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Healthy and stronger, Hurske helps to make history for Finland in Istanbul

Marathon man Petros to target European 10,000m Cup en route to Budapest

European champions Perez and Martin headline an all-star Spanish team for Podebrady

Petros and Parlov Kostro deliver a European double in the Hannover Marathon

Perez smashes Spanish 20km race walk record with world leading 1:25:30 in Cordoba 

“I’ve been training better than ever.” Warholm destined for even more greatness in 2023 

“Patience, poise and perfection.” Zane Weir’s emotional path to shot put gold in Istanbul

Anna Kielbasinska: “I want to break the 50-second barrier”

German record-holder Amanal Petros achieved the milestone of his first big city marathon victory in the Hannover Marathon on Sunday (26) in a course record of 2:07:02.
But the German is planning to drop down in distance over the course of the summer. Petros has his sights on the World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August and the 26-year-old is looking to achieve the 10,000m qualifying time of 27:10 at the European 10,000m Cup in Pac&eacute;, France on 3 June.
Petros finished second at the European 10,000m Cup in 2019 before shifting his focus to the marathon - and with palpable success. He represented Germany at the distance at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, finished fourth on home soil at the Munich 2022 European Athletics Championships and has also lowered the national record down to 2:06:27.
His winning time of 2:07:02 in Hannover was the second fastest of his career thus far. After the race, Petros spoke to Leichtathletik.de in depth about the race and his plans for the summer season. The full version of the interview can be read in German <a href="https://www.leichtathletik.de/news/news/detail/77822-amanal-petros-konzentriere-mich-im-sommer-auf-die-10000-meter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
<h3>What does it mean to you to have won your first marathon in Germany and also to have set a new course record?</h3>
Amanal Petros: The course record was the goal. That means a lot to me and is a huge motivation. I have never run a city marathon in Germany. It's quite an experience. I'm super excited and can't wait to come back, be even better prepared and run an even better time. I met so many friendly people this weekend; it was a great pleasure.
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<h3>So what is your plan for the rest of the season?</h3>
Amanal Petros: I will train for the 10,000m and maybe 5000m. I want to focus on short distances to improve my speed. I thought I hung up my spikes more than two years ago; now I need to get them back and go find them so I can work on the track. From the end of May I would like to train at altitude again.
<h3>Are you also planning on the track for the World Championships in Budapest?</h3>
Amanal Petros: Yes, in any case. First of all, the goal is to tick off the World Championships qualifying standard. I would also like to run the European 10,000m Cup.
<h3>You have already shown what you can do on the road this year with a new German 10km record of 27:32. What do you expect on the track then?</h3>
Amanal Petros: I think if I can run 27:20-27:15 on the track, my marathon will be much faster in the future. That's the goal, and that's why I'm now orienting myself back down to the shorter distances.
<h3>You have now run a spring marathon in Germany, are you also aiming for an autumn marathon, especially since you have been part of the SCC Berlin marathon team since this year?</h3>
Amanal Petros: Yes, the marathon in Berlin is the big goal. This is of course the most special marathon in the world. I have very high expectations and will prepare myself from now on. But I don't want to reveal too much about it just yet.

