European Combined Events Team Championships

The European Combined Events Team Championships is a track and field competition for European combined track and field events specialists, with contests in men's decathlon event and women's heptathlon. It is organised by European Athletics. It was held annually in 1993–2011 and biennially in 1973–1993 and 2011–2019.

European Combined Events Team Championships
SportAthletics
Founded1973
ContinentEurope
Most recent
champion(s)
Estonia
(2019)
Official websiteWebsite

It was known as the European Cup Combined Events prior to 2017.

Format

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It is an international team event, where the points of each nation's top three performers are tallied to form an overall team score. The European Cup Combined Events takes place in three separate divisions – the Super, First, and Second Leagues – and nations gain promotion and relegation between the leagues depending upon their performance.[1] Since 2013 there is a single overall competition winner determined by a combination of men's and women's performances, rather than as separate competitions for men and women. The three league contests take place over the same two-day period, but are held at different European locations.

The event provides multi-eventers with the opportunity to take part in national team events that is afforded to individual event athletes by the European Athletics Team Championships, the European Marathon Cup, the European Half Marathon Cup and the team events at the European Cross Country Championships.

History

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Organised by the European Athletic Association (EAA), the competition was first held in Bonn, West Germany in 1973 as a biennial event for the men's decathlon and women's pentathlon. The women's heptathlon superseded the pentathlon in 1981. For the first five editions (1973–1981), the competition featured semi-final and final stages, but a league format with A, B and C divisions was adopted at the 1983 event. The biennial schedule was changed to an annual one from the 1993 Cup onwards, at which point the league names took on their current titles. Since 2011 the competition does not take place in Olympic years.[1]

The competition is one of a series of international team athletics competitions held by the EAA on a yearly basis, alongside the European Team Championships for individual track and field events, the European Cup 10000m, European Cup Race Walking and the European Cup Winter Throwing meet.[2]

Individual performances in the Super league section of the competition qualify for the IAAF World Combined Events Challenge, which is an international series for athletes competing in combined events.[3]

Super league / A Finals / Finals

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Editions

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Edition Year Name Gender City Country Date
1st 1973 Final Men/Women Bonn West Germany 22–23 September
2nd 1975 Final Men/Women Bydgoszcz Poland 6–7 September
3rd 1977 Final Men/Women Lille France 17–18 September
4th 1979 Final Men/Women Dresden East Germany 1–2 September
5th 1981 Final Men/Women Birmingham United Kingdom 29–30 August
6th 1983 A Final Men/Women Sofia Bulgaria 7–8 September
7th 1985 A Final Men/Women Krefeld-Uerdingen West Germany 7–8 September
8th 1987 A Final Men Basel Switzerland 4–5 July
Women Arles France 4–5 July
9th 1989 A Final Men Tønsberg Norway 15–16 July
Women Helmond Netherlands 15–16 July
10th 1991 A Final Men/Women Helmond Netherlands 6–7 July
11th 1993 Super league Men/Women Oulu Finland 10–11 July
12th 1994 Super league Men/Women Lyon France 2–3 July
13th 1995 Super league Men Valladolid Spain
Women Helmond Netherlands 6–7 July
14th 1996 Super league Men/Women Lage Germany 15–16 July
15th 1997 Super league Men Tallinn Estonia 28–29 June
Women Oulu Finland 28–29 June
16th 1998 Super league Men/Women Tallinn Estonia 4–5 July
17th 1999 Super league Men/Women Prague Czech Republic 3–4 July
18th 2000 Super league Men/Women Oulu Finland 1–2 July
19th 2001 Super league Men/Women Arles France 30 June – 1 July
20th 2002 Super league Men/Women Bydgoszcz Poland 29–30 June
21st 2003 Super league Men/Women Brixen Italy 5–6 July
22nd 2004 Super league Men Tallinn Estonia 3–4 July
Women Hengelo Netherlands 3–4 July
23rd 2005 Super league Men/Women Bydgoszcz Poland 2–3 July
24th 2006 Super league Men/Women Arles France 1–2 July
25th 2007 Super league Men Tallinn Estonia 7–8 July
Women Szczecin Poland 7–8 July
26th 2008 Super league Men/Women Hengelo Netherlands 28–29 June
27th 2009 Super league Men/Women Szczecin Poland 27–28 June
28th 2010 Super league Men/Women Tallinn Estonia 26–27 June
29th 2011 Super league Men/Women Toruń Poland 2–3 July
30th 2013 Super league Men/Women Tallinn Estonia 29–30 June
31st 2014 Super league Men/Women Toruń Poland 6–7 July
32nd 2015 Super league Men/Women Aubagne France 4–5 July
33rd 2017 Super league Men/Women Tallinn Estonia 1–2 July
34th 2019 Super League Men/Women Lutsk Ukraine 6–7 July

