The IAU 100 km European Championships is an annual,
ultrarunning
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competition over
100 kilometres (60 miles) for European athletes. It is organised by the
International Association of Ultrarunners (IAU) and was first held in 1992 – five years after the launched of the
World Championships for the distance. The competition features both an individual and national team component. The team race is decided by aggregated the three best times set by a nation's athletes.
In its 22nd edition in 2013, a total of 94 athletes representing 19 countries took part in the competition.
[Cuevas and Berg win IAU European 100km titles in Belves]
IAAF (2013-04-28). Retrieved on 2016-05-07. Winschoten
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in the Netherlands has been a frequent host of the event, doing so ten times, including the first three editions. (In other years, the area has held an annual race there –
Run Winschoten.) The championships has almost exclusively been contested in Western Europe, with the sole exception being the 2003 event in Russia.
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Association of Road Racing Statisticians
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(2016-02-06). Retrieved on 2016-05-07. The editions of the competition from 2007 to 2012 were jointly held alongside the World Championships, with the European athletes within that race being ranked separately for the continental event.
[Khan, Nadeem (2012-04-24)]
Calcaterra and Sproston win the 26th IAU 100km World Championship
IAAF. Retrieved on 2016-05-07.
The most successful athletes of the championships are
Giorgio Calcaterra
Giorgio Calcaterra (born 11 February 1972 in Rome) is an Italian ultramarathoner, three times world champion of the 100 km. He is the most successful athlete at the IAU 100 km European Championships, being a three-time winner and also a silv ...
of Italy and
Jonas Buud
Jonas Buud born 28 March 1974, is a Swedish ultra-distance runner who lives in Mora, central Sweden.
Buud is a former orienteer who changed to long-distance running and has achieved international success. He became European Champion over 100 kil ...
of Sweden. Each has won the men's title three times, as well as having won a silver and a bronze. Three-time champion
Jaroslaw Janicki of Poland is the next most successful and
Kajsa Berg is the only woman to have won the championships three times. The championship records are 6:16:41 hours for men, set by Belgian
Jean-Paul Praet in 1992, and 7:19:51 hours for women, achieved by
Tatyana Zhirkova of Russia in 2003. Russia is comfortably the most successful nation of the championships with nine women's gold medals and eight men's gold medals. Italian and Swedish athletes are the next best performers with six titles each. A total of seventeen European nations have reached the podium.
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Editions
Medal summary
Men
Women
Men team
Women team
Medal table
Individual race
References
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External links
IAU official site
European 100 km
European championships
Recurring sporting events established in 1992
Ultramarathons