2010 European Men's Handball Championship squads, Group C, Poland
Squad: Adam Malcher (Zagłębie Lubin), Sławomir Szmal (Rhein–Neckar Löwen), Piotr Wyszomirski (KS Azoty Puławy), Michał Adamuszek (MMTS Kwidzyn), Karol Bielecki (Rhein–Neckar Löwen), Rafał Gliński (KS Vive Targi Kielce), Piotr Grabarczyk (KS Vive Targi Kielce), Mateusz Jachlewski (KS Vive Targi Kielce), Bartłomiej Jaszka (Füchse Berlin), Mariusz Jurasik (KS Vive Targi Kielce), Bartosz Jurecki (SC Magdeburg), Michał Jurecki (TuS N-Lübbecke), Mariusz Jurkiewicz (Reyno de Navarra San Antonio), Damian Kostrzewa (AZS AWFiS Gdańsk), Kamil Krieger (KS Vive Targi Kielce), Patryk Kuchczyński (KS Vive Targi Kielce), Krzysztof Lijewski (HSV Hamburg), Marcin Lijewski (HSV Hamburg), Arkadiusz Miszka (Wisła Płock SA), Jarosław Paluch (SPR Chrobry Głogów), Paweł Piwko (KS Vive Targi Kielce), Paweł Podsiadło (KS Vive Targi Kielce), Tomasz Rosiński (KS Vive Targi Kielce), Artur Siódmiak (TuS N-Lübbecke), Tomasz Tłuczyński (TuS N-Lübbecke), Adam Twardo (Wisła Płock SA), Marcin Wichary (Wisła Płock S.A.), Daniel Żółtak (KS Vive Targi Kielce)


2010 European Men's Handball Championship squads, Group C, Slovenia
Squad: Matjaž Brumen (RK Cimos Koper), Jure Dobelšek (RK Cimos Koper), Dragan Gajič (RK Zagreb), Vid Kavtičnik (Montpellier HB), Miladin Kozlina (RK Celje), Zoran Lubej (RK Zagreb), Jure Natek (RK Gorenje), Aleš Pajovič (RK Celje), Aljoša Rezar (RK Celje), Gorazd Škof (RK Zagreb), Sebastian Skube (RK Trimo Trebnje), David Špiler (RK Cimos Koper), Renato Vugrinec (RK Celje), Uroš Zorman (RK Celje), Luka Žvižej (SC Szeged), Miha Žvižej (RK Gorenje)


2010 European Men's Handball Championship squads, Group C, Sweden
Squad: Mattias Andersson (TV Großwallstadt), Dan Beutler (SG Flensburg-Handewitt), Anders Persson (Bjerringbro-Silkeborg), Per Sandström (HSV Hamburg), Johan Sjöstrand (SG Flensburg-Handewitt), Jonas Källman (BM Ciudad Real), Fredrik Petersen (GOG Svendborg TGI), Rasmus Wremer (AaB Håndbold), Robert Arrhenius (BM Aragón), Olof Ask (GOG Svendborg TGI), Nicklas Grundsten (BM Granollers), Mattias Gustafsson (AaB Håndbold), Niclas Ekberg (Ystads IF), Marcus Enström (Alingsås HK), Jan Lennartsson (AaB Håndbold), Kristian Bliznac (Alingsås HK), Kim Ekdahl Du Rietz (Lugi), Tobias Karlsson (SG Flensburg-Handewitt), Fredrik Larsson (BM Aragón), Jonathan Stenbäcken (IK Sävehof), Tobias Warvne (LIF Lindesberg), Dalibor Doder (Ademar León), Patrik Fahlgren (SG Flensburg-Handewitt), Lukas Karlsson (KIF Kolding), Kim Andersson (THW Kiel), Oscar Carlén (SG Flensburg Handewitt), Johan Jakobsson (IK Sävehof), Albin Tingsvall (Hammarby IF)


2010 European Men's Handball Championship squads, Group D, Czech Republic
Squad: Martin Galia (TBV Lemgo), Petr Štochl (Füchse Berlin), Miloš Slabý (TV Neuhausen), David Juříček (Montpellier HB), Tomáš Říha (HC Zubří), Václav Vraný (Coburg), Jiří Hynek (Ahlener SG), Karel Nocar (Chambéry), Pavel Mičkal (HSG Nordhorn), Jan Filip (Kadetten Schaffhausen), Jan Sobol (Montpellioer HB), Filip Jícha (THW Kiel), Daniel Kubeš (TBV Lemgo), Alois Mráz (HSG Wetzlar), Jan Stehlík (St. Raphael VAR HB), Tomáš Sklenák (ThSV Eisenach), Ondřej Zdráhala (Karviná), Jiří Vítek (Bergischer HC), Tomáš Mrkva (HCB Karviná), Jakub Hrstka (HC Zubří), Tomáš Číp (HC Zubří), Kamil Piskač (HC Dukla Praha), Tomáš Řezníček (Conversano), Ondřej Šulc (HCB Karviná), Jiří Motl (HC Lovosice), Jan Štochl (Bergischer HC), Martin Lehocký (Dukla Praha), Radek Horák (Dukla Praha)


2010 European Men's Handball Championship squads, Group D, France
Squad: Jérôme Fernandez (BM Ciudad Real), Rémi Calvel (Toulouse HB), Daniel Narcisse (THW Kiel), Daouda Karaboué (Montpellier HB), Nikola Karabatić (Montpellier HB), Franck Junillon (MT Melsungen), Thierry Omeyer (THW Kiel), Didier Dinart (BM Ciudad Real), Luc Abalo (BM Ciudad Real), Cédric Sorhaindo (Toulouse HB), Michael Guigou (Montpellier HB), Xavier Barachet (Chambéry Savoie HB), Sébastien Bosquet (Dunkerque HB), Sébastien Ostertag (Tremblay en France), Gregoire Detrez (Chambéry Savoie HB), Cyril Dumoulin (Chambéry Savoie HB), Damien Waeghe (US Créteil HB), Bertrand Gille (HSV Hamburg), Guillaume Joli (Chambéry Savoie), Audray Tuzolana (HBC Nantes), Yohann Ploquin (ST Raphael VAR HB), Bertrand Roine (Chambéry Savoie), William Accambray (Montpellier HB), Guillaume Gille (HSV Hamburg), Cédric Paty (Chambéry Savoie), Olivier Marroux (US Ivry HB), Samuel Honrubia (Montpellier HB), Igor Anic (THW Kiel)


2010 European Men's Handball Championship squads, Group D, Hungary
Squad: Nándor Fazekas (MKB Veszprém KC) Roland Mikler (Dunaferr SE), Nenad Puljezević (TSV Hannover-Burgdorf); Feldspieler: György Bakos (Pler KC), Gábor Császár (Chambéry Savoie HB), Zsolt Balogh (Pler KC), Nikola Eklemović (MKB Veszprém KC), Gyula Gál (Tatabánya Carbonex), Gábor Grebenár (CCD Balonmano Aragon), Péter Gulyás (MKB Veszprém KC), Máté Halász (Tatabánya Carbonex), Gergely Harsányi (FTC Cityline), Gábor Herbert (SC Szeged), Ferenc Ilyés (TBV Lemgo), Gergő Iváncsik (MKB Veszprém KC), Tamás Iváncsik (MKB Veszprém KC), Dávid Katzirz (SC Szeged), Milorad Krivokapić (SC Szeged), Máté Lékai (Pler KC), Balázs Laluska (RR Cimos Koper), Szilveszter Liszkai (SC Szeged), Kornél Nagy (Dunaferr SC), Barna Putics (GWD Minden), István Rédei (JD Arrate), Timuzsin Schuch (HCM Constanta), Gábor Szalafai (Dunaferr SE), Szabolcs Törő (JD Arrate), Szabolcs Zubai (SC Szeged)


2010 European Men's Handball Championship squads, Group D, Spain
Squad: José Javier Hombrados (BM Ciudad Real), Arpad Šterbik (BM Ciudad Real), José Manuel Sierra (BM Valladolid), Jorge Martinez (BM Antequera), Cristian Ugalde (FC Barcelona), Juanín García (FC Barcelona), David Davis (BM Ciudad Real), Víctor Tomás (FC Barcelona), Albert Rocas (FC Barcelona), Roberto García Parrondo (BM Ciudad Real), David Cuartero Sánchez (BM Torrevieja), Rubén Garabaya (FC Barcelona), Julen Aguinagalde (BM Ciudad Real), Carlos Prieto (Rhein-Neckar Löwen), Rafael Baena Gonzalez (BM Antequera), Asier Antonio Marcos (BM Valladolid), Alberto Entrerríos (BM Ciudad Real), Raúl Entrerríos (BM Valladolid), Viran Morros (BM Ciudad Real), Mikel Aguirrezabalaga (Ademar León), Chema Rodríguez (BM Ciudad Real), Daniel Sarmiento (FC Barcelona), Joan Cañellas (BM Ciudad Real), Álvaro Ferrer (BM Granollers), Iker Romero (FC Barcelona), Cristian Malmagro (SDC San Antonio), Jorge Maqueda (BM Aragón), Eduardo Gurbindo (BM Valladolid)


2010 European Men's and Women's Team Badminton Championships
The 2010 European Men's and Women's Team Badminton Championships was held in Warsaw, Poland, from February 16 to February 21, 2010. This tournament also serves as European qualification for the 2010 Thomas & Uber Cup.


2010 European Mixed Curling Championship
The 2010 European Mixed Curling Championship was held at the Greenacres Curling Club in Howwood, Scotland. Scotland defeated Switzerland in the final to claim their third title. Germany won the bronze.


2010 European Mountain Running Championships
The 2010 European Mountain Running Championships were held on 4 July in Sapareva Banya, Bulgaria. They were that year's area championships for mountain running, held by the European Athletic Association in conjunction with the Bulgarian Athletic Federation. The competition featured four races, with senior and junior races for both men and women. The 2010 competition featured an uphill–downhill course format. A total of 237 runners from 24 nations started the competition and two further nations (Norway and Greece) were present as observers.


2010 European Mountain Running Championships
The men's race was 12.2 km long and featured an ascent and descent of 685 m on each of its three laps. The women's and junior men's races were 9 km long comprising two laps with a rise and fall of 495 m. The junior women's race was one lap of 4.6 km over a hill of 235 m.


2010 European Mountain Running Championships
Ahmet Arslan took his fourth consecutive men's title by some distance, while Italians Martin Dematteis and Marco De Gasperi completed the podium and helped Italy retain its undefeated streak in the men's team competition. The 2010 Grand Ballon race winner Marie Laure Dumergues took the women's title continuing her good form in a breakthrough year. Valentina Belotti was the women's runner-up for a second year running and Elena Nagovitsyna was the bronze medallist. Hüseyin Pak won the junior men's race while Denisa Dragomir was the women's junior champion.


2010 European Mountain Running Championships, Participation
A total of 24 nations had athletes which took part in the 2010 Championships. On top of this, Norway and Greece had observers present.