Medallists

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Individual men (decathlon)

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Year Gold Silver Bronze
1973 Lennart Hedmark
  Sweden
8120 Yves Le Roy
  France
7942 Ryszard Skowronek
  Poland
7936
1975 Leonid Lytvynenko
  Soviet Union
8030 Mykola Avilov
  Soviet Union
7973 Ryszard Katus
  Poland
7950
1977 Aleksandr Grebenyuk
  Soviet Union
8252 Rainer Pottel
  East Germany
8096 Guido Kratschmer
  West Germany
8086
1979 Siegfried Stark
  East Germany
8287 Guido Kratschmer
  West Germany
8053 Aleksandr Nevskiy
  Soviet Union
7949
1981 Rainer Pottel
  East Germany
8311 Jürgen Hingsen
  West Germany
8138 Uwe Freimuth
  East Germany
8136
1983 Uwe Freimuth
  East Germany
8501 Stephan Niklaus
  Switzerland
8312 Siegfried Wentz
  West Germany
8246
1985 Torsten Voss
  East Germany
8352 Aleksandr Nevskiy
  Soviet Union
8321 Grigoriy Degtyaryov
  Soviet Union
8206
1987 Torsten Voss
  East Germany
8445 Uwe Freimuth
  East Germany
8220 Thomas Fahner
  East Germany
8187
1989 Christian Plaziat
  France
8290 Christian Schenk
  East Germany
8250 Norbert Demmel
  East Germany
8152
1991 Christian Plaziat
  France
8518 Christian Schenk
  Germany
8402 Alain Blondel
  France
8211
1993 Paul Meier
  Germany
8366 Christian Plaziat
  France
8277 Alain Blondel
  France
8204
1994 Christian Plaziat
  France
8505 Henrik Dagård
  Sweden
8347 Tomáš Dvořák
  Czech Republic
8313
1995 Tomáš Dvořák
  Czech Republic
8347 Alex Kruger
  United Kingdom
8131 Henrik Dagård
  Sweden
8114
1996 Frank Busemann
  Germany
8522 Kamil Damašek
  Czech Republic
8256 Dirk-Achim Pajonk
  Germany
8161
1997 Roman Šebrle
  Czech Republic
8322 Erki Nool
  Estonia
8289 Kamil Damašek
  Czech Republic
8172
1998 Erki Nool
  Estonia
8628 Roman Šebrle
  Czech Republic
8589 Jack Rosendaal
  Netherlands
8269w
1999 Tomáš Dvořák
  Czech Republic
8994 Roman Šebrle
  Czech Republic
8527 Sébastien Levicq
  France
8345
2000 Aleksandr Yurkov
  Ukraine
8118 Laurent Hernu
  France
7943 Zsolt Kürtösi
  Hungary
7901
2001 Aleksandr Yurkov
  Ukraine
8380 Attila Zsivoczky
  Hungary
8218 Laurent Hernu
  France
8112
2002 Mike Maczey
  Germany
8104 Jaakko Ojaniemi
  Finland
7924 Stefan Schmid
  Germany
7825
2003 Romain Barras
  France
8008 Aleksandr Pogorelov
  Russia
7896 Sergey Nikitin
  Russia
7850
2004 William Frullani
  Italy
7927 Laurent Hernu
  France
7921 Indrek Turi
  Estonia
7888
2005 Mikk Pahapill
  Estonia
8149 Nikolay Tishchenko
  Russia
7767 David Gómez
  Spain
7698
2006 Romain Barras
  France
8416 w Attila Zsivoczky
  Hungary
8390 w Aleksandr Pogorelov
  Russia
8102
2007 Aliaksandr Parkhomenka
  Belarus
8101 SB Mikalai Shubianok
  Belarus
8020 Julien Choffart
  France
7916 SB
2008 Andrei Krauchanka
  Belarus
8585 SB Romain Barras
  France
7974 Andres Raja
  Estonia
7964
2009 Andrei Krauchanka
  Belarus
8336 SB Aleksandr Pogorelov
  Russia
8313 Oleksiy Kasyanov
  Ukraine
8245
2010 Romain Barras
  France
8313 Mikk Pahapill
  Estonia
8198 Andres Raja
  Estonia
8023
2011 Andres Raja
  Estonia
8114 SB Vasiliy Kharlamov
  Russia
7935 Gaël Quérin
  France
7799
2013 Kevin Mayer
  France
8390 Eduard Mikhan
  Belarus
8125 SB Mikk Pahapill
  Estonia
8099
2014 Eelco Sintnicolaas
  Netherlands
8156 Eduard Mikhan
  Belarus
8004 Ingmar Vos
  Netherlands
7959
2015 Ilya Shkurenyov
  Russia
8378 Oleksiy Kasyanov
  Ukraine
8105 Romain Barras
  France
8007
2017 Janek Õiglane
  Estonia
8170 PB Oleksiy Kasyanov
  Ukraine
7958 Karl Robert Saluri
  Estonia
7837
2019 Vital Zhuk
  Belarus
8237 SB Maicel Uibo
  Estonia
8181 Jorge Ureña
  Spain
8073

