2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships
OrganisersEAA
Edition37th
Dates2–5 March
Host cityIstanbul, Turkey
VenueAtaköy Arena
LevelSenior
TypeIndoor
Events26
Participation550 athletes from
47 nations
Official websiteEAA
LOC

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]

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

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
Indoor Outdoor Indoor Outdoor
60 metres 6.6310.08 for 100 m7.2411.10 for 100 m 40
400 metres 46.3545.1552.2050.80 30
800 metres 1:46.751:44.702:02.201:59.00 30
1500 metres 3:37.403:32.804:09.004:02.50 27
3000 metres 7:44.007:37.008:48.008:39.00 24
60 m hurdles 7.6413.30 for 110 mH8.0312.90 for 100 mH 32
High jump 2.30 m (7 ft 6+1⁄2 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 7+1⁄2 in)6.75 m (22 ft 1+1⁄2 in) 18
Triple jump 17.02 m (55 ft 10 in)14.32 m (46 ft 11+3⁄4 in) 18
Shot put 21.20 m (69 ft 6+1⁄2 in)18.60 m (61 ft 1⁄4 in) 18
Pentathlon —4580 pts6650 for heptathlon 14
Heptathlon 6140 pts8400 for decathlon— 14
4 × 400 m relay see above 6

Highlights

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, Netherlands' 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
 Samuele Ceccarelli
 Italy		6.48 Marcell Jacobs
 Italy		6.50 SB Henrik Larsson
 Sweden		6.53 NR
400 metres
 Karsten Warholm
 Norway		45.35 Julien Watrin
 Belgium		45.44 NR Carl Bengtström
 Sweden		45.77
800 metres
 Adrián Ben
 Spain		1:47.34 (.335) Benjamin Robert
 France		1:47.34 (.338) Eliott Crestan
 Belgium		1:47.65
1500 metres
 Jakob Ingebrigtsen
 Norway		3:33.95 CR Neil Gourley
 Great Britain		3:34.23 Azeddine Habz
 France		3:35.39
3000 metres
 Jakob Ingebrigtsen
 Norway		7:40.32 NR Adel Mechaal
 Spain		7:41.75 SB Elzan Bibić
 Serbia		7:44.03
60 metres hurdles
 Jason Joseph
 Switzerland		7.41 EL Jakub Szymański
 Poland		7.56 Just Kwaou-Mathey
 France		7.59
4 × 400 metres relay
  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
 Douwe Amels
 Netherlands		2.31 =NR Andriy Protsenko
 Ukraine		2.29 Thomas Carmoy
 Belgium		2.29 PB
Pole vault
 Sondre Guttormsen
 Norway		5.80 Emmanouil Karalis
 Greece
Piotr Lisek
 Poland SB		5.80 Not awarded
Long jump
 Miltiadis Tentoglou
 Greece		8.30 Thobias Montler
 Sweden		8.19 SB Gabriel Bitan
 Romania		8.00
Triple jump
 Pedro Pichardo
 Portugal		17.60 WL NR Nikolaos Andrikopoulos
 Greece		16.58 SB Max Heß
 Germany		16.57
Shot put
 Zane Weir
 Italy		22.06 EL NR Tomáš Staněk
 Czech Republic		21.90 SB Roman Kokoshko
 Ukraine		21.84 NR

Combined

Chronology: 2019 | 2021 | 2023 | 2025 | 2027
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Heptathlon
 Kevin Mayer
 France		6,348 EL Sander Skotheim
 Norway		6,318 NR Risto Lillemets
 Estonia		6,079 SB

