2012 European Athletics Championships
The 2012 European Athletics Championships were held in Helsinki, Finland between 27 June and 1 July 2012.[1] This edition marks the beginning of a new two-year cycle of the European Athletics Championships which were previously held every four years.
| 21st European Athletics Championships | |
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| Dates | 27 June – 1 July 2012 |
| Host city | Helsinki, Finland |
| Venue | Helsinki Olympic Stadium |
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| Level | Senior |
| Type | Outdoor |
| Events | 42 (21 men, 21 women) |
| Participation | 50 nations |
The decision to grant the games for Helsinki was made by the European Athletics Congress on 9 November 2009.[2] Another city that showed interest in hosting the event was Nuremberg, Germany, however Helsinki was in pole position during the whole process. This was the third time that the city had hosted the event, 1971 and 1994 being the other occasions.
Due to 2012 being an Olympic year, there were no racewalking and marathon competitions.[3]
Event schedule
| Key | P | Q | H | ½ | F |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Value | Preliminary round | Qualifiers | Heats | Semifinals | Final |
| Date | Jun 27 | Jun 28 | Jun 29 | Jun 30 | Jul 1 | |||||
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| Event | M | A | M | A | M | A | M | A | A | |
| 100 m | H | ½ | F | |||||||
| 200 m | H | ½ | F | |||||||
| 400 m | H | ½ | F | |||||||
| 800 m | H | ½ | F | |||||||
| 1500 m | H | F | ||||||||
| 5000 m | F | |||||||||
| 10,000 m | F | |||||||||
| 110 m hurdles | H | ½ | F | |||||||
| 400 m hurdles | H | ½ | F | |||||||
| 3000 m steeplechase | H | F | ||||||||
| 4 × 100 m relay | H | F | ||||||||
| 4 × 400 m relay | H | F | ||||||||
| Long jump | Q | F | ||||||||
| Triple jump | Q | F | ||||||||
| High jump | Q | F | ||||||||
| Pole vault | Q | F | ||||||||
| Shot put | Q | F | ||||||||
| Discus throw | Q | F | ||||||||
| Hammer throw | Q | F | ||||||||
| Javelin throw | Q | F | ||||||||
| Decathlon | F | |||||||||
| Date | Jun 27 | Jun 28 | Jun 29 | Jun 30 | Jul 1 | |||||
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| Event ↓ | M | A | M | A | M | A | M | A | A | |
| 100 m | H | ½ | F | |||||||
| 200 m | H | ½ | F | |||||||
| 400 m | H | ½ | F | |||||||
| 800 m | H | F | ||||||||
| 1500 m | H | F | ||||||||
| 5000 m | F | |||||||||
| 10,000 m | F | |||||||||
| 100 m hurdles | H | ½ | F | |||||||
| 400 m hurdles | H | ½ | F | |||||||
| 3000 m steeplechase | H | F | ||||||||
| 4 × 100 m relay | H | F | ||||||||
| 4 × 400 m relay | H | F | ||||||||
| Long jump | Q | F | ||||||||
| Triple jump | Q | F | ||||||||
| High jump | Q | F | ||||||||
| Pole vault | Q | F | ||||||||
| Shot put | Q | F | ||||||||
| Discus throw | Q | F | ||||||||
| Hammer throw | Q | F | ||||||||
| Javelin throw | Q | F | ||||||||
| Heptathlon | F | |||||||||
Men's results
Track
| Chronology: 2006 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016 |
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| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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| 100 metres |
Christophe Lemaitre | 10.09 | Jimmy Vicaut | 10.12 SB | Jaysuma Saidy Ndure | 10.17 |
| 200 metres |
Churandy Martina | 20.42 | Patrick van Luijk | 20.87 | Daniel Talbot | 20.95 |
| 400 metres |
Pavel Maslák | 45.24 | Marcell Deák-Nagy | 45.52 SB | Yannick Fonsat | 45.82 |
| 800 metres |
Yuriy Borzakovskiy | 1:48.61 | Andreas Bube | 1:48.69 | Pierre-Ambroise Bosse | 1:48.83 |
| 1500 metres |
Henrik Ingebrigtsen | 3:46.20 | Florian Carvalho | 3:46.33 | David Bustos | 3:46.45 |
| 5000 metres |
Mo Farah | 13:29.91 | Arne Gabius | 13:31.83 | Polat Kemboi Arıkan | 13:32.63 |
| 10,000 metres |
Polat Kemboi Arıkan | 28:22.27 | Daniele Meucci | 28:22.73 | Yevgeniy Rybakov | 28:22.95 SB |
| 110 metres hurdles |
Sergey Shubenkov | 13.16 | Garfield Darien | 13.20 | Artur Noga | 13.27 NR |
| 400 metres hurdles |
Rhys Williams | 49.33 SB | Emir Bekrić | 49.49 | Stanislav Melnykov | 49.69 |
| 3000 metres steeplechase |
Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad | 8:33.29 | Tarık Langat Akdağ | 8:35.24 | Víctor García | 8:35.87 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay |
Brian Mariano Churandy Martina Giovanni Codrington Patrick van Luijk | 38.34 EL, NR | Julian Reus Tobias Unger Alexander Kosenkow Lucas Jakubczyk | 38.44 | Ronald Pognon Christophe Lemaitre Pierre-Alexis Pessonneaux Emmanuel Biron | 38.46 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay |
