Indoor European Athletics Championship 2017

The 34th Indoor Track and Field European Championships was held from March 3 to 5, 2017 at the Kombank Arena in Belgrade , the capital of Serbia . Athletes were allowed to participate, who fulfilled the necessary qualification requirements and standards in a timely manner ^[1] . Over the course of three days, 26 sets of medals were won.

Indoor European Athletics Championship 2017
Host city	Belgrade , Serbia
Member countries	48
Of the participants	525
Medals	26
Opening	March 3, 2017
Closing	March 5, 2017
date
Stadium	Kombank Arena

Belgrade received the right to host the tournament on May 3, 2014 at the Council of the European Athletics Association , bypassing Turkish Istanbul and Polish Torun ^[2] . The mascot of the competition was a white lion nicknamed Bela.

525 athletes from 48 countries of Europe took part in the competition. The Russian team was not allowed to the championship due to the indefinite disqualification of the national federation in November 2015 due to a doping scandal . As a neutral athlete, a Russian long jumper Daria Klishina participated: in accordance with the rules, she could not act in the form of a national team ^[3] . Shortly before the start of the tournament, the IAAF approved individual applications for admission to international starts for short-distance runners Kristina Sivkova and reigning European champion in pole vault Angelica Sidorova ^[4] . However, subsequently, for various reasons, they refused to travel to Belgrade.

More than one medal in the championship was won by Pavel Maslak , Rafal Omelko , Justina Sventi (all in the 400 meters race and in the 4x400 meters relay), as well as Laura Muir , who became a two-time champion. She won both gold in individual disciplines, 1500 and 3000 meters, with competition records.