Norway&rsquo;s Karsten Warholm took his third successive victory in the 400m hurdles at the ISTAF in Berlin on Sunday (4) afternoon, a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver meeting.
Warholm&rsquo;s run of success in the Olympic Stadium dates back even further to the 2018 European Athletics Championships when he won his second major title and the world record-holder put in another auspicious performance at the end of an injury-strewn season.
In his first race since retaining his European title in a championship record and season&rsquo;s best of 47.12 in Munich, Warholm almost matched this time with a 47.24 clocking to win by more than one second from France&rsquo;s Ludvy Vaillant (48.26) and Germany&rsquo;s Joshua Abubaku (48.55).
Warholm is already looking ahead to next year with optimism where his foremost goal will be to retain his world title in Budapest, Hungary in August.&nbsp;
&ldquo;I feel great. I am satisfied that I am able to run these fast times at the end of the season. It also shows that I am back, run strong, not this year, but next year,&rdquo; said Warholm.
Malaika Mihambo only produced one valid jump in the long jump but her first round effort of 6.92m remained unsurpassed for the duration of the competition as she won comfortably from multiple global medallist Ese Brume from Nigeria (6.78m) and Jazmin Sawyers from Great Britain (6.69m).
Mihambo, who retained her world title in Eugene before winning silver at the European Championships, admitted she is still left slightly weakened by a recent coronavirus infection in between the two championships.
&ldquo;Overall I am proud of what I did this season, even if I would have wished for a bit more. I noticed though that I still suffer from post-Covid which is why I did not do all attempts. It keeps my breath away much longer than usual,&rdquo; said Mihambo.&nbsp;
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Recently crowned European champion Julian Weber also enjoyed a triumphant homecoming in the javelin. Weber&rsquo;s best throw in the fourth round was measured at 84.90m for victory ahead of Japan&rsquo;s Roderick Genki Dean (80.69m) and Trinidad &amp; Tobago&rsquo;s Keshorn Walcott (79.78m).
&ldquo;If you then get announced like today and you know that everyone in the stadium supports you, this makes me proud and gives an extra push. I just enjoyed every minute of this feeling today,&rdquo; said Weber.
Weber wasn&rsquo;t the only European champion in action in the javelin. European decathlon champion Niklas Kaul, who launched himself into title contention with a 76.05m effort in Munich, threw 71.34m to finish eighth.
Other highlights included Menno Vloon clearing a Dutch outdoor record of 5.88m in the pole vault and Great Britain&rsquo;s Daryll Neita winning the 100m in 11.00.
From an international standpoint, the highlight was Olympic champion Valarie Allman from the United States - who had to settle for bronze at the World Athletics Championships - surpassing the 70 metre-line in the discus.&nbsp;
Allmann was already leading the competition with 69.14m in the third round before putting further lustre on her afternoon&rsquo;s work, launching her sixth effort over 70 metres with 70.06m to defeat Germans Kristin Pudenz (65.20m) and Shanice Craft (64.36m).
This competition also brought the curtain down on Nadine Muller&rsquo;s long and successful career. The 36-year-old threw 55.73m in the same stadium where she won European silver in 2018, one of the four world and European medals she has accrued since 2011.
&ldquo;It was a beautiful goodbye. The circle is complete, as my career started right here in 2009. Many thanks to the organisers of the ISTAF for today's memories. It was a lot of fun although I cried many happy tears today. At my last attempt, Robert and Julia Harting were standing next to the ring, after the attempt the girls all lined up for me.&nbsp;
&ldquo;I could not have asked for a more perfect goodbye,&rdquo; said Muller.
Full results <a title="" href="https://www.istaf.de/live-ergebnisse/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

