<h2>European Athletics Indoor Championships</h2>
The European Athletics Indoor Championships are the biggest indoor event organised by European Athletics.
More than the 600 athletes from as many as 51 European Athletics Member Federations now participate in a championships held over three or four days.
First held as a championship event in Vienna 1970, the competition was held annually until Glasgow in 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 with many gold medallists from the Munich 2022 European Athletics Championships due to compete.
Highlights from recent editions of the European Athletics Indoor Championships have included Ivana Spanovic jumping 7.24m to win long jump gold in Belgrade 2017 and Armand Duplantis clearing 6.05m in the pole vault in Torun 2021.&nbsp;

Today (2) marks one month to go until the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Istanbul, Turkey which will draw more than 600 athletes from up to 49 nations to the Atak&ouml;y Arena from 2-5 March.
Opened in 2012, and recently refurbished, the Atak&ouml;y Arena was the venue for the 2012 World Athletics Indoor Championships and, for indoor athletics, has a capacity of 7000, In addition, the Balkan Indoor Championships have been staged there over the last decade and it will be a fitting stage for the stars of European athletics to display their talents across four action-packed days.
It&rsquo;s still early days in the indoor season, but many of Europe&rsquo;s best have already hit the headlines with outstanding performances.
Fireworks in the women&rsquo;s 60m have been provided by Great Britain&rsquo;s Dina Asher-Smith, who broke the British record when clocking 7.04 in Karlsruhe last week and defeating two women who will surely be in the gold medal hunt in Istanbul: Poland's 2019 European indoor champion Ewa Swoboda and Switzerland's 2022 world indoor champion Mujinga Kambundji, both of whom spectacularly broke the seven second-barrier in 2022.&nbsp;
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Swoboda scorched to a 6.99 clocking at the Polish Indoor Championships in Torun but in an electric final at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Kambundji charged to an unexpected title from lane eight in 6.96, just 0.04 shy of the long-standing world record held by Irina Privalova.
While Asher-Smith admits she is unlikely to compete in Istanbul, Swoboda and Kambundji both have their sights set firmly on expanding their medal haul at the European Athletics Indoor Championships. And given their undoubted prowess on the boards, could Nelli Cooman's championship record of 7.00 from 1986 be under threat next month?&nbsp;
On the men&rsquo;s side, all eyes will be Italy&rsquo;s Lamont Marcell Jacobs as he opens his season in Lodz, Poland, on Saturday (4) after he recently completed a training camp in Dubai.
The reigning Olympic and European 100m champion clocked 6.49 at this same meeting last year en route to gold at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, where he set a European record of 6.41. If he&rsquo;s back in the same sort of form this season he will be tough to beat in Istanbul.
Femke Bol swept all before her at the Torun 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships, winning 400m gold and helping the Netherlands to victory in the 4x400m, and she could potentially prove equally indomitable in Istanbul.
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The 22-year-old will open her season this Saturday (4) over 500m at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in Boston, USA and the world best of 1:06.31, set by Russia&rsquo;s Olesya Krasnomovets in 2006, could be under threat.&nbsp;
A similar mark has already fallen this indoor season with Great Britain&rsquo;s Keely Hodgkinson powering to a world indoor 600m best of 1:23.41 in Manchester last weekend, taking 0.03 off the record previously held by Russia's Olga Kotlyarova.
After her record-breaking feat, Hodgkinson confirmed Istanbul is very much part of her plans for the indoor campaign. "It'll be my first senior title to try and defend. I'll be 21 while I'm out there so it'd be a nice birthday present," she said.
Hodgkinson burst onto the scene in Torun two years ago, and the reigning European indoor and outdoor 800m champion will be looking to defend her title in Istanbul next month shortly after celebrating her 21st birthday. One of her chief rivals could be Slovenia&rsquo;s Anita Horvat, the former 400m specialist who clocked an indoor best and world-leading mark of 2:00.44 to win in Karlsruhe last week.
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Britain&rsquo;s Laura Muir pulled off the 1500m/3000m double at both the 2017 and 2019 editions of the European Athletics Indoor Championships and she could make it a 'triple-double' in Istanbul. Like Bol, the Scot will open her season in Boston on Saturday over 3000m, where one of her likely rivals in Istanbul, Ireland&rsquo;s Ciara Mageean, is also starting her season.
