<p>Welcome to the heart of Europe!
<br>Banská Bystrica is a city in Central Slovakia located on the Hron River in a long and wide valley encircled by the mountain chains of the Low Tatras, the Veľká Fatra, and the Kremnica Mountains. There are over 76,000 inhabitants living in this area and is home to a few thousand foreigners.
<br><br>Municipality of Banská Bystrica
<br>With 76,089 inhabitants, Banská Bystrica is the sixth most populous municipality in Slovakia.
<br>The City of Banská Bystrica has its own representative bodies – the Mayor and the City Parliament, as well as the advisory bodies of councils and committees.
<br>The Municipality Office consists of different departments dealing with various life situations:
<br><br>Department of Social Affairs – establishes centers of social services, including Section of long-term care services and Section of crisis intervention.
<br>Department of Education – establishes kindergartens and elementary schools.
<br>Registry Office – issues birth certificates, accepts applications for marriages, etc.
<br>Building Department – issues planning, zoning and construction permits.
<br>Department of Culture – establishes cultural institutions in the city and authorizes civic assemblies.
<br><br>For more information on the municipalities, its responsibilites and activities, please check: www.banskabystrica.sk<br></p>

<h2>European Athletics U18 Championships</h2>
<p>The European Athletics U18 Championships is a biennial competition for European athletes under the age of 18 in the year of competition.</p>
<p>The newest addition to the calendar of age-group events, the European Athletics U18 Championships was created to promote higher-level competition among the most talented members of this age group in Europe and provide a stepping stone to the U20 age group. The first edition of the European Athletics U18 Championships was held in Tbilisi, Georgia in 2016.</p>
<p>At the most recent edition of the championships in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia from 18-21 July, Italy topped the medal table with seven gold medals. Elisa Valensin won the 200m title in a championship best of 23.09 before anchoring Italy to gold in the medley relay. In doing so, she became the only athlete to come away with two gold medals.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The championships was also highlighted by European U18 bests from home favourite Laura Frlickova who blasted to a 12.86 clocking in the 100m hurdles to smash the previous mark of 12.98 set by current European champion Cyrena Samba-Mayela in 2017. She duly won the final the following day in 12.97 to win Slovakia's first ever gold medal at the European U18 Championships.</p>
<p>Michal Rada decimated the European U18 best in the 400m hurdles, winning the gold in an unopposed 49.42 to become the first European in his age-group to break the 50 second-barrier in the U18 400m hurdles. Remarkably, he provided the second part of a twin double after Nina Radova came home with the 400m hurdles title in the women's race.</p>
<p>The 2026 European Athletics U18 Championships will take place in Rieti, Italy.</p>
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<p><strong>Vita Barbic is one the finest prospects on the European throwing scene and also one of the most unusual talents of recent years and she features on the latest episode the European Athletics <em>My Fire</em> documentary series.&nbsp;</strong></p>
<p>It is not uncommon for athletes to compete across multiple disciplines and in the throws, athletes often combine shot put and discus. But the young Croatian possesses the rare ability to be international class in both the discus and javelin.</p>
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<p>She won gold in the javelin at the Banska-Bystrica 2024 European Athletics U18 Championships last summer and added discus bronze for good measure. She went on to finish fourth in the women&rsquo;s javelin at the World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima last summer, having just turned 17.</p>
<p><em>My Fire</em> takes viewers behind the scenes with one of Europe&rsquo;s rising stars, who is a likely contender at this year's <a href="https://www.european-athletics.com/competitions/european-athletics-u20-championships/overview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tampere 2025 European U20 Athletics Championships</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Chris Broadbent for European Athletics</strong></p>

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<p><strong>One month on from the European Athletics U18 Championships in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia 18-21 July and organisers can look back on not just a golden legacy, but a green one.</strong></p>
<p>The event set new standards for European Athletics events in the area of sustainability. Through close collaboration between European Athletics and the Local Organising Committee, a strategy was developed and widely communicated with participating teams and across all event areas to gain broader buy in and maximise impact.</p>
<p><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/european-athletics/image/upload/v1724247975/sustainability_lo_res.png"></p>
<p>The Banska Bystrica strategy focussed on five core areas:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Paper reduction</strong> &ndash; printing only on request for media, with an emphasis on digital</li>
<li><strong>Single-use plastic reduction</strong> &ndash; all athletes and officials received a reusable water bottle, plastic bottles only distributed in four main areas, but also bottles collected for the exchange and refund programme</li>
<li><strong>Low emissions travel</strong> &ndash; electric scooters available for team transport and all main accommodation within walking distance of stadium</li>
<li><strong>Waste reduction</strong> &ndash; following reduce, reuse and recycle principles deployed &nbsp;</li>
<li><strong>Environmental education</strong> &ndash; prominent communication around site of sustainability supported by the presence of the Eco Team volunteers</li>
</ul>
<h2>Sustainability as a core priority</h2>
<p>The progress within sustainability is all part of wider movement by the European Athletics Development Commission who have made sustainability a core priority and it will be on the agenda when the group meet again in Lausanne, Switzerland on 22-23 August.</p>
<p>In additional, a workshop led by the Development Commission&rsquo;s sustainability working group on Thursday (22) is being delivered to the European Athletics staff team.</p>
<p>European Athletics Vice President Karin Grute Movin opened the workshop. Alongside members of the Development Commission Katrin Heyers and Emmanuelle Jaeger, Dr Aila Ahonen from Jamk University delivered her presentation and said: &ldquo;European Athletics is on a good pathway in its sustainability development. We have a well structured road map in sustainability. Our events, for example, are doing a lot already. European Athletics is a front runner in this area.&rdquo;</p>
<p><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/european-athletics/image/upload/v1724331513/ea_staff_workshop2.jpg"></p>
<p>The workshop aims are to to involve sustainability in every department's work and help them understand that sustainability is an integral part of operations and not an isolated topic.</p>
<h2>More events to embed environmental sustainability</h2>
<p>The working group has also already begun building upon the foundations laid at Banska Bystrica by engaging with Local Organising Committees (LOCs) for the Antalya 2024 SPAR European Cross Country Championships, the Apeldoorn 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships and the Tampere 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships with sustainability in their event delivery.</p>
<p><strong>Chris Broadbent for European Athletics</strong></p>

