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left, in a thrilling men's 110m hurdles final ©Getty ImagesBianca Ghelber provided Romania's first athletics

Britain's Matthew Hudson-Smith completed his 2022 medal set here tonight as he finished comfortably clear in the men's 400 metres final, clocking 44.53sec to add European gold to the world bronze and Commonwealth silver he has already amassed in the space of the last month.

45.17.Femke Bol secured the first part of her projected 400m and 400m hurdles double at the European Athletics

#BackToTheRoofs pic.twitter.com/bM3C3YjSaw— European Athletics (@EuroAthletics) August 17, 2022Two outstanding

a big mark in senior competition tonight as Finland's 24-year-old Wilma Murto equalled the European Athletics

#BackToTheRoofs(@Euro_Champs) pic.twitter.com/keiV2xY3Hp— European Athletics (@EuroAthletics) August

Afghanistan's flag bearer at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics has thanked the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) for helping her relocate to the country and vowed to carry on and compete at Paris 2024.

 "We will support her in this with our member sport Athletics Australia and I have already contacted

Athletics Australia chief executive Peter Bromley has promised to support Yousofi's ambition for 2024

Germany is ready to "deal intensively" with the idea of hosting another Olympics in the wake of the successful current staging here of the multi-sport European Championships.

the billions of dollars of revenues generated by the event.The emotional scenes here at the European Athletics

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Germany’s Gina Luckenkemper sent a home crowd already supercharged with emotion by the dramatic victory of home decathlete Niklas Kaul into further delirium as a desperate lunge for the line earned her the European women’s 100 metres title by five thousandths of a second.

Earlier on a heady evening of athletics here Jakob Ingebrigtsen completed one half of his defence of

eventually jogging over the line after pulling up halfway.A 40,000 strong crowd enjoyed a dramatic night of athletics

#BackToTheRoofs pic.twitter.com/8VAGcli7iw— European Athletics (@EuroAthletics) August 16, 2022As she

♂️ 1500m - 4:10.04#BackToTheRoofs pic.twitter.com/L41jP4EMrs— European Athletics (@EuroAthletics) August

Turkish Sports Minister Mehmet Kasapoğlu has claimed Konya 2021 organisers have "raised the bar" for the staging of the Islamic Solidarity Games despite a series of issues at the event.

faced questions due to a number of problems.Among those include a faulty start system at the Konya Athletics

success.A faulty start system resulted in the sprint times posted on the opening three days of the athletics

Yevhen Pronin, the Acting President of the Ukrainian Athletics Federation (UAF), has revealed he feels

is the dual life Pronin lives as a member of the Ukrainian military and the leader of his country’s athletics

operators, which are used for reconnaissance and bombing ©Getty ImagesHe grew up falling in love with athletics

the Ukrainian governing body put him in charge of the organisation.Last month, he attended the World Athletics

escape the conflict.Yaroslava Mahuchikh was one of two Ukrainian medallists at the Eugene 2022 World Athletics

Olympic and world triple jump champion Pedro Pichardo has received a diploma with regards to the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Presidency of the Republic from the Olympic Committee of Portugal (COP).

decoration prior to Pichardo competing in the triple jump qualification of the Munich 2022 European Athletics

For many journalists who covered the European Athletics Championships of 2002 the return to the Munich

of a competitor at the event for which it was constructed - the 1972 Olympics.Yesterday, before the athletics

Fava was the last addition to the Italian athletics team for the Munich 1972 Olympics.Franco Fava leads

3,000m steeplechase heat at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, where he is now reporting on the European Athletics

Federations, now World Athletics] and then working as full-time journalist for my paper, Corriere dello

Since 1974 I have missed only one European Athletics Championships, in Prague in 1978.

Sprint times posted on the first three days of athletics action here have been deemed invalid by organisers

technical failure on the cabling of the starting system was discovered" on the morning of August 11.Athletics

August 9.Odiong posted 11.03 secs in her victory before Cisse clocked 9.89 in his triumph at the Konya Athletics

Field but their times are no longer valid or count towards World Athletics rankings.The men's and women's

letter about the invalid times was issued by Samuel Lopez and Thomas Eckel, technical delegates for athletics

However, there is no influence on the rankings/positions of the track events of the athletics programme

Germany’s Richard Ringer earned the European men’s marathon title in dramatic fashion here as a final sprint saw him overtake the leader, Israel's Maru Teferi, in the final 20 metres to the huge acclaim of fans packing the grandstands.

the bronze medal earned by team-mate Gashau Ayale, helped Israel win team gold on the opening day of athletics

face contorted with effort, won an attritional contest to take the first title of the 2022 European Athletics

Richard McLaren has come to the defence of Russian and Belarusian athletes currently banned from international sport because of the war in Ukraine.

released in two parts in July and December 2016, led to Russia being suspended from all international athletics

Eugene last month, and all 12 European Olympic champions have converged in Munich for the European Athletics

earned a surprise victory at last summer’s Tokyo 2020 Games, although his earlier win at the European Athletics

to contest last month’s World Championships in Eugene.It will be a huge feature of the Munich 2022 athletics

1500m champion Jake Wightman will target Tom McKean's Scottish 800m record of 1:43.88 at the European Athletics

title.Wightman added at today’s pre-event press conference that he will seek to double at next year’s World Athletics

European Athletics President Dobromir Karamarinov says the federation "supports" the multi-sports concept

The statement follows a report in June that European Athletics would be reverting to stand-alone Championships

European Athletics is extremely happy with the value of the multi-sport concept," Karamarinov told a

press conference here on the day before the 25th European Athletics Championships get underway as part

This is a matter for our Council - our Council will decide.European Athletics President Dobromir Karamarinov

In welcoming the athletes who sat either side of him, Karamarinov added:"Athletics is really welcome