Norway&rsquo;s Jakob Ingebrigtsen looked peerless when winning the 1500m/3000m double in Torun two years ago and if the 22-year-old tries the same in Istanbul, few would bet against him.
Ingebrigtsen is scheduled to race a 1500m in Lievin on 15 February and over 3000m in Madrid on 22 February, but he told Norwegian media recently that he&rsquo;s doubtful for both races, saying he has only been &ldquo;jogging on and off&rdquo; for the past month due to illness, cutting short an altitude camp in Spain as a result.
All being well, Ingebrigtsen will be in the hunt for his tenth senior title across all surfaces at the European Athletics Indoor Championships while his compatriot Karsten Warholm also has his sights set on the indoor season. Warholm, who won European indoor 400m gold in an equal European record of 45.05 in Glasgow 2019, opens his season at the Karsten Warholm Invitational in his hometown of Ulsteinvik this evening (2).&nbsp;
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Elsewhere, Poland's European 100m hurdles champion Pia Skrzyszowska could go to Turkey as the gold medal favourite for the 60m hurdles title after flying to a best of 7.84 in D&uuml;sseldorf, Germany last Sunday. Finland&rsquo;s Reetta Hurske also marked herself out as a possible title contender when clocking a national record of 7.86 at the same event.
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Swedish star Armand Duplantis remains undecided about competing in Istanbul, with a decision expected in the weeks ahead.
He gets his season underway at the Mondo Classic in Uppsala, Sweden, tonight (2). However, Sweden will undoubtedly have a contender in the men&rsquo;s long jump in Istanbul through Thobias Montler, who won silver at the last two editions of the championships and jumped 8.19m in S&auml;tra, Sweden last weekend.
Ukraine&rsquo;s Yaroslava Mahuchikh is the only woman to jump over two metres this year and the reigning European champion &ndash; both indoors and outdoors &ndash; looks well on track to add more gold to her glittering CV in Istanbul. At only 20, Mahuchikh completed the set of major titles across all age-groups at the European Athletics Championships in Munich.
For Germany&rsquo;s Malaika Mihambo, the reigning Olympic long jump champion, Istanbul will offer the chance to add one of the few titles missing from her list of honours. Having finished runner-up in Torun two years ago when she was pipped in the sixth round by Ukraine's Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk, Mihambo opened her 2023 campaign with a promising 6.83m in D&uuml;sseldorf, while three-time European indoor champion Ivana Vuleta of Serbia also made a strong start to the year, jumping 6.76m in Karlsruhe.
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At the same meeting, Portugal&rsquo;s Auriol Dongmo produced the leading shot put mark by a European woman this year, 18.90m, but that was surpassed earlier this week by the woman who beat her to gold in Munich last year: Jessica Schilder of the Netherlands.
Schilder, who reached a national record of 20.24 to take the European title last summer, achieved in Nehvidzy, Czech Republic on Tuesday to lay down the gauntlet to her chief rival ahead of their rematch in Istanbul.
Many of Europe&rsquo;s leading multi-eventers got their seasons under way last weekend at the X-Athletics Meeting in Aubiere, France where European decathlon silver medallist Simon Ehammer from Switzerland set the pace with victory in a European-leading mark of 6292 points despite an accident in the pole vault where he banged his nose on the crossbar.&nbsp;
Reigning European indoor heptathlon champion Kevin Mayer opted to compete in individual events in Aubiere and the world decathlon record-holder has also left the door open on a possible title defence next month.
Nafissatou Thiam won the pentathlon title in Torun 2021 and starts as the natural favourite if she chooses to accept her invitation for Istanbul. But if she declines, another brilliant Belgian combined event looks set to succeed Thiam. Noor Vidts won silver behind Thiam two years ago before striking pentathlon gold at the 2022 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade.
"Every heptathlon I participate in is important to me and I want to give the best of myself, especially at an international championship. You are in a different phase of the build-up in March, but it is still a very important moment," said Vidts on the upcoming championships.
