600 athletes in total[citation needed] – competed over two days for points in 20 men's and women's track and field events.
[2] Athletics at the European Games offers possible qualification standards for the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics.
A second non-medal athletics competition was held as a series of demonstration events on the streets of Baku in a Great City Games format.
The agreement was confirmed by Pat Hickey, president of the European Olympic Committees in February 2015.
[6] Azerbaijan's Chaltu Beji – the winner of the women's steeplechase event – was disqualified after her in-competition drug test came back positive for the banned substance ostarine.