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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

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

Final standings

[6]

Doping

Azerbaijan's Chaltu Beji – 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]

In 2022 Elisabeth Niedereder of Austria had all her results since May 2015 annulled by World Athletics and Austria were docked 11 points meaning that the gold medal reverted back to Slovakia after 7 years [10]

References

  1. ^ "Baku 2015 European Games - News - Getting to Know… Athletics". Archived from the original on 2017-11-17. Retrieved 2015-06-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ "Athletics qualification for Baku 2015 published" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2014-07-21.
  3. ^ "Baku 2015 European Games - News - World Champions to Join Baku 2015 Street Athletics". Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-06-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  4. ^ "Baku 2015 street athletics events to feature two world champions".
  5. ^ "Athletics part of Baku 2015". Archived from the original on 2014-02-21. Retrieved 2014-02-14.
  6. ^ European Athletics Team Championships Third League - Baku 2015 - Results Archived 2017-07-08 at the Wayback Machine. European Athletics. Retrieved on 2016-08-10.
  7. ^ Hayward, Tom (2015-07-27). Azerbaijan runner Beji suspended for doping. Reuters. Retrieved on 2015-10-27.
  8. ^ Europaspiele: Kurioser Dopingfall beschert Österreich Gold hdsports.at 3. November 2015 Archived 2015-11-06 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ Doping scandal! We lost gold medal from EH in Baku Archived 2019-07-05 at the Wayback Machine. TV Noviny. Retrieved on 2016-08-10.
  10. ^ "Slovensko opäť víťazom tímovej súťaže atlétov na EH 2015".