2010 European Open Water Swimming Championships
The 2010 European Open Water Swimming Championships was the 12th edition of the European Open Water Swimming Championships (was part of the 2010 European Aquatics Championships) and took part from 4-15 August 2010 in Budapest, Hungary.


2010 European Pairs Speedway Championship
The 2010 European Pairs Speedway Championship was the seventh UEM European Pairs Speedway Championship season. The Final took place on 18 September 2010 in Stralsund, Germany. The Championship was won by the defending Champion Czech Republic who beat host team Germany and Croatia.


2010 European Pairs Speedway Championship, Heat details, Semi-Final One
m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t - exclusion for touching the tapes • x - other exclusion • e - retired or mechanical failure • f - fellns - non-starter • nc - non-classify


2010 European Pairs Speedway Championship, Heat details, Semi-Final Two
m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t - exclusion for touching the tapes • x - other exclusion • e - retired or mechanical failure • f - fellns - non-starter • nc - non-classify


2010 European Pairs Speedway Championship, Heat details, The Final
m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t - exclusion for touching the tapes • x - other exclusion • e - retired or mechanical failure • f - fellns - non-starter • nc - non-classify


2010 European Rally Championship
The 2010 European Rally Championship season was the 58th season of the FIA European Rally Championship. The season had 11 rallies, beginning with Rally 1000 Miglia on 22 April. The championship was contested by 24 drivers from 6 countries. Luca Rossetti won 4 events and claimed his second European rally championship title.


2010 European Rally Championship, Calendar and winners
As in the previous year, the calendar consisted of 11 rounds. Rally Bulgaria was a World Rally Championship event in 2010, but Rally Poland was back in the ERC calendar. The other 10 rounds remained the same, although in a slightly different order.


2010 European Rally Championship, Championship standings
For the final classification in a rally, the winner got 25 points, the runner-up 18 and the third placed driver 15. Drivers ranked 4 to 10 got 12–10–8–6–4–2–1 point(s). Additionally, the top five of every leg were awarded 7–5–3–2–1 point(s). Only drivers who participated in least 5 events qualified for the championship ranking.


2010 European Road Championships
The 2010 European Road Championships were held in Ankara, Turkey, between 15 and 18 July 2010. The event consisted of a road race and a time trial for men and women under 23 and juniors. The championships were regulated by the European Cycling Union.


2010 European Road Championships – Women's under-23 time trial
The Women's under-23 time trial at the 2010 European Road Championships took place on 15 July. The Championships were hosted by the Turkish city of Ankara. The course was 25.9 km long.


2010 European Road Championships – Women's under-23 time trial
Ellen van Dijk, who won in 2008 and 2009, was not able to defend her European title.


2010 European Rowing Championships
The 2010 European Rowing Championships, the 4th since the decision made in May 2006 by the FISA to re-establish them, was held in Montemor-o-Velho, Portugal, between 10 and 12 September 2010.


2010 European Senior Tour
The 2010 European Senior Tour was the 19th season of the European Senior Tour, the professional golf tour for men aged 50 and above operated by the PGA European Tour. Boonchu Ruangkit won four events and the Order of Merit title.


2010 European Senior Tour, Tournament results
The numbers in brackets after the winners' names show the number of career wins they had on the European Senior Tour up to and including that event. This is only shown for players who are members of the tour.


2010 European Senior Tour, Tournament results
For the tour schedule on the European Senior Tour's website, including links to full results, click .


2010 European Senior Tour, Leading money winners
There is a complete list on the official site .


2010 European Sevens Championship
The 2010 European Sevens Championship was a rugby sevens competition, with the final held in Moscow, Russia. It was the ninth edition of the European Sevens championship. The event was organised by rugby's European governing body, the FIRA – Association of European Rugby (FIRA-AER).


2010 European Shield, 2010
For the 2010 fixture, the field was doubled from three teams to six. In the Eastern group, Russia topped the table by defeating Latvia and Ukraine. Serbia took the Western group title by defeating both Germany and Czech Republic.


2010 European Short Course Swimming Championships
The 2010 European Short Course Swimming Championships was held 25–28 November 2010 at Pieter van den Hoogenband Zwemstadion in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet featured competition amongst national teams from Europe, in 38 short course (25m) swimming events.


2010 European Short Course Swimming Championships
The competition featured a preliminary/semifinals/final format for the 50 and 100 events, a timed-final format (swimmers swim only once) in the 800/1500 freestyles, and prelims/final for all other events. Preliminary heats were swum in morning sessions; Semifinals and Finals in evening sessions.


2010 European Short Course Swimming Championships
Each nation was permitted to enter three swimmers into each individual event; with a maximum of 2 eligible to advance on to Semifinals/Finals.


2010 European Short Course Swimming Championships, Results, Men's events
Legend: WR - World record; WBT - World best time; ER - European record; CR - Championship record


2010 European Short Course Swimming Championships, Results, Women's events
Legend: WR - World record; WBT - World best time; ER - European record; CR - Championship record


2010 European Short Course Swimming Championships, Results, Records
The table below lists the World (WR), European (ER) and Championships (CR) records broken at the meet. Times displayed in shaded cells were subsequently broken later in the meet.


2010 European Short Track Speed Skating Championships
The 2010 European Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place between 22 and 24 January 2010 in Dresden, Germany.


2010 European Speed Skating Championships
The 2010 European Speed Skating Championships were held at the indoor ice rink of the Vikingskipet in Hamar (Norway) on 9 and 10 January 2010.


2010 European Speed Skating Championships, Men championships, Allround results
NQ = Not qualified for the 10000 m (only the best 12 are qualified)DNS = Did not start


2010 European Speed Skating Championships, Female championships, Allround results
NQ = Not qualified for the 5000 m (only the best 12 are qualified)DNS = Did not start


2010 European Speed Skating Championships, Rules
All 24 participating skaters are allowed to skate the first three distances; 12 skaters may take part on the fourth distance. These 12 skaters are determined by taking the standings on the longest of the first three distances, as well as the samalog standings after three distances, and comparing these lists as follows:


2010 European Speedway Club Champions' Cup
The 2010 European Speedway Club Champions' Cup was the 13th UEM European Speedway Club Champions' Cup season. The Final take place on 2 October 2010 in Miskolc, Hungary. The Cup was won by Russian SK Turbina Balakovo.


2010 European Speedway Club Champions' Cup, Heat details, The Final
M - exclusion for exceeding two-minute time allowance • T - exclusion for touching the tapes • X - other exclusion • E - retired or mechanical failure • F - fell


2010 European Table Tennis Championships
The 2010 European Table Tennis Championships was held in Ostrava, Czech Republic from 11–19 October 2010. Venue for the competition was ČEZ Aréna.


2010 European Taekwondo Championships
The 2010 European Taekwondo Championships was held at the Yubileyny Sports Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia, from May 12 to May 15, 2010.


2010 European Team Championships
The second SPAR European Team Championships took place on 19 and 20 June 2010. The track and field athletics tournament run by European Athletics was the successor of the old European Cup competition which was held annually until 2008. The 2010 Super League was once again won by Russia, with Great Britain second, and Germany finishing in third.


2010 European Team Championships, Third League, Participating countries
Athletic Association of Small States of Europe( Liechtenstein,  Monaco,  San Marino) Albania Andorra Armenia Azerbaijan Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria


2010 European Team Championships Super League
The 2010 European Team Championships Super League was the Super League of the 2nd edition of the European Team Championships (European Athletics Team Championships from 2013 edition), the 2010 European Team Championships, which took place on 19 and 20 June 2010 in Bergen, Norway. As with the previous championships there were a couple of rules applying specifically to this competition, such as the limit of three attempts in the throwing events, long jump and triple jump (only the top four were allowed the fourth attempt) and the limit of four misses total in the high jump and pole vault.


2010 European Tour
The 2010 European Tour was the second edition of the Race to Dubai and the 39th season of golf tournaments since the European Tour officially began in 1972.


2010 European Tour
The Race to Dubai was won by Germany's Martin Kaymer. Kaymer and U.S. Open champion Graeme McDowell from Northern Ireland shared the Golfer of the Year award.


2010 European Tour, Schedule
The table below shows the 2010 European Tour schedule. The season consisted of 47 tournaments, beginning with two events in December 2009 and culminating with the Dubai World Championship the following November. The schedule included the four major championships, four World Golf Championships and the Ryder Cup.


2010 European Tour, Schedule
There were many changes from the 2009 season, including six new tournaments; they were the Africa Open in South Africa, the returning Avantha Masters in India which had been cancelled in 2009, the Hassan II Golf Trophy in Morocco, the Open Calla Millor Mallorca and the Andalucía Valderrama Masters in Spain, and the Vivendi Cup in France. Lost from the schedule were the European Open, the Mercedes-Benz Championship, the Johnnie Walker Classic, the Australian Masters, the Indonesia Open and the Volvo World Match Play Championship. There were also three fewer tournaments due to a partial realignment of the schedule with the calendar.


2010 European Tour, Race to Dubai
Since 2009, the European Tour's money list has been known as the Race to Dubai. It is based on money earned during the season and is calculated in Euro, with earnings from tournaments that award prize money in other currencies being converted at the exchange rate available the week of the event. The following table shows the top 15 in the 2010 standings following the Dubai World Championship and distribution of the bonus pool.


2010 European Tour, Awards, Golfer of the Month
The winners of the European Tour Golfer of the Month Award were as follows:


2010 European Tour Qualifying School graduates
This is a list of the 34 players who earned their 2011 European Tour card through Q School in 2010.


2010 European Tour Qualifying School graduates, 2011 Results
* European Tour rookie in 2011T = Tied      The player retained his European Tour card for 2012 (finished inside the top 118). The player did not retain his European Tour Tour card for 2012, but retained conditional status (finished between 119-150). The player did not retain his European Tour card for 2012 (finished outside the top 150).


2010 European Tour Qualifying School graduates, 2011 Results
Sluiter, Nørret, and Nixon regained their cards for 2012 through Q School.


2010 European Touring Car Cup
The 2010 FIA European Touring Car Cup was the sixth running of the FIA European Touring Car Cup. The cup was expanded to three events for 2010, unlike in previous years where it was a one-off event. The season began at Braga on 28 March, and finished at Franciacorta on 17 October. Each event included two races of 50 kilometres (31 miles) in length, making a total of six rounds awarding points. Three FIA cups were awarded at the end of the season, one per each of the eligible categories: Super 2000, Super 1600 and Super Production. 100,000 euro prize money was awarded at each of the four race meetings: 65,000 euros to Super 2000, 25,000 to Super 1600 and 10,000 to Super Production.


2010 European Touring Car Cup
In the top Super 2000 class, despite pressure from Michel Nykjær – who won each of the four races he contested at the Salzburgring and Franciacorta – in a SEAT León TDI, Hartmann Honda Racing's James Thompson finished as the class winner, with six top-three finishes in the season's six races, taking a victory in Braga en route to a four-point title win. César Campaniço was the other race winner at Braga, in a one-off outing in the Cup. Super Production was poorly supported with only Vojislav Lekić, Fabio Fabiani and Marcis Birkens competing in any of the races.