Warholm speeds to 47.24 victory at the ISTAF meeting in Berlin

Rising Dutch middle distance talent Niels Laros broke new barriers in the 1500m at the Spitzen Leichtathletik Luzern meeting on Tuesday (30) evening, a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver meeting.
The 17-year-old, who achieved a 1500/3000m double at the European Athletics U18 Championships in Jerusalem last month, finished eighth in 3:39.46 to break the European U18 best of 3:39.93 set by Jakob Ingebrigtsen in 2017.
Laros moves into the U20 ranks next season and he looks poised to be one of the prospective stars of next year&rsquo;s European Athletics U20 Championships in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. His range also extends to the 800m in which he recently clocked 1:46.3.&nbsp;
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Yared Nuguse took the victory in 3:36.34 comfortably ahead of Great Britain&rsquo;s George Mills in 3:37.53 and Poland&rsquo;s Michal Rozmys in 3:37.96.
In wet and windy conditions which had a profound impact on performances, Simon Ehammer coped best with the inclement weather in the long jump and took two notable scalps.&nbsp;
The home favourite, who won silver in a momentous decathlon battle with Niklas Kaul at the Munich 2022 European Athletics Championships earlier this month, jumped 8.00m to defeat 2019 world champion Tajay Gayle from Jamaica (7.98m) and reigning Olympic champion Miltiadis Tentoglou from Greece (7.94m).
This was Ehammer&rsquo;s first victory over Tentoglou in their four competitions in 2022.
Full results <a title="" href="https://spitzenleichtathletik.ch/en/Info/Meeting/Resultate.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.&nbsp;
Bruni clears Italian pole vault record of 4.72m in Rovereto
Roberta Bruni was the standout Italian performer on home soil at the Palio Citta della Quercia in Rovereto on Tuesday, a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver meeting.
A first-time clearance at 4.43m would have proved sufficient for victory on countback but Bruni went higher and higher. The 28-year-old cleared 4.53m on her second attempt, 4.63m on her first attempt before ameliorating her Italian record by one centimetre with a third-time clearance at 4.72m.&nbsp;
This was Bruni&rsquo;s second national record of the year having cleared 4.71m in Barletta in June.&nbsp;
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The charismatic Nick Ponzio also provided another popular victory in the shot put. Ponzio was the only thrower to surpass the 21 metre-line, sending the 7.26 kilogram implement to 21.22m in the fifth round to put further distance between himself and second-placer Roman Kokoshko from Ukraine with 20.63m.&nbsp;
Former European U20 champion Milica Gardasevic took a significant victory in the long jump. The Serbian bounded out to 6.78m to defeat European bronze medallist Jazmin Sawyers (6.73m) and multiple global medallist Ese Brume from Nigeria (6.53m).
On the track, Kyle Langford won a high quality 800m in a lifetime best of 1:44.49 ahead of Morocco&rsquo;s Moad Zahafi (1:44.57), Kenya&rsquo;s Collins Kipruto (1:44.90) and Italy&rsquo;s Simone Barontini (1:44.96) while Germany&rsquo;s Constantin Preis eked out a narrow victory over France&rsquo;s Ludvy Vaillant in the 400m hurdles - 49.04 to 49.07.
Full results <a title="" href="https://www.fidal.it/risultati/2022/COD9902/Risultati/IndexRisultatiPerGara.html#g2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

