IAU 100 km European Championships

The IAU 100 km European Championships is an annual, ultrarunning competition over 100 kilometres (60 miles) for European athletes. It is organised by the International Association of Ultrarunners (IAU) and was first held in 1992 – five years after the launched of the World Championships for the distance. The competition features both an individual and national team component. The team race is decided by aggregated the three best times set by a nation's athletes.[1]

IAU 100 km European Championships
SportUltramarathon
First season1992
Official websiteiau-ultramarathon.org

In its 22nd edition in 2013, a total of 94 athletes representing 19 countries took part in the competition.[2] Winschoten in the Netherlands has been a frequent host of the event, doing so ten times, including the first three editions. (In other years, the area has held an annual race there – Run Winschoten.)[3] The championships has almost exclusively been contested in Western Europe, with the sole exception being the 2003 event in Russia.[4] The editions of the competition from 2007 to 2012 were jointly held alongside the World Championships, with the European athletes within that race being ranked separately for the continental event.[5][6]

The most successful athletes of the championships are Giorgio Calcaterra of Italy and Jonas Buud of Sweden. Each has won the men's title three times, as well as having won a silver and a bronze. Three-time champion Jaroslaw Janicki of Poland is the next most successful and Kajsa Berg is the only woman to have won the championships three times. The championship records are 6:16:41 hours for men, set by Belgian Jean-Paul Praet in 1992, and 7:19:51 hours for women, achieved by Tatyana Zhirkova of Russia in 2003. Russia is comfortably the most successful nation of the championships with nine women's gold medals and eight men's gold medals. Italian and Swedish athletes are the next best performers with six titles each. A total of seventeen European nations have reached the podium.[4]

After being held annually from 1992 to 2013, the event switched to being held on a semi-annual basis. Following the 2015 edition, there were no bids to host the 2017 or 2019 editions so both were cancelled.[7][8] As of 2024, the event has not been held since 2015, though there are scheduled European 100 km championships in 2025 and 2027.[9]

Editions

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Edition Year City Country Date No. of athletes No. of nations
1st 1992 Winschoten Netherlands 16 February
2nd 1993 Winschoten Netherlands 18 September
3rd 1994 Winschoten Netherlands 3 September
4th 1995 Chavagnes-en-Paillers France 27 May
5th 1996 Cléder France 25 August
6th 1997 Faenza Italy 31 May
7th 1998 Torhout Belgium 19 June
8th 1999 Winschoten Netherlands 11 September
9th 2000 Belvès France 30 April
10th 2001 Winschoten Netherlands 29 September
11th 2002 Winschoten Netherlands 14 September
12th 2003 Chernogolovka Russia 19 April
13th 2004 Faenza Italy 29 May
14th 2005 Winschoten Netherlands 10 September
15th 2006 Torhout Belgium 16 June
16th 2007 Winschoten Netherlands 8 September
17th 2008 Tarquinia Italy 8 November
18th 2009 Torhout Belgium 19 June
19th 2010 Gibraltar Gibraltar 7 November
20th 2011 Winschoten Netherlands 10 September
21st 2012 Seregno Italy 22 April
22nd 2013 Belvès France 27 April 94 19[2]
23rd 2015 Winschoten Netherlands 12 September

