The European Athletics Council awarded the 2017 European Athletics Indoor Championships to Belgrade and 2016 European Athletics Youth Championships to Tbilisi at its meeting on Saturday morning in Frankfurt. … [Read more...]
Maslak, Perkovic Athletes of March
April 22, 2014 By Leave a Comment
European Athletics is pleased to announce that Czech Republic’s Pavel Maslak and Sandra Perkovic of Croatia have been voted by the fans and media as European Athletes of the Month for March. … [Read more...]
Tola wins Warsaw 2014
April 16, 2014 By Leave a Comment
The exciting second ORLEN Warsaw Marathon has just been completed. After a fierce battle, the fastest runner over the distance of 42.195 km during the ORLEN Warsaw Marathon proved to be Tadesse Tola (Ethiopia) with a time of 2h:06min:55s. … [Read more...]
Middle Distance race opportunities
April 16, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Scottishathletics (with the support of the GAA) are glad to announce a Middle Distance Project focussing on developing athletes over 800m, 1500m and 3000m. We will be looking to send a minibus of athletes and coaches down to the British … [Read more...]
Your Sport for Life
April 14, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Discussion of the practical implementation of European Athletics’ twin-pillar ‘Your Sport for Life’ strategy dominated the 9th European Athletics CEO Conference 30-31 March in Copenhagen, Denmark, which attracted a total of 89 presidents, … [Read more...]
Women increase to start Zurich Marathon
April 3, 2014 By Leave a Comment
A total of 9477 running enthusiasts have registered for the 12th Zurich Marathon on 6 April setting a new record. In the marathon category 3185 runners have signed up, the Teamrun was sold out with 900 teams two weeks before the … [Read more...]
Legends to be inducted
April 3, 2014 By Leave a Comment
IAAF Hall of Fame – 12 legends to be inducted Council approved the names of 12 athletes who will compose this year’s induction into the IAAF Hall of Fame which was inaugurated last year as part of the IAAF’s centenary celebrations. The very … [Read more...]
Leonard Komon seeks sub 60 minutes debut
April 3, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Leonard Komon was a very successful Cross Country runner and is holding world records at road distances of 10 and 15 km having clocked 26:44 min in Utrecht/Netherlands in 2010 and 41:13 min in Nijmegen in 2011. His 10,000 m best on the … [Read more...]
Barca World Record for Kiplagat
April 3, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Following in the footsteps of Renaud Lavillenie and Genzebe Dibaba indoors on Saturday, the world records continued to tumble this weekend as Kenya’s Florence Kiplagat stopped the clock in 1:05:12 at the eDreams Mitja Marató de Barcelona on … [Read more...]
Moira Gallagher committed to athletics
April 3, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Staging athletics meetings is complicated process and one of the trickier aspects is managing the technical officials. It’s a hard enough at local and regional meetings, but Britain’s Moira Gallagher has fulfilled this responsibility with … [Read more...]