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Host nation Turkey has won eight medals in the history of the European Athletics Indoor Championships, and that number could well grow at this year&rsquo;s edition.
Much of that could depend on the availability of Yasemin Can, who won 3000m silver at the 2017 edition in Belgrade and who is the reigning European 10,000m champion. However, the 26-year-old has not raced since dropping out of the senior women&rsquo;s race at the SPAR European Cross Country Championships in Piemonte in December.
Other prospective Turkish medallists include Kayhan Ozer, who has already improved his 60m lifetime best to 6.58 this season, a time which would have won silver behind Jacobs in 2021 and gold as recently as 2019. Also watch out for Turkish record-holder Ersu Sasma, who finished eighth in the pole vault at the 2022 World Athletics Championships and their emerging triple jumper Tugba Danismaz, the reigning European U23 triple jump champion.
The European Athletics Indoor Championships was first held as a championship event in Vienna in 1970, then staged annually until the 1990 edition in Glasgow before switching to being held every two years.
Athletes have until midnight on 19 February to qualify, which they can do either by achieving the automatic entry standard or via their world ranking position, with the list of eligible athletes due to be released by 21 February.
Full details of the 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships can be found&nbsp;<a href="https://www.istanbul2023.org/">here.</a>
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One month to go until the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Istanbul

Great Britain&rsquo;s Dina Asher-Smith continued her flying start to 2023 at the Init Indoor Meeting Karlsruhe where she equalled the long-standing 60m meeting record with a victory in a British record and European-leading time of 7.04 at the World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting on Friday (27).
The Briton looked sharp from the outset, winning her hear in a personal best of 7.07 &ndash; following on from her 7.09 run at the <a href="https://www.european-athletics.com/competitions/world-athletics-indoor-tour-silver-and-bronze-meetings/overview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Athletics Indoor Tour Bronze meeting </a>in Jablonec, Czech Republic last Saturday &ndash; to finish comfortably ahead of Switzerland&rsquo;s world indoor champion Mujinga Kambundji.
Poland&rsquo;s 2019 European indoor champion Ewa Swoboda won the other heat in a convincing 7.09 to set up an exciting clash in the final.And so it proved to be. Drawn in adjacent lanes, Asher-Smith matched Swoboda&rsquo;s trademark rocket start, but then began to pull away as the Pole tightened up and faded slightly at the finish.
Asher-Smith stopped the clock in 7.04, not only equalling the meeting record set 27 years ago by Irina Privalova, but also taking 0.02 off the British record and she moved to equal-ninth on the European all-time list.
&ldquo;I always love racing here, and I&rsquo;m so happy to come away with a PB and national record,&rdquo; said the 2018 triple European Athletics Championships gold medallist. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve had a really good winter, so I&rsquo;ve been really excited to get back out here,&rdquo; she added. &ldquo;The crowd helped me, 100 per cent. The last time I was here [in 2021] it was in the middle of Covid and there was no crowd, so thank you to Germany for making this an incredible meet.&rdquo;
Swoboda finished second in the final, matching her 7.09 from the heats. Kambundji was third in 7.11 and Britain&rsquo;s Daryll Neita was fourth in 7.16.
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George Mills produced another British triumph in Karlsruhe when he ran away with the men&rsquo;s 1500m.
The 23-year-old went to the front with two laps to go and proceeded to open up a clear gap over the rest of the field before winning in an indoor best and world-leading time of of 3:35.88 &ndash; just over half-a-second slower than his outdoor best of 3:35.30 and his second-fastest time ever &ndash; finishing more than a second ahead of Portugal&rsquo;s Isaac Nader (3:37.29).
By contrast, to Mills&rsquo; emphatic victory, the men&rsquo;s 60m hurdles had the closest finish of the night as just 0.002 separated eventual winner Enrique Llopis from fellow Spaniard Asier Martinez, the European champion.
Martinez appeared to be marginally ahead, but Llopis came through when it mattered to take the win in a photo finish with both men timed at 7.57. Poland&rsquo;s Jakub Szymanski ran an indoor best of 7.57 to win his heat earlier in the evening but had to settle for third in 7.60 in the final.