Laros eclipses Ingebrigtsen’s European U18 1500m best in Luzern

Pride of place at the Madrid 2022 World Athletics Continental Tour Silver meeting went to German triple jumper Neele Eckhardt-Noack who bounded out to a European leading mark of 14.48m (+1.7 m/s) on Saturday night (18).
Eckhardt-Noack's big jump &ndash; a 13cm improvement on her outdoor best although she jumped 14.52m in Torun last year to take the 2021 European indoor bronze medal &ndash; came in the fourth round after she had been allowed to retake her jump after technical issues.
Up to that point, France&rsquo;s former world U20 champion Rouguy Diallo led the way with her opening 14.32m (0.8) but could not improve during the rest of the competition.
Behind the leading pair in the high quality competition, Italy&rsquo;s Ottavia Cestonaro was fourth in a personal best of 14.22m (1.7) while Portugal&rsquo;s 2016 European champion and Tokyo Olympic Games silver medallist Patricia Mamona was fifth with 14.21m (0.5).
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No less than four national records also fell in the Spanish capital with two of them coming in the women&rsquo;s hammer.
Sara Fantini, who also won In Madrid last year, got her third and fourth Italian records in just three weeks when she unleashed her implement to &nbsp;75.76m with her first attempt &ndash; almost a metre further than her most recent record of 74.86m 10 days ago in Trnava, Slovakia &ndash; and then improved by one centimetre to 75.77m with her last effort.
The 24-year-old moves up to fifth on the 2022 world lists and second on this year&rsquo;s European lists putting her into medal consideration for both the World Athletics Championships and Munich 2022 European Athletics Championships in the coming months.
It was not the only national standard to fall in the women&rsquo;s hammer as local favourite Laura Redondo threw 71.96m in the first round, to improve her recent record by 33cm and then added to it with a heave of 72.00m in the third round.
Denmark&rsquo;s Ida Katherine Karstoft won the 200m in 22.67 (-0.5) for her fourth national record in the long sprint in as many competitions this summer.
Behind the flying Dane, Paula Sevilla became the second Spaniard to break 23 seconds when she clocked 22.86.
Another Danish record to fall in Madrid came courtesy of Mette Graversgaard in the 100m hurdles. Having recently become the first Dane to run under 13 seconds earlier this month she improved to 12.89 despite running into a -1.2 m/s headwind. Ireland&rsquo;s Sarah Lavin finished second in a personal best of 12.93.
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Sara Gallego was just outside her Spanish 400m hurdles record of 54.87 set just a week ago when she won her specialist event in 55.02.
In the men&rsquo;s events, European wins came from Dutch pole vaulter Rutger Koppelaar who was the only man to go clear at 5.70m while Spain&rsquo;s former national record holder Manu Quijera won the javelin with 80.29m. Full results can be found <a href="https://rfeamanager.es/Results/Schedule?chid=MMAD22" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
The Kuortane Games in Finland, also a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver meeting, saw Sweden&rsquo;s reigning Olympic and world champion Daniel Stahl rattle off his third discus win in six days when he threw his implement out to 66.26m, despite the wet conditions, for a convincing win over his friend and training partner Simon Petterson who was second with 62.92m.
Germany&rsquo;s 21-year-old Sara Benfar&egrave;s, who will still be eligible for next year&rsquo;s European Athletics U23 Championships which is also be staged in Finland, went under nine minutes for the 3000m for the first time when she won that event in 8:58.48.
Behind her, Finland&rsquo;s Camilla Richardsson finished second in 9:00.04 while her compatriot and 2021 European U20 5000m champion Illona Mononen, a potential rival of Benfar&egrave;s in Espoo next summer, was third in 9:02.00; both Finnish runners setting personal bests.
However, there was a local wins in the two pole vault competitions, which were both held indoors due to the inclement weather, as Tokyo Olympic Games fifth-placer Wilma Murto cleared 4.60m before having three unsuccessful attempts at 4.73m, which would have improved her Finnish record by a centimetre.
In the men&rsquo;s event, Mikko Paavola was the only man over 5.65m and then 5.70m, both personal bests.
Another Finnish victory came in the 400m hurdles when Viivi Lehikoinen won in 55.33, coming home more than a second clear of her nearest rival, while Poland&rsquo;s Klaudia Siciarz ran a season&rsquo;s best in the 100m hurdles to win impressively in 12.86.
Sweden&rsquo;s 21-year-old Samuel Pihlstr&ouml;m continued his rapid improvement this summer when he won the men&rsquo;s 1500m in a personal best of 3:38.46.
Full results can be found <a href="https://rfeamanager.es/Results/Schedule?chid=MMAD22" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

Triple jumper Eckhardt-Noack leaps to European leading 14.48m in Madrid

World indoor 60m champion Mujinga Kambundji was in superlative form as she competed a sprint double at the CITIUS Meeting in her hometown of Bern on Tuesday (12) evening. Kambundji won the 100m at the World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze meeting by a clear distance in a season&rsquo;s best of 11.11 into a headwind of 1.3 m/s ahead of her compatriot Geraldine Frey &lt;, whon was second in 11.43, before the Swiss star rounded off the meeting in sensational style in the 200m.&nbsp;
Drawn in lane five, Kambundji had already made up the stagger on the three athletes on her outside - including European indoor 60m champion Ajla Del Ponte - in the first 50 metres and she came off the bend with a clear lead.&nbsp;
And that lead was only to get bigger down the home straight as Kambundji showcased all of her speed and strength, powering to victory in 22.18: a meeting record, a Swiss record and a European leading time with the European Athletics Championships in Munich just over two months away.
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In total, the Kambundji sisters won three of the five women&rsquo;s track races which comprised the main programme. In between Mujinga&rsquo;s successes in the sprints, her younger sister Ditaji won the 100m hurdles in a lifetime best of 12.77 and led home a Swiss one-two with Noemi Zbaren second in 12.99.
It was also a successful evening for another renowned athletics family in Bern as the Borlee brothers showed encouraging early season form. 
After Jonathan won the B race of the 400m in 46.00, twin brother Kevin won the A race in 45.12 - his fastest time in four years - ahead of Dylan who finished strongly to take second in a lifetime best of 45.18.
Their long-time relay teammate Julien Watrin - who was part of Belgium&rsquo;s gold medal-winning team at the World Athletics Indoor Championships - also came away with a national record of 48.90 in the 400m hurdles, shaving 0.01 off Marc Dollendorf's previous record which had stood since the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, ahead of Dutchman Ramsey Angela in 49.20.
Lieke Klaver, part of the Netherlands' 4x400m teams that won world indoor silver in March and European indoor godl last year, won the women's 400m in 51.21, just outside her recent personal best, while fellow Dutchwoman Eveline Saalberg was second in 51.51; which augurs well for the Dutch hopes of further 4x400m medals at this summer's two big championships in Eugene and Munich.
Full results <a title="" href="https://slv.laportal.net/Competitions/Details/7070" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

