2017 European Athletics Indoor Championships

The 34th European Athletics Indoor Championships were held between 3 and 5 March 2017 at the Kombank Arena in Belgrade, Serbia. This was the second time this event was held in the city after the 1969 edition then known as the European Indoor Games, and the first time in more than 30 years that the competition was held in Eastern Europe. The three-day competition featured 13 men's and 13 women's athletics events and took place over two morning and three afternoon sessions.[1]

2017 European Athletics Indoor Championships
Dates3–5 March
Host cityBelgrade, Serbia
VenueKombank Arena
Events26
Participation525 athletes from
48 nations

The decision of Belgrade as the host-city was announced on 4 May 2014 in Frankfurt am Main, beating bids from Istanbul and Polish city Toruń. The host nation's leading athlete was Ivana Španović, who returned to defend her European indoor title in the long jump.[2] The 2017 Balkan Indoor Athletics Championships was held at the Kombank Arena a week prior to the competition.[3] Former athlete Slobodan Branković led the local organising committee. The event had an official website and a social media presence on Twitter and Facebook. The event mascot was decided by competition among Serbian schoolchildren, with the winning design coming from Sladjana Ljubic. A white lion named “Bela”, it reflects Belgrade Zoo's breeding programme for the animals. The event logo was simply a stylised version of the phrase "Belgrade 2017", rendered in a font resembling the natural straights and curves of an athletics track.[4]

Only one Russian athlete, women's long jumper Darya Klishina, was present at the competition, due to the international ban of the All-Russia Athletic Federation in place since November 2015 following systemic doping. Klishina competed as a neutral athlete. Three other Russians were cleared to compete as neutrals, but did not attend.[5][6] Russia had led the medal table at the competition in both 2013 and 2015.

Poland and Great Britain dominated the medal table, taking 12 of the twenty six golds available between them (7 for the Poles, 5 for the Britons) - of the other competing nations, only Germany and France won more than a single gold, with two each. In the placings table, Great Britain and Poland were inseparable on 103 points each, but Germany came a much closer third.

Men's results

Track

Event Gold Silver Bronze
60 metres
Richard Kilty
 Great Britain
6.54 EL Ján Volko
 Slovakia
6.58 NR Austin Hamilton
 Sweden
6.63 PB
400 metres
Pavel Maslák
 Czech Republic
45.77 EL Rafał Omelko
 Poland
46.08 PB Liemarvin Bonevacia
 Netherlands
46.26 NR
800 metres
Adam Kszczot
 Poland
1:48.87 Andreas Bube
 Denmark
1:49.32 Álvaro de Arriba
 Spain
1:49.68
1500 metres
Marcin Lewandowski
 Poland
3:44.82 Kalle Berglund
 Sweden
3:45.56 Filip Sasínek
 Czech Republic
3:45.89
3000 metres
Adel Mechaal
 Spain
8:00.60 Henrik Ingebrigtsen
 Norway
8:00.93 Richard Ringer
 Germany
8:01.01
60 metres hurdles
Andrew Pozzi
 Great Britain
7.51 Pascal Martinot-Lagarde
 France
7.52 Petr Svoboda
 Czech Republic
7.53 SB
4 × 400 metres relay
 Poland
Kacper Kozłowski
Łukasz Krawczuk
Przemysław Waściński
Rafał Omelko
3:06.99  Belgium
Robin Vanderbemden
Julien Watrin
Kevin Borlée
Dylan Borlée
3:07.80  Czech Republic
Patrik Šorm
Jan Tesař
Jan Kubista
Pavel Maslák
3:08.60

Field

Event Gold Silver Bronze
High jump
Sylwester Bednarek
 Poland
2.32 Robbie Grabarz
 Great Britain
2.30 SB Pavel Seliverstau
 Belarus
2.27
Pole vault
Piotr Lisek
 Poland
5.85 Konstadinos Filippidis
 Greece
5.85 NR Paweł Wojciechowski
 Poland
5.85 SB
Long jump
Izmir Smajlaj
 Albania
8.08 NR Michel Tornéus
 Sweden
8.08 SB Serhiy Nykyforov
 Ukraine
8.07
Triple jump
Nelson Évora
 Portugal
17.20 SB Fabrizio Donato
 Italy
17.13 Max Heß
 Germany
17.12
Shot put
Konrad Bukowiecki
 Poland
21.97 WL NR AUR Tomáš Staněk
 Czech Republic
21.43 PB David Storl
 Germany
21.30

Combined

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Heptathlon
Kevin Mayer
 France
6479 ER Jorge Ureña
 Spain
6227 Adam Helcelet
 Czech Republic
6110