Individual women

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Pentathlon
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Event Gold Silver Bronze
1973 Burglinde Pollak
  East Germany
4932 Nadiya Tkachenko
  Soviet Union
4695 Margit Olfert
  East Germany
4517
1975 Burglinde Pollak
  East Germany
4672 Christine Laser
  East Germany
4574 Siegrun Thon
  East Germany
4508
1977 Nadiya Tkachenko
  Soviet Union
4839 Zoya Spasovkhodskaya
  Soviet Union
4477 Valentina Dimitrova
  Bulgaria
4423
1979 Yekaterina Smirnova
  Soviet Union
4717 Kristine Nitzsche
  East Germany
4686 Ramona Neubert
  East Germany
4602
Heptathlon
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Event Gold Silver Bronze
1981 Ramona Neubert
  East Germany
6391 Heidrun Geissler
  East Germany
6223 Sabine Everts
  West Germany
6187
1983 Ramona Neubert
  East Germany
6722 Yekaterina Smirnova
  Soviet Union
6486 Valentina Dimitrova
  Bulgaria
6416
1985 Sabine Paetz
  East Germany
6595 Natalya Gracheva
  Soviet Union
6427 Sibylle Thiele
  East Germany
6460
1987 Svetlana Buraga
  Soviet Union
6585 Marion Reichelt
  East Germany
6442 Marianna Maslennikova
  Soviet Union
6434 w
1989 Larisa Nikitina
  Soviet Union
6875 Remigija Nazaroviené
  Soviet Union
6600 Natalya Shubenkova
  Soviet Union
6345
1991 Peggy Beer
  Germany
6383 Heike Tischler
  Germany
6366 Anke Behmer
  Germany
6272
1993 Tatyana Zhuravlyova
  Russia
6330 Larisa Nikitina
  Russia
6256 Urszula Włodarczyk
  Poland
6121
1994 Svetlana Moskalets
  Russia
6507 Nathalie Teppe
  France
6396 Peggy Beer
  Germany
6362
1995 Denise Lewis
  United Kingdom
6299 Sharon Jaklofsky
  Netherlands
6197 Anzhela Atroshchenko
  Belarus
6186
1996 Natalya Sazanovich
  Belarus
6466 Mona Steigauf
  Germany
6380 Rita Ináncsi
  Hungary
6312
1997 Irina Vostrikova
  Russia
6298 Urszula Włodarczyk
  Poland
6236 Svetlana Moskalets
  Russia
6219
1998 Marie Collonvillé
  France
6215 Natalya Roshchupkina
  Russia
6145 Urszula Włodarczyk
  Poland
6144
1999 Eunice Barber
  France
6505 Irina Belova
  Russia
6291 Irina Vostrikova
  Russia
6278
2000 Natalya Roshchupkina
  Russia
6377 Tatyana Gordeyeva
  Russia
6154 Yelena Chernyavskaya
  Russia
6106
2001 Svetlana Sokolova
  Russia
6270 w Sonja Kesselschläger
  Germany
6064 w Tatyana Gordeyeva
  Russia
6064 w
2002 Karin Ertl
  Germany
6017 Sabine Krieger
  Germany
5973 Sonja Kesselschläger
  Germany
5950
2003 Yelena Prokhorova
  Russia
6313 Irina Butor
  Belarus
6264 Argyro Strataki
  Greece
6064
2004 Yuliya Ignatkina
  Russia
6120 Magdalena Szczepańska
  Poland
6115 Argyro Strataki
  Greece
5926
2005 Tatyana Alisevich
  Belarus
6173 Yvonne Wisse
  Netherlands
6026 Diana Koritskaya
  Russia
5981
2006 Carolina Klüft
  Sweden
6665 Karolina Tymińska
  Poland
6402 SB Ksenja Balta
  Estonia
6180 PB