2010 European Touring Car Cup
Lekić won the four races he contested, ahead of Fabiani while Birkens suffered a retirement and a DNS in Braga. Carsten Seifert won the Super 1600 title, with six top-two finishes including three wins, and won the class by ten points from Jens Löhnig, who took the other three wins during the season.


2010 European Touring Car Cup, Teams and drivers
1 Despite being on the Salzburgring entry list, Čolak did not compete at the meeting.


2010 European Touring Car Cup, Teams and drivers
2 Despite being listed on the , Carvalho did not attend any of the meetings.


2010 European Touring Car Cup, Teams and drivers
3 Although he was present at the Salzburgring meeting, Mayer did not take part. Instead he chose to focus on the ADAC Procar championship round which was held at the same event.


2010 European Track Championships (under-23 & junior)
The 2010 European Track Championships were the European Championships for track cycling. The junior and under 23 riders events took place in Saint Petersburg, Russia from 10 to 15 September 2010.


2010 European Track Championships – Men's keirin
The Men's keirin was one of the 6 men's events at the 2010 European Track Championships, held in Pruszków, Poland.


2010 European Track Championships – Men's keirin, First round
First 2 riders in each heat qualified for the second round, remainder to first round repechage.


2010 European Track Championships – Men's keirin, First Round Repechage
First rider in each heat qualified for the second round.


2010 European Track Championships – Men's keirin, Second round
First 3 riders in each heat qualified for the final 1- 6 and the others to final 7 - 12.


2010 European Track Championships – Men's madison
The Men's madison was one of the 6 men's events at the 2010 European Track Championships, held in Pruszków, Poland.


2010 European Track Championships – Men's omnium
The Men's omnium was one of the 6 men's events at the 2010 European Track Championships, held in Pruszków, Poland.


2010 European Track Championships – Men's omnium
21 cyclists participated in the contest. The race was held on November 6.


2010 European Track Championships – Men's sprint
The Men's sprint was one of the 6 men's events at the 2010 European Track Championships, held in Pruszków, Poland.


2010 European Track Championships – Men's sprint, Qualifying, 1/16 Finals
Winner of each heat qualified to 1/8 Finals. Chris Hoy, fastest cyclist of the qualifying, lost against Felix English who entered the 1/8 finals with the slowest time.


2010 European Track Championships – Men's sprint, Qualifying, 1/8 Finals
Winner of each heat qualified to 1/4 Finals. Losers went to repêchages.


2010 European Track Championships – Men's team pursuit
The Men's Team Pursuit was one of the 6 men's events at the 2010 European Track Championships, held in Pruszków, Poland.


2010 European Track Championships – Men's team pursuit
Twelve teams of 4 cyclists each participated in the contest. After the qualifying, the fastest 2 teams raced for gold, and 3rd and 4th teams raced for bronze.


2010 European Track Championships – Men's team pursuit
The Qualifying and the Finals were held on November 5.


2010 European Track Championships – Men's team pursuit, Qualifying
Fastest 2 teams race for gold and 3rd and 4th teams race for bronze.


2010 European Track Championships – Men's team sprint
The men's team sprint was one of the six men's events at the 2010 European Track Championships, held in Pruszków, Poland.


2010 European Track Championships – Men's team sprint
Eleven teams of two cyclists each participated in the contest. After the qualifying, the fastest two teams raced for gold, and the 3rd and 4th teams raced for bronze.


2010 European Track Championships – Men's team sprint
The qualifying and the finals were held on 5 November.


2010 European Track Championships – Men's team sprint, Qualifying
The fastest two teams raced for gold and 3rd and 4th teams raced for bronze.


2010 European Track Championships – Women's keirin
The Women's keirin was one of the 5 women's events at the 2010 European Track Championships, held in Pruszków, Poland.


2010 European Track Championships – Women's keirin, First round
First 2 riders in each heat qualified for the second round, remainder to first round repechage.


2010 European Track Championships – Women's keirin, First Round Repechage
First 2 rider in each heat qualified for the second round.


2010 European Track Championships – Women's keirin, Second round
First 3 riders in each heat qualified for the final 1- 6 and the others to final 7 - 12.


2010 European Track Championships – Women's omnium
The Women's omnium was one of the 5 women's cycling events at the 2010 European Track Championships, held in Pruszków, Poland.


2010 European Track Championships – Women's omnium
20 cyclists participated in the contest, held on November 6.


2010 European Track Championships – Women's sprint
The Women's sprint was one of the 5 women's events at the 2010 European Track Championships, held in Pruszków, Poland.


2010 European Track Championships – Women's sprint, Results, 1/16 Finals
Winner of each heat qualified to 1/16 Finals Losers went to Repechages


2010 European Track Championships – Women's sprint, Results, 1/8 Finals
Winner of each heat qualified to 1/4 Finals. Losers went to repêchages.


2010 European Track Championships – Women's team pursuit
The Women's Team Pursuit was one of the 5 women's events at the 2010 European Track Championships, held in Pruszków, Poland.


2010 European Track Championships – Women's team pursuit
Fourteen teams of 3 cyclists each participated in the contest. After the qualifying, the fastest 2 teams raced for gold, and 3rd and 4th teams raced for bronze.


2010 European Track Championships – Women's team pursuit
The Qualifying and the Finals were held on November 5.


2010 European Track Championships – Women's team pursuit, Qualifying
Fastest 2 teams race for gold and 3rd and 4th teams race for bronze.


2010 European Track Championships – Women's team sprint
The Women's Team Sprint was one of the 5 women's events at the 2010 European Track Championships, held in Pruszków, Poland.


2010 European Track Championships – Women's team sprint
Ten teams of 2 cyclists each participated in the contest. After the qualifying, the fastest 2 teams raced for gold, and 3rd and 4th teams raced for bronze.


2010 European Track Championships – Women's team sprint
The Qualifying and the Finals were held on November 5.


2010 European Track Championships – Women's team sprint, Qualifying
Fastest 2 teams race for gold and 3rd and 4th teams race for bronze.


2010 European Trophy
The 2010 European Trophy was a European ice hockey tournament, played between 11 August and 5 September 2010. It was the first edition of the European Trophy. The final weekend was played in Salzburg and Zell am See, with the final held at the Eisarena Salzburg, which Eisbären Berlin won 5–3 over HV71 Jönköping.


2010 European Trophy, Participating clubs
The 2010 edition featured 18 participating clubs from seven countries around Europe. The clubs were divided into two divisions: the Capital Division and the Central Division. Each division consisted of nine teams in a regulation round, while the top four teams of each division qualified for the playoffs. However, the Red Bull Salzburg qualified as hosts and therefore took over the worst fourth ranked team out of both divisions, as they failed to end up in the top 4 spots in the Central Division.


2010 European Trophy, Playoffs
The top four teams of each division qualified for the playoffs, which took place in Salzburg and Zell am See between 3–5 September. However, EC Red Bull Salzburg qualified as hosts, as they failed to finish among the four best teams in their division, and therefore the best fourth ranked team out of both divisions qualified for the playoffs.


2010 European Trophy Junior
The 2010 European Trophy Junior was the first and only European Trophy Junior ice hockey tournament, played between 19 August and 22 August 2010. The games were played at Löfbergs Lila Arena and Kobbs Arena, both in Karlstad, Sweden. Five games were broadcast through the Internet.


2010 European Trophy Junior
Frölunda HC won the tournament this year, beating Malmö Redhawks 5–4 in the final in a shootout.


2010 European Trophy Junior, Participating clubs
The 2010 tournament featured 10 teams from Sweden, Finland, Austria, Norway and the Czech Republic.


2010 European Truck Racing Championship
The 2010 FIA European Truck Racing Championship was a multi-event motor racing championship for production based trucks held across Europe. The championship features a mix of professional motor racing teams and privately funded amateur drivers competing in highly modified versions of two-axle tractor units which conform to the technical regulations for the championship. It was the 26th European Truck Racing Championship season and began at Misano on May 23, with the finale at Jarama on October 3 after nine events. The championship was won by Antonio Albacete, taking his third title.


2010 European Truck Racing Championship, Teams and drivers
Race drivers without fixed number, whose number is defined race by race:


2010 European Truck Racing Championship, Championship standings, Drivers' Championship
Points were awarded on a 20, 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 3, 2, 1 basis to the top 10 finishers in races 1 & 3 of each meeting; and on a 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 basis to the top 10 finishers in races 2 & 4 of each meeting. All scores counted towards the championship.


2010 European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship
The 2010 European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship was the seventh annual international rugby union competition for Under 18 national rugby union teams in Europe. The event was organised by rugby's European governing body, the FIRA – Association of European Rugby (FIRA-AER). The competition was contested by 24 men's junior national teams and was held in late March and early April 2010. It was hosted by the Italian region of Veneto, with the final played at the home ground of Benetton Treviso.


2010 European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship
The tournament was won by France, who won its fifth European championship and its fourth in a row, with Ireland finishing runners-up.


2010 European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship
It was sponsored by French company Justin Bridou and therefore officially called the 2010 Justin Bridou European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship.


2010 European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship, Overview, History
The European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship was first held in 2004, in Treviso, Italy. It replaced the previously held European Under-18 Emergent Nations Championship, which had first been held in 2000. The first championship in 2004 was won by France.


2010 European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship, Overview, History
The following two championships, held in Lille, France in 2005 and again in Treviso in 2006, were won by England. Alternating between France and Italy, the next four championships were held in Biarritz, Treviso again, Toulon and once more in Treviso in 2010. All four were taken out by France, but of Europes top rugby playing nations, England, Wales and Scotland did not take part in the latest edition.


2010 European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship, Overview, Format
The championship, similar to previous editions, was organised in an A, B and C Division, with A being the highest and C the lowest. Each division consisted of eight teams and each team played three competition games, with a quarter final, semi final and final/placing game.


2010 European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship, Overview, Format
The quarter finals were played according to a seeding list, with the winners moving on to the first to fourth place semi finals while the losers would enter the fifth to eighth place semi finals.


2010 European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship, Overview, Format
The winners of the semi finals one to four would play in the division final while the losers would play for third place. Similarly, the winners of the fifth to eighth semi finals would play for fifth place while the losers would play for seventh.


2010 European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship, Overview, Format
The winner of the A division was crowned European champions while the eighth placed team would be relegated to the B division. Similarly, the winner of B and C division would move up a division for 2011 while the last placed teams would be relegated. This meant, France was crowned European champions while Romania finished on the relegation spot. Portugal won the B division and earned promotion while the Ukraine was relegated and replaced by Sweden, the C champions.


2010 European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship, Overview, Venues
The games of the 2010 championship were played at five different locations and stadiums:


2010 European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship, Overview, Changes for 2011
The 2011 edition of the championship is scheduled to see a return of the absent three home nations, England, Scotland and Wales. For this purpose, the A division will be enlarged to twelve teams, while B and C remain at their current strength.


