# 2015 UEC European Track Championships > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/2015_UEC_European_Track_Championships > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/2015_UEC_European_Track_Championships.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_UEC_European_Track_Championships > Source revision: 1286543283 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) See also: [2015 UEC European Track Championships (under-23 & junior)](/source/2015_UEC_European_Track_Championships_(under-23_%26_junior)) Cycling championship held in Grenchen, Switzerland 2015 UEC European Track Championships Venue Grenchen, Switzerland Date (2015-10-14 - 2015-10-18)14–18 October 2015 Velodrome Velodrome Suisse Nations participating 27 Cyclists participating 225 (98 women, 157 men) Events 21 (10 women, 11 men) ← 2014 2016 → The **2015 UEC European Track Championships** was the sixth edition of the elite [UEC European Track Championships](/source/UEC_European_Track_Championships) in [track cycling](/source/Track_cycling) and took place at the [Velodrome Suisse](/source/Velodrome_Suisse) in [Grenchen](/source/Grenchen), Switzerland, between 14 and 18 October. The Event was organised by the [European Cycling Union](/source/European_Cycling_Union). All European champions are awarded the [UEC European Champion jersey](/source/UEC_European_Champion_jersey) which may be worn by the champion throughout the year when competing in the same event at other competitions. The [10 Olympic events](/source/Cycling_at_the_2016_Summer_Olympics#Track_cycling) (sprint, team sprint, team pursuit, keirin and omnium for men and women),[1] as well as 11 other events are on the program for these European Championships. For the first time, the [elimination races](/source/Elimination_race), known within track cycling as Devils (from the saying *Devil take the hindmost*) were contested in their own right. ## Participating nations 255 cyclists (98 women, 157 men) from 27 nations enrolled for the championships. The number of entrants per nation is shown in parentheses.[2][3] - [Austria](/source/Austria) (3: 3 ♂) - [Azerbaijan](/source/Azerbaijan) (2: 1 ♂, 1 ♀) - [Belgium](/source/Belgium) (9: 6 ♂, 3 ♀) - [Belarus](/source/Belarus) ([details](/source/Belarus_at_the_European_Track_Championships)) (15: 10 ♂, 5 ♀) - [Bulgaria](/source/Bulgaria) (3: 3 ♂) - [Czech Republic](/source/Czech_Republic) (13: 11 ♂, 2 ♀) - [Denmark](/source/Denmark) (7: 6 ♂, 1 ♀) - [Spain](/source/Spain) (14: 8 ♂, 6 ♀) - [Finland](/source/Finland) (4: 2 ♂, 2 ♀) - France (17: 10 ♂, 7 ♀) - Great Britain ([details](/source/Great_Britain_at_the_European_Track_Championships)) (20: 12 ♂, 8 ♀) - [Georgia](/source/Georgia_(country)) (1: 1 ♂) - Germany (20: 12 ♂, 8 ♀) - [Greece](/source/Greece) (4: 3 ♂, 1 ♀) - [Hungary](/source/Hungary) (2: 2 ♂) - [Ireland](/source/Republic_of_Ireland) (13: 6 ♂, 7 ♀) - Italy (16: 8 ♂, 8 ♀) - [Lithuania](/source/Lithuania) (8: 2 ♂, 6 ♀) - [Netherlands](/source/Netherlands) ([details](/source/Netherlands_at_the_European_Track_Championships)) (12: 9 ♂, 3 ♀) - [Norway](/source/Norway) (3: 2 ♂, 1 ♀) - [Poland](/source/Poland) (17: 8 ♂, 9 ♀) - [Portugal](/source/Portugal) (2: 2 ♂) - Russia (22: 12 ♂, 10 ♀) - [Switzerland](/source/Switzerland) (10: 8 ♂, 2 ♀) **(host)** - [Slovakia](/source/Slovakia) (1: 1 ♀) - [Turkey](/source/Turkey) (2: 2 ♂) - [Ukraine](/source/Ukraine) (15: 8 ♂, 