European Athletics Newsletter

MONDAY 6 FEBRUARY 2017 Newsletter EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS President Hansen: Europe at its best will be on show in Berlin & Glasgow European Athletics President Svein Arne Hansen, co-chair of the 2018 European Championships Board, writes about the inaugural multisport Championships in the monthly newsletter of the European Championships ... Read more ECCC CROSS COUNTRY Crippa is the Cup King in Portugal On a bright morning in Albufeira on Sunday, at the 54th European Champion Clubs Cup Cross Country, Turkey won three team titles for the third year in a row, as Italy’s Yemaneberhan Crippa came of age in the senior ranks. Read more EUROPEAN RECORD Great results from Muir and Lisek Laura Muir and Piotr Lisek created a ‘Super Saturday’ of their own to send reverberations around the world of track and field. Read more BELGRADE 2017 A ‘smashing’ smile for the Euro indoors It is a month until the start of the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade and Novak Djokovic, the biggest name in Serbian sport, is backing what should be a fantastic event. Read more COACHING AWARDS Glorious reward for Latvian coaches On a night of celebration as Latvia looked back on a brilliant 2016 in track and field for the country, Marite Luse and Aleksandrs Prokopcuks, were both honoured with special European Athletics Coaching Awards. Read more INDOOR PERMIT MEETING Clermont-Ferrand stages pole vault spectacular Canada’s 2015 world champion Shawn Barber and USA’s 2016 Olympic silver medallist Sandi Morris took the honours at the All Star Perche meeting in the French city of Clermont-Ferrand on Sunday, the third of this winter´s nine European Athletics Indoor Permit meetings. Read more INDOOR PERMIT MEETING Shukh scares her own world junior record in Tallinn Teenage prodigy Alina Shukh was just eight points shy of her recent world indoor U20 pentathlon record, set just eight days ago, when she scored 4542 points to win the International Combined Events Meeting in Tallinn on Saturday. Read more INDOOR PERMIT MEETING Hinriksdóttir improves Icelandic 800m record in Reykjavik Anita Hinriksdóttir delighted her home crowd when she won over four laps of the track at the Reykjavik International Games, a European Athletics Indoor Permit Meeting, in a national indoor record of 2:01.12. Read more DUSSELDORF MEETING Belgrade's looking good for Kszczot and Jozwik A month today there will be only one place to be in world athletics – Belgrade. Read more ATHLETE OF MONTH Lisek & Palsyte voted Euro Athletes of the Month Polish pole vaulter Piotr Lysek and Lithuanian high jumper Airine Palsyte have been voted European Athletes of the Month for January. Read more www.european-athletics.org We respect your privacy and do not provide your email address to third parties. If you no longer wish to receive any emails from European Athletics, please click here.