With her first leap of the competition, two-time world indoor champion Ivana Vuleta effectively wrapped up the long jump contest.
Despite jumping off a short approach, the Serbian sailed out to 6.76m &ndash; a world-leading mark at this early stage of the season &ndash; which held up as the best mark of the day.
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In the women&rsquo;s 800m, Slovenia&rsquo;s Anita Horvat timed her finish to perfection to grab the lead in the final 30 metres and take victory in an indoor best of 2:00.44.
Another European win came came courtesy of Portugal&rsquo;s reigning world and European indoor sot put champion Auriol Dongmo who produced a fourth-round effort of 18.90m, which was enough to clinch victory.
Denmark&rsquo;s Benjamin Lobo Vedel won the men&rsquo;s 400m in 46.45 from Spain&rsquo;s Oscar Husillos who was second in 46.63.
In the men&rsquo;s 3000m, Belgium&rsquo;s Robin Hendrix improved his indoor best by more than six seconds when finishing second in a European-leading 7:40.53, just edged out by Ethiopian winner Abdisa Fayisa, to move within two seconds of the Belgian record and advertise his credentials as a medal contender at the<a href="https://www.european-athletics.com/competitions/european-athletics-indoor-championships/overview" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Istanbul 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships</a> in five weeks&rsquo; time. Full results can be found<a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-indoor-tour/calendar-results/7162587/result" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> here</a>.

Asher-Smith runs British record 7.04 in Karlsruhe, world leads for Mills, Vuleta and Horvat

Belgium&rsquo;s Tibo De Smet made a significant breakthrough in the 800m at the CMCM Indoor Meeting in Luxembourg, a World Athletics Indoor Tour Bronze meeting, on Sunday (22) afternoon.
With the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Istanbul less than six weeks away, De Smet won the 800m at the Coque Sport Center in an early season world leading time of 1:45.04. His time also shaved more than one second from the Belgian record and moves him up to 11th on the European indoor all-time list.&nbsp;
"It&rsquo;s going to take some time to let this one sink in," said the 23-year-old on Instagram after his performance.&nbsp;
De Smet, who recently set an indoor 400m lifetime best of 47.29, showed his strength on this occasion by pulling clear of last year&rsquo;s winner and meeting record-holder Collins Kipruto from Kenya (1:45.89) and Bram Buigel from the Netherlands (1:46.98) in the last 150 metres.
There was another notable Belgian win for Alexander Doom in the 400m. A perennial member of his country&rsquo;s famed 4x400m team in recent years, the 25-year-old was the fastest across the two races in an indoor lifetime best of 46.20 to improve the long-standing meeting record held by France&rsquo;s Leslie Djhone by 0.04.
Re-watch the CMCM Indoor Meeting in full again.
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<h2>Bertemes and Van Der Weken deliver at home</h2>
There was also ample home success at this meeting. In the shot put, Bob Bertemes&rsquo; first round effort of 20.78m - also a meeting record for posterity - clinched victory over former European indoor and outdoor champion Michal Haratyk from Poland with 20.21m.
"I take away a lot from the competition. I feel pretty hyped for Istanbul," said Bertemes, who produced the three best marks of the competition.&nbsp;
Another home favourite Patrizia Van Der Weken won the women&rsquo;s 60m final not once - but twice. After the initial final had to be re-run due to a technical error, Van Der Weken produced an identical result with victory in 7.26 - the joint second fastest time of her career.
Cyprus&rsquo; Natalia Christofi was another of the meeting&rsquo;s breakthrough performers, taking almost two-tenths off her lifetime best in the 60m hurdles in the course of two races.
Christofi, 25, initially took her lifetime best from 8.10 to 8.03 in the heats before smashing the eight second-barrier in the final with another national record of 7.92 ahead of Maayke Tjin a Lim (8.00) and home favourite Victoria Rausch (8.18).
Other highlights included reigning European 110m hurdles champion Asier Martinez from Spain winning the men&rsquo;s 60m hurdles in 7.65 and France&rsquo;s Simon Denissel winning the 3000m in 7:52.09.
