How to watch the Drawing Ceremony
The Drawing Ceremony of the IPCH European Championship 2024 is coming up on February 24 and will be livestreamed on Facebook.
The group draw is the first official and public step towards the upcoming competition and will take place at Musholm at 3 PM CET on Saturday, February 24. Guests include John Petersson, President of Parasport Denmark, and Knud Vincents, Mayor of Slagelse. Be sure to watch the draw live on Facebook.
The eight allocated nations for the EC2024 are:
1. Denmark (n.1 on the IPCH World Ranking List and Hosting country)
2. Netherlands (n.2 on the IPCH World Ranking List – Winner of EC2016)
3. Belgium (Winner QT2023)
4. Switzerland (n.3 on the IPCH World Ranking List)
5. Italy (n.4 on the IPCH World Ranking List – Runner up of EC2016)
6. Finland (n.5 on the IPCH World Ranking List)
7. Germany (n.6 on the IPCH World Ranking List)
8. Spain (n.7 on the IPCH World Ranking List)
Note that the drawing ceremony will be based on the EC2016 results as the EC2020 was unfortunately cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Therefore The Netherlands will be placed as top seed of Group A as the winner of the EC2016 while Italy that won silver medal in 2016 will be top seed of group B. The rest of the draw will be conducted by lottery, alternating teams between group A and B.