European Combined Events Team Championships

The European Combined Events Team Championships is a track and field competition for European combined track and field events specialists, with contests in men's decathlon event and women's heptathlon. It is organised by European Athletics. It was held annually in 1993–2011 and biennially in 1973–1993 and 2011–2019.

It was known as the European Cup Combined Events prior to 2017.

It is an international team event, where the points of each nation's top three performers are tallied to form an overall team score. The European Cup Combined Events takes place in three separate divisions – the Super, First, and Second Leagues – and nations gain promotion and relegation between the leagues depending upon their performance.^[1] Since 2013 there is a single overall competition winner determined by a combination of men's and women's performances, rather than as separate competitions for men and women. The three league contests take place over the same two-day period, but are held at different European locations.

The event provides multi-eventers with the opportunity to take part in national team events that is afforded to individual event athletes by the European Athletics Team Championships, the European Marathon Cup, the European Half Marathon Cup and the team events at the European Cross Country Championships.

Organised by the European Athletic Association (EAA), the competition was first held in Bonn, West Germany in 1973 as a biennial event for the men's decathlon and women's pentathlon. The women's heptathlon superseded the pentathlon in 1981. For the first five editions (1973–1981), the competition featured semi-final and final stages, but a league format with A, B and C divisions was adopted at the 1983 event. The biennial schedule was changed to an annual one from the 1993 Cup onwards, at which point the league names took on their current titles. Since 2011 the competition does not take place in Olympic years.^[1]

The competition is one of a series of international team athletics competitions held by the EAA on a yearly basis, alongside the European Team Championships for individual track and field events, the European Cup 10000m, European Cup Race Walking and the European Cup Winter Throwing meet.^[2]

Individual performances in the Super league section of the competition qualify for the IAAF World Combined Events Challenge, which is an international series for athletes competing in combined events.^[3]

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1973	Lennart Hedmark  Sweden	8120	Yves Le Roy  France	7942	Ryszard Skowronek  Poland	7936
1975	Leonid Lytvynenko  Soviet Union	8030	Mykola Avilov  Soviet Union	7973	Ryszard Katus  Poland	7950
1977	Aleksandr Grebenyuk  Soviet Union	8252	Rainer Pottel  East Germany	8096	Guido Kratschmer  West Germany	8086
1979	Siegfried Stark  East Germany	8287	Guido Kratschmer  West Germany	8053	Aleksandr Nevskiy  Soviet Union	7949
1981	Rainer Pottel  East Germany	8311	Jürgen Hingsen  West Germany	8138	Uwe Freimuth  East Germany	8136
1983	Uwe Freimuth  East Germany	8501	Stephan Niklaus  Switzerland	8312	Siegfried Wentz  West Germany	8246
1985	Torsten Voss  East Germany	8352	Aleksandr Nevskiy  Soviet Union	8321	Grigoriy Degtyaryov  Soviet Union	8206
1987	Torsten Voss  East Germany	8445	Uwe Freimuth  East Germany	8220	Thomas Fahner  East Germany	8187
1989	Christian Plaziat  France	8290	Christian Schenk  East Germany	8250	Norbert Demmel  East Germany	8152
1991	Christian Plaziat  France	8518	Christian Schenk  Germany	8402	Alain Blondel  France	8211
1993	Paul Meier  Germany	8366	Christian Plaziat  France	8277	Alain Blondel  France	8204
1994	Christian Plaziat  France	8505	Henrik Dagård  Sweden	8347	Tomáš Dvořák  Czech Republic	8313
1995	Tomáš Dvořák  Czech Republic	8347	Alex Kruger  United Kingdom	8131	Henrik Dagård  Sweden	8114
1996	Frank Busemann  Germany	8522	Kamil Damašek  Czech Republic	8256	Dirk-Achim Pajonk  Germany	8161
1997	Roman Šebrle  Czech Republic	8322	Erki Nool  Estonia	8289	Kamil Damašek  Czech Republic	8172
1998	Erki Nool  Estonia	8628	Roman Šebrle  Czech Republic	8589	Jack Rosendaal  Netherlands	8269w
1999	Tomáš Dvořák  Czech Republic	8994	Roman Šebrle  Czech Republic	8527	Sébastien Levicq  France	8345
2000	Aleksandr Yurkov  Ukraine	8118	Laurent Hernu  France	7943	Zsolt Kürtösi  Hungary	7901
2001	Aleksandr Yurkov  Ukraine	8380	Attila Zsivoczky  Hungary	8218	Laurent Hernu  France	8112
2002	Mike Maczey  Germany	8104	Jaakko Ojaniemi  Finland	7924	Stefan Schmid  Germany	7825
2003	Romain Barras  France	8008	Aleksandr Pogorelov  Russia	7896	Sergey Nikitin  Russia	7850
2004	William Frullani  Italy	7927	Laurent Hernu  France	7921	Indrek Turi  Estonia	7888
2005	Mikk Pahapill  Estonia	8149	Nikolay Tishchenko  Russia	7767	David Gómez  Spain	7698
2006	Romain Barras  France	8416 w	Attila Zsivoczky  Hungary	8390 w	Aleksandr Pogorelov  Russia	8102
2007	Aliaksandr Parkhomenka  Belarus	8101 SB	Mikalai Shubianok  Belarus	8020	Julien Choffart  France	7916 SB
2008	Andrei Krauchanka  Belarus	8585 SB	Romain Barras  France	7974	Andres Raja  Estonia	7964
2009	Andrei Krauchanka  Belarus	8336 SB	Aleksandr Pogorelov  Russia	8313	Oleksiy Kasyanov  Ukraine	8245
2010	Romain Barras  France	8313	Mikk Pahapill  Estonia	8198	Andres Raja  Estonia	8023
2011	Andres Raja  Estonia	8114 SB	Vasiliy Kharlamov  Russia	7935	Gaël Quérin  France	7799
2013	Kevin Mayer  France	8390	Eduard Mikhan  Belarus	8125 SB	Mikk Pahapill  Estonia	8099
2014	Eelco Sintnicolaas  Netherlands	8156	Eduard Mikhan  Belarus	8004	Ingmar Vos  Netherlands	7959
2015	Ilya Shkurenyov  Russia	8378	Oleksiy Kasyanov  Ukraine	8105	Romain Barras  France	8007
2017	Janek Õiglane  Estonia	8170 PB	Oleksiy Kasyanov  Ukraine	7958	Karl Robert Saluri  Estonia	7837
2019	Vital Zhuk  Belarus	8237 SB	Maicel Uibo  Estonia	8181	Jorge Ureña  Spain	8073

