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2026 European Athletics Championships

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27th European Athletics Championships
Dates10–16 August 2026
Host cityBirmingham, United Kingdom
VenueAlexander Stadium
LevelSenior
TypeOutdoor
Events50
Participation1,645 athletes from
49 nations
Official websitewww.birmingham26.com Edit this at Wikidata

The 2026 European Athletics Championships were held from 10 to 16 August 2026 at the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham, United Kingdom.[1]

It was the 27th time European Athletics Championships was organized and the first time that a British city staged these championships, although Birmingham has hosted many high-profile events, including the 2003, the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships, the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships, and the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Alexander Stadium was renovated between 2019 and 2022 and has two permanent stands seating 18,000, with the option of extending to 40,000 for major events.

On 11 November 2022, the European Athletic Association (EAA) chose Birmingham at its Council Meeting held in Warsaw, Poland. The British city was selected after the Hungarian capital Budapest pulled out of the bidding.[2][3] Previously, in June 2022, the EAA had announced that the 2026 European Athletics Championships would be held as a standalone event separate from the multi-sport European Championships, as part of which they last took place in 2018 and 2022.[4]

Event schedule

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In June 2025, European Athletics announced the timetable for the championships.[5]

QQualification R1Round 1 SFSemi-finals FFinal
M = morning session, E = evening session

Medal table

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Mascot
Marathon and race walk track

  *   Host nation (Great Britain & N.I.)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Italy106622
2 Great Britain & N.I.*98219
3 Germany610521
4 Netherlands53614
5 Norway4026
6 Switzerland3317
7 Spain2248
8 Sweden2125
9 Ireland2114
10 Finland2103
11 Ukraine1124
12 Croatia1102
 Greece1102
 Hungary1102
15 Israel1012
16 Slovakia1001
 Slovenia1001
18 Poland0628
19 France03811
20 Belgium0134
21 Portugal0123
22 Lithuania0101
 Luxembourg0101
24 Bulgaria0022
25 Latvia0011
 Montenegro0011
 Serbia0011
 Turkey0011
Totals (28 entries)525253157

Italy topped the final medal table with 22 medals, including 10 gold medals. Great Britain & Northern Ireland finished second with 19 medals, including nine golds, while Germany was third with 21 medals, including six golds.[7]

Placing table

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RankNation 1st2nd3rd4th5th6th7th8th Total
PlPtsPlPtsPlPtsPlPtsPlPtsPlPtsPlPtsPlPts
1 Italy 108064263621062472161222 226
2 Great Britain 9728562123158326182444 213
3 Germany 6481070530210624262444 196
4 France 0032184873552072161255 162
5 Netherlands 54032163642014262400 131
6 Spain 2162144245251441261255 112
7 Poland 00642212315416264822 101
8 Switzerland 3243211652500132455 88
9 Sweden 2161721252500262400 70
10 Belgium 001731842014134855 65
11 Norway 432002121514262400 63
12 Hungary 18170031528392422 53
13 Ireland 21617161528132422 51
14 Portugal 001721221028390022 48
15 Ukraine 18172121528130011 44
16 Greece 1817001514261222 34
17 Finland 21617000000000022 25
18 Israel 1800160028001211 25
19 Turkey 00001600312130000 21
20 Croatia 1817000000130000 18
21 Czech Republic 00000021014001211 17
22 Lithuania 0017001500130000 15
23 Slovenia 1800000000002400 12
24 Bulgaria 00002120000000000 12
25 Serbia 0000160014000022 12
26 Luxembourg 0017000000130000 10
27 Latvia 0000160014000000 10
28 Slovakia 1800000000000000 8
29 Austria 0000000014130000 7
30 Estonia 0000000014002400 8
31 Montenegro 0000160000000000 6
32 Romania 0000000014001200 6
33 Iceland 0000000000001200 2
34 Cyprus 0000000000000011 1