Medal summary

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Year Gold Silver Bronze
1992   Jean-Paul Praet (BEL) 6:16:41   Bruno Scelsi (FRA) 6:42:40   Aleksandr Masarygin (RUS) 6:44:20
1993   Konstantin Santalov (RUS) 6:25:52   Peter Hermans (BEL) 6:33:57   Mikhail Kokorev (RUS) 6:36:38
1994   Jaroslaw Janicki (POL) 6:33:43   Andrzej Magier (POL) 6:33:43   Denis Gack (FRA) 6:37:47
1995   Jaroslaw Janicki (POL) 6:28:38   Igor Ryabov (RUS) 6:30:04   Andrzej Magier (POL) 6:35:37
1996   Jaroslaw Janicki (POL) 6:33:39   Jiří Jelínek (CZE) 6:38:15   Andrzej Magier (POL) 6:39:49
1997   Aleksey Kononev (RUS) 6:47:35   Grigoriy Murzin (RUS) 6:47:39   Nikolay Buskarov (RUS) 6:47:57
1998   Grigoriy Murzin (RUS) 6:23:28   Dmitriy Radyuchenko (RUS) 6:34:40   Nikolay Buskarov (RUS) 6:40:45
1999   Pascal Fetizon (FRA) 6:39:16   Mikhail Kokorev (RUS) 6:42:18   Gilles Diehl (FRA) 6:44:39
2000   Farid Ganiyev (RUS) 6:33:36   Piotr Sekowski (POL) 6:44:28   Oleg Kharitonov (RUS) 6:47:00
2001   Vladimir Netreba (RUS) 6:45:43   Attila Vozar (HUN) 6:47:57   Mirko Vindiš (SLO) 6:52:47
2002   Pascal Fetizon (FRA) 6:34:16   Denis Zhalybin (RUS) 6:36:21   Oleg Kharitonov (RUS) 6:41:18
2003   Farid Ganiyev (RUS) 6:28:27   Grigoriy Murzin (RUS) 6:29:41   Mario Ardemagni (ITA) 6:33:22
2004   Mario Ardemagni (ITA) 6:31:44.7   Fermin Martinez (ESP) 6:48:07.0   Simon Pride (GBR) 6:48:47.7
2005   Oleg Kharitonov (RUS) 6:30:31   Mario Ardemagni (ITA) 6:40:39   Pascal Fetizon (FRA) 6:50:22
2006   Jose Maria Gonzales (ESP) 6:23:44   Dmitriy Bula (BLR) 6:33:56   Yannick Djouadi (FRA) 6:38:19
2007   Oleg Kharitonov (RUS) 6:30:22   Igor Tyazhkorov (RUS) 6:42:36   Aleksey Izmaylov (RUS) 6:45:11
2008   Giorgio Calcaterra (ITA) 6:37:41   Jaroslaw Janicki (POL) 6:40:44   Miguel Ángel Jiménez (ESP) 6:53:44
2009   Jonas Buud (SWE) 6:41:50   Giorgio Calcaterra (ITA) 6:42:05   Marco Boffo (ITA) 6:45:39
2010   Jonas Buud (SWE) 6:47:40   Aleksandr Holovnitskiy (UKR) 6:51:03   Andre Collet (GER) 6:51:54
2011   Giorgio Calcaterra (ITA) 6:27:32   Pieter Vermeesch (BEL) 6:47:01   Jonas Buud (SWE) 6:52:19
2012   Giorgio Calcaterra (ITA) 6:23:22   Jonas Buud (SWE) 6:28:59   Alberico diCecco (ITA) 6:40:32
2013   Asier Cuevas Ettcheto (ESP) 6:53:14   Mickaël Boch (FRA) 6:56:49   Jose-Antonio Requejo Santos (ESP) 6:57:02
2015   Jonas Buud (SWE) 6:22:44   Asier Cuevas Ettcheto (ESP) 6:35:49   Giorgio Calcaterra (ITA) 6:36:49

