Below are the full startlists and, when confirmed, results of the 2023 European Athletics Team Championships First Division on 23–25 June 2023 in Kraków, Poland. This edition marks the first time all divisions of the Championships had been held at a single venue. European Athletics released the full and final startlists on 16 June 2023, one week before the event. The previous Super League has been expanded to sixteen teams, and renamed the 'First Division'.
For the first time, medals will also be awarded for individual performances across all three divisions,as part of the 2023 European Games.[1][2][3]
Format
The winner of each individual discipline and each relay shall score 16 points, the second will score one fewer, and so on. National teams, athletes or relay teams with no valid performance, disqualified or not finishing shall not score. If two or more athletes tie for a place in any event, the attributable points shall be divided equally between them. The team having the highest aggregate number of points shall be the winner of the event, and win both the gold medal and the Championship trophy.
After the conclusion of the athletics program of the European Games 2023, the following relegation and promotion is to be made for the next edition of the European Athletics Team Championships in Malaga in 2025
the three lowest ranked teams of the First Division are relegated to the Second Division.
the three highest ranked teams of the Second Division are then promoted to the First Division.
Races below 1500 metres will be raced in two heats, with the results amalgamated to find a final order in the event. There will be no finals in these events. In races from 1500 metres upwards, one heat of 16 will take part. In the field events, each event will be broken into two pools. Both heats and pools will be seeded so that the highest ranked athletes compete together, with the exception of the final relays, which will be seeded by overall standings one hour before the event.
Schedule
The following is the schedule of events for the First Division match.
Schedule for individual events : EATC First Division
Key:WR= world record - ER = European Record - EL = 2023 European lead - CR = Championships record
Where , and medals are indicated in notes, these are European Games individual medals across all divisions.[4]
Unlike most of the sprint and 800 metre events which are seeded by entry time or mark, the relays are seeded on the day to ensure the best teams in the overall standings compete against one another.[72]