Dobromir Karamarinov, Interim President of European Athletics, has hailed the return to action represented by his organisation's 36th Indoor Championships, speaking a few hours before competition got underway in the Polish city of Torun.

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cruises through his 1500m heat in 3:39.89, finishing second behind Neil Gourley in 3:39.84.But Filip Ingebrigtsen

 When the action got underway in the evening Jakob Ingebrigtsen took a steady first step towards

I'm in good shape and Marcin [Lewandowski] is getting older," said Ingebrigtsen.

While Jakob Ingebrigtsen ticked the qualification box, his elder brother Filip, the 2016 European champion

European Athletics will stage the first multi-discipline championships in the sport since the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic when the 36th edition of its Indoor Championships start at the Torun Arena in Poland tomorrow.

this landmark opportunity will be Norway’s 20-year-old European 1500 and 5,000 metres champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen

him at these Championships in Glasgow two years ago.On that occasion, having won the 3,000m title, Ingebrigtsen

Championships a golden home finale on Sunday (March 7) evening.Norway's 21-year-old phenomenon Jakob Ingebrigtsen

Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay smashed the women’s world indoor 1500 metres record of 3min 55.17sec set by her compatriot Genzebe Dibaba when she clocked an extraordinary 3:53.09 tonight in the French city of Liévin.

third of this season’s World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meetings.Earlier, Norway’s 20-year-old Jakob Ingebrigtsen

Ethiopian who set the world indoor record of 3:31.04 in 2019, finished back in 11th place in 3:39.27.Jakob Ingebrigtsen

The poker players of men’s pole vault, where the stakes are already sky high this year, are set to play it again in the northern French city of Liévin tomorrow in the third of this season’s World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meetings.

European champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen.Also in a rich field are the 2017 world bronze medallist Filip Ingebrigtsen

, world bronze medallist Marcin Lewandowski of Poland, who outsprinted Ingebrigtsen junior to the European

The Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports (NIF) President Berit Kjøll has praised the nation's model, particularly in winter sports, after Norway were once again regarded as one of the best sporting countries in the world in 2020.

due to the outbreak, winter sports largely determined the outcome of the 2020 rankings.At 20, Jakob Ingebrigtsen

hurdles world champion Karsten Warholm and the long-distance running brothers Henrik, Filip and Jakob Ingebrigtsen

Kenya’s 2017 world 1500 metres champion Elijah Manangoi has been banned for two-years after missing a series of drugs tests.

Cheruiyot competed remotely in Nairobi against another five-man team of Norwegian athletes led by Jakob Ingebrigtsen

Armand Duplantis, who began this troubled season with two pole vault world records, will end it with the additional distinction of producing a world-best clearance outdoors as he achieved 6.15 metres at tonight’s penultimate Diamond League meeting in Rome.

of Estonia third in 48.72.Jacob Kiplimo won a stupendous struggle against fellow 19-year-old Jakob Ingebrigtsen

Tomorrow's penultimate Diamond League meeting of the season in Rome's Stadio Olimpico offers Armand Duplantis and Karsten Warholm one of their last likely opportunities in 2020 of attaining the new world record marks to which they have come so tantalisingly close in recent months.

features two prodigiously talented 19-year-olds in Norway's European 1500 and 5,000m champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen

While Karsten Warholm and Ryan Crouser fell a little short of the world records they had been targeting at the Golden Spike meeting in Ostrava, an evening of compelling competition was highlighted by momentous struggles in the men’s triple jump and 5000 metres events.

several meeting records on the night.Another 19-year-old, Norway’s European 1500 metres champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen

Tomorrow's Golden Spike meeting in the Czech city of Ostrava features a fresh world record holder in Sifan Hassan, but the keener focus will be on two athletes teetering on the brink of setting new global marks – Karsten Warholm and Ryan Crouser.

men's 1500m promises another compelling spectacle, with Norway's 19-year-old European champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen

Country Championships, who will be making his first track appearance since July 2018.News just in:Jakob Ingebrigtsen

Sir Mo Farah and Sifan Hassan of The Netherlands set respective men’s and women’s world one-hour records at the Wanda Diamond League exhibition meeting here tonight.

the final few metres to cross the line in 2:29.92.Norway’s 19-year-old European 1,500m champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen

solo effort saw him finish in 3:30.69, with Jesus Gomez of Spain a distant second in 3:34.64.Jakob Ingebrigtsen

Three world records are in the sights of Diamond League athletes who have gathered here to compete in an empty King Baudouin Stadium tomorrow evening, with the marks for the men's and women's one-hour race and the women's 1000 metres under threat.

the National Collegiate Athletic Association title.Norway's 19-year-old European 1500m champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen

Karsten Warholm came agonisingly close to breaking the world 400 metres hurdles world record of 46.78 seconds at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Stockholm, clocking 46.87 in a race where he had done everything right apart from knocking over the last hurdle.

Kenyan at the bell, but could not find a way to get past him as Cheruiyot won in 3min 30.25sec, with Ingebrigtsen

Timothy Cheruiyot and Jakob Ingebrigtsen - the respective world and European 1500 metres champions -

night’s high-profile home performers as he resumes a rivalry every bit as keen as that of Cheruiyot and Ingebrigtsen

Uganda’s 23-year-old Joshua Cheptegei, world 10,000 metres champion and world cross country champion last year, added another indelible achievement to his CV in Monaco tonight as he marked the opening Wanda Diamond League meeting of the season with a world 5,000m record of 12min 35.36sec.

champion Timothy Cheruiyot had won an almighty struggle with Norway’s 19-year-old European champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen

on the night.Kenya's world 1500m champion Timothy Cheruiyot held of Norway's European champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen