by ttreurope | Mar 14, 2014 | Denmark, Featured, Half, News, Pre-event
With two weeks to go until the 2014 IAAF/AL-Bank World Half Marathon Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark, five-time winner Zersenay Tadese has revealed he will be vying for an unprecedented sixth individual gold medal. Without doubt the most successful athlete in the...
by ttreurope | Feb 13, 2013 | Articles, Featured, Italy, Marathon, Pre-event
It is a time of year when many athletes have their mind concentrated on the major indoor event of the winter, but Italian Andrea Lalli is a bit different. Instead of focussing on Göteborg in 23 days’ time, Lalli is already counting down to Zurich in 551 days and...
by ttreurope | Nov 27, 2012 | Cross Country, Featured, News
The word legend is used too often in sport but when the name of Serhiy Lebid is mentioned alongside the SPAR European Cross Country Championships then there is no doubt it is the correct description. Lebid is now 37 and he has won the European cross country title on a...
by ttreurope | Nov 12, 2012 | Cross Country, Featured, News, Norway, Pre-event
The 2012 SPAR European Cross Country Championships – which take place in Szentendre, near Budapest, on 9 December – is likely to be graced by a familiar face after a two-year absence from the event: Norway’s Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal. “Yes, my plan...
by ttreurope | Jul 3, 2012 | 10000m, Eurochamps, Featured, Finland, Helsinki 2012, News, Track, UK, Women
In warm conditions, Portugal’s Dulce Felix showed a big improvement over 2010, when she was ninth, to run away with the 10,000m gold medal on the final day of the 2012 European Athletics Championships in Helsinki, having made a big move over the last 3000m....
