<h2>European Athletics Indoor Championships</h2>
The biennial championships are the biggest indoor event organised by European Athletics.
More than the 600 athletes from the 51 European Athletics Member Federations now participate in the three/four-day event.
First held as a championship event in 1970, the competition was held annually until 1990 and then switched to being held every two years, usually during the first weekend in March.
The most recent Championships were held in Torun, Poland in 2021 and the next European Athletics Indoor Championships will be held in Istanbul, Turkey between 2-5 March.

The European Athletics Council awarded the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships to the Dutch city of Apeldoorn on Friday (6).
The 164th European Athletics Council Meeting is taking place in Munich, the host city of the 2022 European Athletics Championships, until Sunday.
Speaking after the event was officially allocated, European Athletics President Dobromir Karamarinov said: &ldquo;European Athletics have had a long and very successful relationship with Dutch athletics which goes back to the foundation of this organisation in 1970 &ndash; after all, our first President Adriaan Paulen was Dutch &ndash; and I am very pleased to say that it will continue with the staging of this event.
&ldquo;The overall presentation by everyone who was invested in this bid was outstanding, and we were hugely impressed by the enthusiasm and professionalism of the bid team led by the Royal Dutch Athletics Federation as well as the excellent facilities that will be available at the Omnisport Apeldoorn.
&ldquo;This will be the third time European Athletics have been to the Netherlands in a decade for one of its major events, following on from the Amsterdam 2016 European Athletics Championships and 2018 SPAR European Cross Country Championships in Tilburg, and there could scarcely be a better place to stage this event,&rdquo; added Karamarinov.
Provisionally, the championships are scheduled for 13-16 March 2025. It will be the third time that the Netherlands will have staged the continent&rsquo;s top indoor competition, following on from Rotterdam in 1972 and The Hague in 1989.
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"We are very pleased and proud that we can welcome the European Athletics Indoor Championships in 2025. It will undoubtedly be a tough job but we have the ambition to realise an event that is surprising and spectacular for athletes, spectators and the media, and with which we will really make a difference to the sport,&rdquo;, said Royal Dutch Athletics Federation General Director Pieke de Zwart. The 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships will take place in Istanbul, Turkey from 2-5 March.
The hosts for the 2023 SPAR European Cross Country Championships were also decided on Friday and they will be staged in Brussels, Belgium.The Belgian capital also staged the 2008 SPAR European Cross Country Championships and 2004 World Cross Country Championships.
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&ldquo;Brussels provided an excellent bid which focussed on their event&rsquo;s sustainable qualities. This is a priority for the foreseeable future for European Athletics,&rdquo; commented European Athletics CEO Christian Milz. &ldquo;In addition, I am confident from our previous experience of having European Athletics events in Belgium, and the enthusiasm there is there for our athletics and its rich history, that both this championship will be well organised and further help the growth of our sport in Europe,&rdquo; added Milz.

Apeldoorn awarded the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships

The official launch of the Istanbul 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held in the Atak&ouml;y Arena on Thursday (3), which will be staged in the same stadium between 2-5 March 2023.
Nearly 40 Turkish press organisations were on hand for the One Year to Go event hosted by the Istanbul 2023 Local Organising Committee (LOC), and many more followed the launch remotely, &nbsp;
The official logo was unveiled by the Chairman of Istanbul 2023 LOC Yasin Taş, along with key milestones en route to the biggest athletics event in the country since the 2012 World Athletics Indoor Championships.
Turkish Athletics Federation President Fatih &Ccedil;intimar and the Istanbul Regional Youth and Sports Director Burhanettin Hacıcaferoglu also welcomed guests.
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The official logo includes a triple jumper in silhouette, a deliberate tribute to Turkey&rsquo;s first Olympic athletics medallist Ruhi Sarıalp who took the bronze in this event at the London 1948 Olympic Games, and a bay leaf graphic to symbolise victory and virtue.
Turkish international athletes Ersu Şaşma and Tuğba Danışmaz, national record holders in the pole vault and triple jump respectively, 2021 European and world U20 400m hurdles champion Berke Ak&ccedil;am and 1500m national champion Şilan Ayyıldız then took centre-stage to talk topics about environmental initiatives, using the bay tree as an example, which will be a central theme before and during Ihe Championships.
The Istanbul 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships will be held during the centenary year of the Republic of Turkey. More than 600 athletes from the 51 European Athletics Member Federations are expected to compete in Atak&ouml;y Arena.