Medal summary

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Men

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Track

5000 metres: Jakob Ingebrigtsen won the gold medal in 13:15.29, ahead of Florian Bremm of Germany and Etienne Daguinos of France. The victory gave Ingebrigtsen his seventh European Championship gold medal.[8]

Chronology: 2022 | 2024 | 2026 | 2028 | 2030
Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
details
Romell Glave
 Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
10.09 Jeremiah Azu
 Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
10.16 Owen Ansah
 Germany (GER)
10.19
200 metres
details
Owen Ansah
 Germany (GER)
19.95 Zharnel Hughes
 Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
20.16 Fausto Desalu
 Italy (ITA)
Timothé Mumenthaler
 Switzerland (SUI)
20.26
400 metres
details
Matthew Hudson-Smith
 Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
44.17 Muhammad Abdallah Kounta
 France (FRA)
44.40 Jonas Phijffers
 Netherlands (NED)
44.41 NR
800 metres
details
Mark English
 Ireland (IRL)
1:45.26 Marino Bloudek
 Croatia (CRO)
1:45.62 Mohamed Attaoui
 Spain (ESP)
1:45.71
1500 metres
details
Stefan Nillessen
 Netherlands (NED)
3:35.70 Samuel Pihlström
 Sweden (SWE)
3:36.16 Andrew Coscoran
 Ireland (IRL)
3:36.24
5000 metres
details
Jakob Ingebrigtsen
 Norway (NOR)
13:15.29 SB Florian Bremm
 Germany (GER)
13:15.60 Etienne Daguinos
 France (FRA)
13:16.09
10,000 metres
details
Andreas Almgren
 Sweden (SWE)
27:23.44 CR Dominic Lokinyomo Lobalu
 Switzerland (SUI)
27:42.67 SB Jimmy Gressier
 France (FRA)
28:07.90 SB
Marathon
details
Amanal Petros
 Germany (GER)
2:09.11 CR Pietro Riva
 Italy (ITA)
2:09.18 Gashau Ayale
 Israel (ISR)
2:09.21
Marathon team
details
 Israel
Gashau Ayale
Tadesse Getahon
Haimro Alame
6:28:37  Germany
Amanal Petros
Samuel Fitwi Sibhatu
Richard Ringer
6:29:03  France
Valentin Gondouin
Emmanuel Roudolff
Hassan Chahdi
6:32:12
110 metres hurdles
details
Jason Joseph
 Switzerland (SUI)
13.10 SB Just Kwaou-Mathey
 France (FRA)
13.16 SB Jakub Szymański
 Poland (POL)
13.26 =SB
400 metres hurdles
details
Karsten Warholm
 Norway (NOR)
46.63 CR Emil Agyekum
 Germany (GER)
47.87 İsmail Nezir
 Turkey (TUR)
48.26
3000 metres steeplechase
details
Frederik Ruppert
 Germany (GER)
8:25.33 Ruben Querinjean
 Luxembourg (LUX)
8:25.61 Karl Bebendorf
 Germany (GER)
8:26.65
4 × 100 metres relay
details
 Great Britain & N.I.
Jeremiah Azu
Louie Hinchliffe
Zharnel Hughes
Romell Glave
38.45  Germany
Kevin Kranz
Marvin Schulte
Heiko Gussmann
Lucas Ansah-Peprah
38.64  Belgium
Ibrahim Camara
Emiel Botterman
Antoine Snyders
Simon Verherstraeten
Amine Kasmi*
38.70
4 × 400 metres relay
details
 Italy
Edoardo Scotti
Luca Sito
Mohamed Soudassi
Lorenzo Benati
2:59.16  Great Britain & N.I.
Matthew Hudson-Smith
Toby Harries
Ben Jefferies
Charlie Dobson
Sam Lunt*
Malique Smith-Band*
2:59.19 SB  Netherlands
Eugene Omalla
Keenan Blake
Terrence Agard
Jonas Phijffers
Liemarvin Bonevacia*
Daan Kneppers*
2:59.49
Half marathon race walk
details
Paul McGrath
 Spain (ESP)
1:23:23 PB Francesco Fortunato
 Italy (ITA)
1:23:36 Andrea Cosi
 Italy (ITA)
1:23:49 PB
Marathon race walk
details
Massimo Stano
 Italy (ITA)
2:56:49 AR, WL Miguel Ángel López
 Spain (ESP)
2:56:57 PB Aurélien Quinion
 France (FRA)
2:59:29 PB