Since the European Athletics Indoor Championships began in Vienna in 1970 no Finnish woman had won a gold medal.&nbsp;
That all changed in Istanbul this month as European pole vault champion Wilma Murto secured a historic win with a national indoor record of 4.80m.&nbsp;
And within 24 hours the Atakoy Arena witnessed another Finnish women&rsquo;s victory as Reetta Hurske equalled her national record of 7.79 to secure the 60m hurdles title.&nbsp;
It was a faultless technical performance which left in her wake the Dutch athlete who won this title in 2019 and 2021 - Nadine Visser who took silver in 7.84 - and Switzerland&rsquo;s European outdoor bronze medallist Ditaji Kambundji, who was third in 7.91.&nbsp;
&ldquo;I put myself under a little bit of pressure before the start; I do not know [why] but I was so nervous,&rdquo; said Hurske. &ldquo;I know what I am doing but that was my first time winning gold. I believe I can build on this towards the outdoor season.&rdquo;&nbsp;
It was a decisive victory, coming at the end of an escalatingly good indoor season.&nbsp;
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Her form this year has been a model of steady progression - her personal best of 7.79, first set in winning in Madrid, was her fifth Finnish record of the year, following marks of 7.90, 7.88, 7.86 and 7.81.&nbsp;
Her form in last year&rsquo;s indoor season was also highly impressive, but any hopes she might have had of improving her record at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade - where he reached the semifinals in 2018 - were ended by an untimely bout of COVID.&nbsp;
&ldquo;I competed in Paris [in the build-up to Belgrade] and after that I was ill for two days. And then I got a positive test, so that was it,&rdquo; she said laconically.
Hurske, who is coached by Marjukka Suihko, said she had been confident of victory beforehand because of her consistency this season.&nbsp;&nbsp;
&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve had five records, and now I have my first gold,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m very satisfied. I know I&rsquo;m getting in shape, so that&rsquo;s my goal reached for the indoor season.&nbsp;My goal for the outdoor season is to run my personal best and the national record and to be in my best shape for the World Championships in Budapest.&rdquo;&nbsp;
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The 27-year-old from Ikaalinen has already shown solid form at the World Athletics Championships, having reached the semifinals in Doha in 2019 and in Oregon last year.&nbsp;
Watching Murto win her competition the previous day was an ideal preparation for her as she looked towards her own competition.&nbsp;
&ldquo;It was a great encouragement when Wilma got the gold,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;I was very pleased that she got the win. I haven&rsquo;t seen her since because she is already home, but we will talk.&rdquo;&nbsp;
Asked why she felt she had been able to make such progress this year, she replied: &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been healthy, and I have more strength than last year. There have been no big technical changes.&rdquo;&nbsp;
Hurske, who likes to follow basketball and ice hockey when she is not busy with athletics, reflected upon the switching fortunes in her event, where the top European in this year&rsquo;s world list with 7.78, Poland&rsquo;s Pia Skrzyszowska, was unable to complete her season because of a hamstring injury.&nbsp;
&ldquo;I think I was unlucky last year and maybe lucky this year!&nbsp;
&ldquo;The Polish girl was unlucky this year,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;I hope she will be able to compete later this year.&rdquo;&nbsp;
If so, that will be a competition worth waiting for.&nbsp;
Mike Rowbottom for European Athletics