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1973	Burglinde Pollak  East Germany	4932	Nadiya Tkachenko  Soviet Union	4695	Margit Olfert  East Germany	4517
1975	Burglinde Pollak  East Germany	4672	Christine Laser  East Germany	4574	Siegrun Thon  East Germany	4508
1977	Nadiya Tkachenko  Soviet Union	4839	Zoya Spasovkhodskaya  Soviet Union	4477	Valentina Dimitrova  Bulgaria	4423
1979	Yekaterina Smirnova  Soviet Union	4717	Kristine Nitzsche  East Germany	4686	Ramona Neubert  East Germany	4602

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1981	Ramona Neubert  East Germany	6391	Heidrun Geissler  East Germany	6223	Sabine Everts  West Germany	6187
1983	Ramona Neubert  East Germany	6722	Yekaterina Smirnova  Soviet Union	6486	Valentina Dimitrova  Bulgaria	6416
1985	Sabine Paetz  East Germany	6595	Natalya Gracheva  Soviet Union	6427	Sibylle Thiele  East Germany	6460
1987	Svetlana Buraga  Soviet Union	6585	Marion Reichelt  East Germany	6442	Marianna Maslennikova  Soviet Union	6434 w
1989	Larisa Nikitina  Soviet Union	6875	Remigija Nazaroviené  Soviet Union	6600	Natalya Shubenkova  Soviet Union	6345
1991	Peggy Beer  Germany	6383	Heike Tischler  Germany	6366	Anke Behmer  Germany	6272
1993	Tatyana Zhuravlyova  Russia	6330	Larisa Nikitina  Russia	6256	Urszula Włodarczyk  Poland	6121
1994	Svetlana Moskalets  Russia	6507	Nathalie Teppe  France	6396	Peggy Beer  Germany	6362
1995	Denise Lewis  United Kingdom	6299	Sharon Jaklofsky  Netherlands	6197	Anzhela Atroshchenko  Belarus	6186
1996	Natalya Sazanovich  Belarus	6466	Mona Steigauf  Germany	6380	Rita Ináncsi  Hungary	6312
1997	Irina Vostrikova  Russia	6298	Urszula Włodarczyk  Poland	6236	Svetlana Moskalets  Russia	6219
1998	Marie Collonvillé  France	6215	Natalya Roshchupkina  Russia	6145	Urszula Włodarczyk  Poland	6144
1999	Eunice Barber  France	6505	Irina Belova  Russia	6291	Irina Vostrikova  Russia	6278
2000	Natalya Roshchupkina  Russia	6377	Tatyana Gordeyeva  Russia	6154	Yelena Chernyavskaya  Russia	6106
2001	Svetlana Sokolova  Russia	6270 w	Sonja Kesselschläger  Germany	6064 w	Tatyana Gordeyeva  Russia	6064 w
2002	Karin Ertl  Germany	6017	Sabine Krieger  Germany	5973	Sonja Kesselschläger  Germany	5950
2003	Yelena Prokhorova  Russia	6313	Irina Butor  Belarus	6264	Argyro Strataki  Greece	6064
2004	Yuliya Ignatkina  Russia	6120	Magdalena Szczepańska  Poland	6115	Argyro Strataki  Greece	5926
2005	Tatyana Alisevich  Belarus	6173	Yvonne Wisse  Netherlands	6026	Diana Koritskaya  Russia	5981
2006	Carolina Klüft  Sweden	6665	Karolina Tymińska  Poland	6402 SB	Ksenja Balta  Estonia	6180 PB
