European Weightlifting Championships

European Weightlifting Championships is an annual event organised by the European Weightlifting Federation (EWF). It has been held since 1896. A separate event for women was held from 1988 to 1997, after which both championships have been held as one event.

European Weightlifting Championships
Status	Active
Genre	Sports Event
Date(s)	Usually April
Frequency	Annual
Location(s)	Various
Inaugurated	1896
Organised by	EWF

Editions

Results:^[1][2]

No. M No. W Edition Host country Host city Events 1 1896   Netherlands Rotterdam 1 2 1897   Austria Vienna 1 3 1898   Netherlands Amsterdam 1 4 1900   Netherlands Rotterdam 1 5 1901   Netherlands Rotterdam 1 6 1902   Netherlands The Hague 1 7 1903   Netherlands Amsterdam 1 8 1904   Netherlands Amsterdam 1 9 1905   Netherlands The Hague 1 10 1906   Denmark Copenhagen 1 11 1907   Austria Vienna 2 12 1908   Sweden Malmö 1 13 1909   Germany Dresden 2 14 1910   Hungary Budapest 4 15 1911   Germany Leipzig 2 16 1912   Austria Vienna 4 17 1913   Austria Brno 4 18 1914   Austria Vienna 5 19 1921   Germany Offenbach 5 20 1924   Germany Neunkirchen 7 21 1929   Austria Vienna 5 22 1930   Germany Munich 5 23 1931   Luxembourg Luxembourg 5 24 1933   Germany Essen 5 25 1934   Italy Genoa 5 26 1935   France Paris 5 27 1947   Finland Helsinki 6 28 1948   United Kingdom London 6 29 1949   Netherlands The Hague 6 30 1950   France Paris 6 31 1951   Italy Milan 7 32 1952   Finland Helsinki 7 33 1953   Sweden Stockholm 7 34 1954   Austria Vienna 7 35 1955   West Germany Munich 7 36 1956   Finland Helsinki 7 37 1957   Poland Katowice 7 38 1958   Sweden Stockholm 7 39 1959   Poland Warsaw 7 40 1960   Italy Milan 7 41 1961   Austria Vienna 7 42 1962   Hungary Budapest 7 43 1963   Sweden Stockholm 7 44 1964   Soviet Union Moscow 7 45 1965   Bulgaria Sofia 7 46 1966   East Germany Berlin 7 47 1968   Soviet Union Leningrad 7 48 1969   Poland Warsaw 36 49 1970   Hungary Szombathely 36 50 1971   Bulgaria Sofia 36 51 1972   Romania Constanţa 36 52 1973   Spain Madrid 27 53 1974   Italy Verona 27 54 1975   Soviet Union Moscow 27 55 1976   East Germany Berlin 27 56 1977   West Germany Stuttgart 30 57 1978   Czechoslovakia Havířov 30 58 1979   Bulgaria Varna 30 59 1980   Yugoslavia Belgrade 30 60 1981   France Lille 30

