European Athletics is pleased to confirm the final entries for the 14thEuropean Cup Winter Throwing in Leiria, Portugal, on 15-16 March.
Many of Europe's top throwers use this meeting as an early season guide to their form. It’s also a timely chance for them to brush away the cobwebs after weeks of training during the indoor season.
An interesting battle is expected in the senior men’s hammer between Hungary’s Krisztian Pars and Poland’s Pawel Fajdek. Pars is the reigning champion from last year, but Fajdek surprised him at the World Championships in Moscow to take gold.
In the women's shot put, Russia's Yevgeniya Kolodko who dominated the contest last year with a 19.04m throw, will try to repeat her performance but she will once again be up against the two women who completed the podium in Castellon, Belarus' Alena Kopets and Irina Tarasova of Russia.
There will be live streaming of the European Cup Winter Throwing at the following link: http://vsprt.com/ItIMqf.
The stream will be free to view, users simply needing to sign into the website. Videos of the individual throws will be available on demand after the event and can be played back in slow motion.
Video interviews from the event will be uploaded at www.youtube.com/EuropeanAthletics after the competition.