2022 European Championships (Munich) TEAM ANNOUNCEMENTS

[LuckySpikes]

Germany, the hosts, have 112 athletes entered - https://www.leichtathletik.de/news/n...em-in-muenchen

Later on, I'll do another unscientific "analysis" and see how many decent or better medal chances they have. I suspect it's not going to be a huge amount, especially given that Vetter & Hussong are both injured and out of the Javelin.

OK, so I make it that Germany have 14 or 15 decent or better medal chances (8 of them women).

In 2018 in Berlin they won 20 medals in total with 6 of them Gold. They'll have nothing like either of those two numbers this time. Of course, they're not helped by the Javelin injuries and Gesa-F Krause being absent too.

[trickstat]

It has been said that if you half the number of genuine medal chances you get a reasonable estimate of how many medals you will get.

[LuckySpikes]

Hungary's team of 35 athletes - https://www.atletika.hu/hir/nepes-ma...noksagon_11550

[marilyn1]

Looks like some warm Munich weather.to come for the euros

[marilyn1]

OK, so I make it that Germany have 14 or 15 decent or better medal chances (8 of them women).

In 2018 in Berlin they won 20 medals in total with 6 of them Gold. They'll have nothing like either of those two numbers this time. Of course, they're not helped by the Javelin injuries and Gesa-F Krause being absent too.

Surely one Goldie with Mihambo

[LuckySpikes]

Serbia's team of 14, headed by Ivana Vuleta - https://sas.org.rs/wp-content/upload...-EP-MINHEN.pdf (pr = hurdles)

[LuckySpikes]

To the Baltics now ...

Our smallest announced team yet - Latvia with 8 athletes (4 men, 4 women, 5 spear-chuckers in total) - https://athletics.lv/lv/article/4551...pas-cempionata

And Estonia's team of 12:

Women
400H: Marielle Kleemeier
HJ: Karmen Bruus
Javelin: Gedly Tugi

Men
100: Karl Erik Nazarov
110H: Keiso Pedriks
Marathon: Kaur Kivistik, Roman Fosti, Tiidrek Nurme
LJ: Hans-Christian Hausenberg
Decathlon: Maicel Uibo, Karel Tilga, Janek Õiglane

Still awaiting Lithuania's announcement.

[LuckySpikes]

Iceland trumping Latvia with just 3 athletes. Cosy!

W Shot Put: Erna Sóley Gunnarsdóttir
M Discus: Guðni Valur Guðnason
M Hammer: Hilmar Örn Jónsson

https://fri.is/thrir-islendingar-keppa-i-munchen/

[trickstat]

With 3 throwers they are trying to compensate with size for a shortage of numbers.

[marilyn1]

France, also with a record-sized team - https://www.athle.fr/asp.net/main.ht...px?htmlid=6386

They're claiming it's 101 athletes but I only counted 97 (before I saw the 101 claim). 97 would still equal their biggest team from Budapest 1998.

France and Germany are hardly setting athletics alight these days but the very large teams they are sending to Munich is a political statement from the EU.

[marra]

They may not be setting record medal hauls but they - like GBR - have a lot of people ranked inside the top 8 and even more that will be ranked in the top 12-15 (ie potential finalists).

It's nothing to do with the EU. Countries with good funding and larger populations tend to send larger teams. It's that simple.

[LuckySpikes]

Belgium's team of 59 - https://www.atletiek.be/admin/storag...nchen-2022.pdf

Of the other "bigger" nations we're still awaiting the announcements from Poland, Czech Republic, Turkey, Croatia, Greece, Ukraine & Romania.

[marilyn1]

Belgium's team of 59 - https://www.atletiek.be/admin/storag...nchen-2022.pdf

Of the other "bigger" nations we're still awaiting the announcements from Poland, Czech Republic, Turkey, Croatia, Greece, Ukraine & Romania.

With the euros to come and several other sports in Germany to accompany the track and field, I feel rather like a person who had rather too large a meal.!!!

[LuckySpikes]

With the euros to come and several other sports in Germany to accompany the track and field, I feel rather like a person who had rather too large a meal.!!!

Yes, it's been a feast but also quite exhausting! After 16 days of athletics in Eugene and Birmingham there'll be a few days rest before the last 7 days stretch in Munich.

[Occasional Hope]

Not to mention those of us doubling our Commonwealths viewing with world under 20s.

[RunUnlimited]

Yep. I've been proper binging on athletics pretty much for the past 2 months... European U18s in July, then the World Championships, now the Commonwealth Games and World U20 combo, and in just 10 days time, the European Championships will be upon us! (And that's not including the UK Champs, the UK U20 Champs and some of the NCAA meets that I also have watched this spring/summer.)

[marilyn1]

Yes, it's been a feast but also quite exhausting! After 16 days of athletics in Eugene and Birmingham there'll be a few days rest before the last 7 days stretch in Munich.

And 6th,8th in Hungary then DL on 10th we have monaco. We may see some great stuff. Silesia meet had some decent stuff which posters will have watched Bol ran well for a NR, sub 50 with Kaczmarek also sub 50.
SAFP is just amazing with 10.66 .

[LuckySpikes]

Czech team of 56 athletes - https://www.atletika.cz/aktuality/do...vyprava-na-me/ (př = hurdles)

Another record-sized team from a big/big-ish athletics nation, beating their 50 athletes at Berlin 2018.

I suppose some quota spots have been freed up by the absence of Belarus (usually about 40 athletes?) and the ANA athletes (IIRC, they were allowed 20 at Berlin 2018.)

[LuckySpikes]

Romania's team of 21 athletes - https://www.fra.ro/convocator-campio...liber-seniori/

Names numbered 22 to 35 are coaches etc.

And Greece are buying plane tickets for 40 athletes as below:

Women
100: Raphaela Spanoudaki
200: Artemis Anastasiou
100 Hurdles: Anais Karagianni, Elisavet Pesiridou
400 Hurdles: Dimitra Gnafaki
HJ: Tatiana Gusin
PV: Katerina Stefanidi, Eleni Polak
LJ: Vasiliki Haytidou
TJ: Spyridoula Karydis
Discus: Chrysoula Anagnostopoulou
Hammer: Stamatia Skarveli
Javelin: Elina Tzengo
20km Race Walk: Christina Papadopoulou
35km Race Walk: Antigoni Drisbioti, Kyriaki Filtisakou, Efi Kourkoutsaki
4x100: Spanoudaki, Anastasiou, Pesiridou, Polyniki Emmanuilidou, Stella Michailidou, Alana Bern, Dimitra Tsoukalas
4x400: Gnafaki, Andriana Ferra, Despina Mourtas, Korina Politis, Evangelia Zygoris

Men
200: Panagiotis Trivyzas
HJ: Antonis Merlos
PV: Emmanuel Karalis
LJ: Miltos Tendoglou
TJ: Dimitris Tsiamis, Andreas Pantazis, Nikos Andrikopoulos
Shot Put: Christos Franzeskakis, Michalis Anastasakis
35km Race Walk: Alexandros Papamichail
4x100: Trivyzas, Yannis Nyfantopoulos, Kostas Zikos, Thodoris Vrontinos, Sotiris Garaganis, Nikos Panagiotopoulos

[LuckySpikes]

BTW, on the Romanian team, Elena Andreea Taloş is Elena Panturoiu as was (Triple Jumper).

[Ladyloz]

Guess we may have some changes to the GB team in the next day or 2 now the Commonwealths are done