# European Marathon Cup

The European Marathon Cup is a quadrennial team marathon competition between European countries. Initially a stand-alone championship race inaugurated in 1981, the race has been held in conjunction with the European Athletics Championships since 1994. Individual medallists are now included in the European Championships medal table, while team medals are awarded separately from the main championships.
Each national team may enter six runner and the team score is the sum of the times of the team's three fastest finishers. The IAAF World Marathon Cup (first held in 1985) follows a similar format.
The event alternates biennially with the European Half Marathon Cup which is contested under similar rules when the European Athletics Championships are held in Olympic years

## Editions

| Edition | Year | Host country | Host city | Date |
| 1st | 1981 | France | Agen | 13 September |
| 2nd | 1983 | Spain | Laredo | 19 June |
| 3rd | 1985 | Italy | Rome | 15 September |
| 4th | 1988 | Belgium | Huy | 30 April |
| 5th | 1994 | Finland | Helsinki | 7, 14 August |
| 6th | 1998 | Hungary | Budapest | 22–23 August |
| 7th | 2002 | Germany | Munich | 10–11 August |
| 8th | 2006 | Sweden | Gothenburg | 12–13 August |
| 9th | 2010 | Spain | Barcelona | 31 July–1 August |
| 10th | 2014 | Finland | Helsinki | 17 August |
| 11th | 2018 | Germany | Berlin | 12 August |
| 12th | 2022 | Germany | Munich | 15 August |

## Rules

Each country can deploy a single team with a maximum of six athletes, the total time is scored on the time of the first three classified, but the other athletes of the team that finished the race will be also awarded with the medal.

## Medallists
### Men

| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 1981 | Italy 30 pt 1. Massimo Magnani 8. Giampaolo Messina 9. Gianni Poli 12. Armando Scozzari | Soviet Union 72 pt | Poland 80 pt |
| 1983 | East Germany 22 pt 1. Waldemar Cierpinski 2. Jürgen Eberding | Italy 28 pt 3. Gianni Poli 4. Marco Marchei 8. Giampaolo Messina 13. Antonio Erotavo | Spain 45 pt |
| 1985 | East Germany 32 pt 1. Michael Heilmann 3. Jörg Peter | France 36 pt 2. Jacques Lefrand | Italy 38 pt 4. Alessio Faustini 7. Gelindo Bordin 13. Aldo Fantoni 14. Loris Pimazzoni |
| 1988 | Soviet Union 1. Ravil Kashapov | France 3. Alain Lazare | Belgium |
| 1994 | Spain 1. Martín Fiz 2. Diego García 3. Alberto Juzdado | Portugal 6. António Rodrigues 7. Manuel Matias 9. António Pinto | France 10. Dominique Chauvelier 11. Noureddine Sobhi 18. Bruno Le Stum |
| 1998 | Italy 1. Stefano Baldini 2. Danilo Goffi 3. Vincenzo Modica 7. Giovanni Ruggiero 20. Ottaviano Andriani | Spain 4. Julio Rey 5. Alejandro Gómez 6. Antoni Peña | Portugal 9. João Lopes 10. António Salvador 15. Paulo Catarino |
| 2002 | Spain 3. Julio Rey 5. Alberto Juzdado 6. Alejandro Gómez | Italy 4. Daniele Caimmi 10. Migidio Bourifa 12. Alberico di Cecco 13. Danilo Goffi 19. Ottaviano Andriani 21. Sergio Chiesa | Portugal 23. José Santos 27. Manuel Pita 29. António Sousa |
| 2006 | Italy 1. Stefano Baldini 5. Francesco Ingargiola 11. Danilo Goffi | Portugal 8. Alberto Chaíça 10. Luís Jesus 15. Hélder Ornelas | Russia 6. Dmitriy Semyonov 13. Dmitriy Burmakin 17. Grigoriy Andreyev |
| 2010 | Spain 2. José Manuel Martínez 5. Pablo Villalobos 6. Rafael Iglesias | Russia 3. Dmitriy Safronov 9. Aleksey Sokolov 15. Oleg Kulkov | Italy 4. Ruggero Pertile 7. Migidio Bourifa 11. Ottaviano Andriani 31. Daniele Caimmi |
| 2014 | Russia Aleksey Reunkov Stepan Kiselev Sergey Rybin Aleksey Sokolov | France | Switzerland |
| 2018 | Italy 3. Yassine Rachik 5. Eyob Faniel 12. Stefano La Rosa | Spain 4. Javier Guerra 6. Jesus Espana 16. Camilo Raul Santiago 22. Petro Nimo 34. Iraitz Arrospide | Austria 8. Lamawork Ketema 10. Peter Herzog 41. Christian Steinhammer |
| 2022 | Israel Marhu Teferi Gashau Ayale Yimer Getahun Girmaw Amare Omer Ramon Bukayawe Malede | Germany Richard Ringer Amanal Petros Johannes Motschmann Hendrik Pfeiffer Konstantin Wedel Simon Boch | Spain Ayad Lamdassem Jorge Blanco Daniel Mateo Yago Rojo Abdelaziz Merzougui |

