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Mondo has designed and produced prefabricated athletics tracks since 1948 and has been a European Athletics partner since 1988. They have combined their skills in the pursuit of a shared goal: to support the growth of athletics with passion and innovation. Mondo’s athletics surfaces offer uniform dynamic response and complete control over stride, rhythm, and balance for every athlete. The advantages of Mondo’s prefabricated track surfaces include optimal performance for athletes regardless of climate and environmental conditions. Mondo operates a careful selection of its raw materials for its track surfaces and constant production as we care about athletes’ health. Mondo products have passed UL Environment Tests for more than 10,000 volatile chemical agents and have attained GREENGUARD Gold certification.

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European Athletics has pleasure in announcing that it has signed a four-year Partnership Agreement with the athletics equipment manufacturer Polanik on Tuesday (17).
A signing ceremony took place in the European Athletics Headquarters in Lausanne with European Athletics President Dobromir Karamarinov and Polanik President Dariusz Szczepanik the signatories to the contract.
The Partnership Agreement covers the period from 2023-2026.
Polanik will have the status of being a Preferred Supplier of European Athletics in the product category of &lsquo;athletics equipment &amp; implements&rsquo;&nbsp;and will be elevated to Official Supplier at European Athletics events where Polanik equipment is provided to the related Local Organising Committee and used at that competition.
The 10 European Athletics events covered by the agreement signed on Tuesday are:
<ul>
<li>2024 and 2026 European Athletics Championships</li>
<li>2023 and 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships</li>
<li>2023 and 2025 European Athletics Team Championships 1st&nbsp;Division</li>
<li>2023 and 2025 European Athletics U-23 Championships</li>
<li>2023 and 2025 European Athletics U-20 Championships</li>
</ul>
As a partner of European Athletics, Polanik will benefit from core marketing rights that include advertising board visibility at the above events, exposure&nbsp;on Eurovision&rsquo;s pan-European free-to-air broadcast coverage and European Athletics live streaming,&nbsp;digital rights, digital exposure via European Athletics communications channels, ticketing, and VIP hospitality.
&ldquo;I am very pleased that European Athletics and Polanik will be working together from the start of next year. Polanik was founded in 1966 and has a great history of involvement in athletics and outstanding heritage within our sport,&rdquo; commented President Karamarinov.
&ldquo;I would like to welcome them into the European Athletics family and would like to think this will be the start of a long relationship similar to that we have with many of our other partners,&rdquo; he added.&nbsp;
&ldquo;On the one hand, signing the partnership agreement with European Athletics is the crowning moment of the 55 years of Polanik history, and on the other hand it is the challenge for the future and motivation for further development. I would like to thank European Athletics for the trust. We feel proud of cooperating with such a prestigious organisation and honoured to be in the group of its illustrious partners.&rdquo; said Polanik President Dariusz Szczepanik.
&ldquo;This agreement shows the value of all the hard work we have been doing at European Athletics to grow the sport across the continent in so many different ways, it shows the value of our events, and it shows the value of our vision for the future of our sport in Europe,&rdquo; said European Athletics CEO Christian Milz.
Polanik will join the commercial programme of European Athletics in 2023, together with the confirmed partnerships of SPAR, Toyo Tires and Le Gruy&egrave;re as Official Partners, as well as Eurovision as the Broadcast Partner.
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About Polanik
Polanik (<a href="https://7cy74.r.bh.d.sendibt3.com/mk/cl/f/c_AV67JxPL04lmP7kLfDgoeALkjTgbQ5Z6D5O_j9qBOMctXbegEfnbTlx6PWDM09DQk4sjQcWworA6OriSc8ojsqM1iJwS962jbTTz8Gl5YprbCT9Q_p-q5sknPXI1g7T5fAnGvFVlPbYXuPRojiRtBwFv00PM51sBw-lyAnDy8SzYvRhFpKbk1lm_eVUGc">https://polanik.shop/</a>) 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.
About European Athletics
European Athletics is the continental governing body for the sport of athletics. Founded in 1970, the organisation is responsible for the international administration of the sport across 51 Member Federations and staging many of Europe&rsquo;s most important athletics competitions including the European Athletics Championships and European Athletics Indoor Championships.

