02-21. Retrieved 2014-02-14.
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