Women

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Year Gold Silver Bronze
1992   Hilary Walker (GBR) 7:55:12   Viviane VanderHaeghen (BEL) 7:59:19   Eleanor Robinson (GBR) 8:06:18
1993   Marta Vass (HUN) 7:43:16   Hilary Walker (GBR) 7:50:09   Eleanor Robinson (GBR) 8:02:24
1994   Valentina Lyakhova (RUS) 7:36:39   Nursiya Bagmanova (RUS) 7:52:59   Elena Bikulova (RUS) 7:46:35
1995   Isabelle Olive (FRA) 7:43:14   Lynn Harding (GBR) 7:52:23   Daniele Geffroy (FRA) 7:54:10
1996   Carolyn Hunter-Rowe (GBR) 7:41:29   Martine Cubizolles (FRA) 7:49:09   Huguette Jouault (FRA) 7:51:54
1997   Olga Lapina (RUS) 8:13:49   Jutta Philippin (GER) 8:20:07   Sybille Möllensiep (GER) 8:23:42
1998   Svetlana Savoskina (RUS) 7:45:43   Alziria Lario (POR) 7:58:36   Elena Bikulova (RUS) 8:05:03
1999   Elvira Kolpakova (RUS) 7:33:39   Magali Reymonencq (FRA) 7:55:35   Elena Bikulova (RUS) 8:05:03
2000   Edit Bérces (HUN) 7:53:12   Karine Herry (FRA) 8:06:46   Alziria Lario (POR) 8:16:53
2001   Ricarda Botzon (GER) 7:31:55   Marina Bychkova (RUS) 7:37:02   Karine Herry (FRA) 7:42:36
2002   Elvira Kolpakova (RUS) 7:24:52   Monica Casiraghi (ITA) 7:33:14   Danielle Sanderson (GBR) 7:47:30
2003   Tatyana Zhirkova (RUS) 7:19:51   Monica Casiraghi (ITA) 7:28:00   Elena Nurgalyeva (RUS) 7:31:14
2004   Monica Casiraghi (ITA) 8:03.03.8   Karine Herry (FRA) 8:19:08.3   Magali Reymonencq (FRA) 8:26:52.6
2005   Monica Casiraghi (ITA) 7:53:25   Birgit Schönherr (GER) 7:53:28   Karine Herry (FRA) 7:55:53
2006   Birgit Schönherr (GER) 7:58:44   Laurence Klein (FRA) 7:59:22   Christine Lelan (FRA) 8:01:54
2007   Laurence Klein (FRA) 7:26:44   Marina Myschlyanova (RUS) 7:39:20   Monica Carlin (ITA) 7:40:38
2008   Tatyana Zhirkova (RUS) 7:23:33   Monica Carlin (ITA) 7:35:38   Irina Vishnevskaya (RUS) 7:38:40
2009   Irina Vishnevskaya (RUS) 7:46:26   Monica Carlin (ITA) 7:53:58   Helena Crossan (IRL) 8:04:40
2010   Ellie Greenwood (GBR) 7:29:05   Monica Carlin (ITA) 7:30:50   Lizzy Hawker (GBR) 7:33:26
2011   Marina Bychkova (RUS) 7:27:19   Joanna Zakrzewski (GBR) 7:41:06   Irina Vishnevskaya (RUS) 7:45:27
2012   Kajsa Berg (SWE) 7:35:23   Irina Vishnevskaya (RUS) 7:36:01   Judit Földing-Nagy (HUN) 7:43:55
2013   Kajsa Berg (SWE) 7:38:52   Irina Antopova (RUS) 7:42:52   Susan Harrison (GBR) 7:48:12
2015   Kajsa Berg (SWE) 7:20:48   Marija Vrajic (CRO) 7:27:11   Joasia Zakrzewski (GBR) 7:31:33

Men team

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Year Gold Silver Bronze
1992   Russia (RUS) 20:11:47   Belgium (BEL) 20:34:10   Great Britain (GBR) 21:21:20
1993   Great Britain (GBR) 20:26:56   France (FRA) 20:40:50   Germany (GER) 21:50:29
1994   Poland (POL) 20:05:20   Russia (RUS) 20:16:06   France (FRA) 20:32:17
1995   Russia (RUS) 19:52:19   Poland (POL) 19:58:12   France (FRA) 20:09:00
1996   Poland (POL) 20:04:53   France (FRA) 20:41:32   Spain (ESP) 21:19:01
1997   Russia (RUS) 20:23:11   Spain (ESP) 21:30:55   Great Britain (GBR) 22:09:47
1998   Russia (RUS) 19:55:31   Belgium (BEL) 20:54:52   France (FRA) 21:05:29
1999   France (FRA) 20:32:25   Russia (RUS) 21:31:41   Spain (ESP) 23:18:28
2000   Russia (RUS) 20:15:04   France (FRA) 21:04:04   Belgium (BEL) 21:25:52
2001   Russia (RUS) 21:56:03   Ukraine (UKR) 22:08:33   Belgium (BEL) 22:12:34
2002   Russia (RUS) 20:13:04   France (FRA) 20:44:51   Italy (ITA) 21:13:28
2003   Russia (RUS) 20:20:00   France (FRA) 21:04:44   Italy (ITA) 21:11:41
2004   Italy (ITA) 20:40:33   Russia (RUS) 21:15:58   Great Britain (GBR) 21:28:35
2005   Russia (RUS) 20:21:40   France (FRA) 20:56:35   Germany (GER) 21:19:12
2006   Spain (ESP) 20:00:24   France (FRA) 20:11:58   Russia (RUS) 20:33:59
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Women team