In the wake of regaining his European indoor 400m title in Istanbul, Karsten Warholm was congratulated by renowned British podcasters The Backstraight Boys in a mixed zone interview for setting a new personal best.&nbsp;
Politely, the Olympic 400m hurdles champion pointed out that his winning time of 45.35 had not bettered the mark of 45.05 &ndash; equalling the European record &ndash; he had set in earning this title in 2019.&nbsp;
Soon however he was grinning as it was made clear that the reference was to his 200m split &ndash; 20.84. Just a little bit crazy. But if we know anything about Warholm now it is that he never does anything by half measures &ndash; and he is always bold.&nbsp;
Warholm at the halfway point was a mythical figure, clear of the field, untouchable. Warholm at the same point of the track 200m later was a buckling power, with Belgium&rsquo;s own 400m hurdles specialist, Julien Watrin, pushing hard for the lead.&nbsp;
But while Warholm may have run a loopy race &ndash; his successive 100m splits of 10.62, 10.22, 11.48 and 13.03 tell their own story &ndash; so what? He won again, with Watrin taking silver in 45.44.&nbsp;
As someone remarked, Warholm will never leave the sport wondering &lsquo;What If?&rsquo; It is true for that race, and for his whole career.&nbsp;
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<h2>Leaving no stone unturned after injury</h2>
Last year, Warholm trained through the indoor season to the point where, as he lined up for his opening race in Rabat, he and his brilliant long-time coach Leif Olav Alnes believed he could be in shape to challenge the world record of 45.94 he had set in winning gold in Tokyo 2020.
He pulled up after the first hurdle with a hamstring tear.&nbsp;
After this huge blow, Team Warholm re-grouped, and managed to gain substantial rewards from a season that might have been lost. Warholm faded to seventh place in defending his world title in Oregon, but went on to Munich for a successful defence of his European title in a championship record of 47.11.&nbsp;
Now he has both European titles in his possession &ndash; and is looking forward to an outdoor season where he will seek to earn a third world title after his victories in 2017 and 2019.&nbsp;
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It looks likely the current champion, Brazil&rsquo;s Alison Dos Santos, will not be able to defend his title having required surgery on his knee after suffering a meniscus injury while training last month.&nbsp;
But that still leaves the prospect of the Viking locking horns once again with the American athlete who followed him home in Doha and Tokyo, and took silver behind Dos Santos in Oregon - Rai Benjamin.&nbsp;
After opening his account with 45.31 in his home meeting in Ulsteinvik &ndash; which proved to be his fastest time of the season, Warholm won in Lievin in 45.51 after which he commented: &ldquo;My preparation for this indoor season was a bit different. I put in more hours of work. In the gym, but also on the track. I feel good with that approach.&rdquo;&nbsp;
<h2>Getting faster on the flat</h2>
Reflecting on how indoor running fits into his career ambitions, he said: &ldquo;I think it&rsquo;s impossible to be a good 400m hurdler without being able to run fast without hurdles as well. And to do that indoors is a great opportunity to see where it takes me.&nbsp;&nbsp;
&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been doing some 400m outdoors without hurdles as well and it didn&rsquo;t go the way I was thinking and I think that&rsquo;s because they are two different ways of running and you need some experience to find the perfect way to solve it.&nbsp;
&ldquo;I think maybe indoor running suits me well but the reason why we never ran that much before is there are risks because you break into lane one and all of a sudden everybody is together. And if you go first you never know if someone is coming behind you and is going to step on you or whatever.&nbsp;
&ldquo;So I see indoor running as a bit more risky, therefore I think I would always choose the outdoor, but still I like to run indoors. Growing up with these types of indoor tracks in Norway I think I am quite used to it as well.
&ldquo;Before covid I was always trying to do some indoor running. I grew up doing a lot of indoor races. So I&rsquo;m not going to say it will become normal because next year with Paris I have to see if it works in terms of prioritising because as I say there are always risks.&nbsp;&nbsp;
&ldquo;So we will see next year, but this year I wanted to compete indoors, especially as I was injured during the summer and I missed the racing part. So that&rsquo;s some of the reason I am doing it right now because I didn&rsquo;t feel like I got that many races last year.&rdquo;&nbsp;
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Speaking about his setback last year, he added: &ldquo;I got the injury and I had six weeks to get ready for the World Championships and that&rsquo;s tough because it would take you that time at least and there&rsquo;s an 80 percent chance you would get a setback.&nbsp;
&ldquo;So going to the World Championships I thought I was good enough to win it but obviously I was not. My self-confidence is sometimes too much! But after that I figured I would try to get some races in but I also realised I wouldn&rsquo;t be in Tokyo shape.&nbsp;&nbsp;
&ldquo;I still managed to get back from that injury quite fast I would say and then after eight or nine weeks I was back at full speed so it doesn&rsquo;t set you back a long time long-term.&nbsp;
&ldquo;So now I don&rsquo;t think that holds me back at all. I&rsquo;ve been training better than ever. So I don&rsquo;t think it is any problem for now. But back then it was a bit annoying. But I wanted to have the European title so I was very focused on that.&rdquo;&nbsp;
<h2>The secret to Norway's success&nbsp;</h2>
His performance in Istanbul was one of four gold medals won by Norway which helped them to the top of the medal table for the first time in European Athletics Indoor Championships history.
It was another reflection of a nation currently at a sporting zenith. Warholm is not surprised.&nbsp;
&ldquo;A lot of young people in Norway have the opportunity to get into sports,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We have winter sports and good arenas for doing summer sports, artificial grass for football, indoor facilities, lots of indoor tracks for&nbsp; running.&nbsp;
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&ldquo;So we have a long sports history and we have coaches that can teach the young talent.&nbsp;&nbsp;
&ldquo;Also it&rsquo;s a bit of luck as well. There have never been so many Norwegians that have been so good at sport at the same time. If you look at how many people there are living in Norway we are probably one of best sporting nations in the world.&nbsp;&nbsp;
&ldquo;We have everything we need to do sports, so the talent has places to go.&rdquo;&nbsp;
Mike Rowbottom for European Athletics