2007	Jessica Ennis  United Kingdom	6399	Kelly Sotherton  United Kingdom	6229	Hanna Melnychenko  Ukraine	6143 SB
2008	Hanna Melnychenko  Ukraine	6306 SB	Antoinette Nana Djimou  France	6204 SB	Jolanda Keizer  Netherlands	6105
2009	Hanna Melnychenko  Ukraine	6380	Kamila Chudzik  Poland	6378	Karolina Tymińska  Poland	6191 SB
2010	Hanna Melnychenko  Ukraine	6098 SB	Marisa De Aniceto  France	6010 SB	Aleksandra Butvina  Russia	5990
2011	Anna Bogdanova  Russia	6225	Lyudmyla Yosypenko  Ukraine	5984	Remona Fransen  Netherlands	5965
2013	Karolina Tymińska  Poland	6347	Hanna Melnychenko  Ukraine	6260	Grit Šadeiko  Estonia	6221 NR PB
2014	Nadine Broersen  Netherlands	6539	Antoinette Nana Djimou  France	6212	Yana Maksimava  Belarus	6173
2015	Alina Fyodorova  Ukraine	6278	Grit Šadeiko  Estonia	6196	Anna Blank  Russia	6037
2017	Alina Shukh  Ukraine	6208	Geraldine Ruckstuhl  Switzerland	6134	Grit Sadeiko  Estonia	5958
2019	Daryna Sloboda  Ukraine	6165 PB	Katie Stainton  United Kingdom	6029 PB	Marijke Esselink  Netherlands	5905 PB

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1973	Poland	23578	Soviet Union	23434	East Germany	22723
1975	Soviet Union	23631	Poland	22824	Sweden	22763
1977	Soviet Union	24303	West Germany	24049	East Germany	23928
1979	East Germany	24070	West Germany	23755	Soviet Union	23510
1981	West Germany	24363	East Germany	24190	Poland	22880
1983	West Germany	24609	East Germany	24359	Soviet Union	24208
1985	Soviet Union	24639	East Germany	24550	Poland	22564
1987	East Germany	24852	Soviet Union	24307	Switzerland	23537
1989	East Germany	24081	West Germany	23693	Soviet Union	23572
1991	Germany	24350	France	24048	Soviet Union	23687
1993	France	24163	Germany	24025	Finland	23087
1994	France	24864	Czech Republic	23836	Spain	23723
1995	Czech Republic	23826	France	23462	Sweden	23408
1996	Germany	24832	France	24106	Czech Republic	24096
1997	Czech Republic	24416	Estonia	23859	Hungary	23780
1998	Czech Republic	23974	Netherlands	23879	France	23669
1999	Czech Republic	25375	Germany	23467	Spain	23234
2000	France	23496	Ukraine	23165	Russia	23144
2001	France	23933	Ukraine	23779	Finland	23648
2002	Germany	23750	Finland	22798	Russia	22621
2003	France	23538	Russia	23357	Italy	22678
2004	Estonia	23282	Germany	23234	France	23120
2005	Estonia	23139	Russia	22711	Spain	22482
2006	France	24185	Russia	23764	Estonia	22968
2007	Belarus	23749	France	23246	Netherlands	23022
2008	Belarus	24160	Netherlands	23367	France	23268
2009	Russia	24507	Belarus	24077	Ukraine	23621
2010	Estonia	23746	Russia	22742	France	22556
2011	Russia	23305	Estonia	23095	Belarus	22956