Full results from the CMCM Indoor Meeting can be found <a href="https://luxembourg23results.european-athletics.com/en/results/athletics/daily-schedule.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
<h2>Next up...</h2>
The next World Athletics Indoor Tour event to be streamed through the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@EuropeanAthletics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">European Athletics YouTube channel</a> will be the Internationales Springer-Meeting in Cottbus on Wednesday (25) evening.
The vertical jumps-only meeting features European high jump champion Yaroslava Mahuchikh from Ukraine and European pole vault silver medallist Bo Kanda Lita Baehre from Germany among those in action.
Full entry lists can be found <a href="https://www.springermeeting-cottbus.de/athleten/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

De Smet highlights CMCM Indoor Meeting with a breakthrough 1:45.04 800m

Dina Asher-Smith opened her season in fine style at the 50th anniversary edition of the Jablonec Indoor 2023 on Saturday (21), the first World Athletics Indoor Tour Bronze meeting in Europe in 2023.
After easing through the heats in 7.18, Asher-Smith blitzed to victory in the 60m final in 7.09 - the joint second fastest time of her career and only 0.03 shy of the British record held by Asha Philip.
Asher-Smith returns to the track next Friday in Karlsruhe where a tantalising clash with Ewa Swoboda and world indoor champion Mujinga Kambundji, who also inched Asher-Smith for 200m gold at the European Athletics Championships last August, awaits.&nbsp;
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On the road to the Istanbul 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships from 2-5 March, Turkish sprinter Kayhan Ozer has emerged as a prospective medal candidate for the host nation in the short sprint.
Ozer won the men&rsquo;s 60m final in a European lead and lifetime best of 6.58 to come within 0.03 of the Turkish record. Ozer&rsquo;s time in Jablonec would have won silver behind Marcell Jacobs at the last edition of the European Indoor Championships in Torun 2021 and gold in Glasgow 2019.
Elsewhere, Czech veteran Petr Svoboda, 38, clocked 7.59 to win the 60m hurdles and reigning European indoor champion Tomas Stanek won the shot put with 21.43m.
Full results <a href="https://online.atletika.cz/vysledky/65740/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

Asher-Smith impresses with 7.09 season’s opener over 60m in Jablonec

Jakob Ingebrigtsen has mapped out his competitive plans for the upcoming indoor season which will conclude at the Istanbul 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships from 2-5 March.
Ingebrigtsen is yet to confirm which distance - or distances - he will contest but the Norwegian could very possibly take his tally of European senior titles into double digits at the age of 22.
In his last competitive appearance, Ingebrigtsen retained his European cross country title in La Mandria Park on the outskirts of Turin in December which brought his title count across all surfaces and distances up to nine.
Aside from his cross country exploits, Ingebrigtsen has won the 1500m and 5000m titles at the last two European Athletics Championships as well as three gold medals at the European Athletics Indoor Championships.
At the last edition in Torun 2021, Ingebrigtsen made history by becoming the first male athlete to win the 1500/3000m titles at the same edition. 
After avenging his defeat to home favourite Marcin Lewandowski from 2019 in the 1500m, Ingebrigtsen easily retained his title in the 3000m, covering the last 1500m in a blitzing 3:39.95.
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Ahead of the European Athletics Indoor Championships, Ingebrigtsen has two races on his itinerary: the 1500m in Lievin on 15 February and the 3000m in Madrid on 22 February.
Ingebrigtsen set the first world record of his career in Lievin last February when he became the first athlete in history to break the 3:31-barrier indoors with 3:30.60 for 1500m.
<h2>Ingebrigtsen's nine European titles</h2>
European Athletics Championships
<ul>
<li>1500m - 2018</li>
<li>5000m - 2018</li>
<li>1500m - 2022</li>
<li>5000m - 2022</li>
</ul>
European Athletics Indoor Championships
<ul>
<li>3000m - 2019</li>
<li>1500m - 2021</li>
<li>3000m - 2021</li>
</ul>
SPAR European Cross Country Championships
<ul>
<li>Senior men's 10km - 2021</li>
<li>Senior men's 9.6km - 2022</li>
</ul>
&nbsp;

Ingebrigtsen to target his tenth European senior title in Istanbul

Miltiadis Tentoglou has outlined his competitive schedule for the upcoming indoor season which will culminate at the Istanbul 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships in 2-5 March.