2010 European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship, Overview, D Division
The D division forms the fourth level, below the C division, of European Under-18 rugby. In 2010, only four teams compete at this level, at a tournament held at Chişinău, Moldova, from 19 to 22 May 2010. It consists of the teams of Moldova, Israel, Croatia and Norway.


2010 European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship, Games, B Division, Relegation
The Switzerland versus Ukraine game was tied after regular time and was decided by penalty kicks.


2010 European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship, Games, C Division, Relegation
The Denmark versus Austria game was tied after regular time and was decided by penalty kicks.


2010 European Under-18 Rugby Union Championship, Games, D Division
Held at a different time and location as the other three divisions, in Moldova, these are the results:


2010 European Under-21 Baseball Championship
The 2010 European Under-21 Baseball Championship is an international baseball competition held in Brno, Czech Republic from August 17 to 22, 2010. It features teams from Czech Republic, France, Italy, Russia, Slovakia and Ukraine.


2010 European Union bank stress test
A European Union-wide banking stress test exercise has been conducted by the Committee of European Banking Supervisors every year since 2009. The second instance was performed in July 2010. The Council of the European Union (in its economic and financial – ECOFIN – configuration) mandated that Committee so to do, in the aftermath of the global financial crisis which started in 2007.


2010 European Union bank stress test, Summary of 2010 results by bank
The 2010 test was the second of its kind, which assesses the financial strength of European banks under different adverse scenarios. This was done in co-operation with the European Central Bank, the European Commission and the national supervisory authorities of the member states.


2010 European Union bank stress test, Summary of 2010 results by bank
The 2010 results were released on 23 July 2010. Of the 90 banks tested, 7 failed the 6% tier 1 capital ratio threshold: five in Spain (Unnim, Diada, Espiga, Banca Cívica, and Cajasur), one in Germany (Hypo Real Estate), and one in Greece (ATEBank).


2010 European Weightlifting Championships
The 2010 European Weightlifting Championships was held in Minsk, Belarus from 2 April to 11 April 2010. It was the 89th edition of the event, which was first staged in 1896.


2010 European Weightlifting Championships, Medals tables
Ranking by all medals: "Big" (Total result) and "Small" (Snatch and Clean&Jerk)


2010 European Women Sevens Championship
The 2010 European Women Sevens Championship was the eighth edition of the European Women's Sevens Championship.


2010 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships
The 28th European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships held from 28 April to 2 May 2010 in Birmingham.


2010 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships, Detail results, Seniors, Team
‡ Romania's Ana Porgras injured herself on her dismount on beam. However, despite injury, she still competed on bars and scored 13.7.


2010 European Women's Handball Championship
The 2010 European Women's Handball Championship was held in Denmark and Norway from 7–19 December. It was the first European Championship hosted by two countries. Norway won their overall 5th gold medal, when they defeated first time finalist Sweden in the final. Romania claimed the bronze medal.


2010 European Women's Handball Championship, Venues
Three Danish and two Norwegian cities have been selected to host the 2010 Championship. The venues in Aalborg, Aarhus and Larvik were only used during the preliminary round. The fourth venue to be used in this round is located in Lillehammer, and was also one of the two venues in the main round. The other being MCH Indoor Arena in Herning, which was the only venue to be used in the final round.


2010 European Women's Handball Championship, Competition Format, Ranking in preliminary and main round
If two or more teams were equal on points in the preliminary or main round, their ranking was determined as follows:


2010 European Women's Handball Championship, Competition Format, Ranking in preliminary and main round
After the completion of the preliminary and main round matches:


2010 European Women's Handball Championship, Qualification
Qualification matches were played from September 2009 to May 2010. Following the new system introduced for the 2010 Men's Championship, all teams were included in the qualification round, except host Denmark and defending champion and host Norway. Teams were divided in 7 groups and the two top ranked teams from each group qualified.


2010 European Women's Handball Championship, Squads
Each nation had to submit an initial squad of 28 players by 3 November 2010, but 12 of them became reserves when the final squad of 16 players was announced the day before the tournament starts.


2010 European Women's Handball Championship, Seeding
The draw for the final tournament took place 17:00 CET on 5 June 2010 in Odense.


2010 European Women's Handball Championship, Main Round
Top 2 teams from each group advanced to the Semifinals, while the third placed team from each group competed in a 5th/6th place play-off.


2010 European Women's Handball Championship qualification
This page describes the qualifying procedure for the 2010 European Women's Handball Championship.


2010 European Women's Handball Championship qualification, Qualification system, Seeding
The draw for the qualification round was held on 24 March 2009 at the EHF headquarters, in Vienna. The host countries, Norway and Denmark, are directly qualified. The remaining 29 teams were divided into several pots according to the "EHF Women's National Team Ranking", and were successfully drawn so that each qualification group contained one team from each pot. The two lowest ranked teams, Finland and Great Britain, participated in a pre-qualification tournament to decide the 28th spot.


2010 European Women's Handball Championship qualification, Tiebreakers
If two or more teams are equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following criteria are applied to determine the rankings.


2010 European Women's Handball Championship qualification, Pre-Qualification
The two pre-qualification matches were played on 23 and 26 September. Great Britain won 41–37 on aggregate score and advanced to qualification group 3.


2010 European Women's Handball Championship qualification, Groups
The draw for the qualification round defined the groups shown below. A provisional match schedule was elaborated and distributed to all national federations taking part in this round.


2010 European Women's Handball Championship squads
The following is a list of squads for each nation competing at the 2010 European Women's Handball Championship in Norway and Denmark. The tournament started on 7 December and the final took place in Herning on 19 December.


2010 European Women's Handball Championship squads
Each nation had to submit an initial squad of 28 players by 3 November 2010, but 12 of them became reserves when the final squad of 16 players was announced the day before the tournament starts.


2010 European Women's Handball Championship squads
Appearances, goals and ages as of tournament start, 7 December 2010.


2010 European Wrestling Championships
The 2010 FILA European Wrestling Championships was held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 13 April to 18 April 2010.


2010 European Wrestling Championships
Because of the ongoing dispute over Karabakh between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Armenia chose not to compete at this event for the safety of their wrestlers.


2010 European Wushu Championships
The 2010 European Wushu Championships were the 13th edition of the European Wushu Championships for adults and juniors, and were held at Dilek Sabancı Sport Hall in Antalya, Turkey between March 6–13, 2010. A total of 394 athletes from 28 countries participated at the championships.


2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion
Almost 80 million people live below the poverty line in the European Union.


2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion
Problems that arise from living in poverty may include not having enough money to spend on food and clothes, poor housing conditions, homelessness, and limited lifestyle choices that may lead to social exclusion.


2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion
Inspired by its founding principle of solidarity, the European Union joined forces with its Member States to make 2010 the European Year For Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion. The objectives were to raise public awareness about these issues and renew the political commitment of the EU and its Member States to combat poverty and social exclusion. The year also  challenged stereotypes and collective perceptions of poverty.


2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion, How will it work?
Civil society organisations and social partners joined participating countries and the European Commission to run activities throughout 2010.


2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion, How will it work?
Two European-level conferences took take place in January and December; an art initiative built a bridge between people experiencing poverty and social exclusion and the creative world; while a journalist competition rewarded the best articles about poverty and social exclusion in Europe.


2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion, How will it work?
National and local events took place in every EU member state, plus Norway and Iceland. Activities included awareness raising campaigns, workshops and information seminars in schools. Films, magazines and other information material were produced across participating countries to help people understand how poverty and social exclusion affect their communities, what initiatives there are to fight it, and for those directly affected, to increase awareness of their rights.


2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion, How will it work?
Along with public figures, people who have experienced poverty acted as campaign ambassadors, which raised visibility and credibility for the Year’s activities.


2010 European Youth Baseball Championship
The 2010 European Youth Baseball Championship was an international baseball competition held in Eindhoven and Veldhoven, Netherlands from July 20 to 24, 2010. It features teams from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Russia.


2010 European Youth Baseball Championship
In the end the team from the Netherlands won the tournament.


2010 European terror plot
The 2010 European terror plot was an alleged al-Qaeda plot to launch "commando-style" terror attacks on the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. The existence of the plot was revealed in late September 2010 after it was disrupted by intelligence agencies. Thought to be ordered by Osama bin Laden himself, the plot led to an unprecedented increase in Drone attacks in Pakistan and travel advisories from several countries to their citizens to be careful while traveling in Europe.


2010 European terror plot, Plot
The existence of the plot was revealed by several media sources including Sky News on 28 September 2010. Intelligence officials stated that the plot was ordered by Osama bin Laden himself. The plan was to launch attacks similar to the 2008 Mumbai attacks. It was discovered and disrupted by the combined efforts of the security services of the United States, UK, Germany and France. According to Der Spiegel, the first information came from a 36-year-old German man from Hamburg identified as Ahmad Siddiqui, who was detained by authorities in July, 2010, while attempting to fly from Kabul to Europe.


2010 European terror plot, Plot
He was a member of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and had trained in Pakistan, where he was sheltered by the Haqqani network. Currently he is in custody of NATO at the Bagram Airfield. The German Muslims linked to the plot were associated with the Al-Quds Mosque Hamburg, the mosque frequented by the September 11 terrorists. German authorities have closed the mosque.


2010 European terror plot, Plot
According to German intelligence officials, in early 2009, Sidiqi and 10 others left Hamburg for the tribal areas of Pakistan where 8 of them joined the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU).


2010 European terror plot, Plot
One member of the group was Rami Makanesi, 25, a German citizen of Syrian descent. Another was Shahab Dashti, a German citizen of Iranian descent. He appeared in an IMU video in late 2009. Wielding a knife and gun, he urged other Germans to join in jihad against U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Several other Germans in the video were shown firing weapons in what appeared to be live-fire exercises.


2010 European terror plot, Plot
Several scenes featured what appeared to be the group's members using rockets and guns to practice storming enemy positions, learning the type of combat skills that Western counter-terrorism officials fear could be used in Western cities in an attack similar to 2008 Mumbai attacks. One European counterterrorism official said Sidiqi told his interrogators that Naamen Meziche, a French citizen of Algerian descent had assumed a planning role in the terrorist plot which Osama Bin Laden himself approved. Pakistan officials captured Naamen Meziche in a raid near the border with Iran sometime in the middle of June 2012.


2010 European terror plot, Plot
On 3 October 2010, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the FBI issued a joint bulletin warning that terror attacks were being plotted against targets in Europe.


2010 European terror plot, Plot
German officials said the Hamburg group members were recruited from the Taiba mosque in Hamburg. In the 1990s, that same mosque - then called Al Quds - was attended by Mohamed Atta, who went on to become the lead hijacker in the 9/11 attacks. Hamburg authorities shut the mosque a few weeks after Sidiqi was arrested since they said the mosque had become a recruiting center for jihadists across Europe.


2010 European terror plot, Plot
On 4 October 2010 a U.S. drone fired a missile at a building in the Mir Ali area of North Waziristan and killed 11 suspected militants believed to be members of Jihad al Islami. Pakistani intelligence officials confirmed on the next day that five German nationals were among them, as well as three other foreigners whose nationalities were not disclosed. The rest were Pakistanis.


