2012 Essendon Football Club season
Prior to the final round vice captain Mark McVeigh announced his retirement from football after 14 season and 232 games at the club. After the Home and Away season completed Essendon captain Jobe Watson was awarded the Brownlow Medal. The highest individual accolade in the AFL. This was later handed back following the drug scandal.


2012 Essendon Football Club season
The season became notorious for the illegal supplements program that was operated by the club prior to and into the 2012 season. After a three-year investigation, thirty-four players on the 2012 squad were suspected to have been administered the banned peptide Thymosin beta-4, and were suspended for the 2016 season.


2012 Essendon Football Club season, Guernsey, Special Versions, Heritage Guernsey
On 2 July Essendon unveiled their Heritage Guernsey. It feature all the names of past premiership players in the background along with the name and signature of club legend John Colman on the breast. Under the signature include the traditional Essendon Football Club motto 'suaviter in modo, fortiter in re' which dates back to the 1870s and translates as 'gentle in manner, resolute in deed.' The most notable change to the guernsey was the removal of the black background to comply with AFL rules requiring each club to provide a clash guernsey. The new Heritage guernsey made its debut during the Round 15 game between St Kilda and Essendon. This marked the end of a 114-year-long tradition as the first time the Essendon Football Club would play an AFL/VFL game without wearing its famous black and red stripe guernsey.


2012 Essendon Football Club season, Results, Pre-season (NAB Cup), Round 2
The match between Essendon and St Kilda was cancelled, because heavy rain prevented flights chartered by the Essendon Football Club from landing in Wangaratta. Initially the match was reflected as a draw with no score on the NAB Cup Ladder, but later St Kilda was awarded the four points.


2012 Esso Cup
The 2012 Esso Cup was Canada's fourth annual national women's midget hockey championship, which was played April 22–28, 2012 at MacLauchlan Arena inside the CARI Complex on the University of Prince Edward Island campus in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. The Pembina Valley Hawks from Manitoba won the gold medal with a 4–2 victory over the Thunder Bay Queens in the championship game. The Edmonton Thunder captured a medal for the third consecutive year by winning the bronze.


2012 Esso Cup, Road to the Esso Cup, Quebec
Dodge Cup Midget Championship held April 12–15, 2012 at Laval, Quebec


2012 Esso Cup, Road to the Esso Cup, Ontario
Ontario Women's Hockey Association Championship held April 13–15, 2012 at Vaughan, Ontario


2012 Esso Cup, Road to the Esso Cup, Pacific Region
Best-of-3 series played April 6–8, 2012 at Surrey, British Columbia


2012 Estonian Figure Skating Championships
The 2012 Estonian Figure Skating Championships (Estonian: Eesti Meistrivõistlused 2012) took place between 16 and 18 December 2011 in Premia. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, and ice dancing on the senior and junior levels. The results were used to choose the teams to the 2012 World Championships and the 2012 European Championships.


2012 Estoril Open
The 2012 Estoril Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 23rd edition of the Estoril Open for the men (the 16th for the women), and was part of the ATP World Tour 250 series of the 2012 ATP World Tour, and of the International-level tournaments of the 2012 WTA Tour. Both the men's and the women's events took place at the Estádio Nacional in Oeiras, Portugal, from 28 April through 6 May 2012.


2012 Estoril Open, ATP singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry as a special exempt into the main draw:


2012 Estoril Open, ATP doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2012 Estoril Open, WTA doubles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:


2012 Estoril Open – Men's Doubles
Eric Butorac and Jean-Julien Rojer were the defending champions but decided not to participate together. Butorac plays alongside Bruno Soares, while Rojer partners up with Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi. Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and Jean-Julien Rojer won the title defeating Julian Knowle and David Marrero 7–5, 7–5 in the final.


2012 Estoril Open – Men's Singles
Juan Martín del Potro defended the title by winning 6–4, 6–2 against Richard Gasquet.


2012 Estoril Open – Men's Singles, Seeds
The top four seeds receive a bye into the second round.


2012 Estoril Open – Women's Doubles
Alisa Kleybanova and Galina Voskoboeva were the defending champions but Kleybanova did not participate. Voskoboeva played alongside compatriot Yaroslava Shvedova, but they lost in the final against Chuang Chia-jung and Zhang Shuai, 4–6, 6–1, [11–9].


2012 Estoril Open – Women's Singles
Anabel Medina Garrigues was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to Silvia Soler Espinosa.


2012 Estoril Open – Women's Singles
Kaia Kanepi won the tournament, defeating in the final Carla Suárez Navarro 3–6, 7–6(8–6), 6–4.


2012 Ethias Trophy
The 2012 Ethias Trophy was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the eighth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2012 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Mons, Belgium between 1 and 7 October 2012.


2012 Ethias Trophy, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2012 Ethias Trophy, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry as a special exempt into the singles main draw:


2012 Ethias Trophy – Doubles
Johan Brunström and Ken Skupski were the defending champions but decided not to participate together. Brunström played alongside Raven Klaasen, while Skupski partnered up with Jamie Delgado. Tomasz Bednarek and Jerzy Janowicz won the final 7–5, 4–6, [10–2] against Michaël Llodra and Édouard Roger-Vasselin.


2012 Ethias Trophy – Singles
Andreas Seppi was the defending champion, but chose to compete in the 2012 China Open. Kenny de Schepper won the title, defeating Michaël Llodra 7–6(9–7), 4–6, 7–6(7–4) in the final.


2012 Euro Beach Soccer Cup
The 2012 Euro Beach Soccer Cup was held in Moscow. The Luzhniki Palace of sports in the Russian capital will see the eight teams with better results in the 2011 come together for this competition, with a one-round knock-out system and scheduled for February 17–19.


2012 Euro Beach Soccer Cup
Just as seven years ago, the Euro Beach Soccer Cup comes back to Russian soil, and, obviously the rigors of the Muscovite climate at that time of the year get the action to happen indoor. So, Russia, Switzerland, Portugal, Italy, Spain, Romania, Poland and France get ready to battle for one of the most prestigious contests in the season, the one precisely lifted by Likhachev’s side in the last edition, held in Rome.


2012 Euro Beach Soccer Cup, Matches
All kickoff times are listed as local time in Moscow (UTC+4).


2012 Euro Beach Soccer Cup, Matches, Fifth to eighth place deciding matches
The following matches took place between the losing nations in the quarter finals to determine the final standings of the nations finishing in fifth to eighth place. The semi finals took place on the same day of the semi finals of the main tournament and the play offs took place on the day of the final.


2012 Euro Beach Soccer Cup, Matches, Fifth to eighth place deciding matches
All kickoff times are listed as local time in Moscow (UTC+4).


2012 Euro Beach Soccer League
The 2012 Euro Beach Soccer League (EBSL) is an annual European competition in beach soccer, organised by Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW). The competitions allows national teams to compete in beach soccer in a league format over the summer months. Each season ends with a Superfinal, deciding the competition winner.


2012 Euro Beach Soccer League
This season, there are eight teams participating in two divisions in each Stage (there are three Stages this year, as opposed to four) that will face each other in a round-robin system. Division A consists of the 8 top teams in Europe based on the BSWW European Ranking. Division B consists of 12 of the lower ranked teams and new entries to the competition. Each division has its own regulations and competition format. This was due to the European qualifying tournament for the 2013 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup being held during the EBSL season.


2012 Euro Beach Soccer League
Each team competes in two preliminary events to see their points obtained accumulated into an overall ranking that will determine the teams that qualify for the Superfinal. The top six teams of Division A (including the individual Stage winners) will play in the Superfinal in The Hague, the Netherlands from August 23 – 26. The top four teams of Division B (including the individual Stage winners) plus the worst team in Division A and the host team Netherlands will play in the Promotional Final to try to earn promotion to Division A for the 2013 season.


2012 Euro Beach Soccer League
Beginning this season, the Power Horse energy drink company has signed on to become the new sponsor of the EBSL. The logo has been slightly modified to show this.


2012 Euro Beach Soccer League, Eligible EBSL Teams
The teams from Division A will compete for the Euro Beach Soccer League title while the teams from Division B will compete for promotion into next year's Division A.


2012 Euro Beach Soccer League, Eligible EBSL Teams
Note: Netherlands qualifies for Promotion Final as host nation without playing a match.


2012 Euro Beach Soccer League, Stage 1 Terracina, Italy – June, 8 – 10, Schedule & Results
All kickoff times are of local time in Terracina (UTC+02:00).


2012 Euro Beach Soccer League, Stage 1 Terracina, Italy – June, 8 – 10, Individual Awards
MVP:  Paolo Palmacci Top Scorer:  Paolo Palmacci (8 goals) Best goalkeeper:  Andrey Bukhlitskiy


2012 Euro Beach Soccer League, Stage 2 Berlin, Germany – August, 3 – 5, Schedule & Results
All kickoff times are of local time in Berlin (UTC+02:00).


2012 Euro Beach Soccer League, Stage 2 Berlin, Germany – August, 3 – 5, Individual Awards
MVP:   Dmitry ShishinTop Scorer:   Dmitry Shishin (7 goals)Best goalkeeper:  Danila Ippolitov


2012 Euro Beach Soccer League, Stage 3 Torredembarra, Spain – August, 17 – 19, Schedule & Results
All kickoff times are of local time in Torredembarra  (UTC+02:00).


2012 Euro Beach Soccer League, Stage 3 Torredembarra, Spain – August, 17 – 19, Individual Awards
MVP:   Oleg Zborovskyi Top Scorer:   Oleg Zborovskyi (9 goals)Best goalkeeper:   Paulo Graça


2012 Euro Beach Soccer League, Cumulative standings
Ranking & tie-breaking criteria: Division A – 1. Points earned 2. Goal difference 3. Goals scored | Division B – 1. Points earned 2. Highest stage placement 3. Goal difference 4. Goals scored.


2012 Euro Beach Soccer League, EBSL Superfinal and Promotional Final – The Hague, Netherlands – August, 23 – 26, Superfinal and Promotional Final Divisions
The Divisions for the Euro Beach Soccer League Superfinal have not yet been determined. The teams from Division A will compete for the Euro Beach Soccer League title while the teams from Division B will compete for promotion into next year's Division A.


