European Athletics Newsletter

Work is underway on a restructured competition calendar that will create a clear and compelling narrative in the qualifying process for the European Athletics Championships, said President Svein Arne Hansen at the 10th European Athletics CEO Conference in Minsk, Belarus, last weekend.

The 2016 European Mountain Running Championships are set to take place on 2 July in Arco, a commune located in the Trentino region in the Northeast of Italy.

GB and England International runner Matty Hynes was joined by budding participants in the famous Gateshead International Stadium to launch the Great North 10K Gateshead, a race which has been given a five-star endorsement from European Athletics Running For All.

On the morning of Sunday 10 July, the final day of this year’s European Athletics Championships, the attention will focus away from the Olympic Stadium to the streets of Amsterdam.

Ukraine is in the midst of a running boom. Participation rates in the sport are increasing by roughly thirty percent each year and even though the race is still in its relative infancy, more than 8500 runners from 40 countries took part in the fourth edition of the Nova Poshta Kyiv Half Marathon last year.

On a cold and rainy day in the historical Czech spar town of Podebrady, conditions proved just perfect for Sweden´s Perseus Karlstrom on Sunday.