by ttreurope | May 28, 2012 | Featured, Finland, News, Track
Norwegian javelin thrower Andreas Thorkildsen has won the gold medal in his event at the last two European Athletics Championships. He will go for his third consecutive continental title this summer in Helsinki, a rare feat in any discipline and one that has only been...
by ttreurope | May 28, 2012 | Eurochamps, Finland, News, Track, UK
According to the latest broadcast intentions for the championships received by European Athletics, there will be at least 730 hours of television coverage in Europe alone over the five days of the championships, including more than 710 hours of live coverage. With one...
by ttreurope | May 16, 2012 | Featured, News
European Athletics is pleased to announce that Belarus hammer thrower Oksana Menkova and Slovakian walker Matej Tóth have been voted as the European Athletes of the Month for April. Menkova, the 2008 Olympic champion, threw an outstanding national record of 78.19m at...
by ttreurope | May 8, 2012 | Eurochamps, Featured, News, Track
Spotakova confirms Helsinki 2012 plans to set up probable battle with Abakumova Czech Republic’s 2008 Olympic Games javelin champion and world record holder Barbora Špotáková was among the Prague delegation which successfully convinced the European Athletics...
by ttreurope | May 4, 2012 | Featured, Finland, News
With less than two months before the Helsinki 2012 European Athletics Championships, and barely three months before the London Olympics, European Athletics President Hansjörg Wirz addressed the relationship between the two events. For the first time ever the European...