Istanbul 2023 - One Year to Go

Spain&rsquo;s Oscar Husillos famously was the first man across the line in the 2018 World Athletics Indoor Championships 400m final, clocking what would have been a European indoor record of 44.92 only to be later disqualified for a lane infringement.
Three years later, almost to the day, Hussillos finally got some consolation for that disappointment in Birmingham and climbed to the top of the podium at a major international championships when he took the 2021 European indoor title over two laps of the track in the Polish city of Torun. In an interview with the Spanish federation website (<a href="https://www.rfea.es/web/noticias/desarrollo.asp?codigo=13249#.YFysIK9KhPY" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the original in Spanish can be read here</a>, and an edited version is published below), Husillos talked about his win in Torun and making the Spanish 400m record his own this coming summer. 
Congratulations on your first 'official' international title. Would you say this win puts behind you the pain of what happened in Birmingham in 2018?
What happened during the 2018 indoor season is difficult to forget. The European title went a long way to healing the scars of what happened in the world indoor championships final&hellip;. but all of this is part of sport and of an athlete's life, there are good and bad moments, and whether or not what happened in Birmingham was absurd is part of that.
To what extent would you say that you have now overcome what happened in Birmingham psychologically? 
I've never had moments of despair as such. It is more related to how I feel and my training marks. I write down all the training sessions that I do and when I look at the ones I did in that year (in 2018) well, I feel bad. But I think that sooner or later I will be back to that level and that I can run that way again.
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In the Torun heats, it was only the first two in each heat that went forward to the semi-finals. What do you think about this system and not having a fastest non-automatic qualifiers? It was a novelty that only athletes with a big Q and not a little q progressed. When we were talking between the coaches and the (Spanish) athletes beforehand, we said that there would be no problem; that it was not necessary to worry about it as we believed all three of us (Husillos, Lucas Bua and Samuel Garcia) would get through and we believed that none of us would have any problem ... but when you see your teammates with marks of 46.9 and 47.0 being left out of the next round, and other athletes have got through with 47.5, it feels a little unfair because it&rsquo;s now obvious that some first round races were more difficult than others.
In the semi-finals, you had to face Pavel Maslak (CZE), Tony van Diepen (NED), and Vladimir Aceti (ITA). Maslak had just beaten you in Madrid and Van Diepen was the bronze medallist from Glasgow 2019 so how did you deal with it?
I saw the draw and talked about it (with the coaches). We knew it was the toughest semi of the three, with four of the top seven in Europe this year. But the issue remained the same; it is a European championship and nobody is going to make it easy for you. The only thing that changed was the strategy, the plan was to win the race in a fast time to get a better lane in the final (although Husillos actually finished second in his semi and won in the final from lane four).
In the final you went out at an what might have been a suicidal pace pace, and passed the 200m at 21.32. What was your thinking behind that? 
Suicidal start? It's possible that it might have turned out that way but I thought out my strategy and decided that I should be the fastest (over the first 300 metres) and I knew that if I took the inside lane and managed to hold it until the last 50 or 60 metres, then it would be difficult for the others to overtake me because I would have a clear run to the line and everyone else would have to come around me. In short: the plan I made with my coach (Luis Angel Caballero) turned out perfectly!
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Your 200m split of 21.32 in Torun was very close to what you did in the semifinals and final in Birmingham (21.30 and 21.26) and was faster than Karsten Warholm (21.35) when equalled the European indoor record with 45.05 to win in Glasgow. What does that data tell you?
In truth, this data tell me little because I know that I was not in good shape as I was in 2018 or as Warholm was in 2019. I only know that the best strategy for the race was to make a very fast first lap and then risk everything on the second lap to keep the inside lane. I also knew that I was not the athlete in the best physical shape in the final but that doesn&rsquo;t always win you championships and medals, and what I do know is how to execute a good strategy in an indoor 400.
Your personal best is 44.73 and the Spanish record is 44.69. Is this summer the moment to snatch that record from (2016 European 200m champion) Bruno Hortelano?
Of course, without any doubt. It is one of the goals of the summer and I would be lying if I told you that I am not thinking about the Spanish record. I finished just fourth-hundredths behind Bruno in that 2018 race in Moraralaz (the Madrid suburb where Hortelano set the record and Husillos got his PB), and that has been a little thorn in my side. I&rsquo;m not obsessed but I want the record, and with good preparation I see myself able to do so.

