2015 European Athletics Indoor Championships

Prague was chosen as the host of the Championships on the European Athletics council meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria in May 2012. The other candidate city was Istanbul, Turkey.^[1] Previously, Prague hosted the 1967 European Indoor Games, the forerunner of the European Athletics Indoor Championships. It was the first time since the 1978 European Athletics Championships that Prague hosted a major athletics championships.^[2]

International athletics events in the Czech Republic traditionally took place away from Prague at the outdoor arena in Ostrava. That city's annual Golden Spike Ostrava meet began in 1961,^[3] and the 2011 European Athletics U23 Championships and 2007 World Youth Championships in Athletics were held in the preceding years.^[4] However, the annual Josef Odložil Memorial outdoor meeting in Prague has attracted international athletes since 1994.^[5][6]

Prior to the event, the O2 Arena in Prague was not a regular venue for indoor track and field. The stadium was host to the one-off "Meeting of World Record Holders" in 2009, which was the first international non-championship indoor meeting to be staged in the capital.^[7][8] A year before the championships, the Prague Indoor Meeting was staged as a test event and it received European Athletics permit status.^[9] This attracted top level performers and highlights included a European indoor record by high jumper Ivan Ukhov and a European indoor best for the 500 metres by home athlete Pavel Maslák.^[10]

Maslák, the 400 m champion from the 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships, led the Czech team for the championships, which at 46 athletes was the country's largest squad ever for the competition. Libor Varhaník, chairman of the organising committee, specifically aimed to have as many Czech athletes compete in the events as possible in order to build local interest and boost ticket sales. The opening ceremony was held on 5 March – a day before the main competition began on Friday (although shot put and men's long jump qualifying was held that evening).^[11][12] Former international high jumper and European indoor medallist Tomáš Janků was appointed as CEO and committee member of the organising group.^[4]

The event was televised live, with a total of 28 international broadcasters having agreements to show the proceedings either live or delayed. Eurosport was the most prominent of these in the competition's region, continuing its place as the traditional main broadcaster. A live internet feed of the event was also available on the European Athletics website. Retail chain Spar was the principal sponsor, reflecting the fact that it is the main commercial sponsor for the governing body.^[13] The event also had a dedicated social media presence in the form of a Facebook page and a Twitter feed (@praha2015), as well as an official website.^[14]

The competition logo incorporated a stylised version of the skyline of Hradčany – the district around Prague Castle and historical seat of government.^[14] The official mascot of the competition was the Little Mole (Krtek), the protagonist of a popular Czech cartoon series.^[15]

As the only major international indoor athletics event to be staged that year, the European Athletics Indoor Permit Meetings and (almost exclusively European-based) IAAF Indoor Permit Meetings served as the competitive build up for the event.^[16] In the absence of official qualifying standards, team selection was partially based on performances at national championships for some of the larger European nations.^{[17][18][19][20][21]}

Track

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres details	Richard Kilty  Great Britain	6.51 SB	Christian Blum  Germany	6.58	Julian Reus  Germany	6.60
400 metres details	Pavel Maslák  Czech Republic	45.33 CR	Dylan Borlée  Belgium	46.25	Rafał Omelko  Poland	46.26
800 metres details	Marcin Lewandowski  Poland	1:46.67	Mark English  Ireland	1:47.20	Thijmen Kupers  Netherlands	1:47.25
1500 metres details	Jakub Holuša  Czech Republic	3:37.68 NR	Ilham Tanui Özbilen  Turkey	3:37.74	Chris O'Hare  Great Britain	3:38.96
3000 metres details	Ali Kaya  Turkey	7:38.42	Lee Emanuel  Great Britain	7:44.48	Henrik Ingebrigtsen  Norway	7:45.54 NR
60 metres hurdles details	Pascal Martinot-Lagarde  France	7.49	Dimitri Bascou  France	7.50	Wilhem Belocian  France	7.52
4 × 400 metres relay details	Belgium Julien Watrin Dylan Borlée Jonathan Borlée Kevin Borlée	3:02.87 AR	Poland Karol Zalewski Rafał Omelko Łukasz Krawczuk Jakub Krzewina	3:02.97 NR	Czech Republic Daniel Němeček Patrik Šorm Jan Tesař Pavel Maslák	3:04.09 NR

Field

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Daniil Tsyplakov  Russia	2.31	Silvano Chesani  Italy Antonios Mastoras  Greece	2.31	Not awarded
Pole vault details	Renaud Lavillenie  France	6.04 CR	Aleksandr Gripich  Russia	5.85	Piotr Lisek  Poland	5.85
Long jump details	Michel Tornéus  Sweden	8.30 NR	Radek Juška  Czech Republic	8.10	Andreas Otterling  Sweden	8.06
Triple jump details	Nelson Évora  Portugal	17.21	Pablo Torrijos  Spain	17.04 NR	Marian Oprea  Romania	16.91
Shot put details	David Storl  Germany	21.23	Asmir Kolašinac  Serbia	20.90	Ladislav Prášil  Czech Republic	20.66