2010 European terror plot, Plot
A Pakistani intelligence official confirmed that 8 Germans and 2 British brothers were central players in the plot. They were hiding in North Waziristan and were being tracked by Pakistan, Germany, and the UK. A Briton of Pakistani origin named Abdul Jabbar, originally from Jhelum District, suspected of being involved in this plot was killed in a drone strike according to Pakistani officials. He was allegedly being groomed to be the leader of Al-Qaeda group in the UK charged with attacking targets in Europe. According to Pakistani intelligence dozens of Islamic militants with European citizenship, many of Pakistani origin, were hiding in the tribal areas of Pakistan along the Afghan border and plotting attacks in Europe. British Government Communications Headquarters estimates that about 20 Britons are getting training in North Waziristan.


2010 European terror plot, Plot
Siddiqui indicated that Younis al-Mauretani was his al-Qaeda contact. In early September 2011 in Quetta, al-Mauretani was arrested by the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence with Frontier Corps Balochistan and assistance from U.S. intelligence.


2010 European terror plot, Response
On a visit to Pakistan soon after the plot was uncovered CIA director Leon Panetta demanded full co-operation by Pakistani authorities in neutralizing the plot.


2010 European terror plot, Response, Drone strikes
The United States responded with an increase of drone attacks on the Waziristan region of Pakistan. In September 2010, 22 drone strikes were carried out, most in a month since the attacks began. On October 4, 2010 a strike killed up to 8 German nationals suspected to be part of this plot. A U.S. official explained that security agencies have had "to work backwards, with your starting point being individuals you believe are involved in plotting, even when you don't have the full outlines of the plot itself... That's why we have been striking - with precision - people and facilities that are part of these conspiracies."


2010 European terror plot, Response, Travel advisories
The U.S. government issued an advisory asking that citizens "take every precaution to be aware of their surroundings and to adopt appropriate safety measures to protect themselves when traveling" to or within Europe in response to this plot. The British government raised the level of threat of terrorism from "general" to "high" for Britons in Germany and France. Canada urged its citizens to exercise caution when traveling in Europe. However, the Canadian government has not changed or upgraded its official travel advisories. In an unusual move Japan also issued a travel alert warning its citizens of the risks of a terrorist attack in Europe. Swedish foreign ministry also called on its citizens traveling to rest of Europe to be on alert.


2010 Euskaltel–Euskadi season
The 2010 season for Euskaltel–Euskadi began in January with the Tour Down Under and ended at the Giro di Lombardia. As a UCI ProTour team, they were automatically invited and obliged to attend every event in the ProTour. The season is the sixteenth for the unofficial Basque national team. The team's manager is former Euskadi rider Igor González de Galdeano, who is in his first year in the position after taking over from Miguel Madariaga.


2010 Euskaltel–Euskadi season
A notable rider joining the team in 2010 is Romain Sicard, the reigning under-23 world champion. Sicard, from the French Basque Country, is only the second non-Spanish rider ever to join the team.


2010 Euskaltel–Euskadi season, Grand Tours
As they did in 2009, Euskaltel declined invitation to the Giro d'Italia in 2010.


2010 Euskaltel–Euskadi season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
Sánchez was the leader of Euskaltel's squad for the Tour, with several Grand Tour veterans beside him, though the team held out some strong riders for the Vuelta a España later in the season. Their goals were a stage win and a high overall placing for Sánchez, who did not ride the Tour in 2009 but had finished seventh overall in 2008.


2010 Euskaltel–Euskadi season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
The squad, being largely composed of climbing specialists, was quiet through the flat stages in the Tour's first week. In stage 8, the race's first mountain stage, Sánchez made all the day's selections and finished at the head of the race, just missing out on a stage win as Andy Schleck pipped him in a two-up sprint. The result did, however, move Sánchez from 21st up to ninth in the overall standings. In stage 9, Sánchez responded to an attack from Schleck and Alberto Contador, briefly riding past them.


2010 Euskaltel–Euskadi season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
The two in turn attacked past Sánchez and finished the stage over a minute ahead of him. Sánchez did, however, stay ahead of the other elite riders in the race, gaining a minute on them and moving up to third in the overall classification. In stage 12, Sánchez finished with the main group on the road for sixth on the day, losing ten seconds to Contador but maintaining third overall.


2010 Euskaltel–Euskadi season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
In stage 14, after Contador and Schleck, the top two men in the overall standings, came to a bizarre seeming track stand in the stage's final kilometer, Sánchez and fourth place man Denis Menchov rode past them and gained 14 seconds back. The next day, Sánchez followed Contador when he controversially attacked past Schleck as the Luxembourger suffered a mechanical incident. Their group gained 39 seconds over Schleck, but since Menchov was also present, Sánchez's position was largely unchanged.


2010 Euskaltel–Euskadi season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
In stage 17, Schleck and Contador again finished well ahead of the rest of the race's elite and decided the stage between themselves. Sánchez was fifth on the day and gained 8 seconds over Menchov in the fight for the bottom step of the podium, but had a lead of only 21 seconds with a long individual time trial (where Menchov is superior) looming. Sánchez indeed fell from the podium in the stage 19 time trial, ceding two minutes to his Russian rival.


2010 Euskaltel–Euskadi season, Grand Tours, Tour de France
He still had a comfortable lead over Jurgen Van den Broeck in fifth, and held fourth place after the Tour's largely ceremonial final stage. Though the team did not win anything at the Tour, they did achieve their stated goal of obtaining a high placing for Sánchez. The squad finished eighth in the teams classification.


2010 Euskaltel–Euskadi season, Grand Tours, Vuelta a España
Antón was the team's leader at the Vuelta a España, heading a squad of climbing specialists. They were 13th in the stage 1 team time trial, finishing with six riders 27 seconds off the winning time set by Team HTC–Columbia. Antón was third in the first mountain stage two days later, entering the top ten overall at seventh with the result. Antón was the winner the next day in a hilly stage that ended with a short but nearly vertical climb to Valdepeñas de Jaén.


2010 Euskaltel–Euskadi season, Grand Tours, Vuelta a España
He had started his attack on the wall at the finish early, and faded in sight of the line, but held off Vincenzo Nibali and Peter Velits to claim the day's honors. The result moved him into second overall, 10 seconds behind race leader Philippe Gilbert and tied with Joaquim Rodríguez in third.


2010 Euskaltel–Euskadi season, Grand Tours, Vuelta a España
After three stages contested by sprinters, in which the overall standings did not change in any significant way, the next mountain stage was stage 8, ending with the Xorret del Catí climb. David Moncoutié won the stage after having been in the morning breakaway, but since previous race leader Gilbert finished two minutes back of the Vuelta's elite riders, Antón took the race leader's red jersey. Antón and Rodríguez had finished together, and Antón thought that Rodríguez would be the next to take it, having won bonus time in the stage's first intermediate sprint.


2010 Euskaltel–Euskadi season, Grand Tours, Vuelta a España
Only after the stage did the riders learn that the sprint had been nullified due to a crash in the peloton shortly before it took place. Antón stated after the stage that he did not expect that he would contend for the Vuelta overall championship. Rodríguez tried again in the next stage to gain time, even just a single second, on Antón, so he could wear the red jersey when the Vuelta entered his home province of Catalonia in stage 10.


2010 Euskaltel–Euskadi season, Grand Tours, Vuelta a España
The two again finished together, though, at the head of the elite group, for 15th and 16th on the day, behind a winning breakaway. Finally, during stage 10, Rodríguez took bonus time which counted, and claimed the red jersey with a margin of two seconds over Antón. Stage 11 was an important climbing stage, one sure to help define the overall classification. It concluded with a short but difficult climb to Vallnord in Andorra. With race leader Rodríguez distanced down the road, the red jersey was again up for grabs.


2010 Euskaltel–Euskadi season, Grand Tours, Vuelta a España
Ezequiel Mosquera attacked first on the final climb, and rode well past Antón and the others, seeming poised to claim the stage win. As the climb went on, however, Antón regained his strength and rode past Mosquera in turn to take a second stage win, reclaiming the red jersey in the process with a 45-second lead over Nibali in second place. At this point, Antón had seemingly revised his expectations, now stating that he did feel he could contend for the overall.


2010 Euskaltel–Euskadi season, Grand Tours, Vuelta a España
The team's fortunes took a drastic turn in stage 14. At the foot of the stage-concluding Peña Cabarga climb, Antón and Martínez crashed after Antón hit a pothole. The crash also involved Caisse d'Epargne's Marzio Bruseghin. Martínez' collarbone was broken, and he lay on the road in pain for several minutes before being picked up by team staff. Antón tried at first to remount his bicycle, but in so doing he discovered that his right arm could not bend. He then climbed into his team car, red jersey torn to tatters, and abandoned the race.


2010 Euskaltel–Euskadi season, Grand Tours, Vuelta a España
The peloton rode on after the crash at approximately 65 km/h (40 mph), meaning it was unlikely that they could chase back on even if they had been immediately able to remount their bicycles. The team rebounded for success in stage 16. About 100 km (62 mi) into the stage, Nieve, with the help of Oroz, bridged from the peloton up to the breakaway group. Having been in the peloton for much of the stage and in Oroz' slipstream during the bridge meant that Nieve was quite fresh for the finish at the Alto de Cotobello. He soloed to the stage win ahead of a surging Fränk Schleck in second. Nieve was the team's highest-placed rider at the end of the race, finishing 12th at a deficit of exactly 11 minutes to Vuelta champion Nibali. The squad finished eighth in the teams classification.


2010 Evening Standard Theatre Awards
The 2010 Evening Standard Theatre Awards were announced on 29 November 2010. The shortlist was revealed on 22 November 2010 and the longlist on 25 October 2010.


2010 Exeter City Council election
The 2010 Exeter City Council election took place on 9 September 2010 to elect members of Exeter City Council in England. One third of seats were up for election. The elections took place later in the year than other local elections. Exeter had previously been granted permission to become a unitary authority, with local elections postponed until 2011. When the Coalition Government won the general election earlier that year, Exeter's permission to form a unitary authority was overturned. Because of this, the High Court ruled that those councillors who had stayed on beyond their four-year term were no longer constitutionally elected, and would need to seek re-election. This resulted in there being an election in every ward in September to renew the mandate for the wards.


2010 Exeter City Council election
However, no election was needed in Pennsylvania ward, as a by-election had been held on 6 May, the day on which the local elections would ordinarily have taken place, to fill a vacancy for the seat that would have been due for re-election in 2010 in any case. Therefore, the winner of the May by-election was deemed to be elected to represent the ward for a full four-year term. The result of the May by-election is included in the results given.


2010 Exeter City Council election, Background
The previous election in 2008 had left the council under no overall control with the Liberal Democrats as the largest party on 13 seats, followed by the Conservatives on 12, Labour on 11 and the Liberal Party on four. However, the week before the election, two Liberal Democrat councillors defected to Labour in protest against the party's coalition with the Conservatives. This meant that Labour were the largest party going into the election, on 13 seats to the Conservatives' 12 and the Liberal Democrats' 11.


