by ttreurope | Mar 14, 2013 | NewsFeed
Six Scottish athletes have today been named in Team Great Britain for the European Championships in Finland later this month. The pool released by UK Athletics is a provisional one with those men and women who secure spots at London 2012 set to be withdrawn from the...
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....
by ttreurope | Jun 30, 2012 | Featured, Finland, Helsinki 2012, News, Track, Triple Jump, Women
If there is a perfect way to win a major title then Ukraine’s Olha Saladuha demonstrated it before another superb crowd here in Helsinki tonight as she retained her triple jump title at the European Athletics Championships. Saladuha’s first round effort...
by ttreurope | Jun 30, 2012 | Featured, Finland, Helsinki 2012, High Jump, News, Track, UK
Robbie Grabarz has had a big breakthrough this year. He cleared 2.36m which ranks him second in the world in New York and he finished sixth in the World indoor championships in Doha. Last year he wasn’t good enough to make Britain’s team for the World...
by ttreurope | Jun 30, 2012 | 400m, Featured, Helsinki 2012, News, Sweden, Track, Women
Such is the strength of women’s 400m running that the Russian number eight Kseniya Zadorina was favoured to win a medal. She had run a season’s best of 51.35 in her semi-final in running down Sweden’s Moa Hjelmer which was the fastest time in...
