20th European Athletics Championships
Dates	27 July – 1 August
Host city	Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Venue	Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	47 (men: 24; women: 23)
Participation	1,368[1] athletes from 50 nations
Records set	8 Championships records
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The 2010 European Athletics Championships were the 20th edition of the European Athletics Championships, organised under the supervision of the European Athletic Association. They were held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain from 27 July to 1 August 2010. Barcelona was the first Spanish city to host the European Championships.

Barni was the mascot of the event, he was the main promotional tool of the Championship. His name comes from Barna and was designed by the workshop Dortoka.

Event schedule

Men's results

Track

2002 | 2006 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Christophe Lemaitre  France (FRA)	10.11	Mark Lewis-Francis  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	10.18	Martial Mbandjock  France (FRA)	10.18
200 metres details	Christophe Lemaitre  France (FRA)	20.37	Christian Malcolm  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	20.38 SB	Martial Mbandjock  France (FRA)	20.42
400 metres details	Kevin Borlée  Belgium (BEL)	45.08 SB	Michael Bingham  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	45.23	Martyn Rooney  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	45.23
800 metres details	Marcin Lewandowski  Poland (POL)	1:47.07	Michael Rimmer  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	1:47.17	Adam Kszczot  Poland (POL)	1:47.22
1500 metres details	Arturo Casado  Spain (ESP)	3:42.74	Carsten Schlangen  Germany (GER)	3:43.52	Manuel Olmedo  Spain (ESP)	3:43.54
5000 metres details	Mo Farah  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	13:31.18	Jesús España  Spain (ESP)	13:33.12	Hayle Ibrahimov  Azerbaijan (AZE)	13:34.15
10,000 metres details	Mo Farah  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	28:24.99	Chris Thompson  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	28:27.33	Daniele Meucci  Italy (ITA)	28:27.33
Marathon details	Viktor Röthlin  Switzerland (SUI)	2:15:31	José Manuel Martínez  Spain (ESP)	2:17:50	Dmitry Safronov  Russia (RUS)	2:18:16
110 metres hurdles details	Andy Turner  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	13.28 SB	Garfield Darien  France (FRA)	13.34 PB	Dániel Kiss  Hungary (HUN)	13.39
400 metres hurdles details	Dai Greene  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	48.12 EL	Rhys Williams  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	48.96 PB	Stanislav Melnykov  Ukraine (UKR)	49.09 PB
3000 metres steeplechase details	Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad  France (FRA)	8:07.87 CR	Bouabdellah Tahri  France (FRA)	8:09.28	Ion Luchianov  Moldova (MDA)	8:19.64 SB
20 kilometres walk details	Alex Schwazer1  Italy (ITA)	1:20:38	João Vieira  Portugal (POR)	1:20:49 SB	Robert Heffernan  Ireland (IRL)	1:21:00
50 kilometres walk details	Yohann Diniz  France (FRA)	3:40:37 EL	Grzegorz Sudoł  Poland (POL)	3:42:24 PB	Sergey Bakulin  Russia (RUS)	3:43:26 PB
4x100 metres relay details	France Jimmy Vicaut Christophe Lemaitre Pierre-Alexis Pessonneaux Martial Mbandjock	38.11 EL	Italy Roberto Donati Simone Collio Emanuele Di Gregorio Maurizio Checcucci	38.17 NR	Germany Tobias Unger Marius Broening Alexander Kosenkow Martin Keller	38.44
4x400 metres relay details	Russia Maksim Dyldin Aleksey Aksyonov Vladimir Krasnov Pavel Trenikhin	3:02.14	Great Britain Conrad Williams Michael Bingham Martyn Rooney Robert Tobin	3:02.25	Belgium Arnaud Destatte Kevin Borlée Cédric Van Branteghem Jonathan Borlée	3:02.60
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)

¹ Stanislav Emelyanov of Russia originally won the 20 km walk gold medal with a time of 1:20:10, but he was disqualified in 2014 after he tested positive for drugs.^[2]