Husillos: "I was not the athlete in the best physical shape but that doesn’t always win you championships"

European Athletics would like to clarify the current situation regarding a number of positive cases of COVID-19 that have been reported in connection with team members and athletes from competing countries attending the European Athletics Indoor Championships which took place in Torun, Poland from 4-7 March.
European Athletics has been informed that a number of positive cases were detected after the end of the championships following tests conducted upon arrival home by athletes and staff from specific countries.
European Athletics, together with the Local Organising Committee and the Polish health authorities, established a strict medical and sanitary protocol for the European Athletics Indoor Championships.
This comprised a PCR test before traveling, a LAMP test upon arrival in Poland, with a confirmatory PCR test if needed due to a positive, then during the championships a further LAMP test as of the fifth day and finally, a PCR test for most of the countries to abide to travelling requirements.
All athletes, plus all member federation staff, guests, volunteers, technical suppliers and event staff, a total of 1,920 people, were tested according to this protocol.
In addition, sanitary rules that stipulated a mandatory use of a mask at all times, social distancing and the washing and disinfection of hands were duly communicated to every member federation, including the need for immediate isolation and quarantine in the case of suspicious symptoms or a positive result in testing. Abiding to these rules was the individual responsibility of each and every person attending the event.
Upon further investigation, all the positive cases that have been communicated to date can be traced back to two hotels where the affected teams were staying, although not all teams staying in these hotels posted positive cases. There have been no positive cases reported by member federations, or event staff, officials, volunteers or guests staying in the other hotels.
Unfortunately the investigation also uncovered that the aforementioned strict sanitary protocol that should also have been followed in team hotels was not always fully respected.
For example the obligatory wearing of masks at all times, except during meal times and while athletes were competing, was not respected in some hotels. This was particularly the case on the evening the competition ended and before the departure home of many teams.
While European Athletics, of course, has a moral duty and obligation to provide a safe environment for all athletes and staff participating at its events, according to the sanitary rules of the host country, respect for these rules is the personal responsibility of every individual.
European Athletics will now fully review and revise our sanitary procedures and protocol based on the experience of Torun in order to enhance and improve the protocol for future European Athletics events.
European Athletics wishes all athletes and staff concerned a full and swift recovery from their symptoms in order to return to the track as soon as possible. For reasons of personal medical privacy European Athletics will not confirm names or comment on any individual cases that may have been quoted in the media.