2010 Extreme Sailing Series
The 2010 Extreme Sailing Series is the fourth edition of the sailing series. This is the first year without iShares as a sponsor. The 2010 series started in Sète, France on 27 May 2010 and ended in Almeria, Spain on 12 October 2010 and took place in 5 cities.


2010 Extreme Sailing Series, Acts, Act 1: Sète, France
The first act of the series was held in Sète, France between 27–30 May 2010.


2010 Extreme Sailing Series, Acts, Act 2: Cowes, UK
The second act of the series was held again in Cowes, UK again. The birthplace to the America's Cup, this act was held during Cowes Week between 31 July and 5 August 2010.


2010 Extreme Sailing Series, Acts, Act 3: Kiel, Germany
Kiel, Germany was the host of the third act of the 2010 series, on the weekend of 26–29 August 2010.


2010 Extreme Sailing Series, Acts, Act 4: Trapani, Italy
The fourth act of 2010 was in Trapani, Italy and was held on the weekend of 23–26 September 2010.


2010 Extreme Sailing Series, Acts, Act 5: Almeria, Spain
Almeria, Spain was the fifth and final act for the series, and was held on 9–12 October 2010.


2010 Extreme Sailing Series, Acts, Act 5: Almeria, Spain
Team New Zealand entered a wildcard team into this regatta, finishing last. The crew was Dean Barker, Winston Macfarlane, Jeremy Lomas, James Dagg and Darren Bundock.


2010 ExxonMobil oil spill
On May 1st, 2010, a ruptured ExxonMobil pipeline in the state of Akwa Ibom, Nigeria, spilled more than a million gallons into the delta and contributed to the major environmental issues in the Niger Delta. The spill had occurred at an Exxon platform some 20-25 miles (32-40 km) offshore which feeds the Qua Iboe oil export terminal. Exxon Mobil declared force majeure on Qua Iboe oil shipments due to the pipeline damage. The leakage in the Qua Iboe oil field discharged about 232 barrels of crude into the Atlantic Ocean contaminating the waters and coastal settlements in the predominantly fishing communities along Akwa Ibom and Cross River.


2010 ExxonMobil oil spill, Effects
Many locals in the region attest to environmental damage that allegedly developed as a result of the leak. Past oil spills in the delta's creeks have been left to fester for decades, polluting the air, soil, and water of impoverished communities. Nigeria sees its future output growth largely in offshore fields and does not want spills there to compound its environmental woes. Checks by Sahara Reporters revealed that the fishermen reportedly hauled in fish killed in ExxonMobil’s oil spill in a location about 20 kilometers from the shoreline and supplied the bad fish to unsuspecting members of the public.


2010 ExxonMobil oil spill, Effects
The Nigerian Environmental Rights Action group issued a demand for N51 billion ($100 Million) from ExxonMobil in Nigeria for their failure to compensate fishermen within the coastal areas who suffered devastating losses due to the oil company’s exploration activities and major oil spills. Thick balls of tar have also been sighted washed upon the shoreline as well as oil slicks. The spill has only exacerbated the already growing problem of pollution in the Delta. The Nigerian government estimates there were over 7,000 spills, large and small, between 1970 and 2000, according to the BBC. That is approximately 300 spills a year, and some spills have been leaking for years. Vast swathes of the Delta have been seen covered with tar and stagnant lakes of crude due to oil spills of the past.


2010 ExxonMobil oil spill, Cleanup effort
ExxonMobil of Nigeria was cited for the reported use of dispersants near the coast to contain the oil spill. These dispersants were considered a violation of environmental standards in the oil industry. Rev. Samuel Ayadi, Akwa Ibom State Chapter Chairman of Artisan Fishermen Association of Nigeria (ARFAN), said that ExxonMobil was in the habit of using dangerous chemical dispersants which are scientifically proven to be toxic to human and aquatic life to clean up oil spills whenever they occur.


2010 ExxonMobil oil spill, Cleanup effort
He also noted that dispersants were even more dangerous than crude oil because it breaks down the crude oil and sinks it to the sea bed where it kills fish eggs and fingerlings thereby wiping out generations of fish stock and other sea food and marine creatures that make up the food chain.


2010 ExxonMobil oil spill, Controversy
Following the May 1 spill, protests by women and youth in the local areas disrupted oil production at Mobil facilities for two days, with reports of soldiers beating protestors, including one woman who suffered a broken leg. Those protests led to a May 20 meeting with stakeholders from the Akwa Ibom State Government, Mobil, and core host communities. Among the topics raised was “the issue of the oil company playing one community against another.”


2010 F1 Powerboat World Championship
The 2010 UIM F1 H2O World Championship was the 27th season of Formula 1 Powerboat racing, and the 30th anniversary year since the series' foundation in 1981. The calendar consisted of eight races, beginning in Portimão, Portugal on 9 May 2010, and ending in Sharjah, UAE on 10 December 2010. Sami Seliö finished the season as drivers' champion driving for Team Mad Croc, clinching his second title with his first having been in 2007.


2010 F1 Powerboat World Championship, Season calendar
A total of eight rounds comprised the 2010 championship, the same as in 2009. However the concept of running two races at each event, an idea introduced the previous year, was dropped for 2010, with the championship returning to the traditional format of practice and qualifying on the first day, and racing on the second. The Grand Prix of Finland, having been held at Lahti for the past two years, was replaced by a third Chinese race in Linyi which was announced at the beginning of the year. The initial calendar published by the UIM featured an additional race in the week following the St Petersburg event, however a location was never finalised, and it was dropped from the schedule.


2010 F1 Powerboat World Championship, Results and standings
Points were awarded to the top 10 classified finishers. A maximum of two boats per team were eligible for points in the teams' championship.


2010 F1 Powerboat World Championship, Results and standings, Teams standings
Only boats with results eligible for points counting towards the teams' championship are shown here.


2010 F2000 Championship Series
The 2010 F2000 Championship Series season marked the fifth season of competition in the series. It comprised 14 rounds (seven double-race weekends), beginning April 10 at Virginia International Raceway and concluding September 5 at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.


2010 F2000 Championship Series
With six victories during the season, Victor Carbone finished it as the champion, 74 points clear of closest rival Cole Morgan, who took two wins. Daniel Erickson finished the season in third place, despite missing two early-season rounds at Road Atlanta and Mosport, taking a double win at Watkins Glen and Mid-Ohio. Jonathan Scarallo, Chris Livengood and Remy Audette took the other race wins as they all finished inside the top ten in the championship standings.


2010 F2000 Championship Series, Drivers and teams
The series released a 33-car entry list on March 29, 2010.


2010 F4 Eurocup 1.6
The 2010 F4 Eurocup 1.6 was the eighteenth season of the series for 1600cc Formula Renault machinery, and the only season run under the guise of F4 Eurocup 1.6. The series began on 17 April at Motorland Aragon and ended on 10 October at Circuit de Catalunya, after seven rounds and fourteen races.


2010 F4 Eurocup 1.6
Stoffel Vandoorne clinched the championship with a meeting to spare, winning six races en route to a 36-point championship winning margin over Norman Nato, with Mathieu Jaminet edging out Paul-Loup Chatin for third place overall. Franck Matelli finished fifth; the only other driver to win a race over the season.


2010 F4 Eurocup 1.6
It was the final season run under the "F4 Eurocup 1.6" name, as the series was renamed the "French F4 Championship" for 2011.


2010 FA Community Shield
The 2010 FA Community Shield (also known as The FA Community Shield sponsored by McDonald's for sponsorship reasons) was the 88th FA Community Shield, an annual football match contested by the winners of the previous season's Premier League and FA Cup competitions. The match was played at Wembley Stadium, London, on 8 August 2010, and contested by league and cup double winners Chelsea and league runners-up Manchester United. Manchester United won the match 3–1 with goals from Antonio Valencia, Javier Hernández and Dimitar Berbatov; Chelsea's consolation goal came from Salomon Kalou. It was Manchester United's 14th outright victory in the Community Shield.


2010 FA Community Shield
Chelsea went into the match as trophy-holders, having won the 2009 Community Shield. The Shield is usually contested by the winners of the Premier League and the FA Cup, but since Chelsea won the double, Manchester United qualified by default as Premier League runners-up. It was the third time in four years that the Community Shield had been contested between the two teams.


2010 FA Cup Final
The 2010 FA Cup Final was the 129th final of the FA Cup, the world's oldest domestic football cup competition. The match took place on 15 May 2010, at Wembley Stadium, London, in front of a crowd of over 88,000 and a British television audience of over 5 million. The match was contested between the two most recent FA Cup winners, Chelsea (2009, also cup holders) and Portsmouth (2008), and was refereed by Chris Foy from Merseyside. Chelsea won 1–0.


2010 FA Cup Final
Chelsea entered the final looking to complete the Double for the first time in their history, having been crowned as the winners of the 2009–10 Premier League the week before. Portsmouth entered the final in a markedly different position; they faced an uncertain future, having already been relegated from the Premier League on 10 April following financial troubles, which saw them become the first ever Premier League club to enter administration, incurring an automatic nine-point deduction.


2010 FA Cup Final
After Kevin-Prince Boateng saw his penalty saved by Petr Čech in the 54th minute, Didier Drogba scored from a free kick in the 58th minute to lead Chelsea to a 1–0 victory, and their first Double despite a later penalty miss from Frank Lampard. Chelsea's Ashley Cole won the FA Cup for a record 6th time. It was the first final in which both teams missed a penalty. Frank Lampard's penalty miss was the first penalty to completely miss the target in an FA Cup Final since Charlie Wallace in 1913; Wallace's team also won 1–0. David James was the oldest goalkeeper to play in an FA Cup final, aged nearly 40.


2010 FA Cup Final
The UEFA Europa League qualifying place normally given to the winners of the FA Cup became irrelevant for the 2010 final, after Chelsea qualified for the Champions League and Portsmouth were refused a UEFA licence due to their financial situation. With Manchester United having won the League Cup and qualified for the Champions League, the qualifying place due to the finalists instead passed to Liverpool, the seventh-placed Premier League team.


2010 FA Cup Final, Background
Up to the 2010 final, Chelsea had reached the FA Cup Final nine times, winning five of them, while Portsmouth had won two of their four finals. Portsmouth were the latest side to reach the final of the FA Cup in the same season as being relegated from Premier League; the last team to do the same was Middlesbrough in 1997 who, coincidentally, were also beaten by Chelsea.


2010 FA Cup Final, Background
Chelsea won both of the games between the two sides in the 2009–10 Premier League, winning 2–1 at Stamford Bridge and 5–0 at Fratton Park. Chelsea and Portsmouth had been drawn together in the FA Cup twice before, each winning one tie; their first FA Cup encounter came in the Fifth Round in 1928–29, when Portsmouth won 1–0 in a replay at Fratton Park after they had drawn 1–1 at Stamford Bridge; Portsmouth went on to reach the final. Their next meeting was 68 years later, in the Sixth Round of the 1996–97 competition; Chelsea won the match 4–1 and went on to win the trophy.