2007 Jessica Ennis
  United Kingdom
6399 Kelly Sotherton
  United Kingdom
6229 Hanna Melnychenko
  Ukraine
6143 SB
2008 Hanna Melnychenko
  Ukraine
6306 SB Antoinette Nana Djimou
  France
6204 SB Jolanda Keizer
  Netherlands
6105
2009 Hanna Melnychenko
  Ukraine
6380 Kamila Chudzik
  Poland
6378 Karolina Tymińska
  Poland
6191 SB
2010 Hanna Melnychenko
  Ukraine
6098 SB Marisa De Aniceto
  France
6010 SB Aleksandra Butvina
  Russia
5990
2011 Anna Bogdanova
  Russia
6225 Lyudmyla Yosypenko
  Ukraine
5984 Remona Fransen
  Netherlands
5965
2013 Karolina Tymińska
  Poland
6347 Hanna Melnychenko
  Ukraine
6260 Grit Šadeiko
  Estonia
6221 NR PB
2014 Nadine Broersen
  Netherlands
6539 Antoinette Nana Djimou
  France
6212 Yana Maksimava
  Belarus
6173
2015 Alina Fyodorova
  Ukraine
6278 Grit Šadeiko
  Estonia
6196 Anna Blank
  Russia
6037
2017 Alina Shukh
  Ukraine
6208 Geraldine Ruckstuhl
  Switzerland
6134 Grit Sadeiko
  Estonia
5958
2019 Daryna Sloboda
  Ukraine
6165 PB Katie Stainton
  United Kingdom
6029 PB Marijke Esselink
  Netherlands
5905 PB

Men's team

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
1973   Poland 23578   Soviet Union 23434   East Germany 22723
1975   Soviet Union 23631   Poland 22824   Sweden 22763
1977   Soviet Union 24303   West Germany 24049   East Germany 23928
1979   East Germany 24070   West Germany 23755   Soviet Union 23510
1981   West Germany 24363   East Germany 24190   Poland 22880
1983   West Germany 24609   East Germany 24359   Soviet Union 24208
1985   Soviet Union 24639   East Germany 24550   Poland 22564
1987   East Germany 24852   Soviet Union 24307   Switzerland 23537
1989   East Germany 24081   West Germany 23693   Soviet Union 23572
1991   Germany 24350   France 24048   Soviet Union 23687
1993   France 24163   Germany 24025   Finland 23087
1994   France 24864   Czech Republic 23836   Spain 23723
1995   Czech Republic 23826   France 23462   Sweden 23408
1996   Germany 24832   France 24106   Czech Republic 24096
1997   Czech Republic 24416   Estonia 23859   Hungary 23780
1998   Czech Republic 23974   Netherlands 23879   France 23669
1999   Czech Republic 25375   Germany 23467   Spain 23234
2000   France 23496   Ukraine 23165   Russia 23144
2001   France 23933   Ukraine 23779   Finland 23648
2002   Germany 23750   Finland 22798   Russia 22621
2003   France 23538   Russia 23357   Italy 22678
2004   Estonia 23282   Germany 23234   France 23120
2005   Estonia 23139   Russia 22711   Spain 22482
2006   France 24185   Russia 23764   Estonia 22968
2007   Belarus 23749   France 23246   Netherlands 23022
2008   Belarus 24160   Netherlands 23367   France 23268
2009   Russia 24507   Belarus 24077   Ukraine 23621
2010   Estonia 23746   Russia 22742   France 22556
2011   Russia 23305   Estonia 23095   Belarus 22956

