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.

Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen, the most decorated male athlete in the history of the European Championships with six gold medals, is showing remarkable confidence, claiming that if he doesn't get injured, winning the Olympic Games will be "a piece of cake".

No surprises on the second day of the ECA Canoe Sprint European Championships in Szeged. The favorites, for whom these championships are a final test before the Olympic Games in Paris, have all come out unscathed.

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.

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. 

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.

Alexander Tarakanov, the head coach of Azerbaijan's national Greco-Roman wrestling team, gave an interview to the website of the Azerbaijan Wrestling Federation.

European Olympic Committees (EOC) sports director Peter Brüll has insisted here the European Games can "perfectly co-exist" with the multi-sport European Championships.

Organisers of the Munich 2022 European Championships have published a final report on sustainability, claiming the multi-sport event "created long-term effects at economic, environmental, and social levels" and showed Germany's potential as a host nation.

Two Turkish weightlifters, one of whom was a junior world champion in 2019, have been provisionally suspended after testing positive for steroids at the European Championships in Armenia in April.

European Athletics reached a crossroads in Belgrade last month  with a Presidential election between two candidates promoting very different views. History records that the incumbent, Dobromir Karamarinov, held off the challenge of vice-president Libor Varhanik by 28 votes to 21.

Refugees from the war in Ukraine have been invited to attend Sunday’s 2024 UEFA European Championship qualifying match between England and Ukraine at Wembley Stadium in London.

World Athletics plans to launch a new competition for 2026 in order to maintain the profile and earning power of its elite performers.

Birmingham, which hosted a hugely successful Commonwealth Games this year, has been confirmed today as host for the 2026 European Athletics Championships following the withdrawal of the only bidding rival, Budapest.

This summer’s multi-sport European Championships in Munich recorded more than 750 million viewer hours across the nine participating sports on free-to-air TV and digital platforms.