2010 FA Cup Final, Background
Because Chelsea won the 2009–10 Premier League, and Portsmouth's appeal for a UEFA licence was rejected by the FA, their 2010–11 UEFA Europa League berth went to the team that finished in seventh place in the league, Liverpool.


2010 FA Cup Final, Route to the final
[ PL] = Premier League, [C] = Championship, [L1] = League One


2010 FA Cup Final, Pre-match, Match ball
The match ball for the 2010 FA Cup Final was the Umbro NeoPro. The ball has an irregular 14-panel configuration, and the panels are cut using lasers, which Umbro claim cause the ball to have a smoother flight through the air. The ball will be used for all matches in the 2010–11 FA Cup from the Second Round onwards.


2010 FA Cup Final, Pre-match, Officials
Merseyside-based referee Chris Foy was named as the referee for the 2010 FA Cup Final on 13 April 2010. Foy's previous assignments as the primary referee at Wembley Stadium included the 2007 FA Trophy Final and the 2009 FA Community Shield. He was also the fourth official for the 2008 FA Cup Final.


2010 FA Cup Final, Pre-match, Officials
His assistants for the 2010 final were John Flynn, representing the Royal Air Force Football Association, Shaun Procter-Green of the Lincolnshire Football Association, with Andre Marriner of the Birmingham County Football Association as the fourth official. The reserve match official was the Northamptonshire Football Association's Stuart Burt.


2010 FA Cup Final, Pre-match, Kits
Since both sides' first-choice kits are blue, the toss of a coin was used to decide which team had choice of kit. Chelsea won the toss and wore their new blue home kit, while Portsmouth wore a new white change kit with burgundy and salmon pink trim.


2010 FA Cup Final, Pre-match, Opening ceremony
Throughout the 2009–10 FA Cup season, the Football Association took the FA Cup trophy on a nationwide tour covering 30 venues. The tour began at AFC Bournemouth's Dean Court stadium on 12 November 2009 and culminated at Trafalgar Square on 13 May 2010, two days before the final. At the events, fans were able to have photos taken with the trophy as well as take part in other interactive activities.


2010 FA Cup Final, Pre-match, Opening ceremony
Immediately before the match kicked off, there was a short opening ceremony in which the traditional FA Cup anthem, Abide with Me, was sung by 14-year-old Faryl Smith. The trophy was then placed on a plinth at the mouth of the players' tunnel before the players emerged and lined up along a red carpet. The players were then introduced to the final's chief guest and the official party, after which the national anthem was sung.


2010 FA Cup Final, Reactions, Criticism of pitch
The much-maligned Wembley pitch came in for criticism from Chelsea captain John Terry following the match. He said, "The pitch ruined the final. It's probably the worst pitch we've played on all year. It was not good enough for a Wembley pitch."


2010 FA Trophy Final
The 2010 FA Trophy Final was the 40th final of the Football Association's cup competition for levels 5–8 of the English football league system. The match was contested by Stevenage Borough who won the competition in 2007 and 2009, and Barrow who won the competition in 1990. Although Stevenage Borough, who had won the Football Conference were pre-match favourites ahead of Barrow who had finished 15th, Barrow won 2–1 in extra time, after the match had ended in a 1–1 draw.


2010 FA Trophy Final, Club backgrounds, Stevenage Borough
Stevenage Borough were the first non-league team to appear three times at the new Wembley Stadium, London after winning two of the previous three FA Trophy competitions through victories in 2007 and 2009. Stevenage became the first team to win a competitive match, and subsequently, a competition trophy following the reconstruction of Wembley Stadium. The supporters of the club occupied the West End of Wembley Stadium and will do so again in the 2010 final.


2010 FA Trophy Final, Club backgrounds, Barrow
The last time Barrow appeared in the FA Trophy final was 1990, when they won 3–0 against Leek Town. They were making their first appearance at the redeveloped Wembley Stadium, in their second season in the Conference National following promotion from the Conference North.


2010 FA Trophy Final, Match, Summary
Barrow seemed to begin the game more brightly out of the two sides, with three shots in the first ten minutes. It was on the ten-minute mark where, in Borough's first attack of the game, Andy Drury lashed a strike straight into the top corner of Barrow keeper Stuart Tomlinson's goal. This goal seemed to change the feel of the game, with Stevenage applying more and more pressure until, on 28 minutes, Stevenage midfielder David Bridges was shown a straight red card for serious foul play on Barrow No. 7, Andy Bond. The game was evenly balanced from then until half-time.


2010 FA Trophy Final, Match, Summary
Barrow began the second-half brightly, creating plenty of chances; Stevenage had a few chances, however Barrow seemed to apply more and more pressure. On 79 minutes, substitute Lee McEvilly placed a header into the bottom right corner of Chris Day's net. Barrow exerted more and more pressure from then onwards, until 90 minutes when Borough keeper Day suffered an injury and was replaced by Ashley Bayes. Deep into added time when extra time seemed likely, Robin Hulbert went in for a challenge with his elbow, meaning the referee had no choice but to show red. Stevenage substitute Charlie Griffin had a huge amount of blood coming from his face, there was no way he could continue. They had already used all three subs, meaning the extra time was played 10 against 9 (Barrow 10 players, Stevenage 9).


2010 FA Trophy Final, Match, Summary
The first half of extra time was even, but Barrow were possibly edging it. The second half of extra time could not have started better for Barrow as Jason Walker struck a stunning 25-yard strike into the top left corner of the goal. Barrow seemed to try and play the clock down and Stevenage had a few decent chances, before on 117 minutes Barrow had a 3-against-1 on the keeper, which amazingly, they missed. In the end, it didn't matter and the trophy went to Barrow.


2010 FA Vase Final
The 2009–10 FA Vase Final was the 36th final of the Football Association's cup competition for teams at levels 9-11 of the English football league system. The match was contested between Whitley Bay , of the Northern League Division 1 (level 9), and Wroxham , of the Eastern Counties League (level 9).


2010 FA Women's Cup Final
The 2010 FA Women's Cup Final was the 40th final of the FA Women's Cup, England's primary cup competition for women's football teams. It was the 17th final to be held under the direct control of the Football Association (FA). The match was contested by Arsenal and Everton at the City Ground on 3 May 2010. Arsenal entered their fifth consecutive final having won the last four. Already the most successful team in the competition's history with 10 wins from 10 finals, Arsenal sought an 11th victory overall. Everton had one previous final appearance, losing 1–0 to Charlton Athletic in 2005. An earlier incarnation of the club, known as Leasowe Pacific, had lost the 1988 final and won in 1989.


2010 FA Women's Cup Final
Everton won the match 3–2 after extra time, with two goals from Natasha Dowie either side of an own goal from Arsenal's Faye White. Arsenal had twice equalised; through a Kim Little penalty and a goal from Julie Fleeting.


2010 FA Women's Cup Final
The match attracted a crowd of 17,505 and was broadcast live on Sky Sports and BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra. Arsenal lost their first ever FA Women's Cup final and Everton became the first non–London club to win the trophy since Doncaster Belles 16 years earlier.


2010 FA Women's Cup Final, Route to the final, Arsenal
Arsenal needed extra time to eliminate their fourth round opponents Sunderland, whom they had defeated in the previous year's final. Katie Chapman had given Arsenal the lead in the weather-delayed home fixture, only for Ciara Grant to score an own goal in the final minute. Kim Little scored a hat-trick in extra time to secure Arsenal's passage.


2010 FA Women's Cup Final, Route to the final, Arsenal
In the fifth round Arsenal welcomed Leeds, their vanquished final opponents from 2006 and 2008, to Meadow Park. When Leeds' Ellen White equalised Jennifer Beattie's opening goal, Jayne Ludlow and Rachel Yankey then gave Arsenal a 3–1 lead. England winger Jessica Clarke scored a late goal for Leeds, but Arsenal held on to reach the quarter finals. A week later the quarter final saw a visit from another Yorkshire outfit, Doncaster Rovers Belles. Arsenal beat their old rivals 5–0 with a goal from Yankey and Kim Little's second hat-trick of the competition. Doncaster's Rachel Williams' own goal completed the scoring.


2010 FA Women's Cup Final, Route to the final, Arsenal
The semi final versus Chelsea was contested on neutral ground at Staines Town FC. Inspired by the return to form of Julie Fleeting, who had given birth the previous July, Arsenal swept to a 4–0 win. Goals from Little, Faye White and Ludlow added to Fleeting's opener to clinch Arsenal's place in the final.


2010 FA Women's Cup Final, Route to the final, Everton
Everton began their campaign with a home fixture against FA Women's Premier League Southern Division club Queens Park Rangers. Jill Scott, Rachel Unitt, Michelle Hinnigan and Fara Williams all scored to put Everton four goals ahead, before Cherrelle Albert reduced the arrears. Gwennan Harries scored two late goals, either side of Beth Curtis' goal for QPR, to make the final score 6–2.


2010 FA Women's Cup Final, Route to the final, Everton
The fifth round saw more Southern Division opposition travel to Everton's Rossett Park home, in the shape of Portsmouth. The south coast team were dismissed even more emphatically than QPR had been, with Toni Duggan scoring a hat-trick in a 7–0 win. Scott, Natasha Dowie, Williams and Jody Handley also scored for Everton.


2010 FA Women's Cup Final, Route to the final, Everton
In the quarter final Everton met top-flight opponents for the first time as Blackburn Rovers were the visitors. Duggan equalised Danielle Sheen's ninth-minute goal for Blackburn, then Michelle Evans scored the winner early in the second half.


2010 FA Women's Cup Final, Route to the final, Everton
Haig Avenue in Southport hosted Everton's semi final against Barnet. Another Southern Division team, who had contested the 1997 final as Wembley Ladies, Barnet proved worthy opponents and almost took the lead in the first half. But two minutes into the second period, Dowie capitalised on a defensive error to put Everton ahead. Williams' overhead kick in the 86th minute then sealed Everton's place in the final.


2010 FA Women's Cup Final, Background
Since their first final win over Doncaster Belles in 1993, Arsenal had reached nine more, winning all of them. Liverpool Ladies were beaten 3–2 in 1995, then Croydon by the same score in 1998. In 1999 Southampton Saints lost 2–0 to Arsenal. 2001 saw full-time professional Fulham defeated 1–0. In 2004 and 2007 Charlton Athletic lost 3–0 and 4–1, respectively, while Leeds United were thrashed 5–0 in 2006 then 4–1 in 2008. The 2009 final saw Arsenal beat Sunderland 2–1 to win the Cup for a record 10th time.


2010 FA Women's Cup Final, Background
Everton's manager Mo Marley had been part of the Leasowe Pacific team which lifted the Cup for the only time in 1989. They defeated Friends of Fulham, for whom Hope Powell scored twice, 3–2 at Old Trafford. This avenged their 3–1 defeat to Doncaster Belles in the previous year's final. Playing as Everton, the club reached the final again in 2005, but were beaten 1–0 by Charlton Athletic.