7 ♀) ## Schedule Interior of [Velodrome Suisse](/source/Velodrome_Suisse) during the Championships Schedule only indicating the finals. Date Men's finals Women's finals Wednesday 14 October —N/a —N/a Thursday 15 October Team sprint, Team pursuit, Scratch Team sprint, Team pursuit, points race Friday 16 October Sprint, Points race Scratch, Sprint Saturday 17 October 1 km time trial, Elimination race, Individual pursuit, Omnium 500 m time trial Sunday 18 October Keirin, Madison Keirin, Individual pursuit, Omnium, Elimination race ## Events Event Gold Silver Bronze Men's events Sprint details Jeffrey Hoogland Netherlands Max Niederlag Germany Damian Zieliński Poland Team Sprint details Netherlands Nils van 't Hoenderdaal Jeffrey Hoogland Hugo Haak 43.232 Poland Grzegorz Drejgier Rafał Sarnecki Krzysztof Maksel 43.358 Germany Joachim Eilers Max Niederlag Robert Förstemann Maximilian Levy 43.210 Team Pursuit details Great Britain Jonathan Dibben Owain Doull Andy Tennant Bradley Wiggins Steven Burke Matthew Gibson 3:55.243 Switzerland Silvan Dillier Stefan Küng Frank Pasche Théry Schir 3:57.245 Denmark Lasse Norman Hansen Daniel Hartvig Casper Pedersen Rasmus Quaade Mathias Møller Nielsen 3:57.930 Keirin details Pavel Kelemen Czech Republic François Pervis France Denis Dmitriev Russia Omnium details Elia Viviani Italy 191 pts Lasse Norman Hansen Denmark 191 pts Jonathan Dibben Great Britain 188 pts Pursuit[O] details Stefan Küng Switzerland 4:14.992 Domenic Weinstein Germany 4:17.775 Dion Beukeboom Netherlands 4:21.669 1 km Time Trial[O] details Jeffrey Hoogland Netherlands 1:00.350 Joachim Eilers Germany 1:00.569 Robin Wagner Czech Republic 1:01.057 Points Race[O] details Wojciech Pszczolarski Poland 24 Benjamin Thomas France 21 Claudio Imhof Switzerland 19 Scratch Race[O] details Sebastián Mora Spain Tristan Marguet Switzerland Adrian Tekliński Poland Elimination Race[O] details Bryan Coquard France Simone Consonni Italy Christopher Latham Great Britain Madison[N] details Spain Sebastián Mora Albert Torres 12 Russia Mikhail Radionov Andrey Sazanov 0 France Morgan Kneisky Bryan Coquard 24 (-1 lap) Women's events Sprint details Elis Ligtlee Netherlands Anastasiia Voinova Russia Kristina Vogel Germany Team Sprint details Russia Anastasiia Voinova Daria Shmeleva 32.443 Germany Miriam Welte Kristina Vogel 33.013 Netherlands Laurine van Riessen Elis Ligtlee 33.091 Team Pursuit details Great Britain Laura Trott Katie Archibald Elinor Barker Joanna Rowsell Ciara Horne 4:17.010 Russia Gulnaz Badykova Tamara Balabolina Aleksandra Chekina Maria Savitskaya Evgenia Romanyuta Aleksandra Goncharova OVL Belarus Katsiaryna Piatrouskaya Polina Pivavarava Ina Savenka Marina Shmayankova 4:32.595 Keirin details Elis Ligtlee Netherlands Virginie Cueff France Ekaterina Gnidenko Russia Omnium details Laura Trott Great Britain 231 Amalie Dideriksen Denmark 195 Aušrinė Trebaitė Lithuania 185 Pursuit[O] details Katie Archibald Great Britain 3:32.832 Élise Delzenne France 3:37.331 Ciara Horne Great Britain 3:35.288 500 m Time Trial[O] details Anastasiia Voinova Russia 32.794 WR Elis Ligtlee Netherlands 33.561 Daria Shmeleva Russia 33.842 Scratch Race[O] details Laura Trott Great Britain Kirsten Wild Netherlands Roxane Fournier France Points Race[O] details Katarzyna Pawłowska Poland 46 Élise Delzenne France 35 Stephanie Pohl Germany 32 Elimination Race[O] details Katie Archibald