2010 European Athletics Championships Explained

20th European Athletics Championships
Colour:	E0ECF8
Host City:	Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Dates:	27 July – 1 August
Stadium:	Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys
Level:	Senior
Type:	Outdoor
Nations Participating:	50
Athletes Participating:	1,368^[1]
Events:	47 (men: 24; women: 23)
Records Set:	8 Championships records
Previous:	2006 Gothenburg
Next:	2012 Helsinki

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.

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

Men

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Men's results

Track

2002 | 2006 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014

100 metres	Christophe Lemaitre	10.11	Mark Lewis-Francis	10.18	Martial Mbandjock	10.18
200 metres	Christophe Lemaitre	20.37	Christian Malcolm	20.38 SB	Martial Mbandjock	20.42
400 metres	Kevin Borlée	45.08 SB	Michael Bingham	45.23	Martyn Rooney	45.23
800 metres	Marcin Lewandowski	1:47.07	Michael Rimmer	1:47.17	Adam Kszczot	1:47.22
1500 metres	Arturo Casado	3:42.74	Carsten Schlangen	3:43.52	Manuel Olmedo	3:43.54
5000 metres	Mo Farah	13:31.18	Jesús España	13:33.12	Hayle Ibrahimov	13:34.15
10,000 metres	Mo Farah	28:24.99	Chris Thompson	28:27.33	Daniele Meucci	28:27.33
Marathon	Viktor Röthlin	2:15:31	José Manuel Martínez	2:17:50	Dmitry Safronov	2:18:16
110 metres hurdles	Andy Turner	13.28 SB	Garfield Darien	13.34 PB	Dániel Kiss	13.39
400 metres hurdles	Dai Greene	48.12 EL	Rhys Williams	48.96 PB	Stanislav Melnykov	49.09 PB
3000 metres steeplechase	Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad	8:07.87 CR	Bouabdellah Tahri	8:09.28	Ion Luchianov	8:19.64 SB
20 kilometres walk	Alex Schwazer^1	1:20:38	João Vieira	1:20:49 SB	Robert Heffernan	1:21:00
50 kilometres walk	Yohann Diniz	3:40:37 EL	Grzegorz Sudoł	3:42:24 PB	Sergey Bakulin	3:43:26 PB
4x100 metres relay		38.11 EL		38.17 NR		38.44
4x400 metres relay		3:02.14		3:02.25		3:02.60

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

2002 | 2006 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014

High jump	Aleksandr Shustov	2.33	Ivan Ukhov	2.31	Martyn Bernard	2.29
Pole vault	Renaud Lavillenie	5.85	Maksym Mazuryk	5.80 SB	Przemysław Czerwiński	5.75 SB
Long jump	Christian Reif	8.47 CR, WL, PB	Kafétien Gomis	8.24 PB	Chris Tomlinson	8.23 SB
Triple jump	Phillips Idowu	17.81 PB	Marian Oprea	17.51 SB	Teddy Tamgho	17.45
Shot put	Tomasz Majewski^2	21.00	Ralf Bartels	20.93	Māris Urtāns	20.72
Discus throw	Piotr Małachowski	68.87 CR	Robert Harting	68.47	Róbert Fazekas	66.43 SB
Javelin throw	Andreas Thorkildsen	88.37	Matthias de Zordo	87.81 PB	Tero Pitkämäki	86.67
Hammer throw	Libor Charfreitag	80.02	Nicola Vizzoni	79.12	Krisztián Pars	79.06
Decathlon	Romain Barras	8453 EL, PB	Eelco Sintnicolaas	8436 PB	Andrei Krauchanka	8370 SB

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

Doping cases

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
			49.89	400 m
			1:58.22	800 m
			14:52.20	5000 m
			31:22.83	10,000 m
			2:31:14	Marathon
			2:32:15	Marathon
			1:27:44	20 km race walk
			9:17.74	3000 m steeplechase
			9:29.82	3000 m steeplechase
			3:21.26	4x400 m relay
			20.48 m	Shot put
			19.53 m	Shot put

Track

2002 | 2006 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014

100 metres	Verena Sailer	11.10 PB	Véronique Mang	11.11 PB	Myriam Soumaré	11.18 PB
200 metres	Myriam Soumaré	22.32 EL, PB	Yelizaveta Bryzhina	22.44 PB	Aleksandra Fedoriva	22.44
400 metres	Kseniya Ustalova	49.92 PB	Antonina Krivoshapka	50.10 SB	Libania Grenot	50.43 SB
800 metres	Yvonne Hak	1:58.85 PB	Jenny Meadows	1:59.39	Lucia Klocová	1:59.64
1500 metres	Nuria Fernández	4:00.20 PB	Hind Dehiba	4:01.17	Natalia Rodríguez	4:01.30 SB
5000 metres	Elvan Abeylegesse	14:54.44	Sara Moreira	14:54.71 PB	Jéssica Augusto	14.58.47
10,000 metres	Elvan Abeylegesse	31:10.23 EL	Jéssica Augusto	31:25.77	Hilda Kibet	31:36.90 SB
Marathon	Anna Incerti	2:32:48	Tetyana Filonyuk	2:33:57	Isabellah Andersson	2:34:43
100 metres hurdles	Nevin Yanıt	12.63 NR	Derval O'Rourke	12.65 NR	Carolin Nytra	12.68
400 metres hurdles	Natalya Antyukh	52.92 CR, EL	Vania Stambolova	53.82 NR	Perri Shakes-Drayton	54.18 PB
3000 metres steeplechase	Yuliya Zarudneva	9:17.57 CR	Hatti Dean	9:30.19 PB	Wioletta Frankiewicz	9:34.13
20 kilometres walk	Anisya Kirdyapkina	1:28:55	Vera Sokolova	1:29:32	Melanie Seeger	1:29:43
4x100 metres relay		42.29 WL		42.45		42.68 NR
4x400 metres relay		3:24.07		3:24.32		3:25.71