2010 FA Women's Cup Final, Background
Everton had emerged as the main challengers to Arsenal's dominance of women's football in England, since Charlton Athletic had their funding withdrawn in 2007. Everton's 1–0 win in the 2008 Premier League Cup final was Arsenal's first domestic defeat for a period spanning two years and 58 matches. During this time Arsenal had won an unprecedented quadruple, including the 2007 UEFA Women's Cup. When Everton held Arsenal to a 0–0 draw in April 2008, it was the first league points Arsenal had dropped for 17 months. In the 2008–09 FA Women's Premier League season, Arsenal won the title from Everton on goal difference after beating them 1–0 on the final day.


2010 FA Women's Cup Final, Background
The rivalry continued into the 2009–10 campaign and became increasingly fractious. When Everton beat Arsenal 2–1 in extra time at the Premier League Cup semi final, Arsenal's goalkeeper Emma Byrne was sent off for punching Everton striker Natasha Dowie. During Arsenal's 1–0 league win at Everton in April, Jayne Ludlow was red carded for an "aggressive outburst" at Fara Williams. This meant that club captain Ludlow was suspended for the final.


2010 FA Women's Cup Final, Background
Before the match Arsenal were motivated by a desire to prove they were still England's top club, despite several leading players departing for the Women's Professional Soccer league in the United States. Since taking over as manager from Tony Gervaise in February, Laura Harvey had presided over a 100% record which she was keen to extend at Everton's expense.


2010 FA Women's Cup Final, Background
Everton wanted to atone for their failure in the 2005 final. According to manager Mo Marley they had performed to 10% of their capabilities in that match. Fara Williams considered that Everton were unfortunate to lose the recent league match with Arsenal and would take heart from that performance. Williams and her team mates also wished to "bounce back" from their shock Premier League Cup final defeat to Leeds.


2010 FA Women's Cup Final, Background
Veteran full-back Becky Easton had played in Cup final defeats with Everton in 2005, Liverpool in 1995 and 1996, as well as captaining Doncaster Belles in their 2002 defeat to Fulham. She had been with Liverpool's forerunners Knowsley United, but was cup-tied for their appearance in the 1994 final. Easton said: "I've been trying for years and years and haven't been able to do it [win the Cup] before. It would obviously be great for the club, because we haven’t won it as 'Everton', but on a personal note it would just be absolutely fantastic."


2010 FA Women's Cup Final, Background
Rachel Brown had played for Liverpool as a 15-year-old schoolgirl in the 1996 final, but was injured in 2005 and had not played in the final again since. She told the Liverpool Echo: "I wouldn't say I'm in the twilight of my career but it's been a long time since 1996, so I'm very determined to put things right."


2010 FA Women's Cup Final, Match, Team news
The team managers Marley and Harvey, colleagues in coaching the England women's Under–19 team, named identical 4–2–1–3 formations.


2010 FA Women's Cup Final, Match, Team news
Despite questionable fitness Julie Fleeting led Arsenal's attack, supported by Kim Little and flanked by wingers Rachel Yankey and Gemma Davison. It was Fleeting's fifth FA Women's Cup final after appearances in 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2008 but after enduring a difficult pregnancy, a hernia had left her unable to train properly or play for 90 minutes. With Jayne Ludlow suspended and Katie Chapman having signed for Chicago Red Stars, Arsenal's midfield comprised Ciara Grant—latterly a centre back—and utility player Jennifer Beattie. Regular goalkeeper Emma Byrne played behind central defensive pair Faye White and Gilly Flaherty, with Niamh Fahey and Corinne Yorston in the full-back positions.


2010 FA Women's Cup Final, Match, Team news
Everton named a back five of experienced England international players: goalkeeper Rachel Brown, Rachel Unitt, Emily Westwood, Lindsay Johnson and Becky Easton. Fara Williams and Jill Scott played in the centre, with captain Jody Handley on the right and 18-year-old Toni Duggan on the left. Michelle Hinnigan started behind centre forward Natasha Dowie, niece of Iain. In 2007 Dowie had rejected a transfer to Arsenal in favour of Everton, stating her desire to "knock Arsenal off their pedestal in women's football."


2010 FA Women's Cup Final, Match, Summary
The match began in heavy rain, causing difficulty to both sets of players. After 16 minutes, Fara Williams' firmly struck shot was palmed away by Byrne, but Jody Handley collected the ball on the right-wing and passed to Natasha Dowie who scored from close range after Faye White blocked her first attempt.


2010 FA Women's Cup Final, Match, Summary
Two minutes before half time Arsenal equalised when Gemma Davison outpaced Rachel Unitt down Arsenal's right flank. Unitt's sliding tackle tripped Davison, conceding a penalty kick and earning a yellow card from referee Hong. Kim Little sidefooted her 42nd goal of the season from the penalty spot, low to the goalkeeper's left.


2010 FA Women's Cup Final, Match, Summary
In first half stoppage time Arsenal fell behind again when Faye White, under pressure from Jill Scott, used her head to divert Toni Duggan's high left-wing cross past Emma Byrne and into her own goal. Nine minutes into the second half Julie Fleeting found space in the penalty area and in the act of falling over, looped Rachel Yankey's low cut back over Everton goalkeeper Brown to make the score 2–2.


2010 FA Women's Cup Final, Match, Summary
Fleeting was withdrawn after 70 minutes, for 16-year-old schoolgirl Danielle Carter. Everton manager Marley had already replaced cautioned left-back Unitt with Fern Whelan on 63 minutes.


2010 FA Women's Cup Final, Match, Summary
The match finished level and with both teams tiring, extra time contained less incident. Two minutes prior to the end of extra time, Everton substitute Brooke Chaplen passed the ball through the Arsenal defence to Natasha Dowie who broke into the right hand side of the penalty area. After beating the onrushing goalkeeper Emma Byrne in a race to the ball, Dowie knocked the ball into the net from an acute angle for her 28th goal of the season. Elated, Dowie ran into the crowd and hugged a random little boy: "I don't even know if he was a supporter," she later told reporters.


2010 FA Women's Cup Final, Post match
The match had been played at Nottingham's City Ground for the third time in four seasons, where organisers had hoped to break the final attendance record of 24,582 set in 2008 at the same venue. The game was shown live on Sky Sports 2, attracting viewing figures of 139,000. Full match commentary was broadcast on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra and BBC Radio Merseyside.


2010 FAI Cup
The 2010 FAI Senior Challenge Cup, also known as the 2010 FAI Ford Cup, is the 90th season of the national football competition of the Republic of Ireland.


2010 FAI Cup
The competition was won by Sligo Rovers who defeated Shamrock Rovers in the final on 14 November 2010 at the Aviva Stadium, Dublin.


2010 FAI Cup
A total of 47 teams competed in the 2010 competition which commenced on the weekend ending Sunday 21 March 2010. The 22 teams entered from the League of Ireland Premier and First divisions received byes into the Third round stage while the remaining 25 teams entered at the First and Second round stages with 15 of these 25 teams receiving byes into the Second Round. These 25 teams composed of 5 League of Ireland A Championship clubs, 16 Intermediate clubs and 4 Junior clubs. As winners of the competition, Sligo Rovers earned spots in both the third qualifying round of the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League and the 2011 Setanta Sports Cup.


2010 FAI Cup, First round
The draw for the First round took place on 10 March 2010. Fixtures were played weekend ending, Sunday 21 March 2010.


2010 FAI Cup, Second round
The draw for the Second round took place on 10 March 2010. Fixtures were played weekend ending, Sunday 16 May 2010.


2010 FAI Cup, Third round
The draw for the Third round took place on 17 May 2010 on Monday Night Soccer. Fixtures were played weekend ending, Sunday 6 June 2010.


2010 FAI Cup, Fourth round
The draw for the Fourth round took place on 7 June 2010 on Monday Night Soccer. Fixtures were played Friday 27 August 2010.


2010 FAI Cup, Quarter-finals
The draw for the quarter-finals took place on 30 August 2010 on Monday Night Soccer.


2010 FAI Cup, Semi-finals
The draw for the semi-finals took place on 20 September 2010 on Monday Night Soccer.


2010 FAI Cup Final
The 2010 FAI Cup Final was the final match of the 2010 FAI Cup competition and was contested by Sligo Rovers and Shamrock Rovers at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin on 14 November 2010. Shamrock Rovers were looking to complete the double of League and cup after winning the 2010 League of Ireland. Sligo Rovers won the cup 2–0 on penalties.


2010 FAI Cup Final
The final was the first to be staged at the new Aviva Stadium. The match was shown live on RTÉ television and online worldwide.


2010 FAI Cup Final, Ticketing
On 22 October 2010, the Football Association of Ireland announced that tickets for the final would go on sale to supporters at the discounted rates of €10 and €5 to mark the first FAI Ford Cup final at the Aviva Stadium.


2010 FAI Cup Final, Match summary
Before the biggest attendance at a cup final since 1968, 36,101, both teams cancelled each other out over 120 minutes leaving the final to be decided by spot kicks for the second time in three years. Eoin Doyle converted the first Sligo penalty in the shoot-out but the next five penalties were all missed. Gary McCabe made it 2–0 with Sligo's fourth only for Paddy Kavanagh to have his attempt saved by Sligo keeper Ciaran Kelly. Kelly saved all four Shamrock Rovers spot-kicks in the penalty shoot-out. Shamrock Rovers had finished the game with ten men, through the dismissal of Stephen Bradley, who later claimed his team had battered their opponents, ten minutes from the finish of extra time for a second yellow card, while Sligo's Joseph Ndo was named man of the match.


2010 FAMAS Awards
The 58th Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Awards Night was held on December 13, 2010 at GSIS Teatro, Diosdado Macapagal Boulevard, Pasay.


2010 FAMAS Awards
Dukot, by ATD Entertainment, is the recipient of this edition's FAMAS Award for Best Picture.


2010 FC Alania Vladikavkaz season
The 2010 Alania Vladikavkaz season was the club's first season back in the Russian Premier League, the highest tier of football in Russia since their relegation at the end of the 2005 season. They finished the season in 15th position and were relegated back to the Russian First Division after one season.


2010 FC Alania Vladikavkaz season, Squad, Out on loan
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2010 FC Alania Vladikavkaz season, Transfers, Winter
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2010 FC Alania Vladikavkaz season, Transfers, Winter
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2010 FC Alania Vladikavkaz season, Transfers, Summer
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2010 FC Alania Vladikavkaz season, Transfers, Summer
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2010 FC Anzhi Makhachkala season
The 2010 FC Anzhi Makhachkala season was the 1st season that the club played in the Russian Premier League, the highest tier of football in Russia since their relegation in 2002. They finished 11th in the league and also took part in the 2010–11 Russian Cup, exiting at the round of 16 stage.


2010 FC Anzhi Makhachkala season, Season events
On 2 March, Otar Martsvaladze moved to Volga Nizhny Novgorod on loan for the season.


2010 FC Anzhi Makhachkala season, Season events
On 18 March, Omari Tetradze resigned as manager,  with Gadzhi Gadzhiyev being appointed as their new manager on 18 April.