The Match Europe v USA

The Match Europe v USA
Dates	9–10 September 2019
Host city	Minsk, Belarus
Venue	Dinamo Stadium
Events	37
Participation	~300 athletes
Europe 724½ – 601½ USA Team Europe wins the Match.

The Match Europe v USA was an international two-day outdoor track and field competition between the United States and Europe. It took place 9–10 September 2019 in Minsk, Belarus, three weeks prior to the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, a few days after the conclusion of the 2019 Diamond League and three months after the 2019 European Games.^[1]

Team Europe won the Match, defeating Team USA by 724½ to 601½.

Creation of the Match

The match was agreed between European Athletics and USA Track & Field in December 2018 and marked the first international match between the two since the 1960s.^[2] The competition followed the successful creation of the Athletics World Cup in 2018, which included the United States and several European nations.^[3] Athletes from the United States and Europe also compete in the quadrennial IAAF Continental Cup, though American athletes are part of a combined Americas team rather than a national one.^[4] Minsk also played host to the 2019 European Games that year, the athletics portion of which was a national team matchplay competition held in the new DNA Athletics format..^[5]

The program

Events

The event programme consisted of 37 events, and includes six individual track running events, three obstacle events, four jumping events, four throwing events, and a sprint relay event for each sex. There is also a 1600 metres mixed-sex sprint medley relay with four athletes running 200, 200, 400 and 800 metres, similar to a mixed 4 × 400 metres relay which will be introduced at the 2020 Summer Olympics.^[6]

Track events

Running

• 100 metres, 200 metres, 400 metres, 800 metres, 1500 metres, 3000 metres

Obstacle events

• 100 metres hurdles (women only), 110 metres hurdles (men only), 400 metres hurdles, 3000 metres steeplechase

Relay events

• 4 × 100 metres relay, 1600 metres sprint medley relay (mixed)

Field events

Jumping events

• Pole vault, high jump, long jump, triple jump

Throwing events

• Shot put, discus throw, javelin throw, hammer throw

Special match rules applied to the field events. For the six Horizontal field events (all four throwing events, the long and triple jumps), there were three initial attempts in each event. Following this, the top six athletes from these trials advanced to the final three rounds. At each subsequent round, the lowest placing athlete, based on all attempts thus far in the competition, was eliminated. In the vertical jumps (high jump and pole vault) each competitor was limited to three attempts at any specific height and eight attempts in total.

Scoring

Each team was allowed to field 4 athletes in each individual event, and two teams of four in each relay. The winner of each individual event and each relay scored 9 points, the second 7 points, the third score 6, and so on. The highest score either team could achieve in a single event was therefore 27 points, and the lowest (barring disqualification, failure to finish or record a mark) 10 (or in relays, 16 and 11 respectively).

Across the competition, a theoretical high score of 966 points was available, and a theoretical low score, ignoring disqualifications, DNFs and no marks, of 373. However, the match would be won once either team achieves over half of all available points - the winning post for the Match before it commenced was therefore 670 points. Following withdrawals and 'no marks' on day one of the Match, the winning post was recalculated as 662 points.^[7] Europe secured victory when they reached a 664½–560½ lead. The final result was 724½–601½.

3½ points was awarded for dead heat for 5th place in 400m hurdles men.^[8]

Prize money

The organiser of the event will award prize money to the competitors. For relay events, the winning team will receive €6,000, the runners-up €4,000, and the third-placers €2,000. The prize money structure for individual events is as follows:

1. €7,000
2. €5,000
3. €4,000
4. €3,000
5. €2,000
6. €1,000
7. €500
8. €500

Results

Men

Event	First		Second		Third
100 metres	Mike Rodgers  United States	10.20	Christopher Belcher  United States	10.25	Demek Kemp  United States	10.25
200 metres	Ramil Guliyev  Europe	20.16	Eseosa Desalu  Europe	20.66	Kyree King  United States	20.83
400 metres	Michael Cherry  United States	45.13	Wilbert London  United States	45.39	Davide Re  Europe	46.05
800 metres	Amel Tuka  Europe	1:46.77	Adam Kszczot  Europe	1:46.89	Isaiah Harris  United States	1:46.94
1500 metres	Josh Thompson  United States	3:38.88	Jake Wightman  Europe	3:38.90	Ben Blankenship  United States	3:39.63
3000 metres	Ben Blankenship  United States	7:57.48	Adel Mechaal  Europe	7:57.55	Yemaneberhan Crippa  Europe	7:58.11
110 metres hurdles	Orlando Ortega  Europe	13.21	Sergey Shubenkov  Europe	13.39	Freddie Crittenden  United States	13.43
400 metres hurdles	Dave Kendziera  United States	48.99	Amere Lattin  United States	49.12	Ludvy Vaillant  Europe	49.20
3000 metres steeplechase	Hillary Bor  United States	8:32.64	Stanley Kebenei  United States	8:33.65	Daniel Arce  Europe	8:33.75
4 × 100 metres relay	United States 1 Demek Kemp Mike Rodgers Isaiah Young Christopher Belcher	38.26	Europe 1 Joris van Gool Taymir Burnet Hensley Paulina Churandy Martina	38.45	United States 2 Brandon Carnes Cameron Burrell Cordero Gray Chris Royster	38.70
High jump	Maksim Nedasekau  Europe	2.35 WL	Ilya Ivanyuk  Europe	2.31	Jeron Robinson  United States	2.29
Pole vault	Armand Duplantis  Europe	5.85	Piotr Lisek  Europe	5.80	Paweł Wojciechowski  Europe	5.75
Long jump	Damarcus Simpson  United States	8.17	Miltiadis Tentoglou  Europe	8.17	Eusebio Cáceres  Europe	8.17
	* Placings decided on countback
Triple jump	Chris Benard  United States	17.01	Ben Williams  Europe	16.71	KeAndre Bates  United States	16.70
Shot put	Darrell Hill  United States	22.35	Konrad Bukowiecki  Europe	21.92	Filip Mihaljević  Europe	21.60
Discus throw	Lukas Weißhaidinger  Europe	67.22	Piotr Małachowski  Europe	64.89	Ola Stunes Isene  Europe	63.99
Hammer throw	Paweł Fajdek  Europe	80.71	Wojciech Nowicki  Europe	78.33	Nick Miller  Europe	77.89
Javelin throw	Johannes Vetter  Europe	90.03	Magnus Kirt  Europe	88.91	Edis Matusevičius  Europe	83.54