World leader Maria Perez and reigning two-time European champion Alvaro Martin spearhead Spain&rsquo;s team of 22 athletes for the European Race Walking Team Championships in Podebrady on 21 May.
Perez won the Spanish 20km race walk title in Cordoba with a world leading time of 1:25:30 on Sunday - a time which has only ever been bettered by Russian race walkers from a European standpoint - but she will be stepping up in distance to contest the 35km race walk in Podebrady.
Perez has limited experience at this newly-introduced event but the 26-year-old, who won the 20km race walk title at the 2018 European Athletics Championships, is the fastest European in history with 2:39:16. She also won the Spanish title at this distance earlier this year in 2:41:38.
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Martin retained his European 20km race walk title in Munich last summer but like Perez, he also has his sights set on the longer event in Podebrady after winning the 20km title at the Spanish Championships in 1:21:44.
Martin will be joined on the Spanish 35km race walk team by former world and European 20km race walk champion Miguel Angel Lopez and Marc Tur - who won the last ever staging of the 50km race walk at the 2021 European Race Walking Team Championships - while 2021 European 10,000m race walk champion Paul McGrath steps up into the senior ranks to contest the 20km race walk.
McGrath, 20, finished second to Martin at the Spanish Championships on Sunday and is part of a formidable quartet which also features Diego Garcia who finished third individually at the last edition of the European Race Walking Team Championships and was part of Spain's triumphant gold medal-winning team.
Other medal candidates include European 35km race walk silver medallist Raquel Gonzalez and European U18 5000m race walk champion Sofia Santacreu who moves up to the 10km distance.
Spain dominated proceedings at the 2021 European Race Walking Team Championships, winning five of the 12 gold medals on offer and 11 medals in total.&nbsp;
The full Spanish team can be found <a href="https://www.rfea.es/noticias/2023/20230328_ESPatletismo_CEur_MarchaEQU_podebrady.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

With the European Race Walking Team Championships in Podebrady less than two months away on 21 May, Maria Perez rebounded from a difficult and challenging 2022 season by smashing her Spanish record at the Spanish 20km Race Walking Championships in Cordoba on Sunday (26).
After suffering the ignominy of back-to-back disqualifications at the World Athletics Championships and European Athletics Championships last summer, Perez showed she was better than ever on Sunday by smashing her national record with a world leading time of 1:25:30.
Her winning time took more than one minute off her previous Spanish record of 1:26:36 which she set at the 2018 European Athletics Championships in Berlin where she won gold. It was also the fastest ever non-Russian time recorded by a European race walker and her 10km split of 42:29 was also the fastest ever time recorded by a Spaniard.
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After the race, Perez said she was &ldquo;very satisfied and grateful&rdquo; although her principal goal was the Paris 2024 Olympic Games qualifying time rather than the Spanish record. Perez also confirmed she is planning to contest both the 20km race walk and 35km race walk events at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest.
In the men's 20km race walk, two-time European champion Alvaro Martin marched to victory in 1:21:48 ahead of European U20 10,000m race walk champion Paul McGrath in 1:22:41.
Martin will now turn his attention to contesting the 35km race walk at the European Race Walking Team Championships in Podebrady in May.
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Germany&rsquo;s Amanal Petros achieved the first marathon victory of his career on home soil at the ADAC Hannover Marathon on Sunday (26).
Petros broke the tape in a course record of 2:07:02 - the second fastest time of his career behind his German record of 2:06:27 - to beat the Kenyan duo of Denis Chirchir (2:07:17) and Fredrick Kibii (2:08:09).&nbsp;&nbsp;
&ldquo;It was the first time that I ran a German city marathon and this victory means a lot to me. It is a huge motivation for the next races,&rdquo; said Petros, who just missed out on a medal at the European Athletics Championships in Munich where he was fourth.
Petros, 27, recorded identical halfway splits of 63:31/63:31 en route to the significant milestone of his maiden marathon win.
In the women&rsquo;s race, European silver medallist Matea Parlov Kostro from Croatia made it a European double with an unopposed victory, opening up a winning margin of more than one kilometre over the second half of the race.
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Parlov Kostro was rewarded with a lifetime best and course record of 2:25:45 (72:34/73:11). Like Petros, this was also her first career marathon victory and her winning time was also under the Olympic qualifying standard for Paris 2024 next year.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&ldquo;I am really happy with my personal best and with the qualification for the Olympic Games. Paris will be my second Olympics.&nbsp;
&ldquo;While my biggest success was surely the silver medal at the European Championships, this was my greatest career victory today,&rdquo; said Parlov Kostro, who finished third in last year&rsquo;s race.&nbsp;
Parlov Kostro won by almost four minutes from Kenya's Pauline Thitu (2:29:25) and Mexico&rsquo;s Risper Gesabwa (2:29:49).
<h2>Ringer and Dattke win German half marathon titles</h2>
European marathon champion Richard Ringer geared up for next month&rsquo;s Hamburg Marathon with victory at the German Half Marathon Championships in Freiburg on Sunday (26).
In rainy and gusty conditions and on a challenging course, Ringer won in 61:44 ahead of Simon Boch (61:54) and Filmon Teklebrhan-Berhe (62:17).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&ldquo;I wasn't feeling super great. That's why I'm surprised that such a good time has come out. Actually, the time is of secondary importance in a championship but I'm very happy about this great time, on the difficult track and in the conditions,&rdquo; said Ringer as quoted by Leichtathletik.de.
Miriam Dattke, who finished fourth in the marathon at the 2022 European Athletics Championships but led Germany to the team title in Munich, won the women&rsquo;s title in 70:47 ahead of Domenika Mayer (71:27) and Fabienne K&ouml;nigstein (72:00).
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&ldquo;Apparently Freiburg and the bad weather suit me. But I was very happy when the sun finally came out. The route is difficult to run, but I knew some of the pitfalls of the route from 2019. The atmosphere along the route was great again,&rdquo; said Dattke.
At the French 10km Championships in Houilles in the outskirts of Paris on Sunday (26), Felix Bour and Fadouwa Ledhem took the domestic honours in 28:02 and 33:03 respectively.&nbsp;
Steven Mills for European Athletics