Women's results

Track

Event Gold Silver Bronze
60 metres
Asha Philip
 Great Britain
7.06 EL NR Ewa Swoboda
 Poland
7.10 SB Mujinga Kambundji
  Switzerland
7.16 SB
400 metres
Floria Gueï
 France
51.90 PB Zuzana Hejnová
 Czech Republic
52.42 Justyna Święty
 Poland
52.52
800 metres
Selina Büchel
  Switzerland
2:00.38 NR Shelayna Oskan-Clarke
 Great Britain
2:00.39 PB Aníta Hinriksdóttir
 Iceland
2:01.25
1500 metres
Laura Muir
 Great Britain
4:02.39 CR NR Konstanze Klosterhalfen
 Germany
4:04.45 PB Sofia Ennaoui
 Poland
4:06.59
3000 metres
Laura Muir
 Great Britain
8:35.67 CR Yasemin Can
 Turkey
8:43.46 NR Eilish McColgan
 Great Britain
8:47.43
60 metres hurdles
Cindy Roleder
 Germany
7.88 Alina Talay
 Belarus
7.92 Pamela Dutkiewicz
 Germany
7.95
4 × 400 metres relay
 Poland
Patrycja Wyciszkiewicz
Małgorzata Hołub
Iga Baumgart
Justyna Święty
3:29.94  Great Britain
Eilidh Doyle
Phillipa Lowe
Mary Iheke
Laviai Nielsen
3:31.05  Ukraine
Olha Bibik
Tetyana Melnyk
Anastasiya Bryzhina
Olha Lyakhova
3:32.10

Field

Event Gold Silver Bronze
High jump
Airinė Palšytė
 Lithuania
2.01 WL NR Ruth Beitia
 Spain
1.94 Yuliya Levchenko
 Ukraine
1.94 PB
Pole vault
Katerina Stefanidi
 Greece
4.85 WL SB Lisa Ryzih
 Germany
4.75 PB Angelica Bengtsson
 Sweden
Maryna Kylypko
 Ukraine
4.55
Long jump
Ivana Španović
 Serbia
7.24 WL NR Lorraine Ugen
 Great Britain
6.97 NR Claudia Salman-Rath
 Germany
6.94 PB
Triple jump
Kristin Gierisch
 Germany
14.37 EL Patrícia Mamona
 Portugal
14.32 SB Paraskevi Papachristou
 Greece
14.24 SB
Shot put
Anita Márton
 Hungary
19.28 WL Radoslava Mavrodieva
 Bulgaria
18.36 PB Yuliya Leantsiuk
 Belarus
18.32

Combined

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Pentathlon
Nafissatou Thiam
 Belgium
4870 WL Ivona Dadic
 Austria
4767 NR Györgyi Zsivoczky-Farkas
 Hungary
4723 PB

Medal table

  The host country is highlighted in blue
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Poland (POL)72312
2 Great Britain (GBR)54110
3 Germany (GER)2259
4 France (FRA)2103
5 Czech Republic (CZE)1247
6 Spain (ESP)1214
7 Greece (GRE)1113
8 Belgium (BEL)1102
 Portugal (POR)1102
10 Hungary (HUN)1012
  Switzerland (SUI)1012
12 Albania (ALB)1001
 Lithuania (LTU)1001
 Serbia (SRB)*1001
15 Sweden (SWE)0224
16 Belarus (BLR)0123
17 Austria (AUT)0101
 Bulgaria (BUL)0101
 Denmark (DEN)0101
 Italy (ITA)0101
 Norway (NOR)0101
 Slovakia (SVK)0101
 Turkey (TUR)0101
24 Ukraine (UKR)0044
25 Iceland (ISL)0011
 Netherlands (NED)0011
Totals (26 nations)26262779

Placing table

In the placing table the points were awarded for every place in the top eight of each event: 8 for 1st, 7 for 2nd, 6 for 3rd, etc.[7]

RankNation1st2nd3rd4th5th6th7th8thTotal
1 Poland561418106104
2 Great Britain40286512642103
3 Germany16143020124399
4 Sweden1411.52085.52162
5 France1671012943.561.5
6 Spain8146108122161
7 Czech Republic8142456158
8 Ukraine723.5104246.5
9 Belarus7124225
10 Italy7566125
11 Portugal875424
12 Netherlands658423
13 Greece87621
14  Switzerland854320
15 Hungary86519
16 Denmark754218
17 Belgium87116
18 Serbia843116
19 Austria75315
20 Bulgaria75113
21 Albania8412
22 Norway7411
22 Slovakia7411
24 Turkey7310
25 Lithuania88
26 Croatia448
27 Iceland66
28 Finland62.521.56
29 Latvia50.55.5
30Independent Athletes55
30 Azerbaijan55
32 Estonia44
33 Cyprus33
33 Montenegro33
35 Bosnia and Herzegovina22
36 Slovenia0.50.5

Participating nations

There was a total of 525 participants (out of the 567 initially entered) from 48 nations. The only federations missing were Georgia, Kosovo, and Liechtenstein.

References

  1. Timetable. Belgrade2017. Retrieved on 2017-03-04.
  2. "Belgrade to host 2017 Indoor Champs". Time to Run. 5 May 2014. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
  3. Balkan Indoor Championships. Kombank Arena (2017-02-25). Retrieved on 2017-03-04.
  4. Media Guide. Belgrade2017. Retrieved on 2017-03-04.
  5. IAAF clears 3 Russians to compete at European indoor championships. CBC (2017-02-23). Retrieved on 2017-03-04.
  6. Russian athlete Darya Klishina going solo again as ban brings back 'stressful' Rio memories. Evening Standard (2017-03-03). Retrieved on 2017-03-04.
  7. "EUROPEAN ATHLETICS INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS BELGRADE 2017 PLACING TABLE". european-athletics.org. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
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