23rd European Athletics Championships
Dates	6–10 July
Host city	Amsterdam
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Level	Senior
Type	Outdoor
Events	44
Participation	1,329 athletes from 50 nations
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The 2016 European Athletics Championships was held in Amsterdam, Netherlands, between 6 and 10 July 2016.^[1] It was the first time the Netherlands hosted the event.

Due to 2016 being an Olympic year, there was no racewalking and the marathon competition was replaced by half marathon. The Russian team did not participate due to the suspension of the All-Russia Athletic Federation by the International Association of Athletics Federations.^[2] However, Yuliya Stepanova was individually cleared by the IAAF to compete as an independent athlete; she participated in the European championships under the flag of the European Athletic Association.^[3][4]

Germany and Great Britain topped the medal table with 16, with Poland winning 12 medals. Poland won and topped the victory column with 6 gold medals (Germany & Great Britain tied with 5).

Event schedule

Results

Men

Track

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Churandy Martina  Netherlands (NED)	10.07 SB	Jak Ali Harvey  Turkey (TUR)	10.07	Jimmy Vicaut  France (FRA)	10.08
200 metres details	Bruno Hortelano  Spain (ESP)	20.45	Ramil Guliyev  Turkey (TUR)	20.51	Daniel Talbot  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	20.56
400 metres details	Martyn Rooney  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	45.29	Pavel Maslák  Czech Republic (CZE)	45.36	Liemarvin Bonevacia  Netherlands (NED)	45.41 SB
800 metres details	Adam Kszczot  Poland (POL)	1:45.18	Marcin Lewandowski  Poland (POL)	1:45.54	Elliot Giles  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	1:45.54 PB
1500 metres details	Filip Ingebrigtsen  Norway (NOR)	3:46.65	David Bustos  Spain (ESP)	3:46.90	Henrik Ingebrigtsen  Norway (NOR)	3:47.18
5000 metres details	Ilias Fifa  Spain (ESP)	13:40.85	Adel Mechaal  Spain (ESP)	13:40.85	Richard Ringer  Germany (GER)	13:40.85 SB
10,000 metres details	Polat Kemboi Arıkan  Turkey (TUR)	28:18.52	Ali Kaya  Turkey (TUR)	28:21.42	Antonio Abadía  Spain (ESP)	28:26.07
Half marathon details	Tadesse Abraham  Switzerland (SUI)	1:02:03	Kaan Kigen Özbilen  Turkey (TUR)	1:02:27	Daniele Meucci  Italy (ITA)	1:02:38
	Switzerland (SUI)	3:12:04	Spain (ESP)	3:12:06	Italy (ITA)	3:12:41
110 metres hurdles details	Dimitri Bascou  France (FRA)	13.25	Balázs Baji  Hungary (HUN)	13.28 NR	Wilhem Belocian  France (FRA)	13.33
400 metres hurdles details	Yasmani Copello  Turkey (TUR)	48.98	Sérgio Fernández  Spain (ESP)	49.06	Kariem Hussein  Switzerland (SUI)	49.10
3000 metres steeplechase details	Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad  France (FRA)	8:25.63	Aras Kaya  Turkey (TUR)	8:29.91 PB	Yoann Kowal  France (FRA)	8:30.79
4 × 100 metres relay details	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) James Dasaolu Adam Gemili James Ellington Chijindu Ujah	38.17	France (FRA) Marvin René Stuart Dutamby Mickael-Meba Zeze Jimmy Vicaut	38.38 SB	Germany (GER) Julian Reus Sven Knipphals Roy Schmidt Lucas Jakubczyk	38.47
4 × 400 metres relay details	Belgium (BEL) Julien Watrin Jonathan Borlée Dylan Borlée Kévin Borlée	3:01:10 EL	Poland (POL) Rafał Omelko Kacper Kozłowski Łukasz Krawczuk Jakub Krzewina	3:01:18 SB	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) Rabah Yousif Delano Williams Jack Green Matthew Hudson-Smith	3:01:44 SB
WR world record | ER European record | CR championship record | NR national record | WL world leading | EL European leading | PB personal best | SB seasonal best

