At the recent World Championships, Europeans won 12 golds and 47 medals in total – and many of them will be at the European Champs in Birmingham next year.

Athletes from Europe won 12 gold medals at the World Championships in Tokyo, ranging from world record-breaker Mondo Duplantis in the pole vault to surprise packages like Isaac Nader in the 1500m and Jimmy Gressier in the 5000m.

Other European winners at the global championships include Mattia Furlani in the long jump, Pedro Pichardo in the triple jump, Daniel Stahl in the discus, Leo Neugebauer in the decathlon, Femke Bol in the 400m hurdles, Jessica Schilder in the shot put and María Pérez, who claimed two victories in the 20km and 35km race walks.

Below we take a look at the leading European athletes in Tokyo, which gives us a clue as to what the results might have been like if we'd had a European Championships in 2025. And also what results might look like at Birmingham 2026.

If the 2025 World Champs had been a European competition, for example, Britain would have swept the medals in the men's and women's 100m and Zharnel Hughes would have won double sprint gold.

Dina Asher-Smith and Amy Hunt would have won European titles in the 100m and 200m respectively. And of course Georgia Hunter Bell and Keely Hodgkinson would have finished one-two in the women's 800m.

Leading European athletes in Tokyo 2025...

Men

100m
Zharnel Hughes (GBR) 10.03; Jeremiah Azu (GBR) 10.05; Romell Glave (GBR) 10.09

200m
Zharnel Hughes (GBR) 19.78; Henrik Larsson (SWE) 20.32; Xavi Mo-Ajok (NED) 20.55

400m
Edoardo Scotti (ITA) 44.77; Charlie Dobson (GBR) 44.85; Attila Molnár (HUN) 44.94

800m
Cian McPhillips (IRL) 1:42.15; Mohamed Attaoui (ESP) 1:42.21; M Burgin (GBR) 1:42.29

1500m
Isaac Nader (POR) 3:34.10; Jake Wightman (GBR) 3:34.12; Niels Laros (NED) 3:34.52

5000m
Isaac Kimeli (BEL) 12:58.78; Jimmy Gressier (FRA) 12:59.33; Yann Schrubb (FRA) 13:01.34

10,000m
Jimmy Gressier (FRA) 28:55.77; Andreas Almgren (SWE) 28:56.02; Thierry Ndikumwenaya (ESP) 28:59.07

110m hurdles
Enrique Llopis (ESP) 13.16; Just Kwaou-Mathey (FRA) 13.42; Jason Joseph (SWI) dnf

400m hurdles
Karsten Warholm (NOR) 47.58; Emil Agyekum (GER) 47.98; Tyri Donovan (GBR) 48.21

3000m steeplechase
Nicolas Daru (FRA) 8:35.77; Ruben Querinjean (LUX) 8:37.49; Frederik Ruppert (GER) 8:39.83

Marathon
Amanal Petros (GER) 2:09:48; Iliass Aouani (ITA) 2:09:53; Haimro Alame (ISR) 2:10:03

20km walk
Paul McGrath (ESP) 88:45; Aurelien Quinion (FRA) 88:49; Gabriel Bordier (FRA) 89:23

35km walk
Aurelien Quinion (FRA) 2:30:24; Daniel Chamosa (ESP) 2:30:42; Dominik Cerny (SVK) 2:31:17

4x100m
Netherlands 37.81; Germany 38.29; France 38.58

4x400m
Belgium 2:59.48; Great Britain 3:03.05; Netherlands 3:04.84

Mixed 4x400m
Netherlands 3:09.96; Belgium 3:10.61; Poland 3:10.63

High jump
Jan Stefela (CZE) 2.31m; Oleg Doroshchuk (UKR) 2.31m; Matteao Sioli (ITA) 2.24m

Pole vault
Mondo Duplantis (SWE) 6.30m; Emmanouil Karalis (GRE) 6.00m; Thibaut Collet (FRA) 5.90m

Long jump
Mattia Furlani (ITA) 8.39m; Simon Ehammer (SWI) 8.30m; Bozhidar Saraboyukov (BUL) 8.19m

Triple jump
Pedro Pichardo (POR) 17.91m; Andrea Dallavalle (ITA) 17.64m; 3 Andy Diaz Hernandez (ITA) 17.19m

Shot put
Leonardo Fabbri (ITA) 21.94m; Scott Lincoln (GBR) 21.00m; Konrad Bukowiecki (POL) 20.66m

Discus
Daniel Stahl (SWE) 70.47m; Mykolas Alekna (LIT) 67.84m; Andrius Gudzius (LIT) 63.43m