.svg.png){kind=small} Antoine Gillet Jonathan Borlée Jente Bouckaert Kevin Borlée | 3:01.09 EL | Nigel Levine Conrad Williams Robert Tobin Richard Buck | 3:01.56 | Jonas Plass Kamghe Gaba Eric Krüger Thomas Schneider | 3:01.77 |
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season) | ||||||
Field
| Chronology: 2006 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016 |
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| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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| High jump |
Robert Grabarz | 2.31 | Raivydas Stanys | 2.31 PB | Mickaël Hanany | 2.28 |
| Pole vault |
Renaud Lavillenie | 5.97 WL | Björn Otto | 5.92 PB | Raphael Holzdeppe | 5.77 =SB |
| Long jump |
Sebastian Bayer | 8.34 SB | Luis Felipe Méliz | 8.21 SB | Michel Tornéus | 8.17 SB |
| Triple jump |
Fabrizio Donato | 17.63 | Sheryf El-Sheryf | 17.28 | Aliaksei Tsapik.svg.png){kind=small} | 16.97 |
| Shot put |
David Storl | 21.58 SB | Rutger Smith | 20.55 =SB | Asmir Kolašinac | 20.36 |
| Discus throw |
Robert Harting | 68.30 | Gerd Kanter | 66.53 | Rutger Smith | 64.02 |
| Javelin throw |
Vítězslav Veselý | 83.72 | Valeriy Iordan | 83.32 PB | Ari Mannio | 82.63 |
| Hammer throw |
Krisztián Pars | 79.72 | Aleksey Zagornyi | 77.40 | Szymon Ziółkowski | 76.67 |
| Decathlon |
Pascal Behrenbruch | 8558 EL, PB | Oleksiy Kasyanov | 8321 | Ilya Shkurenyov | 8219 PB |
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season) | ||||||
Women's results
Track
| Chronology: 2006 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016 |
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| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 metres |
Ivet Lalova | 11.28 | Olesya Povh | 11.32 | Lina Grinčikaitė | 11.32 SB |
| 200 metres |
Mariya Ryemyen | 23.05 | Hrystyna Stuy | 23.17 | Myriam Soumaré | 23.21 |
| 400 metres |
Moa Hjelmer | 51.13 NR | Ksenia Zadorina | 51.26 SB | Ilona Usovich | 51.94 |
| 800 metres ≠1 |
Lynsey Sharp | 2:00.52 PB | Maryna Arzamasava | 2:01.02 | Liliya Lobanova | 2:01.29 |
| 1500 metres ≠2 |
Nuria Fernández | 4:08.80 | Diana Sujew | 4:09.28 | Tereza Čapková | 4:10.17 |
| 5000 metres |
Olga Golovkina | 15:11.70 | Sara Moreira | 15:12.05 | Julia Bleasdale | |
| 10,000 metres |
Ana Dulce Félix | 31:44.75 | Joanne Pavey | 31:49.03 | Olha Skrypak | 31:51.32 |
| 100 metres hurdles ≠3 |
Alina Talay | 12.91 | Katsiaryna Paplauskaya | 12.97 | Beate Schrott | 12.98 =SB |
| 400 metres hurdles |
Irina Davydova | 53.77 WL, PB | Denisa Rosolová | 54.24 PB | Hanna Yaroshchuk | 54.35 PB |
| 3000 metres steeplechase ≠4 |
Gülcan Mıngır | 9:32.96 | Antje Möldner-Schmidt | 9:36.37 | Gesa Felicitas Krause | 9:38.20 |
| 4 × 100 metres relay |
Leena Günther Anne Cibis Tatjana Lofamakanda Pinto Verena Sailer | 42.51 EL | Kadene Vassell Dafne Schippers Eva Lubbers Jamile Samuel | 42.80 NR | Marika Popowicz Daria Korczyńska Marta Jeschke Ewelina Ptak | 43.06 |
| 4 × 400 metres relay |
Yuilya Olishevska Olha Zemlyak Nataliya Pyhyda Alina Lohvynenko | 3:25.07 EL | Phara Anacharsis Lenora Guion Firmin Marie Gayot Floria Guei | 3:25.49 | Zuzana Hejnová Zuzana Bergrová Jitka Bartoničková Denisa Rosolová | 3:26.02 |
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season) | ||||||
| ≠ Doping : 1. Official result following disqualifications for Elena Arzhakova and Irina Maracheva | ||||||
Field
| Chronology: 2006 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2016 |
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| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High jump |
Ruth Beitia | 1.97 =SB | Tonje Angelsen | 1.97 PB | Irina Gordeeva Emma Green Tregaro Olena Holosha | 1.92 |
| Pole vault |
Jiřina Ptáčníková | 4.60 | Martina Strutz | 4.60 SB | Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou | 4.60 =SB |
| Long jump |
Éloyse Lesueur | 6.81 SB | Volha Sudarava | 6.74 | Margrethe Renstrøm | 6.67 |
| Triple jump |
Olha Saladukha | 14.99 WL | Patrícia Mamona | 14.52 NR | Yana Borodina | 14.36 |
| Shot put |
Nadine Kleinert | 19.18 | Irina Tarasova | 18.91 | Chiara Rosa | 18.47 |
| Discus throw |
Sandra Perković | 67.62 | Nadine Müller | 65.41 | Natalya Semenova | 62.91 |
| Javelin throw |
Vira Rebryk | 66.86 NR | Christina Obergföll | 65.12 | Linda Stahl | 63.69 |
| Hammer throw |