After retaining his European outdoor long jump title in Munich last summer, Tentoglou will seek to become the first male athlete to win three successive European indoor titles in his discipline in championship history.
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Tentoglou won the last two European indoor titles ahead of his Swedish rival and friend Thobias Montler who also had to settle for silver behind Tentoglou at both the World Athletics Indoor Championships and European Athletics Championships in 2022.&nbsp;
After his defeat to Tentoglou in Belgrade, Montler said sportingly: &ldquo;Some day I think it's going to be possible to beat Tentoglou but always at the big championships he pulls out the best one. He is so mentally strong.&rdquo;
Fittingly, Tentoglou will clash with Montler on his season&rsquo;s debut in the Gothenburg Games on 2 February, a World Athletics Indoor Tour Challenger meeting.
The 24-year-old also has appearances at the World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meetings in Torun (8 February), Lievin (15 February) and Madrid (22 February) on the itinerary as well as an appearance on home soil at the Greek Indoor Championships in Athens on 18-19 February.
Tentoglou won his two European indoor titles with leaps of 8.38m and 8.35m respectively but he extended his indoor lifetime best out to 8.55m to win gold at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade to move to equal third on the European indoor all-time list behind Sebastian Bayer (8.71m) and the late Yago Lamela (8.56m).

Tentoglou maps out his competitive schedule en route to Istanbul

Athletics is a sport for all seasons - and all surfaces as well!
With the festive break over and the first results emerging from the roads, cross country as well as the track, we look ahead with anticipation to what promises to be another action-packed and exciting season of athletics in 2023.&nbsp;
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<h2><a href="https://www.european-athletics.com/competitions/eccc-cross-country/overview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ECCC Cross Country - Oropesa del Mar (5 February)</a></h2>
The longest running cross country event on the European Athletics calendar takes place for the 58th time in the Spanish coastal town of Oropesa del Mar, just to the north of Castellon.
And hosts Playas de Castellon will be hoping for another successful outing on home soil. In last year&rsquo;s event in Oeiras, Ethiopia&rsquo;s Likina Amebew and Burundi&rsquo;s Rodrigue Kwizera - both of whom are based are train in Spain - took the individual senior titles for Playas de Castellon who also won the inaugural edition of the mixed relay.
The course which runs adjacent to the Mediterranean Sea is largely flat but there will be some challenging technical elements, including a 260 metre-section on sand and a sharp 180-degree turn known as La Curva de la Muerte &ndash; or &lsquo;The Death Turn.&rsquo;
<h2><a href="https://dna.run/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DNA Indoor U20 Match - Madrid (22 February)</a></h2>
The latest instalment of the fast-paced DNA takes place in Madrid, featuring teams from six countries taking part across 11 events in a non-stop two hour programme.
After winning the senior equivalent in Glasgow last February, will the Spanish U20 team repeat on home soil next month? They will face teams from Great Britain &amp; NI, Czech Republic, Ireland, France and Turkey.
<h2><a href="https://www.european-athletics.com/competitions/european-athletics-indoor-championships/overview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">European Athletics Indoor Championships - Istanbul (2-5 March)</a></h2>
Europe&rsquo;s flagship indoor championship takes place over four days in the Atakoy Stadium in Istanbul for the first time, the host venue for the 2012 World Athletics Indoor Championships.&nbsp;
High profile names who have already announced their intentions to compete include reigning Olympic and European champions Marcell Jacobs and Jakob Ingebrigtsen, both of whom won gold medals at the last edition in Torun 2021.
Jacobs is planning another full indoor season which begins in Lodz on 4 February while Ingebrigtsen is planning an assault on the world indoor 3000m record in Madrid en route to Istanbul.
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<h2><a href="https://www.european-athletics.com/competitions/european-throwing-cup/overview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">European Throwing Cup - Leiria (11-12 March)</a></h2>
The host city of Leiria will be a familiar setting to many participants as this will be the fifth time the European Throwing Cup has been held in the Portuguese city since 2015.
