Below are the full startlists and, when confirmed, results of the 2023 European Athletics Team Championships Third Division on 20âÂÂ22 June 2023 in Kraków, Poland. This edition marks the first time all divisions of the Championships had been held at a single venue. European Athletics released the full and final startlists on 16 June 2023, one week before the event.
For the first time, medals were also awarded for individual performances across all three divisions, as part of the 2023 European Games. Despite being the lowest of the three divisions in competition, three overall 2023 European Games medals, including one gold medal, were won by third Division athletes; gold for Luiza Gega of Albania in 3000 metre steeplechase, to add to her European Athletics Championships gold of 2022, and bronze for Sarah Lavin of Ireland in 100 metres hurdles, and Victoria Hudson of Austria in Javelin.
The winner of each individual discipline and each relay shall score 15 points, the second will score one fewer, and so on. National teams, athletes or relay teams with no valid performance, disqualified or not finishing shall not score. If two or more athletes tie for a place in any event, the attributable points shall be divided equally between them. The team having the highest aggregate number of points shall be the winner of the match, and win a Championship plaque.
After the conclusion of the athletics program of the European Games 2023, the following relegation and promotion is to be made for the next edition of the European Athletics Team Championships in Malaga in 2025
Races below 1500 metres will be raced in two heats, with the results amalgamated to find a final order in the event. There will be no finals in these events. In races from 1500 metres upwards, one heat of 16 will take part. In the field events, each event will be broken into two pools. Both heats and pools will be seeded so that the highest ranked athletes compete together, with the exception of the final relays, which will be seeded by overall standings one hour before the event.
The Third Division represents broadly the weakest teams in European Athletics, though some teams can find themselves in the lower reaches due to relegations for previous rule breaches; Ireland find themselves in that position in 2023, having been relegated following a failure to attend the 2021 event due to coronavirus restrictions, and Scotland and Belarus are expected to begin their return in this division when their current ban is lifted.
In addition, the European 'microstates' - Gibraltar, Monaco and Liechtenstein etc take part under a composite team banner as 'Associated Athletes of Small States of Europe', These states are so listed in the overall standings, but the individual nations of the athletes are represented in the event-by-events results below. Past members such as San Marino and Andorra now compete in their own right.
Finally, as this division has some of the smaller and weaker associations, significant numbers of events, especially the technical events will not have a full field, as one or more member nations opt not to send an athlete, or has no eligible athlete to send in specific events. Such nations receive zero points in that event, whereas they would receive the minimum of a point if athletes attended. Points totals per event are calculated on total teams in the match, not on teams in each event, so that if only nine teams field a high jumper, for example, the high jump winner will still earn 15 points for his or her team.
The following is the schedule of events for the First Division match.
<small>Key: WR= world record - ER = European Record - EL = 2023 European lead - CR = Championships record - NR = National record - NU23R = National Under-23 record</small>
<small>DNE : AASSE</small>
<small>DNE : AASSE, Azerbaijan, Armenia, San Marino, Albania, Kosovo</small>
<small>DNE : AASSE</small>
<small>DNE : AASSE</small>
<small>DNE : AASSE, Azerbaijan, Kosovo, San Marino</small>
<small>DNE : AASSE</small>
<small>DNE : AASSE</small>
<small>DNE : AASSE</small>
<small>1. Gold medal awarded for overall result across all three divisions.</small>
<small>DNE : AASSE, Azerbaijan</small>
<small>DNE : AASSE, Azerbaijan</small>
<small>1: Medal is overall European Games medal across.all three divisions</small>
<small>DNE : AASSE, Azerbaijan</small>
<small>DNE : AASSE, Armenia, Azerbaijan</small>
<small>DNE : AASSE, Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro</small>
<small>DNE : AASSE</small>
<small>DNE : AASSE</small>
<small>DNE : AASSE, Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan</small>
<small>DNE : Albania, Azerbaijan</small>
<small>DNE : AASSE, Albania, Kosovo, San Marino</small>
<small>DNE : AASSE, Albania, Azerbaijan</small>
<small>DNE : AASSE, Azerbaijan</small>
<small>DNE : AASSE</small>