European Athletics statement on positive COVID-19 cases following Torun 2021

Maksim Nedasekau certainly has an affinity for tracks installed by European Athletics Official Partner Mondo. After all, the Belarussian high jumper&acute;s last four personal bests have come on surfaces manufactured by the Italian company.
His national record clearance of 2.37m at the recent Torun 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships was the latest in a string of performances in which Nedasekau has risen to the occasion on a Mondo track and claimed his most memorable victories.
Back in 2017, he cleared 2.26m in Grodno when just 19 to secure his first national senior title. Later that summer, he triumphed in a thrilling contest at the European Athletics U20 Championships in Grosseto to break a 40-year-old championship record when he twice improved his personal best, going over first 2.30m and then 2.33m.
In September 2019, he improved further to 2.35m on home soil in Minsk when getting maximum points for Team Europe at The Match and then he added to his growing list of accolades by taking gold in Torun, turning the tables on Italy&rsquo;s reigning champion Gianmarco Tamberi who had beaten him at the same venue 18 days earlier.
&ldquo;I love the arena in Torun, it is amazing. I already set a (indoor) PB here earlier this year,&rdquo; said a delighted Nedasekau, who now has European titles at U20, U23 and senior level.
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His performance was one of eight world-leading marks in the Arena Torun at the time, all bar two of which survived until the de facto end of the indoor season last weekend.
The complete list of marks achieved in Torun which ended the year as the best anywhere in the world during this indoor season were: Men 60m: Lamont Marcell Jacobs (ITA) 6.47 High jump: Maksim Nedasekau (BLR) 2.37m Heptathlon: Kevin Mayer (FRA) 6392 pts Women 60m: Ajla Del Ponte (SUI) 7.03 60m hurdles: Nadine Visser (NED) 7.77 Pentathlon: Nafissatou Thiam (BEL) 4904 pts
For Visser, defending her continental crown in Torun was the icing on the cake of a superb season which saw her win six of her seven competitions &ndash; the Dutch hurdler&rsquo;s only loss coming in her season opener in Karlsruhe &ndash; and reduce her 60m hurdles national record twice, not just to 7.77 in the Torun final but also in Madrid 11 days earlier when she ran 7.81 on another Mondo surface, with both the Polish city and the Spanish capital being able to boast of Mondo's <a href="https://www.mondoworldwide.com/na/en/sport/track-and-field/">Sportflex Super X tracks</a> in their showpiece indoor arenas.
Mondo&rsquo;s <a href="https://www.mondoworldwide.com/na/en/sport/track-and-field/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sportflex Super X track</a> has become the surface of choice for most top-class indoor athletics venues and has been installed in more than half of the World Athletics Certified Indoor Athletics Facilities around the world.
Its hexagonal air cells that guarantee a highly-rated combination of shock absorption, energy storage and then return, which can then translate into real benefits for the athletes themselves. The surface has been shown to reduce athletes&rsquo; fatigue and the risk of injury during training and competitions.
Visser&rsquo;s 60m hurdles event was not part of the World Athletics Indoor Tour this year but European athletes who came out on top of the standings in their specialist events in Madrid and guaranteed their entry to next year&rsquo;s World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Serbia were Tamberi, the Belarussian pole vaulter Iryna Zhuk and Czech 400m runner Pavel Maslak.
However, Torun also witnessed another world-leading time at the Copernicus Cup last month when Great Britain&rsquo;s Elliot Giles sped to the second-fastest indoor 800m time ever when he clocked 1:43.63 over four laps of the track.
Norway&rsquo;s Jakob Ingebrigtsen &ndash; who was to take a 1500m and 3000m double at the European indoors to take his tally of senior continental titles to five before his 21st birthday &ndash; set a world-leading mark and continental record over the shorter of his two championship distances when he won the 1500m in Lievin, France, another arena with a Mondo track.
Lievin was also where the women&acute;s shot on the Worlds Athletics Indoor Tour was decided, with Portugal&rsquo;s Auriol Dongmo &ndash; who was to go on and win gold in Torun as part of her five-outing unbeaten season &ndash; helped cement her status as the world&rsquo;s leading exponent in her event this winter with not just another victory but also going well over 19 metres.
Ukraine&acute;s Yaroslava Mahuchikh was another European athlete who posted five consecutive victories during the last 10 weeks and the prodigious Ukrainian teenager amazed everyone when she cleared 2.06m at the prestigious Banska Bystrica high jump meeting in Slovakia on another Mondo surface.
The height was the best in the world, indoors or out, since 2017, and moved her up to equal-third on the world indoor list.