Field

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Gianmarco Tamberi  Italy (ITA)	2.32	Robbie Grabarz  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	2.29	Chris Baker  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) Eike Onnen  Germany (GER)	2.29
Pole vault details	Robert Sobera  Poland (POL)	5.60	Jan Kudlička  Czech Republic (CZE)	5.60	Robert Renner  Slovenia (SLO)	5.50
Long jump details	Greg Rutherford  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	8.25	Michel Tornéus  Sweden (SWE)	8.21 SB	Ignisious Gaisah  Netherlands (NED)	7.93
Triple jump details	Max Hess  Germany (GER)	17.20 EL	Karol Hoffmann  Poland (POL)	17.16 PB	Julian Reid  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	16.76 SB
Shot put details	David Storl  Germany (GER)	21.31 EL	Michał Haratyk  Poland (POL)	21.19	Tsanko Arnaudov  Portugal (POR)	20.59 SB
Discus throw details	Piotr Małachowski  Poland (POL)	67.06	Philip Milanov  Belgium (BEL)	65.71	Gerd Kanter  Estonia (EST)	65.27 SB
Javelin throw details	Zigismunds Sirmais  Latvia (LAT)	86.66 PB	Vítězslav Veselý  Czech Republic (CZE)	83.59	Antti Ruuskanen  Finland (FIN)	82.44
Hammer throw details	Paweł Fajdek  Poland (POL)	80.93	Ivan Tikhon  Belarus (BLR)	78.84	Wojciech Nowicki  Poland (POL)	77.53
Decathlon details	Thomas Van der Plaetsen  Belgium (BEL)	8218	Adam Helcelet  Czech Republic (CZE)	8157 SB	Mihail Dudaš  Serbia (SRB)	8153
WR world record | ER European record | CR championship record | NR national record | WL world leading | EL European leading | PB personal best | SB seasonal best

Women

Track

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Dafne Schippers  Netherlands (NED)	10.90	Ivet Lalova-Collio  Bulgaria (BUL)	11.20	Mujinga Kambundji  Switzerland (SUI)	11.25
200 metres details	Dina Asher-Smith  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	22.37 SB	Ivet Lalova-Collio  Bulgaria (BUL)	22.52 SB	Gina Lückenkemper  Germany (GER)	22.74
400 metres details	Libania Grenot  Italy (ITA)	50.73	Floria Gueï  France (FRA)	51.21	Anyika Onuora  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	51.47 SB
800 metres details	Nataliya Pryshchepa  Ukraine (UKR)	1:59.70	Rénelle Lamote  France (FRA)	2:00.19	Lovisa Lindh  Sweden (SWE)	2:00.37 PB
1500 metres details	Angelika Cichocka  Poland (POL)	4:33.00	Sifan Hassan  Netherlands (NED)	4:33.76	Ciara Mageean  Ireland (IRL)	4:33.78
5000 metres details	Yasemin Can  Turkey (TUR)	15:18.15	Meraf Bahta  Sweden (SWE)	15:20.54	Stephanie Twell  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	15:20.70
10,000 metres details	Yasemin Can  Turkey (TUR)	31:12.86 EL, EU23	Dulce Félix  Portugal (POR)	31:19.03 PB	Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal  Norway (NOR)	31:23.45 PB
Half marathon details	Sara Moreira  Portugal (POR)	1:10:19	Veronica Inglese  Italy (ITA)	1:10:35	Jéssica Augusto  Portugal (POR)	1:10:55
	Portugal (POR)	3:33:53	Italy (ITA)	3:36:38	Turkey (TUR)	3:39:59
100 metres hurdles details	Cindy Roleder  Germany (GER)	12.62 EL	Alina Talay  Belarus (BLR)	12.68	Tiffany Porter  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	12.76
400 metres hurdles details	Sara Slott Petersen  Denmark (DEN)	55.12 SB	Joanna Linkiewicz  Poland (POL)	55.33	Léa Sprunger  Switzerland (SUI)	55.41
3000 metres steeplechase details	Gesa-Felicitas Krause  Germany (GER)	9:18.85 EL	Luiza Gega  Albania (ALB)	9:28.52 NR	Özlem Kaya  Turkey (TUR)	9:35.05 SB
4 × 100 metres relay details	Netherlands (NED) Jamile Samuel Dafne Schippers Tessa van Schagen Naomi Sedney	42.04 NR	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) Asha Philip Dina Asher-Smith Bianca Williams Daryll Neita	42.45 SB	Germany (GER) Tatjana Pinto Lisa Mayer Gina Lückenkemper Rebekka Haase	42.48
4 × 400 metres relay details	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) Emily Diamond Anyika Onuora Eilidh Doyle Seren Bundy-Davies	3:25.05 WL	France (FRA) Phara Anacharsis Brigitte Ntiamoah Marie Gayot Floria Gueï	3:25.96 SB	Italy (ITA) Maria Benedicta Chigbolu Maria Enrica Spacca Chiara Bazzoni Libania Grenot	3:27.49 SB
WR world record | ER European record | CR championship record | NR national record | WL world leading | EL European leading | PB personal best | SB seasonal best

