2009 European Team Championships
The first track and field team championship (English / sponsor name: 1st SPAR European Team Championships ), also briefly Team Championships, was held on 20 and 21 June 2009. Of the four leagues the Superliga occurred at the Dr. Magalhaes Pessoa Stadium in Leiria (Portugal ) and parallel to the first league in Bergen ( Norway ), the 2nd league in Banská Bystrica (Slovakia ) and the 3rd Liga in Sarajevo ( Bosnia and Herzegovina).
Super League: Russia, Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Poland, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Ukraine, Greece, Sweden, Czech Republic, Portugal
First League: Belarus, Slovenia, Romania, Turkey, Belgium, Hungary, Netherlands, Finland, Estonia, Switzerland, Serbia, Norway
Second League: Ireland, Bulgaria, Croatia, Latvia, Slovakia, Lithuania, Austria, Cyprus
Second Division: Moldova, Israel, Denmark, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Iceland, Luxembourg, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Montenegro, Armenia, AASSE (combined team " small countries " with Gibraltar, Liechtenstein, Malta, Monaco and San Marino), Albania, Andorra, Macedonia
German team
The German Athletics Federation ( DLV) had nominated 49 athletes (24 women and 25 men). The German team started in the Super League, finishing in 1st place.
Innovations
While in the past eight women 's and men's teams were at the start and two winners have been determined, there will only be one winner from this year. Men and women of the nation gather together and points are counted together.
A total of twelve nations participated in the highest league so that each winner of a discipline accumulated twelve points for his team. Second place gets one less and so on. Athletes who are disqualified or give up, will not get any points. The nation with the most points in the final wins.
In the minor leagues of team - EM can go to the start up to 14 nations, accordingly, change the achievable points.