Field

2002 | 2006 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Aleksandr Shustov  Russia (RUS)	2.33	Ivan Ukhov  Russia (RUS)	2.31	Martyn Bernard  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	2.29
Pole vault details	Renaud Lavillenie  France (FRA)	5.85	Maksym Mazuryk  Ukraine (UKR)	5.80 SB	Przemysław Czerwiński  Poland (POL)	5.75 SB
Long jump details	Christian Reif  Germany (GER)	8.47 CR, WL, PB	Kafétien Gomis  France (FRA)	8.24 PB	Chris Tomlinson  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	8.23 SB
Triple jump details	Phillips Idowu  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	17.81 PB	Marian Oprea  Romania (ROM)	17.51 SB	Teddy Tamgho  France (FRA)	17.45
Shot put details	Tomasz Majewski2  Poland (POL)	21.00	Ralf Bartels  Germany (GER)	20.93	Māris Urtāns  Latvia (LAT)	20.72
Discus throw details	Piotr Małachowski  Poland (POL)	68.87 CR	Robert Harting  Germany (GER)	68.47	Róbert Fazekas  Hungary (HUN)	66.43 SB
Javelin throw details	Andreas Thorkildsen  Norway (NOR)	88.37	Matthias de Zordo  Germany (GER)	87.81 PB	Tero Pitkämäki  Finland (FIN)	86.67
Hammer throw details	Libor Charfreitag  Slovakia (SVK)	80.02	Nicola Vizzoni  Italy (ITA)	79.12	Krisztián Pars  Hungary (HUN)	79.06
Decathlon details	Romain Barras  France (FRA)	8453 EL, PB	Eelco Sintnicolaas  Netherlands (NED)	8436 PB	Andrei Krauchanka  Belarus (BLR)	8370 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)

² Andrei Mikhnevich of Belarus originally won the gold medal in 21.01 m, but was disqualified in 2013 (all his results starting from the 2005 World Championships were canceled).

Women's results

Doping cases

The women's medal standings were significantly altered after various post-race doping controversies. The following medals were revoked years after the event for doping cases, and assigned to the athletes who followed in the ranking.^[3][4]

Rank	Athlese	Country	Performance	Event
	Tatyana Firova	Russia	49.89	400 m
	Mariya Savinova	Russia	1:58.22	800 m
	Alemitu Bekele	Turkey	14:52.20	5000 m
	Inga Abitova	Russia	31:22.83	10,000 m
	Živile Balciunaite	Lithuania	2:31:14	Marathon
	Nailya Yulamanova	Russia	2:32:15	Marathon
	Olga Kaniskina	Russia	1:27:44	20 km race walk
	Marta Domínguez	Spain	9:17.74	3000 m steeplechase
	Lyubov Kharlamova	Russia	9:29.82	3000 m steeplechase
	Anastasiya Kapachinskaya Antonina Krivoshapka Kseniya Ustalova Tatyana Firova	Russia	3:21.26	4x400 m relay
	Nadzeya Ostapchuk	Belarus	20.48 m	Shot put
	Natallia Mikhnevich	Belarus	19.53 m	Shot put

Track

2002 | 2006 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Verena Sailer  Germany (GER)	11.10 PB	Véronique Mang  France (FRA)	11.11 PB	Myriam Soumaré  France (FRA)	11.18 PB
200 metres details	Myriam Soumaré  France (FRA)	22.32 EL, PB	Yelizaveta Bryzhina  Ukraine (UKR)	22.44 PB	Aleksandra Fedoriva  Russia (RUS)	22.44
400 metres details	Kseniya Ustalova  Russia (RUS)	49.92 PB	Antonina Krivoshapka  Russia (RUS)	50.10 SB	Libania Grenot  Italy (ITA)	50.43 SB
800 metres details	Yvonne Hak  Netherlands (NED)	1:58.85 PB	Jenny Meadows  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	1:59.39	Lucia Klocová  Slovakia (SVK)	1:59.64
1500 metres details	Nuria Fernández  Spain (ESP)	4:00.20 PB	Hind Dehiba  France (FRA)	4:01.17	Natalia Rodríguez  Spain (ESP)	4:01.30 SB
5000 metres details	Elvan Abeylegesse  Turkey (TUR)	14:54.44	Sara Moreira  Portugal (POR)	14:54.71 PB	Jéssica Augusto  Portugal (POR)	14.58.47
10,000 metres details	Elvan Abeylegesse  Turkey (TUR)	31:10.23 EL	Jéssica Augusto  Portugal (POR)	31:25.77	Hilda Kibet  Netherlands (NED)	31:36.90 SB
Marathon details	Anna Incerti  Italy (ITA)	2:32:48	Tetyana Filonyuk  Ukraine (UKR)	2:33:57	Isabellah Andersson  Sweden (SWE)	2:34:43
100 metres hurdles details	Nevin Yanıt  Turkey (TUR)	12.63 NR	Derval O'Rourke  Ireland (IRL)	12.65 NR	Carolin Nytra  Germany (GER)	12.68
400 metres hurdles details	Natalya Antyukh  Russia (RUS)	52.92 CR, EL	Vania Stambolova  Bulgaria (BUL)	53.82 NR	Perri Shakes-Drayton  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	54.18 PB
3000 metres steeplechase details	Yuliya Zarudneva  Russia (RUS)	9:17.57 CR	Hatti Dean  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	9:30.19 PB	Wioletta Frankiewicz  Poland (POL)	9:34.13
20 kilometres walk details	Anisya Kirdyapkina  Russia (RUS)	1:28:55	Vera Sokolova  Russia (RUS)	1:29:32	Melanie Seeger  Germany (GER)	1:29:43
4x100 metres relay details	Ukraine Olesya Povh Nataliya Pohrebnyak Mariya Ryemyen Yelizaveta Bryzhina	42.29 WL	France Myriam Soumaré Véronique Mang Lina Jacques-Sébastien Christine Arron	42.45	Poland Marika Popowicz Daria Korczyńska Marta Jeschke Weronika Wedler	42.68 NR
4x400 metres relay details	Germany Janin Lindenberg Esther Cremer Fabienne Kohlmann Claudia Hoffmann	3:24.07	Great Britain Nicola Sanders Marilyn Okoro Perri Shakes-Drayton Lee McConnell	3:24.32	Italy Chiara Bazzoni Marta Milani Maria Enrica Spacca Libania Grenot	3:25.71
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)

