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...
by ttreurope | Jun 30, 2012 | 400mH, Eurochamps, Featured, Finland, Helsinki 2012, News, Track, UK
As the skies eventually began to go slightly darker here in Helsinki this evening, a Welshman’s broad grin brought back the light. Rhys Williams was the 400m hurdles champion at the European Athletics Championships and if making a step up the ladder is the way a...
by ttreurope | Jun 30, 2012 | Featured, Finland, Germany, Helsinki 2012, Track
David Storl, Germany’s 21-year-old world shot put champion, fully justified his position as favourite for the gold in Helsinki. But the manner in which he won his second major title in the space of a year could hardly have been more different. In Daegu last...
