2007 European Indoor Championships in Athletics
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The 29th European Athletics Indoor Championships were held in the National Indoor Arena
National Indoor Arena
The National Indoor Arena is a large indoor arena and is owned by the NEC Group. It is situated in central Birmingham, England and was opened in 1991, as the largest indoor arena at the time in the UK...

 (NIA) in Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

, from Friday, 2 March to Sunday, 4 March 2007. Birmingham also held the 2003 IAAF World Indoor Championships
2003 IAAF World Indoor Championships
The 9th IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics were held in the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham, UK from 14 March to 16 March 2003. It was the first time the Championships had been held in the UK...

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Track

60 m
60 metres
60 metres is a sprint event in track and field athletics. It is a championship event for indoor championships, normally dominated by the best outdoor 100 metres runners. At outdoor venues it is a rare distance, at least for senior athletes...


Jason Gardener
Jason Gardener
Jason Carl Gardener is a retired British sprint athlete, and former World Indoor Champion. Gardener was educated at Beechen Cliff School and the City of Bath College, and went on to graduate from Bath Spa University.-Athletics career:Gardener started his career at the World Junior Championships in...

 
 United Kingdom
6.51
EL
Craig Pickering
Craig Pickering
Craig Keith Pickering is an English sprinter, currently based at the Marshall Milton Keynes Athletics Club; however, he also runs for the University of Bath and Newham and Essex Beagles. He is a former student of the Royal Latin School and got pointed in the sprinting direction by his PE teacher...

 
 United Kingdom
6.59
 
Ronald Pognon
Ronald Pognon
Ronald Pognon is a French sprint athlete. He originally specialized in the 200 metres, but later shifted to the shorter sprint distances...

 
 France
6.60
 
400 m
400 metres
The 400 metres, or 400 metre dash, is a common sprinting event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 . On a standard outdoor running track, it is exactly one lap around the track. Runners start in staggered positions and...


David Gillick
David Gillick
David Gillick is an Irish international track and field athlete. David began his education in Our Lady's Boys School and attended St.Benildus College secondary school in Kilmacud. He studied at Dublin Institute of Technology before moving to Loughborough to train as a full time athlete with coach...

 
 Republic of Ireland
45.52
NR   EL
Bastian Swillims
Bastian Swillims
Bastian Swillims is a German sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.His personal best time is 45.44 seconds, achieved in August 2007 in Osaka.- Achievements :- External links :...

 
 Germany
45.62
PB
Robert Tobin
Robert Tobin
Robert "Rob" John Tobin is an English sprinter. He currently has a PB in the 400 m of 45.01 seconds.-Personal life:...

 
 United Kingdom
46.15
 
800 m
800 metres
The 800 meter race is a common track running event. It is the shortest common middle distance track event. The 800 meter is run over two laps of the track and has always been an Olympic event. During indoor track season the event is usually run on a 200 meter track, therefore requiring four laps...


Arnoud Okken
Arnoud Okken
Arnoud Okken is a Dutch athlete specialising in the 800 metres.His first international victory came at the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships. Commenting on the win, Okken stated that "my plan was to take the lead and keep away from any trouble...

 
 Netherlands
1:47.92
 
Miguel Quesada
Miguel Quesada
Miguel Quesada Velasco is a Spanish middle distance runner. He specializes in the 800 metres....

 
 Spain
1:47.96
 
Maurizio Bobbato 
 Italy
1:48:71
PB
1500 m
1500 metres
The 1,500-metre run is the premier middle distance track event.Aerobic endurance is the biggest factor contributing to success in the 1500 metres but the athlete also requires significant sprint speed.In modern times, the 1,500-metre run has been run at a pace faster than the average person could...


Juan Carlos Higuero
Juan Carlos Higuero
Juan Carlos Higuero Mate is a Spanish middle distance runner, who mostly concentrates on the 1500 metres. He was born in Aranda de Duero, Burgos....

 
 Spain
3:44.41
 
Sergio Gallardo
Sergio Gallardo
Sergio Gallardo is a Spanish middle distance runner. He specializes in the 1500 metres.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*800 metres - 1:48.12 min *1500 metres - 3:34.95 min *Mile - 3:56.78 min...

 
 Spain
3:44.51
 
Arturo Casado
Arturo Casado
Arturo Casado Alda is a Spanish middle distance runner.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*800 metres - 1:44.74 - Rieti 29.08.2010*1500 metres - 3:32.70 - Berlin 22.08.2010*Mile - 3:52.38 - Oslo 15.06.2007...

