[24.06.2025] Team-EM 2025 Madrid – Punktejagd fürs Podium: DLV-Team in Europas Top 16 aussichtsreich

Three competition days in the Vallehermoso stadium with a start in front of the royal palace, 37 competitions and up to 16 points each: In Madrid, the 16 best nations of the continent will fight for the title of European team champion in the coming days. The DLV selection is strongly occupied in many disciplines and wants to build on the successes of the past.

Silke Bernhart

The eleventh edition of the European Team Championships-as the successor to the traditional European European European Cup is imminent! In Madrid (Spain) the competitions of the highest league with 16 nations take place from June 27th to 29th: Germany, Finland, France, Greece, Greece, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, host Spain, Czech Republic and after the promotion from the second division also Hungary, Ukraine and Lithuania struggle for the crown of the best Athletics nation in Europe.

The German team not only leads the list of participants in alphabetical ranking, but is also one of the highly rated nations with three wins in the recent history of the championships and third place in 2023. “Our goal is to build on the results of the past team European Championships, in which the German team was often on the podium,” DLV board member of competitive sport Dr. Jörg Bügner ahead. “In view of some excellent results this season, I am very much looking forward to the team European Championship and expect many exciting competitions.”

With routine and tailwind

In 16 of the 37 decisions, the DLV has starter: inside the contingent, which are among the top three of the registration list, further eleven top-six positions complete the starting point. With their great experience, for example, number one in the javelin throw Julian Weber (USC Mainz), number one in the discus throw Shanice Craft (SV Halle) and number one over 100 meters of women Lisa Mayer (Sprintteam Wetzlar) and Germany’s Olympic champion Malaika Mihambo (LG Kurpfalz; Long jump) and Yemisi Ogunleye; Shot puts) as guarantors for many points.

Other hopes, on the other hand, face their premiere in the A-national team: Shooting stars such as Alexander Stepanov (VfL Sindelfingen), Smilla Kolbe (Eintracht Frankfurt; 800 m), three-jumper Caroline Joyeux (LG Nord Berlin) or hammer thrower Aileen Kuhn (Eintracht Frankfurt) could be one to four of the registration list in their team. play a decisive role. The youngest in the contingent, U20 athlete Johanna Martin (1st LAV Rostock; 400 m), has already delivered at the World Relays with two World Cup tickets and is also used twice in Madrid, in singles and with the mixed relay.

With the tailwind of strong performance, 80-meter hammer thrower Merlin Hummel (LG Stadtwerke Munich), 70-meter discus thrower Mika Sosna (TSG Bergedorf) and 60-meter javelin thrower Julia Ulbricht (1. LAV Rostock) can also start. Tension promises the question of how the new German obstacle record holder Frederik Ruppert (LAV Stadtwerke Tübingen) beats over 5,000 meters at its rail premiere. His sprint assets on this route should benefit him as well as over 1,500 meters of the 800-meter specialist Majie Kolberg (LG Kreis Ahrweiler).

Italy: defending champion and favorite

The fact that team ems often arises very own dynamics can be seen from athlete: inside that grow beyond themselves in the service of the team-and on the power of the home advantage: the host nation won four times for the past six editions. The DLV selection in Braunschweig won in 2014. In 2015, Russia was ahead in Cheboksary. In 2017, Germany in Lille thwarted the home win of France. In 2019 and 2021, hosts were able to assert themselves again in Bydgoszcz and Chorzów. Most recently in 2023 in Chorzów the Italians who put on the team crown one year before their home European Championships in Rome.

The defending champions from Italy are also the favorites in Madrid: with Marcell Jacobs (100 m), Lorenzo ndele Simonelli (110 m hurdles), Leonardo Fabbri (ball), Nadia Battocetti (both 5,000 m) and the sprint relay of men send five European champions to the start. The winner in Rome Yemaneberhan Crippa’s European Championship Malathon runs the 5,000 meters at the team European Championship. In the high-class long jump of the men with Olympic champion Miltiadis Tentoglou (Greece), the Olympic fourth Simon Ehammer (Switzerland) and the four-time vice-European champion Thobias Montler (Sweden) wants to score indoor world champion Mattia Furlani for his team, in the long jump of women in the indoor European champion Larissa Iapichino.

Spain: strong line -up and home advantage

Host Spain is not only because of the home advantage, but also because of a top-class impression with world-class athlete: inside like Mohamed Attaoui (800 m), Ben Adrián (1,500 m), Daniel Arce (3,000 m obstacle) or Ana Peleteiro-Compaoré (triple jump). A balanced team, in which several top performers have had their best times, sends Poland to the start: The two-time team of Team Sieger relies on Sprinter Ewa Swoboda, which is facing the season, as well as 400-meter assnatalia Bukowiecka and hurdle sprinter Pia Skrzyszowska.

The Netherlands have not only been trusted at the domestic Halle European Championship since the brilliant appearance, also to be moved into the circle of top nations in Europe in the team competition. The team in Oranje, for example, can rely on the European championship champion Jessica Schilder, hurdle ace Nadine Visser, Lieke Klaver (200 m) and indoor world recordler Femke Bol (400 m). Another world record player starts at the high jump: Yaroslava Mahuchikh jumps around the individual victory and the relegation of Ukraine in the highest league of the team European Championship, because the three last-placed nations of the Madrid championships climb into the second division.

The ZDF broadcasts every three competition days in the Livestream on Sportstudio.de: Freitag | Saturday | Sunday. The start with the pole vault of the Women and Men On Thursday you can see at EurovisionSport.com. Live results are available at European Athletics.

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