The European Athletics Championships is a biennial (from 2010) athletics event organised by the European Athletics Association and is recognised as the elite continental outdoor athletics championships for Europe. Editions First held, for men only, in 1934 in Turin, and separately for women for the first time in Vienna in 1938, the Championships took place every four years following the end of the World War II, with the exception of the 1969 and 1971 editions, becoming a joint men's and women's competition from the third edition in 1946 in Oslo. Since 2010, they have been organised every two years, and when they coincide with the Summer Olympics, the marathon and racewalking events are not contested. From 2016, a half-marathon event has been held in those Olympic years, and both the marathon and half-marathon events held as part of the Championships also function as the principle European elite team events at those distances. In 2018 and 2022, the European Athletics Championships formed part of the quadrennial multi-sport European Championships, a new event designed and held by individual European sports federations. In 2022, European Athletics announced its intention to withdraw from the multi-sport event for 2026. The 2020 edition set for Charlety Stadium in Paris was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, making this the first cancellation of the event since the 1942 championship was abandoned due to World War II. The event was not moved to an alternative date, with Munich continuing as the scheduled host in 2022. An indoor equivalent, the European Athletics Indoor Championships, is organised by the European Athletic Association in odd numbered years. While the European Games of 2015 featured athletics, and shall do so again in 2023, these events are not editions of the European Athletics Championships. The championships were long dominated, especially on the women's side by Eastern Bloc countries, and especially the Soviet Union and East Germany. About 30 years after the dissolution of both countries, Great Britain & Northern Ireland finally took the lead in the all-time medal table following the 2022 edition although German athletes who historically completed for various national teams (Nazi Germany, West Germany, East Germany and present-day reunified Germany) won much more medals in total. Notes: ♂ – men, ♀ – women All-time medal table Updated after 2022 European Athletics Championships.Former countries are pointed in italic. Team medals in half marathon and marathon are not included into this table