 
 Spain
3:44.73
 
3000 m
3000 metres
The 3000 metres is a popular amateur middle distance track event where 7.5 laps are completed around a 400 metre track. This event is generally classified as middle distance, but it could be classed as a long distance event in many high schools, since they do not promote races such as the 5000 and...


Cosimo Caliandro
Cosimo Caliandro
Cosimo Caliandro was an Italian middle distance runner.Caliandro was born in Francavilla Fontana. In his first appearance on the world stage, he ran in the 1500 metres at the 1999 World Youth Championships in Athletics, but did not progress beyond the heats...

 
 Italy
8:02.44
 
Bouabdellah Tahri 
 France
8:02.85
 
Jesús España
Jesús España
Jesús España Cobo is a Spanish runner who mostly concentrates on the 3000 and 5000 metres....

 
 Spain
8:02.91
 
60 m hurdles
60 metres hurdles
60 metres hurdles is a distance in hurdling which is generally run in indoor competitions. It is equivalent with the first 60 metres including the first 5 hurdles of a standard outdoor hurdle race. The current women's and men's world records are 7.68 seconds and 7.30 seconds ,...


Gregory Sedoc
Gregory Sedoc
Gregory Sedoc is a Dutch hurdler.He reached his first international final at the 2007 European Indoor Championships in 60 metres hurdles, and won the event, equalling his personal best time of 7.63 seconds which was established in the previous rounds and beating fellow-countryman Marcel van der...

 
 Netherlands
7.63
=PB
Marcel van der Westen
Marcel van der Westen
Marcel van der Westen is a Dutch hurdler and tax attorney.He reached his first international final at the 2007 European Indoor Championships in 60 metres hurdles, and won the silver medal behind compatriot Gregory Sedoc.Van der Westen had previously competed at the 2005 World Championships and the...

 
 Netherlands
7.64
 
Jackson Quiñónez
Jackson Quiñónez
Jackson Quiñónez Vernaza is a Spanish hurdler of Afro-Ecuadorian descent. He represented his birth country Ecuador until October 2005....

 
 Spain
7.65
 
4 X 400 m
4 x 400 metres relay
The 4 x 400 meters relay or long relay is an athletics track event in which teams comprise four runners who each complete 400 meters or one lap. It is traditionally the final event of a track meet. At top class events, the first 500 meters is run in lanes...


 United Kingdom
Robert Tobin
Robert Tobin
Robert "Rob" John Tobin is an English sprinter. He currently has a PB in the 400 m of 45.01 seconds.-Personal life:...

 
Dale Garland
Dale Garland
Dale Garland is a Guernsey born British athlete, educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey. He competed in the 400m hurdles at the 2007 World Athletics Championships and attended the 2008 Summer Olympics as part of the 4x400m relay squad, but did not run in the competition.-Commonwealth Games:* 2002...

 
Philip Taylor 
Steven Green 
3:07.04
 
 Russia
Ivan Buzolin 
Vladislav Frolov
Vladislav Frolov
Vladislav Yuryevich Frolov is a Russian sprint athlete.He won the silver medal in the 400 metres at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg, running a personal best of 45.09 s....

 
Maksim Dyldin
Maksim Dyldin
Maksim Sergeyevich Dyldin is a Russian sprint athlete.-External links:*...

 
Artem Sergeyenkov 
3:08.10
 
 Poland
Piotr Kędzia 
Marcin Marciniszyn
Marcin Marciniszyn
Marcin Marciniszyn is a Polish sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.-Achievements:-Personal bests:Outdoor*200 metres - 21.07 s *400 metres - 45.27 s Indoor...

 
Łukasz Pryga 
Piotr Klimczak
Piotr Klimczak
Piotr Klimczak is a Polish sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.-Achievements:-References:...

 
3:08.14
 
Germany were originally awarded the gold medal, however, on an appeal by the Russian Team, were disqualified for pushing meaning the gold medal went to Great Britain & NI.

Field

High Jump
High jump
The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....


Stefan Holm
Stefan Holm
Stefan Christian Holm is a retired Swedish high jumper. He has won an Olympic gold medal, a silver in the World Championships, and one silver and one bronze medal in the European Championships...

