The 2014European Cup Winter Throwing was held on 16 and 17 March at the Centro Nacional de Lançamentos and Estádio Municipal in Leiria, Portugal. It was the fourteenth edition of the athletics competition for throwing events and was jointly organised by the European Athletic Association and the Federação Portuguesa de Atletismo. The competition featured men's and women's contests in shot put, discus throw, javelin throw and hammer throw. In addition to the senior competitions, there were also under-23 events for younger athletes. Two athletes defended their titles from 2013: Latvia's Zigismunds Sirmais retained the men's javelin in and Russia's Yevgeniya Kolodko topped the women's shot put with a mark of. One world-leading mark came in the senior section in the form of Aleksandr Lesnoy's in the shot put. Two national records were improved during the two-day event: Dejan Mileusnic had a men's javelin Bosnian and Herzegovinian record with his first round throw of while Androniki Lada twice improved the Cypriot record in the discus, throwing then. The under-23 section had several performers beat the standards set in the senior competitions. Maksym Bohdan set a world lead of to win the men's under-23 javelin, while his female counterpart Liina Laasma gave the best javelin performance at the competition overall to win her under-23 event. Quentin Bigot's hammer throw of would have been enough for the senior podium and Shanice Craft's mark of in the women's under-23 discus was just four centimetres of the senior winner. Montenegro's Danijel Furtula was the under-23 men's discus winner for a third year running. Russia and Germany were the best in the team competitions, with the former winning the senior and under-23 men's titles and the latter taking both women's team titles. Leiria was chosen as the host at the European AthleticsExecutive Board meeting in Lausanne on 17 September 2013. During the competition the results were provided on a live mode, using Lap2Go technology