Last year&rsquo;s event was highlighted by Auriol Dongmo winning the shot put on home soil and Kristjan Ceh beginning his year with a victory over all three Olympic medallists in the discus, a precursor to his victory at the World Athletics Championships.
But the event and venue is most synonymous with Johannes Vetter who threw a humongous 92.70m to smash the championship record in the javelin when the 2018 European Throwing Cup was held in Leiria.&nbsp;
<h2><a href="https://www.european-athletics.com/competitions/european-race-walking-team-championships/overview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">European Race Walking Team Championships - Podebrady (21 May)</a></h2>
Podebrady has a similar affinity with the race walking community with race walking events having been organised in the picturesque Czech spa town ever since the turn of the 20th century.
The biennial European Race Walking Team Championships will be held in Podebrady for the fourth time since 2017. Highlights in the 2021 edition included Antonella Palmisano winning the 20km race walk title en route to Olympic gold in Tokyo 2020 and Antigoni Ntrismpioti winning the inaugural women&rsquo;s 35km title.
<h2><a href="https://www.european-athletics.com/competitions/european-10000-m-cup/overview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">European 10,000m Cup - Pac&eacute; (3 June)</a></h2>
The European 10,000m Cup returns to Pac&eacute; in north-west France for its second of three outings at the start of June.
In last year&rsquo;s event, France&rsquo;s Jimmy Gressier was a runaway winner of the individual title and led the hosts to team gold while Turkey&rsquo;s Yasemin Can showed some of her form of old, winning the individual women&rsquo;s title before regaining her European 10,000m title a few weeks later in Munich.
Past winners of the European 10,000m Cup include Fernanda Ribeiro (1998, 2003) and Paula Radcliffe (1999, 2001) on the women&rsquo;s side and Dieter Baumann (1997), Mo Farah (2010) and Richard Ringer (2018) on the men&rsquo;s side.&nbsp;
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<h2><a href="https://www.european-athletics.com/competitions/european-athletics-team-championships/overview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">European Athletics Team Championships - Silesia (20-25 June)</a></h2>
For the first time in event history, all divisions of the European Athletics Team Championships will be held under one roof as part of the third edition of the European Games.
Hosts Poland will be seeking their third successive title in the Slaski Stadium in Silesia after winning the trophy in both 2019 and 2021.&nbsp;The 1st Division takes pride of place in the timetable and occupies the evening session of the last three days of competition.
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<h2><a href="https://www.european-athletics.com/competitions/european-athletics-u23-championships/overview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">European Athletics U23 Championships - Espoo (13-16 July)</a></h2>
The Finnish city of Espoo, situated just to the west of Helsinki, will be staging this year&rsquo;s edition of the European Athletics U23 Championships, a key stepping stone for athletes who have just graduated from the U20 ranks.
Highlights at the last edition in Tallinn included Kristjan Ceh and Yaroslava Mahuchikh winning gold with championship records in the discus and high jump respectively. Mahuchikh also remains eligible to defend her title in the high jump by virtue of a 2001 birthdate.
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<h2><a href="https://www.european-athletics.com/competitions/european-athletics-u20-championships/overview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">European Athletics U20 Championships - Jerusalem (7-10 August)</a></h2>
Many of the athletes who struck gold at the European Athletics U18 Championships last July are likely to make a return journey to the Givat Ram Stadium to contend for U20 honours as they continue their journey through the age-groups.
Highlights at last year&rsquo;s European Athletics U18 Championships included Mattia Furlani winning a long jump and high jump double, Niels Laros sweeping to gold in the 1500m and 3000m and Angelina Topic winning gold in the high jump with 1.92m.
<h2><a href="https://www.european-athletics.com/competitions/spar-european-cross-country-championships/overview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SPAR European Cross Country Championships - Brussels (10 December)</a></h2>
Brussels will stage the SPAR European Cross Country Championships for the second time having previously hosted the event in 2008.
Belgian success at the most recent European Cross Country Championships in Turin came courtesy of Isaac Kimeli who won bronze in the senior race behind Jakob Ingebrigtsen who could potentially challenge for his seventh successive title across all age-groups in the Belgian capital.
