European Race Walking Team Championships

European Race Walking Team Championships

This is an event dedicated to race walking organised on a biennial basis. This event was established in 1996 and was formerly called, until 2021, the European Race Walking Cup. 

It now includes a senior men's and women's 20km and 35km and 10km races for men and women in the U20 category. The team scores are calculated by aggregating the positions of the first three finishers (senior) or two finishers (U20). The team with the lowest aggregate of points will be judged the winner.

The Czech spa town of Podebrady, which is famous for its race walking competitions, staged the last edition in 2021 and will be the host for the next two editions in 2023 and 2025.

At the 2021 European Race Walking Team Championships, Italy's Antonella Palmisano won the 20km title as a precursor to her victory at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games while Antigoni Ntrismpioti won her country's first ever gold medal in the inaugural women's 35km race walk before sweeping the 20km and 35km race walk titles one year later at the Munich 2022 European Athletics Championships.

On the men's side, Sweden's Perseus Karlstrom defended his title in the men's 20km race walk ahead of a strong Spanish triumvirate which was led by Alvaro Martin while his teammate Marc Tur won the final edition of the 50km race walk which will be replaced by the 35km race walk in 2023.