Kenyan middle-distance superstar Faith Kipyegon will chase two golds at next month's Paris Olympics after she added qualification for her 1500m speciality at trials in Nairobi on Saturday. The 30-year-old had bagged her ticket for the 5000m the previous day. An odds-on favourite for the 1500m, the two-time Olympic champion ran a perfect qualifier to come home in a remarkable time of 3 minutes 53:98 seconds.

Femke Bol, fresh from two golds and a bronze at the European Championships, admits she is looking forward to what she says will be a "nice battle" with American arch-rival Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone at the Paris Olympics. Bol was one of the stars of the championships in Rome, dominating her speciality event, the 400m hurdles, and going on to anchor the women's 4x400m relay team to victory while also picking up third place in the mixed relay.

Nineteen-year-old Emmanuel Wanyonyi claimed the men’s 800m final at the Kenyan Olympic trials Saturday, clocking in at a world-leading and personal best time of 1:41 —the third fastest in the world behind fellow Kenyans David Rudisha and Wilson Kipketer. Wanyonyi almost failed to qualify for the finals after he was tripped and fell during Friday’s semifinals, where he finished sixth. Despite struggling with a swollen leg, Wanyonyi bounced back on Saturday to secure a spot on the Olympic team. 

Kenya's two-time Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon returned to form on Friday with a win in the women's 5000m at trials in Nairobi for the Paris Games, brushing off injuries that had sidelined her for months. It was the 30-year-old's first race of the year after pulling out of last month's Prefontaine Classic Diamond League in Oregon with a muscle injury.

Jakob Ingebrigtsen achieved the title of the most successful male European athlete, alongside Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis securing his third pole vault championship and Marcell Jacobs thrilling the crowd with a second gold as part of the Italian relay team, at the 2024 European Championships in Rome on Wednesday.

Estonia celebrated success in combined events at the 2024 European Championships in Rome as world record-holder Kevin Mayer secured Olympic qualification before his home Olympics. 

In his first competition in eight months, the Italian won, first by jumping over 2.31m, then 2.33m and finally a championship record of 2.37m. The 32-year-old Olympic and world champion with an eye for the big stage seems set to star at Paris 2024.

Karsten Warholm, Gianmarco Tamberi, and Kevin Mayer headed up just some of the star-studded names on show for day five of the European Athletics Championships in Rome. The competition continued to deliver a spectacle, priming athletes for the forthcoming Paris Olympics, starting on 26 July.

The Spaniard’s winning distance on Tuesday was the third longest in triple jump history after Jonathan Edward’s 18.29m world record from 1995 and Christian Taylor’s 18.21 from 2015. It was also the Iberian country’s best ever and a phenomenal debut for the Cuban-born athlete in the European Championships.

Sara Fantini upped Italy’s gold medal tally to eight, winning the women’s hammer at the Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships yesterday. Backed by home support, Fantini beat four-time world gold medallist Anita Wlodarczyk of Poland with a season’s best of 74.81m in the fourth round. 

It was a memorable evening for Ukraine at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, as high jump sensation Yaroslava Mahuchikh claimed gold, joined on the podium by her teammate Iryna Gershchenko, who secured the bronze medal.

Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs capped another great day for the home team in Rome's Stadio Olimpico as he beat fellow Italian Chituru Ali in the 100m. Leonardo Fabbri and Lorenzo Simonelli also struck gold for the hosts as Sandra Elkasevic won a record seventh women's discus title.

An inspired Irish quartet led by Rhasidat Adeleke outstripped Femke Bol's favoured Dutch team to snatch gold in a thrilling 4x400m mixed relay at the European Championships on Friday. The Irish four, also featuring Christopher O'Donnell, Thomas Barr and Sharlene Mawdsley, clocked a championship record of 3min 09.92sec, just ahead of silver medal winners Italy, in a show of Olympic intent just 49 days out from the Paris Games.

Long-distance runner Sultan Haydar has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for Evading, Refusing or Failing to submit to Sample Collection, according to the independent testing authority’s official website. 

Olympic champions Gianmarco Tamberi and Marcell Jacobs are among Italy's big hopes at Rome's Stadio Olimpico as the European Athletics Championships get underway, with both men believing the hosts can finish top of the medal table.