Nordic Indoor Athletics Match

Nordic Indoor Athletics Match
Sportindoor track and field
Founded2011
CountryFinland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland

The Nordic Indoor Athletics Match (Norwegian: Nordisk Mesterskap Friidrett Innendørs) is an annual indoor track and field competition between athletes from the Nordic countries, organised by Nordic Athletics. Established in 2011, it marked a return to regular indoor competition between Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden,[1] following on from the short-lived Nordic Indoor Athletics Championships in the late 1980s.[2][3]

The first three editions were contested between Finland, Norway and Sweden only. Hosting duties are shared between the three nations on a yearly rotational basis. The one-day event is typically held on a Saturday in February.[1] The match features a men's and a women's international team competition, referred to as Nordenkampen, where individuals score points based on their placing in the events. Denmark first entered the team competition in 2014 and since 2015 Danish and Icelandic athletes form a combined team against the more competitive Finnish, Swedish and Norwegian teams.[4][5]

Editions

Nordic Indoor Athletics Match editions
Ed. Year Venue City Country Date Nations Men's team winner Women's team winner Ref.
1st 2011 Tampere Exhibition and Sports Centre Tampere Finland 5 February 3  Sweden (115 pts)  Sweden (119 pts) [6]
2nd 2012 Campus Steinkjer Steinkjer Norway 11 February 3  Sweden (106 pts)  Sweden (123 pts) [7]
3rd 2013 Telekonsult Arena Växjö Sweden 9 February 3  Sweden (109 pts)  Sweden (104 pts) [8]
4th 2014 Tampere Exhibition and Sports Centre Tampere Finland 8 February 5  Sweden (112 pts)  Finland (102 pts) [9]
5th 2015 Bærum idrettspark Bærum Norway 14 February 5  Sweden (126.5 pts)  Sweden (146 pts) [10]
6th 2016 Telekonsult Arena Växjö Sweden 13 February 5  Sweden (146 pts)  Sweden (155 pts) [11]
7th 2017 Tampere Exhibition and Sports Centre Tampere Finland 11 February 5  Finland (140 pts)  Sweden (138 pts) [12]
8th 2018 IFU Arena Uppsala Sweden 11 February 5  Sweden (143.5 pts)  Sweden (146.5 pts) [13]
9th 2019 Bærum idrettspark Bærum Norway 10 February 5  Sweden (139 pts)  Sweden (131.5 pts) [14]
10th 2020 Liikuntamylly Helsinki Finland 9 February 5  Sweden (141 pts)  Sweden (139 pts) [15]
11th 2022 IFU Arena Uppsala Sweden 13 February 5  Sweden (154 pts)  Sweden (148 pts) [16]
12th 2023 Eva Lisa Holtz Arena Karlstad Sweden 12 February 5  Norway (130.5 pts)  Sweden (163 pts) [17]
13th 2024 Bærum idrettspark Bærum Norway 11 February 5

References

  1. ^ a b Competition Venues. Nordic Athletics. Retrieved 2020-02-12.
  2. ^ Nordic Indoor Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2018-05-20.
  3. ^ Nordic Athletics Calendar 2017. Nordic Athletics. Retrieved 2018-05-20.
  4. ^ Match results. Nordenkampen. Retrieved 2020-02-12.
  5. ^ Om Nordenkampen. Nordenkampen. Retrieved 2020-02-12.
  6. ^ 2011 Results
  7. ^ 2012 Results
  8. ^ 2013 Results
  9. ^ 2014 Results
  10. ^ 2015 Results.
  11. ^ 2016 Results
  12. ^ 2017 Results
  13. ^ 2018 Results
  14. ^ 2019 Results
  15. ^ 2020 Results
  16. ^ "NORDENKAMPEN: – Jeg har fått den formbekreftelsen jeg ønsket!". magasinetfriidrett.no (in Norwegian). 13 February 2022. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
  17. ^ Anna-Lena Pettersson (12 February 2023). "Damseger och nytt svenskt juniorrekord på Nordenkampen" (in Swedish). SF. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
Editions