2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships

The 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held from 2 to 5 March 2023 at the Ataköy Arena in Istanbul, Turkey, the first time the event took place in this country although the venue did stage the 2012 World Indoor Championships for which this 7000-seater was specifically built. The four-day competition was held during the centenary year of the Republic of Turkey, and featured 13 men's and 13 women's athletics events over three morning and four afternoon sessions.[2][3]

2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships
OrganisersEAA
Edition37th[1]
Dates2–5 March
Host cityIstanbul, Turkey
VenueAtaköy Arena
LevelSenior
TypeIndoor
Events26
Participation550 athletes from
47 nations
Official websiteEAA
LOC

On 11 November 2020, the European Athletic Association (EAA) chose Istanbul at its 160th Council Meeting held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[4] The city was the only candidate that applied for the organization of this championships.[5]

In a statement issued on 21 February 2023, European Athletics announced that the championships would take place as planned despite the Turkey–Syria earthquake, which struck southern and central Turkey on 6 February and affected 16 percent of country's population with more than 45,900 deaths, albeit with limitations on usual celebratory side-events and activities as well as no local promotion.[6] Turkish Athletic Federation announced that all proceeds from ticket sales in the championship would be donated to the victims of the earthquake.[7]

While 550 athletes from 47 European Athletics Member Federations competed in Ataköy Arena, it was the first time ever at a major European athletics championship that the number of female athletes competing (278) exceeded the number of male athletes (274).[8] Norway topped the medal table for the first time in European Athletics Indoor Championships history with four gold and one silver medal. The Netherlands and Great Britain and Northern Ireland earned three gold medals each, while Italy, Belgium, Portugal, Switzerland and Finland secured two gold medals respectively. In the placing table, Italy came first with 84 points, while Norway placed ninth with 45 points.

Schedule

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All times are local (UTC+3).[9]

Q Qualification H Heats R1 Round 1 S Semi-finals F Final
M = morning session, E = evening session

Qualification criteria

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In individual events athletes could qualify by achieving the Entry Standard within the qualification period or by virtue of the World Athletics Rankings' position achieved at the end of the qualification period. About 50 percent of the athletes should have qualified via the Entry Standards, while the remaining participants were determined via the World Rankings. The qualification period ran 12 months from 20 February 2022 to 19 February 2023, except for the combined events where it ran 18 months from 20 August 2021 to 19 February 2023. Each nation could enter up to four qualified athletes in each individual event of whom up to three could participate. Countries who had no athletes who had achieved the Entry Standard and athletes who had been potentially qualified by World Rankings, could enter one unqualified male athlete and/or one unqualified female athlete in one individual event of the championships. Six national teams could take part in each 4 × 400 m relay event: one place was allocated to the team of the host nation, three places were allocated to best official teams in 4 x 400 m outdoor lists for 2022, while the remaining two places (or three if the host country did not take its allocated place as the Turkish women's relay) were allocated to teams with best accumulated 400 m times of individual athletes from 2023 indoor season as of 20 February 2023.[10]

All athletes born before and including 2007 (aged at least 16 years on 31 December 2023) were eligible to compete, except for the men's shot put where the limit was 2005 (athletes aged at least 18 years on 31 December 2023).[10]

Entry Standards and target numbers of athletes / teams per event
Event Men Women Quota
Indoor Outdoor Indoor Outdoor
60 metres 6.63 10.08 for 100 m 7.24 11.10 for 100 m 40
400 metres 46.35 45.15 52.20 50.80 30
800 metres 1:46.75 1:44.70 2:02.20 1:59.00 30
1500 metres 3:37.40 3:32.80 4:09.00 4:02.50 27
3000 metres 7:44.00 7:37.00 8:48.00 8:39.00 24
60 m hurdles 7.64 13.30 for 110 mH 8.03 12.90 for 100 mH 32
High jump 2.30 m (7 ft 6+12 in) 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) 18
Pole vault 5.82 m (19 ft 1 in) 4.70 m (15 ft 5 in) 18
Long jump 8.12 m (26 ft 7+12 in) 6.75 m (22 ft 1+12 in) 18
Triple jump 17.02 m (55 ft 10 in) 14.32 m (46 ft 11+34 in) 18
Shot put 21.20 m (69 ft 6+12 in) 18.60 m (61 ft 14 in) 18
Pentathlon 4580 pts 6650 for heptathlon 14
Heptathlon 6140 pts 8400 for decathlon 14
4 × 400 m relay see above 6

