Battle of Honey Springs

The European Marathon Cup is a quadrennial team marathon competition between European countries. Initially a stand-alone championship race inaugurated in 1981, the race has been held in conjunction with the European Athletics Championships since 1994. Individual medallists are now included in the European Championships medal table, while team medals are awarded separately from the main championships.[1]

Each national team may enter six runner and the team score is the sum of the times of the team's three fastest finishers. The IAAF World Marathon Cup (first held in 1985) follows a similar format.

The event alternates biennially with the European Half Marathon Cup which is contested under similar rules when the European Athletics Championships are held in Olympic years

Editions

Edition Year Host country Host city Date Notes
1st 1981  France Agen 13 September
2nd 1983  Spain Laredo 19 June
3rd 1985  Italy Rome 15 September
4th 1988  Belgium Huy 30 April
5th 1994  Finland Helsinki 7, 14 August
6th 1998  Hungary Budapest 22–23 August
7th 2002  Germany Munich 10–11 August
8th 2006  Sweden Gothenburg 12–13 August
9th 2010  Spain Barcelona 31 July–1 August
10th 2014  Finland Helsinki 17 August [2]
11th 2018  Germany Berlin 12 August [3]
12th 2022 Munich 15 August

Rules

Each country can deploy a single team with a maximum of six athletes, the total time is scored on the time of the first three classified, but the other athletes of the team that finished the race will be also awarded with the medal.[4]

Medallists

Men

Year Gold Silver Bronze
1981  Italy 30 pt
1. Massimo Magnani
8. Giampaolo Messina
9. Gianni Poli
12. Armando Scozzari
 Soviet Union 72 pt  Poland 80 pt
1983  East Germany 22 pt
1. Waldemar Cierpinski
2. Jürgen Eberding
 Italy 28 pt
3. Gianni Poli
4. Marco Marchei
8. Giampaolo Messina
13. Antonio Erotavo
 Spain 45 pt
1985  East Germany 32 pt
1. Michael Heilmann
3. Jörg Peter
 France 36 pt
2. Jacques Lefrand
 Italy 38 pt
4. Alessio Faustini
7. Gelindo Bordin
13. Aldo Fantoni
14. Loris Pimazzoni
1988  Soviet Union
1. Ravil Kashapov
 France
3. Alain Lazare
 Belgium
1994  Spain
1. Martín Fiz
2. Diego García
3. Alberto Juzdado
 Portugal
6. António Rodrigues
7. Manuel Matias
9. António Pinto
 France
10. Dominique Chauvelier
11. Noureddine Sobhi
18. Bruno Le Stum
1998  Italy
1. Stefano Baldini
2. Danilo Goffi
3. Vincenzo Modica
7. Giovanni Ruggiero
20. Ottaviano Andriani
 Spain
4. Julio Rey
5. Alejandro Gómez
6. Antoni Peña
 Portugal
9. João Lopes
10. António Salvador
15. Paulo Catarino
2002  Spain
3. Julio Rey
5. Alberto Juzdado
6. Alejandro Gómez
 Italy
4. Daniele Caimmi
10. Migidio Bourifa
12. Alberico di Cecco
13. Danilo Goffi
19. Ottaviano Andriani
21. Sergio Chiesa
 Portugal
23. José Santos
27. Manuel Pita
29. António Sousa
2006  Italy
1. Stefano Baldini
5. Francesco Ingargiola
11. Danilo Goffi
 Portugal
8. Alberto Chaíça
10. Luís Jesus
15. Hélder Ornelas
 Russia
6. Dmitriy Semyonov
13. Dmitriy Burmakin
17. Grigoriy Andreyev
2010  Spain
2. José Manuel Martínez
5. Pablo Villalobos
6. Rafael Iglesias
 Russia
3. Dmitriy Safronov
9. Aleksey Sokolov
15. Oleg Kulkov
 Italy
4. Ruggero Pertile
7. Migidio Bourifa
11. Ottaviano Andriani
31. Daniele Caimmi
2014  Russia
Aleksey Reunkov
Stepan Kiselev
Sergey Rybin
Aleksey Sokolov
 France  Switzerland
2018 Italy Italy
3. Yassine Rachik
5. Eyob Faniel
12. Stefano La Rosa
 Spain
4. Javier Guerra
6. Jesus Espana
16. Camilo Raul Santiago
22. Petro Nimo
34. Iraitz Arrospide
 Austria
8. Lamawork Ketema
10. Peter Herzog
41. Christian Steinhammer
2022  Israel
Marhu Teferi
Gashau Ayale
Yimer Getahun
Girmaw Amare
Omer Ramon
Bukayawe Malede
 Germany
Richard Ringer
Amanal Petros
Johannes Motschmann
Hendrik Pfeiffer
Konstantin Wedel
Simon Boch
 Spain
Ayad Lamdassem
Jorge Blanco
Daniel Mateo
Yago Rojo
Abdelaziz Merzougui