 
 Sweden
2.34
 
Linus Thörnblad
Linus Thörnblad
Linus Thörnblad is a Swedish athlete competing in high jump. He won the bronze medal at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships.Thörnblad started high jumping at age 16 jumping 2.06 m his first year. Two years later he jumped 2.30 m....

 
 Sweden
2.32
 
Martyn Bernard
Martyn Bernard
Martyn John Bernard is a British athlete competing in high jump.He has won a silver medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne and a bronze medal in the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships.In Osaka in 2007 he set an outdoor best of 2.29 in qualifying, and in the final after...

 
 United Kingdom
2.29
 
Pole Vault
Pole vault
Pole vaulting is a track and field event in which a person uses a long, flexible pole as an aid to leap over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greeks, as well as the Cretans and Celts...


Danny Ecker
Danny Ecker
Danny Ecker is a German athlete competing in the pole vault.- Biography :His current personal best is 5.93 metres, but through his indoor best performance of 6.00 metres he has a place in the so-called 6 metres club. 5.93 ranks him fourth among German pole vaulters, behind Tim Lobinger, Andrei...

 
 Germany
5.71
 
Denys Yurchenko
Denys Yurchenko
Denys Sergiyovich Yurchenko is a Ukrainian pole vaulter with three medals in Indoor Athletics Championships. He also won the bronze medal in the men's pole vault event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing....

 
 Ukraine
5.71
SB
Björn Otto
Björn Otto
Björn Otto is a German pole vaulter.His personal best jump is 5.85 metres, achieved in September 2006 in Elstal. He has a better result indoor with 5.90 metres from February 2007 in Leipzig, a result which was the world leading mark that season.-Achievements:-References:...

 
 Germany

5.71  
Long Jump
Long jump
The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point...


Andrew Howe
Andrew Howe
Andrew Howe is an Italian athlete who specializes in the long jump. He won this event as well as the 200 metres at the 2004 World Junior Championships. He was successful at senior level at a young age, winning a long jump bronze at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships before becoming the...

 
 Italy
8.30
NR   EL   PB
Loúis Tsátoumas
Louis Tsatoumas
Louis Tsatoumas is a Greek long jumper.He won his first major senior medal in 2007 at the European Indoor Athletics Championships, where he claimed the silver medal behind an Italian record-breaking Andrew Howe. On 2 June 2007 in Kalamata Tsatoumas jumped 8.66 metres, achieving a personal...

 
 Greece
8.02
 
Salim Sdiri
Salim Sdiri
Salim Sdiri is a French long jumper of Tunisian descent. His personal best jump is 8.42 metres, achieved in June 2009 in Pierre-Bénite, which is the current French national record...

 
 France
8.00
 
Triple Jump
Triple jump
The triple jump is a track and field sport, similar to the long jump, but involving a “hop, bound and jump” routine, whereby the competitor runs down the track and performs a hop, a bound and then a jump into the sand pit.The triple jump has its origins in the Ancient Olympics and has been a...


Phillips Idowu
Phillips Idowu
Phillips Olaosebikan Idowu MBE is a Nigerian-English triple jumper...

 
 United Kingdom
17.56
WL   CR
Nathan Douglas
Nathan Douglas
Nathan James Douglas is an English athlete who specialises in the triple jump. He won the silver medal at the 2006 European Championships in Athletics in Gothenburg with a jump of 17.21 metres...

 
 United Kingdom
17.47
PB
Aleksandr Sergeyev 
 Russia
17.15
SB
Shot Put
Shot put
The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" a heavy metal ball—the shot—as far as possible. It is common to use the term "shot put" to refer to both the shot itself and to the putting action....


Mikuláš Konopka
Mikuláš Konopka
Mikuláš Konopka is a retired Slovak shot putter.Konopka originally won the bronze medal at the 2002 European Indoor Championships with a personal best throw of 20.87 metres, but tested positive for stanozolol and lost the medal...

 
 Slovakia
21.57
NR   EL
Pavel Lyzhyn
Pavel Lyzhyn
Pavel Lyzhyn is a Belarusian shot putter.His personal best throw is 20.98 metres, achieved at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing which translated into a fifth place, just 7cm short of the bronze medal winner and 11cm short of the silver.-Achievements:...

 
 Belarus
20.82
PB
Joachim Olsen 
 Denmark
20.55
 

Combined

Heptathlon
Heptathlon
A heptathlon is a track and field athletics combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek hepta and athlon . A competitor in a heptathlon is referred to as a heptathlete.-Women's Heptathlon:...


