Men's 60m
Obikwelu's winning margin of 0.01 equals the smallest winning margin since 1984. Jason Livingstone and Vitaliy Savin were also separated by one-hundredth in 1992.
Obikwelu becomes the oldest winner of this title at 32y and 104d. This is only his second indoor medal having taken bronze over 200m at the 1997 World Indoor Championships.
Obikwelu also becomes the first non-British winner of this title since 1998.
Men's 400m
Leslie Djhone's winning margin of 0.88 is the largest since 1973 and the second-largest in the history of these championships.
Djhone moves to No.6 on the European indoor all-time lists.
Two British athletes qualified for the final for the first time since 1994.
Men's 800m
This was just the second time athletes from the same nation have taken gold and silver. The first was in 1992 with Luis Javier Gonzalez and Jose Arconada taking medals for Spain.
Men's 1500m
While Manuel Olmedo's time of 3:41.03 isn't particularly fast, a winning time inside 3:40 has only been achieved once since 1986.
Iberian-born runners have won seven of the past eight titles.
Bartosz Nowicki claimed a surprise bronze for Poland which was their first in this event since 1981.
Britain were without a finalist for the first time since 2000.
Men's 3000m
Mo Farah becomes the first athlete since Jose Luis Gonzalez in 1988 to defend this title.
Farah remains the only male athlete to have won continental titles indoors, outdoors and at cross-country.
Hayle Ibrahimov becomes the first Azerbaijani athlete to win a medal at the European Indoor Championships.
Men's 60m hurdles
Petr Svoboda becomes the first Czech winner (excluding Czechoslovakia) of this title. He also won a bronze two years ago and also competed in the heptathlon in 2005.
Men's long jump
Sebastian Bayer becomes the first athlete since Robert Emmiyan in 1987 to successfully defend this title.
Men's triple jump
Teddy Tamgho becomes the first athlete since Yelena Isinbayeva in 2005 to set a world record at the European Indoor Championships.
Only on two occasions has an athlete achieved two 17.90m+ jumps in the same competition. They were Jonathan Edwards (World Championships in 1995) and Kenny Harrison (Olympic Games 1996).
Silver and bronze medallists Fabrizio Donato and Marian Oprea score best indoor marks for places with 17.73m and 17.62m respectively.
Marian Oprea's bronze medal-winning jump would have taken gold in every other edition of this event.
Donato becomes the oldest triple jump medallist at 34y and 203d.
Men's high jump
Ivan Ukhov broke Dalton Grant's stadium record of 2.37m by one centimetre.
Men's pole vault
Renaud Lavillenie added 13cm to the championship record of 5.90m which was set in this stadium in 1994.
The Frenchman's winning margin of 27cm was by far the biggest in the history of these championships. The previous was 20cm between Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz and Konstantin Volkov in 1979.
This was the third time France have taken gold and silver in this event.
Men's shot put
This was the first time Germany have taken gold and silver medals in this event.
Bartels becomes the oldest winner of this title at 33y and 11d.
Men's heptathlon
Andrei Krauchanka is the first athlete to win gold medals at the European Junior Championships and the European Indoor Championships.
Roman Sebrle became the oldest ever medallist when he won this title in 2007 at 32y and 98d and the Czech sets a new age record with bronze at 36y and 100d.
The winning margin of 45 points is the smallest in the history of these championships.
Men's 4x400m
The Borlée brothers helped Belgium to their first ever relay medal.
Women's 60m
Jodie Williams set a PB and European age-17 record of 7.21 in the semi-finals, which she also equalled in the final. This time would have been sufficient for gold in 1992, silver in 1996 and 2009 and bronze in 1998, 2002 and 2005.
At 17y and 158d, Williams also became the youngest ever finalist in the 60m.
Olesya Povh and Mariya Ryemyen co-own the 15 fastest times in Europe in 2011. Povh leads the European rankings with 7.13, which she has run on three separate occasions.
The last Ukrainian-born athlete to win this title was Zhanna Block in 1992 and it was also the first time athletes from the same nation have taken gold and silver since Marlies Gohr and Silke Gladisch for East Germany in 1983.
Women's 400m
Denisa Rosolova's winning time of 51.73 was the slowest since Sally Gunnell won this title in 1989 in 52.04. The Czech had previously won a medal in 2007, taking bronze in the long jump. She also finished tenth in the pentathlon in 2009.
Women's 800m
Yevgeniya Zinurova took Russia's fourth successive gold medal after Larisa Chzhao in 2005, Oksana Zbrozhek in 2007 and Mariya Savinova in 2009.
This was the first time since 1998 a sub-two minute clocking wasn't needed for the title.
Women's 1500m
Yelena Arzhakova's winning time of 4:13.78 was the slowest since 1986. The winner's coach Yekaterina Podkopayeva also won this title in this arena in 1994.
Women's 3000m
At 37y and 63d, Helen Clitheroe becomes the second oldest athlete to win a European indoor title.
Clitheroe's winning margin was just three-hundredths but the closest occurred in the 1983 edition, when a mere one-hundredth separated Yelena Sipatova and Agnese Possamai.
Lidia Chojecka has won a medal at these championships in three different decades having taken silver in the 1500m in 1998, silver in the 3000m in 2000, gold in the 3000m in 2005 and 2007 as well as 1500m gold in 2007.
Chojecka and Obikwelu are the only athletes to win medals at the 1997 World Indoor Championships, held in this stadium, and at the 2011 European Indoor Championships.
Women's 60m hurdles
This was just the third time three or more athletes have ducked under the 7.85-barrier in the same race. The first occurred at the World Indoor Championships in 1997 and the 2004 World Indoor Championships.
Nytra and Ofili enter the European all-time indoor top-ten with 7.80.
Women's long jump
At 20y and 50d, Darya Klishina becomes the youngest ever winner of this title.
For the second successive championships, five centimetres separated the medallists.
Women's triple jump
Simona La Mantia's winning distance of 14.60m is the shortest since 1996.
Women's high jump
Antonietta Di Martino becomes the first Italian winner of this event since Sara Simeoni in 1981.
Di Martino also becomes the oldest winner of this title at 32y and 278d.
Ruth Beitia becomes the second high jumper to win medals at four successive European Indoor Championships.
Women's pole vault
Anna Rogowska's 4.85m clearance was the third best ever mark achieved at a world or European indoor championships.
Holly Bleasdale's clearance of 4.45m in the qualifying round would have been sufficient for the final in all but one of the previous editions of these championships.
Women's shot put
Anna Avdeyeva's winning put of 18.70m is the shortest gold medal-winning distance since 1969. Josephine Terlicki's bronze medal-winning effort of 18.09m is also the shortest for third since 1981.
Women's pentathlon
Antoniette Nana Djimou Ida scored France's first-ever pentathlon medal.
Austra Skujyte made a fine return to multi-eventing with a silver medal in 4706. In 2007, she finished fourth with a superior score of 4740 and her score from Paris would have only been sufficient for seventh in that competition.
Skujyte recorded a put of 17.53m in the shot, which was the second longest in pentathlon history.
The gap between Djimou Ida and Skujyte (17 points) tied the smallest ever winning margin at these championships.
Women's 4x400m
Russia won their fourth successive gold medal in this event with Great Britain claiming their fourth podium placing in succession.
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