Women's results

Track

Chronology: 2019 | 2021 | 2023 | 2025 | 2027
Event Gold Silver Bronze
60 metres
 Mujinga Kambundji
 Switzerland		7.00 =CR Ewa Swoboda
 Poland		7.09 =SB Daryll Neita
 Great Britain		7.12
400 metres
 Femke Bol
 Netherlands		49.85 Lieke Klaver
 Netherlands		50.57 Anna Kiełbasińska
 Poland		51.25 SB
800 metres
 Keely Hodgkinson
 Great Britain		1:58.66 Anita Horvat
 Slovenia		2:00.54 Agnès Raharolahy
 France		2:00.85
1500 metres
 Laura Muir
 Great Britain		4:03.40 Claudia Bobocea
 Romania		4:03.76 PB Sofia Ennaoui
 Poland		4:04.06 PB
3000 metres
 Hanna Klein
 Germany		8:35.87 PB Konstanze Klosterhalfen
 Germany		8:36.50 Melissa Courtney-Bryant
 Great Britain		8:41.19
60 metres hurdles
 Reetta Hurske
 Finland		7.79 =NR Nadine Visser
 Netherlands		7.84 SB Ditaji Kambundji
 Switzerland		7.91
4 × 400 metres relay
  Netherlands
Lieke Klaver
Eveline Saalberg
Cathelijn Peeters
Femke Bol		3:25.66 WL CR NR  Italy
Alice Mangione
Ayomide Folorunso
Anna Polinari
Eleonora Marchiando 		3:28.61 NR  Poland
Anna Kiełbasińska
Marika Popowicz-Drapała
Alicja Wrona-Kutrzepa
Anna Pałys		3:29.31 SB

Field

Chronology: 2019 | 2021 | 2023 | 2025 | 2027
Event Gold Silver Bronze
High jump
 Yaroslava Mahuchikh
 Ukraine		1.98 Britt Weerman
 Netherlands		1.96 =NR Kateryna Tabashnyk
 Ukraine		1.94
Pole vault
 Wilma Murto
 Finland		4.80 NR Tina Šutej
 Slovenia		4.75 Amálie Švábíková
 Czech Republic		4.70
Long jump
 Jazmin Sawyers
 Great Britain		7.00 WL NR Larissa Iapichino
 Italy		6.97 NR Ivana Vuleta
 Serbia		6.91
Triple jump
 Tuğba Danışmaz
 Turkey		14.31 NR Dariya Derkach
 Italy		14.20 Patrícia Mamona
 Portugal		14.16
Shot put
 Auriol Dongmo
 Portugal		19.76 EL Sara Gambetta
 Germany		18.83 SB Fanny Roos
 Sweden		18.42

Combined

Chronology: 2019 | 2021 | 2023 | 2025 | 2027
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Pentathlon
 Nafissatou Thiam
 Belgium		5055 WR Adrianna Sułek
 Poland		5014 NR Noor Vidts
 Belgium		4823 SB

Legend

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

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Turkey)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Norway4105
2 Netherlands3317
3 Great Britain3126
4 Italy2406
5 Belgium2136
6 Portugal2013
  Switzerland2013
8 Finland2002
9 France1236
10 Germany1214
11 Greece1203
12 Ukraine1124
13 Spain1102
14 Turkey*1001
15 Poland0437
16 Slovenia0202
17 Sweden0134
18 Czech Republic0112
 Romania0112
20 Serbia0022
21 Estonia0011
Totals (21 entries)26272578

Source:[16]

Placing table

The top eight finalists in each event scored points for their nation, with 8 points going to the gold medalists down to one point for each 8th place finisher. Non-finishers and disqualified athletes received zero points.

Rank Country 1st place, gold medalist(s) 2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 4 5 6 7 8 Finalists Points
1 Italy24-323242084
2 Great Britain312-34221772.50
3 Netherlands331112111369
4 Germany1214-1421561
5 France123-31111258
6 Poland-43111--1057.50
7 Belgium2131-2211257
8 Spain11-511211252
9 Norway41---111845
10 Portugal2-1211-2941
11  Switzerland2-1-131-837
12 Czech Republic-11132-1937
13 Sweden-13-1-22935
14 Ukraine112-1---531
15 Greece12-1--1-528.50
16 Slovenia-2--1--1419
17 Romania-11-1-1-418.50
18 Finland2-----1-318
19 Serbia--21---1418
20 Ireland---111--312
21 Turkey1----1--211
22 Luxembourg----2--139
23 Hungary----111-39
24 Austria---1--1-27
24 Bosnia and Herzegovina---1--1-27
26 Estonia--1-----16
27 Bulgaria---1----15
27 Croatia---1----15
27 Denmark---1----15
30 Azerbaijan----1---14
30 Slovakia----1---14
32 Lithuania-----1--13
33 Moldova------1-12

Source:[17]

Participating nations

550 athletes from 47 member federations competed in the championships. In brackets the number of athletes participating.

