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85 European Champions from 21 Countries
From the first European Championships 1955 (Frankfurt/Germany) on the UEG registered all together 83 different individual European Champions, coming from 21 different countries.


Witali Scherbo (URS/BLR)

>> On top of the Nations in the history of Euro Champs are the Soviet Union with all together 18 Champions, winning all together 93 gold medals.
>> Nine Germans are members of this golden list of success, starting for their different counries in history:
>> For the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) Adalbert Dickhut and Helmut Bantz were the first German winners in 1955 and Eberhard Gienger is the most successful German athlet (3x gold).
- For the German Democratic Republic (GDR, at last 1990) five European Champions won seven titles: Klaus Koeste, Ralph Baerthel, Roland Brueckner, Sylvio Kroll, Holger Behrendt and Andreas Wecker, who won in 1992 (Budapest) the first, but also the last gold medal for the unit Germany.
<< The most successful athlet
is Vitali Scherbo (URS/BLR), the 12times European Champion in history, followed by the Slovanian Miroslav Cerar (former Yugoslavia) and by Nikolai Andrianov URS) with all together 10 European gold medals....
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>> After the 26. European Championships 2004, Ljubljana now 
- Marian Dragulescu
(ROM) is the most successfull athlet, winning all together 7 European titles and ranks on 8th place of the eternal champions list, followed by
- Alexei Nemow (RUS), Ioan Suciu (ROM), Marius Urzica (- both ROM) and Juri Chechi (ITA), winning 4 European gold medals in history.

The 35 years old Chechi is the participating record holder, now: He took part from 1987 on and after a break of eight years to the 7th time, again

 

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