2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships

2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships
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Host city	Istanbul, Turkey
Date(s)	2–5 March
Main stadium	Ataköy Arena
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Level	Senior
Type	Indoor
Participation	550 athletes from; 47 nations
Events	26
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The 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held from 2 to 5 March 2023 at the Ataköy Arena in Istanbul, Turkey, the first time the event took place in this country although the venue did stage the 2012 World Indoor Championships for which this 7000-seater was specifically built. The four-day competition was held during the centenary year of the Republic of Turkey, and featured 13 men's and 13 women's athletics events over three morning and four afternoon sessions.^[1]^[2]

On 11 November 2020, the European Athletic Association (EAA) chose Istanbul at its 160th Council Meeting held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[3] The city was the only candidate that applied for the organization of this championships.^[4]

In a statement issued on 21 February 2023, European Athletics announced that the championships would take place as planned despite the Turkey–Syria earthquake, which struck southern and central Turkey on 6 February and affected 16 percent of country's population with more than 45,900 deaths, albeit with limitations on usual celebratory side-events and activities as well as no local promotion.^[5] Turkish Athletic Federation announced that all proceeds from ticket sales in the championship would be donated to the victims of the earthquake.^[6]

While 550 athletes from 47 European Athletics Member Federations competed in Ataköy Arena, it was the first time ever at a major European athletics championship that the number of female athletes competing (278) exceeded the number of male athletes (274).^[7] Norway topped the medal table for the first time in European Athletics Indoor Championships history with four gold and one silver medal. The Netherlands and Great Britain and Northern Ireland earned three gold medals each, while Italy, Belgium, Portugal, Switzerland and Finland secured two gold medals respectively. In the placing table, Italy came first with 84 points, while Norway placed ninth with 45 points.

Schedule

All times are local (UTC+3).^[8]

Q	Qualification	H	Heats	R1	Round 1	S	Semi-finals	F	Final
M = morning session, E = evening session

Men
Date →	2 Mar	3 Mar		4 Mar			5 Mar
Event ↓	E	M	E	M	E		M	E
60 m				H	S	F
400 m		H	S		F
800 m	H						S	F
1500 m	R1		F
3000 m				R1				F
60 m hurdles				H			S	F
4 × 400 m								F
High jump			Q					F
Pole vault				Q				F
Long jump		Q					F
Triple jump	Q		F
Shot put	Q		F
Heptathlon				F

Women
Date →	2 Mar	3 Mar			4 Mar		5 Mar
Event ↓	E	M	E		M	E	M	E
60 m		H	S	F
400 m		H	S			F
800 m	H					S		F
1500 m		R1				F
3000 m	R1		F
60 m hurdles					H		S	F
4 × 400 m								F
High jump	Q						F
Pole vault		Q				F
Long jump					Q			F
Triple jump		Q				F
Shot put	Q		F
Pentathlon		F

Event detailed schedule
Day 1 — Thursday, 2 March 2023
Time	Event	Gender	Round
19:00	800 metres	M	Heats
19:05	High Jump	W	Qualification
19:12	Shot Put	M	Qualification
19:40	800 metres	W	Heats
19:53	Triple Jump	M	Qualification
20:30	3000 metres	W	Heats
20:40	Shot Put	W	Qualification
21:05	1500 metres	M	Heats
Day 2 — Friday, 3 March 2023
Time	Event	Gender	Round
09:00	60 metres hurdles	W	Pentathlon
09:10	Long Jump	M	Qualification
09:15	Pole Vault	W	Qualification
09:45	High Jump	W	Pentathlon
09:50	400 metres	M	Heats
10:40	400 metres	W	Heats
11:10	Triple Jump	W	Qualification
11:30	1500 metres	W	Heats
12:05	60 metres	W	Heats
12:30	Shot Put	W	Pentathlon

19:00	High Jump	M	Qualification
19:05	60 metres	W	Semifinals
19:10	Long Jump	W	Pentathlon
19:25	Shot Put	M	Final
19:35	400 metres	M	Semifinals
19:55	400 metres	W	Semifinals
20:18	3000 metres	W	Final
20:35	Triple Jump	M	Final
20:40	1500 metres	M	Final
20:53	Shot Put	W	Final
21:05	800 metres	W	Pentathlon Final
21:45	60 metres	W	Final
Day 3 — Saturday, 4 March 2023
Time	Event	Gender	Round
09:00	60 metres	M	Heptathlon
09:04	Pole Vault	M	Qualification
09:20	60 metres	M	Heats
09:40	Long Jump	M	Heptathlon
10:00	3000 metres	M	Heats
10:35	60 metres hurdles	W	Heats
11:05	Shot Put	M	Heptathlon
11:10	Long Jump	W	Qualification
11:20	60 metres hurdles	M	Heats