Hammer
Merlin Hummel (GER) 82.77m; Bence Halasz (HUN) 82.69m; Mykhaylo Kokhan (UKR) 82.02m

Javelin
Julian Weber (GER) 86.11; Dawid Wegner (POL) 83.03m; 3 Jakub Vadlejch (CZE) 78.71m

Decathlon
Leo Neugebauer (GER) 8804; Niklas Kaul (GER) 8538; Johannes Erm (EST) 8431

Women

100m
Dina Asher-Smith (GBR) 11.08; Amy Hunt (GBR) 11.05; Daryll Neita (GBR) 11.06

200m
Amy Hunt (GBR) 22.14; Dina Asher-Smith (GBR) 22.43; Sophia Junk (GER) 22.71

400m
Natalia Bukowiecka (POL) 49.27; Amber Anning (GBR) 49.36; Henriette Jæger (NOR) 49.74

800m
Georgia Hunter Bell (GBR) 1:54.90; Keely Hodgkinson (GBR) 1:54.91; Audrey Werro (SWI) 1:56.17

1500m
Klaudia Kazimierska (POL) 3:57.95; Sarah Madeleine (FRA) 3:58.09; Marta Pérez (ESP) 3:58.54

5000m
Nadia Battocletti (ITA) 14:55.42; Marta García (ESP) 15:01.02; Hannah Nuttall (GBR) 15:01.25

10,000m
Nadia Battocletti (ITA) 30:38.23; Megan Keith (GBR) 31:33.85; Calli Hauger-Thackery (GBR) 30:37.81

100m hurdles
Ditaji Kambundji (SWI) 12.24; Pia Skrzyszowska (POL) 12.49; Nadine Visser (NED) 12.56

400m hurdles
Femke Bol (NED) 51.54; Emma Zapletalová (SVK) 53.00; Naomi Van den Broeck (BEL) 53.70

3000m steeplechase
Gesa Felicitas Krause (GER) 9:14.27; Elise Thorner (GBR) 9:19.02; Lea Meyer (GER) 9:24.42

Marathon
Alisa Vainio (FIN) 2:28:32; Fionnuala McCormack (IRL) 2:30:16; Laura Luengo (ESP) 2:30:55

20km walk
María Pérez (ESP) 85:54; Antía Chamosa (ESP) 87:55; Pauline Stey (FRA) 88:52

35km walk
María Pérez (ESP) 2:39.01; Antonella Palmisano (ITA) 2:42:24; Katarzyna Zdziebło (POL) 2:44:37

4x100m
Germany 41.87; Great Britain 42.07; Spain 42.47

4x400m
Netherlands 3:20.18; Belgium 3:22.15; Poland 3:22.91

Mixed relay
Netherlands 3:09.96; Belgium 3:10.61; Poland 3:10.63

High jump
Maria Żodzik (POL) 2.00m; Yaroslava Mahuchikh (UKR) 1.97m; Angelina Topić (SER) 1.97m

Pole vault
Tina Šutej (SLO) 4.80m; Amálie Švábíková (CZE) 4.75m; Angelica Moser (SWI) 4.65m

Long jump
Malaika Mihambo (GER) 6.99m; Hilary Kpatcha (FRA) 6.82m; Agate de Sousa (POR) 6.67m

Triple jump
Neja Filipič (SLO) 14.03m; Caroline Joyeux (GER) 14.00m; Maja Åskag (SWE) 13.92m

Shot put
Jessica Schilder (NED) 20.29m; Fanny Roos (SWE) 19.54m; Yemisi Ogunleye (GER) 19.33m

Discus
Jorinde van Klinken (NED) 67.50m; Vanessa Kamga (SWE) 66.61m; Sandra Elkasević (CRO) 65.82m

Javelin
Anete Sietiņa (LAT) 64.64m; Elina Tzengko (GRE) 62.72m; Adriana Vilagoš (SER) 61.29m

Hammer
Silja Kosonen (FIN) 75.28m; Anita Włodarczyk (POL) 74.64m; Sara Fantini (ITA) 73.06m

Heptathlon
Kate O’Connor (IRL) 6714; Katarina Johnson-Thompson (GBR) 6581; Sandrina Sprengel (GER) 6434

In total, athletes from 21 different European nations made the podium in Tokyo. As well as Duplantis' world record in the pole vault, there were also world leading marks by Europeans such as Pichardo in the men's triple jump, Bol in the women's 400m hurdles and Maria Perez in the 20km race walk.

Duplantis, Perez, Bol and Stahl also successfully defended world titles they won in Budapest in 2023.

In 2026 these athletes will be battling it out for European titles in Birmingham from August 10-16.

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