Highlights

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Nafissatou Thiam broke the pentathlon world record

On 3 March, Belgium's Nafissatou Thiam broke the pentathlon world record of 5013 points set by Nataliya Dobrynska of Ukraine during the 2012 World Indoor Championships at the same Ataköy Arena, totalling a score of 5055 points. It was the first world record at the European Indoor Championships since 2011, making Thiam the first ever Belgian woman to set an official athletics world record (indoor or outdoor).[11] In addition, with her third European indoor title, she became the most successful female pentathlete in history of this championships, retaining also her gold medal from the 2021 edition. Poland's Adrianna Sułek also went above previous record with a score of 5014 points and basically was the world record-holder for about six seconds, finishing first the 800 metres run, the final of the five events in pentathlon.[12][13]

Two additional championship records were broken: Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen ran a time 3:33.95 in the 1500 metres and Dutch women's 4 × 400 m relay team achieved a mark of 3:25.66, making them the third-fastest national team in history. One men's heptathlon and one women's pentathlon championship best as well as 39 national indoor records were set. There were four world world-leading marks and eight European-leading marks.[14]

Ingebrigtsen completed the 1500 m/3000 m 'double-double', successfully defending both his titles from 2021 to increase his overall tally to six medals, including five golds. Greece's Miltiadis Tentoglou became the first man to win three consecutive long jump titles. Portugal's Pedro Pichardo in the triple jump and France's Kevin Mayer in the heptathlon also retained their titles.

On the women's side, Netherlands' Femke Bol secured the 400 m/4 × 400 m golden double as in previous edition. Great Britain's Keely Hodgkinson in the 800 metres, Ukraine's Yaroslava Mahuchikh in the high jump and Portugal's Auriol Dongmo in the shot put also retained their titles. Laura Muir won a British record fifth title, taking victory in the 1500 m, after her historic 1500 m/3000 m 'double-double' from 2017 and 2019.[15] Finland's Reetta Hurske claimed gold in the 60 metres hurdles, the first ever medal for her nation in the event.[16]

Men's results

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Track

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
60 metres
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Samuele Ceccarelli
  Italy
6.48 Marcell Jacobs
  Italy
6.50 SB Henrik Larsson
  Sweden
6.53 NR
400 metres
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Karsten Warholm
  Norway
45.35 Julien Watrin
  Belgium
45.44 NR Carl Bengtström
  Sweden
45.77
800 metres
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Adrián Ben
  Spain
1:47.34 (.335) Benjamin Robert
  France
1:47.34 (.338) Eliott Crestan
  Belgium
1:47.65
1500 metres
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Jakob Ingebrigtsen
  Norway
3:33.95 CR Neil Gourley
  Great Britain
3:34.23 Azeddine Habz
  France
3:35.39
3000 metres
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Jakob Ingebrigtsen
  Norway
7:40.32 NR Adel Mechaal
  Spain
7:41.75 SB Elzan Bibić
  Serbia
7:44.03
60 metres hurdles
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Jason Joseph
  Switzerland
7.41 EL Jakub Szymański
  Poland
7.56 Just Kwaou-Mathey
  France
7.59
4 × 400 metres relay
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  Belgium
Dylan Borlée
Alexander Doom
Kevin Borlée
Julien Watrin
3:05.83 EL   France
Gilles Biron
Téo Andant
Victor Coroller
Muhammad Abdallah Kounta
3:06.52 SB   Netherlands
Isayah Boers
Isaya Klein Ikkink
Ramsey Angela
Liemarvin Bonevacia
3:06.59 SB

