2023 European Athletics Team Championships

2023 European Team Championships
Host cityChorzów, Poland
(all 3 divisions)
Events37 + 1 team event
Dates20–25 June 2023

The 2023 European Athletics Team Championships (ETC) in athletics was held at Stadion Śląski in Chorzów, Poland, from 20 to 25 June 2023.[1]

The event was initially planned to be held in Madrid,[2][3] but after European Athletics and European Olympic Committee reached an agreement, the event was added to the 2023 European Games programme and moved to Poland.[4] Madrid will host the 2025 ETC.

Unlike previous editions, individual gold, silver and bronze medals were awarded in addition to the medals and cup in the teams competition as part of the 2023 European Games program. The individual medals were decided on best performances across all three divisions, and the winners and medalists in the individual events were considered as European Games medalists, rather than Team Championships medalists - only the members of the first three teams in the First Division table received Team Championships medals. Within the Championships, events from 100 metres to 800 metres were run in two heats, with times combined into a single table for the purposes of both points in the Team Championships and medal placings in the European Games.[5] Officials have indicated that the 16-team version of the Team Championships will become a permanent inclusion in the European Games program, returning in 2027, while stand alone team events will be held in the middle year of the European Games cycle (with the next inter-Games event in Madrid in 2025).[6]

In addition to prizes and medals, the three highest teams in the second and third divisions shall be promoted for the next edition of the championships, and the bottom three teams of the first and second division relegated.[7]

  1. ^ "European Athletics and EOC strengthens ties at meeting in Rome". european-athletics.com. 14 June 2022.
  2. ^ "Madrid awarded 2023 European Athletics Team Championships Super League". european-athletics.com.
  3. ^ "Madrid será la sede del Campeonato de Europa por Equipos de atletismo en 2023". Diario de Madrid.
  4. ^ "European Athletics Team Championships in the program of the European Games 2023". European Games Kraków– Małopolska 2023. 27 October 2021. Archived from the original on 26 February 2023.
  5. ^ Format of the 2023 European Athletics Team Championships
  6. ^ Exclusive: European Athletics Team Championships to be fixture at European Games from insidethegames.biz
  7. ^ "European Athletics Team Championships - 2023 regulations" (PDF).