2012 Euro Beach Soccer League, EBSL Superfinal and Promotional Final – The Hague, Netherlands – August, 23 – 26, Schedule & Results
All kickoff times are of local time in The Hague (UTC+02:00).


2012 Euro Beach Soccer League, EBSL Superfinal and Promotional Final – The Hague, Netherlands – August, 23 – 26, Final Division B Standing
BSWW increased the number of participating teams in Division A from eight to twelve in 2013, meaning five nations, rather than the usual one, were promoted at the end of this season.


2012 Euro-American Challenge
The 2012 Euro-American Challenge - was an American football game played at Stadion Narodowy in Warsaw, Poland on September 1, 2012. The game was organized by the Collegiate Development Football League and Team USA American Football Stars Stripes. It was the first edition of the Euro-American Challenge.


2012 Euro-American Challenge, Background
The contest brought the best available American players who are interested in playing professionally in Europe versus the best European players who are willing to be recruited by American scouts to play in the United States. 11 former Football Championship Subdivision players were on Team America, including  Laurence Maroney and Wesley Carroll. The Team Europe included players from Poland, Germany, Sweden, Finland and France.


2012 EuroHockey Club Champions Cup
The 2012 EuroHockey Club Champions Cup was the 40th edition of the premier European competition for women's field hockey clubs. The finals phase of the competition was held in Amsterdam from May 25–27.


2012 EuroHockey Club Champions Cup
Laren defeated defending champion Den Bosch in the final 1–0. This was their maiden title in the event, and also ended Den Bosch's record 12–year winning streak. Hamburg and Club de Campo also reached the final four, with Hamburg taking out the bronze medal with a 3–1 win.


2012 EuroHockey Club Champions Cup, Venues
The tournament was held across three cities, with the group stage and quarter-finals taking place in two separate locations, while the semi-finals and finals culminated at a singular venue.


2012 EuroLeague American Tour
The 2012 Euroleague American Tour was a basketball exhibition tour featuring teams from the Euroleague and the NBA, as a part of the Euroleague American Tour. The hosting countries were the United States and Canada.


2012 Eurockey Cup U-15
The 2012 Eurockey Cup U-15 was the 1st edition of the Eurockey Cup U-15. It was held in November 2012 in Vilanova i la Geltrú, in Spain.


2012 Eurocup Basketball Final Four
The 2012 Eurocup Final Four was the concluding stage of the 2011–12 Eurocup season, the 10th season of the second-tier basketball league in Europe.


2012 Eurocup Basketball Final Four
Euroleague Basketball Company announced that the 2011-12 Eurocup season would culminate with the Eurocup Finals in Khimki, Russia, on April 14 and 15. The host Khimki won the Eurocup title, after beating Valencia in the Final. Khimki's Zoran Planinić was named the Final Four MVP.


2012 Eurocup Clio
The 2012 Eurocup Clio season was the second season of the Renault–supported touring car category, a one-make racing series that is part of the World Series by Renault, the series uses Renault Clio RS 197's.


2012 Eurocup Clio
The title was clinched by Rangoni Motorsport driver Oscar Nogués, who won three races. Marc Guillot and Mike Verschuur completed top-three in the standings, with two and one win respectively.


2012 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0
The 2012 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season was the 22nd Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season. The season commenced on 5 May at Alcañiz and ended on 21 October at Barcelona. The season featured seven double-header rounds, with each race lasting for a duration of 30 minutes. All races were part of the World Series by Renault.


2012 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0
Red Bull Junior's Daniil Kvyat won the opening race of the season at Motorland Aragón after qualifying on pole position by 0.1 seconds. Newcomer Nyck de Vries finished in second place and returnee Stoffel Vandoorne attained his maiden podium in third. The race was red-flagged after a violent crash between Daniel Cammish and Hans Villemi, with Villemi flipping over the back of Cammish's car. Both drivers suffered long-term injuries in the crash, and have yet to return to the series. iRace Professional driver Óscar Tunjo of Tech 1 Racing started the Sunday race from pole position but he was passed by Kvyat at the second turn of the first lap. Kvyat scored his first Eurocup double win, ahead of Tunjo and RC Formula's Norman Nato.


2012 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0
A month later at Spa, R-ace GP's Pierre Gasly claimed his first pole position. Gasly had a bad getaway and lost positions to both Nato and Vandoorne. Nato scored his first win in the series, while Gasly scored his first series podium. Gasly's teammate Andrea Pizzitola was the fastest in the second qualifying session. The race was held in heavy rain, and was red-flagged after an incident at Kemmel, involving Nato and team-mate Javier Tarancón, Koiranen Motorsport's Stefan Wackerbauer and Victor Franzoni, Tunjo and team-mate Matthieu Vaxivière, Fortec Motorsports' Dan de Zille and KTR's Yu Kanamaru. Kvyat coped with conditions better than others, claiming his third win of the season, ahead of Fortec driver Jake Dennis and Vandoorne completed the podium.


2012 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0
The next Eurocup stop was at the Nürburgring, where Vandoorne set the fastest time in qualifying, before he converted pole position into victory. Nato and Tech 1's Paul-Loup Chatin joined Vandoorne on the podium. Vandoorne led from start to finish the next day, claiming the pole and won the race with fastest lap. Interwetten.com Racing's Melville McKee and Gasly completed the podium. Vandoorne's double win gave him the championship lead.


2012 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0
Two weeks later, the series visited Russia for the first time, at the newly inaugurated Moscow Raceway. In both qualification sessions, Vandoorne was faster than Kvyat. However, Kvyat won both races to retake the championship lead from Vandoorne. Vandoorne took a pair of second places in Moscow, while Oliver Rowland took his first Eurocup podiums with a brace of third places.


2012 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0, Race calendar and results
The calendar for the 2012 season was announced on 10 October 2011, the day after the end of the 2011 season. Silverstone Circuit was dropped from the calendar in favour of a round at the new Moscow Raceway in Russia. All seven rounds formed meetings of the 2012 World Series by Renault season.


2012 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0, Championship standings, Teams' Championship
Prior to each round of the championship, two drivers from each team – if applicable – are nominated to score teams' championship points.


2012 Eurocup Mégane Trophy
The 2012 Eurocup Mégane Trophy season was the eighth season of the Renault–supported touring car category, a one-make racing series that is part of the World Series by Renault.


2012 Eurocup Mégane Trophy, Race calendar and results
The calendar for the 2012 season was announced on 10 October 2011, the day after the end of the 2011 season. Silverstone Circuit was dropped from the calendar in favour of a round at the new Moscow Raceway in Russia. All seven rounds will form meetings of the 2012 World Series by Renault season.


2012 Euroleague Final Four
The 2012 Euroleague Final Four was the concluding EuroLeague Final Four tournament of the 2011–12 Euroleague season. It was held on May 11–13, 2012. The tournament was hosted at the Sinan Erdem Dome, in Istanbul, Turkey. Olympiacos won its second ever EuroLeague championship, after beating CSKA Moscow in the Final.


2012 Euroleague Final Four
In the Final, Georgios Printezis hit a floater with 0.7 seconds remaining on the game clock, after receiving an assist from Vassilis Spanoulis, to win the EuroLeague cup. Spanoulis won his second Final Four MVP after the tournament.


2012 Euroleague Final Four, Venue
On May 8, 2011, Euroleague Basketball announced that the Final Four would be held at the Sinan Erdem Dome, in Istanbul. It has a seating capacity of 22,500 for concerts, and 16,000 for the sport of basketball, making it Turkey's largest multi-purpose indoor venue, and the third largest in Europe (although it is not the third largest in Europe in capacity for basketball use). The arena is named after Sinan Erdem (1927–2003), who was the President of the Turkish Olympic Committee, from 1989, until his death in 2003.


2012 European 10 m Events Championships
The 2012 European 10 m Events Championships were held in Vierumäki, Finland from February 16-19, 2012.


2012 European 10,000m Cup
The 2012 European 10,000m Cup, was the 16th edition of the European 10,000m Cup took place on 3 June in Bilbao, Spain.


2012 European 10,000m Cup, Team
In italic the participants whose result did not go into the team's total time, but awarded with medals.


2012 European Aquatics Championships
The 2012 European Aquatics Championships were held from 14 to 27 May 2012 in Debrecen, Hungary and Eindhoven, Netherlands. The 2012 European Swimming Championships were to take place in Antwerp, Belgium, but were reallocated to the City of Debrecen and were held on the same dates as previously planned, from 21 to 27 May. The Diving Championships were held in Eindhoven from 15 to 20 May. The Synchronised Swimming discipline, originally intended to take place in Antwerp, have also been reallocated, with its continental titles having been contested in Eindhoven. Originally, the Championships had been awarded to Vienna, but later they backed out due to the Great Recession.


2012 European Aquatics Championships
The 2012 European Water Polo Championships were held separately a few months earlier, from 16 to 29 January, also in Eindhoven, Netherlands.


2012 European Athletics Championships
The 2012 European Athletics Championships were held in Helsinki, Finland between 27 June and 1 July 2012. This edition marks the beginning of a new two-year cycle of the European Athletics Championships which were previously held every four years.


2012 European Athletics Championships
The decision to grant the games for Helsinki was made by the European Athletics Congress on 9 November 2009. Another city that showed interest in hosting the event was Nuremberg, Germany, however Helsinki was in pole position during the whole process. This was the third time that the city had hosted the event, 1971 and 1994 being the other occasions.


2012 European Athletics Championships
Due to 2012 being an Olympic year, there were no racewalking and marathon competitions.


2012 European Athletics Championships, Women's results, Track
1. Official result following disqualifications for Elena Arzhakova and Irina Maracheva  for doping violation..2. Official result following disqualification for Aslı Çakır Alptekin , Yekaterina Ishova , Gamze Bulut  and  Anna Mishchenko  for doping violations. 3. Official result following disqualification for Nevin Yanıt  for doping violation. 4. Official result following disqualification for Svitlana Shmidt  for doping violation.


