The second edition of this sporting event will be held between August 11 and 21
This year there will be athletics championships; cycling, artistic gymnastics and rowing, among other sports
At least 40 members of the EBU will offer exhaustive television, radio and digital coverage of the European Championships Munich 2022, the second edition of the multi-sport event to be held in the Bavarian city from August 11 to 21.
The European Championships are held every four years, in collaboration with Europe’s free-to-air television networks. This year’s edition will add the existing continental championships from nine sports: Athletics; Cycling (road, track, Mountain Bike and BMX); Artistic gymnastics; Rowing; Triathlon; Beach volleyball; Climbing; Canoeing; and table tennis. The members of the EBU that will broadcast the European Championships Munich 2022 are: ORF (Austria); RTBF and VRT (Belgium); BNT/BNR (Bulgaria); HRT (Croatia); CYBC (Cyprus); CT/CR (Czech Republic); DR (Denmark); ERR (Estonia); YLE (Finland); France Televisions/SRF/RFI (France); ARD and ZDF (Germany); ERT (Greece); MTVA (Hungary); RUV (Iceland); RTE (Ireland); RAI, (Italy); LT/LR (Latvia); LRT (Lithuania); US (Netherlands); NRK (Norway); TVP/PR (Poland); RTP (Portugal); RTR (Russia); RTS (Serbia); RTVS (Slovakia); RTVSLO (Slovenia); RTVE (Spain); SVT/SR(Sweden); SRG-SSR (Switzerland); TRT (Turkey); BBC (UK).
To date, more than 3,500 hours of live, deferred and digital programming have been programmed on more than 50 channels. A significant increase compared to just over 3,000 hours for the inaugural European Championships Glasgow/Berlin 2018. ECM’s Marc Joerg said: “It’s very exciting to see Europe’s biggest free-to-air TV networks once again give the ‘big event’ treatment to the second edition of the multi-sport European Championships in Munich.”
Glen Killane, Executive Director of Eurovision Sport, said: “The second edition of the European Championships is the culmination of what has been an incredible summer of sport. Munich hosts these championships 50 years after hosting the Olympic Games, and this event will be the biggest multi-sport event held in Germany since then”. The second edition of the European Championships follows the extraordinary success of the inaugural edition, which took place in Glasgow and Berlin in 2018. Now, Munich will come to life for 11 days of high-level competition centered in the city’s Olympic Park, with 50 participating nations, 177 medal events and 4,700 athletes, all captured by the cameras and microphones of EBU Members.
Munich 2022 will be the biggest sporting event in Germany since the 1972 Summer Olympics and will reuse many of the venues of those Games, such as the emblematic Olympic Stadium, the Olympic Pavilion and the Munich Olympic Regatta Center. The elite competition will be accompanied by a cultural festival entitled “The Roofs” and a program of mass participation events, so that everyone feels part of the European Championships.