European Championship

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A European Championship is the top level international sports competition between European athletes or sports teams representing their respective countries or professional sports clubs.

In the plural, the European Championships also refers to a specific combined quadrennial multi-sport event featuring the continental championships for athletics, aquatics, artistic gymnastics, triathlon, rowing, cycling and team golf.

Since European championships are usually open for teams or individual athletes from countries which are members of European sports organisations and some member countries are only partly or not at all situated in the European continent, some non-Europeans also usually take part in these championships. Traditionally, sports teams from Armenia, Georgia, and Israel – all geographically outside Europe – are included in European competitions for cultural and political reasons, while trans-continental countries Azerbaijan, Russia, and Turkey (which straddle Europe and Asia), and technically Iceland (which sits on a continental fault line in the Atlantic ocean) and Malta (between Europe and Africa in the Mediterranean) also compete in Europe.

A number of countries maintain departments outside the European continent, but which are considered an integral part of their mother country, including France (e.g. Guadeloupe and New Caledonia), Denmark (Greenland), Spain (e.g. the Canaries) and the Netherlands (the former Netherlands Antilles). Athletes and club teams from these regions are typically eligible for European championships. The overseas territories of the United Kingdom, however, are usually not included unless an individual athlete has transferred allegiance completely to the UK.

In addition, in football, under UEFA, but not in other sports, the Asian country of Kazakhstan also competes in European competition for historical reasons,^[1] while South African clubs participate in the top-level club championship in European rugby union called European Rugby Champions Cup.

• European Games
• European Championships
• European Youth Olympic Festival
• European Para Championships
• European Masters Games
• Winter X Games Europe

1. European Figure Skating Championships
2. European Speed Skating Championships
3. European Short Track Speed Skating Championships
4. FIL European Luge Championships
5. Bobsleigh and Skeleton European Championship
6. Biathlon European Championships
7. European Championships of Ski Mountaineering
8. European Ski Orienteering Championships
9. European Curling Championships
10. Ice Hockey European Championships
11. Women's Ice Hockey European Championships
12. World Para Ice Hockey European Championships
13. European Snowboard Championships
14. European Freestyle Skiing Championships
15. FIS Alpine Ski Europa Cup
16. European Ski Marathon Championships
17. European Snow Volleyball Championships (CEV EuroSnowVolley)
18. European Bandy Championships
19. European Winter Triathlon Championships
20. European Ice Climbing Championships
21. European Snowshoe Championships
22. European Grass Skiing Championship
23. European Rollerski Championships
24. European Snowcross Championship
25. European Snowmobile Championship - Snowmobile Enduro European Cup

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