European Athletics

Russia’s Pavel Shalin has made a startling impact on the Long Jump in just a few weeks, not least because his victory at the 2010 SPAR European Team Championships last weekend also helped his country to become the champions of Europe.

It takes a lot to upstage the Croatia’s High Jump superstar  Blanka Vlašić but Latvia’s Māris Urtāns did it when he sent the Shot out to 21.63 at last weekend’s European Team Championships Second League meeting in Belgrade.

Spanish athlete Sergio Sanchez enjoyed a breakthrough indoor season, setting European indoor records over 2000m and 3000m as well as winning a 3000m silver medal at the World Indoor Championships in Doha. In the latest “Big Interview” European Athletics caught up with Sanchez to talk about his expectations for the summer and the European Athletics Championships.

Turkey’s Ahmet Arslan proved that he’s currently the continent’s best mountain runner, and perhaps the best ever, when he took his fourth successive European Mountain Running Championships gold medal in the Bulgarian mountain resort of Sapareva Banya on Sunday.

Organisers of the 35th Athletissima meeting, Thursday’s edition of the IAAF Diamond League in Lausanne, have announced that the event will be 100% powered by renewable energy.

In the 17th in a series of profiles of the national winners of the inaugural Women's Leadership Awards, European Athletics speaks to Turkey’s Nese Gundogan.

European Athletics remembers some of the best moments of the recent Barcelona 2010 European Athletics Championships in the second part of a two-part retrospective.

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