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Year Gold Silver Bronze
1992   Great Britain (GBR) 24:22:24 Only one finishing team
1993   Great Britain (GBR) 24:53:32   Hungary (HUN) 26:14:55   France (FRA) 26:30:24
1994   Russia (RUS) 23:37:51   France (FRA) 25:44:24   Germany (GER) 26:18:39
1995   France (FRA) 23:39:02   Great Britain (GBR) 24:21:39   Germany (GER) 24:44:43
1996   France (FRA) 23:40:35   Germany (GER) 24:40:51   Great Britain (GBR) 24:50:39
1997   Germany (GER) 25:12:09   Russia (RUS) 25:27:31   Great Britain (GBR) 27:05:26
1998   Russia (RUS) 24:03:03   Germany (GER) 25:18:40   France (FRA) 25:19:57
1999   Germany (GER) 24:54:03   France (FRA) 26:24:39   Ukraine (UKR) 27:58:44
2000   France (FRA) 25:02:12   Italy (ITA) 29:13:48 Only two finishing teams
2001   Russia (RUS) 23:37:49   France (FRA) 23:42:22   Germany (GER) 23:52:00
2002   Russia (RUS) 23:57:55   Italy (ITA) 24:30:45   France (FRA) 24:58:48
2003   Russia (RUS) 22:28:13   France (FRA) 24:11:50   Italy (ITA) 24:33:48
2004   Italy (ITA) 25:22:14   Germany (GER) 26:08:09   France (FRA) 27:08:55
2005   France (FRA) 24:11:24   Germany (GER) 24:37:14   Italy (ITA) 25:30:58
2006   France (FRA) 24:14:37   Germany (GER) 24:57:00   Italy (ITA) 27:32:07
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Medal table

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Individual race

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RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Russia (RUS)17111341
2  Italy (ITA)67518
3  Sweden (SWE)6118
4  France (FRA)371020
5  Great Britain (GBR)33713
6  Poland (POL)3328
7  Germany (GER)2226
  Spain (ESP)2226
9  Hungary (HUN)2114
10  Belgium (BEL)1304
11  Portugal (POR)0112
12  Belarus (BLR)0101
  Croatia (CRO)0101
  Czech Republic (CZE)0101
  Ukraine (UKR)0101
16  Ireland (IRL)0011
  Slovenia (SLO)0011
Totals (17 entries)454546136

References

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  1. ^ IAU 100 Kilometres European Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2016-05-07.
  2. ^ a b Cuevas and Berg win IAU European 100km titles in Belves. IAAF (2013-04-28). Retrieved on 2016-05-07.
  3. ^ RUN Winschoten 2015 100 KM. Run Winschoten. Retrieved on 2016-05-07.
  4. ^ a b European 100 km Championships. Association of Road Racing Statisticians (2016-02-06). Retrieved on 2016-05-07.
  5. ^ IAU World 100 km Championships. Association of Road Racing Statisticians (2016-02-06). Retrieved on 2016-05-07.
  6. ^ Khan, Nadeem (2012-04-24). Calcaterra and Sproston win the 26th IAU 100km World Championship. IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-05-07.
  7. ^ "No European Championships 100K 2017". IAU. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  8. ^ "IAU 100 km European Championship - no bids for 2019". IAU. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  9. ^ "IAU Championships 2024 - 2028 _Current Status_January 2024" (PDF). IAU. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
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