2010 European Athletics Championships

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.

20th European Athletics Championships
Dates27 July – 1 August
Host cityBarcelona, Catalonia, Spain
VenueEstadi Olímpic Lluís Companys
LevelSenior
TypeOutdoor
Events47 (men: 24; women: 23)
Participation1,368[1] athletes from
50 nations
Records set8 Championships records

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

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Key P Q H ½ F
Value Preliminary round Qualifiers Heats Semifinals Final

Men's results

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Christophe Lemaitre

Track

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
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Christophe Lemaitre
  France (FRA)
10.11 Mark Lewis-Francis
  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
10.18 Martial Mbandjock
  France (FRA)
10.18
200 metres
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Christophe Lemaitre
  France (FRA)
20.37 Christian Malcolm
  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
20.38 SB Martial Mbandjock
  France (FRA)
20.42
400 metres
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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
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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
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Arturo Casado
  Spain (ESP)
3:42.74 Carsten Schlangen
  Germany (GER)
3:43.52 Manuel Olmedo
  Spain (ESP)
3:43.54
5000 metres
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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  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
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  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

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
High jump
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Aleksandr Shustov
  Russia (RUS)
2.33 Ivan Ukhov
  Russia (RUS)
2.31 Martyn Bernard
  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
2.29
Pole vault
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Renaud Lavillenie
  France (FRA)
5.85 Maksym Mazuryk
  Ukraine (UKR)
5.80 SB Przemysław Czerwiński
  Poland (POL)
5.75 SB
Long jump
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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
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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
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Tomasz Majewski2
  Poland (POL)
21.00 Ralf Bartels
  Germany (GER)
20.93 Māris Urtāns
  Latvia (LAT)
20.72
Discus throw
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Piotr Małachowski
  Poland (POL)
68.87 CR Robert Harting
  Germany (GER)
68.47 Róbert Fazekas
  Hungary (HUN)
66.43 SB
Javelin throw
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Andreas Thorkildsen
  Norway (NOR)
88.37 Matthias de Zordo
  Germany (GER)
87.81 PB Tero Pitkämäki
  Finland (FIN)
86.67
Hammer throw
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Libor Charfreitag
  Slovakia (SVK)
80.02 Nicola Vizzoni
  Italy (ITA)
79.12 Krisztián Pars
  Hungary (HUN)
79.06
Decathlon
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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

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Verena Sailer

Doping cases

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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

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
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Verena Sailer
  Germany (GER)
11.10 PB Véronique Mang
  France (FRA)
11.11 PB Myriam Soumaré
  France (FRA)
11.18 PB
200 metres
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Myriam Soumaré
  France (FRA)
22.32 EL, PB Yelizaveta Bryzhina
  Ukraine (UKR)
22.44 PB Aleksandra Fedoriva
  Russia (RUS)
22.44
400 metres
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Kseniya Ustalova
  Russia (RUS)
49.92 PB Antonina Krivoshapka
  Russia (RUS)
50.10 SB Libania Grenot
  Italy (ITA)
50.43 SB
800 metres
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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
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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
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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
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Elvan Abeylegesse
  Turkey (TUR)
31:10.23 EL Jéssica Augusto
  Portugal (POR)
31:25.77 Hilda Kibet
  Netherlands (NED)
31:36.90 SB
Marathon
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Anna Incerti
  Italy (ITA)
2:32:48 Tetyana Filonyuk
  Ukraine (UKR)
2:33:57 Isabellah Andersson
  Sweden (SWE)
2:34:43
100 metres hurdles
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Nevin Yanıt
  Turkey (TUR)
12.63 NR Derval O'Rourke
  Ireland (IRL)
12.65 NR Carolin Nytra
  Germany (GER)
12.68
400 metres hurdles
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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
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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
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Anisya Kirdyapkina
  Russia (RUS)
1:28:55 Vera Sokolova
  Russia (RUS)
1:29:32 Melanie Seeger
  Germany (GER)
1:29:43
4x100 metres relay
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  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
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  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)

Field

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

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In brackets: Squad size

Medal table

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Mascot "Barni"

  *   Host nation (Spain)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  France (FRA)86418
2  Russia (RUS)84517
3  Great Britain (GBR)610420
4  Germany (GER)56617
5  Poland (POL)31610
6  Turkey (TUR)3003
7  Ukraine (UKR)2417
8  Italy (ITA)2338
9  Spain (ESP)*2226
10  Croatia (CRO)2002
11  Netherlands (NED)1113
12  Belgium (BEL)1023
13  Latvia (LAT)1012
  Slovakia (SVK)1012
15  Norway (NOR)1001
  Switzerland (SUI)1001
17  Portugal (POR)0415
18  Romania (ROU)0202
19  Belarus (BLR)0112
  Ireland (IRL)0112
  Sweden (SWE)0112
22  Bulgaria (BUL)0101
23  Hungary (HUN)0033
24  Azerbaijan (AZE)0011
  Czech Republic (CZE)0011
  Finland (FIN)0011
  Moldova (MDA)0011
Totals (27 entries)474747141
  • † = 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]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Barcelona 2010 set to take off with highest ever athlete participation". European Athletic Association. Archived from the original on 22 July 2010. Retrieved 27 July 2010.
  2. ^ "List of athletes currently serving a period of ineligibility as a result of an Anti-Doping Rule Violation under IAAF Rules as at: 28.07.14". IAAF. 28 July 2014. Retrieved 31 July 2014.
  3. ^ "20th European championships 2010 - women". run123.one. 5 April 2011. Archived from the original on 26 June 2021. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
  4. ^ "A Grenot il bronzo europeo di Barcellona 2010" (in Italian). fidal.it. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
  5. ^ European marathon champion Balciunaite given doping ban, bbc.com, 5 April 2011
  6. ^ Associated Press: Zivile Balciunaite loses appeal, espn.com, 4 February 2012
  7. ^ London 2012 Olympics: Russian athletics trio banned for doping offences. Daily Telegraph (3 July 2012). Retrieved on 17 July 2014
  8. ^ "The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) imposes four-year period of ineligibility on Russian Athlete Mariya Savinova-Farnosova" (PDF). Lausanne: Court of Arbitration for Sport. 10 February 2017.
  9. ^ IAAF Newsletter Ed. 119 Archived 2011-03-03 at the Wayback Machine. IAAF (2011-01-25). Retrieved on 2011-01-25.
  10. ^ "London 2012 Olympics: Russian athletics trio banned for doping offences". 3 July 2012.
  11. ^ Shot-putter Majewski takes belated gold after doping ruling. 13 June 2013
  12. ^ "Marta Domínguez Banned for 3 Years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS)" (PDF) (Press release). Court of Arbitration for Sport. November 19, 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 28, 2015. Retrieved 2015-11-19.
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