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2018 World Para Athletics European Championships

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World Para Athletics European Championships
Host cityBerlin, Germany
Nations35
Athletes596
EventsTrack and field
Dates20–26 August
Main venueFriedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark
2018 World Para Athletics
European Championships
Track events
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The 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships was a track and field competition for athletes with a disability open to International Paralympic Committee (IPC) affiliated countries within Europe, plus Azerbaijan and Israel. It was held in Berlin, Germany and took place between 20 and 26 August 2018 at the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark. 596 athletes from 35 countries competed during the championships.[1]

Formerly the IPC Athletics European Championships, this was the first edition of the championships since IPC undertook a rebrand of all sports for which they are the governing body, including the 'World Para' title for the committees running each sport. IPC Athletics was rebranded World Para Athletics in 2016; its first World Para Athletics Championships were held in 2017, and the European Championships followed suit in 2018.

Russia were unable to compete due to their ongoing suspension from IPC and World Para Athletics. Poland topped the medal table.

Venue

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Berlin, Germany

The venue for the Championships was the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark athletics stadium in the Northeast of Berlin.

Format

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The 2018 World Para Athletics European Championships was an invitational championships for track and field events. No combined sports were included and not all events were open to all classifications, no events were contested between classifications.

Athletes who came in first place were awarded the gold medal, second place the silver medal and third place the bronze. If only three competitors were declared to compete in an event then no bronze medal was awarded. Some events were classed as 'no medal' events.

Events

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Classification

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Main article: Disability sport classification

To ensure competition is as fair and balanced as possible, athletes are classified dependent on how their disability impacts on their chosen event/s. Thus athletes may compete in an event against competitors with a different disability to themselves. Where there are more than one classification in one event, (for example discus throw F54/55/56), a points system is used to determine the winner. RaceRunning, an event using adapted tricycle frames for athletes with a severe balance impairment, was introduced for the first time in the RR category, while 'blade' athletes, using a prosthetic specialist limb were placed in new *61-4 categories, while athletes with lower limb disabilities, but not amputations, remained in the *42-4 categories.

  • F = field athletes
  • T = track athletes
  • 11-13 – visually impaired, 11 and 12 compete with a sighted guide
  • 20 – intellectual disability
  • 31-38 – cerebral palsy or other conditions that affect muscle co-ordination and control. Athletes in class 31-34 compete in a seated position; athletes in class 35-38 compete standing.
  • 40-47 – arm amputation, lower limb deficiencies and les autres
  • 51-58 – wheelchair athletes
  • 61-63 – leg amputees, 'blade' athletes
  • RR1-3 – racerunners who employ an adapted tricycle to maintain balance.

Summary

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36 athletes won two gold medals or more at the event, while the seven listed below won 3 golds or more. Pierre Fairbank of France, with 4 gold medals, was the most successful athlete at the event, with Diana Dadzite of Latvia and Sophie Hahn of Great Britain the most successful female athletes with 3 gold medals.[2]

The most successful home athletes were Felix Streng and Johannes Floors, with three gold and one silver medal each.[2]

Alexandra Helbling of Switzerland won 5 medals, a gold, 3 silvers and a bronze, the most medals of any athlete at the event.[2]

Rank Athlete Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Pierre Fairbank  France (FRA) 4 0 0 4
2 Johannes Floors  Germany (GER) 3 1 0 4
Felix Streng  Germany (GER) 3 1 0 4
Leo Pekka Tahti  Finland (FIN) 3 1 0 4
5 Sophie Hahn  Great Britain (GBR) 3 0 0 3
Diana Dadzite  Latvia (LAT) 3 0 0 3
Marcel Hug   Switzerland (SUI) 3 0 0 3

Broken records

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15 World Records were broken in total across all events, with a further 9 European records also falling.[3] Lucyna Kornobys of Poland was the only athlete to break two world records, setting new marks in the women's javelin F33 and shot put F33. Markus Rehm of Germany broke his own world record in the long jump T64 with a distance of 8.48 - a distance that would have won the able bodied event a few weeks earlier.[3]