European Athletics Council met in Lausanne on Wednesday (15), with preparations for the 2023 European Athletics Congress next month the principle items on the agenda, and used the occasion to reaffirm European Athletics' current position that athletes from Russia and Belarus should remain banned from European Athletics events and activities until the war in Ukraine comes to an end.
Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, the World Athletics Council took the decision on 1 March 2022 to impose sanctions against its Member Federations of Russia and Belarus.
On the same evening, European Athletics Council unanimously decided to follow the World Athletics position and also impose sanctions against its Member Federations of Russia and Belarus.
European Athletics continues to strongly endorse the position outlined initially in the European Athletics statement of 1 March 2022 that &ldquo;all athletes, support personnel and other officials from Russia and from Belarus will be excluded from participating at any European Athletics&rsquo; events for the foreseeable future with immediate effect.&rdquo;
&ldquo;With the war in Ukraine having now continued for more than a year, the European Athletics Council wanted to show that we have not wavered in our position concerning the continued ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes, support personnel and other officials, not just from the competitions but all events and activities,&rdquo; said European Athletics President Dobromir Karamarinov.
&ldquo;The war has been devastating for Ukraine and, as a sporting organisation, European Athletics notes that this includes Ukraine&rsquo;s sports infrastructure and its athletes.
"We will continue to support the Athletics Federation of Ukraine so that athletes from that country can still attain their potential despite the tragic situation in Ukraine,&rdquo; he added.