Roman Šebrle
Roman Šebrle
Roman Šebrle is an athlete from the Czech Republic. He is considered to be one of the best decathlon athletes of all time. Originally a high jumper, he competes in decathlon and heptathlon for team TJ Dukla Praha and is a world record holder in the decathlon...

 
 Czech Republic
6196
WL
Aleksandr Pogorelov
Aleksandr Pogorelov
Aleksandr Gennadiyevich Pogorelov is a Russian decathlete.-Achievements:-External links:...

 
 Russia
6127
 
Andrei Krauchanka
Andrei Krauchanka
Andrei Krauchanka is a Belarusian decathlete.His personal best score is 8617 points, achieved in May 2007 in Götzis. He won gold medal in European Indoor Championships in Paris 2011 in the heptathlon with a new personal best 6286 points.-Achievements:-References:...

 
 Belarus
6090
PB

Track

60 m
60 metres
60 metres is a sprint event in track and field athletics. It is a championship event for indoor championships, normally dominated by the best outdoor 100 metres runners. At outdoor venues it is a rare distance, at least for senior athletes...


Kim Gevaert
Kim Gevaert
Kim Gevaert is a former sprint athlete from Belgium.-Career:Her closest brush with a world title came in running 4/100 of a second behind three-time champion Gail Devers at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics...

 
 Belgium
7.12
 
Yevgeniya Polyakova
Yevgeniya Polyakova
Yevgeniya Andreevna Polyakova is a Russian sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres.Polyakova represented Russia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing competing at the 100 metres sprint. In her first round heat she placed first in front of Jade Bailey and Sherone Simpson in a time of 11.24 to...

 
 Russia
7.18
 
Daria Onyśko 
 Poland
7.20
PB
400 m
400 metres
The 400 metres, or 400 metre dash, is a common sprinting event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 . On a standard outdoor running track, it is exactly one lap around the track. Runners start in staggered positions and...


Nicola Sanders
Nicola Sanders
Nicola Clare Sanders is a British sprinter and hurdler.-Early achievements:Nicola won a bronze medal in the 1999 European Athletics Junior Championships in Riga at 400 m hurdles. That same year she was 4th in the 400 m hurdles at the World Youth Championships...

 
 United Kingdom
50.02
WL   NR   PB
Ilona Usovich
Ilona Usovich
Ilona Usovich is a Belarusian sprinter.Together with Natallia Solohub, Anna Kozak and Svetlana Usovich she won a silver medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships. The next year Ilona finished 4th over 400 metres at the 2005 European Indoor Athletics Championships...

 
 Belarus
51.00
PB
Olesya Zykina
Olesya Zykina
Olesya Nikolaevna Zykina is a Russian athlete who mainly competes in the 400 metres. In addition to winning medals in individual contests, she has been a very successful relay runner, winning the silver medal at the 2004 Olympics.-Achievements:...

 
 Russia
51.69
SB
800 m
800 metres
The 800 meter race is a common track running event. It is the shortest common middle distance track event. The 800 meter is run over two laps of the track and has always been an Olympic event. During indoor track season the event is usually run on a 200 meter track, therefore requiring four laps...


Oksana Zbrozhek
Oksana Zbrozhek
Oksana Zbrozhek is a Russian middle distance runner who specializes in the 800 metres.She won the gold medal at the 2007 European Indoor Championships and the silver medal at the 2009 European Indoor Championships...

 
 Russia
1:59.23
 
Tetyana Petlyuk
Tetyana Petlyuk
Tetyana Petlyuk is a Ukrainian runner who specializes in the 800 metres.Her personal best time is 1:57.34 minutes, achieved in June 2006 in Kiev.-Achievements:-External links:...

 
 Ukraine
1:59.84
 
Jolanda Čeplak
Jolanda Ceplak
Jolanda Čeplak is a Slovenian middle distance athlete. She was born in Celje and lived in Velenje until moving to Monaco.-Running career:...

 
 Slovenia
2:00.00
 
1500 m
1500 metres
The 1,500-metre run is the premier middle distance track event.Aerobic endurance is the biggest factor contributing to success in the 1500 metres but the athlete also requires significant sprint speed.In modern times, the 1,500-metre run has been run at a pace faster than the average person could...


Lidia Chojecka
Lidia Chojecka
Lidia Chojecka is a Polish middle distance runner, who mostly competes in the 1500 metres and sometimes 3000 metres....