2012 European Athletics Championships, Stripped medals
At the Championships 9 medals was stripped, 1 men and 8 women.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 10,000 metres
The men's 10,000 metres at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 30 June.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 100 metres
The men's 100 metres at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 27 and 28 June.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 100 metres, Results, Round 1
First 4 in each heat (Q) and 4 best performers (q) advance to the Semifinals.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 100 metres, Results, Round 1
Wind:Heat 1: +1.4 m/s, Heat 2: +1.0 m/s, Heat 3: +0.4 m/s, Heat 4: 0.0 m/s, Heat 5: +1.7 m/s


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 100 metres, Results, Semifinals
First 2 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advance to the Semifinals.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 100 metres, Results, Semifinals
Wind:Heat 1: +1.1 m/s, Heat 2: +0.1 m/s, Heat 3: +0.8 m/s


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 110 metres hurdles
The men's 110 metres hurdles at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 30 June and 1 July.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 110 metres hurdles, Results, Round 1
First 4 in each heat (Q) and 4 best performers (q) advance to the Semifinals.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 110 metres hurdles, Results, Round 1
Wind:Heat 1: -1.2 m/s, Heat 2: +0.5 m/s, Heat 3: -0.7 m/s, Heat 4: -2.0 m/s, Heat 5: +1.1 m/s


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 110 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals
First 2 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advance to the Semifinals.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 110 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals
Wind:Heat 1: 0.0 m/s, Heat 2: -1.1 m/s, Heat 3: -0.3 m/s


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 1500 metres
The men's 1500 metres at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 30 June and 1 July.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 1500 metres, Results, Round 1
First 4 in each heat (Q) and 4 best performers (q) advance to the Final.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 200 metres
The men's 200 metres at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 29 and 30 June.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 200 metres, Results, Round 1
First 4 in each heat (Q) and 4 best performers (q) advance to the Semifinals.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 200 metres, Results, Round 1
Wind:Heat 1: -0.3 m/s, Heat 2: -1.1 m/s, Heat 3: -0.5 m/s, Heat 4: -0.1 m/s, Heat 5: +0.4 m/s


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 200 metres, Results, Semifinals
First 2 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advance to the Final.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 200 metres, Results, Semifinals
Wind:Heat 1: -0.3 m/s, Heat 2: -0.1 m/s, Heat 3: -1.7 m/s


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase
The men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 2012 European Athletics Championships will held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 27 and 29 June.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase, Results, Round 1
First 4 in each heat (Q) and 7 best performers (q) advance to the Semifinals.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay
The men's 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 30 June and 1 July.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay, Results, Round 1
First 3 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advance to the Final.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay
The men's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 30 June and 1 July.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 4 × 400 metres relay, Results, Round 1
First 3 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advance to the Final.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres
The men's 400 metres at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 27, 28 and 29 June.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres, Results, Round 1
First 4 in each heat (Q) and 4 best performers (q) advance to the Semifinals.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres, Results, Semifinals
First 2 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advance to the Final.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres hurdles
The men's 400 metres hurdles at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 27, 28 and 29 June.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres hurdles, Results, Round 1
First 3 in each heat (Q) and 6 best performers (q) advance to the Semifinals.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 400 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals
First 2 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advance to the Semifinals.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 5000 metres
The men's 5000 metres at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 27 June.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 800 metres
The men's 800 metres at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 27, 28 and 29 June.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 800 metres, Results, Round 1
First 4 in each heat (Q) and 4 best performers (q) advance to the Semifinals.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 800 metres, Results, Semifinals
First 2 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advance to the Final.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's decathlon
The men's decathlon at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 27 and 28 June.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's decathlon, Results, 100 metres
Wind: Heat 1: +0.8 m/s, Heat 2: +0.7 m/s, Heat 3: +0.8 m/s, Heat 4: -0.3 m/s


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's decathlon, Results, 110 metres hurdles
Wind:Heat 1: -0.5 m/s, Heat 2: -0.5 m/s, Heat 3: +0.2 m/s


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's discus throw
The men's discus throw at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 29 and 30 June.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's discus throw, Results, Qualification
Qualification: Qualification Performance 66.00 (Q) or at least 12 best performers advance to the final


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's hammer throw
The men's hammer throw at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 28 and 30 June.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's hammer throw, Results, Qualification
Qualification: Qualification Performance 77.50 (Q) or at least 12 best performers advance to the final


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's high jump
The men's high jump at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 27 and 29 June.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's high jump, Results, Qualification
Qualification: Qualification Performance 2.28 (Q) or at least 12 best performers advance to the final


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's javelin throw
The men's javelin throw at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 27 and 28 June.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's javelin throw, Results, Qualification
Qualification: Qualification Performance 83.00 (Q) or at least 12 best performers advance to the final


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's long jump
The men's long jump at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 29 June and 1 July.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's long jump, Results, Qualification
Qualification: Qualification Performance 8.05 (Q) or at least 12 best performers advance to the final


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's pole vault
The men's pole vault at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 30 June and 1 July.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's pole vault, Results, Qualification
Qualification: Qualification Performance 5.60 (Q) or at least 12 best performers advance to the final


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's shot put
The men's shot put at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 27 and 29 June.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's shot put, Results, Qualification
Qualification: Qualification Performance 20.30 (Q) or at least 12 best performers advance to the final


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's triple jump
The men's triple jump at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 28 and 30 June.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's triple jump, Results, Qualification
Qualification: Qualification Performance 16.75 (Q) or at least 12 best performers advance to the final


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's 10,000 metres
The women's 10,000 metres at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 1 July.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's 100 metres
The women's 100 metres at the 2012 European Athletics Championships were held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 27 and 28 June.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's 100 metres, Results, Round 1
First 3 in each heat (Q) and 4 best performers (q) advance to the Semifinals.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's 100 metres, Results, Round 1
Wind:Heat 1: −0.3 m/s, Heat 2: +1.7 m/s, Heat 3: −0.3 m/s, Heat 4: +1.0 m/s


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's 100 metres, Results, Semifinals
First 3 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advance to the Final.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's 100 metres hurdles
The women's 100 metres hurdles at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 29 and 30 June.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's 100 metres hurdles, Results, Round 1
First 3 in each heat (Q) and 4 best performers (q) advance to the Semifinals.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's 100 metres hurdles, Results, Round 1
Wind:Heat 1: +0.3 m/s, Heat 2: −0.1 m/s, Heat 3: −0.8 m/s, Heat 4: −0.4 m/s


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's 100 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals
First 3 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advance to the Final.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's 1500 metres
The women's 1500 metres at the 2012 European Athletics Championships were held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 30 June and 1 July.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's 1500 metres, The dirtiest race in history
In this race, the first four classified were disqualified for doping, meaning the medals went to the athletes who reached the finish line in 5th to 7th place.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's 1500 metres, The dirtiest race in history
On 25 February 2016, the IAAF announced that Mischenko, the silver medal winner, had been found to have irregularities in her biological passport. She was banned from competition for two years until 17 August 2017, and all her results since June 28, 2012 were deleted from the records, including the silver medal won in this event.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's 1500 metres, The dirtiest race in history
After the disqualifications, Nuria Fernández of Spain was declared the winner of the event.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's 1500 metres, Results, Round 1
First 4 in each heat (Q) and 4 best performers (q) advance to the Final.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's 200 metres
The women's 200 metres at the 2012 European Athletics Championships were held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 29 and 30 June.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's 200 metres, Results, Round 1
First 4 in each heat (Q) and 4 best performers (q) advance to the Semifinals.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's 200 metres, Results, Round 1
Wind:Heat 1: −0.6 m/s, Heat 2: 0.0 m/s, Heat 3: +0.6 m/s, Heat 4: +0.7 m/s, Heat 5: −0.6 m/s


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's 200 metres, Results, Semifinals
First 2 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advance to the Semifinals.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's 200 metres, Results, Semifinals
Wind:Heat 1: 0.0 m/s, Heat 2: −0.1 m/s, Heat 3: −0.2 m/s


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's 3000 metres steeplechase
The women's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 28 and 30 June.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's 3000 metres steeplechase, Results, Round 1
First 4 in each heat (Q) and 7 best performers (q) advance to the Semifinals.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay
The women's 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 30 June and 1 July.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's 4 × 100 metres relay, Results, Round 1
First 3 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advance to the Final.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay
The women's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 30 June and 1 July.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's 4 × 400 metres relay, Results, Round 1
First 3 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advance to the Final.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's 400 metres
The women's 400 metres at the 2012 European Athletics Championships were held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 27, 28 and 29 June.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's 400 metres, Results, Round 1
First 3 in each heat (Q) and 4 best performers (q) advance to the Semifinals.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's 400 metres, Results, Semifinals
First 3 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advance to the Final.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's 400 metres hurdles
The women's 400 metres hurdles at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 27, 28 and 29 June.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's 400 metres hurdles, Results, Round 1
First 3 in each heat (Q) and 4 best performers (q) advance to the Semifinals.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's 400 metres hurdles, Results, Semifinals
First 3 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advance to the Final.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's 5000 metres
The women's 5000 metres at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 28 June.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's 800 metres
The women's 800 metres at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 28 and 29 June.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's 800 metres
On 30 April 2013, it was announced that the original winner of the gold medal, Elena Arzhakova had been suspended for two years from January 2013 for a doping violation, and was to be stripped of all results gained since July 11, 2011. When ratified, this would mean Arzhakova being stripped of her gold medal, which would then be awarded to Lynsey Sharp. Irina Maracheva and Maryna Arzamasava would also each be awarded an upgraded medal.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's 800 metres
On 4 June 2013, this reallocation of medals was confirmed, and Lynsey Sharp declared European champion.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's 800 metres
On 25 January 2016, it was announced that the new silver medalist, Irina Maracheva had also been found guilty of doping changes as a result of her blood passport. As a result, in due course Maracheva will be stripped of her result, Arzamasava promoted again, this time into silver and Lilyia Lobanova, original placed fifth, will be awarded the bronze medal.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's 800 metres, Medalists
These are the revised medal standings following the adverse drugs finding against original winner Elena Arzhakova.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's 800 metres, Results, Round 1
First 2 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advance to the Final.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's discus throw
The women's discus throw at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 30 June and 1 July.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's discus throw, Results, Qualification
Qualification: Qualification Performance 61.00 (Q) or at least 12 best performers advance to the final


