European Cup Combined Events
The Athletics European Cup the all-rounder is a team competition in which the top three all-rounder of a country come in the rankings. The competition was first held in 1973 and until 1993 he held the two-year mode, annually since then. Host is the European Athletics Association EAA.
Competition mode
About all sweeps remained the same is the counting. From antretenden normally four more fighters, the first three are taken in the standings, their scores are added together and the team with the highest score wins. For men, the European Cup will take place in the decathlon since 1973, with the women was until 1979 the pentathlon, conducted since 1981, the heptathlon.
The European Cup was played in the first five sweeps from 1973 to 1981 with qualification and finals. In three preliminary rounds in 1977 in four preliminary rounds, went up to eight teams against each other, the best teams competed in the final.
The six best teams in men and women of 1981 were qualified for the Final Round A in 1983, the next seven teams played in the final round to B, all the other teams entered in the final round C. The final results of each group were the movers and relegated between the groups determined, which then were allowed to take up two years later in the next highest group, or had to compete in the next lower group. Since 1987, eight teams in Group A. Since the tenth discharge in 1991 were called the Final Round A Super League, Final Round B 1st League and the final round C 2nd League.
Of men and women The final is always played on the same weekend. In general, both events take place at the same location. 1987, 1989, 1995, 1997, 2004 and 2007, the final Group A or Super League men was discharged with the final Group B or 1st League of the women and vice versa. Background was in each case that the number of teams was relatively low, who were qualified in both the men and the women for the top group. By splitting was reached that as many teams could compete alongside men and women, including of course both teams the organizing country.
Venues and winners
The following table lists the venues ( and host countries ) of the final rounds and the winning teams.
The most successful country in the men was Germany, with three wins in the GDR, two victories of the Federal Republic of Germany before 1990 and three wins as a reunited team after 1990. When East and West Germany is not added as a competitor until 1990, France was with six wins the most successful country. In the women's Russia won since 1993 eleven contests, the USSR had won three times. The GDR was among the women on six wins, Germany won after 1990 three sweeps.
Sporting highlights
World Records
In the third edition of the competition on 17 and 18 September 1977 in Lille Nadezhda Tkachenko presented from the USSR with 4839 points set a new world record in the pentathlon on. On 3 and 4 July 1999, in Prague, the Czech Tomáš Dvořák set with 8994 points to a new world record in the decathlon and just missed the 9000 -point mark.
Event records
The best team performance in the men succeeded in 1999 the Czechs with 25 375 points. Besides Dvořák 8994 points 8527 points of Roman Šebrle and 7854 points of Jiří Ryba were included in the overall standings.
The best team performance in the women reached the USSR in 1989. Larissa Nikitina with 6875 points, Remigija Nasaroviene with 6600 points and 6345 points with Natalya Schubenkowa together reached 19,820 points.