# M40 at the 2012 European Masters Athletics Championships

The eighteenth European Masters Athletics Championships were held in Zittau, Germany, Zgorzelec, Poland and Hrádek nad Nisou, Czech Republic, from August 16-25, 2012. The European Masters Athletics Championships serve the division of the sport of athletics for people over 35 years of age, referred to as masters athletics.
The championships were held in three locations near the German/Czech/Polish border.
Less countries participated compared with the last championships in Nyiregyhaza, but just over 700 more athletes participated, giving it the third greatest attendance of any championship run by European Masters Athletics ever.

## Results
### 100 metres

| Athlete | Country | Results |
| Mattias Sunneborn | Sweden | 11.07 |
| Mark Dunwell | Great Britain | 11.16 |
| Andrea Benatti | Italy | 11.21 |

### 200 metres

| Athlete | Country | Results |
| Andrea Benatti | Italy | 22.43 |
| Jim Tipper | Great Britain | 22.59 |
| Will Macgee | Great Britain | 22.92 |

### 400 metres

| Athlete | Country | Results |
| Michael Gardiner | Great Britain | 49.82 |
| Andreas Schulze | Germany | 50.40 |
| Massimiliano Poeta | Italy | 50.72 |

### 800 metres

| Athlete | Country | Results |
| Frederic Desmedt | Belgium | 2:02.50 |
| Juan Hernandez | Spain | 2:02.50 |
| Joaquin Rosello | Spain | 2:04.29 |

### 1500 metres

| Athlete | Country | Results |
| Julio Bardavio Atienza | Spain | 4:21.33 |
| German Hehn | Germany | 4:21.80 |
| Ugo Piccioli Cappelli | Italy | 4:23.76 |

### 5000 metres

| Athlete | Country | Results |
| David Morwood | Great Britain | 15:29.88 |
| Panajot Papandreopoulos | Greece | 15:33.79 |
| Michel Ribeiro | France | 15:49.27 |

### 10000 metres

| Athlete | Country | Results |
| Luis del Aguila | Spain | 31:45.60 |
| Bernard te Boekhorst | Netherlands | 32:36.76 |
| Miguel an Gil Rodriguez | Spain | 32:39.95 |

### 110 metres hurdles

| Athlete | Country | Results |
| Joe Appiah | Great Britain | 14.86 |
| Peter Zillig | Switzerland | 15.58 |
| Tomas Petricek | Czech Republic | 15.62 |

### 400 metres hurdles

| Athlete | Country | Results |
| Andreas Schulze | Germany | 56.31 |
| Darko Juricic | Croatia | 56.85 |
| Neal Edwards | Great Britain | 58.24 |

### 3000 metres steeplechase

| Athlete | Country | Results |
| Walter de Laurentiis | Italy | 10:26.28 |
| Jan Cihlar | Czech Republic | 10:28.06 |
| Katerin Stoilov | Bulgaria | 10:29.88 |

### 4x100 metres relay

| Athletes | Country | Results |
| Paolo Chiapperini | Italy | 43.78 |
| Massimiliano Poeta | Italy | 43.78 |
| Emiliano Raspi | Italy | 43.78 |
| Andrea Benatti | Italy | 43.78 |
| Stefan Rackwitz | Germany | 44.25 |
| Bernd Schauwecker | Germany | 44.25 |
| Harald Koehler | Germany | 44.25 |
| Andreas Schulze | Germany | 44.25 |
| Dalton Powell | Great Britain | 44.26 |
| Will Macgee | Great Britain | 44.26 |
| Joe Appiah | Great Britain | 44.26 |
| Jim Tipper | Great Britain | 44.26 |

### 4x400 metres relay

| Athletes | Country | Results |
| Kolja Ewert | Germany | 3:27.23 |
| Bernd Schauwecker | Germany | 3:27.23 |
| Bernd Lachmann | Germany | 3:27.23 |
| Andreas Schulze | Germany | 3:27.23 |
| Massimiliano Poeta | Italy | 3:36.81 |
| Ugo Piccioli Cappelli | Italy | 3:36.81 |
| Moreno Mandich | Italy | 3:36.81 |
| Emiliano Raspi | Italy | 3:36.81 |
| Radoslaw Stepniak | Poland | 3:44.19 |
| Andrzej Fras | Poland | 3:44.19 |
| Jerzy Krauze | Poland | 3:44.19 |
| Andrzej Nowacki | Poland | 3:44.19 |

### Marathon

| Athlete | Country | Results |
| Muharrem Yilmaz | Turkey | 2:39:20 |
| Zoltan Sebestyen | Hungary | 2:43:48 |
| Stefan Hauptmann | Germany | 2:47:09 |

### High jump

| Athlete | Country | Results |
| Mikhail Mekhonoshin | Russia | 1.83 |
| Igor Svintsov | Russia | 1.80 |
| Mariusz Dziuba | Poland | 1.75 |

### Pole vault

| Athlete | Country | Results |
| Lars Funke | Germany | 4.40 |
| Piotr Nawocki | Poland | 4.30 |
| Petr Julis | Czech Republic | 4.00 |

### Long jump

| Athlete | Country | Results |
| Mattias Sunneborn | Sweden | 7.18 |
| Stanislav Lepik | Russia | 6.47 |
| Josue Mbon | Switzerland | 6.39 |

### Triple jump

| Athlete | Country | Results |
| Petr Remes | Czech Republic | 13.80 |
| Stanislav Lepik | Russia | 13.64 |
| Keith Newton | Great Britain | 13.14 |

### Shot put

| Athlete | Country | Results |
| Tilman Northoff | Germany | 16.56 |
| Gintas Degutis | Lithuania | 16.22 |
| Oliver Rohwer | Germany | 15.93 |

### Discus throw

| Athlete | Country | Results |
| Szabolcs Bognar | Hungary | 49.32 |
| Tilman Northoff | Germany | 46.32 |
| Aitor Olaizola | Spain | 45.00 |

### Hammer throw

| Athlete | Country | Results |
| Zoltan Fabian | Hungary | 66.03 |
| Mariusz Walczak | Poland | 57.53 |
| Michael Hofer | Austria | 55.12 |

### Javelin throw

| Athlete | Country | Results |
| Birger Voigt | Germany | 50.52 |
| Allan K. Nielsen | Denmark | 45.89 |
| Jose Dominguez | Spain | 45.16 |

### Weight throw

| Athlete | Country | Results |
| Mariusz Walczak | Poland | 18.54 |
| Pavel Penaz | Czech Republic | 16.37 |
| Antonios Kontos | Germany | 15.47 |

### Throws pentathlon

| Athlete | Country | Results |
| Pavel Penaz | Czech Republic | 3713 |
| Grzegorz Pawelski | Poland | 3685 |
| Jozko Pirnat | Slovenia | 2925 |

### Decathlon

| Athlete | Country | Results |
| Heiko Illig | Germany | 6295 |
| Stephan Andres | Germany | 6091 |
| Jiri Horak | Czech Republic | 5904 |

### 5000 metre track race walk

| Athlete | Country | Results |
| Emmanuel Boulay | France | 22:19.47 |
| Normunds Ivzans | Latvia | 22:53.50 |
| Viacheslav Degtyarenko | Russia | 23:26.35 |

### 20000 metre road race walk

| Athlete | Country | Results |
| Andrei Pupyshev | Russia | 1:38:21 |
| Viacheslav Degtyarenko | Russia | 1:39:27 |
| Normunds Ivzans | Latvia | 1:44:20 |