Anita Włodarczyk | 74.29 | Martina Hrašnová | 73.34 SB | Anna Bulgakova | 71.47 |
| Heptathlon |
Antoinette Nana Djimou Ida | 6544 PB | Laura Ikauniece | 6335 PB | Aiga Grabuste | 6325 SB |
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season) | ||||||
Stripped medals
At the Championships 9 medals was stripped, 1 men and 8 women.
| Event | Medal | Disqualified | Country | Variation date | Notes | New Podium | Original rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men's discus throw |  | Zoltán Kővágó | |
26 July 2012 | [5] | |
4 |
| Women's 800 m |  | Elena Arzhakova | |
29 January 2013 | [6] |   |
4 5 |
| Irina Maracheva | |
25 January 2016 | [7] | |||
| Women's 1500 m | | Aslı Çakır Alptekin | |
17 August 2015 | [8] | |
5 6 7 |
| Gamze Bulut | |
1 June 2016 | [9] | |||
| Anna Mishchenko | |
26 February 2016 | [8] | |||
| 4th | Yekaterina Ishova | |
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| Women's 3000 m steeplechase | | Svitlana Shmidt | |
12 April 2015 | [10] | |
4 |
| Women's 100 m hurdles | | Nevin Yanit | |
29 August 2013 | [11] | |
4 |
| Women's heptathlon | | Lyudmyla Yosypenko | |
30 December 2012 | [12] | |
4 |
Medal table
* Host nation (Finland)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 | | 6 | 7 | 4 | 17 |
| 2 | | 5 | 4 | 5 | 14 |
| 3 | | 4 | 5 | 7 | 16 |
| 4 | | 4 | 4 | 5 | 13 |
| 5 | | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| 6 | | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 7 | | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| 8 | | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 9 | | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |
| 11 | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| 13 | | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 14 | | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 15 | | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 16 | | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 19 | | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 20 | | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 23 | | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 26 | | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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| Totals (27 nations) | 40 | 41 | 44 | 125 | |
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References
- EAA calendar Archived 2009-06-29 at the Portuguese Web Archive
- "It's Helsinki! European Athletics awards 2012 European Athletics Championships to Finnish capital". EAA. Archived from the original on 2012-02-24.
- European Athletics Championships 2012 in Helsinki – Archived 2011-06-11 at the Wayback Machine
- 2012 European Athletics Championships Programme. Helsinki2012. Retrieved on 2012-06-14.
- "Hungarian discus thrower banned for doping offense". reuters.com. 26 July 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
- "Pishchalnikova given 10-year doping ban". reuters.com. 30 April 2013. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
In a separate case, European 800 meters champion Yelena Arzhakova was banned for two years, starting from January 29, 2013
- "Russian runner stripped of European silver medal for doping". businessinsider.com. 25 January 2016. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
- "The dirtiest race in history?". sportsintegrityinitiative.com. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
In this race, both Alptekin and Bulut finished first and second respectively, while the Ukraine’s Anna Mischenko, who finished third, and Russia’s Ekaterina Ishova, who finished fourth, have both since been disqualified by the IAAF for an ADRV and abnormal ABP results respectively.
- "Gamze Bulut'un madalyası alındı" (in Turkmen). haberturk.com. 1 June 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
- "Ukraine apologise to WADA and IAAF over embarrassing amnesty claim for drugs cheats". insidethegames.biz. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
Anna Mishchenko and Svitlana Shmidt also lost the silver medals they had won in the 1500 and 3,000 metres steeplechase respectively at the 2012 European Championships in Helsinki following the retests.
- "Nevin Yanit: Drugs ban for European hurdles champion". bbc.co.uk. 29 August 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
- "Yosypenko banned for doping". trackandfieldnews.com. 12 August 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
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