July 15 – As Euro 2024 came to its thrilling conclusion on Saturday night with Spain crowned champions, UEFA have revealed that more than 35,000 people received CPR training at UEFA fan festival sites across the one-month span of the tournament.
The training was delivered as part of the ‘Get trained, save lives’ campaign, created through the partnership between UEFA and the European Resuscitation Council.
Supported by a range of current stars and footballing legends, the campaign aims to raise awareness around sudden cardiac arrest and the importance of bystander CPR, as well as training people in basic CPR.
Spanning the ten host city venues, the campaign helped to train fans across every competing nation, utilising specialist manikins with sensors that measured the depth and rhythm of their compressions.
In addition to fans, each team also received CPR training at their base camps, which extended to match officials, staff and volunteers working at the tournament.
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