# European Games

The European Games is a continental multi-sport event in the Olympic tradition contested by athletes from countries served by national Olympic committees within the European Olympic Committees (EOC), the regional association for such committees. The EOC represents European nations and several transcontinental countries. An EOC Refugee team is also included. The Games were envisioned and are governed by the EOC which announced their launch at its 41st General Assembly in Rome, on 8 December 2012.
The European Games are the 5th continental Games in the Olympic tradition to be initiated, after the Asian Games, Pan American Games, Pacific Games and African Games. Therefore, as of 2015, every sporting continent has continental games in the Olympic tradition.
The European Games are not related to the European Championships, a separate multi-sport event organised by individual European sports federations, bringing together the individual European Championships of sports such as athletics, swimming, artistic gymnastics, cycling, rowing, golf, and triathlon under a single 'brand' on a four-year cycle beginning in 2018, and broadcast by agreement with the EBU.
The European Games are also the third event created and organised by the EOC. The European Youth Olympic Festivals, both winter and summer, and broadly mirroring the Youth Olympic Games are organised biennially, while the quadrennial Games of the Small State of Europe (not to be confused with the separate Island Games) provide competition opportunities for the handful of microstates in the European continent. As of 2024 there are no EOC endorsed European Winter Games.

## List of European Games

The 2015 European Games, the first edition of the event, took place in Baku, Azerbaijan in June 2015, and further editions were planned to be held every four years thereafter. The 2019 edition was held in Minsk, Belarus from 21 to 30 June on a reduced scale when the original host, the Netherlands, withdrew. The 2023 edition was held in Kraków, Poland from 21 June to 2 July. The 2027 edition will be held in Istanbul, Turkey.
| Edition | Year | Host City | Host Nation | Opened by | Start Date | End Date | Nations | Competitors | Sports | Events | Top Placed Team |
| I | 2015 | Baku | Azerbaijan | President Ilham Aliyev | 12 June | 28 June | 50 | 5,898 | 21 | 253 | Russia (RUS) |
| II | 2019 | Minsk | Belarus | President Alexander Lukashenko | 21 June | 30 June | 50 | 4,082 | 15 | 200 | Russia (RUS) |
| III | 2023 | Kraków-Małopolska | Poland | President Andrzej Duda | 21 June | 2 July | 48 | 6,857 | 29 | 254 | Italy (ITA) |
| IV | 2027 | Istanbul | Turkey | President of Turkey (expected) | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |

## Participating nations

As of the 2023 edition, 50 nations whose National Olympic Committee is recognized by the European Olympic Committee have competed at the European Games. As of 2023, two of these, Russia and Belarus, are suspended. In addition, a Refugee EOC team has been created to take part.
* Albania
* Andorra
* Armenia
* Austria
* Azerbaijan
* Belarus (suspended)
* Belgium
* Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Bulgaria
* Croatia
* Cyprus
* Czech Republic
* Denmark
* Estonia
* Finland
* France
* Georgia
* Germany
* Great Britain
* Greece
* Hungary
* Iceland
* Ireland
* Israel
* Italy
* Kosovo
* Latvia
* Liechtenstein
* Lithuania
* Luxembourg
* Malta
* Moldova
* Monaco
* Montenegro
* Netherlands
* North Macedonia
* Norway
* Poland
* Portugal
* Romania
* Russia (suspended)
* San Marino
* Serbia
* Slovakia
* Slovenia
* Spain
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* Turkey
* Ukraine
* EOC Refugee Team