Great Britain Annalisa Cucinotta Italy Irene Usabiaga Spain ### Notes - Competitors named in *italics* only participated in rounds prior to the final. - O In the Olympics, all shaded events (except the madison) are contested within the omnium only. - N The madison is not contested in the Olympics. ## Medal table [Pavel Kelemen](/source/Pavel_Kelemen), one of the gold medal winners * Host nation ([Switzerland](/source/Switzerland)) Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 Great Britain (GBR) 6 0 3 9 2 Netherlands (NED) 5 2 2 9 3 Russia (RUS) 2 3 3 8 4 Poland (POL) 2 1 2 5 5 Spain (ESP) 2 0 1 3 6 France (FRA) 1 5 2 8 7 Switzerland (SUI)* 1 2 1 4 8 Italy (ITA) 1 2 0 3 9 Czech Republic (CZE) 1 0 1 2 10 Germany (GER) 0 4 3 7 11 Denmark (DEN) 0 2 1 3 12 Belarus (BLR) 0 0 1 1 Lithuania (LTU) 0 0 1 1 Totals (13 entries) 21 21 21 63 ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Cycling Track"](https://www.olympic.org/cycling-track). *[IOC](/source/International_Olympic_Committee)*. Retrieved 22 October 2016. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [Entrants men](http://www.tissottiming.com/File/Download?id=00030C0004FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF01) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [Entrants women](http://www.tissottiming.com/File/Download?id=00030C0004FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF02) ## External links - [Sports portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Sports) Wikimedia Commons has media related to [2015 UEC Track Elite European Championships](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:2015_UEC_Track_Elite_European_Championships). - [Official website](http://grenchen2015.ch/) - [Results](http://www.tissottiming.com/Competition/00030C0004) *Tissot timing* - [Results book](http://www.tissottiming.com/File/00030C0004FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF17) - [Special information site](https://web.archive.org/web/20151020074429/http://uec.ch/en/track.html) *UEC* v t e UEC European Track Championships Editions Elite competitions 2010 Pruszków 2011 Apeldoorn 2012 Panevėžys 2013 Apeldoorn 2014 Guadeloupe 2015 Grenchen 2016 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines 2017 Berlin 2018 Glasgow 2019 Apeldoorn 2020 Plovdiv 2021 Grenchen 2022 Munich 2023 Grenchen 2024 Apeldoorn 2025 Heusden-Zolder 2026 Konya U-23 and junior competitions ‡as European Track Championships 2001 Brno & Fiorenzuola‡ 2002 Büttgen‡ 2003 Moscow‡ 2004 Valencia‡ 2005 Fiorenzuola‡ 2006 Athens‡ 2007 Cottbus‡ 2008 Pruszków‡ 2009 Minsk‡ 2010 St Petersburg 2011 Anadia 2012 Anadia 2013 Anadia 2014 Anadia 2015 Athens 2016 Montichiari 2017 Sangalhos 2018 Aigle 2019 Ghent 2020 Fiorenzuola d'Arda 2021 Apeldoorn 2022 Anadia 2023 Anadia 2024 Cottbus 2025 Anadia Events Elite men's Team pursuit Sprint Team sprint Keirin Points race Scratch race Individual pursuit 1 km time trial Omnium Elimination race Madison Elite women's Team pursuit Sprint Team sprint Keirin Points race Scratch race Individual pursuit 500 m/1 km time trial Omnium Elimination race Madison Men's under-23 Team pursuit Sprint Team sprint Keirin Points race Scratch race Individual pursuit 1 km time trial Women's under-23 Team pursuit Sprint Team sprint Keirin Points race Scratch race Individual pursuit 500m time trial Countries ... 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