No. M No. W Edition Host country Host city Events 61 1982   Yugoslavia Ljubljana 30 62 1983   Soviet Union Moscow 30 63 1984   Spain Vitoria 30 64 1985   Poland Katowice 30 65 1986   East Germany Karl-Marx-Stadt 30 66 1987   France Reims 30 67 1988   United Kingdom Cardiff 30 – 1 1988   San Marino City of San Marino 27 68 1989   Greece Athens 30 – 2 1989   United Kingdom Manchester 27 69 1990   Denmark Ålborg 30 – 3 1990   Spain Santa Cruz de Tenerife 27 70 1991   Poland Władysławowo 30 – 4 1991   Bulgaria Varna 27 71 1992   Hungary Szekszárd 30 – 5 1992   Portugal Loures 27 72 1993   Bulgaria Sofia 30 – 6 1993   Spain Valencia 27 73 1994   Czechoslovakia Sokolov 30 – 7 1994   Italy Rome 27 74 1995   Poland Warsaw 30 – 8 1995   Israel Beer Sheva 27 75 1996   Norway Stavanger 30 – 9 1996   Czech Republic Prague 27 76 1997   Croatia Rijeka 30 – 10 1997   Spain Sevilla 27 77 11 1998   Germany Riesa 45 78 12 1999   Spain A Coruña 45 79 13 2000   Bulgaria Sofia 45 80 14 2001   Slovakia Trenčín 45 81 15 2002   Turkey Antalya 45 82 16 2003   Greece Loutraki 45 83 17 2004   Ukraine Kyiv 45 84 18 2005   Bulgaria Sofia 45 85 19 2006   Poland Władysławowo 45 86 20 2007   France Strasbourg 45 87 21 2008   Italy Lignano Sabbiadoro 45 88 22 2009   Romania Bucharest 45 89 23 2010   Belarus Minsk 45 90 24 2011   Russia Kazan 45 91 25 2012   Turkey Antalya 45 92 26 2013   Albania Tirana 45 93 27 2014   Israel Tel Aviv 45 94 28 2015   Georgia Tbilisi 45 95 29 2016   Norway Førde 45 96 30 2017   Croatia Split 48 97 31 2018   Romania Bucharest 48 98 32 2019   Georgia Batumi 60 99 33 2021   Russia Moscow 60 100 34 2022   Albania Tirana 60 101 35 2023   Armenia Yerevan 60 102 36 2024   Turkey Antalya 60

Team ranking

• History - Team ranking system ^[3]
• Team ranking was started from 1949
• 1–7 August 1948 FIH Congress, London : For the team classification 5-3-1 points are distributed for the 1st to the 3rd place.
• 2–7 November 1957 FIHC Congress, Teheran : For the team classification, there are distributed 10-6-4-3-2-1 points for the first to the sixth place.
• 3–24 May 1958 Tokyo : For the team classification 7-5-4-3-2-1 points are distributed for the 1st to the 6th place.
• 4- 1973 : For the team classification 12-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 points are distributed for the 1st to 10th place (only for the total).
• 5- 1977 : For the team classification 12-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 points are distributed for the 1st to 10th place for the individual lifts and the total.
• 6- 12–14 January 1984 IWF Executive Board Meeting, Herzogenaurach. 27 July, IWF Congress, Los Angeles: For the team classification 16-14-13-12-11-10-9- 8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 points are distributed for the 1st to 15th place.
• 7–1 May 1996 IWF Executive Board Meeting, Warsaw : For the team classification 28-25-23-22-21-20-19-18-17-16-15-14-13-12-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 points are distributed for the 1st to 25th place.
• 10 and 11 December 1996, IWF Congress, Athens: Two-Year-Suspension for a first doping offence.

Year	Host	Men			Women
		1	2	3	1	2	3
1998	Riesa, Germany	Bulgaria 549	Russia 530	Germany 458	Hungary 514	Russia 471	Bulgaria 467
1999	Seville, Spain	Turkey 682	Spain 608	Russia 524	Turkey 647	Greece 586	Spain 584
2000	Sofia, Bulgaria	Bulgaria 610	Turkey 525	Russia 464	Bulgaria 522	Russia 438	Ukraine 343
2001	Trenčín, Slovakia	Russia 538	Turkey 504	Poland 498	Russia 492	Hungary 483	Spain 400
2002	Antalya, Turkey	Bulgaria 599	Turkey 486	Russia 368	Turkey 522	Russia 496	Poland 466
2003	Loutraki, Greece	Turkey 598	Russia 553	Bulgaria 544	Turkey 521	Russia 501	Bulgaria 441
2004	Kyiv, Ukraine	Turkey 591	Bulgaria 442	Russia 416	Turkey 478	Poland 438	Bulgaria 436
2005	Sofia, Bulgaria	Bulgaria 519	Turkey 488	Russia 473	Russia 567	Poland 456	Bulgaria 451
2006	Władysławowo, Poland	Belarus 486	Poland 485	Bulgaria 435	Russia 483	Ukraine 434	Poland 386
2007	Strasbourg, France	Russia 546	Belarus 523	Turkey 506	Russia 486	Ukraine 459	Turkey 448
2008	Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy	Russia 598	France 457	Azerbaijan 427	Ukraine 471	Russia 454	Turkey 449
2009	Bucharest, Romania	Russia	?	?	Russia	Turkey	Ukraine
2010	Minsk, Belarus	Turkey 538	Armenia 496	Poland 460	Russia 498	Turkey 497	Poland 416
2011	Kazan, Russia	Turkey 470	Poland 467	Moldova 431	Russia 559	Turkey 517	Poland 413
2012	Antalya, Turkey	Moldova 500	Russia 482	Turkey 473	Russia 530	Turkey 441	Poland 417
2013	Tirana, Albania	Russia 638	Bulgaria 507	Albania 355	Poland 469	France 311	Italy 310
2014	Tel Aviv, Israel	Russia 524	Bulgaria 535	Poland 491	Russia 539	Ukraine 443	Poland 443
2015	Tbilisi, Georgia	Russia 478	Armenia 421	Turkey 416	Ukraine 478	Russia 421	Turkey 416
2016	Førde, Norway	Russia 524	Armenia 503	Turkey 501	Armenia 449	Ukraine 435	Turkey 399
2017	Split, Croatia	Russia 501	Turkey 462	Poland 399	Russia 588	Ukraine 492	Spain 464
2018	Bucharest, Romania	Georgia 575	Romania 528	Poland 451	Romania 512	Poland 429	Italy 412
2019	Batumi, Georgia	Georgia 636	Belarus 634	Armenia 596	Russia 736	Turkey 575	Romania 480
2021	Moscow, Russia	Bulgaria 685	Armenia 620	Georgia 612	Russia 699	Turkey 616	Ukraine 600
2022	Tirana, Albania	Bulgaria 746	Armenia 667	Georgia 647	Turkey 690	Ukraine 686	United Kingdom 381