European Athletics reaffirms position on Russia and Belarus 

The Istanbul 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships saw, for the first time ever at a major European athletics championship, the number of female athletes competing exceed the number of male athletes.
The championships, which took place from 2-5 March, had 278 female athletes from 45 countries in action alongside 274 male athletes from 44 countries.
It was also the first time that there have been two female stadium announcers at a major European athletics championship.
Istanbul 2023 also saw some fantastic female performances too, with Belgium&rsquo;s two-time Olympic champion Nafissatou Thiam going into new territory in the women&rsquo;s pentathlon, the first world indoor record at the European Athletics Indoor Championships since 2011.
Another memorable and emotional moment came when T&uuml;rkiye&rsquo;s own Tuğba Danışmaz won the women&rsquo;s triple jump gold medal with a national record, just the third time a Turkish athlete had won gold in the 53-year-history of the championships and against the backdrop of the terrible earthquakes that caused so much devastation and loss of life last month.&nbsp;
Poignant details such as these highlight the fact that European Athletics is marking <a href="https://www.internationalwomensday.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">International Women&rsquo;s Day</a>, which celebrates the achievements of women and heralds a call to action for accelerating gender equality.
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European Athletics is working to drive gender parity and the latest Report of the European Athletics Council to the Congress details the recent constitutional changes that have been made in this area.
At the forthcoming Congress, from 21-23 April in Belgrade when elections will be held, the Constitution of European Athletics now requires that the President and the three Vice Presidents will collectively include at least two of each gender and that the 13 other Council members will include at least five members of each gender.
European Athletics has also developed several major initiatives, including the Gender Leadership Programme (formerly the Women&rsquo;s Leadership Project).
As part of this Programme, the Women Leadership Webinar Project has been developed to help enhance the skills of women in, or coming into, a position of leadership. Approximately 250 participants have taken part so far.
European Athletics has also supported several national gender leadership courses over the last three years.
Additionally, the European Athletics Women Leadership Awards recognise and celebrate women leaders in athletics. The Awards' main aims are to highlight the invaluable contribution women make at the local and national levels of athletics and to inspire others to work for the benefit of the sport.
In 2021, 23 Member Federations were recognised for the contributions from the women leaders that they had nominated. The next Women Leadership Awards will be awarded at the 2023 Golden Tracks awards night in October.
European Athletics President Dobromir Karamarinov said: &ldquo;I am proud to be celebrating the achievements of all the women involved in our sport as we celebrate International Women&rsquo;s Day.
&ldquo;European Athletics is dedicated to taking proactive steps to drive gender parity in athletics, offering the tools and support women need to empower themselves to succeed in our sport &ndash; whether it&rsquo;s as athletes, coaches, administrators, officials or in areas such as the media.
&ldquo;I invite everyone involved in our wonderful sport to step forward and embrace equity in athletics wherever they see an opportunity.&rdquo;

Istanbul 2023 sees female participation exceed male participation for the first time

European Athletics President Dobromir Karamarinov hailed the Istanbul 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships, which ended on Sunday, as an outstanding edition of the championships.
&ldquo;The Championships took place in the shadow of the devastating earthquakes in T&uuml;rkiye a month ago and our first consideration was always to commemorate and hour the victims of that natural tragedy,&rdquo; said Kalamanov. &ldquo;Consequently, the Local Organising Committee, Turkish Athletic Federation and Turkish public authorities did a magnificent job organising the championships in very difficult circumstances when many of those involved in helping stage these championships, and also within the Turkish team as well, will have lost relatives and friends or otherwise been severely affected by the events of last month.&nbsp;
&ldquo;I would like to applaud everyone involved locally in organising these championships for their personal commitment at a hugely emotional time for T&uuml;rkiye and say that European Athletics will never forget the sacrifices they have made in the name of our sport.
&ldquo;One of the most poignant moments of the championships was seeing T&uuml;rkiye&rsquo;s own Tuğba Danışmaz win the women&rsquo;s triple jump gold medal with a national record but there were many other stirring occasions during our time in Istanbul, not least Belgium&rsquo;s Nafissatou Thiam winning the pentathlon title with a world record of 5055 points,&rdquo; added Karamarinov.
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In addition to Thiam&rsquo;s world record in a competition which also saw Poland&rsquo;s Adrianna Sulek go over the previous mark, three championship records were set, there were four world world-leading marks and 12 European-leading marks as well as 39 national records from the 593 entrants who represented 47 countries.
Television audience data is still being compiled but, with 30 international broadcaster and the globally available European Athletics live stream, it is expected that it will compare favourably with recent previous European Athletics Indoor Championships while the European Athletics social media channels saw record engagement figures for this event.
One of the abiding memories of the championships was the solidarity and support shown by the athletes, Member Federations, spectators and international media with those whose lives had been devastated by the earthquakes and the warmth of the Turkish people in receiving the international athletics community despite such difficult circumstances.
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The next European Athletics Indoor Championships will be held in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands from 6-9 March 2025.