Mondo helps propel Europe’s top athletes to new heights

Keely Hodgkinson&rsquo;s assured performance in becoming European indoor 800m champion just four days after her 19th birthday made her the youngest British winner at the championships for more than half a century.&nbsp;
Only Marilyn Neufville, who was 17 when she won the 400m at the 1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Vienna in a world best of 53.01, has been a younger British gold medallist.&nbsp;
But in crossing the line in 2:03.88, a last lap of 28.23 taking her comfortably clear of the very experienced Polish duo of Joanna Jozwik and Angelika Cichocka, Hodgkinson also emulated one of the achievements of her mentor, Jenny Meadows.&nbsp;
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Meadows, whose husband Trevor Painter coaches Hodgkinson, was European indoor 800m champion exactly ten years earlier in Paris, although unlike her young charge she was robbed of the full glory of that moment. She finished second on the day in 2:00.50 behind Russia&rsquo;s Yevgeniya Zinurova, who clocked 2:00.10.
A year-and-four-months later, silver turned golden for the Wigan-born athlete as Zinurova&rsquo;s performance, and that of the Russian who finished behind Meadows, Yuliya Rusanova, was discounted due to doping violations.&nbsp;
It was a richly deserved but sadly delayed moment of triumph for an athlete who had earned world bronze in Berlin two years earlier in her personal best of 1:57.93 and an upgraded European silver medal in Barcelona the year before.&nbsp;
Speaking to the BBC after her race in Berlin, Meadows commented: "It proves you should never say never, you should always believe in yourself. If you work hard and keep the faith, good things will happen.&rdquo;&nbsp;
That heart and commitment has contributed to the development of Great Britain&rsquo;s latest middle-distance winner, who earlier this year set a European indoor U20 800m record of 1:59.03.
Hodgkinson's ability to produce the goods in championship racing had been established well before Torun through her gold medal at the 2018 European Athletics U18 Championships in Gyor, Hungary followed in 2019 by bronze at the European Athletics U20 Championships in Boras, Sweden.
&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve always thought it doesn&rsquo;t matter how old you are, as long as you&rsquo;re healthy and doing things right you can be capable of anything,&rdquo; said Hodgkinson in the wake of her Torun victory. &ldquo;You&rsquo;ve just got to believe in yourself and not be intimidated by the older girls.&rdquo;&nbsp;
In the years to come Painter and Meadows believe Hodgkinson is capable of beating Kelly Holmes&rsquo;s long-standing British record of 1:56.21. But for the moment this level-headed athlete, born, like her mentor, in Wigan, is focusing on other targets.&nbsp;
&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not really looking at those expectations,&rdquo; said Hodgkinson, who started a criminology with psychology degree at Leeds Beckett University in the autumn. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m just going to carry on and try and enjoy it and put myself forward with the senior girls because it&rsquo;s OK saying: &lsquo;Let&rsquo;s get to the Olympics.&rsquo;&rdquo;&nbsp;
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Reaching Tokyo is an utterly realistic target for a young woman who won the British outdoor title last year with a typically tactically astute display. She has a current outdoor best of 2:01.73 although that mark looks hugely likely to be reduced sooner rather than later.&nbsp;
Meadows confirms that the current intention is for Hodgkinson to seek to add a European U20 gold to the bronze she currently has by taking part in this year&rsquo;s edition in Tallinn, Estonia from 15-18 July &ndash; as a possible precursor for her Olympic debut in the Japanese capital.
&ldquo;We sat down at the end of last season to plan for the 2021 year and it was always the plan to peak in August, whether that be the Olympic Games or the World Junior Championships,&rdquo; Meadows told European Athletics.&nbsp;&nbsp;
&ldquo;The European U20 Championships was on the plan as a championship to win and would therefore be a good stepping stone along the way.&nbsp;&nbsp;
&ldquo;She has golds from the European U18 Championships and now European Indoors so Keely is keen to add the European U20 title too. We will see how the season progresses before we commit to finalising our targets.&rdquo;&nbsp;
Hodgkinson remarked in Torun how Painter and Meadows were happy for her to take responsibility for her own performances and to become &ldquo;her own athlete.&rdquo;&nbsp;
Meadows confirms this approach: &ldquo;We had total confidence in Keely&rsquo;s ability to handle the championships both from a physical and mental point of view.&nbsp;&nbsp;
&ldquo;Despite the pandemic, we had managed to fit in most aspects of training during the winter period through being quite innovative and adaptable. Luckily we have a lot of experience of being adaptable and we make sure we explain things to Keely regarding objectives of sessions and future direction so that she &lsquo;buys in&rsquo; to the plan and can be confident knowing the process she is going through.&nbsp;&nbsp;
&ldquo;We knew therefore that all the training she needed had been completed going into Torun and she had all the tools she needed.&rdquo;
And these tools, plus some guidance from one of the greatest British 800m runners in history, could take her a very long way in the sport.