Media coverage

The European Athletics agreed broadcasting agreements with 26 countries, with remaining areas receiving coverage direct from the European Athletics via the Eurovision All Athletics platform.[18]

  • Austria: ORF Sport +
  • Belgium: RTBF, VRT
  • Croatia: HRT (evening sessions 3 & 4 March + all sessions 5 March) and All Athletics (remaining sessions)
  • Czech Republic: CT
  • Denmark: DR
  • Estonia: ERR
  • Finland: Yle
  • France: France TV (evening sessions 3, 4 & 5 March) and All Athletics (remaining sessions)
  • Greece: ERT
  • Hungary: M4 Sport
  • Iceland: RÚV (all sessions 3, 4, 5 March) and All Athletics (all sessions 2 March)
  • Ireland: RTÉ
  • Israel: The Sport Channel
  • Italy: RAI
  • Lithuania: LRT (evening sessions 3 & 4 March + all sessions 5 March) and All Athletics (remaining sessions)
  • Netherlands: NOS
  • Norway: NRK (evening sessions 3, 4 & 5 March) and All Athletics (remaining sessions)
  • Poland: TVP
  • Portugal: RTP and All Athletics
  • Serbia: RTS (all evening sessions + morning session 5 March) and All Athletics (remaining sessions)
  • Spain: RTVE
  • Sweden: SVT
  • Switzerland: SRG
  • Turkey: TRT Spor Yildiz
  • Ukraine: PBC
  • United Kingdom: BBC

References

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  2. ↑ "2023 ISTANBUL – European Athletics Indoor Championships | FINAL RESULTS" (PDF). European Athletics. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 March 2023. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
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  4. ↑ Jałoszyński, Maciej (12 November 2020). "Stambuł gospodarzem Halowych Mistrzostw Europy 2023". Polish Athletics (in Polish). Retrieved 4 January 2023.
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  8. ↑ "2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships timetable | 2–5 March | Ataköy Athletics Arena" (PDF). European Athletics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 February 2023. Retrieved 20 January 2023.
  9. 1 2 "Qualification System and Entry Standards" (PDF). European Athletics. September 2022. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
  10. ↑ "EK atletiek: het wereldrecord van Nafi Thiam is niet het enige goede nieuws" (in Dutch). Knack. 2023. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
  11. ↑ Adams, Tim (3 March 2023). "Nafi Thiam sets world record in greatest ever pentathlon". AW. Retrieved 6 March 2023. Adrianna Sułek held the world pentathlon record for six seconds but Nafissatou Thiam now claims that coveted crown.
  12. ↑ Dennehy, Cathal (3 March 2023). "Thiam and Sulek surpass previous world indoor pentathlon record in Istanbul". World Athletics. Retrieved 3 March 2023.
  13. ↑ "Records Set | As of 5 MAR 2023" (PDF). European Athletics. 5 March 2023. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  14. ↑ Wilson, Jeremy (4 March 2023). "Laura Muir breaks new ground with fifth European Indoor gold". The Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 4 March 2023.
  15. ↑ Dennehy, Cathal (5 March 2023). "Hurske caps sparkling indoor campaign with storming 60m hurdles victory in Istanbul". European Athletics. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  16. ↑ "Medal Standings | As of 5 MAR 2023" (PDF). European Athletics. 5 March 2023. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  17. ↑ "Placing Table | As of 5 MAR 2023" (PDF). European Athletics. 5 March 2023. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  18. ↑ "European Athletics Indoor Championships 2023". All Athletics. Eurovision. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
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