• Živilė Balčiūnaitė (LIT) won the Marathon, but was disqualified for doping after testing positive for testosterone.^{[5] [6]}
• Nailiya Yulamanova (RUS) came second in the Marathon, and was set to be upgraded to gold winner after Živilė Balčiūnaitė was disqualified. However, in July 2012, Yulamanova was also disqualified for doping, and her results from 20 August 2009 onwards were annulled due to abnormalities in her biological passport profile.^[7]
• Mariya Savinova (RUS) won the 800 metres but was disqualified in 2017 for doping, and her result annulled.^[8]

Field

2002 | 2006 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014

High jump	Blanka Vlašić	2.03 =CR, =EL	Emma Green	2.01 PB	Ariane Friedrich	2.01
Pole vault	Svetlana Feofanova	4.75 SB	Silke Spiegelburg	4.65	Lisa Ryzih	4.65 PB
Long jump	Ineta Radēviča	6.92 NR	Naide Gomes	6.92 SB	Olga Kucherenko	6.84
Triple jump	Olha Saladukha	14.81 EL	Simona La Mantia	14.56 SB	Svetlana Bolshakova	14.55 NR
Shot put	Anna Avdeyeva	19.39	Yanina Pravalinskay-Karolchyk	19.29	Olga Ivanova	19.02
Discus throw	Sandra Perković	64.67	Nicoleta Grasu	63.48	Joanna Wiśniewska	62.37 SB
Hammer throw	Betty Heidler	76.38 SB	Tatyana Lysenko	75.65	Anita Włodarczyk	73.56
Javelin throw	Linda Stahl	66.81 PB	Christina Obergföll	65.58	Barbora Špotáková	65.36
Heptathlon	Jessica Ennis	6823 CR, WL, PB	Nataliya Dobrynska	6778 PB	Jennifer Oeser	6683 PB

Participating nations

• (2)
• (6)
• (3)
• (15)
• (5)
• (42)
• (32)
• (2)
• (17)
• (12)
• (10)
• (41)
• (15)
• (17)
• (39)
• (60)
• (2)
• (74)
• (1)
• (72)
• (33)
• (23)
• (6)
• (30)
• (16)
• (73)
• (21)
• (1)
• (25)
• (1)
• (2)
• (2)
• (6)
• (1)
• (2)
• (36)
• (38)
• (71)
• (42)
• (33)
• (105)
• (2)
• (11)
• (19)
• (33)
• (host) (88)
• (41)
• (22)
• (20)
• (62)

In brackets: Squad size

Medal table

• † = 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

• List of stripped European Athletics Championships medals
• 2010 African Championships in Athletics

External links

• Official website
• EAA Official website
• EAA calendar

Notes and References

1. Web site: Barcelona 2010 set to take off with highest ever athlete participation. European Athletic Association. 27 July 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100722224450/http://www.european-athletics.org/20th-european-athletics-championships-2010/barcelona-2010-set-to-take-off-with-highest-ever-athlete-participation.html. 22 July 2010. dead. dmy-all.
2. Web site: 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. 28 July 2014. IAAF. 31 July 2014.
3. Web site: 20th European championships 2010 - women. run123.one. 5 April 2011. 27 August 2018. 26 June 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210626094134/http://www.run123.one/cha/EC/EC2010-women.html. dead.
4. Web site: A Grenot il bronzo europeo di Barcellona 2010. fidal.it. it. 22 September 2019.
5. https://www.bbc.com/sport/0/athletics/12976926 European marathon champion Balciunaite given doping ban
6. Associated Press: Zivile Balciunaite loses appeal, espn.com, 4 February 2012
7. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/athletics/9373488/London-2012-Olympics-Russian-athletics-trio-banned-for-doping-offences.html London 2012 Olympics: Russian athletics trio banned for doping offences
8. Web site: The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) imposes four-year period of ineligibility on Russian Athlete Mariya Savinova-Farnosova . Court of Arbitration for Sport . Lausanne . 10 February 2017.
9. http://www.iaaf.org/mm/Document/News/GeneralNews/05/91/37/20110125045748_httppostedfile_NEWS119_23319.pdf IAAF Newsletter Ed. 119
10. Web site: London 2012 Olympics: Russian athletics trio banned for doping offences. 3 July 2012 .
11. http://www.thenews.pl/1/5/Artykul/138487,Shotputter-Majewski-takes-belated-gold-after-doping-ruling Shot-putter Majewski takes belated gold after doping ruling.
12. Marta Domínguez Banned for 3 Years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) . . November 19, 2015 . 2015-11-19 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151128154051/http://www.tas-cas.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Media_Release_3561_3614.pdf . November 28, 2015 .