2018 World Para Athletics European Championships

World Para Athletics European Championships
Host city Berlin, Germany
Nations participating 35
Events Track and field
Dates 20 - 26 August
Main venue Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark
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The 2018 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. It was held in Berlin, Germany and takes place between 20 and 26 August. The competition was staged at Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark. Approximately 700 athletes from 35 countries attended the games.[1]

Formerly the IPC Athletics European Championships, this was the first edition of the championships since IPC undertook a rebrand of all sports for which they are the governing body, including the 'World Para' title for the committees running each sport. IPC Athletics was rebranded World Para Athletics in 2016; its first World Para Athletics Championships were held in 2017, and the European Championships followed suit in 2018.

Russia was unable to compete due to their ongoing suspension from IPC and World Para Athletics. Poland topped the medal table.

Venue

Berlin, Germany

The venue for the Championships is the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark athletics stadium in the Northeast of Berlin.

Format

The 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships is an invitational tournament taking in track and field events. No combined sports are included in the 2018 Championships. Not all events were open to all classifications, though no events were contested between classifications.

Athletes finishing in first place are awarded the gold medal, second place the silver medal and third place the bronze. If only three competitors are available to challenge for an event then no bronze medal is awarded. Some events will be classed as 'no medal' events.

Events

Classification


To ensure competition is as fair and balanced as possible, athletes are classified dependent on how their disability impacts on their chosen event/s. Thus athletes may compete in an event against competitors with a different disability to themselves. Where there are more than one classification in one event, (for example discus throw F54/55/56), a points system is used to determine the winner. Racerunning, an event using adapted tricycle frames for athletes with a severe balance impairment, was introduced for the first time in RR category, while 'blade' athletes, using a prosthetic specialist limb were placed in new *61-4 categories, while athletes with lower limb disabilities, but not amputations, remained in the *42-4 categories.

  • F = field athletes
  • T = track athletes
  • 11-13 – visually impaired, 11 and 12 compete with a sighted guide
  • 20 – intellectual disability
  • 31-38 – cerebral palsy or other conditions that affect muscle co-ordination and control. Athletes in class 31-34 compete in a seated position; athletes in class 35-38 compete standing.
  • 40-47 – arm amputation, lower limb deficiencies and les autres
  • 51-58 – wheelchair athletes
  • 61-63 – leg amputees, 'blade' athletes
  • RR1-3 – racerunners who employ an adapted tricycle to maintain balance.

Summary

36 athletes won two gold medals or more at the event, while the seven listed below won 3 golds or more. Pierre Fairbank of France, with 4 gold medals, was the most successful athlete at the event, with Diana Dadzite of Latvia and Sophie Hahn of Great Britain the most successful female athletes with 3 gold medals..[2]

The most successful home athletes were Felix Streng and Johannes Floors, with three gold and one silver medal each.[2]

Alexandra Helbling of Switzerland won 5 medals, a gold, 3 silvers and a bronze, the most medals of any athlete at the event.[2]

RankAthlete NationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1Pierre Fairbank France (FRA)4004
2Johannes Floors Germany (GER)3104
Felix Streng Germany (GER)3104
Leo Pekka Tahti Finland (FIN)3104
5Sophie Hahn Great Britain (GBR)3003
Diana Dadzite Latvia (LAT)3003
Marcel Hug  Switzerland (SUI)3003

15 World Records were broken in total across all events, with a further 9 European records also falling[3]. Lucyna Kornobys of Poland was the only athlete to break two world records, setting new marks in the women's javelin F33 and shot put F33. Markus Rehm of Germany broke his own world record in the long jump T64 with a distance of 8.48 - a distance that would have won the able bodied event a few weeks earlier[3].

Medal table

In a number of events not all medals were awarded, due to field sizes or tied medals. In addition, a small number of rces were deemed 'non-medal' events, and are therefore not included in the final medal table.

Final table, 26 August 2018.[4]

  Host nation (Germany)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Poland26152061
2 Great Britain20141650
3 Ukraine1922849
4 France1713939
5 Germany*1419942
6 Spain813728
7  Switzerland851023
8 Finland84214
9 Portugal77317
10 Italy63817
11 Ireland6039
12 Turkey56819
13 Latvia5117
14 Netherlands413724
15 Bulgaria42511
16 Belarus4228
17 Serbia32813
18 Denmark3227
19 Austria3205
20 Greece25411
21 Lithuania2338
 Sweden2338
23 Croatia2248
24 Belgium2226
25 Norway1102
26 Hungary1034
27 Czech Republic05510
28 Slovakia0213
29 Azerbaijan0202
 Cyprus0202
 Luxembourg0202
32 Iceland0134
33 Montenegro0101
34 Israel0033
35 Romania0011
Totals (35 nations)182176160518

Participating nations

Below is the list of countries who participated in the Championships.  Russia were unable to take part due to their ongoing suspension from the IPC.

Footnotes

Notes
    References
    1. ↑ "Berlin 2018: About us". paralympic.org. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
    2. 1 2 3 Berlin 2018 Multi-Medalists
    3. 1 2 Berlin 2018 - Broken records
    4. ↑ Full final table

    See also

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