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's hammer throw
The women's hammer throw at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 29 June and 1 July.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's hammer throw, Results, Qualification
Qualification: Qualification Performance 71.00 (Q) or at least 12 best performers advance to the final


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's heptathlon
The women's heptathlon at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 29 and 30 June.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's heptathlon
Lyudmyla Yosypenko of Ukraine originally came second with 6416 points and was awarded the silver medal, but she was disqualified for doping in 2013, after her biological passport profile showed she'd been blood doping. All her results from 25 August 2011 onwards were annulled.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's heptathlon
Laura Ikauniece (silver) and Aiga Grabuste (bronze) received their medals by mail.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's heptathlon, Results, 100 metres hurdles
Wind:Heat 1: -1.1 m/s, Heat 2: +0.3 m/s, Heat 3: +0.4 m/s


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's heptathlon, Results, 200 metres
Wind:Heat 1: 0.0 m/s, Heat 2: -0.5 m/s, Heat 3: -0.4 m/s


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's high jump
The women's high jump at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 27 and 28 June.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's high jump, Results, Qualification
Qualification: Qualification Performance 1.92 (Q) or at least 12 best performers advance to the final


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's javelin throw
The women's javelin throw at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium  Finland on 27 and 29 June.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's javelin throw, Results, Qualification
Qualification: Qualification Performance 60.00 (Q) or at least 12 best performers advance to the final


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's long jump
The women's long jump at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 27 and 28 June.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's long jump, Results, Qualification
Qualification: Qualification Performance 6.65 (Q) or at least 12 best performers advance to the final


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's pole vault
The women's pole vault event at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 28 and 30 June.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's pole vault, Results, Qualification
Qualification: Qualification Performance 4.45 (Q) or at least 12 best performers advance to the final


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's shot put
The women's shot put at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 28 and 29 June.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's shot put, Results, Qualification
Qualification: Qualification Performance 17.40 (Q) or at least 12 best performers advance to the final


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's triple jump
The women's triple jump at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 27 and 29 June.


2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's triple jump, Results, Qualification
Qualification: Qualification Performance 14.20 (Q) or at least 12 best performers advance to the final


2012 European Badminton Championships
The 2012 European Badminton Championships were the 23rd tournament of the European Badminton Championships. They were held in Karlskrona, Sweden, from 16–21 April 2012, and they were organised by the Badminton Europe and Svenska Badmintonförbundet. The competitions were held in Telenor Arena.


2012 European Baseball Championship
The 2012 European Baseball Championship was an international baseball tournament being held from September 7 to September 16, 2012. The Confederation of European Baseball selected the Netherlands to host the tournament.


2012 European Baseball Championship – Qualification
The qualification for the 2012 European Baseball Championship was held from July 25–30, 2011 in Belgium, Croatia and Spain, from July 26–29, 2011 in Israel and from July 27–29, 2011 in Russia. 22 nations contested to qualify for 5 spots available among the 7 already qualified teams from the 2010 competition. These are, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands and Sweden.


2012 European Black Album Tour
The 2012 European Black Album Tour (also called "The Metallica Vacation Tour 2012") was a concert tour by American heavy metal band Metallica. The Black Album, which was released in August 1991 was played entirely (in reverse order). The band confirmed that the tour would be a celebration of the 20th anniversary of the album. The tour headlined a few European festivals.


2012 European Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament
The 2012 European Boxing Olympic Qualification Tournament was held in Trabzon, Turkey from April 15 to April 21.


2012 European Canoe Slalom Championships
The 2012 European Canoe Slalom Championships took place in Augsburg, Germany between May 9 and 13, 2012 under the auspices of the European Canoe Association (ECA). It was the 13th edition and Augsburg hosted this event for the second time after its inaugural edition in 1996. The races were held on the Eiskanal which also hosted the 1972 Summer Olympics when canoe slalom made its first appearance at the Olympics.


2012 European Canoe Slalom Championships
This event also served as the European qualification for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.


2012 European Canoe Slalom Championships
The women's C1 team event had its first running at the European Championships, but did not count as a medal event due to insufficient number of participating countries. An event must have at least 5 nations taking part in order to count as a medal event.


2012 European Championship (darts)
The 2012 PartyPoker.net European Championship was the fifth edition of the Professional Darts Corporation tournament, the European Championship, which allows the top European players to compete against the highest ranked players from the PDC Order of Merit. The tournament took place from 20–23 September 2012 at the RWE-Sporthalle in Mülheim, Germany.


2012 European Championship (darts)
Phil Taylor was once again defending the title, after winning each of the four previous playings of this tournament since the inaugural edition in 2008. However, he lost for the first time in the quarter-finals 6–10 to Brendan Dolan.


2012 European Championship (darts)
Simon Whitlock won his first major title, defeating Wes Newton 11–5 in the final.


2012 European Championship (darts), Prize money
The 2012 European Championship has a total prize fund of £200,000. The following is the breakdown of the fund:


2012 European Championship (darts), Qualification
The top 16 players from the PDC Order of Merit after the two Players Championship events in Barnsley automatically qualified for the event. The top 8 from them were also the seeded players. The remaining 16 places went to the top 8 non-qualified players from the PDC Pro Tour Order of Merit, with further places awarded to the top 8 non-qualified players from the Continental Europe Order of Merit.


2012 European Championship of Ski Mountaineering
The 2012 European Championship of Ski Mountaineering (French: Championnat d'Europe de ski de montagne 2012) was the ninth European Championship of ski mountaineering and was held in Pelvoux in the Massif des Écrins (France) from February 4, 2012 to February 10, 2012.


2012 European Championship of Ski Mountaineering
The competition, organized by the International Ski Mountaineering Federation (ISMF), was originally planned in Claut, Italy, for the year 2011, which was held at last as the 2011 World Championship of Ski Mountaineering. Due to this circumstance, the ninth edition of the European championships was the first held in an even-numbered year. It was the first edition including a sprint race.


2012 European Championship of Ski Mountaineering, Results, Combination ranking
combined ranking (results of the individual, team and vertical race events)


2012 European Cross Country Championships
The 2012 European Cross Country Championships was the 19th edition of the cross country running competition for European athletes which was held in Szentendre, Hungary on 9 December.


2012 European Cross Country Championships
Andrea Lalli of Italy won the men's title to become the country's first ever champion at the competition. The men's team race was won by Spain. Fionnuala Britton was the winner in the senior women's race, becoming the first woman to retain her title. Team Ireland took gold in the senior women's race.


2012 European Cup (rugby league)
The 2012 European Cup, known as the Alitalia European Cup for sponsorship purposes, is a rugby league football tournament.


2012 European Cup (rugby league)
Four teams competed in the 2012 event, with teams to be decided in November 2011 following the Four Nations. These were announced as Ireland, Scotland, Italy and the England Knights.


2012 European Cup (rugby league)
In mid-2012, Italy had to withdraw from the competition due to travel commitments and were omitted from the league to leave 3 teams:- England Knights, Ireland and Scotland.


2012 European Cup (rugby league)
As they won both of their games the England Knights won the Alitalia European Cup and thus became European Champions. This was the England Knights first European Championship. However England have won 14 times.


2012 European Cup Winter Throwing
The 2012 European Cup Winter Throwing was held on 17 and 18 March at the Stadion Topolica in Bar, Montenegro. It was the twelfth edition of the athletics competition for throwing events and was jointly organised by the European Athletic Association and the Athletic Federation of Montenegro. The competition featured men's and women's contests in shot put, discus throw, javelin throw and hammer throw. In addition to the senior competitions, there were also under-23 events for younger athletes. A total of 294 athletes from 39 European countries entered the competition.


2012 European Cup Winter Throwing
On the first day of the competition, Nadzeya Ostapchuk produced a throw of 20.29 m to win the shot put, while Martina Ratej took the women's javelin title. Dutchman Erik Cadée won the men's discus and Kirill Ikonnikov took the hammer title for Russia. In the men's under-23 discus event, home athlete Danijel Furtula threw a Montenegrin record to win the gold.


2012 European Cup Winter Throwing
The highlights of the second day were Nadine Müller's personal best of 68.89 m to win the women's discus (the best performance in the world in eight years) and Marco Fortes won the men's shot put in a Portuguese record and world-leading throw if 21.02 m. Turkish thrower Fatih Avan won the men's javelin and Zalina Marghieva broke the Moldovan record to beat Tatyana Lysenko to the women's hammer throw title.


2012 European Cup Winter Throwing
Five national records were broken at the event. The non-medallists who achieved this feat were: Kateřina Šafránková (fourth in the women's hammer with 71.16 m), Danijel Furtula (17.10 m in the men's under-23 shot put), and Tiago Aperta (fourth in the men's under-23 javelin with 75.55 m). In the team rankings, Russia claimed both the senior titles while Ukraine won both the under-23 sections.


2012 European Curling Championships
The 2012 European Curling Championships was held from December 7 to 15 at the Löfbergs Lila Arena and the Karlstad Curling Club in Karlstad, Sweden. The Group A competitions was held at the Löfbergs Lila Arena, while the Group B competitions was held at the Karlstad Curling Club. The 2012 European Curling Championships marked the fourth time that Sweden hosted the European Curling Championships. The Group C competitions were held from October 5 to 10 in Erzurum, Turkey.


2012 European Curling Championships
Russia's Anna Sidorova, last year's runner-up, won the gold medal in the women's tournament after defeating last year's champions Scotland, skipped by Eve Muirhead, in the final in an extra end. Sweden's Margaretha Sigfridsson won the bronze medal over Denmark's Lene Nielsen. In the men's tournament, Sweden's Niklas Edin won their second title by defeating two-time consecutive champion Thomas Ulsrud of Norway. Jiří Snítil of the Czech Republic improved on his record at the European Championships by winning the bronze medal over last year's bronze medalists Denmark, skipped by Rasmus Stjerne.


2012 European Curling Championships
A total of eight men's and seven women's teams qualified for the 2013 World Curling Championships. On the men's side, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Norway, Denmark, Russia, Switzerland, Scotland, and Finland (who defeated France in the World Challenge Games), qualified for the 2013 Ford World Men's Curling Championship. On the women's side, Russia, Scotland, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Italy and Germany qualified for the 2013 World Women's Curling Championship and joined hosts Latvia in competition.