Field

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
High jump
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Douwe Amels
  Netherlands
2.31 =NR Andriy Protsenko
  Ukraine
2.29 Thomas Carmoy
  Belgium
2.29 PB
Pole vault
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Sondre Guttormsen
  Norway
5.80 Emmanouil Karalis
  Greece
Piotr Lisek
  Poland SB
5.80 Not awarded
Long jump
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Miltiadis Tentoglou
  Greece
8.30 Thobias Montler
  Sweden
8.19 SB Gabriel Bitan
  Romania
8.00
Triple jump
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Pedro Pichardo
  Portugal
17.60 WL NR Nikolaos Andrikopoulos
  Greece
16.58 SB Max Heß
  Germany
16.57
Shot put
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Zane Weir
  Italy
22.06 EL NR Tomáš Staněk
  Czech Republic
21.90 SB Roman Kokoshko
  Ukraine
21.84 NR

Combined

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Heptathlon
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Kevin Mayer
  France
6,348 EL Sander Skotheim
  Norway
6,318 NR Risto Lillemets
  Estonia
6,079 SB

Women's results

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Track

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
60 metres
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Mujinga Kambundji
  Switzerland
7.00 =CR Ewa Swoboda
  Poland
7.09 =SB Daryll Neita
  Great Britain
7.12
400 metres
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Femke Bol
  Netherlands
49.85 Lieke Klaver
  Netherlands
50.57 Anna Kiełbasińska
  Poland
51.25 SB
800 metres
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Keely Hodgkinson
  Great Britain
1:58.66 Anita Horvat
  Slovenia
2:00.54 Agnès Raharolahy
  France
2:00.85
1500 metres
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Laura Muir
  Great Britain
4:03.40 Claudia Bobocea
  Romania
4:03.76 PB Sofia Ennaoui
  Poland
4:04.06 PB
3000 metres
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Hanna Klein
  Germany
8:35.87 PB Konstanze Klosterhalfen
  Germany
8:36.50 Melissa Courtney-Bryant
  Great Britain
8:41.19
60 metres hurdles
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Reetta Hurske
  Finland
7.79 =NR Nadine Visser
  Netherlands
7.84 SB Ditaji Kambundji
  Switzerland
7.91
4 × 400 metres relay
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  Netherlands
Lieke Klaver
Eveline Saalberg
Cathelijn Peeters
Femke Bol
3:25.66 WL CR NR   Italy
Alice Mangione
Ayomide Folorunso
Anna Polinari
Eleonora Marchiando
3:28.61 NR   Poland
Anna Kiełbasińska
Marika Popowicz-Drapała
Alicja Wrona-Kutrzepa
Anna Pałys [pl]
3:29.31 SB

Field

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
High jump
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Yaroslava Mahuchikh
  Ukraine
1.98 Britt Weerman
  Netherlands
1.96 =NR Kateryna Tabashnyk
  Ukraine
1.94
Pole vault
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Wilma Murto
  Finland
4.80 NR Tina Šutej
  Slovenia
4.75 Amálie Švábíková
  Czech Republic
4.70
Long jump
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Jazmin Sawyers
  Great Britain
7.00 WL NR Larissa Iapichino
  Italy
6.97 NR Ivana Vuleta
  Serbia
6.91
Triple jump
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Tuğba Danışmaz
  Turkey
14.31 NR Dariya Derkach
  Italy
14.20 Patrícia Mamona
  Portugal
14.16
Shot put
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Auriol Dongmo
  Portugal
19.76 EL Sara Gambetta
  Germany
18.83 SB Fanny Roos
  Sweden
18.42

Combined

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
Pentathlon
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Nafissatou Thiam
  Belgium
5055 WR Adrianna Sułek
  Poland
5014 NR Noor Vidts
  Belgium
4823 SB

Legend

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WR: world record | ER: European record | CR: championship record | NR: national record | WL: world leading | EL: European leading | PB: personal best | SB: seasonal best

Medal table

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  *   Host nation (Turkey)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Norway4105
2  Netherlands3317
3  Great Britain3126
4  Italy2406
5  Belgium2136
6  Portugal2013
  Switzerland2013
8  Finland2002
9  France1236
10  Germany1214
11  Greece1203
12  Ukraine1124
13  Spain1102
14  Turkey*1001
15  Poland0437
16  Slovenia0202
17  Sweden0134
18  Czech Republic0112
  Romania0112
20  Serbia0022
21  Estonia0011
Totals (21 entries)26272578

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Placing table

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The top eight finalists in each event scored points for their nation, with 8 points going to the gold medalists down to one point for each 8th place finisher. Non-finishers and disqualified athletes received zero points.

