Athletics EAA Team European Championships 2025

[Grassmarket 4,265]

Norway out of their lane there.....

[Grassmarket 4,265]

Second!

[hckošice 16,604]

9th place at the end, not great, not bad...

 

We belong to this division and we proved it again.

 

Zapletalová just briliant, Blšťák in LJ the absolute breakthrough of the weekend in our team. Domotor having so far his careers season and a Very good Viki Forster once again. My tops

 

On other side Volko very dissappointing, Veszelka nowhere of his pre-injury shapes are the folks I expected much more of them

 

The rest more or less as expected, the massive drop in the field events is sadly currently unsolvable, some did more than we were hoping in W LJ, M&W PV, M JT, W HJ, M SP some were even worse... Without injured Gajanová we did not expect anything from longer distances, Zapotočná in W 800 and the amateur runner/surgeon Ďurec in M 5000 did great jobs though

 

So all in all we are at our level 7-9th places in Div II and it is fine considering all the facts and obstacles our sport is struggling and facing now

Edited June 29, 2025 by hckošice

[OlympicIRL 6,302]

On 6/22/2025 at 6:24 PM, OlympicIRL said:

Using the season's best of each athlete from the entry list I have calculated a projected points calculation for the 2nd Division.

 

Obviously this is full of caveats due to the fact some athletes are just starting their seasons, some season's best will have been vastly improved since the entry list was released earlier this week and some strong athletes have no seasons best yet and thus their points will not reflect their true potential. Also I did not include the 3 relay events either. Nevertheless I thought it would be nice to calculate it and share.

 

Rank	Nation	Pts
1	Belgium	407
2	Norway	384
3	Turkey	358
4	Slovenia	340
5	Ireland	333
6	Romania	307
7	Croatia	304
8	Austria	277
8	Slovakia	277
10	Denmark	267
11	Estonia	257
12	Israel	248
13	Serbia	239
14	Cyprus	230
15	Bulgaria	207
16	Latvia	189

 

 

Belgium should have enough to take the title and Norway should be comfortably in the promotion spots.

There might be a decent battle for the third promotion spot and with Slovenia at home they are likely to outperform expectations and could really challenge Turkey for promotion. On paper Ireland are in the mix too especially as the relays are not included in this projection and Ireland will be among the strongest teams in the relay events. But I think we'd need to be on our A-game to earn a shot at promotion and I think it might be just beyond them this time.

 

So the projections before the championships were pretty spot on in the overall standings. 

[Gianlu33 5,969]

What comeback for Mononen!

[Grassmarket 4,265]

Again, drinks too far away.  Some meets now allow the crowd to stand on lane 4 on the back straight.

Edited June 29, 2025 by Grassmarket

[Gianlu33 5,969]

Italy won the 2nd European Cup of their history (and 2nd in a row!)

[Belle 1,043]

Will  be DQ from the 4x400 mixed race? 

[Gianlu33 5,969]

Italian record, the best way to close an extraordinary edition for the Azzurri

[Dennis 845]

Congrats to Italy! 

 

Good tournament for , winning 8 events, but definitely lacking in the field events compared to the top 3 countries, making it impossible to finish on the podium.

 

Some breakdowns, showing that Italy is the deserved winner as the most allround country during these championships. It also shows that the top 3 countries dominated the field events, whereas the track events were much closer.

 

Country	Total Points	Track Events	Field Events	Men	Women
	431.5	252 [1]	179.5 [1]	207 [1]	209.5 [1]
	405.5	237 [5]	168.5 [3]	185 [5]	204.5 [2]
	397	220 [6]	177 [2]	192 [4]	195 [4]
	384.5	242 [2]	142.5 [6]	176 [6]	197.5 [3]
	381	239 [=3]	142 [7]	195 [2]	172 [=6]
	378	239 [=3]	139 [9]	193 [3]	172 [=6]
	354.5	210 [7]	144.5 [5]	169 [7]	173.5 [5]
	300	174 [9]	126 [12]	143 [=9]	157 [8]
	288.5	150 [10]	138.5 [10]	137.5 [11]	143 [10]
	286	193 [8]	93 [16]	136 [12]	150 [9]
	283	142 [12]	141 [8]	159.5 [8]	120.5 [12]
	253	115 [14]	138 [11]	105.5 [14]	142.5 [11]
	244.5	143 [11]	101.5 [13]	118.5 [13]	117 [13]
	231	83 [15]	148 [4]	143 [=9]	82 [16]
	220.5	131 [13]	89.5 [16]	103 [15]	110.5 [14]
	178.5	79 [16]	99.5 [14]	75 [16]	99.5 [15]

 

Edited June 30, 2025 by Dennis