2012 European Curling Championships, Men, Group A
The Group A competitions was contested in Karlstad. Ten teams, including the teams advancing from last year's Group B competitions (Hungary and Russia), competed in a round robin. The top four teams in the round robin moved on to the playoffs. In the page playoffs, Sweden defeated the Czech Republic, and Norway edged past Denmark. Norway then secured a close win over the Czech Republic, and the Czechs moved to the bronze medal game, where they defeated Denmark in a rematch of last year's bronze medal game. Sweden then defeated Norway in the gold medal game with a final score of 8–5 after hitting to win the game in the tenth end.


2012 European Curling Championships, Men, Group B
The Group B competitions were contested in Karlstad. Sixteen teams, including the teams advancing from the same year's Group C competitions (Turkey and Croatia), competed in a two group round robin. The top four teams in the round robin moved on to the playoffs. Latvia, the leader of the Blue Group, defeated Finland, the leader of the Red Group, and advanced to the final, while the Netherlands, the second-ranked team in the Blue Group, defeated England, the runner-up of the Red Group, and advanced to the semifinal. Finland defeated the Netherlands in the semifinal and moved on to the gold medal game, where they defeated Latvia to win the Group B competitions. The Netherlands defeated England in the bronze medal game.


2012 European Curling Championships, Men, Group B
Finland and Latvia advanced to the 2013 Group A competitions, and Finland played France in the World Challenge Games, where Finland defeated France in a best-of-three series to win the final berth at the 2013 World Men's Curling Championship. Wales and Ireland were relegated to the 2013 Group C competitions.


2012 European Curling Championships, Men, Group C
The Group C competitions were contested in Erzurum, where the 2012 European Mixed Curling Championship was also held. Seven men's teams competed for two berths to the Group B competitions, which were held in Karlstad. The teams played in a round robin, and at its conclusion, the top four teams advanced to the playoffs, which were held in a format similar to that of the World Wheelchair Curling Championship qualification events. Turkey advanced to the Group B competitions after winning the first semifinal game, and Croatia advanced to the Group B competition after winning the second place game.


2012 European Curling Championships, Women, Group A
The Group A competitions were contested in Karlstad. Ten teams, including the teams advancing from last year's Group B competitions (Finland and Hungary), competed in a round robin. The top four teams in the round robin moved on to the playoffs. In the page playoffs, Scotland defeated Sweden, and Russia edged Denmark. Russia then stole the win against Sweden in the semifinal in an extra end, and advanced to the final, where they won with a score of 6–5 in an extra end over Scotland. Sweden defeated Denmark in the bronze medal game with a score of 9–3.


2012 European Curling Championships, Women, Group B
The Group B competitions were contested in Karlstad. Ten teams, including the teams advancing from the same year's Group C competitions (Belarus and Turkey), competed in a round robin. The top four teams in the round robin moved on to the playoffs. In the page playoffs, undefeated Norway defeated Estonia, and Latvia defeated Austria. Latvia swept Estonia in the semifinal in nine ends, sending Estonia to play Austria for the bronze medal. Latvia defeated Norway to win the Group B competitions with a score of 7–3, and Austria recorded a win over Estonia in the bronze medal game.


2012 European Curling Championships, Women, Group B
Latvia and Norway advanced to the 2013 Group A competitions, and Belarus and Slovakia were relegated to the 2013 Group C competitions.


2012 European Curling Championships, Women, Group C
The Group C competitions were contested in Erzurum, where the 2012 European Mixed Curling Championship was also held. Six women's teams competed for two berths to the Group B competitions, which were held in Karlstad. The teams played in a round robin, and at its conclusion, the top four teams advanced to the playoffs, which were held in a format similar to that of the World Wheelchair Curling Championship qualification events. Belarus advanced to the Group B competitions after winning the first semifinal game, and Turkey advanced to the Group B competition after winning the second place game.


2012 European Curling Championships – Men's tournament
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2012 European Curling Championships – Men's tournament
The men's tournament of the 2012 European Curling Championships was held at the Löfbergs Lila Arena and the Karlstad Curling Club in Karlstad, Sweden from December 7 to 15. The winners of the Group C tournament in Erzurum, Turkey moved on to the Group B tournament. The top eight men's teams at the 2012 European Curling Championships, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Norway, Denmark, Russia, Switzerland, Scotland, and Finland, represented their respective nations at the 2013 World Men's Curling Championship in Victoria, British Columbia.


2012 European Curling Championships – Men's tournament
In the Group A competitions, Sweden remained relatively dominant, finishing with only one loss and qualifying for the playoffs, and the Czech Republic, Norway, and Denmark followed. In the page playoffs, Sweden blew past the Czech Republic, and Norway edged past Denmark. In the semifinal, Norway faced the Czech Republic in a rematch of last year's semifinal, and was able to move past them with a 6–4 victory.


2012 European Curling Championships – Men's tournament
The bronze medal game saw the Czech Republic, skipped by Jiří Snítil, avenge a loss to Denmark's Rasmus Stjerne in last year's bronze medal game with a huge 12–4 win in eight ends. In the gold medal game, Sweden's Niklas Edin and Norway's Thomas Ulsrud faced off in a rematch of last year's final. Norway, attempting to win a third consecutive title, held an early lead in the fourth end, but the hometown favorite Sweden scored a deuce in the fifth end and stole two more in the sixth end to swing the momentum to their side. The two teams traded deuces in the next two ends, and Sweden clinched the win in the last end with a hit to score one point, wrapping up the game with a score of 8–5.


2012 European Curling Championships – Men's tournament
The Group C competitions in Turkey saw Turkey and Croatia advancing to the Group B tournament, joining fourteen teams in a two-group round-robin tournament. Latvia and the Netherlands finished at the top of the Blue Group, while Finland finished at the top of the Red Group. England won the last playoffs spot by defeating Italy in a tiebreaker. Latvia and the Netherlands each won their playoffs games against Finland and England, respectively, and Latvia advanced to the final, while Finland played the Netherlands in the semifinal.


2012 European Curling Championships – Men's tournament
Finland won the semifinal, sending the Netherlands to play England for the bronze medal, where the Netherlands won the bronze medal with a score of 10–5. Finland then won the final over Latvia with a score of 7–4 in nine ends. Both Finland and Latvia advance to the Group A competitions, replacing Germany and Hungary, and Wales and Ireland were relegated to the Group C competitions. Germany was relegated to the Group B competitions for the first time in the history of the European Curling Championships. Finland played and won the World Challenge Games against France, advancing them to the World Men's Curling Championship.


2012 European Curling Championships – Men's tournament, Group A, Teams
Skip : Jiří SnítilThird: Martin SnítilSecond: Jakub BarešLead: Jindřich KitzbergerAlternate: Marek Vydra


2012 European Curling Championships – Men's tournament, Group A, Teams
Fourth: Tony AngiboustSkip: Thomas DufourSecond: Wilfrid CoulotLead: Jérémy FrarierAlternate: Lionel Roux


2012 European Curling Championships – Men's tournament, Group A, Teams
Skip : Andy LangThird: Markus MessenzehlSecond: Daniel NeunerLead: Andreas KempfAlternate: Daniel Herberg


2012 European Curling Championships – Men's tournament, Group A, Teams
Fourth: Krisztian HallSkip: György NagySecond: Gábor EzsölLead: Lajos BelleniAlternate: Zsolt Kiss


2012 European Curling Championships – Men's tournament, Group A, Teams
Skip : Thomas UlsrudThird: Torger NergårdSecond: Christoffer SvaeLead: Håvard Vad PeterssonAlternate: Thomas Løvold


2012 European Curling Championships – Men's tournament, Group A, Teams
Skip : Andrey DrozdovThird: Alexey StukalskiySecond: Alexey TselousovLead: Anton KalalbAlternate: Petr Dron


2012 European Curling Championships – Men's tournament, Group A, Teams
Skip : Tom BrewsterThird: Greg DrummondSecond: Scott AndrewsLead: Michael GoodfellowAlternate: David Murdoch


2012 European Curling Championships – Men's tournament, Group A, Teams
Skip : Niklas Edin Third: Sebastian KrauppSecond: Fredrik LindbergLead: Viktor KjällAlternate: Oskar Eriksson


2012 European Curling Championships – Men's tournament, Group A, Teams
Skip : Sven MichelThird: Claudio PätzSecond: Sandro TrollietLead: Simon GempelerAlternate: Florian Meister


2012 European Curling Championships – Men's tournament, Group B, Teams, Red Group
Third: Sergio VezSecond: José Manuel SangüesaLead: Ángel GarcíaAlternate: Carlos Vega


2012 European Curling Championships – Men's tournament, Group B, Teams, Red Group
Third: Kadir ÇakırSecond: Muhammet Çağrı BayraktarLead: Muhammet Oǧuz ZenginAlternate: Murat Sağır


2012 European Curling Championships – Men's tournament, Group C, Teams
Third: Pavel Petrov Second: Dzmitry Yarko Lead: Andrey Aulasenka Alternate: George Kirillov


2012 European Curling Championships – Men's tournament, Group C, Teams
Third: Drazen Cutic Second: Robert Mikulandric Lead: Ognjen Golubic Alternate: Alberto Skendrovic


2012 European Curling Championships – Men's tournament, Group C, Teams
Third: Jon Ingi Sigurdsson Second: Olafur Numason Lead: Sveinn Steingrimsson Alternate: Ragnar Ragnarsson


2012 European Curling Championships – Men's tournament, Group C, Teams
Third: Yves Sieradski Second: Claude Schweitzer Lead: Marc Promme Alternate: Alex Benoy


2012 European Curling Championships – Men's tournament, Group C, Teams
Third: Bogdan Colceriu Second: Valentin Gheorghe Anghelinei Lead: Stefan Vladimir Bodea-Tatulea Alternate: Allen Coliban


2012 European Curling Championships – Men's tournament, Group C, Teams
Third: Matjaz Prezelj Second: Domen Zalokar Lead: Mitja Donosa Alternate: Gregor Verbinc


2012 European Curling Championships – Men's tournament, Group C, Teams
Third: Alican Karataş Second: Kadir Çakir Lead: Muhammet Çagrı Bayraktar Alternate: Yusuf Ziya Bayraktutan


2012 European Curling Championships – Men's tournament, Group C, Playoffs
In the playoffs, the first and second seeds, Croatia and Turkey, played a semifinal game to determine the first team to advance to the Group B competitions. The loser of this game, along with the winners of the semifinal game played by the third and fourth seeds, Belarus and Slovakia, advance to the second place game, which determines the second team to advance to the Group B competitions.