Combined

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Heptathlon details	Ilya Shkurenyov  Russia	6353 WL	Arthur Abele  Germany	6279	Eelco Sintnicolaas  Netherlands	6185

Track

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
60 metres details	Dafne Schippers  Netherlands	7.05 WL	Dina Asher-Smith  Great Britain	7.08 NR	Verena Sailer  Germany	7.09
400 metres details	Nataliya Pyhyda  Ukraine	51.96	Indira Terrero  Spain	52.63	Seren Bundy-Davies  Great Britain	52.64
800 metres details	Selina Büchel   Switzerland	2:01.95	Nataliya Lupu  Ukraine	2:02.25	Joanna Jóźwik  Poland	2:02.45
1500 metres details	Sifan Hassan  Netherlands	4:09.04	Angelika Cichocka  Poland	4:10.53	Federica Del Buono  Italy	4:11.61
3000 metres details [a]	Sviatlana Kudzelich  Belarus	8:48.02	Maureen Koster  Netherlands	8:51.64	Laura Muir  Great Britain	8:52.24
60 metres hurdles details	Alina Talay  Belarus	7.85 NR	Lucy Hatton  Great Britain	7.90	Serita Solomon  Great Britain	7.93
4 × 400 metres relay details	France Floria Gueï Elea-Mariama Diarra Agnès Raharolahy Marie Gayot	3:31.61	Great Britain Kelly Massey Seren Bundy-Davies Laura Maddox Kirsten McAslan	3:31.79	Poland Joanna Linkiewicz Małgorzata Hołub Monika Szczęsna Justyna Święty	3:31.90

• ^{3000 metres} Gold medalist Yelena Korobkina of Russia was disqualified for doping in January 2024. Sviatlana Kudzelich of Belarus was upgraded to gold, Maureen Koster of Netherlands was upgraded to silver, and Laura Muir of Great Britain was awarded bronze.

Field

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Mariya Kuchina  Russia	1.97	Alessia Trost  Italy	1.97	Kamila Lićwinko  Poland	1.94
Pole vault details	Anzhelika Sidorova  Russia	4.80	Ekaterini Stefanidi  Greece	4.75	Angelica Bengtsson  Sweden	4.70 NR
Long jump details	Ivana Španović  Serbia	6.98 NR	Sosthene Taroum Moguenara  Germany	6.83	Florentina Marincu  Romania	6.79
Triple jump details	Yekaterina Koneva  Russia	14.69	Gabriela Petrova  Bulgaria	14.52	Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko  Israel	14.49 NR
Shot put details	Anita Márton  Hungary	19.23 NR	Yuliya Leantsiuk  Belarus	18.60	Radoslava Mavrodieva  Bulgaria	17.83

Combined

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Pentathlon details	Katarina Johnson-Thompson  Great Britain	5000 NR CR	Nafissatou Thiam  Belgium	4696	Eliška Klučinová  Czech Republic	4687 NR

Points were awarded for every place in the top eight of each event: 8 for 1st, 7 for 2nd, 6 for 3rd, etc.^[22]

Rank	Nation	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	Total
1	Russia	48	14	–	20	–	9	4	1	96
2	Germany	8	21	12	20	12	9	2	2	86
3	Great Britain	16	28	18	5	12	6	–	–	85
4	Poland	8	14	24	20	4	9	2	2	83
5	France	24	7	6	5	16	6	2	–	66
6	Czech Republic	16	7	18	5	8	3	4	2	63
7	Spain	–	14	–	10	8	3	2	1	38
8	Netherlands	16	–	18	–	–	–	2	1	37
9	Belarus	8	14	–	10	–	–	4	–	36
10	Italy	–	14	6	5	–	3	4	–	32
11	Ukraine	8	–	6	–	8	6	2	1	31
12	Greece	–	14	–	5	8	3	–	–	30
13	Sweden	8	–	12	5	–	–	–	1	26
14	Belgium	8	14	–	–	–	–	–	–	22
15	Bulgaria	–	7	6	–	4	–	2	1	20
16	Romania	–	–	12	5	–	3	–	–	20
17	Norway	–	–	6	5	4	3	–	–	18
18	Turkey	8	7	–	–	–	–	2	–	17
19	Switzerland	8	–	–	–	8	–	–	–	16
20	Serbia	8	7	–	–	–	–	–	–	15
21	Hungary	8	–	–	–	–	3	2	1	14
22	Portugal	8	–	–	–	4	–	–	–	12
23	Ireland	–	7	–	–	–	3	2	–	12
24	Finland	–	–	–	–	4	3	–	1	8
25	Israel	–	–	6	–	–	–	–	–	6
=26	Lithuania	–	–	–	5	–	–	–	–	5
=26	Slovakia	–	–	–	5	–	–	–	–	5
=28	Iceland	–	–	–	–	4	–	–	–	4
=28	Luxembourg	–	–	–	–	4	–	–	–	4
30	Croatia	–	–	–	–	–	–	4	–	4
=31	Estonia	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	1	1
=31	Latvia	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	1	1
=31	Slovenia	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	1	1

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