Athletics at the 2015 European Games

Athletics at the 2015 European Games took place at the Baku National Stadium and on the streets of Baku, Azerbaijan.

Program[]

The main athletics programme in the National Stadium was a combined European Games and 2015 European Team Championships Third League competition. It is the lowest league of the Team Championships, with 17 teams from smaller European athletics nations, including Azerbaijan.

600 athletes in total^{[citation needed]} – competed over two days for points in 20 men's and women's track and field events. Points were to be combined to produce national team totals, and games medals awarded to the top three nations. Medals are not awarded for individual events. The top four nations also win promotion from the Third League of the European Team Championships to the Second League.^[1]

As required by the European Team Championship format, both genders compete in the non-Olympic 3000m event, while Olympic events longer than 5000m, and combined events, are not held.^[2] Athletics at the European Games offers possible qualification standards for the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics.

A second non-medal athletics competition was held as a series of demonstration events on the streets of Baku in a Great City Games format. Events include the high jump and pole vault, and 24 athletes were scheduled to compete.^[3] Plans to include street running races were reportedly cancelled.^[4]

Athletics was not included in the earliest list of sports confirmed for the 2015 Games, as the European Athletics authorities at that stage were minded not to take part. However, following negotiations with the organising authorities, a compromise was reached in February 2014 between the organisers and European Athletics to hold the two sets of competitions. The agreement was confirmed by Pat Hickey, president of the European Olympic Committees in February 2015.^[5]

Medal summary[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Mixed team (details)	Austria Ekemini Bassey Dominik Distelberger Elisabeth Eberl Markus Fuchs Kira Grunberg Viola Kleiser Sarah Lagger Gunther Matzinger Gerhard Mayer Valentin Pfeil Verena Preiner Beate Schrott Dominik Siedlaczek Christian Steinhammer Andreas Vojta Susanne Walli Lukas Weißhaidinger Jennifer Wenth	Slovakia Katarína Berešová Alexandra Bezeková Matúš Bubeník Martina Hrašnová Martin Kučera Marcel Lomnický Lucia Mokrašová Iveta Putálová Jozef Repčík Lucia Slaničková Dana Velďáková Jana Velďáková Tomáš Veszelka Ján Volko Adam Zavacký Patrik Ženúch	Israel Haimro Alame Girmaw Amare Amit Cohen Olga Dogadgo Marharyta Dorozhon Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko Dmitry Kroytor Olga Lenskiy Donald Sanford Maayan Shahaf Maor Tiyouri Diana Vaisman Tom Yakubov

Participating countries[]

The following countries are scheduled to take part in the team event.

¹ Consists of athletes from San Marino (9), Gibraltar (4), Liechtenstein (4) and Monaco (1).

Results[]

Score table[]

Event		AASSE	ALB	AND	AUT	AZE	BIH	GEO	ISR	LUX	MKD	MLT	MDA	MNE	SVK
100 metres	M	2	0	3	12	11	4	8	10	5	13	6	7	9	14
	W	1	6	7	11	9	4	5	14	10	2	13	8	3	12
200 metres	M	2	0	4	7	10	6	13	12	3	8	5	9	11	14
	W	1	4	5	12	8	7	6	14	10	2	11	9	3	13
400 metres	M	2	7	1	11	10	12	8	14	3	6	5	13	4	9
	W	3	4	1	13	10	9	7	8	6	5	11	12	2	14
800 metres	M	9	11	6	8	7	14	5	10	4	1	3	12	2	13
	W	1	13	4	11	12	8	5	7	14	2	6	9	3	10
1500 metres	M	7	0	5	12	14	10	3	9	8	2	4	11	6	13
	W	2	14	7	11	0	9	8	13	12	3	5	6	4	10
3000 metres	M	8	2	4	13	14	6	5	9	11	3	7	12	1	10
	W	5	0	4	14	12	11	2	13	8	3	6	7	9	10
5000 metres	M	0	9	5	11	14	2	8	12	6	4	7	13	3	10
	W	5	0	0	14	13	12	7	9	10	4	6	0	8	11
3000 metre steeplechase	M	0	10	5	13	6	12	9	11	4	3	7	14	2	8
	W	0	0	0	11	0	13	9	12	7	0	8	14	6	10
110/100 metre hurdles	M	0	0	5	14	13	12	8	10	11	6	0	9	0	7
	W	0	0	4	14	9	12	0	10	11	5	7	8	6	13
400 metre hurdles	M	9	0	3	13	7	10	5	12	8	4	0	11	6	14
	W	0	3	2	14	6	9	5	10	13	8	7	11	4	12
4 x 100 metres relay	M	4	0	5	13	10	7	9	14	6	0	0	8	11	12
	W	0	0	7	12	11	8	0	13	0	0	10	9	6	14
4 x 400 metres relay	M	0	0	3	8	11	13	9	12	6	4	5	10	7	14
	W	0	0	4	13	10	7	6	9	11	5	8	12	3	14
High jump	M	9	0	4	10	8	6	11	12	7	2	4	13	4	14
	W	0	0	8.5	7	6	11	13	12	10	4	3	5	14	8.5
Pole vault	M	0	0	10	13	0	7	6	12	11	0	5	9	8	14
	W	9	0	5.5	14	11	0	7	12	13	0	5.5	8	0	10
Long jump	M	5	13	1	12	8	4	14	11	6	3	10	2	7	9
	W	0	3	4	12	10	7	11	0	8	6	13	9	5	14
Triple jump	M	5	10	2	8	14	4	11	12	3	0	7	13	6	9
	W	0	0	7	11	12	6	10	14	4	3	8	9	5	13
Shot put	M	0	6	2	12	7	14	4	8	11	3	5	13	9	10
	W	0	0	3	7	10	8	6	12	9	5	4	13	14	11
Discus throw	M	0	0	3	14	6	12	7	11	9	4	5	13	10	8
	W	7	0	2	10	12	9	4	11	6	5	3	14	13	8
Hammer throw	M	0	0	5	12	0	6	11	10	9	4	8	13	7	14
	W	0	0	7	10	13	9	0	11	8	4	5	12	6	14
Javelin throw	M	0	0	3	10	4	7	13	12	9	5	8	11	6	14
	W	4	0	2	13	5	11	7	14	9	3	6	12	10	8
Country		AASSE	ALB	AND	AUT	AZE	BIH	GEO	ISR	LUX	MKD	MLT	MDA	MNE	SVK
Total		100	115	163	460	353	338	285	441	319	144	246.5	403	243	459.5

Final standings[]

Pos	Country	Pts
	Austria	460
	Slovakia	459.5
	Israel	441
4	Moldova	403
5	Azerbaijan	353
6	Bosnia and Herzegovina	338
7	Luxembourg	319
8	Georgia	285
9	Malta	246.5
10	Montenegro	243
11	Andorra	163
12	Macedonia	144
13	Albania	115
14	AASSE	100

^[6]

Doping[]

Azerbaijan's – the winner of the women's steeplechase event – was disqualified after her in-competition drug test came back positive for the banned substance ostarine.^[7]

Azerbaijan's Dzmitry Marshin was suspended for four years after he failed a drug test. This subsequent doping disqualification led to changes in final standings. Austria received an additional point and overhauled Slovakia.^[8][9]

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