2018 European Championships

The 2018 European Championships were the first edition of the European Championships. It was a multi-sport event which took place in Berlin, Germany, and Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom (with Edinburgh hosting the diving events and Gleneagles the golf) from 2 to 12 August 2018. Around 1,500 athletes competed at the European Athletics Championships in Berlin, whilst at the same time more than 3,000 took part in the other championships in Glasgow. Each European Championship was organised by the respective federation and host city.

Venues

Most of the events took place in Glasgow and its close surroundings:

Tollcross International Swimming Centre – swimming Loch Lomond – open water swimming Scotstoun Sports Campus – synchronised swimming Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome – track cycling Streets of Glasgow, East Dunbartonshire and Stirling – road cycling Cathkin Braes Mountain Bike Trails – mountain biking Glasgow BMX Centre (Knightswood) – BMX Strathclyde Country Park – rowing and triathlon SSE Hydro – artistic gymnastics

Two championships events were hosted at venues in different Scottish cities:

Royal Commonwealth Pool, Edinburgh – diving PGA Centenary Course, Gleneagles – golf

The athletics championships event were held in the second major host city, Berlin:

Olympiastadion, Berlin – athletics

European Championships Trophy On 1 August, at the "Great Big Opening Party" in Glasgow, a new European Championship Trophy was unveiled, which was 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.European Championships opened by party in Glasgow as federations unveil winner's trophy, from insidethegames.biz On 12 August, the trophy was presented to the leading nation on the overall table, Russia, in a ceremony in Glasgow.

List of individual championships 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

Participating nations 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:

Faroe Islands (FRO) (2)

(hosts)

Macedonia (MKD) (2)

Schedule The original schedule was released in February 2017. The schedule was updated in June 2017 based on the Glasgow ticket schedule and again in March 2018 when the Berlin timetable was released.

●Event competitions1Number of gold medal events

August2Thu3Fri4Sat5Sun6Mon7Tue8Wed9Thu10Fri11Sat12SunGold medal events Athletics

|72 Diving

| Open Water Swimming

| 30 Road

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! style="background-color:#ffcc00;" | 1 Mountain Bike

! style="background-color:#ffcc00;" | 2

| BMX

| style="background-color:#3399ff;" |● ! style="background-color:#ffcc00;" | 2 | Golf

|17 Triathlon

! style="background-color:#ffcc00;" | 1 ! style="background-color:#ffcc00;" | 1 ! style="background-color:#ffcc00;" | 1 |3Total gold medal events 12 21 24 13 24 17 20 12 19 25 187Cumulative total 12 33 57 70 94 111 131 143 162 187

Medal table

Each sport maintained its own medal table, but an overall medal table is also maintained, 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.

Notes Not included in the official medal table.

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.

Results and standings Official results and standings: ec2018results.com

Broadcasting All of Europe's major free-to-air broadcasters televised the European Championships in 2018, such as BBC in the United Kingdom, ARD/ZDF in Germany, France Télévisions in France, RAI in Italy and TVE in Spain. Other EBU members who signed up include VRT (Belgium), HRT (Croatia), DR (Denmark), YLE (Finland), RTÉ (Ireland), NOS (Netherlands), NRK (Norway), TVP (Poland), RTP (Portugal), SRG SSR (Switzerland) and SVT (Sweden). The level of coverage was also enhanced by a deal with Eurosport. In total, over 40 EBU members signed agreements as of April 2018. There were discussions with broadcasters in the remaining territories in Europe, plus other global territories like China, Japan and USA.

Sponsorship 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 signed up to support the inaugural event.

References

External links

European Championships 2018 results

2018 European Championships

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