Kambundji blasts to a European 200m lead of 22.18 in Bern

It is a good time to be a Norwegian pole vaulter. Only two days after Pal Haugen Lillefosse raised the men&rsquo;s national record to 5.85m, his compatriot Lene Retzius smashed her women&rsquo;s national record for the third time this summer.
At the AtleticaGeneve on Saturday (11) afternoon, a World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze meeting, Retzius added another five centimetres to her Norwegian record with a third-time clearance at 4.70m.
This adds five centimetres to her previous national record and in the context of the upcoming European Athletics Championships in Munich, Retzius also tops the 2022 European outdoor list alongside France's Margot Chevrier who also cleared 4.70m on Sunday (12) and ahead of reigning two-time champion Ekaterini Stefanidi, Tina Sutej and Lisa Gunnarsson - all of whom have cleared 4.65m this year.
Retzius, who represented Norway at the Tokyo Olympics last summer, began the season with an outdoor lifetime best of 4.50m but she has added 20 centimetres to that mark in the space of three outdoor competitions in 2022: 4.52m in Grosseto, 4.65m in Prague and now 4.70m in Geneva.
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"It's a bit surreal really. I felt that I entered a competition where it was difficult to top what I did last time. It is great fun to take the claim and jump 4.70m for the first time and to be up there with the best," Retzius told NRK after the competition.
Reigning European U20 800m champion Audrey Werro, 18, set a big lifetime best and Swiss U20 record of 2:00.28 in the 800m and former European U18 400m hurdles champion Viivi Lehikoinen improved her lifetime best to 54.96.
On the comeback from an injury which forced her to miss the majority of the indoor season, European indoor 60m champion Ajla Del Ponte showed improved form with a marginally wind-aided 11.16 (2.4) in the 100m and was part of a Swiss 4x100m team that clocked 43.04 for the victory.&nbsp;
Full results <a title="" href="https://www.swiss-athletics.ch/fr/live-results/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
Stahl rediscovers winning touch in Sollentuna
After a string of defeats to Kristjan Ceh in the Diamond League, reigning Olympic and European discus champion Daniel Stahl returned to winning ways on home soil at the Folksam Grand Prix in Sollentuna on Sunday (12), a World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze meeting.
Stahl&rsquo;s best throw of 68.97m came in the sixth round and the Swede had the beating of his two fellow Olympic medallists from Tokyo 2020. Olympic bronze medallist Lukas Weisshaidinger was second with 65.65m while Stahl&rsquo;s training partner and Olympic bronze medallist Simon Pettersson had to settle for third with 62.96m.
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After the competition, Stahl told Svensk Friidrott: &ldquo;It was one of my best competitions. I have worked well with strength training and mentally but the technique has been a bit rusty. It is starting to drop now.&rdquo;
On the track, Denmark&rsquo;s Mette Graversgaard won the 100m hurdles in a marginally wind-aided 12.87 and Romania&rsquo;s Claudia Bobocea won a high quality and competitive 1500m in 4:04.89 ahead of Mexico&rsquo;s Laura Galvan (4:04.98) and reigning European indoor champion Elise Vanderelst third in 4:05.59.
Full results <a title="" href="http://friidrott.elitetiming.se/live/resultatlista.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
Elsewhere around Europe...
Germany's Mika Sosna smashed the world U20 record in the 1.75kg discus at the SoleCup in Schonebeck on Friday (10) evening with a massive throw of 71.37m to improve the previous record of 70.13m set by Ukraine's Mykyta Nesterenko in 2008.
At the Polish Championships in Suwalki which concluded on Saturday (11), Ewa Swoboda won the 100m in a wind-assisted 10.99 (2.4) to become only the second Pole to break the 11 second-barrier in all conditions after Ewa Kasprzyk whose national record of 10.92 dates back to 1986.
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But there was a national record for Damian Czykier who won the 110m hurdles in 13.25 while reigning European U23 champion Pia Skrzyszowska improved her lifetime best to 12.62 to eclipse the European lead by 0.01.
"When she saw Damian's record, I had shivers! Then I thought it would be nice to run fast today too. I am very happy that the form is stable. Today the result could have been a bit better if not for the mistakes at the beginning of the distance," she said.
In Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia on Saturday, world U20 champion Adriana Vilagos, 18, set a lifetime best of 62.76m in the javelin while three-time world indoor long jump champion Ivana Vuleta made a rare appearance in the triple jump, setting a lifetime best of 13.80m.&nbsp;
At the Turkish Super League in Bursa, Ersu Sasma cleared a national record of 5.80m in the pole vault and Tugba Danismaz also improved her Turkish record to 14.15m in the triple jump. Reigning European champion Ramil Guliyev clocked 20.62 in the 200m.
In Merzig, Germany on Saturday (11), Ben Broeders ameliorated his Belgian record to 5.85m at the traditional street meeting.&nbsp;