 
 Poland
4:05.13
 
Natalya Panteleyeva 
 Russia
4:06.04
PB
Olesya Chumakova
Olesya Chumakova
Olesya Chumakova is a Russian middle distance runner who specializes in the 800 and 1500 metres.On 11 February 2007 she helped establish a world indoor record in the rarely contested 4 x 800 metres relay .She won the bronze medal in 1500 m at the 2007 European Indoor Athletics...

 
 Russia
4:06.48
SB
3000 m
3000 metres
The 3000 metres is a popular amateur middle distance track event where 7.5 laps are completed around a 400 metre track. This event is generally classified as middle distance, but it could be classed as a long distance event in many high schools, since they do not promote races such as the 5000 and...


Lidia Chojecka
Lidia Chojecka
Lidia Chojecka is a Polish middle distance runner, who mostly competes in the 1500 metres and sometimes 3000 metres....

 
 Poland
8:43.25
 
Marta Domínguez
Marta Domínguez
Marta Domínguez Azpeleta is a Spanish runner. She was accused of drug dealing and but later acquitted .Dominguez currently competes mainly in 3000 m steeplechase, a distance in which she was the 2009 world champion...

 
 Spain
8:44.40
SB
Silvia Weissteiner
Silvia Weissteiner
Silvia Weissteiner is an Italian long-distance runner. She is a two-time national champion in the women's 5000 metres. She represented Italy at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and at the World Championships in Athletics in 2007 and 2009.Weissteiner was the runner-up at the European Cup 10000m in 2006...

 
 Italy
8:44.81
NR   PB
60 m H
60 metres hurdles
60 metres hurdles is a distance in hurdling which is generally run in indoor competitions. It is equivalent with the first 60 metres including the first 5 hurdles of a standard outdoor hurdle race. The current women's and men's world records are 7.68 seconds and 7.30 seconds ,...


Susanna Kallur
Susanna Kallur
Susanna Elisabeth Kallur is a Swedish athlete competing mainly in sprint hurdles. She has won several international medals, including the gold medal in the 100 m hurdles at the 2006 European Athletics Championships...

 
 Sweden
7.87
 
Aleksandra Antonova
Aleksandra Antonova
Aleksandra Antonova is a Russian hurdler.She finished sixth in 100 metres hurdles at the 2006 European Athletics Championships and at the 2006 IAAF World Cup. At the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships she won the silver medal in 60 metres hurdles....

 
 Russia
7.94
 
Kirsten Bolm
Kirsten Bolm
Kirsten Bolm is a German hurdler.Her personal best is 12.59 seconds, achieved in July 2005 in the Crystal Palace Grand Prix at the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre....

 
 Germany
7.97
SB
4 X 400 m
4 x 400 metres relay
The 4 x 400 meters relay or long relay is an athletics track event in which teams comprise four runners who each complete 400 meters or one lap. It is traditionally the final event of a track meet. At top class events, the first 500 meters is run in lanes...


 Belarus
Yulyana Yushchanka 
Iryna Khliustava 
Svetlana Usovich 
Ilona Usovich
Ilona Usovich
Ilona Usovich is a Belarusian sprinter.Together with Natallia Solohub, Anna Kozak and Svetlana Usovich she won a silver medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships. The next year Ilona finished 4th over 400 metres at the 2005 European Indoor Athletics Championships...

 
3:27.83
NR   CR
 Russia
Olesya Zykina
Olesya Zykina
Olesya Nikolaevna Zykina is a Russian athlete who mainly competes in the 400 metres. In addition to winning medals in individual contests, she has been a very successful relay runner, winning the silver medal at the 2004 Olympics.-Achievements:...

 
Natalya Ivanova
Natalya Ivanova
Natalya Nikolaevna Ivanova is a Russian hurdler. She finished fifth in the 400m hurdles final at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg.She also ran in the heats for Russia's 4 x 400m relay team in the 2004 Olympics...

 
Zhanna Kashcheyeva 
Natalya Antyukh
Natalya Antyukh
Natalya Nikolayevna Antyukh is a Russian athlete who primarily competed in the 400 metres and 400 metre hurdles.In addition to winning medals in individual contests, she has been a very successful relay runner, winning a silver medal at the 2004 Olympics....

 
3:28.16
 
 United Kingdom
Emma Duck
Emma Duck
Emma Duck is a British international track athlete known for the 400 metres and the 400 metre hurdles. She is current with Southampton, under coach Todd Bennett.-Track career:...