After breakthrough in Torun, Hodgkinson sets sights on Tallinn and Tokyo

The number of live TV hours viewed during coverage of last week&rsquo;s European Athletics Indoor Championships in Torun, Poland jumped by an average of nearly 20% in nine key European TV markets, compared with the previous edition in Glasgow two years ago.
TV audiences showed renewed appetite for the championships following the recent dearth of top-quality sporting action on TV screens enforced by the Covid-19 pandemic.
In all, 32 TV channels broadcast the championships, which took place from 4-7 March, with many national TV audiences having something to cheer as medals were won by athletes from 23 of the competing nations.
EBU Members in nine key European athletics markets &ndash; RTBF (Belgium), YLE (Finland), RAI (Italy), NOS (Netherlands), NRK (Norway), TVP (Poland), TVE (Spain), SVT (Sweden) and BBC (UK) &ndash; posted an average increase of 19.26% in the number of hours of live coverage viewed, compared with Glasgow 2019.
In Sweden, SVT scored a huge 141% average live market share increase from 10.58% in 2019 to 25.51% this year, its best figure since 2011. SVT&rsquo;s live market share peaked at 56.4% on Sunday evening as Armand Duplantis, Sweden&rsquo;s 21-year-old pole vault star, cleared a championship record of 6.05m to win the gold medal before three attempts at a world record height of 6.19m.
Meanwhile, in Italy, the number of live hours viewed soared to over three million from just 192,709 in 2019, as RAI ramped up its live coverage to over 20 hours in 2021, compared with only three hours in 2019.
In Poland, the host country, TVP registered the highest total of live hours viewed of the nine broadcasters: nearly 15.5 million hours, versus nearly 11.5 million hours in 2019.
The UK also posted strong figures, with over 20 hours of free-to-air coverage on BBC2 generating more than 14.3 million live viewer hours, representing an increase of 6.5% compared to 2017 in Belgrade, with a peak audience of over 1.6 million and live market share of 7.8% for Sunday evening&rsquo;s finals.
European Athletics Interim President Dobromir Karamarinov said: &ldquo;I am very proud that European Athletics has been able to deliver a safe and successful European Athletics Indoor Championships in Torun, Poland, thanks in large part to the great work done by the Local Organising Committee. These impressive TV figures show that European Athletics&rsquo; major events remain an attractive and engaging product for TV audiences and broadcasters.&rdquo;
"We successfully delivered a safe event with more than 700 athletes from more than 47 countries. It was the first major sporting event for most European athletes this year ahead of Tokyo 2020, where we expect more brilliant performances," added Karimarinov, reviewing Torun 2021 at a roundtable for leading sports industry media on Friday (12).
EBU Members took advantage of several technology innovations aimed at making it easier for them to interact remotely with athletes, with governing body European Athletics and with Eurovision Sport during the continuing lockdown restrictions.
Innovations included a pioneering Virtual Media Centre where media could access the live video streams, live results, all related media information and even book remote mixed zone positions for interviews with athletes.
"We manged to set up within just two months the remote virtual media services. Any member of the media who was forced to stay at home in Rome, Stockholm or Oslo could say after the 1500m 'I want to speak to Jakob Ingebritsen,' and any journalist could discuss the race with him. In our view, this was a fantastic way of providing services (to the media). Athletics will probably not change but what has changed are the type of side activities around our sport," reflected European Athletics CEO Christian Milz during the media roundtable.
In 2018, the EBU and European Athletics renewed their worldwide media rights contract, taking the partnership, which began in 1981, through to the end of 2027.
The agreement covers the worldwide television and radio rights for European Athletics&rsquo; major events from 2020 to 2023 and from 2024 to 2027. This includes the flagship European Athletics Championships in 2022, 2024 and 2026.
Talking specifically about next year&acute;s European Athletics Championships in Munich, part of the second multi-sport European Championships, Karamarinov commented: "We have a very strong partnership with the EBU and although this is a multi-sport event, athletics has dedicated primetime so we will get a lot of exposure."

