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European Athletics Championships to revert to stand-alone model after Munich 2022

  • Athletics

The European Athletics Championships, due to take place in August as part of the second multi-sport European

chief executive, added: "European Athletics would also like to confirm, following a recent European

Athletics Council decision, that the 2026 European Athletics Championships will be organised as a stand-alone

Athletics will last a whole week.“In Munich, athletics should bring the most ratings and attention.

will be made by the European Athletics Council in November."

Athletics President Dobromir Karamarinov."




Triple Paralympic medallist Reid announces retirement from athletics

  • Athletics News

Triple Paralympic medallist Stefanie Reid has retired from athletics after a career that saw her compete

broke the long jump T44 world record on multiple occasions and won gold at the London 2017 World Para Athletics

@runjumpstefreid)"From relearning how to walk to making the 'crazy' decision in 2008 to pursue Para athletics


Double Olympic gold medallist Dame Kelly Holmes announces she is gay in interview

  • Athletics

British athlete Dame Kelly Holmes, who won Olympic gold medals in the women’s 800 metres and 1500m at Athens 2004, has revealed in a newspaper interview that she is gay.

contribution of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals to society.Before she pursued international athletics

time illegal, however this law was changed in 1999.Dame Kelly left the British Army in 1997 to pursue athletics

It culminated in Dame Kelly cutting herself with scissors in a bathroom on the eve of the 2003 World Athletics



Fraser-Pryce boosts world 100m defence hopes with 10.67sec win in Paris

  • Athletics

Double Olympic 100 metres champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce served notice on her intention of successfully defending her world title this summer as she won the concluding event of a sweltering Meeting de Paris here tonight in 10.67sec, equalling her own 2022 world-leading mark.

18, 2022The 25-year-old from Burgersdorp, whose previous best was 20.01, won silver at the inaugural Athletics


Countdown to 2023 European Masters Games in Tampere begins

  • Multi-Sport Games

There is just over one year to go until the 2023 European Masters Games are set to take place in Tampere in Finland from June 26 to July 9, with a provisional programme of 29 sports and disciplines.

Archery, athletics, badminton, basketball, beach volleyball plus volleyball, canoe slalom and sprint,


Fürjes master of the Rubik’s Cube of events and facilities in Budapest as FINA World Championships return

  • The Big Read

The International Swimming Federation (FINA) World Championships - last held in 2019 - got underway this weekend in Budapest.

Arena, the Debrecen Velodrome, the 65,000 Puskas Stadium for the national football team, the National Athletics

Other major events secured included the inaugural World Urban Games in 2019 and next year’s World Athletics

have got around such problems by building separate facilities in the Puskas Arena and the National Athletics

Centre awaits next year's World Athletics Championships"That’s why there are separate stadiums.

The National Athletics Centre will be 36,000 capacity for next year’s World Championships through temporary




Initial 44 athletes awarded IOC scholarship for refugees prior to Paris 2024

  • Paris 2024

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has released the initial list of 44 athletes who have been awarded Olympic scholarships for refugee athletes to help them train towards the goal of being selected for the Refugee Olympic Team at Paris 2024.

Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iraq, Iran, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria and Venezuela, and compete in athletics


West Midlands signs decade-long partnership with GEF, and sets sights on hosting Global Esports Games

  • Birmingham 2022

West Midlands has signed a 10-year partnership with the Global Esports Federation (GEF) here as the region seeks to exploit its youthful population and host a future edition of the Global Esports Games.

competitions the region has staged in recent years, which includes the International Association of Athletics

Federations World Athletics Championships, World Gymnastics Championships, the Cricket World Cup and


Bach set to join German sports commemoration of attacks at Munich 1972 Olympics

  • Olympics

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach is expected to join a German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) event to remember events at the Munich 1972 Olympic Games when 11 Israeli team members died as a result of an attack by Arab terrorists.

organisations, the Special Olympics Olympic Academy, the German Disabled Sports Association, the Bavarian Athletics

 Munich will also host the second edition of the multi-sport European Championships, featuring athletics