IPC Athletics European Championships

Host city	Grosseto, Italy
Events	Track and field
Dates	10 – 16 June
Main venue	Stadio Olimpico Carlo Zecchini

The 2016 IPC Athletics European Championships was a track and field competition for athletes with a disability open to International Paralympic Committee (IPC) affiliated countries within Europe, plus Israel. It was held in Grosseto, Italy and took part between 10 and 16 June. The competition was staged at Stadio Olimpico Carlo Zecchini. Approximately 700 athletes from 35 countries attended the games.^[1] This was the last edition of the event held under the IPC Athletics title.

Russia topped the medal tables in both gold medals won (51) and total number of medals won (131).

Venue

Grosseto

The venue for the Championships was the Stadio Olimpico Carlo Zecchini athletics stadium which has held IPC Grand Prix athletic tournaments in the past.^[1] The stadium has an eight lane MONDO track and has a capacity of 10,200 people.^[1]

Format

The 2016 IPC Athletics European Championships was an invitational tournament taking in track and field events. No combined sports were included in the 2016 Championships. Not all events were open to all classifications, though no events were contested between classifications.

Athletes finishing in first place are awarded the gold medal, second place the silver medal and third place the bronze. If only three competitors are available to challenge for an event then no bronze medal is awarded. Some events will be classed as 'no medal' events.

Events

Classification

Stadio Olimpico Carlo Zecchini in 2010

Main article: Disability sport classification

To ensure competition is as fair and balanced as possible, athletes are classified dependent on how their disability impacts on their chosen event/s. Thus athletes may compete in an event against competitors with a different disability to themselves. Where there are more than one classification in one event, (for example discus throw F54/55/56), a points system is used to determine the winner.

• F = field athletes
• T = track athletes
• 11-13 – visually impaired, 11 and 12 compete with a sighted guide
• 20 – intellectual disability
• 31-38 – cerebral palsy or other conditions that affect muscle co-ordination and control. Athletes in class 31-34 compete in a seated position; athletes in class 35-38 compete standing.
• 40-47 – amputation, les autres
• 51-58 – wheelchair athletes

Medal table

  Host nation (Italy)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	51	51	29	131
2	Great Britain	23	17	16	56
3	Poland	22	11	17	50
4	Germany	13	21	9	43
5	France	10	4	6	20
6	Spain	7	7	7	21
7	Turkey	6	4	5	15
8	Finland	5	3	4	12
9	Croatia	4	4	0	8
10	Bulgaria	3	6	4	13
11	Greece	3	4	2	9
12	Lithuania	3	2	3	8
13	Italy*	2	5	6	13
14	Sweden	2	5	2	9
15	Belarus	2	3	5	10
16	Serbia	2	2	2	6
17	Latvia	2	2	1	5
18	Ireland	2	1	2	5
19	Belgium	2	0	1	3
20	Portugal	1	4	7	12
21	Czech Republic	1	3	2	6
22	Denmark	1	2	2	5
23	Austria	1	2	1	4
24	Montenegro	1	2	0	3
25	Switzerland	1	1	5	7
26	Iceland	1	0	0	1
27	Hungary	0	2	2	4
28	Slovakia	0	1	3	4
29	Luxembourg	0	1	1	2
30	Cyprus	0	1	0	1
31	Norway	0	0	1	1
	Romania	0	0	1	1
Totals (32 entries)		171	171	146	488

Multiple medallists

Many competitors won multiple medals at the 2016 Championships. The following athletes won four medals or more.

Name	Country	Medal	Event
Natalia Kocherova	Russia	Gold  Gold  Gold  Gold  Gold  Silver	200m - T53-54 400m - T54 800m - T54 1500m - T54 5000m - T54 100m - T54
Georgina Hermitage	Great Britain	Gold  Gold  Gold  Gold	100m - T37 200m - T37 400m - T38 4x100m relay - T35-38
David Weir	Great Britain	Gold  Gold  Gold  Gold	400m - T54 800m - T54 1500m - T54 5000m - T54
Henry Manni	Finland	Gold  Gold  Gold  Silver	100m - T34 200m - T34 400m - T34 800m - T34
Moatez Jomni	Great Britain	Gold  Silver  Silver  Bronze	200m - T53 400m - T53 800m - T53 100m - T53
Aleksei Bychenok	Russia	Silver  Silver  Silver  Bronze  Bronze  Bronze	200m - T54 1500m - T54 5000m - T54 100m - T54 400m - T54 800m T54
Gunilla Wallengren	Sweden	Silver  Silver  Silver  Bronze	400m - T54 800m - T54 5000m - T54 1500m - T54

Participating nations

Below is the list of countries who agreed to participate in the Championships and the requested number of athlete places for each.

See also

• 2016 European Athletics Championships

Footnotes

Notes

References

External links

• Official web-site