Big rise in TV viewing figures for Torun 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships

Armand Duplantis, as expected, added the European indoor pole vault title to his rapidly growing list of achievements at the Torun 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships, requiring only three first-time clearances to win the title at 5.85m before scaling a championship record of 6.05m on his second attempt.
For a man who has cleared 6.10m this season, and who set world records of 6.17m &ndash; in this same arena - and then 6.18m last year, the task of earning his first major indoor gold was relatively straightforward.&nbsp;
Many would have expected the name of Lavillenie to appear in at least the silver medal position given the way the 34-year-old former world record-holder has revived his fortunes this year &ndash; but very few would have expected it to be Valentin, Renaud Lavillenie&rsquo;s 29-year-old brother Valentin.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
He was congratulated by his elder brother &ndash; who pulled out of the competition on Saturday as a precaution after feeling a pain in his leg &ndash; after equalling his personal best of 5.80m, with his first-time clearance keeping home vaulter Piotr Lisek in bronze medal position on countback.&nbsp;
With gold secure, the 21-year-old phenomenon, based in Louisiana but a competitor for Sweden, the birthplace of his mother, moved the bar up to 6.05m, a championship record. He cleared it at the second attempt to vanquish Lavillenie&rsquo;s - Renaud, that it - six-year-old championship record of 6.04m.
On he went to a world record height of 6.19m, but on this occasion &ndash; despite a close call with his second effort &ndash; it proved too much for him. He could afford to smile, exhilarated by the challenge.
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Shortly afterwards there was another record attempt from another confirmed gold medallist as Ukraine&rsquo;s 19-year-old phenomenon Yaroslava Mahuchikh, whose clearance of 2.00m had finally seen off the challenge of teammate Iryna Herashchenko, set her sights on what would have been a championship record and personal best of 2.07m.&nbsp;
Like Duplantis, she didn&rsquo;t reach her target; like Duplantis, she surely soon will.&nbsp;
Herashchenko screamed, repeatedly, in delight after earning silver with a personal best of 1.98m, with bronze going to Finland&rsquo;s equally pleased Ella Junilla, who set a national record of 1.96m. This was Finland&rsquo;s second medal of the session after Lotta Kemppinen&rsquo;s silver medal-winning performance in the 60m flat.&nbsp;
Earlier in the day, a dramatic men&rsquo;s high jump final had been won by Maksim Nedasekau of Belarus with a first-time clearance of 2.37m, the best in the world this year, that finally ended the challenge of Italy&rsquo;s defending champion Gianmarco Tamberi.
There was high drama in the women&rsquo;s triple jump in which the lead and national record of 14.53m established in the third round by Portugal&rsquo;s Patricia Mamona was put under heavy pressure by the sixth and final effort of Ana Peleteiro.&nbsp;
The 25-year-old Spaniard was already celebrating before she hit the sand, and she was not wrong in her instincts, but when the digits came up she had fallen one centimetre short of Mamona&rsquo;s best.&nbsp;
Bronze went to Germany&rsquo;s Neele Eckhardt, who produced a personal best of 14.52m.&nbsp;
The men&rsquo;s triple jump earlier in the day had seen Mamona&rsquo;s Portuguese teammate Pedro Pablo Pichardo live up to his billing as favourite as he earned gold with a best of 17.30m.&nbsp;
The 1000m which concluded the heptathlon was effectively a victory run for France&rsquo;s world decathlon record-holder Kevin Mayer, who was out of reach of any of his rivals and finished with a winning total of 6392 points after finishing seventh out of the remaining eight competitors in 2:45.72.&nbsp;
These championships enabled Mayer to win his first senior medal, a silver, in 2013 and he added his first gold in 2017.&nbsp;
The concluding race was alive, however, as Dutch athlete Rik Taam made a brave but ultimately unsuccessful front-running effort to supplant Poland&rsquo;s Pawel Wiesiolek, who had surpassed himself in finishing second to Mayer in the penultimate pole vault in the bronze medal position.&nbsp;
Taam won the race in a personal best of 2:35.35 and totalled a personal best score of 6111 points but Wiesiolek retained the bronze with 6133 points, behind the 2019 champion Jorge Urena of Spain, who totalled 6158.&nbsp;
Simon Ehammer, the 21-year-old Swiss athlete who had pushed Mayer the hardest before failing to record a height in the penultimate event of the pole vault, elected not to run the concluding event.&nbsp;

Duplantis scales championship record of 6.05m in Torun

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