{"id":951,"date":"2018-03-06T18:09:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T18:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/europe\/?p=951"},"modified":"2018-03-07T18:10:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T18:10:19","slug":"healthy-european-indoor-medal-tally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/europe\/news\/healthy-european-indoor-medal-tally","title":{"rendered":"Healthy European Indoor Medal Tally"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Birmingham<\/a><\/p>\n

Eleven European athletes won gold medals at the IAAF World Indoor Championships, which ended on Sunday, setting themselves up for more success outdoors this summer at the Berlin 2018 European Athletics Championships.<\/p>\n

European athletes won gold medals at the IAAF World Indoor Championships<\/h3>\n

A total of 16 European Athletics Member Federations won medals across the four-day programme in Birmingham, along with Authorised Neutral Athletes Danil Lysenko and Mariya Lasitskene from Russia who swept the high jump titles on the first day.<\/p>\n

The only world record of the championships came on the last day – and in the last event on the track. The Polish quartet in the 4x400m stunned the USA, stopping the clock at 3:01.77 to break the four-year-old mark. The splits were: Karol Zalewski (45.73), Rafal Omelko (45.17), Lukasz Krawczuk (45.87) and Jakub Krzewina (45.00).<\/p>\n

The unheralded Krzewina was the hero of the Polish team, running a magnificent anchor leg and overtaking his American rival in the final few metres.<\/p>\n

Poland topped the medal table at the last two continental championships and they brought this form to the world stage, finishing third in the standings behind the USA and Ethiopia.<\/p>\n

The day day before the Polish quartet brought the track event’s to a magnificent, their compatriot Adam Kszczot claimed his first global title to accompany his multiple European indoor and outdoor titles.<\/p>\n

Hosts Great Britain<\/a> actually picked up the most medals from the European nationals across the championships – finishing one place behind Poland in the medal table – with seven: two gold, one silver and four bronzes. Among them, Andrew Pozzi (60m hurdles) and Katarina Johnson-Thompson (pentathlon) collected their first global titles and double European indoor champion Laura Muir picked up a brace of medals in the 1500m and 3000m.<\/p>\n

Three more European athletes set world-leading marks in Birmingham. France\u2019s Kevin Mayer won the heptathlon title – by five points – with 6348 points, Hungary\u2019s Anita Marton set a world-lead of 19.62m in the last round of the shot put and Serbia\u2019s Ivana Spanovic extended her world-lead to 6.96m to win her first global title, and her tenth major senior medal since 2013.<\/p>\n

Marton and Spanovic also created history for their respective nations, winning their first ever gold medals in IAAF World Indoor Championships history.<\/p>\n

Gold medallists<\/p>\n

Men
\nPavel Maslak CZE (400m)
\nAdam Kszczot POL (800m)
\nAndrew Pozzi GBR (60m hurdles)
\nDanil Lysenko ANA (high jump)
\nRenaud Lavillenie FRA (pole vault)
\nKevin Mayer FRA (heptathlon)
\nPoland (4x400m)<\/p>\n

Women<\/p>\n

Mariya Lasitskene ANA (high jump)
\nIvana Spanovic SRB (long jump)
\nAnita Marton HUN (shot put)
\nKatarina Johnson-Thompson GBR (pentathlon)<\/p>\n

Silver medallists<\/p>\n

Men
\nMarcin Lewandowski POL (1500m)
\nDavid Storl GER (shot put)<\/p>\n

Women
\nLaura Muir GBR (1500m)
\nSifan Hassan NED (3000m)
\nAnzhelika Sidorova ANA (pole vault)
\nIvona Dadic AUT (pentathlon)
\nPoland (4x400m)<\/p>\n

Bronze medallists<\/p>\n

Men
\nSaul Ordonez ESP (800m)
\nAurel Manga FRA (60m hurdles)
\nMateusz Przybylko GER (high jump)
\nPiotr Lisek POL (pole vault)
\nNelson Evora POR (triple jump)
\nTomas Stanek CZE (shot put)
\nMaicel Uibo EST (heptathlon)
\nBelgium (4x400m)<\/p>\n

Women
\nMujinga Kambundji SUI (60m)
\nEilidh Doyle GBR (400m)
\nShelayna Oskan-Clarke GBR (800m)
\nSifan Hassan NED (1500m)
\nLaura Muir GBR (3000m)
\nNadine Visser NED (60m hurdles)
\nAlessia Trost ITA (high jump)
\nEkaterini Stefanidi GRE (pole vault)
\nSosthene Moguenara-Taroum GER (long jump)
\nAna Peleteiro (triple jump)
\nGreat Britain (4x400m)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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