All-time medal table (1914–2022)

Ranking by Big (Total result) medals:

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	202	89	34	325
2	Bulgaria	179	141	99	419
3	Russia	93	86	51	230
4	Turkey	70	43	54	167
5	Poland	49	77	98	224
6	Ukraine	39	37	35	111
7	Germany	34	53	36	123
8	Armenia	32	36	31	99
9	Hungary	30	61	64	155
10	Romania	30	45	45	120
11	Belarus	25	19	29	73
12	France	20	25	46	91
13	Italy	18	32	33	83
14	Greece	18	24	27	69
15	Great Britain	18	23	20	61
16	Georgia	18	22	9	49
17	Austria	13	16	31	60
18	Latvia	12	5	9	26
19	Spain	11	25	32	68
20	Albania	9	12	12	33
21	East Germany	7	24	52	83
22	Moldova	7	10	17	34
23	Finland	6	14	24	44
24	Sweden	6	9	15	30
25	Azerbaijan	6	4	7	17
26	Unified Team	6	3	3	12
27	West Germany	4	8	8	20
28	Denmark	4	4	1	9
29	Egypt	4	0	2	6
30	Belgium	3	3	9	15
31	Czechoslovakia	2	15	32	49
32	Norway	2	3	2	7
33	Croatia	2	1	1	4
34	Netherlands	2	0	0	2
35	Lithuania	1	4	4	9
36	Portugal	1	3	2	6
37	Slovakia	1	2	4	7
38	Czech Republic	1	2	2	5
39	Luxembourg	1	1	0	2
40	Switzerland	1	0	5	6
41	Israel	0	1	3	4
42	Cyprus	0	1	2	3
43	Estonia	0	1	1	2
44	Serbia	0	0	2	2
Totals (44 entries)		987	984	993	2964

See also

• List of European Weightlifting Championships medalists
• European Junior & U23 Weightlifting Championships

References

1. . Archived from the original on 24 May 2021. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
2. "European Championships From 1907 to Today @ Lift Up: Search". www.chidlovski.net.
3. "History - International Weightlifting FederationInternational Weightlifting Federation". Iwf.net. Retrieved 16 March 2020.

External links

• New site of European Weitlifting Federation
• Past site of European Weitlifting Federation 23 June 2016 at the Wayback Machine
• International Weightlifting Federation (IWF)
• European Championships From 1907 to Today @ Lift Up: Search
• Database Weightlifting
• IWRP
• 1990-2021 Results
• EWF Results 9 August 2020 at the Wayback Machine