2012 European Curling Championships – Men's tournament, Group C, Playoffs, Semifinals
Turkey advances to the Group B competitions. Croatia moves to Second Place Game.


2012 European Curling Championships – Women's tournament
The women's tournament of the 2012 European Curling Championships was held at the Löfbergs Lila Arena and the Karlstad Curling Club in Karlstad, Sweden from December 7 to 15. The winners of the Group C tournament in Erzurum, Turkey moved on to the Group B tournament. The top seven women's teams at the 2012 European Curling Championships, Russia,  Scotland, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Italy and Germany, will represent their respective nations at the 2013 World Women's Curling Championship in Riga, Latvia.


2012 European Curling Championships – Women's tournament
In the Group A competitions, Sweden, Scotland, and Russia finished at the top of the round robin standings with two losses apiece. Denmark defeated Switzerland in a tiebreaker to advance to the playoffs. The page playoffs saw defending champions Scotland rout Sweden and Russia edge past Denmark. Sweden dropped to the bronze medal game after a surprising loss in the semifinal to Russia, who stole the 8–6 win in an extra end. Hometown favorite Sweden, skipped by Margaretha Sigfridsson, recovered by defeating Denmark's Lene Nielsen with a score of 9–3 to win the bronze medal.


2012 European Curling Championships – Women's tournament
Russia then played Scotland in the final, and stole one point in the first and fifth ends to hold the lead at the break, and stole one more point in the second half of the game. Scotland's Eve Muirhead managed to hang on with two deuces, and tied the game in the tenth end. Russia's Anna Sidorova secured a second European championship for Russia with a hit in the extra end, winning with a score of 6–5.


2012 European Curling Championships – Women's tournament
The Group C competitions in Erzurum saw Belarus and Turkey advancing to the Group B competitions, where they and two other teams played in a round robin tournament. Undefeated Norway dominated the round robin, and defeated Estonia in the page playoffs to advance to the final. Latvia moved up to the semifinal with a win over Austria in the page playoffs, and defeated Estonia in the semifinal to advance to the final. Austria defeated Estonia in the bronze medal game with a score of 8–5, while Norway's winning streak was broken with a 7–4 loss to Latvia. Latvia and Norway advance to the Group A competitions, replacing Finland and Hungary, and Belarus and Slovakia were relegated to the Group C competitions. Latvia were scheduled to play Germany in the World Challenge Games, but qualified to the world championships automatically as hosts.


2012 European Curling Championships – Women's tournament, Group A, Teams
Skip : Linda KlímováThird: Kamila MošováSecond: Anna KubeškováLead: Kateřina UrbanováAlternate: Tereza Plišková


2012 European Curling Championships – Women's tournament, Group A, Teams
Skip : Lene NielsenThird: Helle SimonsenSecond: Jeanne EllegaardLead: Maria PoulsenAlternate: Ane Hansen


2012 European Curling Championships – Women's tournament, Group A, Teams
Skip : Anne MalmiThird: Oona KausteSecond: Heidi HossiLead: Marjo HippiAlternate: Tiina Suuripää


2012 European Curling Championships – Women's tournament, Group A, Teams
Skip : Andrea SchöppThird: Imogen Oona LehmannSecond: Corinna ScholzLead: Stella HeißAlternate: Nicole Muskatewitz


2012 European Curling Championships – Women's tournament, Group A, Teams
Skip : Ildikó SzekeresThird: Alexandra BéresSecond: Ágnes PatonaiLead: Boglárka ÁdámAlternate: Blanka Páthy-Denscő


2012 European Curling Championships – Women's tournament, Group A, Teams
Skip : Diana GaspariThird: Giorgia ApollonioSecond: Chiara OlivieriLead: Claudia AlveraAlternate: Maria Gaspari


2012 European Curling Championships – Women's tournament, Group A, Teams
Skip : Anna SidorovaThird: Liudmila PrivivkovaSecond: Margarita FominaLead: Ekaterina GalkinaAlternate: Nkeiruka Ezekh


2012 European Curling Championships – Women's tournament, Group A, Teams
Skip : Eve MuirheadThird: Anna SloanSecond: Vicki AdamsLead: Claire HamiltonAlternate: Sarah Reid


2012 European Curling Championships – Women's tournament, Group A, Teams
Fourth: Maria PrytzThird: Christina BertrupSecond: Maria WennerströmSkip: Margaretha SigfridssonAlternate: Agnes Knochenhauer


2012 European Curling Championships – Women's tournament, Group A, Teams
Skip : Mirjam OttThird: Carmen SchäferSecond: Carmen KüngLead: Janine GreinerAlternate: Alina Pätz


2012 European Curling Championships – Women's tournament, Group A, Placement Game
Germany was scheduled to play in the World Challenge Games, a best-of-three series with the winner of Group B to determine which team advances to the World Women's Championships, but the winner of Group B, Latvia, was qualified as the host of the World Women's Championships, so Germany qualified automatically.


2012 European Curling Championships – Women's tournament, Group B, Teams
Third: Oihane OtaegiSecond: Estrella LabradorLead: María FernándezAlternate: Itziar Ortiz de Urbina


2012 European Curling Championships – Women's tournament, Group C, Teams
Third: Alina Pauliuchyk Second: Natallia Sviarzhinskaya Lead: Suzanna Ivashyna Alternate: Arina Sviarzhinskaya


2012 European Curling Championships – Women's tournament, Group C, Teams
Third: Maja Sertic Second: Emina Crnaic Lead: Marijana Bozic Alternate: Katarina Vidakovic


2012 European Curling Championships – Women's tournament, Group C, Teams
Third: Bianca Neagoe Second: Diana Butucea Lead: Raluca Diana Grapa


2012 European Curling Championships – Women's tournament, Group C, Teams
Third: Elif Kızılkaya Second: Dilşat Yıldız Lead: Ayşe Gözütok Alternate: Şeyda Zengin


2012 European Curling Championships – Women's tournament, Group C, Playoffs
In the playoffs, the first and second seeds, Turkey and Belarus, played a semifinal game to determine the first team to advance to the Group B competitions. The loser of this game, along with the winners of the semifinal game played by the third and fourth seeds, the Netherlands and Croatia, advance to the second place game, which determines the second team to advance to the Group B competitions.


2012 European Curling Championships – Women's tournament, Group C, Playoffs, Semifinals
Belarus advances to the Group B competitions. Turkey moves to Second Place Game.


2012 European Darts Open
The 2012 European Darts Open was the third of five PDC European Tour events on the 2012 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place at the Maritim Hotel in Düsseldorf, Germany, from 6–8 July 2012. It featured a field of 64 players and £82,100 in prize money, with £15,000 going to the winner.


2012 European Darts Open
Raymond van Barneveld won the title, defeating Dave Chisnall 6–4 in the final. This was Chisnall's second successive defeat in a European Tour final.


2012 European Darts Open, Qualification
The top 32 players from the  automatically qualified for the event. The remaining 32 places went to players from three qualifying events - 20 from the UK Qualifier (held in Birmingham on June 15), eight from the European Qualifier (held in Berlin on June 23), and four from the Home Nation Qualifier (also held in Berlin on June 23).


2012 European F3 Open Championship
The 2012 European F3 Open Championship was the fourth European F3 Open Championship season. The series introduced the new Dallara F312 cars for Class A, with the F308 model being implemented for the Copa Class.


2012 European Fencing Championships
The 2012 European Fencing Championships was the 25th edition and held in Legnano, Italy. The event took place from June 15–20, 2012.


2012 European Figure Skating Championships
The 2012 European Figure Skating Championships was an international figure skating competition in the 2011–12 season. The event determined the European Champions in men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. The competition was held from 23 to 29 January 2012 in Sheffield, England.


2012 European Figure Skating Championships, Qualification
Skaters were eligible for the event if they were representing a European member nations of the International Skating Union and had reached the age of 15 before 1 July 2011 in their place of birth. The corresponding competition for non-European skaters was the 2012 Four Continents Championships. National associations selected their entries according to their own criteria but the ISU mandated that their selections achieve a minimum technical elements score (TES) at an international event prior to the European Championships.


2012 European Figure Skating Championships, Qualification, Number of entries per discipline
Based on the results of the 2011 European Championships, the ISU allowed each country one to three entries per discipline.


2012 European Figure Skating Championships, Entries
Some skaters were required to compete in a preliminary round, while others received a direct entry into the short program, after which the number of entries might be reduced further. If a country had a non-direct entry, its lowest-ranked skater according to the Worlds Standings competed in the preliminary round.


2012 European Figure Skating Championships, Entries
In January 2012, the ISU released a statement confirming that Evgeni Plushenko, who did not have a minimum score from the current or previous season, had been allowed to participate in the competition.


2012 European Figure Skating Championships, Overview
2012 was the first time in more than twenty years that Great Britain organized the European Championships. Robin Cousins choreographed the opening ceremony featuring 100 young local skaters and attended by Prince Edward.


2012 European Figure Skating Championships, Overview
Evgeni Plushenko won the preliminary round. The top 11 skaters advanced from the preliminary round to the short program, joining 17 direct entries. Jason Thompson who placed 13th also advanced as the representative of the host country. Artur Gachinski narrowly won the short program ahead of Plushenko. Plushenko won the free skate and took his seventh European title, while Gachinski took the silver and France's Florent Amodio won the bronze.


2012 European Figure Skating Championships, Overview
23 ladies competed in the preliminary round, with the top ten advancing to the short program to join 18 direct entries. Polina Korobeynikova was the winner of the preliminary round. The top three in the short program were Carolina Kostner, Kiira Korpi and Ksenia Makarova. In the free skate, Kostner placed first, followed by Korobeynikova, and Elene Gedevanishvili. Kostner won her fourth European title. Kiira Korpi took silver, her third European medal, and Gedevanishvili won her second bronze.