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

Field
Chronology: 2022 | 2024 | 2026 | 2028 | 2030
Event Gold Silver Bronze
High jump
details
Gianmarco Tamberi
 Italy (ITA)
2.32 m SB Oleh Doroshchuk
 Ukraine (UKR)
2.30 m Matteo Sioli
 Italy (ITA)
2.27 m
Pole vault
details
Armand Duplantis
 Sweden (SWE)
6.15 m CR Emmanouil Karalis
 Greece (GRE)
6.00 m Baptiste Thiery
 France (FRA)
5.85 m
Long jump
details
Miltiadis Tentoglou
 Greece (GRE)
8.44 m Simon Ehammer
 Switzerland (SUI)
8.29 m Bozhidar Sarâboyukov
 Bulgaria (BUL)
8.26 m
Triple jump
details
Andy Díaz
 Italy (ITA)
18.15 m WL, NR Pedro Pichardo
 Portugal (POR)
17.76 m Andrea Dallavalle
 Italy (ITA)
17.37 m
Shot put
details
Leonardo Fabbri
 Italy (ITA)
22.31 m Zane Weir
 Italy (ITA)
21.12 m Wictor Petersson
 Sweden (SWE)
20.97 m
Discus throw
details
Kristjan Čeh
 Slovenia (SLO)
72.51 m CR Mykolas Alekna
 Lithuania (LTU)
69.89 m Henrik Janssen
 Germany (GER)
69.53 m SB
Javelin throw
details
Julian Weber
 Germany (GER)
90.40 m CR, EL Nick Thumm
 Germany (GER)
83.76 m PB Patriks Gailums
 Latvia (LAT)
82.97 m
Hammer throw
details
Bence Halász
 Hungary (HUN)
84.25 m WL, NR Merlin Hummel
 Germany (GER)
81.30 m Mykhaylo Kokhan
 Ukraine (UKR)
79.49 m
Decathlon
details
Leo Neugebauer
 Germany (GER)
8611 pts Niklas Kaul
 Germany (GER)
8573 pts Sander Skotheim
 Norway (NOR)
8433 pts SB

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

Women

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Track

Amy Hunt became the first athlete, male or female, to win four gold medals at a single edition of the European Championships. Her compatriot, Dina Asher-Smith, with two gold and one bronze medal, became the most decorated athlete in the history of the championships with eleven career medals, including eight gold medals.[9]