Women's team

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
1973   East Germany 13924   Soviet Union 13351   Bulgaria 12882
1975   East Germany 13754   Soviet Union 13186   West Germany 12751
1977   Soviet Union 13708   West Germany 12835   France 12277
1979   East Germany 13836   Soviet Union 13620   West Germany 13325
1981   East Germany 18682   West Germany 17817   Soviet Union 17480
1983   East Germany 19242   Soviet Union 18698   Bulgaria 18666
1985   East Germany 19108   Soviet Union 18841   West Germany 18662
1987   Soviet Union 19289   France 18477   Czechoslovakia 17879
1989   Soviet Union 19820   West Germany 18532   Finland 17849
1991   Germany 19023   Soviet Union 18434   Poland 18177
1993   Russia 18595   Germany 17708   Poland 17287
1994   Russia 18876   Ukraine 18487   France 18474
1995   Belarus 18150   Germany 17755   Russia 17705
1996   Germany 18659   Belarus 18244   France 17838
1997   Russia 18651   France 18250   Germany 18058
1998   Russia 18331   France 18117   Germany 17923
1999   Russia 18625   France 18285   Poland 18119
2000   Russia 18637   Poland 17759   France 17710
2001   Russia 18350   Germany 18009   Italy 17473
2002   Germany 17940   Russia 17449   Ukraine 17381
2003   Russia 17983   Belarus 17982   Greece 17433
2004   Russia 17872   Poland 17704   Belarus 17024
2005   Belarus 17626   Ukraine 17506   Russia 17487
2006   Russia 18149   Sweden 18078   Finland 17503
2007   United Kingdom 18329   Russia 17289   Ukraine 17243
2008   Ukraine 18187   Russia 17980   France 17482
2009   Poland 18007   Russia 17949   Ukraine 17814
2010   France 17654   Czech Republic 17402   Russia 17301
2011   Russia 17816   Ukraine 17600   France 16992

Overall Team

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
2013   France 41421   Russia 41032   Estonia 41027
2014   Russia 41159   Netherlands 41048   France 40761
2015   Russia 41700   France 40724   Estonia 39875
2017   Ukraine 40085   Estonia 39779   France 39771
2019   Estonia 39959   Belarus 39560   Great Britain 39433