Field

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Ruth Beitia  Spain (ESP)	1.98 SB	Mirela Demireva  Bulgaria (BUL) Airinė Palšytė  Lithuania (LTU)	1.96 1.96 SB	Not awarded
Pole vault details	Ekaterini Stefanidi  Greece (GRE)	4.81 CR	Lisa Ryzih  Germany (GER)	4.70 SB	Angelica Bengtsson  Sweden (SWE)	4.65 SB
Long jump details	Ivana Španović  Serbia (SRB)	6.94	Jazmin Sawyers  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	6.86	Malaika Mihambo  Germany (GER)	6.65
Triple jump details	Patrícia Mamona  Portugal (POR)	14.58 NR	Hanna Minenko  Israel (ISR)	14.51	Paraskevi Papachristou  Greece (GRE)	14.47
Shot put details	Christina Schwanitz  Germany (GER)	20.17 EL	Anita Márton  Hungary (HUN)	18.72	Emel Dereli  Turkey (TUR)	18.22
Discus throw details	Sandra Perković  Croatia (CRO)	69.97	Julia Fischer  Germany (GER)	65.77	Shanice Craft  Germany (GER)	63.89
Javelin throw details	Tatsiana Khaladovich  Belarus (BLR)	66.34 NR	Linda Stahl  Germany (GER)	65.25 SB	Sara Kolak  Croatia (CRO)	63.50 NR
Hammer throw details	Anita Włodarczyk  Poland (POL)	78.14	Betty Heidler  Germany (GER)	75.77 SB	Hanna Skydan  Azerbaijan (AZE)	73.83
Heptathlon details	Anouk Vetter  Netherlands (NED)	6626 NR	Antoinette Nana Djimou  France (FRA)	6458 SB	Ivona Dadic  Austria (AUT)	6408 NR
WR world record | ER European record | CR championship record | NR national record | WL world leading | EL European leading | PB personal best | SB seasonal best

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Host nation)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Poland (POL)	6	5	1	12
2	Germany (GER)	5	4	7	16
3	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	5	3	8	16
4	Turkey (TUR)	4	5	2	11
5	Netherlands (NED)*	4	1	2	7
6	Spain (ESP)	3	3	1	7
7	France (FRA)	2	5	3	10
8	Italy (ITA)	2	1	2	5
	Portugal (POR)	2	1	2	5
10	Belgium (BEL)	2	1	0	3
11	Belarus (BLR)	1	2	0	3
12	Switzerland (SUI)	1	0	3	4
13	Norway (NOR)	1	0	2	3
14	Croatia (CRO)	1	0	1	2
	Greece (GRE)	1	0	1	2
	Serbia (SRB)	1	0	1	2
17	Denmark (DEN)	1	0	0	1
	Latvia (LAT)	1	0	0	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	1	0	0	1
20	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	4	0	4
21	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	3	0	3
22	Sweden (SWE)	0	2	2	4
23	Hungary (HUN)	0	2	0	2
24	Albania (ALB)	0	1	0	1
	Israel (ISR)	0	1	0	1
	Lithuania (LTU)	0	1	0	1
27	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Azerbaijan (AZE)	0	0	1	1
	Estonia (EST)	0	0	1	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	Ireland (IRL)	0	0	1	1
	Slovenia (SLO)	0	0	1	1
Totals (32 entries)		44	45	44	133

Participating nations

Athletes from a total of 50 member federations of the European Athletics Association competed at these Championships.^[6] Russia, suspended, did not participate. EAA accepted the participation of Russian-born athlete Yuliya Stepanova as an independent neutral athlete.^[7]