26th June 2013 06:45
Despite the rain making conditions tricky, that was the amount of new landmarks which were established during the two days of competition.
Of that 13, six were Championship bests, five were leading marks in Europe this year and two were national records.
Some doubled up and one of them left the host country, Great Britain, with a great deal to be pleased about.
In five of the last six major events, Britain's men have dropped the baton in the 4x100m relay, so once more the pressure was on.
Never mind the fact that they were back on home soil, which hardly worked in the team's favour at last year's Olympic Games in London.
The men crashed out in the heats 12 months ago when Daniel Talbot and Adam Gemili failed to execute their final changeover.
All week the team had been having special training sessions ahead of Gateshead and the quartet of Gemili, Harry Aikines-Aryeetey, James Ellington and James Dasaolu combined brilliantly.
The sense of relief was evident in the eyes of the British officials when Ellington handed the stick to anchor man Dasaolu.
He just flew down the home straight to lead Britain to victory in 38.39, a Championship record and Europe's leading time this year.
With equal importance, the European Athletics Team Championships can now be seen by Britain's relay men as a watershed event - the race where all the shackles of uncertainty were removed in this blitz of speed.
Nothing better than the mind knowing it can be done - and they will not be the only ones with much to think about and be happy.
Their captain, Perri Shakes-Drayton, is a 400m hurdler. Or at least she was.
The event where she made her name is quickly being replaced by the flat 400m as she proved once again on the European Athletics stage.
Having won the event at the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Göteborg she then repeated that with victory in Gateshead in 50.50. Again a Championship record and best in Europe this year.
Now she will decide what next to do ahead of the British trials next month and the World Championships in Moscow in August - but with the form she is showing in the 400m the choice might already have been made.
Fellow Briton Sophie Hitchon, 21, took another big step in her career. Her hammer throw of 72.97m broke her own national record as she finished third behind Germany's Betty Heidler who threw 74.31m.
And a day after Britain' s sprint relay men made their mark, their 4x400m men ended the Championships by winning the last track event in a European leading time of 3:05.37.
A great run to finish with, just as there was in the opening track event on Saturday when Germany's Silvio Schirrmeister produced the best result of his career as he beat Britain's 400m world champion Dai Greene.
Greene had never lost in the European Athletics Team Championships and his victory in Stockholm in 2011 was in 49.21, a championship record.
But that time was replaced by a brilliant run from Schirrmeister, 24, who won in 49.15.
What confidence this victory in Gateshead will do for him in a career where he failed to make the final in London when Greene was fourth.
And it was in the same event in Gateshead where the first national record of the Championships was set as Norway's Oyvind Kjerpeset ran 49.98.
It was a great weekend for Ukraine's women sprinters and after winning the individual 100m in 11.51, Olesya Povh than ran the first leg of the 4x100m relay where, along with Viktoriya Pyatachenko, Mariya Ryemyen and Nataliya Pohrenbnyak, they won in a Championship record and European 2013 fastest time of 42.62.
Türkiye's Ilham Tanui Ozbilen not only broke the Championship best in the 1500m which he won in 3:38.57, he delivered a display of amazing running as he led from the start and was on world record pace. But equally important, his win brought 12 needed points for his country as they did enough to stay clear of relegation.
Champions Russia had a great weekend, and with their overall victory came a Championship record in the long jump with Alexander Menkov's 8.36m and a European lead in the 3000m steeplechase as Natalia Aristarkhova won in 9:30.64.