Rank Country       4 5 6 7 8 Finalists Points
1   Italy 2 4 - 3 2 3 2 4 20 84
2   Great Britain 3 1 2 - 3 4 2 2 17 72.50
3   Netherlands 3 3 1 1 1 2 1 1 13 69
4   Germany 1 2 1 4 - 1 4 2 15 61
5   France 1 2 3 - 3 1 1 1 12 58
6   Poland - 4 3 1 1 1 - - 10 57.50
7   Belgium 2 1 3 1 - 2 2 1 12 57
8   Spain 1 1 - 5 1 1 2 1 12 52
9   Norway 4 1 - - - 1 1 1 8 45
10   Portugal 2 - 1 2 1 1 - 2 9 41
11   Switzerland 2 - 1 - 1 3 1 - 8 37
12   Czech Republic - 1 1 1 3 2 - 1 9 37
13   Sweden - 1 3 - 1 - 2 2 9 35
14   Ukraine 1 1 2 - 1 - - - 5 31
15   Greece 1 2 - 1 - - 1 - 5 28.50
16   Slovenia - 2 - - 1 - - 1 4 19
17   Romania - 1 1 - 1 - 1 - 4 18.50
18   Finland 2 - - - - - 1 - 3 18
19   Serbia - - 2 1 - - - 1 4 18
20   Ireland - - - 1 1 1 - - 3 12
21   Turkey 1 - - - - 1 - - 2 11
22   Luxembourg - - - - 2 - - 1 3 9
23   Hungary - - - - 1 1 1 - 3 9
24   Austria - - - 1 - - 1 - 2 7
24   Bosnia and Herzegovina - - - 1 - - 1 - 2 7
26   Estonia - - 1 - - - - - 1 6
27   Bulgaria - - - 1 - - - - 1 5
27   Croatia - - - 1 - - - - 1 5
27   Denmark - - - 1 - - - - 1 5
30   Azerbaijan - - - - 1 - - - 1 4
30   Slovakia - - - - 1 - - - 1 4
32   Lithuania - - - - - 1 - - 1 3
33   Moldova - - - - - - 1 - 1 2

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Participating nations

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550 athletes from 47 member federations competed in the championships. In brackets the number of athletes participating.

Media coverage

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The European Athletics agreed broadcasting agreements with 26 countries, with remaining areas receiving coverage direct from the European Athletics via the Eurovision All Athletics platform.[19]

  • Austria: ORF Sport +
  • Belgium: RTBF, VRT
  • Croatia: HRT (evening sessions 3 & 4 March + all sessions 5 March) and All Athletics (remaining sessions)
  • Czech Republic: CT
  • Denmark: DR
  • Estonia: ERR
  • Finland: Yle
  • France: France TV (evening sessions 3, 4 & 5 March) and All Athletics (remaining sessions)
  • Greece: ERT
  • Hungary: M4 Sport
  • Iceland: RÚV (all sessions 3, 4, 5 March) and All Athletics (all sessions 2 March)
  • Ireland: RTÉ
  • Israel: The Sport Channel
  • Italy: RAI
  • Lithuania: LRT (evening sessions 3 & 4 March + all sessions 5 March) and All Athletics (remaining sessions)
  • Netherlands: NOS
  • Norway: NRK (evening sessions 3, 4 & 5 March) and All Athletics (remaining sessions)
  • Poland: TVP
  • Portugal: RTP and All Athletics
  • Serbia: RTS (all evening sessions + morning session 5 March) and All Athletics (remaining sessions)
  • Spain: RTVE
  • Sweden: SVT
  • Switzerland: SRG
  • Turkey: TRT Spor Yildiz
  • Ukraine: PBC
  • United Kingdom: BBC

References

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  15. ^ Wilson, Jeremy (4 March 2023). "Laura Muir breaks new ground with fifth European Indoor gold". The Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
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