• Živilė Balčiūnaitė (LIT) won the Marathon, but was disqualified for doping after testing positive for testosterone.^[5][6]
• Nailiya Yulamanova (RUS) came second in the Marathon, and was set to be upgraded to gold winner after Živilė Balčiūnaitė was disqualified. However, in July 2012, Yulamanova was also disqualified for doping, and her results from 20 August 2009 onwards were annulled due to abnormalities in her biological passport profile.^[7]
• Mariya Savinova (RUS) won the 800 metres but was disqualified in 2017 for doping, and her result annulled.^[8]

Field

2002 | 2006 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Blanka Vlašić  Croatia (CRO)	2.03 =CR, =EL	Emma Green  Sweden (SWE)	2.01 PB	Ariane Friedrich  Germany (GER)	2.01
Pole vault details	Svetlana Feofanova  Russia (RUS)	4.75 SB	Silke Spiegelburg  Germany (GER)	4.65	Lisa Ryzih  Germany (GER)	4.65 PB
Long jump details	Ineta Radēviča  Latvia (LAT)	6.92 NR	Naide Gomes  Portugal (POR)	6.92 SB	Olga Kucherenko  Russia (RUS)	6.84
Triple jump details	Olha Saladukha  Ukraine (UKR)	14.81 EL	Simona La Mantia  Italy (ITA)	14.56 SB	Svetlana Bolshakova  Belgium (BEL)	14.55 NR
Shot put details	Anna Avdeyeva  Russia (RUS)	19.39	Yanina Pravalinskay-Karolchyk  Belarus (BLR)	19.29	Olga Ivanova  Russia (RUS)	19.02
Discus throw details	Sandra Perković  Croatia (CRO)	64.67	Nicoleta Grasu  Romania (ROM)	63.48	Joanna Wiśniewska  Poland (POL)	62.37 SB
Hammer throw details	Betty Heidler  Germany (GER)	76.38 SB	Tatyana Lysenko  Russia (RUS)	75.65	Anita Włodarczyk  Poland (POL)	73.56
Javelin throw details	Linda Stahl  Germany (GER)	66.81 PB	Christina Obergföll  Germany (GER)	65.58	Barbora Špotáková  Czech Republic (CZE)	65.36
Heptathlon details	Jessica Ennis  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	6823 CR, WL, PB	Nataliya Dobrynska  Ukraine (UKR)	6778 PB	Jennifer Oeser  Germany (GER)	6683 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)

Participating nations

In brackets: Squad size

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Spain)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France (FRA)	8	6	4	18
2	Russia (RUS)	8	4	5	17
3	Great Britain (GBR)	6	10	4	20
4	Germany (GER)	5	6	6	17
5	Poland (POL)	3	1	6	10
6	Turkey (TUR)	3	0	0	3
7	Ukraine (UKR)	2	4	1	7
8	Italy (ITA)	2	3	3	8
9	Spain (ESP)*	2	2	2	6
10	Croatia (CRO)	2	0	0	2
11	Netherlands (NED)	1	1	1	3
12	Belgium (BEL)	1	0	2	3
13	Latvia (LAT)	1	0	1	2
	Slovakia (SVK)	1	0	1	2
15	Norway (NOR)	1	0	0	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	1	0	0	1
17	Portugal (POR)	0	4	1	5
18	Romania (ROU)	0	2	0	2
19	Belarus (BLR)	0	1	1	2
	Ireland (IRL)	0	1	1	2
	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	1	2
22	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	0	1
23	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	3	3
24	Azerbaijan (AZE)	0	0	1	1
	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	0	1	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	Moldova (MDA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (27 entries)		47	47	47	141

• † = Totals following the removal of José Luis Blanco bronze medal in the steeplechase due to positive doping test.^[9]
• †2 = Totals following the removal of Nailya Yulamanova gold medal in the marathon due to positive doping test.^[10]
• †3 = Totals following the removal of Andrei Mikhnevich gold medal in the shot put due to positive doping test.^[11]
• †4 = Totals following the disqualification of Marta Domínguez.^[12]