Polanik signs Partnership Agreement with European Athletics for 2023-2026

Zuzana Hejnova from the Czech Republic, the 2013 and 2015 world champion in the 400m hurdles, has announced her retirement at the age of 35.
After missing the Tokyo Olympics through injury, Hejnova was initially planning to draw her illustrious career to a close at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich but she has revealed on Instagram that she is expecting her first child later this year.
"I have had a great career and from the bottom of my heart, I thank everyone who supported me. Now I'm looking forward to a new role," she said.
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Hejnova&rsquo;s international career goes back almost two decades to the 2003 World Athletics U18 Championships where she won gold in the 400m hurdles at the age of 16. She emulated that success at junior level two years later at the European Athletics U20 Championships.&nbsp;
Success in the senior ranks wasn&rsquo;t immediately forthcoming but Hejnova enjoyed a remarkable run of success in the 400m hurdles in the mid-2010s, beginning with a bronze medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
Hejnova was at the height of her powers the following season which was capped by her gold medal at the 2013 World Athletics Championships in Moscow. Her winning time of 52.83 still makes her the sixth fastest European 400m hurdler in history.&nbsp;
Hejnova also went unbeaten in her 13 races at the 400m hurdles in 2013 and she was crowned female European Athlete of the Year at the annual Golden Tracks award ceremony.
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After an injury-plagued 2014, Hejnova returned to her brilliant best the following year to retain her world title in Beijing. She remains the only female athlete to win back-to-back gold medals in the 400m hurdles at the World Athletics Championships.
Her last major medal came at the 2017 European Indoor Championships in Belgrade where she won silver in the 400m but Hejnova was still a perennial finalist on the global stage, finishing fourth and fifth respectively at the 2017 and 2019 World Athletics Championships.
There will be a special retirement ceremony for Hejnova on home soil at the Ostrava Golden Spike meeting on 31 May.&nbsp;

Czech 400m hurdles great Hejnova announces retirement

Tickets are now on sale for the Jerusalem 2022 European Athletics U18 Championships which are scheduled to take place from 4-7 July.
Tickets for the championships which will take place in the recently renovated National Stadium are available to be purchased by following <a title="" href="https://www.leaan.co.il/recommendedshows.aspx?cgcode=22585950-b0b8-ec11-80e7-984be16723b6#gp-eau18c-g" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this link</a>.&nbsp;
This will be the third edition of the championships following the inaugural edition in Tbilisi, Georgia in 2016 and the second edition in Gyor, Hungary in 2018 before the coronavirus pandemic forced the cancellation of the 2020 edition.
The championships will provide a glimpse of some of the emerging next generation of athletes. Some of the notable winners from the last edition who have already gone on to make an impact at senior level include Great Britain&rsquo;s Keely Hodgkinson, Ukrainians Yaroslava Mahuchikh and Mykhaylo Kokhan and Spain&rsquo;s Maria Vicente.
The championships will also be streamed in its entirety through the European Athletics website.&nbsp;

Ticket sales launched for 2022 European Athletics U18 Championships

At the Belfast Irish Milers Meet on Saturday (14), a World Athletics Continental Tour Challenger meeting, Louise Shanahan took ownership of the Irish record in the 800m.
Shanahan also became the first European to break the two minute-barrier this outdoor season, stopping the clock at 1:59.42 to not only defeat Ciara Mageean in 1:59.82 but also relieve her of the Irish record of 1:59.69 which she set in 2020.
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Irish youngsters also impressed in the sprints. Israel Olatunde, who competed for Ireland at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade, won the 100m in 10.35 and fellow 19-year-old Robert McDonnell took victory in the 200m in 20.61.
Olympic 800m finalist Alex Bell was a comfortable winner of the 1500m in 4:10.48.
Full results <a title="" href="https://worldathletics.org/competition/calendar-results/results/7176886" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
One day later, reigning European U20 100m and 200m champion Rhasidat Adeleke, 19, further demonstrated her versatility by setting an Irish 400m record of 50.70 in Lubbock, Texas in just her fourth serious race at the distance.
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Gressier prepares for Pac&eacute; with 5000m victory in Montgeron
With two weeks to go until the European 10,000m Cup in Pac&eacute;, France, Jimmy Gressier was a commanding winner in the 5000m at the Meeting International Athletisme Montgeron-Essonne on Sunday (15), another World Athletics Continental Tour Challenger meeting.&nbsp;
In hot and windy conditions which led to more than half of the field not finishing, Gressier clocked 13:26.84 to win by 10 seconds from Kenya&rsquo;s Jacob Kosgei (13:36.48) and Gressier&rsquo;s training partner Mike Foppen from the Netherlands (13:42.81).
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Elsewhere in Montgeron, 2014 European champion Benjamin Compaore won the triple jump with 17.06m and Portugal&rsquo;s Liliana Ca won the discus with 59.90m to defeat a star-studded field including Germany&rsquo;s Julia Harting (58.95m) and French veteran Melina Robert-Michon (57.89m).
Full results <a title="" href="https://worldathletics.org/competition/calendar-results/results/7176887" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