First league / B Finals / Semi-Finals

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Editions

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Edition Year Name Gender City Country Date
1st 1973 Semi-Final Men/Women Innsbruck Austria
Sofia Bulgaria
Reykjavík Iceland
2nd 1975 Semi-Final Men/Women Banská Bystrica Czechoslovakia
Poiana Brașov Romania
Barcelona Spain
3rd 1977 Semi-Final Men/Women Hvidovre Denmark
Sittard Netherlands
Kishinev Soviet Union
Men Hannover West Germany
Women Götzis Austria
4th 1979 Semi-Final Men/Women Schielleiten Austria
Budapest Hungary
Bremerhaven West Germany
5th 1981 Semi-Final Men/Women Brussels Belgium
Malmö Sweden
Zug Switzerland
6th 1983 B Final Men/Women Montargis France
7th 1985 B Final Men/Women Arles France
8th 1987 B Final Men Arles France 4–5 July
Women Basel Switzerland 4–5 July
9th 1989 B Final Men Helmond Netherlands 15–16 July
Women Tønsberg Norway 15–16 July
10th 1991 B Final Men/Women Stoke-on-Trent United Kingdom
11th 1993 First league Men/Women Valladolid Spain
12th 1994 First league Men/Women Brixen Italy
13th 1995 First league Men Helmond Netherlands 6–7 July
Women Valladolid Spain
14th 1996 First league Men/Women Tallinn Estonia
15th 1997 First league Men Oulu Finland 28–29 June
Women Tallinn Estonia 28–29 June
16th 1998 First league Men/Women Brixen Italy
17th 1999 First league Men/Women Huddinge Sweden
18th 2000 First league Men/Women Ibach/Schwyz Switzerland
19th 2001 First league Men/Women Ried Austria
20th 2002 First league Men/Women Riga Latvia
21st 2003 First league Men/Women Tallinn Estonia
22nd 2004 First league Men Hengelo Netherlands 3–4 July
Women Tallinn Estonia 3–4 July
23rd 2005 First league Men/Women Jyväskylä Finland 2–3 July
24th 2006 First league Men/Women Yalta Ukraine 1–2 July
25th 2007 First league Men Szczecin Poland 7–8 July
Women Tallinn Estonia 7–8 July
26th 2008 First league Men/Women Jyväskylä Finland 28–29 June
27th 2009 First league Men/Women Zaragoza Spain 27–28 June
28th 2010 First league Men/Women Hengelo Netherlands 26–27 June
29th 2011 First league Men/Women Brixen Italy 2–3 July
30th 2013 First league Men/Women Nottwil Switzerland 29–30 June
31st 2014 First league Men/Women Ribeira Brava Portugal 5–6 July
32nd 2015 First league Men/Women Inowrocław Poland 4–5 July
33rd 2017 First league Men/Women Monzón Spain 1–2 July

Men's winners

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Women's winners

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Second league / C Finals

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Editions

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Edition Year Name Gender City Country Date
6th 1983 C Final Men/Women Graz Austria
7th 1985 C Final Men/Women Copenhagen Denmark
Bruneck Italy
8th 1987 C Final Men/Women Madrid Spain
9th 1989 C Final Men/Women Vienna Austria
10th 1991 C Final Men/Women Århus Denmark
11th 1993 Second league Men/Women Hechtel Belgium
Tallinn Estonia
12th 1994 Second league Men/Women Copenhagen Denmark
Tallinn Estonia
13th 1995 Second league Men/Women Reykjavík Iceland
Dilbeek Belgium
14th 1996 Second league Men/Women Riga Latvia
15th 1997 Second league Men/Women Maribor Slovenia
16th 1998 Second league Men/Women Reykjavík Iceland
Maribor Slovenia
17th 1999 Second league Men/Women Herentals Belgium
18th 2000 Second league Men/Women Esbjerg Denmark
19th 2001 Second league Men/Women Kaunas Lithuania
20th 2002 Second league Men/Women Maribor Slovenia
21st 2003 Second league Men/Women Maribor Slovenia
22nd 2004 Second league Men/Women Riga Latvia
23rd 2005 Second league Men/Women Maribor Slovenia 2–3 July
24th 2006 Second league Men/Women Monzón Spain 1–2 July
25th 2007 Second league Men/Women Maribor Slovenia 7–8 July
26th 2008 Second league Men/Women Maribor Slovenia 28–29 June
27th 2009 Second league Men/Women Maribor Slovenia 27–28 June
28th 2010 Second league Men/Women Tel Aviv Israel 26–27 June
29th 2011 Second league Men/Women Ribeira Brava Portugal 2–3 July
30th 2013 Second league Men/Women Ribeira Brava Portugal 29–30 June
31st 2014 First league Men/Women Ribeira Brava Portugal 5–6 July
32nd 2015 First league Men/Women Inowrocław Poland 4–5 July
33rd 2017 First league Men/Women Monzón Spain 1–2 July

Men's winners

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Women's winners

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References

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