The IAU 100 km European Championships is an annual, ultrarunning competition over 100 kilometres (60 miles) for European athletes. It is organised by the International Association of Ultrarunners (IAU) and was first held in 1992 – five years after the launched of the World Championships for the distance. The competition features both an individual and national team component. The team race is decided by aggregated the three best times set by a nation's athletes.IAU 100 Kilometres European Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2016-05-07.
In its 22nd edition in 2013, a total of 94 athletes representing 19 countries took part in the competition.Cuevas and Berg win IAU European 100km titles in Belves. World Athletics (2013-04-28). Retrieved on 2025-04-07. Winschoten in the Netherlands has been a frequent host of the event, doing so ten times, including the first three editions. (In other years, the area has held an annual race there – Run Winschoten.)RUN Winschoten 2015 100 KM. Run Winschoten. Retrieved on 2025-04-07. The championships has almost exclusively been contested in Western Europe, with the sole exception being the 2003 event in Russia.European 100 km Championships. Association of Road Racing Statisticians (2016-02-06). Retrieved on 2016-05-07. The editions of the competition from 2007 to 2012 were jointly held alongside the World Championships, with the European athletes within that race being ranked separately for the continental event.IAU World 100 km Championships. Association of Road Racing Statisticians (2016-02-06). Retrieved on 2016-05-07.Khan, Nadeem (2012-04-24). Calcaterra and Sproston win the 26th IAU 100km World Championship. World Athletics. Retrieved on 2025-04-07.
The most successful athletes of the championships are Giorgio Calcaterra of Italy and Jonas Buud of Sweden. Each has won the men's title three times, as well as having won a silver and a bronze. Three-time champion Jaroslaw Janicki of Poland is the next most successful and Kajsa Berg is the only woman to have won the championships three times. The championship records are 6:16:41 hours for men, set by Belgian Jean-Paul Praet in 1992, and 7:19:51 hours for women, achieved by Tatyana Zhirkova of Russia in 2003. Russia is comfortably the most successful nation of the championships with nine women's gold medals and eight men's gold medals. Italian and Swedish athletes are the next best performers with six titles each. A total of seventeen European nations have reached the podium.
After being held annually from 1992 to 2013, the event switched to being held on a semi-annual basis. Following the 2015 edition, there were no bids to host the 2017 or 2019 editions so both were cancelled. , the event has not been held since 2015, though there are scheduled European 100 km championships in 2025 and 2027.
Editions Edition Year City Country Date No. of athletes No. of nations 1st 1992 Winschoten Netherlands 16 February 2nd 1993 Winschoten Netherlands 18 September 3rd 1994 Winschoten Netherlands 3 September 4th 1995 Chavagnes-en-Paillers France 27 May 5th 1996 Cléder France 25 August 6th 1997 Faenza Italy 31 May 7th 1998 Torhout Belgium 19 June 8th 1999 Winschoten Netherlands 11 September 9th 2000 Belvès France 30 April 10th 2001 Winschoten Netherlands 29 September 11th 2002 Winschoten Netherlands 14 September 12th 2003 Chernogolovka Russia 19 April 13th 2004 Faenza Italy 29 May 14th 2005 Winschoten Netherlands 10 September 15th 2006 Torhout Belgium 16 June 16th 2007 Winschoten Netherlands 8 September 17th 2008 Tarquinia Italy 8 November 18th 2009 Torhout Belgium 19 June 19th 2010 Gibraltar Gibraltar 7 November 20th 2011 Winschoten Netherlands 10 September 21st 2012 Seregno Italy 22 April 22nd 2013 Belvès France 27 April 94 19 23rd 2015 Winschoten Netherlands 12 September
Medal summary Men 1992 6:16:41 6:42:40 6:44:201993 6:25:52 6:33:57 6:36:381994 6:33:43 6:33:43 6:37:471995 6:28:38 6:30:04 6:35:371996 6:33:39 6:38:15 6:39:491997 6:47:35 6:47:39 6:47:571998 6:23:28 6:34:40 6:40:451999 6:39:16 6:42:18 6:44:392000 6:33:36 6:44:28 6:47:002001 6:45:43 6:47:57 6:52:472002 6:34:16 6:36:21 6:41:182003 6:28:27 6:29:41 6:33:222004 6:31:44.7 6:48:07.0 6:48:47.72005 6:30:31 6:40:39 6:50:222006 6:23:44 6:33:56 6:38:192007 6:30:22 6:42:36 6:45:11 2008 6:37:41 6:40:44 6:53:442009 6:41:50 6:42:05 6:45:392010 6:47:40 6:51:03 6:51:542011 6:27:32 6:47:01 6:52:192012 6:23:22 6:28:59 6:40:322013 6:53:14 6:56:49 6:57:022015 6:22:44 6:35:49 6:36:49
Women 1992 7:55:12 7:59:19 8:06:181993 7:43:16 7:50:09 8:02:241994 7:36:39 7:52:59 7:46:351995 7:43:14 7:52:23 7:54:101996 7:41:29 7:49:09 7:51:541997 8:13:49 8:20:07 8:23:421998 7:45:43 7:58:36 8:05:031999 7:33:39 7:55:35 8:05:032000 7:53:12 8:06:46 8:16:532001 7:31:55 7:37:02 7:42:362002 7:24:52 7:33:14 7:47:302003 7:19:51 7:28:00 7:31:142004 8:03.03.8 8:19:08.3 8:26:52.62005 7:53:25 7:53:28 7:55:532006 7:58:44 7:59:22 8:01:542007 7:26:44 7:39:20 7:40:382008 7:23:33 7:35:38 7:38:402009 7:46:26 7:53:58 8:04:402010 7:29:05 7:30:50 7:33:262011 7:27:19 7:41:06 7:45:272012 7:35:23 7:36:01 7:43:552013 7:38:52 7:42:52 7:48:122015 7:20:48 7:27:11 7:31:33
Men team 1992 20:11:47 20:34:10 21:21:201993 20:26:56 20:40:50 21:50:291994 20:05:20 20:16:06 20:32:171995 19:52:19 19:58:12 20:09:001996 20:04:53 20:41:32 21:19:011997 20:23:11 21:30:55 22:09:471998 19:55:31 20:54:52 21:05:291999 20:32:25 21:31:41 23:18:282000 20:15:04 21:04:04 21:25:522001 21:56:03 22:08:33 22:12:342002 20:13:04 20:44:51 21:13:282003 20:20:00 21:04:44 21:11:412004 20:40:33 21:15:58 21:28:352005 20:21:40 20:56:35 21:19:122006 20:00:24 20:11:58 20:33:592007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2015
Women team 1992 24:22:24 Only one finishing team1993 24:53:32 26:14:55 26:30:241994 23:37:51 25:44:24 26:18:391995 23:39:02 24:21:39 24:44:431996 23:40:35 24:40:51 24:50:391997 25:12:09 25:27:31 27:05:261998 24:03:03 25:18:40 25:19:571999 24:54:03 26:24:39 27:58:442000 25:02:12 29:13:48Only two finishing teams2001 23:37:49 23:42:22 23:52:002002 23:57:55 24:30:45 24:58:482003 22:28:13 24:11:50 24:33:482004 25:22:14 26:08:09 27:08:552005 24:11:24 24:37:14 25:30:582006 24:14:37 24:57:00 27:32:072007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2015
Medal table Individual race
References
External links IAU official site