Women's throws & combined events: Another great year for European throwers | 03.01.2012

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Belarus's European champion Nadezhda Ostapchuk took the silver medal at the World Championships with 20.05m and was Europe's best shot putter by more than a metre with her season's best of 20.94m set at the Znamensky Memorial meeting in Russia in July.

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Women's jump: Chicherova's year of reckoning | 02.01.2012

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Russia's Anna Chicherova bounced back from missing 2010 owing to being pregnant in the best possible way.

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Women's long distances and walks: Shobukhova and Kaniskina ways ahead of the rest | 31.12.2011

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It was not the best of years for European runners at this distance. Spain's SPAR European Team Championships winner Dolores Checa was the only woman under 15 minutes with her time of 14:46.30 at the Samsung Diamond League meeting in Oslo.

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Women's middle distances & steeplechase: Savinova and Zaripova rule the roost | 30.12.2011

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Russia's Mariya Savinova was the undisputed star in this event, losing only one race all summer. Her World Championships exploits helped earn her the accolade of being the 2011 European Athlete of the Year.

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Women sprints & hurdles: Lalova rises again, Russian domination over 400m continues | 29.12.2011

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Bulgaria's Ivet Lalova was the outstanding European over 100m in 2011, the only woman under 11 seconds this year when she ran 10.96 at the Balkan Championships in July.

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Men's throws & combined events: Storl, Harting and De Zordo steal the show for Germany | 28.12.2011

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Germany’s 21-year-old David Storl got it right when it counted, throwing a personal best of 21.78m at the World Championships with his last throw of the competition to become the youngest ever world champion and ultimately it earned him the additional accolade of European Athletics Rising Star of the Year.

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