European Games

Not to be confused with European Championships (multi-sport event), Eurogames, European Masters Games, or European Games (quidditch).

The European Games is a continental multi-sport event in the Olympic tradition contested by athletes from European nations and several transcontinental countries. The Games were envisioned and are governed by the European Olympic Committees (EOC), which announced their launch at its 41st General Assembly in Rome, on 8 December 2012.^[1]

European Games
Medal tables Medalists Ceremonies
Games
2015 2019 2023
Sports
Archery Athletics Badminton Basketball Beach soccer Boxing Canoe sprint Cycling Diving Gymnastics Judo Karate Sambo Shooting Swimming Synchronized swimming Table tennis Taekwondo Triathlon Water polo Volleyball Wrestling
Organisations
Charter EOC NOCs
Other EOC Games
EYOF Small States of Europe

History

The 2015 European Games, the first edition of the event, took place in Baku, Azerbaijan in June 2015, and further editions are planned every four years thereafter. The 2019 edition was held in Minsk, Belarus from 21 to 30 June. The 2023 edition will be held in Kraków, Poland.

The European Games are the 5th continental Games in the Olympic tradition to be initiated, after the Asian Games, Pan American Games, Pacific Games and African Games. As of 2015, every sporting continent^[2] has a continental games.^[3]

The European Games are not related to the European Championships, a separate multi-sport event organised by individual European sports federations, bringing together the individual European Championships of athletics, swimming, artistic gymnastics, cycling, rowing, golf, and triathlon under a single 'brand' on a four-year cycle beginning in 2018, and broadcast by agreement with the EBU.^[4]

List of European Games

 

 

2015

 

2019

 

2023

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Host cities of the European Games

Edition	Year	Host City	Host Nation	Opened by	Start Date	End Date	Nations	Competitors	Sports	Events	Top Placed Team	Ref.
I	2015	Baku	Azerbaijan	President Ilham Aliyev	12 June	28 June	50	5,898	21	253	Russia (RUS)	^[5]
II	2019	Minsk	Belarus	President Alexander Lukashenko	21 June	30 June	50	4,082	15	200	Russia (RUS)	^[6]
III	2023	Kraków-Małopolska	Poland	President of Poland (expected)	21 June	2 July	48 (expected)	7,000 (expected)	26 (expected)	TBD	TBD	^[7]
IV	2027	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD

Sports

The 2019 Minsk European Games Sports Programme included 15 sports, 23 disciplines, 10 qualifying sports to Tokyo 2020, 4 Sports European Championship, for a total of 4082 competitors in 201 medal events.

The figures in each cell indicate the number of events for each sport contested at the respective Games.

Sport (Discipline)		Body		2015	2019	2023
		World	Europe
Diving		FINA	LEN	8	0
Swimming				42	0
Synchronised swimming				4	0
Water polo				2	0
Archery		WA	WAE	5	8
Athletics		IAAF	EAA	1	10
Badminton		BWF	BE	5	5
Basketball (3x3)		FIBA	FIBAE	2	2
Beach soccer		FIFA	UEFA	1	1
Boxing		AIBA	EBC	15	15
Canoe sprint		ICF	ECA	15	16
BMX racing		UCI	UEC	2	0
Mountain biking				2	0
Road cycling				4	4
Track cycling				0	20
Fencing		FIE	EFC	12	0
Acrobatic gymnastics		FIG	UEG	6	6
Aerobic gymnastics				2	2
Artistic gymnastics				14	12
Rhythmic gymnastics				8	8
Trampoline				4	4
Judo		IJF	EJU	18	15
Karate		WKF	EKF	12	12
Beach handball		IHF	EHF	0	0
Sambo (martial art)		FIAS	ESF	8	18
Shooting		ISSF	ESC	19	19
Table tennis		ITTF	ETTU	4	5
Taekwondo		WTF	ETU	8	0
Triathlon		ITU	ETU	2	0
Beach volleyball		FIVB	CEV	2	0
Volleyball				2	0
Wrestling		UWW	CELA	24	18
Total events				253	200

Medal table

Main article: All-time European Games medal table

European Games medal table

Rank	NOC	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	123	64	86	273
2	Belarus (BLR)	33	27	51	111
3	Azerbaijan (AZE)	26	25	33	84
4	Ukraine (UKR)	24	31	43	98
5	Great Britain (GBR)	24	20	26	70
6	Italy (ITA)	23	41	24	88
7	Germany (GER)	23	23	46	92
8	France (FRA)	18	22	31	71
9	Netherlands (NED)	17	25	16	58
10	Spain (ESP)	13	13	17	43
11–44	Remaining	129	162	249	540
Totals (44 entries)		453	453	622	1528

Source: ^[8]

See also

•  Sport portal

• Olympic Games
• World Games
• Commonwealth Games
• European Championships (multi-sport event)
• European Youth Olympic Festival
• African Games
• Asian Games
• Pacific Games
• Pan American Games
• South American Games
• Southeast Asian Games

References

1. . eurolympic.org. 8 December 2012. Archived from the original on 12 June 2015. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
2. Although the Pacific Games takes in all of Oceania/Australasia, the two largest countries in the region, Australia and New Zealand, did not participate because of the danger they would, though their wealth and size relative to other members, excessively dominate the event. They were however provisionally admitted to the Games in 4 sports in which other nations were consistently competitive - rugby sevens, weightlifting, sailing and taekwondo - in 2014.
3. . baku2015.org. 1 June 2015. Archived from the original on April 20, 2015. Retrieved 4 September 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
4. Scotland to host 2018 European Sports Championships
5. "1st EG Baku 2015". EOC. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
6. "2nd EG Minsk 2019". EOC. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
7. "Malopolska region and the city of Krakow to host 3rd European Games in 2023". The European Games. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
8. . Organising Committee responsible for the inaugural European Games in Baku. Archived from the original on 19 April 2018. Retrieved 28 June 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

External links

• Official website