### Women

| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 1985 | East Germany 1. Katrin Dörre 2. Gabriele Martins 3. Birgit Weinhold | Italy 6. Laura Fogli 7. Emma Scaunich 9. Rita Marchisio | Soviet Union |
| 1988 | Soviet Union 2. Raisa Smekhnova 3. Zoya Ivanova | France | East Germany 1. Katrin Dörre |
| 1994 | Italy 2. Maria Curatolo 4. Ornella Ferrara 8. Rosanna Munerotto 9. Anna Villani 21. Bettina Sabatini DNF Laura Fogli | Romania | France |
| 1998 | Russia 2. Madina Biktagirova 7. Lyubov Morgunova 8. Yelena Razdrogina 9. Lyudmila Petrova 18. Irina Timofeyeva | Italy 3. Maura Viceconte 4. Franca Fiacconi 19. Gigliola Borghini 24. Francesca Zanusso 30. Paola Vignati DNF Patrizia Ritondo | Germany |
| 2002 | Germany | Russia | Only two teams entered |
| 2006 | Italy 5. Bruna Genovese 7. Deborah Toniolo 8. Giovanna Volpato 9. Anna Incerti 21. Marcella Mancini DNF Rosaria Console | Russia | Germany |
| 2010 | Russia 2. Nailya Yulamanova 9. Irina Timofeyeva 11. Silviya Skvortsova 28. Yevgeniya Danilova 29. Margarita Plaksina DNF Tatyana Pushkareva | Italy 3. Anna Incerti 8. Rosaria Console 10. Deborah Toniolo | Great Britain 14. Michelle Ross-Cope 16. Susan Partridge 20. Holly Rush 21. Helen Decker 24. Rebecca Robinson 25. Jo Wilkinson |
| 2014 | Italy Valeria Straneo Anna Incerti Nadia Ejjafini Emma Quaglia Deborah Toniolo Rosaria Console | Portugal Jessica Augusto Filomena Costa Marisa Barros | Russia Natalya Puchkova Albina Mayorova Gulnara Vygovskaya |
| 2018 | Belarus Volha Mazuronak Maryna Damantsevich Nastassia Ivanova Nina Savina Iryna Somava | Italy Sara Dossena Catherine Bertone Fatna Maraoui Laura Gotti | Spain Trihas Gebre Maria Azucena Diaz Elena Loyo Marta Galimany Clara Simal |
| 2022 | Germany Miriam Dattke Domenika Mayer Deborah Schöneborn Rabea Schöneborn Katharina Steinruck Kristina Hendel | Spain Marta Galimany Irene Pelayo Elena Loyo Laura Méndez Esquer | Poland Aleksandra Lisowska Angelika Mach Monika Jackiewicz Izabela Paszkiewicz Katarzyna Jankowska |

## All-time medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Italy (ITA) | 7 | 6 | 2 | 15 |
| 2 | Spain (ESP) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 3 | Russia (RUS) | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 |
| 4 | East Germany | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | Germany (GER) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 6 | Soviet Union | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 7 | Belarus (BLR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Israel (ISR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | France (FRA) | 0 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 10 | Portugal (POR) | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 11 | Romania (ROM) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Poland (POL) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 13 | Austria (AUT) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | Switzerland (SUI) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (16 entries) | Totals (16 entries) | 22 | 22 | 21 | 65 |