Chronology: 2022 | 2024 | 2026 | 2028 | 2030
Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres
details
Amy Hunt
 Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
11.00 Ewa Swoboda
 Poland (POL)
11.02 Delphine Nkansa
 Belgium (BEL)
11.06 PB
200 metres
details
Amy Hunt
 Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
22.19 EL Rhasidat Adeleke
 Ireland (IRL)
22.28 NR Dina Asher-Smith
 Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
22.29
400 metres
details
Henriette Jæger
 Norway (NOR)
49.04 EL, NR Natalia Bukowiecka
 Poland (POL)
50.04 Lieke Klaver
 Netherlands (NED)
50.15
800 metres
details
Audrey Werro
 Switzerland (SUI)
1:54.81 CR Keely Hodgkinson
 Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
1:55.01 Femke Broeders-Bol
 Netherlands (NED)
1:55.54 =NR
1500 metres
details
Georgia Hunter Bell
 Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
4:07.78 Klaudia Kazimierska
 Poland (POL)
4:08.80 Patricia Silva
 Portugal (POR)
4:09.22
5000 metres
details
Nadia Battocletti
 Italy (ITA)
15:37.84 Marta García
 Spain (ESP)
15:39.98 SB Micol Majori
 Italy (ITA)
15:40.65
10,000 metres
details
Nadia Battocletti
 Italy (ITA)
31:41.17 SB Maureen Koster
 Netherlands (NED)
31:45.76 Jana van Lent
 Belgium (BEL)
31:47.81
Marathon
details
Alisa Vainio
 Finland (FIN)
2:22:26 CR Lili Anna Vindics-Tóth
 Hungary (HUN)
2:27.21 PB Abbie Donnelly
 Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
2:27.33 SB
Marathon team  Great Britain & N.I.
Abbie Donnelly
Natasha Wilson
Rose Harvey
7:26:01  Italy
Rebecca Lonedo
Sofiia Yaremchuk
Giovanna Epis
7:28:59  Spain
Carolina Robles
Fatima Ouhaddou
Ester Navarrete
7:30:41
100 metres hurdles
details
Nadine Visser
 Netherlands (NED)
12.67 Pia Skrzyszowska
 Poland (POL)
12.67 Laëticia Bapté
 France (FRA)
12.73
400 metres hurdles
details
Emma Zapletalová
 Slovakia (SVK)
52.91 Emily Newnham
 Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
53.33 PB Fatoumata Binta Diallo
 Portugal (POR)
53.55 NR
3000 metres steeplechase
details
Gesa Felicitas Krause
 Germany (GER)
9:12.69 Alice Finot
 France (FRA)
9:14.24 SB Olivia Gürth
 Germany (GER)
9:15.33 SB
4 × 100 metres relay
details
 Great Britain & N.I.
Dina Asher-Smith
Amy Hunt
Success Eduan
Imani Lansiquot
Kristal Ama-Awuah*
42.05 EL  Switzerland
Géraldine Di Tizio-Frey
Fabienne Hoenke
Léonie Pointet
Salomé Kora
Ajla Del Ponte*
43.12  Poland
Krystsina Tsimanouskaya
Pia Skrzyszowska
Magdalena Stefanowicz
Ewa Swoboda
Wiktoria Gajosz*
43.15
4 × 400 metres relay
details
 Netherlands
Myrte van der Schoot
Lieke Klaver
Eveline Saalberg
Femke Broeders-Bol
Vanessa Mercera*
Nina Franke*
3:21.10 SB  Great Britain & N.I.
Yemi Mary John
Lina Nielsen
Nicole Yeargin
Emily Newnham
Charlotte Henrich*
3:21.68  Italy
Alessandra Bonora
Anna Polinari
Alice Mangione
Eloisa Coiro
Ilaria Elvira Accame*
Sara Cirillo*
3:23.57
Half marathon race walk
details
María Pérez
 Spain (ESP)
1:30:06 WR Alexandrina Mihai
 Italy (ITA)
1:31:04 PB Lyudmila Olyanovska
 Ukraine (UKR)
1:31:07 NR
Marathon race walk
details
Sofia Fiorini
 Italy (ITA)
3:15:11 WR Katarzyna Zdziebło
 Poland (POL)
3:19:50 NR Raquel González
 Spain (ESP)
3:20:49 PB

