Countries usually participating in European championships. Note the difference to the geographical borders of Europe.

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 Cyprus, Israel, Malta, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan - all geographically outside Europe - are included in European competitions for cultural and political reasons, while trans-continental countries Russia and Turkey (which straddle Europe and Asia), and technically Iceland (which sits on a continental fault line in the Atlantic ocean) also compete in Europe. In soccer, under UEFA., the Asian country of Kazakhstan also competes in European competition for historical reasons.

Games

1. European Games
2. European Championships (multi-sport event)
3. European Youth Olympic Festival
4. European Masters Games
5. Winter X Games Europe

Championships

Winter Sports

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. European Snowboard Championships
12. European Freestyle Skiing Championships
13. FIS Alpine Ski Europa Cup
14. European Ski Marathon Championships
15. European Snow Volleyball Championships (CEV EuroSnowVolley)
16. European Bandy Championships
17. European Winter Triathlon Championships
18. European Ice Climbing Championships
19. European Snowshoe Championships
20. European Grass Skiing Championship
21. European Rollerski Championships
22. European Snowcross Championship
23. European Snowmobile Championship - Snowmobile Enduro European Cup

See also

• Championship
• Eurogames (disambiguation)
• European Games, a multi-sport event between competitors from all nations in Europe
• European Junior Championships (disambiguation)
• European Open (disambiguation)
• European Masters (disambiguation)
• World championship
  • African Championship
  • Asian Championship
  • Oceania Championship
  • Pan American Championship
    • Central American Championships (disambiguation)
    • North American Championship
    • South American Championship