Event Round Name Nation Time/Distance Date
Men's long jump T64 Final Markus Rehm Germany Germany 8.48 WR 25 Aug
Men's shot put F34 Final Tomasz Paulinski Poland Poland 11.00 WR 24 Aug
Men's shot put F41 Final Bartosz Tyszkowski Poland Poland 14.04 WR 20 Aug
Men's discus throw F11 Final Oney Tapia Italy Italy 46.07 WR 22 Aug
Men's discus throw F55 Final Nebojša Đurić Serbia Serbia 39.84 WR 20 Aug
Men's javelin throw F38 Final Dmitrijs Silovs Latvia Latvia 51.54 ER 20 Aug
Men's javelin throw F40 Final Take Zonneveld Netherlands Netherlands 33.22 ER 26 Aug
Women's 100m T64 Final Marlene van Gansewinkel Netherlands Netherlands 12.85 WR 20 Aug
Women's 400m T20 Final Carina Paim Portugal Portugal 57.29 ER 22 Aug
Women's 800m T20 Final Barbara Niewiedzial Poland Poland 2:15.79 WR 23 Aug
Women's long jump T20 Final Karolina Kucharczyk Poland Poland 6.14 WR 24 Aug
Women's long jump T64 Final Marie-Amelie Le Fur France France 6.01 WR 26 Aug
Women's shot put F33 Final Lucyna Kornobys Poland Poland 7.49 WR 20 Aug
Women's shot put F36 Final Birgit Kober Germany Germany 11.79 WR 24 Aug
Women's shot put F40 Final Renata Śliwińska Poland Poland 8.50 WR 22 Aug
Women's shot put F41 Final Rose Vandegou France France 7.19 ER 23 Aug
Women's shot put F53 Final Iana Lebiedieva Ukraine Ukraine 5.43 ER 25 Aug
Women's discus throw F38 Final Noelle Lenihan Republic of Ireland Ireland 32.95 WR 22 Aug
Women's discus throw F41 Final Niamh McCarthy Republic of Ireland Ireland 31.76 ER 26 Aug
Women's discus throw F51 Final Zoia Ovsii Ukraine Ukraine 13.04 ER 20 Aug
Women's discus throw F53 Final Iana Lebiedieva Ukraine Ukraine 14.93 WR 20 Aug
Women's javelin throw F33 Final Lucyna Kornobys Poland Poland 16.22 WR 24 Aug
Women's javelin throw F53 Final Iana Lebiedieva Ukraine Ukraine 11.15 ER 23 Aug
Women's club throw F51 Final Zoia Ovsii Ukraine Ukraine 24.31 WR 24 Aug

Medal table

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In a number of events not all medals were awarded, due to field sizes or tied medals. In addition, a small number of rces were deemed 'non-medal' events, and are therefore not included in the final medal table.

Final table, 26 August 2018.[4]

  Host nation (Germany)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Poland26152061
2 Great Britain20141650
3 Ukraine1922849
4 France1713939
5 Germany*1419942
6 Spain813728
7 Switzerland851023
8 Finland84214
9 Portugal77317
10 Italy63817
11 Ireland6039
12 Turkey56819
13 Latvia5117
14 Netherlands413724
15 Bulgaria42511
16 Belarus4228
17 Serbia32813
18 Denmark3227
19 Austria3205
20 Greece25411
21 Lithuania2338
 Sweden2338
23 Croatia2248
24 Belgium2226
25 Norway1102
26 Hungary1034
27 Czech Republic05510
28 Slovakia0213
29 Azerbaijan0202
 Cyprus0202
 Luxembourg0202
32 Iceland0134
33 Montenegro0101
34 Israel0033
35 Romania0011
Totals (35 entries)182176160518

Participating nations

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Below is the list of countries who participated in the Championships.  Russia were unable to take part due to their ongoing suspension from the IPC.

Footnotes

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Notes
References
  1. ^ "Berlin 2018: About us". paralympic.org. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
  2. ^ a b c Berlin 2018 Multi-Medalists
  3. ^ a b Berlin 2018 - Broken records
  4. ^ Full final table

See also

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