18:35	High Jump	M	Heptathlon
18:45	60 metres	M	Semifinals
19:05	Pole Vault	W	Final
19:15	800 metres	W	Semifinals
19:35	800 metres	M	Semifinals
19:50	Triple Jump	W	Final
20:00	1500 metres	W	Final
20:20	400 metres	M	Final
20:30	400 metres	W	Final
20:55	60 metres	M	Final
Day 4 — Sunday, 5 March 2023
Time	Event	Gender	Round
10:00	60 metres hurdles	M	Heptathlon
10:12	Long Jump	M	Final
10:20	High Jump	W	Final
10:35	60 metres hurdles	M	Semifinals
10:55	60 metres hurdles	W	Semifinals
11:08	Pole Vault	M	Heptathlon

19:05	High Jump	M	Final
19:10	4 x 400 metres	M	Final
19:18	Pole Vault	M	Final
19:25	4 x 400 metres	W	Final
19:40	1000 metres	M	Heptathlon Final
19:50	Long Jump	W	Final
20:00	3000 metres	M	Final
20:22	800 metres	M	Final
20:35	800 metres	W	Final
20:55	60 metres hurdles	W	Final
21:05	60 metres hurdles	M	Final

Qualification criteria

In individual events athletes could qualify by achieving the Entry Standard within the qualification period or by virtue of the World Athletics Rankings' position achieved at the end of the qualification period. About 50 percent of the athletes should have qualified via the Entry Standards, while the remaining participants were determined via the World Rankings. The qualification period ran 12 months from 20 February 2022 to 19 February 2023, except for the combined events where it ran 18 months from 20 August 2021 to 19 February 2023. Each nation could enter up to four qualified athletes in each individual event of whom up to three could participate. Countries who had no athletes who had achieved the Entry Standard and athletes who had been potentially qualified by World Rankings, could enter one unqualified male athlete and/or one unqualified female athlete in one individual event of the championships. Six national teams could take part in each 4 × 400 m relay event: one place was allocated to the team of the host nation, three places were allocated to best official teams in 4 x 400 m outdoor lists for 2022, while the remaining two places (or three if the host country did not take its allocated place as the Turkish women's relay) were allocated to teams with best accumulated 400 m times of individual athletes from 2023 indoor season as of 20 February 2023.^[9]

All athletes born before and including 2007 (aged at least 16 years on 31 December 2023) were eligible to compete, except for the men's shot put where the limit was 2005 (athletes aged at least 18 years on 31 December 2023).^[9]

Entry Standards and target numbers of athletes / teams per event
Event	Men		Women		Quota
Event	Indoor	Outdoor	Indoor	Outdoor	Quota
60 metres	6.63	10.08 for 100 m	7.24	11.10 for 100 m	40
400 metres	46.35	45.15	52.20	50.80	30
800 metres	1:46.75	1:44.70	2:02.20	1:59.00	30
1500 metres	3:37.40	3:32.80	4:09.00	4:02.50	27
3000 metres	7:44.00	7:37.00	8:48.00	8:39.00	24
60 m hurdles	7.64	13.30 for 110 mH	8.03	12.90 for 100 mH	32
High jump	2.30 m (7 ft 6¹⁄₂ in)		1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)		18
Pole vault	5.82 m (19 ft 1 in)		4.70 m (15 ft 5 in)		18
Long jump	8.12 m (26 ft 7¹⁄₂ in)		6.75 m (22 ft 1¹⁄₂ in)		18
Triple jump	17.02 m (55 ft 10 in)		14.32 m (46 ft 11³⁄₄ in)		18
Shot put	21.20 m (69 ft 6¹⁄₂ in)		18.60 m (61 ft 0¹⁄₄ in)		18
Pentathlon	N/A		4580 pts	6650 for heptathlon	14
Heptathlon	6140 pts	8400 for decathlon	N/A		14
4 × 400 m relay	see above				6

Highlights

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Nafissatou Thiam broke the pentathlon world record

On 3 March, Belgium's Nafissatou Thiam broke the pentathlon world record of 5013 points set by Nataliya Dobrynska of Ukraine during the 2012 World Indoor Championships at the same Ataköy Arena, totalling a score of 5055 points. It was the first world record at the European Indoor Championships since 2011, making Thiam the first ever Belgian woman to set an official athletics world record (indoor or outdoor).^[10] In addition, with her third European indoor title, she became the most successful female pentathlete in history of this championships, retaining also her gold medal from the 2021 edition. Poland's Adrianna Sułek also went above previous record with a score of 5014 points and basically was the world record-holder for about six seconds, finishing first the 800 metres run, the final of the five events in pentathlon.^[11]^[12]