 
Nicola Sanders
Nicola Sanders
Nicola Clare Sanders is a British sprinter and hurdler.-Early achievements:Nicola won a bronze medal in the 1999 European Athletics Junior Championships in Riga at 400 m hurdles. That same year she was 4th in the 400 m hurdles at the World Youth Championships...

 
Kim Wall
Kim Wall
Kim Wall is an American Actress. She is probably best known for starring in the 1988 sequel Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland.-Career:...

 
Lee McConnell
Lee McConnell
Lee McConnell is a Scottish athlete, who competes in the 400 metres. She attended Holyrood R.C. Secondary School in Glasgow before graduating from Loughborough University in 2000 with a degree in Sports Science. She became the Scottish 200 metres champion in 2002, and 2005. She also won the 400...

 
3:28.69
NR  

Field

High Jump
High jump
The high jump is a track and field athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of certain devices in its modern most practiced format; auxiliary weights and mounds have been used for assistance; rules have changed over the years....


Tia Hellebaut
Tia Hellebaut
Tia Hellebaut is a Belgian track and field athlete who started out in the heptathlon, but afterwards specialized in the high jump event. She has cleared 2.05 metres both indoors and outdoors....

 
 Belgium
2.05
WL   CR   NR;PB;SB;EL
Antonietta Di Martino
Antonietta Di Martino
Antonietta Di Martino is an Italian high jumper. She currently holds the Italian national women's high jump record at 2.03 metres outdoor and 2,04 metres indoor.-Career:...

 
 Italy
1.96
 
Ruth Beitia
Ruth Beitia
Ruth Beitia Vila is a high jumper from Spain.With 2.01 metres indoor and 2.02 metres outdoor she holds the current Spanish records.-Achievements:-References:*-External links:...

 
 Spain
1.96
 
Venelina Veneva
Venelina Veneva
Venelina Veneva-Mateeva is a Bulgarian high jumper. Talented at a young age, she jumped 1.93 metres indoor in 1990 to record a world best performance by a 15-year-old. She did not improve this result outdoor until 1995...

 ( Bulgaria) originally took the bronze with 1.96 m but was later disqualified after testing positive for testosterone.
Pole Vault
Pole vault
Pole vaulting is a track and field event in which a person uses a long, flexible pole as an aid to leap over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greeks, as well as the Cretans and Celts...


Svetlana Feofanova
Svetlana Feofanova
Svetlana Yevgenyevna Feofanova is a Russian pole vaulter. She won the silver medal in women's pole vaulting at the 2004 Summer Olympics behind compatriot Yelena Isinbayeva, and won the bronze in the 2008 Summer Olympics...

 
 Russia
4.76
SB
Yuliya Golubchikova
Yuliya Golubchikova
Yuliya Golubchikova is a Russian pole vaulter.Golubchikova's personal best jump is 4.75 metres, achieved at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing where she ended on a fourth place . She has 4.75 metres indoor.-Achievements:-External links:* *...

 
 Russia
4.71
PB
Anna Rogowska
Anna Rogowska
Anna Rogowska is a Polish pole vaulter, current reigning World Champion.-Career:Born in Gdynia, she won the bronze medal at the 2004 Olympics, narrowly beating Monika Pyrek, another Polish pole vaulter born in Gdynia. Early 2005 brought success as she won the silver medal in the European Indoor...

 
 Poland
4.66
 
Long Jump
Long jump
The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point...


Naide Gomes
Naide Gomes
Enezaide do Rosário da Vera Cruz Gomes, OIH, is a Portuguese heptathlete, born in São Tomé and Príncipe. She is also a top-class competitor in the long jump, and she competed in 100 metres hurdles at the 2000 Summer Olympics...

 
 Portugal
6.89
WL   NR
Concepción Montaner
Concepción Montaner
Concepción Montaner is a Spanish long jumper.She took the gold medal the World Junior Championships in 2000. At the 2006 World Indoor Championships she came close to her first major international senior medal, when she finished fourth with 6.76 metres - the same result as the bronze medalist Naide...

 
 Spain
6.69
 
Denisa Ščerbová
Denisa Šcerbová
Denisa Rosolová, née Ščerbová is a Czech athlete. Her main event is the long jump, but she competes also in heptathlon. Her best are 6.68 m in the long jump and 5,828 points in the heptathlon...

