2018 European Championships

On 1 August 2018, at the "Great Big Opening Party" in Glasgow, a new European Championship Trophy was unveiled, to be awarded to the nation achieving the most gold medals across all seven sports during the Championships. It was presented by Katherine Grainger, Emma Fredh and Angelina Melnikova on behalf of the seven European federations involved in the event.[1] On 12 August, the trophy was presented to the leading nation on the overall table, Russia, in a ceremony in Glasgow.

The following Championships have been brought together in the 2018 European Championships:

• 2018 European Athletics Championships
• 2018 European Aquatics Championships:
  • 2018 European Swimming Championships
  • 2018 European Diving Championships
  • 2018 European Synchronised Swimming Championships
  • 2018 European Open Water Swimming Championships
• 2018 European Cycling Championships:
  • 2018 European Track Cycling Championships
  • 2018 European Road Cycling Championships
  • 2018 European Mountain Bike Championships
  • 2018 European BMX Championships
• 2018 European Golf Team Championships
• 2018 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships:
  • 2018 European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships
  • 2018 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• 2018 European Rowing Championships
• 2018 European Triathlon Championships

52 nations, plus Authorised Neutral Athletes (Russian athletes competing in the European Athletics Championships under the European Athletics Flag) participated at the European Championships, including:

The original schedule was released in February 2017.[6][7] The schedule was updated in June 2017 based on the Glasgow ticket schedule[8][9] and again in March 2018 when the Berlin timetable was released.[10]

August		2 Thu	3 Fri	4 Sat	5 Sun	6 Mon	7 Tue	8 Wed	9 Thu	10 Fri	11 Sat	12 Sun	Gold medal events
Athletics						●	7	5	6	9	11	12	50
Aquatics	Swimming		4	6	6	6	6	6	9				72
	Diving					1	2	2	2	2	2	2
	Synchronised Swimming		2	1	1	2	3
	Open Water Swimming							2	2		1	2
Cycling	Track	●	6	4	4	4	4						30
	Road				1			2				1
	Mountain Bike						2
	BMX									●	2
Golf								●	●	●	1	2	3
Gymnastics	Men's Artistic Gymnastics								●		1	6	12
	Women's Artistic Gymnastics	●		1	4
Rowing		●	●	9	8								17
Triathlon									1	1	1		3
Total gold medal events			12	21	24	13	24	17	20	12	19	25	187
Cumulative total			12	33	57	70	94	111	131	143	162	187

Mascot Bonnie, a female harbour seal

Mascot "Berlino", a bear from the city's coat of arms, first appeared as mascot of the 2009 IAAF World Championships in Athletics

Each sport maintained its own medal table,[11] but an overall medal table is also maintained,[12] the leader of which won the European Championship trophy. Russia won the inaugural trophy and topped the medal table by gold medals won with 31, whilst co-hosts Great Britain topped the total medals table with 74 medals, 26 of which were gold. A chasing pack consisting of Italy, the Netherlands, co-hosts Germany and France each won over 10 gold medals and 40 medals in total.

  *   Host nations (United Kingdom and Germany)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	31	19	16	66
2	Great Britain (GBR)*	26	26	22	74
3	Italy (ITA)	15	17	28	60
4	Netherlands (NED)	15	15	13	43
5	France (FRA)	14	13	15	42
6	Germany (GER)*	13	17	23	53
7	Poland (POL)	9	6	6	21
8	Ukraine (UKR)	8	13	5	26
9	Switzerland (SUI)	8	4	7	19
10	Hungary (HUN)	7	4	4	15
11	Belgium (BEL)	6	5	8	19
12	Sweden (SWE)	6	3	2	11
13	Norway (NOR)	5	2	1	8
14	Greece (GRE)	4	3	2	9
15	Belarus (BLR)	4	2	3	9
16	Spain (ESP)	3	6	10	19
17	Romania (ROU)	3	4	3	10
18	Portugal (POR)	2	2	0	4
19	Croatia (CRO)	2	1	0	3
20	Denmark (DEN)	1	4	2	7
	Lithuania (LTU)	1	4	2	7
22	Turkey (TUR)	1	3	2	6
–	Authorised Neutral Athletes (ANA)	1	3	2	6
23	Ireland (IRL)	1	1	2	4
24	Iceland (ISL)	1	1	0	2
	Israel (ISR)	1	1	0	2
26	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	3	1	4
27	Austria (AUT)	0	1	3	4
28	Slovenia (SLO)	0	1	1	2
29	Azerbaijan (AZE)	0	1	0	1
	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	0	1
	Slovakia (SVK)	0	1	0	1
32	Armenia (ARM)	0	0	1	1
	Estonia (EST)	0	0	1	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (34 nations)		188	187	186	561

• The European Championships does not include the medals (1 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze) won by  Authorised Neutral Athletes. In addition, while both the Men's and Women's Gymnastics events included junior competitions in line with previous editions, medals in those competitions are not included within the total.

All of Europe's major free-to-air broadcasters televised the European Championships in 2018.[13][14] The European Broadcasting Union, which holds the broadcast rights on all platforms, has confirmed coverage across the top five markets, BBC in the United Kingdom, ARD/ZDF in Germany, France Télévisions in France, RAI in Italy and TVE in Spain. Other EBU members already signed up include VRT (Belgium), HRT (Croatia), DR (Denmark), YLE (Finland), RTÉ (Ireland), NOS (Netherlands), NRK (Norway), TVP (Poland), SRG SSR (Switzerland) and SVT (Sweden). The level of coverage is also enhanced by a deal with Eurosport. In total, over 40 EBU members have signed agreements as of April 2018. Discussions are ongoing with broadcasters in the remaining territories in Europe, plus other global territories like China, Japan and USA.[15]

Glasgow 2018 had five Official Partners (People Make Glasgow, Scottish Government, Strathmore Water, Spar & Eurovision) and Berlin 2018 had six Official Partners (Spar, Le Gruyère, Nike, Toyo Tires, Generali & Eurovision) with another tier of Official Supporters across the two host cities. Overall over 56 companies have been signed up to support the inaugural event.[15][16]

• Official website
• Results book