The Match Europe v USA

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

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

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

Creation of the Match

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

The program

Events

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

Track events

Running

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

Obstacle events

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

Relay events

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

Field events

Jumping events

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

Throwing events

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

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

Scoring

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

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

Scoring scheme for The Match USA v Europe
Position	Points	Position	Points
1st	9	5th	4
2nd	7	6th	3
3rd	6	7th	2
4th	5	8th	1
* 0 points are awarded in the event of a DQ, DNF or NM.

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

Prize money

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

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

Results

Main article: The Match Europe v USA – Results

Men

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

Women

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

Mixed

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

Final scores

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

Points from each placement

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

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

External links

• Official website