2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships

All times are local (UTC+3).[8]

In individual events athletes could qualify by achieving the Entry Standard within the qualification period or by virtue of the World Athletics Rankings' position achieved at the end of the qualification period. About 50 percent of the athletes should have qualified via the Entry Standards, while the remaining participants were determined via the World Rankings. The qualification period ran 12 months from 20 February 2022 to 19 February 2023, except for the combined events where it ran 18 months from 20 August 2021 to 19 February 2023. Each nation could enter up to four qualified athletes in each individual event of whom up to three could participate. Countries who had no athletes who had achieved the Entry Standard and athletes who had been potentially qualified by World Rankings, could enter one unqualified male athlete and/or one unqualified female athlete in one individual event of the championships. Six national teams could take part in each 4 × 400 m relay event: one place was allocated to the team of the host nation, three places were allocated to best official teams in 4 x 400 m outdoor lists for 2022, while the remaining two places (or three if the host country did not take its allocated place as the Turkish women's relay) were allocated to teams with best accumulated 400 m times of individual athletes from 2023 indoor season as of 20 February 2023.[9]

All athletes born before and including 2007 (aged at least 16 years on 31 December 2023) were eligible to compete, except for the men's shot put where the limit was 2005 (athletes aged at least 18 years on 31 December 2023).[9]

Nafissatou Thiam broke the pentathlon world record

On 3 March, Belgium's Nafissatou Thiam broke the pentathlon world record of 5013 points set by Nataliya Dobrynska of Ukraine during the 2012 World Indoor Championships at the same Ataköy Arena, totalling a score of 5055 points. It was the first world record at the European Indoor Championships since 2011, making Thiam the first ever Belgian woman to set an official athletics world record (indoor or outdoor).[10] In addition, with her third European indoor title, she became the most successful female pentathlete in history of this championships, retaining also her gold medal from the 2021 edition. Poland's Adrianna Sułek also went above previous record with a score of 5014 points and basically was the world record-holder for about six seconds, finishing first the 800 metres run, the final of the five events in pentathlon.[11][12]

Two additional championship records were broken: Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen ran a time 3:33.95 in the 1500 metres and Dutch women's 4 × 400 m relay team achieved a mark of 3:25.66, making them the third-fastest national team in history. One men's heptathlon and one women's pentathlon championship best as well as 39 national indoor records were set. There were four world world-leading marks and eight European-leading marks.[13]

Ingebrigtsen completed the 1500 m/3000 m 'double-double', successfully defending both his titles from 2021 to increase his overall tally to six medals, including five golds. Greece's Miltiadis Tentoglou became the first man to win three consecutive long jump titles. Portugal's Pedro Pichardo in the triple jump and France's Kevin Mayer in the heptathlon also retained their titles.

On the women's side, Netherland's Femke Bol secured the 400 m/4 × 400 m golden double as in previous edition. Great Britain's Keely Hodgkinson in the 800 metres, Ukraine's Yaroslava Mahuchikh in the high jump and Portugal's Auriol Dongmo in the shot put also retained their titles. Laura Muir won a British record fifth title, taking victory in the 1500 m, after her historic 1500 m/3000 m 'double-double' from 2017 and 2019.[14] Finland's Reetta Hurske claimed gold in the 60 metres hurdles, the first ever medal for her nation in the event.[15]

WR: world record | ER: European record | CR: championship record | NR: national record | WL: world leading | EL: European leading | PB: personal best | SB: seasonal best

  *   Host nation (Turkey)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Norway	4	1	0	5
2	Netherlands	3	3	1	7
3	Great Britain	3	1	2	6
4	Italy	2	4	0	6
5	Belgium	2	1	3	6
6	Portugal	2	0	1	3
	Switzerland	2	0	1	3
8	Finland	2	0	0	2
9	France	1	2	3	6
10	Germany	1	2	1	4
11	Greece	1	2	0	3
12	Ukraine	1	1	2	4
13	Spain	1	1	0	2
14	Turkey*	1	0	0	1
15	Poland	0	4	3	7
16	Slovenia	0	2	0	2
17	Sweden	0	1	3	4
18	Czech Republic	0	1	1	2
	Romania	0	1	1	2
20	Serbia	0	0	2	2
21	Estonia	0	0	1	1
Totals (21 entries)		26	27	25	78

Source:[16]

The top eight finalists in each event scored points for their nation, with 8 points going to the gold medalists down to one point for each 8th place finisher. Non-finishers and disqualified athletes received zero points.

Rank	Country				4	5	6	7	8	Finalists	Points
1	Italy	2	4	-	3	2	3	2	4	20	84
2	Great Britain	3	1	2	-	3	4	2	2	17	72.50
3	Netherlands	3	3	1	1	1	2	1	1	13	69
4	Germany	1	2	1	4	-	1	4	2	15	61
5	France	1	2	3	-	3	1	1	1	12	58
6	Poland	-	4	3	1	1	1	-	-	10	57.50
7	Belgium	2	1	3	1	-	2	2	1	12	57
8	Spain	1	1	-	5	1	1	2	1	12	52
9	Norway	4	1	-	-	-	1	1	1	8	45
10	Portugal	2	-	1	2	1	1	-	2	9	41
11	Switzerland	2	-	1	-	1	3	1	-	8	37
12	Czech Republic	-	1	1	1	3	2	-	1	9	37
13	Sweden	-	1	3	-	1	-	2	2	9	35
14	Ukraine	1	1	2	-	1	-	-	-	5	31
15	Greece	1	2	-	1	-	-	1	-	5	28.50
16	Slovenia	-	2	-	-	1	-	-	1	4	19
17	Romania	-	1	1	-	1	-	1	-	4	18.50
18	Finland	2	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	3	18
19	Serbia	-	-	2	1	-	-	-	1	4	18
20	Ireland	-	-	-	1	1	1	-	-	3	12
21	Turkey	1	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	2	11
22	Luxembourg	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	1	3	9
23	Hungary	-	-	-	-	1	1	1	-	3	9
24	Austria	-	-	-	1	-	-	1	-	2	7
24	Bosnia and Herzegovina	-	-	-	1	-	-	1	-	2	7
26	Estonia	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	1	6
27	Bulgaria	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	1	5
27	Croatia	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	1	5
27	Denmark	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	1	5
30	Azerbaijan	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	1	4
30	Slovakia	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	1	4
32	Lithuania	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	1	3
33	Moldova	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	1	2

Source:[17]

550 athletes from 47 member federations competed in the championships. In brackets the number of athletes participating.

The European Athletics agreed broadcasting agreements with 26 countries, with remaining areas receiving coverage direct from the European Athletics via the Eurovision All Athletics platform.[18]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships.

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