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European Athletics has been busy since the European Athletics Championships finished on Wednesday (12), crunching the numbers on a brilliant and memorable six days in the Stadio Olimpico. 

Here are some interesting figures to emerge from the Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships!

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An astonishing 15 championship records fell across the 47 events in Roma 2024. 

Some of the most notable championship records to be broken included Leonardo Fabbri winning the shot put with 22.45m to break one of the longest records on the books and Jordan Diaz bounding out to 18.18m in the triple jump, the third best mark of all-time.

Armand Duplantis also broke his championship record for the third successive edition, clearing 6.10m in the pole vault to improve his previous mark of 6.06m to bag the Gold Crown accolade in the men’s jumps and the 50,000 EUR performance bonus. 

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With his 6.10m clearance in the pole vault, Armand Duplantis achieved his 59th six metre-plus competition of his career. The next best in history is Ukraine legend Sergey Bubka at 45.

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10 world leading marks were broken over the course of six days at the European Athletics Championships. It was an especially brilliant championships in the jumps with Spain's Jordan Diaz leaping out to 18.18m in the triple jump to record the third longest jump in history to defeat Pedro Pichardo who had initially broke the championship record with 18.04m, just the second time in history two jumpers have surpassed the 18 metre-line in the same competition. 

Miltiadis Tentoglou and Malaika Mihambo leapt 8.65m and 7.22m respectively to win the long jump titles and Gianmarco Tamberi cleared 2.37m in the high jump

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With 24 medals in total, Italy enjoyed their best ever medal haul at a European Athletics Championships, easily surpassing their previous record of 15 medals from Split 1990.

Their medal haul was also the best ever by a host nation at the European Athletics Championships, breaking Germany’s medal haul of 20 in Berlin 2018.

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A total of 48 national records were either bettered or equalled during the course of the championships.

One of the most significant records to be set was Natalia Kaczmarek winning the 400m title in 48.98, breaking the previous mark of 49.26 - a world record at the time - which was set by the venerable Irena Szewinska in 1976.

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With her victory in the discus, Sandra Elkasevic became the first athlete in European Athletics Championships history to win seven gold medals. She had previously shared the record with East Germany’s Marita Koch on six gold medals before Roma 2024.

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Jakob Ingebrigtsen became the first male athlete in championship history to win six gold medals at the European Athletics Championships after his third successive 1500/5000m double. And he’s still only 23!:

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A total of 16 reigning champions retained their titles in Roma 2024. Miltiadis Tentoglou, Karsten Warholm, Nafissatou Thiam and Wojciech Nowicki also achieved their third successive gold medals in Roma 2024 along with the previously mentioned Duplantis, Ingebrigtsen and Elkasevic.

Local hero Gianmarco Tamberi also achieved his third non-consecutive title in the high jump with a world lead and championship record of 2.37m

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2023 European Athletes of the Year Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Femke Bol have taken their collective European title haul up to 22 following Roma 2024. 

Ingebrigtsen has won 13 European indoor and outdoor titles - not to mention the 2021 and 2022 SPAR European Cross Country Championships titles - while Bol has won nine after retaining her 400m and 4x400m titles. 

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France’s Melina Robert-Michon and Martina Ratej from Slovenia both made record eight appearances at the European Athletics Championships in the discus and javelin respectively.

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Victoria Hudson became Austria’s first European champion in 53 years with gold in the javelin. She became only the third Austrian in history to win a title at the European Athletics Championships after Liese Prokop (1969) and Ilona Gusenbauer (1971).

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Andorra had their first ever finalist in European Athletics Championships history. Nahuel Carabana achieved this feat by reaching the final and finishing seventh in the 3000m steeplechase.

Steven Mills for European Athletics




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