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Vetter claims third Dutch gold at European Championships

  • Athletics
  • 9 Jul 2016 22:25

Dutch heptathlete Anouk Vetter managed to better home heroine Dafne Schippers last night as she earned a third Dutch gold at the 23rd European Athletics Championships with 6626 points, breaking the national record of the woman who has since turned to sprinting in a big way.

attempts at 4.94, which would have been a Greek record.Brothers in arms - Norway's Filip (left) and Henryk Ingebrigtsen

 When the distance ran out it was Norway’s Filip Ingebrigtsen who finished fastest, in 3:46.65,

Amsterdam 2016 poster girl Schippers runs Diamond League 200m record in Oslo

  • Athletics
  • 9 Jun 2016 22:09

The Netherlands’ world 200 metres champion Dafne Schippers, poster girl for next month’s European Championships in Amsterdam, is looking increasingly likely to justify her status as local heroine after her victory at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting in Oslo today.

fifth victory in the Oslo Dream Mile ©Getty ImagesNorway’s 25-year-old former European champion Henrik Ingebrigtsen

Lavillenie breaks own Championship record to earn fourth European Indoor pole vault title

  • Athletics
  • 7 Mar 2015 22:00

By Mike RowbottomRenaud Lavillenie, France's 2014 World Athlete of the Year, may have struggled to reach the European Indoor pole vault final, managing a clearance of 5.70 metres at his third and final qualifying attempt yesterday, but he excelled in Prague today to win a fourth consecutive title with a Championship record 6.04m.

of 7:44.48, and bronze going to Norway's European outdoor gold and silver medallist at 1500m, Henrik Ingebrigtsen

Coulson sings her way to victory at European Cross Country Championships

  • Athletics
  • 9 Dec 2012 23:06

By Mike RowbottomDecember 9 - Jess Coulson won the European under-23 cross country title in Budapest today – helping the Great Britain and Northern Ireland team top the medal table for a fifth year running with a performance so relaxed that she was singing aloud for much of it.

who finished nine seconds behind Coulson, and teammate Gulshat Fazlitdinova, who placed fourth.Henrik Ingebrigtsen

Maslák beats Gemili to men's 2012 European Athletics Rising Star award

  • Athletics
  • 4 Oct 2012 15:04

By Mike RowbottomOctober 4 - Pavel Maslák, the 21-year-old Czech Republic athlete who won the European 400 metres title this year, has been voted winner of the men's 2012 European Athletics Rising Star award, finishing ahead of Britain's 18-year-old sprinter Adam Gemili.

France's sprinter Jimmy Vicaut, silver medallist in the European 100m, finished third, ahead of Henrik Ingebrigtsen