European Athletics President  Dobromir Karamarinov hails Istanbul’s “outstanding edition of the championships”

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Le Gruyère AOP Switzerland began its partnership with European Athletics in 2008 as a top-tier sponsor of all Major Events and the European Athletics U23 and U20  Championships. Le Gruyère is a very high quality natural cheese that has been produced for many centuries in an artisanal method without any additives. VIP guests, athletes and fans have the opportunity to taste this magnificent cheese at European Athletics events sponsored by Le Gruyère AOP Switzerland.

Le Gruyère

Toyo Tires is one of the world's largest tire manufacturers. Toyo Tire Corporation was founded in 1945 in Osaka, Japan. In 1975, the manufacturer opened its European headquarters in Germany. The product range includes winter, summer and all-season tyres for motor vehicles as well as van tyres and special off-road products. The philosophy of Toyo Tires is to combine driving pleasure with top performance. This is reflected in each of the products, as well as in its close partnership with European Athletics.

Toyo Tires

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has been the Official Broadcast Partner of European Athletics since 1981. During this 40-year partnership, the outstanding collaboration between both organisations has always been focused on developing European Athletics into a more attractive product for television, spectators and athletes. Through its operational department Eurovision Services, the EBU is continuously working to promote athletics by offering the most comprehensive coverage of European Athletics events all over Europe.

Atos is a global leader in digital transformation with 110,000 employees and an annual revenue of approximately €12 billion. It is the European number one in cybersecurity, cloud and high performance computing, and the group provides tailored end-to-end solutions for all industries in 73 countries. A pioneer in decarbonisation services and products, Atos is committed to a secure and decarbonised digital environment for its clients. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), and listed on the CAC40 Paris stock index.

Atos is the Worldwide Information Technology Partner for the Olympic and  Paralympic Games. It is also the Timing-Scoring, Results and Operations provider of European Athletics events since 2017, and European Athletics Official Digital Partner for their new digital platform (web and mobile).


Atos

Conica has been developing and manufacturing innovative seamless flooring solutions for sports, games and leisure for over 40 years and is one of the world's market leaders and innovation drivers in this field.  The user-oriented requirements for technical and sports functional performance as well as usability while guaranteeing the health aspects of the material itself, and for the user, are the focus of Conica's product development.  Conica is part of the Serafin group of companies based in Munich, Germany.

Conica

Polanik is a family company, founded by Wiesław Szczepanik in 1966. It produces athletics equipment having over thousand products in the offer. Polanik fully equips stadiums all over the world and handles the highest-level athletics events. Stars of athletics beat world records using Polanik products. Polanik is held in high regard by many for top quality and advisory services for designers and investors of athletics stadiums.

Polanik

Opened in 1909 and magnificently restored, the Hotel Royal Savoy Lausanne combines Art Nouveau and modernity with genuine panache. Featuring tailor-made service and unbeatable comfort, this legendary venue is located a short walk from the shores of Lac Leman and offers every guest the absolute luxury of feeling truly at home. The Hotel Royal Savoy is proud to be the Preferred Hotel Partner of European Athletics in Lausanne since 2016, offering valuable support and accommodation services to European Athletics business activities throughout the year.

Hotel Royal Savoy Lausanne

Getty Images is the world's leading creator and distributor of visual content – with award winning editorial photographers and videographers covering hundreds of Sports, Entertainment, and News events daily. Digital asset management and distribution services optimize efficiency and content syndication for hundreds of media partners and rights holders.

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The first companies of Würth MODYF Group were founded in Künzelsau, Germany and Neumarkt, Italy in 1997 as an independent subsidiary of the Würth Group and can thus look back on more than 25 years of experience in the field of workwear and safety footwear.

Würth MODYF Group currently operates companies in seven countries and has more than 400 employees in Germany, France, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland. Smaller sales units support Würth MODYF’s customers in Austria, the Netherlands and Belgium. Würth MODYF Group is continuing to expand internationally, opening new branches all over Europe.

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