Jo Pavey, who became the oldest woman to win a gold medal at a European Athletics Championship, will defend her 10,000m crown in Amsterdam next month as part of the biggest team Great Britain has sent to the event.
Pavey broke new ground in Zurich 2014 when she won in 32:22.29 at the age of 40 – and now she is back among a number of gold medallists from two years ago.
Coached by her husband Gavin, she remains one of the greatest British athletes and she is joined in the 10,000m by Kate Avery, the silver medallist from the last two SPAR European Cross Country Championships, and Jessica Andrews.
As Pavey looks for glory again, so too will Greg Rutherford (long jump), Martyn Rooney (400m) and Tiffany Porter (100m hurdles) in a team of 98.
Adam Gemili, who won the 200m in Zurich, returns but this time he is running in the 100m while the 2014 100m gold medallist and teammate James Dasaolu competes in the 4x100m relay.
Neil Black, British Athletics’ Performance Director, said: 'We expect every athlete to make their individual final, with many challenging for places on the podium.'
While Britain's Jessica Ennis-Hill will not be in Amsterdam, she is heading to the Olympic Games in brilliant form after a spectacular weekend in the rain in Ratingen.
The defending Olympic champion produced her best heptathlon (6733 points) since her victory at the London Olympics four years ago, moving her to second in the world rankings behind Canada’s Brianne Theisen-Eaton (6765).
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It was her first heptathlon since regaining the world title in Beijing last summer and her triumph came with 64 more points than that gold-medal performance, with her personal best of 6.63m in the long jump the standout event as she won by 257 points from Germany's Carolin Schafer.
It was some few days for European sprinters, starting on Friday night in the meeting in Zeulenroda when Germany's Julian Reus broke his own German 100m record with 10.03.
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A day later on a second busy weekend of national championships and, at the age of 37, Francis Obikwelu was fourth (10.42) in the Portuguese 100m, won by Diogo Antunes (10.29).
It was back at the Olympic Games in Athens 2004 that Obikwelu broke the European 100m record with 9.86 before winning the European sprint double in Gothenburg 2006. How amazing it would be if he was back in their team, possibly for the relay in Amsterdam and Rio.
Their national championships in Maia also saw triple jump victory for Nelson Evora, the European indoor champion, as he triumphed with 16.60m. Then 24 hours later on Sunday, he won the long jump with 7.77m.
In Bydgoszcz, Pawel Fajdek took his hammer world lead to 81.87m as he won the Polish national championships with his 25th successive win, while on Sunday, Anita Wlodarczyk was in fine form again in the women’s event, where she had five throws over 70m, winning with 78.69m, to maintain her win streak to 25 aswell.
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Piotr Malachowski won the men’s discus with 68.15m, five centimetres shy of his world lead, while Bartlomiej Stoj, 19, came an eye-catching second by taking his personal best to 64.64m from 61.87m as he finished ahead of Robert Urbanek, the world bronze medallist, who was third with 64.38m.
One of the stand-out performances this weekend came from Matteo Galvan over 400m flat at the Italian National Championships in Rieti. He broke the national record with a time of 45.12 the second best time by a European this year meaning he could be a serious title contender over the distance in Amsterdam.
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Likewise, Gianmarco Tamberi, the world indoor high jump champion is ready to make a big impression this summer as he showed by winning the national title with 2.36m to move to second on the world rankings.
At the 69th Slovak Championships in Banska Bystrica, Jana Veldakova won the long jump with a superb 6.75m, breaking her eight-year-old personal best by three centimetres.
Pitesti was the venue for the 75th Balkan Championships and one of the stars was Bulgaria's 2012 European champion Ivet Lalova-Collio who won the 100m in 11.57.
Bosnia & Herzegovina’s Amel Tuka, who won his country’s first major medal in an athletics championship with bronze last year at the Worlds in Beijing, triumphed in the 800m (1;47.69) and Türkiye, inspired by a sprint double from Ramil Guliyev (100m - 10.30; 200m - 20.98) ended the championships as the leading nation with 256.5 points from Romania (236) and Greece (171.5).
The second day of the Belgian Championships on Sunday saw a fine, and surprising, win for Julien Watrin in the 400m ahead of Robin Vanderbemden (45.98), Antoine Gillet (46.18) and Jonathan Borlée (46.59).
There are 69 events across Europe this week. For full information, go to http://www.european-athletics.org/calendar