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1973	East Germany	13924	Soviet Union	13351	Bulgaria	12882
1975	East Germany	13754	Soviet Union	13186	West Germany	12751
1977	Soviet Union	13708	West Germany	12835	France	12277
1979	East Germany	13836	Soviet Union	13620	West Germany	13325
1981	East Germany	18682	West Germany	17817	Soviet Union	17480
1983	East Germany	19242	Soviet Union	18698	Bulgaria	18666
1985	East Germany	19108	Soviet Union	18841	West Germany	18662
1987	Soviet Union	19289	France	18477	Czechoslovakia	17879
1989	Soviet Union	19820	West Germany	18532	Finland	17849
1991	Germany	19023	Soviet Union	18434	Poland	18177
1993	Russia	18595	Germany	17708	Poland	17287
1994	Russia	18876	Ukraine	18487	France	18474
1995	Belarus	18150	Germany	17755	Russia	17705
1996	Germany	18659	Belarus	18244	France	17838
1997	Russia	18651	France	18250	Germany	18058
1998	Russia	18331	France	18117	Germany	17923
1999	Russia	18625	France	18285	Poland	18119
2000	Russia	18637	Poland	17759	France	17710
2001	Russia	18350	Germany	18009	Italy	17473
2002	Germany	17940	Russia	17449	Ukraine	17381
2003	Russia	17983	Belarus	17982	Greece	17433
2004	Russia	17872	Poland	17704	Belarus	17024
2005	Belarus	17626	Ukraine	17506	Russia	17487
2006	Russia	18149	Sweden	18078	Finland	17503
2007	United Kingdom	18329	Russia	17289	Ukraine	17243
2008	Ukraine	18187	Russia	17980	France	17482
2009	Poland	18007	Russia	17949	Ukraine	17814
2010	France	17654	Czech Republic	17402	Russia	17301
2011	Russia	17816	Ukraine	17600	France	16992

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2013	France	41421	Russia	41032	Estonia	41027
2014	Russia	41159	Netherlands	41048	France	40761
2015	Russia	41700	France	40724	Estonia	39875
2017	Ukraine	40085	Estonia	39779	France	39771
2019	Estonia	39959	Belarus	39560	Great Britain	39433

• 1973:  Sepp Zeilbauer (AUT) &  Yves Le Roy (FRA) &  Toomas Suurväli (URS)^[4]
• 1975:  Luděk Pernica (TCH) &  Yves Le Roy (FRA) &  Sepp Zeilbauer (AUT)
• 1977:  Petr Krátký (TCH) &  Guido Kratschmer (FRG) &  Mykola Avilov (URS) &  Daley Thompson (GBR)
• 1979:  Thierry Dubois (FRA) &  Viktor Gruzenkin (URS) &  Siegfried Stark (GDR)
• 1981:  Dariusz Ludwig (POL) &  Atanas Andonov (BUL) &  Uwe Freimuth (GDR)
• 1983:  Kari-Pekka Lax (FIN)
• 1985:  Christian Plaziat (FRA)
• 1987:  William Motti (FRA)
• 1989:  Petri Keskitalo (FIN)
• 1991:  Antonio Peñalver (ESP)
• 1993:  Alex Kruger (GBR)
• 1994:  Vitaliy Kolpakov (UKR)
• 1995:  Paul Meier (GER)
• 1996:  Erki Nool (EST)
• 1997:  Eduard Hämäläinen (FIN)
• 1998:  Sebastian Chmara (POL)
• 1999:  Lev Lobodin (RUS)
• 2000:  Prodromos Korkizoglou (GRE)
• 2001:  Chiel Warners (NED)
• 2002:  Jan Poděbradský (CZE)
• 2003:  Erki Nool (EST)
• 2004:  Roland Schwarzl (AUT)
• 2005:  Tomáš Dvořák (CZE)
• 2006:  Aliaksandr Parkhomenka (BLR)