2012 European Figure Skating Championships, Overview
Russia's Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov withdrew as a result of an emergency surgery the previous week to remove Smirnov's appendix and Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov took their place. No preliminary round was held because there were only 19 teams in total. Germany's Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy withdrew before the short program due to injury. Russia's Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov won the short. Germany's Mari Vartmann / Daniel Wende collided with each other while attempting to avoid a French couple during the morning practice before the long programs on 26 January. Volosozhar / Trankov won the free skate to take their first European title, while Vera Bazarova / Yuri Larionov and Stolbova / Klimov took silver and bronze respectively for a Russian sweep of the podium.


2012 European Figure Skating Championships, Overview
19 teams competed in the ice dancing preliminary round, with the top eight advancing to the short dance to join 12 direct entries. Julia Zlobina / Alexei Sitnikov were first in the preliminary round. Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev, Nathalie Pechalat / Fabian Bourzat, and Ekaterina Riazanova / Ilia Tkachenko were the top three in the short dance. Pechalat / Bourzat won the free dance to take their second European title, Bobrova / Soloviev repeated as silver medalists, and Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov won bronze, their first time on the podium.


2012 European Figure Skating Championships, Medals summary, Medals by country
Table of small medals for placement in the short segment:


2012 European Figure Skating Championships, Medals summary, Medals by country
Table of small medals for placement in the free segment:


2012 European Grand Prix
The 2012 European Grand Prix (formally, the 2012 Formula 1 Grand Prix of Europe) was a Formula One motor race that was held at the Valencia Street Circuit in Valencia, Spain on 24 June 2012. It was the eighth round of the 2012 championship season, and the final time the circuit hosted the European Grand Prix. It was Fernando Alonso's second Grand Prix win in Spain after the 2006 Spanish Grand Prix held at Barcelona.


2012 European Grand Prix
Michael Schumacher finished third at the age of 43 years and 173 days, the oldest to climb to the podium since Jack Brabham's second-place finish at the 1970 British Grand Prix. It was Schumacher's best result since his comeback in 2010 and the final podium finish of his Formula One career.


2012 European Grand Prix, Report, Background
After experimenting with two drag reduction system (DRS) zones with a single detection point in 2011, the FIA decided that the 2012 race would use a single, longer DRS zone, mirroring the approach used in Canada. The detection point was positioned on the approach to Turn 8, with the activation point located between Turn 10 and Turn 11, and was brought forward 70 metres (230 ft) from its position in the 2011 race, allowing drivers to activate the system sooner. The second DRS activation zone, located after Turn 14 in 2011, was removed for the 2012 race.


2012 European Grand Prix, Report, Background
Like the 2011 European Grand Prix, tyre supplier Pirelli brought its white-banded medium compound tyre as the harder "prime" tyre and the yellow-banded soft compound tyre as the softer "option" tyre.


2012 European Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying
Marussia driver Timo Glock decided not to take part in Saturday's qualifying session or start the race because he was suffering from food poisoning. His teammate, Charles Pic, qualified in twenty-third and last place. The HRTs occupied the row in front of him on the grid, with Pedro de la Rosa out-qualifying Narain Karthikeyan. The Red Bull of Mark Webber was very out of place, qualifying in nineteenth due to hydraulic problems which meant he could not use the DRS rear wing. The Caterham of Vitaly Petrov qualified on the same row as Webber in twentieth, whilst the Toro Rosso of Jean-Éric Vergne qualified eighteenth again.


2012 European Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying
The other Toro Rosso of Daniel Ricciardo did make it through to the second qualifying session, but ended up on the same row as his teammate in seventeenth. Caterham driver Heikki Kovalainen, doing a great job to make Q2, enjoyed his joint-best qualifying of the season in sixteenth, in front of Ricciardo. He was, however, more than a second behind Sergio Pérez of Sauber, who took fifteenth spot on the grid.


2012 European Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying
Ferrari made a strategical error in choosing to use just one set of soft tyres for their drivers, resulting in Fernando Alonso qualifying eleventh, and Felipe Massa setting the thirteenth quickest time. Williams driver and fellow countryman Bruno Senna qualified on the same row as Massa, in fourteenth. Just three-tenths of a second separated Romain Grosjean's fastest time of the session, and Massa's thirteenth fastest time, proving the competitiveness of the 2012 field. The Mercedes of Michael Schumacher was the car between the Ferraris in twelfth, missing out, like Senna and Pérez, when their teammates made it into Q3.


2012 European Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying
Seven teams were represented by the ten drivers in the third and final part of qualifying. Sebastian Vettel took his second pole position of the season by four-tenths of a second; it was also the 33rd pole position of his career, meaning that he moved up into joint third with Alain Prost and Jim Clark in the all time list for most pole positions. It was Vettel's third consecutive pole at the Valencia Street Circuit, on the track's final appearance. It was much closer behind him though, the other nine cars separated by just half a second.


2012 European Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying
Lewis Hamilton accompanied him by qualifying second, his fifth front row start of the season, and the seventh time he had initially qualified there. Pastor Maldonado impressed by qualifying third, eleven places in front of his teammate, and also in front of the two Lotus cars, who qualified fourth and fifth with Grosjean marginally ahead of Kimi Räikkönen. Nico Rosberg took his Mercedes to sixth and Kamui Kobayashi was successful in qualifying his Sauber seventh. Rosberg claimed after the session that Hamilton had blocked him at the end of his out-lap, spoiling his final effort.


2012 European Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying
The matter was looked into by the stewards, but they decided not to take further action. Nico Hülkenberg, in the improved Force India, narrowly missed out on a higher grid slot in eighth, as Jenson Button bemoaned oversteer in his McLaren again and was down in ninth. Paul di Resta's lap looked promising (he had predicted a top five grid slot had it all gone to plan), but he made a small mistake at the final corner of the lap and ended up down in tenth. Six of the drivers in the top ten actually set a faster time in Q2 than they did in Q3. The four drivers who did not were Vettel, Hamilton, Maldonado and Räikkönen.


2012 European Grand Prix, Report, Qualifying
Unusually for the 2012 season, all of the drivers started the race in the same places they qualified because no penalties were implemented.


2012 European Grand Prix, Report, Race
The top 10 qualifiers all started on the soft 'option' tyres which they used in Q3, as did most of those behind, though they had a choice. Michael Schumacher, Sergio Pérez and Mark Webber were the three who started on the medium tyres.


2012 European Grand Prix, Report, Race
Just like in the previous race in Canada, polesitter Sebastian Vettel was able to get a powerful launch off the startline in his Red Bull and went into the first corner unchallenged, and Lewis Hamilton who was alongside him on the front row stayed second. Kimi Räikkönen got a good launch from 5th on the grid and was nearly alongside third place starter Pastor Maldonado but had to back off to avoid hitting him and his Lotus teammate Romain Grosjean took advantage to jump into third, and Kamui Kobayashi took 4th, as Maldonado and Räikkönen dropped to 5th and 6th.


2012 European Grand Prix, Report, Race
The Ferraris of Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa were the chief gainers on the first lap, Alonso moving from 11th on the grid to 8th and Massa from 13th to 10th. Force India were also running strongly at the end of the first lap, with Nico Hülkenberg and Paul di Resta splitting the Ferraris in 7th and 9th. The two men who lost out at the start were Nico Rosberg, who dropped to 11th from 6th on the grid and was just a single place in front of Mercedes teammate Michael Schumacher, and Jenson Button in the second McLaren who lost four places and was down in 13th.


2012 European Grand Prix, Report, Race
Vettel showed very impressive pace in the early laps, building a 4-second lead within the first two laps and continuing to extend it at a second per lap. Hamilton was unable to keep up with him and was defending from Grosjean, with Kobayashi, Maldonado and Räikkönen all able to keep up. Hülkenberg dropped to 3 seconds behind Räikkönen and was kept busy in the opening laps keeping Alonso behind. The order stayed the same till lap 10 when Grosjean used the DRS to get alongside Hamilton before completing a move around the outside of turns 12 and 13. He was able to immediately pull away from Hamilton though Vettel was already 14 seconds ahead, but on a clear track he was able to run laptimes that were within two to three-tenths of Vettel's. On the next lap, Alonso passed Hülkenberg for seventh with a similar move.


2012 European Grand Prix, Report, Race
Button, down in 12th place, was the first driver to make his pit stop for new tyres, doing so on lap 11, and he went for the medium compound whereas Massa, who was held up behind and unable to pass di Resta went for the soft tyre when he pitted one lap later. Maldonado was suffering from tyre wear towards the end of this stint, and was passed by Räikkönen and then Alonso, with the latter duo then setting off after Kobayashi. Kobayashi immediately decided to pit, with Räikkönen and Maldonado following him in. A minor pit stop problem for Kobayashi allowed Räikkönen to get ahead of him but Alonso was able to jump the duo of them by staying out a lap longer. Vettel and Grosjean pitted on lap 15, with the defending world champion rejoining still in the lead.


2012 European Grand Prix, Report, Race
Grosjean and Hamilton rejoined behind di Resta and Rosberg, who did not pit, but neither offered much resistance to them, and soon the duo were back up to second and third, though Grosjean was now 20 seconds behind Vettel.


2012 European Grand Prix, Report, Race
The rest of the early stoppers were stuck behind the trio of Schumacher, Bruno Senna in the other Williams and Mark Webber, all three of whom were yet to stop, and losing pace on their worn tyres, created a massive traffic jam as a number of drivers, led by Alonso with Räikkönen, Kobayashi, Maldonado, Massa, Hülkenberg, Button and Sergio Pérez were all close behind. Alonso was able to clear the trio, passing Webber and Senna in the space of a few corners, and Schumacher on the next lap.


2012 European Grand Prix, Report, Race
Schumacher and Webber both stopped for new tyres at the end of the lap, leaving Senna to hold off the rest of the cars on new tyres. Räikkönen passed Senna almost immediately, and Kobayashi attacked Senna on the long straight before Turn 8. Senna was unaware that Kobayashi was already moving down the inside and tried to defend the inside line, and the duo touched, with Kobayashi's front wing being damaged and Senna suffering a puncture, and both men had to come into the pits.