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From Oropesa del Mar to Brussels! A look ahead to an action-packed 2023 season

With just over 50 days to go until the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Istanbul, Wilma Murto opened her season in auspicious form in Kuortane on Saturday (7) by improving her seven-year-old indoor lifetime best.
Jumping off new poles for the first time in a competitive environment, the reigning European outdoor champion cleared 4.75m on her first attempt before three attempts at 4.80m.
Murto&rsquo;s first-time clearance at 4.75m represented not only an early season world lead but also a Finnish indoor record, improving her previous record of 4.71m from 2016 which remains the world indoor U20 record.&nbsp;
 It was also the second highest vault of her career after her 4.85m clearance to win gold at the European Athletics Championships in Munich last summer.&nbsp;
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"The starting point was that I have an open mind to those new poles. I thought it was entirely possible that we would return to 4.60m but now it seems that there is no need to return the new ones to the factory," said Murto as quoted by Yleisurheilu.fi.
Elina Lampela was second with an indoor lifetime best of 4.40m while Mikko Paavola won the men&rsquo;s competition with a 5.53m clearance.
<h2>Gerashchenko clears world leading 1.96m in Kyiv</h2>
European indoor high jump silver medallist Iryna Gerashchenko from Ukraine was also in excellent early season form in Kyiv on Saturday (7).
Gerashchenko, who finished fourth at the World Athletics Championships last summer, cleared a world leading height of 1.96m before attempting a prospective indoor lifetime best of 2.00m.
Her training partner Yuliya Levchenko was second with a 1.85m clearance.&nbsp;
Spain&rsquo;s Jaime Guerra also became the first athlete of the indoor season to break the eight metre-mark in the long jump. The 23-year-old reached out to an indoor lifetime best of 8.02m in Sabadell on Sunday (8).
Two of Europe&rsquo;s most exciting and versatile jumping talents also opened their indoor seasons in promising form.
World U20 high jump silver medallist Bozhidar Saraboyukov from Bulgaria showed his all-round talent by leaping out to a national U20 record - but this time in the long jump.
Saraboyukov, who is still only 18, leapt out to an outright lifetime best of 7.96m in Sofia on Saturday (7) to come within just two centimetres of the official European indoor U20 record of 7.98m which was set by France&rsquo;s Erwan Konate last year.&nbsp;
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Saraboyukov also has ownership of a 2.20m lifetime best in the high jump which he set to win silver at the World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali last summer.
European U18 long jump and high jump champion Mattia Furlani also opened his account by leaping out to 7.73m in the long jump in Ancona on Sunday (8), only five centimetres shy of the Italian indoor U20 record.&nbsp;
"As a debut, I can't complain because the condition is there, even if there is still a bit of technique missing at the moment," said Furlani as quoted by FIDAL.&nbsp;
<h2>Sesemann outsprints Wightman over 3000m in Sheffield</h2>
Phil Sesemann, who competed in the marathon at the Munich 2022 European Athletics Championships, had the beating of the athlete who won silver in the 800m over a distance of 3000m in Sheffield on Sunday (8).
Sesemann clawed back a three metre deficit on the last lap to overhaul a tiring world 1500m champion Jake Wightman for a noteworthy scalp - 7:54.34 to 7:54.58.
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Reigning European U23 champion Isabelle Boffey ran a world lead and outright lifetime best of 2:00.99 in the 800m and Hannah Nuttall also set an outright lifetime best of 8:52.61 in the women&rsquo;s 3000m.
Sam Talbot also scored a lifetime best of 5823 points to win the English heptathlon title in Sheffield.
However, the fastest men&rsquo;s 3000m of the weekend was set by Spain&rsquo;s Olympic 800m fifth-placer Adrian Ben who moved up in distance to clock 7:53.66 in Ourense on Saturday (7).
In Lisbon on Saturday (7), Cuban-born Arialis Gandulla, who competes for Portugal, equalled the world lead in the 60m with a lifetime best of 7.23 and Portugal-based Ukrainian Roman Kokoshko also set an early season world lead of 20.91m in the shot put.
In Lahti on Sunday, Annimari Korte also ran an early season world lead of 8.06 in the 60m hurdles. She also clocked a lifetime best of 7.58 in the 60m flat.
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