Podium sweeps and Russian dominance at Europeans
I know I haven’t been that active here but I’ve put together this little table about Russian dominance at Europeans.
I started in 1992 because the Soviet Union ceased to exist in 1991. However, in 1992 the athletes competed under the title “Commonwealth of Independent States”.
If the medalist wasn’t Russian, there is a state abbreviation in the appropriate field.
In these 20 years it happened 8times that Russia didn’t win at least half of the medals. The poorest result was in 2007 with only 2 medals for Russia and the best in 2020 with 10 medals captured. It’s interesting to note that podium sweeps are not that common. In ice dance only one Russian podium sweep and two in men. And then of course, the numbers skyrocket: 8 sweeps in women and 9 in pairs.
It should be also noted, that in the last twenty years, albeit the countries vary, the number of medalling countries is usually pretty small number compared to the number of countries in Europe, just moving around four to eigh, with 3 countries being the minimum (in 1998: France, Germany, Russia; in 1999: Poland, France, Russia; in 2001 and 2002: France, Italy, Russia; 2020: France, Georgia and Russia and in 2022: Latvia, Italy and Georgia) and ten different countries winning medals at Europeans as the maximum (in 2007: France, Czech Republic, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, Finland, Germany, Russia, Poland and Bulgaria).