Banska Bystrica and beyond; sustainability's growing presence within European Athletics

<p><strong>Following her impressive display in July&rsquo;s European Athletics U18 Championships in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia where she won javelin gold in a world U18 lead of 61.07m and discus bronze with 49.50m, Vita Barbic is ready to step up a level at the World Athletics U20 Championships in Lima, Peru from 27-31 August.</strong></p>
<p>Turning just seventeen last week (13), the multi-talented Croatian is an energetic character who blends the unconventional and the more traditional approach.</p>
<p>Competing in more than one track and field event is nothing unusual, but her combined commitment to javelin and discus is rare.</p>
<h2>Unprecedented at international level</h2>
<p>More so, succeeding in both disciplines at international level, as she managed in Banska Bystrica is almost unprecedented in the modern era.</p>
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<p>&ldquo;I really don&rsquo;t know anybody else,&rdquo; admits the articulate thrower when asked if she knew of any other athletes balancing the same two events.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;I know people who combine discus and shot put or javelin and shot put, but discus and javelin too, it is unique. I enjoy multiple events that are different. I can test which goes better and try something new because things are always changing in both events.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Some people think that one event makes the other one weaker. But for me, it wasn&rsquo;t the case. Both of them are going great.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Basically, when you get to the point of honed technique, it is very easy to combine multiple events. For me, it is not that difficult. I love it so much I can&rsquo;t even describe it.&rdquo;</p>
<h2>Falling in love with athletics</h2>
<p>But Barbic took a conventional pathway into the sport through her local club in her hometown Zagreb when growing up.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I started doing athletics at five or six-years-old,&rdquo; she recalled. &ldquo;We were walking to the park one day and my sister saw a commercial that said &lsquo;join the best athletics club in our country.&rsquo; &nbsp;After a month of persuading me to try it and me saying &lsquo;no, no, no.&rsquo; I went. Then on my first training session, I fell in love with the sport.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;It was so amazing, it was something new and you could choose between multiple events and I found throwing and my coach and he just took me under his wing and we have been together for over six years. It has been an amazing journey and I want to continue doing it.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>Croatia has rich lineage in the throws with the likes of two-time Olympic, world and seven-time European gold medallist Sandra Elkasevic, 2016 Olympic javelin gold medallist Sara Kolak, 2022 European shot put champion Filip Mihaljević and 2014 world U20 discus champion Martin Markovic, with the latter hailing from the same club as Barbic in Zagreb.</p>
<p>But Barbic embraces the attention and expectation upon Croatian throwing&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s definitely not pressure,&rdquo; she says when asked how it feels to be a Croatian throws prospect. &ldquo;As throwers, we have a really good environment for training. We have this one place on our coast where we all go for a throwing camp. It is amazing.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;We are all good. But we can encourage each other to be even better. So, I think it is an amazing thing to have a heritage of throwers in the history of our country.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Looking to the long term</h2>
<p>Although Barbic is a likely target for USA universities seeking talent for their collegiate system, for the moment, she is content in her home country.</p>
<p>&ldquo;My ambitions are to go to some good college,&rdquo; commented Barbic whose older sister Klara, a high and triple jumper, is in her first year of studying at the prestigious Harvard University.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I really think about staying in Croatia, because I have my coach, and I really think Croatia has everything you need. So, I am going to stay there and pursue my career in this. I want to last to senior category. I just want to last in this sport and do it for as long as I can."</p>
<p>Outside of athletics, she also enjoys handball and basketball. But she also has another unusual hobby that marks out her sometimes unconventional approach.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I do many paintings inspired by athletics,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;Through the art I have managed see how the technique should look from the outside, compared to what I feel on the inside when I am throwing.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Through my art I try to improve my technique, and I try to be even better. I paint other athletes. Sometimes I paint myself, but I really like to paint others. &nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want to focus too much on me. So, some of the best javelin throwers like Johannes Vetter, Maria Andrejczyk, Steve Backley. My coach says they have a good technique and I try to figure out what they are doing.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t show my art to anybody. It just hangs in my room, and I try to have my own collection and for some close people I show them.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Next stop: Lima</h2>
<p>In Lima, the multi-talented Barbic is purely going to be focused on the javelin, where despite competing in the higher age group, she is ranked eighth on the entry list.</p>
<p>She is part of a <a href="https://www.has.hr/index.php/savez/naslovna/rss/3206-odreden-sastav-za-svjetsko-juniorsko-prvenstvo-u-limi " target="_blank" rel="noopener">13-strong Croatian team</a> that also includes Eva Barbaric, women&rsquo;s 400m hurdles silver medallist in Banska Bystrica, and rising combined events star and 2022 European U18 helptathlon champion Jana Koscak.</p>
<p>Lima may come a little early in her career for a medal to be a realistic target although the experience will undoubtedly stand the 16-year-old in good stead for her ascent into the U20 ranks next year when the European Athletics U20 Championships in Tampere from 7-10 August.</p>
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<p>But the multi-talented teenager has already demonstrated her artistry inside and outside the athletics arena.&nbsp;</p>
<p>And she paints a vivid picture of a future that could be daubed with gold.</p>
<p><strong>Chris Broadbent for European Athletics</strong></p>