Retzius vaults to the top of the European list with 4.70m in Geneva

Still only 18, reigning European U20 champion Artur Felfner came within half-a-metre of the European U20 javelin record at the P-T-S Meeting in Samorin on Thursday (9) evening, a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver meeting.
The Ukrainian threw an excellent lifetime best of 84.32m in the fifth round to finish a close second to reigning world champion and 2022 world leader Anderson Peters from Grenada with 85.85m.
Felfner moves to second on the European U20 all-time list which is headed by Latvia&rsquo;s Zigismunds Sirmais (84.69m) and fourth on the world all-time list with Olympic champions Neeraj Chopra (86.48m) and Keshorn Walcott (84.58m) comprising the list.
In the long jump, an event which is named after the late Eva Suranova who won a bronze medal in the 1972 Olympics, Germany&rsquo;s Maryse Luzolo won again with a lifetime best of 6.71m in the sixth round which elevated her from third to first.
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On the track, Mette Gravesgaard won the 100m hurdles in yet another Danish record of 12.92 and there was a European double in the 800m with Italy&rsquo;s Catalin Tecuceanu and Great Britain&rsquo;s Jenny Selman taking the victories in 1:46.07 and 2:03.43 respectively.&nbsp;
The women&rsquo;s hammer was staged the day before the main programme on Wednesday (8) and a high calibre event yielded two national records. Sara Fantini revised the Italian record books with her winning effort of 74.86m with Katrine Koch Jacobsen following suit for Denmark with 74.22m - a national record by over three metres.
From a non-European standpoint, the highlight was world indoor 1500m champion and record-holder Gudaf Tsegay winning the 5000m in 14:31.91.
Full results <a title="" href="https://results.onlinesystem.cz/ResultsAthletic/Index?idK=64865" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

Felfner scares European U20 javelin record with 84.32m in Samorin

Pal Haugen Lillefosse gained sole ownership of the Norwegian pole vault record on his home track at the Trond Mohn Games in Bergen on Wednesday (8) evening, a World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze meeting.
Lillefosse had previously held the record jointly with his long-time contemporary Sondre Guttormsen but the 2018 European U18 champion eclipsed the record with a second-time clearance at 5.82m.
But that record was to last only a matter of minutes as Lillefosse - who lives and trains in Bergen - took the record to rarefied heights by clearing 5.85m on his third attempt.&nbsp;
This vault also puts Lillefosse second on the 2022 European list at this relatively early juncture of the summer campaign with world record-holder Armand Duplantis leading the way with his 6.01m clearance from Hengelo on Sunday afternoon.&nbsp;&nbsp;
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Another youngster also took the headlines in the 3000m steeplechase. In a race won by Sweden&rsquo;s Vidar Johanson in 8:24.98, reigning European U20 cross country champion Axel Vang Christensen also eclipsed one of the longest standing records on the books.
The 17-year-old finished seventh in 8:29.12 to break the European U20 record of 8:29.50 set by East Germany&rsquo;s Ralf Ponitzsch all the way back in 1976. And by virtue of a 2004 birthdate, Christensen still has another full season left in the U20 ranks to further ameliorate this record.
Olympic silver medallist Eivind Henriksen was an expected winner of the hammer, winning by more than two metres with his second round throw of 77.47m. Marcus Thomsen also won the shot put on home soil with a season&rsquo;s best of 20.85m and Narve Gilje Nordas took victory in the 3000m in 7:43.53.
But surprisingly, there wasn&rsquo;t a Norwegian winner in the 800m. Dropping down in distance, Olympic and European 1500m champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen had to settle for fourth in 1:47.22 in a race won by the in-form Tony Van Diepen from the Netherlands in 1:46.56.&nbsp;
Full results <a title="" href="https://liveres.andro.no/results/?competition_id=99&amp;day_id=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.&nbsp;

