The Men's omnium at the

European Track Championships The European Track Cycling Championships are a set of elite level competition events held annually for the various disciplines and distances in track cycling, exclusively for European cyclists, and regulated by the European Cycling Union (UEC) ...

was first competed in

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

. Prior to 2010, there were two elite omniums held annually: an endurance omnium and a sprint omnium. The

Omnium An omnium (from Latin ''omnium'': of all, belonging to all) is a multiple race event in track cycling. Historically the omnium has had a variety of formats. In recent years, road racing has also adopted the term to describe multi-day races that f ...

consists of six different competitions over two days.

Medalists

Older events

Before 2010, European championships Omnium events were held as European Criterion or Winter Championship (1956–1971). From 1972 to 1990 they were organized by the

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as European Championship. Since 1995 the UEC is responsible for all European championships.

References

External links

2010 Results2011 Results2012 ResultsResults from cyclingarchives.com
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