European U18 champion Barbic has dual throwing ambitions

<p>Matthew McKenna started the year with modest ambitions at domestic level and will end it as a European gold medallist.</p>
<p>The 800m runner gave an assured display at the European Athletics U18 Championships in Banska Bystrica 18-21 July, winning the two lap title as yet another British middle distance prospect emerged on the international scene.&nbsp;</p>
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<h2>Brit exceeds own expectations</h2>
<p>&ldquo;To be honest, I just wanted to make the English Schools finals at the start of the year,&rdquo; he said in the aftermath of his impressive victory.</p>
<p>&ldquo;And then coming into the BMCs (British Milers Club, UK distance running events), I was running faster every race, especially in the 1500m as well. And (then) getting that call to come out here (Banska Bystrica) and race, it was such a shock. To come out here and win it was amazing.</p>
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<p>&ldquo;It means everything to me. I&rsquo;ve been putting in so much effort with my coaches and my family. To come out here and win it for me and them, it was perfect.</p>
<h2>Running with confidence</h2>
<p>McKenna cuts a confident figure on the track, racing with a baseball cap backwards and &ndash; as he triumphed in each round - spreading his arms wide to savour the crowd&rsquo;s appreciation.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;If you try and keep the confidence, you race well off the back of that,&rdquo; he says. And of the cap, he says: &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve always run with this. Throughout lockdown when I started running, I&rsquo;ve always had a hat. It&rsquo;s just my thing, I never really know anything different. I always keep the hat on.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>The COVID-19 pandemic was the genesis of McKenna&rsquo;s athletics career. &ldquo;My mum would make me 4-6 miles every morning when I was 12-13 and then I moved down from Scotland to Surrey and started track and I really built in some speed,&rdquo; he explains. &nbsp;</p>
<p>Perhaps it is born of his introduction into the sport, but training remains a solo pursuit with the support of coaches Jamie McLoughlin and Martin Norman.&rdquo; I&rsquo;m just training by myself. I&rsquo;d love to have a training partner at some point. But this year has just been me,&rdquo; he says.</p>
<h2>All in for track career</h2>
<p>McKenna is also at perfectly at ease being the latest name on the conveyor belt of British middle distance running talent and the expectation it inevitably brings. &ldquo;I see it as privilege,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;I want to keep it going. I don&rsquo;t see any pressure with it. I race my own races. I train how I train. I&rsquo;m not going to let that get into my head too much.&rdquo;</p>
<p>There is a still a long way to go for the teenager, but for now he is fully committed to making his way in athletics. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s all about track,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;I love waking up in the morning, going running and getting those endorphins. It&rsquo;s just my thing. I love it!&rdquo;</p>
<p><strong>Chris Broadbent for European Athletics</strong></p>

McKenna's English Schools ambitions lead to European gold

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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.

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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.

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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 ten countries and has more than 400 employees in Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, 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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Province of Gelderland

Apeldoorn is one of the greenest cities in the Netherlands and among the largest municipalities in Gelderland. It is a mid-size city with a population of approximately 161,000. Apeldoorn has a charming and lively inner city and a young, sports-minded population.

The town is easily accessible by car (A1 motorway) and train. The proximity of large cities such as Utrecht (59 kilometre) and Amsterdam (75 kilometre) and its space and tranquillity make Apeldoorn one of the most popular cities in the Netherlands. The area mainly consists of woods and heath-lands and is a popular destination for tourism, in particular hiking and cycling.

The Dutch royal family has always had close ties with the city. Apeldoorn is home to the stately Loo Palace, the former summer residence of the Dutch royal family and nowadays a national museum. Apeldoorn is possibly the most athletic-minded city in the Netherlands.