• 1973:  Ilona Bruzsenyák (HUN) &  Marie-Christine Debourse (FRA) &  Burglinde Pollak (GDR)
• 1975:  Annette Stein (FRG) &  Burglinde Pollak (GDR) &  Zoya Spasovkhodskaya (URS)
• 1977:  Marcela Koblasová (TCH) &  Margit Papp (HUN) &  Nadiya Tkachenko (URS) &  Susan Longden (GBR)
• 1979:  Cornelia Sulek (FRG) &  Nadezhda Karyakina (URS) &  Kristine Nitzsche (GDR)
• 1981:  Sabine Everts (FRG) &  Nadezhda Vinogradova (URS) &  Ramona Neubert (GDR)
• 1983:  Tineke Hidding (NED)
• 1985:  Chantal Beaugeant (FRA)
• 1987:  Ragne Kytölä (FIN)
• 1989:  Anke Behmer (GDR)
• 1991:  Liliana Năstase (ROM)
• 1993:  Clova Court (GBR)
• 1994:  Anzhela Atroshchenko (BLR)
• 1995:  Rita Ináncsi (HUN)
• 1996:  Urszula Włodarczyk (POL)
• 1997:  Ester Goossens (NED)
• 1998:  Gertrud Bacher (ITA)
• 1999:  Virge Naeris (EST)
• 2000:  Natallia Sazanovich (BLR)
• 2001:  Yuliya Akulenko (UKR)
• 2002:  Carolina Klüft (SWE)
• 2003:  Carolina Klüft (SWE)
• 2004:  Carolina Klüft (SWE)
• 2005:  Carolina Klüft (SWE)
• 2006:  Argyro Strataki (GRE)

• 1983:  Martin Machura (TCH)
• 1985:  Sten Ekberg (SWE) &  Marco Rossi (ITA)
• 1987:  Dezsõ Szabó (HUN)
• 1989:  Antonio Peñalver (ESP)
• 1991:  Marco Baffi (ITA)
• 1993:  Mário Aníbal (POR) &  Igor Matsanov (BLR)
• 1994:  Mário Aníbal (POR) &  Erki Nool (EST)
• 1995:  Jón Arnar Magnússon (ISL) &  Leo Hudec (AUT)
• 1996:  Sebastian Chmara (POL)
• 1997:  Sebastian Chmara (POL)
• 1998:  Jón Arnar Magnússon (ISL) &  Nikolay Afanasyev (RUS)
• 1999:  Trond Høiby (NOR)
• 2000:  Rojs Piziks (LAT)
• 2001:  Mário Aníbal (POR)
• 2002:  Madis Kallas (EST)
• 2003:  Yeorgios Andreou (CYP)
• 2004:  Jānis Karlivāns (LAT)
• 2005:  Aliaksandr Parkhomenka (BLR)
• 2006:  François Gourmet (BEL)
• 2007:  Hans Olav Uldal (NOR)^[5]
• 2008:  Edgars Eriņš (LAT)^[6]
• 2009:  Hans Olav Uldal (NOR)^[7]

• 1983:  Marcela Koblasová (TCH)
• 1985:  Małgorzata Guzowska (POL) &  Katia Pasquinelli (ITA)
• 1987:  Anne Brit Skjæveland (NOR)
• 1989:  Liliana Năstase (ROM)
• 1991:  Athina Papasotiriou (GRE)
• 1993:  Sabine De Wachter (BEL) &  Svetlana Buraga (BLR)
• 1994:  Rita Ináncsi (HUN) &  Remigija Nazarovienė (LTU)
• 1995:  Lone Nielsen (DEN) &  Marcela Podracká (SVK)
• 1996:  Valentīna Gotovska (LAT)
• 1997:  Desanka Calasan (SLO)
• 1998:  Imma Clopés (ESP) &  Desanka Calasan (SLO)
• 1999:  Rita Ináncsi (HUN)
• 2000:  Austra Skujytė (LTU)
• 2001:  Larissa Netšeporuk (EST)
• 2002:  Austra Skujytė (LTU)
• 2003:  Sylvie Dufour (SUI)
• 2004:  Austra Skujytė (LTU)
• 2005:  Jesenija Volžankina (LAT)
• 2006:  Jesenija Volžankina (LAT)
• 2007:  Austra Skujytė (LTU)
• 2008:  Aiga Grabuste (LAT)^[8]
• 2009:  Sara Aerts (BEL)^[9]

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