Women

Year Gold Silver Bronze
1985  East Germany
1. Katrin Dörre
2. Gabriele Martins
3. Birgit Weinhold
 Italy
6. Laura Fogli
7. Emma Scaunich
9. Rita Marchisio
 Soviet Union
1988  Soviet Union
2. Raisa Smekhnova
3. Zoya Ivanova
 France  East Germany
1. Katrin Dörre
1994  Italy
2. Maria Curatolo
4. Ornella Ferrara
8. Rosanna Munerotto
9. Anna Villani
21. Bettina Sabatini
DNF Laura Fogli
 Romania  France
1998  Russia
2. Madina Biktagirova
7. Lyubov Morgunova
8. Yelena Razdrogina
9. Lyudmila Petrova
18. Irina Timofeyeva
 Italy
3. Maura Viceconte
4. Franca Fiacconi
19. Gigliola Borghini
24. Francesca Zanusso
30. Paola Vignati
DNF Patrizia Ritondo
 Germany
2002  Germany  Russia Only two teams entered
2006  Italy
5. Bruna Genovese
7. Deborah Toniolo
8. Giovanna Volpato
9. Anna Incerti
21. Marcella Mancini
DNF Rosaria Console
 Russia  Germany
2010  Russia
2. Nailya Yulamanova
9. Irina Timofeyeva
11. Silviya Skvortsova
28. Yevgeniya Danilova
29. Margarita Plaksina
DNF Tatyana Pushkareva
 Italy
3. Anna Incerti
8. Rosaria Console
10. Deborah Toniolo
 Great Britain
14. Michelle Ross-Cope
16. Susan Partridge
20. Holly Rush
21. Helen Decker
24. Rebecca Robinson
25. Jo Wilkinson
2014  Italy
Valeria Straneo
Anna Incerti
Nadia Ejjafini
Emma Quaglia
Deborah Toniolo
Rosaria Console
 Portugal
Jessica Augusto
Filomena Costa
Marisa Barros
 Russia
Natalya Puchkova
Albina Mayorova
Gulnara Vygovskaya
2018  Belarus
Volha Mazuronak
Maryna Damantsevich
Nastassia Ivanova
Nina Savina
Iryna Somava
Italy Italy
Sara Dossena
Catherine Bertone
Fatna Maraoui
Laura Gotti
 Spain
Trihas Gebre
Maria Azucena Diaz
Elena Loyo
Marta Galimany
Clara Simal
2022  Germany
Miriam Dattke
Domenika Mayer
Deborah Schöneborn
Rabea Schöneborn
Katharina Steinruck
Kristina Hendel
 Spain
Marta Galimany
Irene Pelayo
Elena Loyo
Laura Méndez Esquer
 Poland
Aleksandra Lisowska
Angelika Mach
Monika Jackiewicz
Izabela Paszkiewicz
Katarzyna Jankowska

All-time medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Italy (ITA)76215
2 Spain (ESP)3339
3 Russia (RUS)3328
4 East Germany3014
5 Germany (GER)2125
6 Soviet Union2114
7 Belarus (BLR)1001
 Israel (ISR)1001
9 France (FRA)0426
10 Portugal (POR)0325
11 Romania (ROM)0101
12 Poland (POL)0022
13 Austria (AUT)0011
 Belgium (BEL)0011
 Great Britain (GBR)0011
  Switzerland (SUI)0011
Totals (16 entries)22222165

See also

References

  1. ^ European Marathon Cup. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2011-12-17.
  2. ^ "2014 European Athletics Championships Results - European Marathon Cup Men Final". european-athletics.org. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
  3. ^ "2018 European Athletics Championships Results - European Marathon Cup Men Final" (PDF). european-athletics.org. p. 82. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
  4. ^ "2018 European Athletics Championships - Team Manual" (PDF). european-athletics.org. p. 115. Retrieved 11 September 2018. 12.6.10 EUROPEAN MARATHON CUP SCORING AND TIE - The times of the first three finishing runners in each Team will be aggregated in order to determine the finishing order, the Team with the lowest aggregate time being the winner, and so on. A tie will be resolved in favour of the Team whose last scoring runner finishes nearest to first place. A Team finishing with fewer than three runners will not be classified in the Team result. All runners finishing the race will be classified individually and eligible for individual awards.

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