The 2nd European Games will be held from 21 to June 30 in Minsk, Belarus. About 4000 athletes from 50 European countries will compete in 15 sports, ten of which will offer qualifying spots for the 2020 Summer Olympics.

The sports will be: Archery, Athletics, Badminton, 3x3 Basketball, Beach Soccer, Boxing, Canoeing Sprint, Cycling (Road and Track), Gymnastics (Acrobatic, Aerobic, Artistic, Rhythmic and Trampoline), Judo, Karate, Shooting, Sambo, Table Tennis and Wrestling

101 athletes will represent Great Britain.

Looking forward to this! Looks like it's going to be a great games.

The first edition was held in a dubiously European dictatorship and the second is similarly in the only country in Europe which isn't even close to a democracy.

 

I'm all for including the east but hold the European Games somewhere relatively normal like Ukraine or Georgia or something.

Edited June 8, 20196 yr by Harve

This will be shown on BT Sport again for UK viewers.

The first edition was held in a dubiously European dictatorship and the second is similarly in the only country in Europe which isn't even close to a democracy.

 

I'm all for including the east but hold the European Games somewhere relatively normal like Ukraine or Georgia or something.

 

The second edition was initially awarded to The Netherlands but they stepped down shortly after. Then it was awarded to Russia then removed due to the Russian doping scandals. Minsk, who was initally meant to host the 2019 European Youth Olympic Festival, was a last-resort solution.

Krakow in Poland is the only bidding city for the third edition in 2023.

Edited June 9, 20196 yr by N-S

I didn't even know European Games existed until now :lol: but the Sports that are used are probably the sports that I follow on TV most of the time bar the Badminton, Gymnastics, Boxing, Wrestling and whatever Sambo is :lol:

Team GB won two medals on Day 1. Women's archery team won Gold in recurve archery and Cheslie Giles won bronze in judo on women's 52kg.

Jason Kenny helped Great Britain claim bronze in the men's team sprint.

 

Kenny and team-mates Jack Carlin and Ryan Owens finished in 43.020 seconds.

 

Reigning world champions the Netherlands won the gold medal, beating France with a time of 42.385.

Great Britain won team pursuit silver and three boxing medals to take their tally to 12 at the European Games.

 

Welsh duo Meg Barker and Jess Roberts and former Irish rider Josie Knight lost the pursuit final to Italy.

 

But six-time Olympic champion Jason Kenny failed to qualify for the sprint quarter-finals in Minsk, Belarus.

 

Cheavon Clarke, Luke McCormack and Peter McGrail took boxing bronze while Lauren Price will fight for -75kg gold after beating Darima Sandakova.