Lillefosse smashes Norwegian pole vault record with 5.85m in Bergen

Almost exactly a year to the day after he had set his national record of 69.04m in Eisenstadt, Lukas Weisshaidinger improved this mark in the same throwing circle at the Raiffeisen Austrian Open on Thursday (2) evening, a World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze meeting.
The Olympic bronze medallist improved this record to 69.11m with his second attempt. He achieved an excellent series which also included a first round throw of 67.49m and a fifth round throw of 67.93m to win by more than seven metres from Hungary&rsquo;s Robert Szikszai (61.77m) and Germany's 2016 Olympic champion Christoph Harting (59.72m).&nbsp;
Weisshaidinger's performance was outstanding, especially as the competition took place in still conditions. "That was the best throw of my life. I like this facility in Eisenstadt. The record is brilliant, I am very, very happy. I would like to thank the fans who cheered me!
"I want to continue to stabilise this performance and hope also to be able to fight for a victory at the Diamond League meeting,&rdquo; said Weisshaidinger who takes on Olympic champion Daniel Stahl in the Rabat Diamond League on Sunday.
The men&rsquo;s and women&rsquo;s javelin competitions provided two of the other highlights in Eisenstadt. In the men&rsquo;s javelin, European silver medallist Andreas Hofmann opened the meeting with a great 87.32m to consolidate his position of fourth on the 2022 world list.&nbsp;
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On the comeback trail from surgery with the Munich 2022 European Athletics Championships his foremost goal, Hoffman said: "I am very happy. I was still sick last week, I still lacked a bit of feeling. This is a great meeting. The crowd pushed me forward."
Reigning European champion Christin Hussong provided the second-half of a German double in the javelin with victory with 64.87m on her third attempt. "It was a very nice competition and a good meeting. I would like to come back next year," she said.
Beside Weisshaidinger, other Austrians produced great victories. First and foremost sprinter Markus Fuchs won the 100m in 10.27 in still conditions after a 10.26 clocking in the heat.&nbsp;
After his sensational 10.17 in St. P&ouml;lten, these 10.26 and 10.27 were his next two best times of his career and puts the long-standing national record of 10.15 firmly into view.&nbsp;
"I am happy, the conditions were not ideal for us sprinters, because of the many false starts in the heats and in the final I had to do eight starts at this meeting," he said.&nbsp;
Full results <a title="" href="https://oelv.athmin.at/event-details.aspx?event=25222&amp;int=&amp;returnTo=L2V2ZW50cy5hc3B4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

Weisshaidinger improves Austrian discus record to 69.11m in Eisenstadt

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SPAR has been the principal sponsor of European Athletics since 1996, becoming synonymous with the sport during this period. Athletics is a sport where personal endeavour is combined with team participation to achieve success, and SPAR identifies with this principle through its national partners by ensuring that consumers enjoy shopping at SPAR. SPAR retailers continue to develop the brand through sponsorship awareness and through the critical link with individual athletes who are also customers of independent retailers. SPAR is proud to be involved with European Athletics, an organisation which strives to bring passion and enthusiasm for their sport to viewers, spectators and participants.

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

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


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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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Warholm speeds to 47.24 victory at the ISTAF meeting in Berlin

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Triple jumper Eckhardt-Noack leaps to European leading 14.48m in Madrid

Kambundji blasts to a European 200m lead of 22.18 in Bern

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Weisshaidinger improves Austrian discus record to 69.11m in Eisenstadt

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