Two additional championship records were broken: Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen ran a time 3:33.95 in the 1500 metres and Dutch women's 4 × 400 m relay team achieved a mark of 3:25.66, making them the third-fastest national team in history. One men's heptathlon and one women's pentathlon championship best as well as 39 national indoor records were set. There were four world world-leading marks and eight European-leading marks.^[13]

Ingebrigtsen completed the 1500 m/3000 m 'double-double', successfully defending both his titles from 2021 to increase his overall tally to six medals, including five golds. Greece's Miltiadis Tentoglou became the first man to win three consecutive long jump titles. Portugal's Pedro Pichardo in the triple jump and France's Kevin Mayer in the heptathlon also retained their titles.

On the women's side, Netherland's Femke Bol secured the 400 m/4 × 400 m golden double as in previous edition. Great Britain's Keely Hodgkinson in the 800 metres, Ukraine's Yaroslava Mahuchikh in the high jump and Portugal's Auriol Dongmo in the shot put also retained their titles. Laura Muir won a British record fifth title, taking victory in the 1500 m, after her historic 1500 m/3000 m 'double-double' from 2017 and 2019.^[14] Finland's Reetta Hurske claimed gold in the 60 metres hurdles, the first ever medal for her nation in the event.^[15]

Men's results

Track

Chronology: 2019 \| 2021 \| 2023 \| 2025 \| 2027

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres details	Samuele Ceccarelli Italy (ITA)	6.48	Marcell Jacobs Italy (ITA)	6.50 SB	Henrik Larsson Sweden (SWE)	6.53 NR
400 metres details	Karsten Warholm Norway (NOR)	45.35	Julien Watrin Belgium (BEL)	45.44 NR	Carl Bengtström Sweden (SWE)	45.77
800 metres details	Adrián Ben Spain (ESP)	1:47.34 (.335)	Benjamin Robert France (FRA)	1:47.34 (.338)	Eliott Crestan Belgium (BEL)	1:47.65
1500 metres details	Jakob Ingebrigtsen Norway (NOR)	3:33.95 CR	Neil Gourley Great Britain (GBR)	3:34.23	Azeddine Habz France (FRA)	3:35.39
3000 metres details	Jakob Ingebrigtsen Norway (NOR)	7:40.32 NR	Adel Mechaal Spain (ESP)	7:41.75 SB	Elzan Bibić Serbia (SRB)	7:44.03
60 metres hurdles details	Jason Joseph Switzerland (SUI)	7.41 EL	Jakub Szymański Poland (POL)	7.56	Just Kwaou-Mathey France (FRA)	7.59
4 × 400 metres relay details	Belgium Dylan Borlée Alexander Doom Kevin Borlée Julien Watrin	3:05.83 EL	France Gilles Biron Téo Andant Victor Coroller Muhammad Abdallah Kounta	3:06.52 SB	Netherlands Isayah Boers Isaya Klein Ikkink Ramsey Angela Liemarvin Bonevacia	3:06.59 SB

Field

Chronology: 2019 \| 2021 \| 2023 \| 2025 \| 2027

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Douwe Amels Netherlands (NED)	2.31 =NR	Andriy Protsenko Ukraine (UKR)	2.29	Thomas Carmoy Belgium (BEL)	2.29 PB
Pole vault details	Sondre Guttormsen Norway (NOR)	5.80	Emmanouil Karalis Greece (GRE) Piotr Lisek Poland (POL) SB	5.80	Not awarded
Long jump details	Miltiadis Tentoglou Greece (GRE)	8.30	Thobias Montler Sweden (SWE)	8.19 SB	Gabriel Bitan Romania (ROU)	8.00
Triple jump details	Pedro Pichardo Portugal (POR)	17.60 WL NR	Nikolaos Andrikopoulos Greece (GRE)	16.58 SB	Max Heß Germany (GER)	16.57
Shot put details	Zane Weir Italy (ITA)	22.06 EL NR	Tomáš Staněk Czech Republic (CZE)	21.90 SB	Roman Kokoshko Ukraine (UKR)	21.84 NR

Combined

Chronology: 2019 \| 2021 \| 2023 \| 2025 \| 2027

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Heptathlon details	Kevin Mayer France (FRA)	6,348 EL	Sander Skotheim Norway (NOR)	6,318 NR	Risto Lillemets Estonia (EST)	6,079 SB