 
 Czech Republic
6.64
=NR
Triple Jump
Triple jump
The triple jump is a track and field sport, similar to the long jump, but involving a “hop, bound and jump” routine, whereby the competitor runs down the track and performs a hop, a bound and then a jump into the sand pit.The triple jump has its origins in the Ancient Olympics and has been a...


Carlota Castrejana
Carlota Castrejana
María Carlota Castrejana Fernández is a female triple jumper from Spain. Her personal best jump is 14.60 metres, achieved at the 2005 Mediterranean Games in Almería...

 
 Spain
14.64
EL   NR   PB
Olesya Bufalova
Olesya Bufalova
Olesya Aleksandrovna Zabara is a Russian triple jumper.She finished fifth at the 2006 European Athletics Championships and second at the 2007 European Indoor Championships. She finished tenth at the 2007 World Championships.In 2008 she improved her personal indoor best to 14.54 metres in Tula...

 
 Russia
14.50
PB
Teresa Nzola Meso Ba
Teresa Nzola Meso Ba
Teresa Nzola Meso Ba is an Angolan-French triple jumper.She formerly represented Angola, but switched to France in 2003. Before this she set an Angolan triple jump record of 13.49 metres, which still stands....

 
 France
14.49
NR   PB
Shot Put
Shot put
The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" a heavy metal ball—the shot—as far as possible. It is common to use the term "shot put" to refer to both the shot itself and to the putting action....


Assunta Legnante
Assunta Legnante
Assunta Legnante is an Italian retired shot putter.-Career:She won the silver medal at the 2002 and the gold medal at the 2007 European Indoor Athletics Championships. She finished fifth at the 2006 European Athletics Championships.Her personal best throw is 19.04 metres, achieved in September...

 
 Italy
18.92
 
Irina Khudoroshkina
Irina Khudoroshkina
Irina Khudoroshkina is a Russian shot putter.She won the bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. She also finished second at the 1996 European Indoor Championships....

 
 Russia
18.50
 
Olga Ryabinkina
Olga Ryabinkina
Olga Sergeyevna Ryabinkina is a female shot putter from Russia.She finished tenth at the 2000 Summer Olympics. At the 2004 Summer Olympics she failed to progress from the initial round....

 
 Russia
18.16
 

Combined

Pentathlon
Women's pentathlon
The pentathlon is a sports contest made up of five events . The women's pentathlon was contested in the Olympics from 1964 until 1980, and it was replaced in the 1984 Games with the heptathlon. It had a different set of events than the ancient Olympic pentathlon...


Carolina Klüft
Carolina Klüft
Carolina Evelyn Klüft is a Swedish athlete competing in triple jump, long jump and formerly in heptathlon and pentathlon. She won the Olympic heptathlon title in 2004...

 
 Sweden
4944
WL
Kelly Sotherton
Kelly Sotherton
Kelly Jade Sotherton is an English heptathlete and 400m sprinter. She was the bronze medallist at the 2004 Summer Olympics and was fourth at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She also was a bronze at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics, and was the heptathlon gold medallist at the 2006 Commonwealth...

 
 United Kingdom
4927
NR
Karin Ruckstuhl
Karin Ruckstuhl
Karin Nathalie Ruckstuhl is a Dutch heptathlete.-Biography:Her first major championship was the 2002 European Athletics Championships and she finished 13th in the heptathlon...


 Netherlands
4801
NR

Medals table

Rank Nation Total
1.  United Kingdom 4 3 3 10
2.  Italy 3 1 2 6
3.  Sweden 3 1 0 4
4.  Russia 2 9 4 15
5.  Spain 2 4 3 9
6.  Netherlands 2 1 1 4
7.  Poland 2 0 3 5
8.  Belgium 2 0 0 2
9.  Belarus 1 2 1 4
10.  Germany 1 1 2 4
11.  Czech Republic 1 0 1 2
12.  Republic of Ireland 1 0 0 1
12.  Portugal 1 0 0 1
12.  Slovakia 1 0 0 1
15.  Ukraine 0 2 0 2
16.  France 0 1 3 4
17.  Greece 0 1 0 1
18  Bulgaria 0 0 1 1
18  Denmark 0 0 1 1
18  Slovenia 0 0 1 1

Participating nations

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(4) (40) (11) (7) (4) (13) (3) (17) (9) (1) (5) (1) (2) (3) (1) (1)
(10) (7) (27) (6) (25) (64) (1) (4) (8) (14) (36) (15) (4) (4) (21)

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