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

Field
Chronology: 2022 | 2024 | 2026 | 2028 | 2030
Event Gold Silver Bronze
High jump
details
Yaroslava Mahuchikh
 Ukraine (UKR)
1.97 m Maria Żodzik
 Poland (POL)
1.95 m Marija Vuković
 Montenegro (MNE)
1.95 m
Pole vault
details
Angelica Moser
 Switzerland (SUI)
4.80 m =SB Wilma Heltelä
 Finland (FIN)
4.75 m Marie-Julie Bonnin
 France (FRA)
4.70 m
Long jump
details
Larissa Iapichino
 Italy (ITA)
7.00 m Jazmin Sawyers
 Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)
6.99 m SB Hilary Kpatcha
 France (FRA)
6.98 m
Triple jump
details
Dariya Derkach
 Italy (ITA)
14.60 m EL, PB Saliyya Guisse
 Belgium (BEL)
14.46 m PB Aleksandra Nacheva
 Bulgaria (BUL)
14.40 m
Shot put
details
Jessica Schilder
 Netherlands (NED)
20.73 m Jorinde van Klinken
 Netherlands (NED)
19.64 m PB Yemisi Mabry
 Germany (GER)
19.50 m
Discus throw
details
Jorinde van Klinken
 Netherlands (NED)
67.67 m Shanice Craft
 Germany (GER)
65.72 m Vanessa Kamga
 Sweden (SWE)
64.61 m
Javelin throw
details
Sara Kolak
 Croatia (CRO)
62.43 m Julia Ulbricht
 Germany (GER)
61.53 m Adriana Vilagoš
 Serbia (SRB)
60.93 m
Hammer throw
details
Silja Kosonen
 Finland (FIN)
76.28 m Sara Fantini
 Italy (ITA)
74.35 m Beatrice Nedberge Llano
 Norway (NOR)
72.88 m
Heptathlon
details
Kate O'Connor
 Ireland (IRL)
6751 pts Emma Oosterwegel
 Netherlands (NED)
6713 pts Sofie Dokter
 Netherlands (NED)
6664 pts

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

Mixed

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Chronology: 2022 | 2024 | 2026 | 2028 | 2030
Event Gold Silver Bronze
4 × 100 metres relay
details
 Great Britain & N.I.
Jeremiah Azu
Dina Asher-Smith
Zharnel Hughes
Amy Hunt
39.97 ER  Germany
Kevin Kranz
Rebekka Haase
Heiko Gussmann
Gina Lückenkemper
40.11 NR  Spain
Guillem Crespí
María Isabel Pérez
Andoni Calbano
Jaël Bestué
40.42 NR
4 × 400 metres relay
details
 Norway
Karsten Warholm
Amalie Iuel
Andreas Ofstad Kulseng
Henriette Jæger
3:09.62 CR, EL, NR  Great Britain & N.I.
Ben Jefferies
Charlotte Henrich
Toby Harries
Yemi Mary John
3:10.47  Netherlands
Jonas Phijffers
Lieke Klaver
Terrence Agard
Myrte van der Schoot
3:10.77 SB

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

Participating nations

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1645 athletes, 805 females and 840 males, from 49 countries are expected to participate.[10]

References

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  1. ↑ "UK Athletics and Birmingham to host European Athletics Championships in 2026". UK Athletics. Archived from the original on 2022-12-12. Retrieved 2022-11-12.
  2. ↑ "Birmingham set to host 2026 European Athletics Championship". The Guardian. 10 November 2022. Retrieved 11 November 2022.
  3. ↑ "Birmingham awarded 2026 European Athletics Championships". European Athletics. 11 November 2022. Archived from the original on 18 November 2022. Retrieved 11 November 2022.
  4. ↑ "European Athletics moving away from multi-sport European Championships". Infobae. 20 June 2022. Retrieved 11 November 2022.
  5. ↑ "Competition timetable and ticketing information announced for Birmingham 2026". birmingham26.com. 6 June 2025. Retrieved 10 October 2025.
  6. 1 2 3 "European Athletics Championships Birmingham 2026 Timetable" (PDF). european-athletics.directus.app. 16 April 2026. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 July 2026. Retrieved 5 August 2026.
  7. ↑ Ferris, Ken (August 17, 2026). "Britain's Hunt and Asher-Smith set medal records at European Championships". Reuters. Retrieved August 25, 2026.
  8. ↑ Tennery, Amy (August 11, 2026). "Ingebrigtsen wins first race in nearly a year with 5,000m title at Euro champs". Reuters. Retrieved August 25, 2026.
  9. ↑ "Dina Asher-Smith | Athletics | Team GB Olympians". www.teamgb.com. Retrieved 2026-09-02.
  10. ↑ "Sport Entries" (PDF). www.european-athletics.com. 2026-07-31. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2026-08-01. Retrieved 2026-08-01.
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