Women

Event	First		Second		Third
100 metres	Daryll Neita  Europe	11.29	Dezerea Bryant  United States	11.30	Morolake Akinosun  United States	11.39
200 metres	Brittany Brown  United States	22.61	Beth Dobbin  Europe	22.92	Kyra Jefferson  United States	22.99
400 metres	Wadeline Jonathas  United States	51.01	Allyson Felix  United States	51.36	Iga Baumgart-Witan  Europe	51.52
800 metres	Alexandra Bell  Europe	2:04.81	Olha Lyakhova  Europe	2:04.90	Ce'Aira Brown  United States	2:05.38
1500 metres	Kate Grace  United States	4:02.49	Shannon Osika  United States	4:04.92	Eilish McColgan  Europe	4:05.58
3000 metres	Elise Cranny  United States	9:00.70	Rachel Schneider  United States	9:00.77	Eilish McColgan  Europe	9:01.03
3000 metres steeplechase	Mel Lawrence  United States	9:33.24	Irene Sánchez-Escribano  Europe	9:38.47	Viktória Wagner-Gyürkés  Europe	9:42.68
100 metres hurdles	Sharika Nelvis  United States	12.80	Karolina Kołeczek  Europe	12.86	Elvira Herman  Europe	12.92
400 metres hurdles	Hanna Ryzhykova  Europe	55.32	Léa Sprunger  Europe	55.46	Meghan Beesley  Europe	55.49
4 × 100 metres relay	United States 1 Dezerea Bryant Morolake Akinosun Caitland Smith Ashley Henderson	43.36	United States 2 Courtne Davis Kiara Parker Kortnei Johnson Kyra Jefferson	43.66	Europe 1 Bowien Jansen Nargelis Statia Pieter Eefje Boons Naomi Sedney	43.82
High jump	Yuliya Levchenko  Europe	2.02	Iryna Herashchenko  Europe	1.98	Mariya Lasitskene  Europe	1.98
Pole vault	Anzhelika Sidorova  Europe	4.85	Katerina Stefanidi  Europe	4.70	Katie Nageotte  United States	4.70
Long jump	Nastassia Mironchyk-Ivanova  Europe	6.74	Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk  Europe	6.73	Brittney Reese  United States	6.71
Triple jump	Tori Franklin  United States	14.36	Patrícia Mamona  Europe	14.21	Dovile Kilty  Europe	14.08
Shot put	Maggie Ewen  United States	19.47	Fanny Roos  Europe	19.06	Anita Márton  Europe	18.95
Discus throw	Sandra Perković  Europe	67.65	Laulauga Tausaga-Collins  United States	63.71	Valarie Allman  United States	62.44
Hammer throw	Joanna Fiodorow  Europe	74.34	Hanna Malyshik  Europe	72.70	Brooke Andersen  United States	72.59
Javelin throw	Kara Winger  United States	64.63	Tatsiana Khaladovich  Europe	64.41	Alexie Alaïs  Europe	60.86

Mixed

Event	First		Second		Third
1600 metres medley relay	Europe 1 Patrick Domogala Jessica-Bianca Wessolly Iga Baumgart-Witan Amel Tuka	3:21.13	United States 1 Remontay McClain Kiara Parker Allyson Felix Isaiah Harris	3:21.21	United States 2 Jamiel Trimble Kyra Jefferson Courtney Okolo Brannon Kidder	3:21.47

Final scores

Teams		100 m	200 m	400 m	800 m	1500 m	3000 m	3000m s	1/110m h	400 m h	4 x 100 m	1600m relay	HJ	LJ	TJ	PV	SP	DT	HT	JT	Total Score
Team Europe	M	14	20	15	23	19	16	21	24	16½	12	14	25	20	14	27	19	25	25	26	724½ PTS
	W	17	19	16	24	14	11	22	20	26	11		25	21	20	24	20	21	23	21
Team USA	M	22	17	22	14	18	21	21	13	20½	15	13	12	17	22	7	18	11	12	11	601½ PTS
	W	20	18	21	13	23	25	15	17	11	16		12	15	17	9	17	16	13	16
TEAM EUROPE WINS THE MATCH 724½ – 601½

Points from each placement^[9]

		1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	Total points
Points for placement		9	7	6	5	4	3	2	1
Team Europe	Events	17	26	21	23	16	19	12	4	724½
	Points	153	182	126	115	63½	57	24	4
Team USA	Events	20	11	16	14	19	14	20	21	601½
	Points	180	77	96	70	75½	42	40	21

• 17 events were won by Team Europe; Team USA won 20.
• Team Europe achieved 64 podium positions; Team USA achieved 47.

References

External links

• Official website

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