2012 European Grand Prix, Report, Race
At the front, Grosjean was able to match Vettel's pace for the first time in the race, though the German was able to hold the gap at 20 seconds. Hamilton was unable to keep up with the leading duo, with Alonso and Räikkönen both making short work of di Resta and started to close in on Hamilton. Di Resta finally pitted on lap 25 and went on the medium compound tyres, promoting Maldonado to sixth, with Massa, Hülkenberg, Button and Pérez completing the top 10, all having made one stop. Massa, Button and Pérez all had to make an early second stop for tyres in the next few laps as they were the earliest to make their first.


2012 European Grand Prix, Report, Race
The complexion of the race took a big turn when, on lap 27, well down the field, Jean-Éric Vergne tried to make a DRS-assisted pass on Heikki Kovalainen through turn 12. Vergne thought that his car was fully in front of Kovalainen but it actually wasn't and he ended up chopping his car straight onto Kovalainen's, puncturing his right rear tyre and Kovalainen's left front, and debris caused by the shredding tyres was spread all over the track, thus causing the intervention of the safety car. Both Vergne and Kovalainen made it to the pits, with Vergne retiring due to suspension damage whereas Kovalainen was able to continue.


2012 European Grand Prix, Report, Race
The intervention of the safety car not only just bunched up the field, erasing Vettel's 20 second lead at the front, but also sent most of the drivers, including all the leaders, in for their second tyre stop. There was more pit-stop trouble for Lewis Hamilton, as a problem with the front jack meant that he dropped behind both Alonso and Räikkönen after the stops.


2012 European Grand Prix, Report, Race
The safety car intervention also meant that Massa, Button and Pérez, the trio who made their second stops before it came out, lost a lot of places as most of the drivers were able to stop under the safety car, this left the trio down in 14th, 15th and 16th. The drivers that did not stop in this period were Daniel Ricciardo and those that had made their first stop late – Rosberg, Schumacher, Webber and di Resta. This put Ricciardo into 4th place, behind Vettel, Grosjean and Alonso. Räikkönen was fifth, and Hamilton sixth after his pit stop troubles.


2012 European Grand Prix, Report, Race
The race restarted on lap 34, and Alonso immediately took the opportunity to get alongside Grosjean and pass him round the outside at turn 1. Rosberg, in seventh and on the older tyres immediately lost five places to teammate Schumacher, Webber, Maldonado, Hülkenberg and di Resta. Further down the pack, there was a collision between Massa and Kobayashi while battling for 13th, leaving Massa with a puncture and Kobayashi with terminal suspension damage.


2012 European Grand Prix, Report, Race
At around the same time, race leader Vettel lost drive coming out of turn 10 and he had to retire, with what was later said to be an alternator failure. Alonso took the lead ahead of Grosjean, and Ricciardo ran third briefly as Hamilton passed Räikkönen for fourth. Ricciardo's tyres did not last long, and soon, after being passed by both Hamilton and Räikkönen, he had to pit for new tyres.


2012 European Grand Prix, Report, Race
Schumacher was running fifth now ahead of Webber, but the latter was suffering from serious tyre problems and, after being passed by Maldonado and the two Force India cars within the space of a few corners, he went into the pits. Schumacher was also on older tyres and pitted for new ones three laps later, rejoining in 11th place, just ahead of Webber.


2012 European Grand Prix, Report, Race
The race at the front of the field took yet another twist when, on lap 41, Grosjean who was running within a second of Alonso had to retire with an alternator failure suspected to be similar to that of Vettel's. This left Alonso with a 3-second lead over Hamilton, who was now under pressure from Räikkönen, with Maldonado up to 4th now ahead of the Force India duo of Hülkenberg and di Resta, the latter trying a one-stopper. He was soon under attack from Pérez, who along with Button, had recovered back up to seventh and eighth.


2012 European Grand Prix, Report, Race
Alonso continued to lead comfortably at the front, with Hamilton continuing to hold off Räikkönen for second though the latter rarely allowed the gap to go over a second. Maldonado, Hülkenberg and di Resta began to spread out, and the action behind was from Schumacher and Webber, who on new softer tyres were going around 2 seconds quicker than those in front of them. The duo picked off Senna, before closing in on and passing Button on lap 49.


2012 European Grand Prix, Report, Race
As the tyres started to wear out for the other drivers, they fell into the clutches of Schumacher and Webber, who passed Pérez three laps later, and di Resta after another lap to move up into 6th and 7th respectively. Hülkenberg was next up and he too was dealt with by the duo on the penultimate lap, moving Schumacher into 5th and Webber into 6th, but it was not going to stay that way.


2012 European Grand Prix, Report, Race
Hamilton in second, in his attempts to hold off Räikkönen had pushed his tyres too much, and they started to wear towards the end of the race. Räikkönen patiently bided his time before passing Hamilton on lap 55 with two laps left, when Hamilton's tyres were worn out. Hamilton was now under attack from Maldonado, whose pace was strong enough for him to stay out of the reach of Schumacher and Webber.


2012 European Grand Prix, Report, Race
Maldonado attacked Hamilton at turn 1 on the penultimate lap, but some strong defensive driving by Hamilton meant that he kept the place for then despite his worn tyres. Maldonado tried again on the run down to turn 13 using DRS, with Hamilton taking the inside line and forcing Maldonado off the track, and as Maldonado tried to rejoin, he clipped the kerb for the next turn and hit Hamilton, forcing him into the wall and out of the race. Maldonado himself lost his front wing, and dropped back down the order.


2012 European Grand Prix, Report, Race
The race was won by Alonso, who became the first driver to win 2 races this year, and coupled with Vettel's and Hamilton's retirement also took the championship lead. Räikkönen took second and Schumacher was promoted to third, his first podium since his return to F1 and the last podium of his career. Webber was 4th ahead of Hülkenberg, with Rosberg charging up to 6th on new tyres by passing di Resta and Button in the last two laps.


2012 European Grand Prix, Report, Race
Pérez suffered more tyre problems than others and crossed the line 9th, with Maldonado who continued on without his front wing was still able to take the final point in 10th. However, he was given a 20-second time penalty for his collision with Hamilton and was thus demoted to 12th, with his teammate Senna thus taking the final point. The race marked the oldest average age of podium finishers in the 21st century with 35 years, 8 months, and 8 days.


2012 European Grand Prix, Report, Post-race
Jean-Éric Vergne was given a ten-place grid penalty for the next race for causing an avoidable collision with Heikki Kovalainen. He was also fined 25,000 euros for driving dangerously when he had a puncture. Kamui Kobayashi was awarded a five-place grid penalty at the next race for the collision with Felipe Massa.


2012 European Grand Prix, Report, Post-race
This event would prove to be the last held at the circuit. It has proved unpopular with drivers and fans for its unimaginative layout and lack of suitable overtaking places, leading to mundane races. From 2013, the Spanish Grand Prix was due to alternate between Barcelona and Valencia, but Valencia later dropped out of the contract to host the race.


2012 European Judo Championships
The 2012 European Judo Championships were held at the Traktor Arena in Chelyabinsk, Russia, from 26 to 29 April 2012.


2012 European Junior Cup
The 2012 European Junior Cup was the second season of the European Junior Cup. It was contested on equal KTM 690 Duke bikes. Lukas Wimmer won the title.


2012 European Junior Curling Challenge
The 2012 European Junior Curling Challenge was held from January 3 to 8 at the Tårnby Curling Club in Copenhagen, Denmark. The challenge consisted of nations that have not already qualified for the World Junior Championships. The winners of the men's and women's tournaments qualified for the 2012 World Junior Curling Championships in Östersund, Sweden.


2012 European Junior Curling Challenge, Men, Round Robin Results
All draw times are listed in Central European Time (UTC+01).


2012 European Junior Curling Challenge, Women, Round Robin Results
All draw times are listed in Central European Time (UTC+01).


2012 European Junior Open Water Swimming Championships
The 2012 European Junior Open Water Swimming Championships was part the 14th edition of the European Open Water Swimming Championships event of the LEN European Aquatics Championships for juniors held in Karamürsel, Kocaeli Province, Turkey from July 13 to 15. The event featured in the Gulf of İzmit at northeastern Marmara Sea for junior (17–18 years) and youth (15–16 years) male and female individuals and team event (youth/junior combined).


2012 European Junior Open Water Swimming Championships, Participating nations
117 swimmers (62 males, 55 females) from 21 countries swam at the 2012 European Junior Open Water Swimming Championships.


2012 European Junior Swimming Championships
The 2012 European Junior Swimming Championships were held from 4–8 July 2012 in Antwerp, Belgium. The Championships were organized by LEN, the European Swimming League, and were held in a 50-meter pool. Per LEN rules, competitors have age 15 or 16 for girls and 17 or 18 for boys.


2012 European Junior Swimming Championships, Participating countries
43 countries will take part in 2011 European Junior Swimming Championships with total of 486 swimmers.


2012 European Junior and U23 Canoe Slalom Championships
The 2012 European Junior and U23 Canoe Slalom Championships took place in Solkan, Slovenia from 6 to 9 September 2012 under the auspices of the European Canoe Association (ECA). It was the 14th edition of the competition for Juniors (U18) and the 10th edition for the Under 23 category. A total of 19 medal events took place. No medals were awarded for the junior women's C1 team event due to low number of participating countries.


2012 European Juniors Wrestling Championships
The 2012 European Juniors Wrestling Championships was held in Zagreb, Croatia between June 19–24, 2012.


2012 European Karate Championships
The 2012 European Karate Championships, the 47th edition, were held in Adeje, Tenerife, Spain from 10 to 13 May 2012. A total of 450 competitors from 45 countries participated at the event.


2012 European Le Mans Series
The 2012 European Le Mans Series was the ninth season of the Automobile Club de l'Ouest's European Le Mans Series (previously known as simply Le Mans Series). Championship titles were awarded in five categories, with the Le Mans Series shifting its categories following its separation from the FIA World Endurance Championship. LMP1 cars were dropped due to most teams entering the FIA World Endurance Championship while a new GTC category was created to allow single make grand tourer cars and FIA GT3s to compete in endurance races. However, there were no GTC cars that competed during the season.


2012 European Le Mans Series
Due to the numerous issues the season was reduced to just three rounds, starting in Le Castellet, France on 1 April and ended at Braselton, Georgia, United States, on 20 October.