## Sports

The 2019 Minsk European Games Sports Programme included 15 sports, 23 disciplines, 10 qualifying sports to Tokyo 2020, 4 Sports European Championship, for a total of 4082 competitors in 201 medal events.
The figures in each cell indicate the number of events for each sport contested at the respective Games.
| Sport (Discipline) | Sport (Discipline) | Body | Body | 2015 | 2019 | 2023 | NG |
| Sport (Discipline) | Sport (Discipline) | World | Europe | 2015 | 2019 | 2023 | NG |
| Artistic swimming | | WA | LEN | 4 | | 8 | 2 |
| Diving | | WA | LEN | 8 | | 13 | 2 |
| Swimming | | WA | LEN | 42 | | | 2 |
| Water polo | | WA | LEN | 2 | | | 2 |
| Archery | | WA | WAE | 5 | 8 | 8 | 3 |
| Athletics | | WA | EAA | 1 | 10 | 38 | 3 |
| Badminton | | BWF | BE | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 |
| Basketball (3x3) | | FIBA | FIBAE | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| Beach handball | | IHF | EHF | | | 2 | 1 |
| Beach soccer | | FIFA | UEFA | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Boxing | | IBA | EBC | 15 | 15 | 13 | 3 |
| Breaking | | WDSF | WDSF | | | 2 | 1 |
| Canoe slalom | | ICF | ECA | | | 10 | 3 |
| Canoe sprint | | ICF | ECA | 15 | 16 | 16 | 3 |
| BMX Freestyle | | UCI | UEC | 2 | | 2 | 3 |
| Mountain biking | | UCI | UEC | 2 | | 2 | 3 |
| Road cycling | | UCI | UEC | 4 | 4 | | 3 |
| Track cycling | | UCI | UEC | | 20 | | 3 |
| Fencing | | FIE | EFC | 12 | | 12 | 2 |
| Acrobatic gymnastics | | FIG | UEG | 6 | 6 | | 2 |
| Aerobic gymnastics | | FIG | UEG | 2 | 2 | | 2 |
| Artistic gymnastics | | FIG | UEG | 14 | 12 | | 2 |
| Rhythmic gymnastics | | FIG | UEG | 8 | 8 | | 2 |
| Trampoline | | FIG | UEG | 4 | 4 | | 2 |
| Judo | | IJF | EJU | 18 | 15 | 1 | 3 |
| Karate | | WKF | EKF | 12 | 12 | 12 | 3 |
| Kickboxing | | WAKO | WAKO | | | 16 | 1 |
| Modern pentathlon | | UIPM | UIPM | | | 5 | 1 |
| Muaythai | | IFMA | IFMA | | | 10 | 1 |
| Padel | | IPF | IPF | | | 3 | 1 |
| Rugby sevens | | WR | RE | | | 2 | 1 |
| Sambo (martial art) | | FIAS | ESF | 8 | 18 | | 2 |
| Shooting | | ISSF | ESC | 19 | 19 | 30 | 3 |
| Ski jumping | | FIS | FIS | | | 5 | 1 |
| Sport climbing | | IFSC | IFSC | | | 6 | 1 |
| Table tennis | | ITTF | ETTU | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 |
| Taekwondo | | WT | ETU | 8 | | 16 | 2 |
| Teqball | | FITEQ | FITEQ | | | 5 | 1 |
| Triathlon | | WT | ETU | 2 | | 3 | 2 |
| Beach volleyball | | FIVB | CEV | 2 | | | 1 |
| Volleyball | | FIVB | CEV | 2 | | | 1 |
| Wrestling | | UWW | CELA | 24 | 18 | | 2 |
| Total events | Total events | Total events | Total events | 253 | 200 | 254 | |

## Medal table

European Games medal table :
| Rank | NOC | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Russia (RUS) | 123 | 64 | 86 | 273 |
| 2 | Italy (ITA) | 58 | 67 | 63 | 188 |
| 3 | Ukraine (UKR) | 45 | 43 | 51 | 139 |
| 4 | Germany (GER) | 43 | 39 | 73 | 155 |
| 5 | Great Britain (GBR) | 36 | 30 | 53 | 119 |
| 6 | France (FRA) | 35 | 41 | 57 | 133 |
| 7 | Spain (ESP) | 34 | 30 | 36 | 100 |
| 8 | Belarus (BLR) | 33 | 27 | 51 | 111 |
| 9 | Azerbaijan (AZE) | 29 | 27 | 39 | 95 |
| 10 | Netherlands (NED) | 25 | 31 | 21 | 77 |
| 11–46 | Remaining | 246 | 307 | 425 | 978 |
| Totals (46 entries) | Totals (46 entries) | 707 | 706 | 955 | 2,368 |