Shanahan and Adeleke revise Irish record on the track

On the comeback trail from elbow surgery, Andreas Hofmann put himself back in early contention for a place on Germany&rsquo;s team for the World Athletics Championships and European Athletics Championships with victory in Offenburg on Sunday (15).
In only his second competition since 2020, Hofmann launched the javelin out to 86.52m in the fifth round to defeat his compatriot Johannes Vetter, whose best throw was measured at 85.64m in the third round, on his home track.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
"After last year I was in a mental hole. It took me quite a long time to get out of there. But things have been steadily improving since the beginning of the year," said Hofmann, the silver medallist at the 2018 European Championships in Berlin.
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In a usually high quality contest, Latvia&rsquo;s Gatis Cakss finished third with 83.66m while 18-year-old Artur Felfner from Ukraine broke the 80 metre-line for the first time in his nascent career, launching the javelin out to 83.28m to move to fourth on the European U20 all-time list.
Reigning European champion Christin Hussong opened her season with victory in the women&rsquo;s competition with a best throw of 63.29m, one of five throws in excess of the 60 metre-line.
In a close competition, Hussong won by a small margin from Latvia&rsquo;s Lina Muze (63.29m) and Czech Republic&rsquo;s Nikola Ogrodnikova (62.80m). Serbia&rsquo;s reigning world U20 champion Adriana Vilagos, 18, also surpassed the 60 metre-line in fourth with 60.94m.
Tentoglou equals world lead with 8.36m in Kefalonia
Miltiadis Tentoglou bounded out to 8.36m in his third competition of the outdoor season to tie the world leading mark in the long jump.
Tentoglou took full advantage of a benign tailwind in Kefalonia to move to equal first on the world lead but the reigning Olympic and European champion is confident that even longer jumps will follow later this summer when he transitions onto a full approach.
"I&rsquo;m satisfied with today&rsquo;s mark; I believe I could jump further than that but there is no need for pressure at the moment because it&rsquo;s early in the season. At this point I&rsquo;m competing with fewer steps [on the approach] than usual and I&rsquo;m not doing all the attempts but three or four out of all six," said Tentoglou.&nbsp;
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Tentoglou&rsquo;s next scheduled appearances are the Papaflessia meeting in Kalamata on 21 May followed by the International Jumping Meeting in Kallithea on 25 May, the latter where Tentoglou set his lifetime best of 8.60m last year.
Elsewhere around Europe&hellip;
Reigning European U23 champion Mykhaylo Kokhan from Ukraine upset the two leading Polish hammers in Suwalki, Poland on Sunday (15). Kokhan threw 77.25m to defeat reigning world champion Pawel Fajdek (76.92m) and Wojciech Nowicki (72.94m).
Konrad Bukowiecki also showed good early season form with 21.21m in the shot put to defeat reigning European champion Michal Haratyk (20.45m) while Malwina Kopron launched the hammer out to 72.57m to win the women&rsquo;s hammer.
Track highlights included former European U23 400m champion Natalia Kaczmarek winning the 300m in 36.60 and teenager Kacper Lewalski upsetting Olympic bronze medallist Patryk Dobek in the 600, 1:17.33 to 1:17.68.
Also in Poland, Adrianna Sulek scored 6290 points to win the heptathlon at the Wiesław Czapiewski Memorial in Bydgoszcz, the first edition of a meeting named in honour of Sulek&rsquo;s coach who died in 2019.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Sulek concluded her two days with 2:11.25 and her final score was the third best of her career thus far as well as only 25 points adrift of her lifetime best.
"Were it not for the fact that it was the Wiesław Czapiewski Memorial, I would have run the 800m in 2:15, just to keep the victory. But since this is my trainer's memorial and there is no room for poor results, I decided to spit my lungs out and fight," she said.
In the decathlon, Czech Republic&rsquo;s Ondrej Kopecky - who is coached by former world record-holder Roman Sebrle - set a lifetime best of 8041 points.&nbsp;
At the Night of the 10,000m PBs in Highgate in north London on Saturday, Italy's Yemaneberhan Crippa set a European leading time and event record of 27:16.18 to win by a clear cut margin from Brits Sam Atkin (27:31.98) and Emile Cairess (27:34.08) while Jess Judd won the women's race, also in a European lead of 31:22.24.
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Reigning European U23 champion Kristjan Ceh from Slovenia threw 67.40m in the discus in rainy conditions in Maribor on Sunday.
There were also big marks in the hammer in Gyor, Hungary on Sunday with Bence Halasz and Reka Gyuratz taking the wins with 78.72m and 70.06m respectively.
 
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"I am back!" Hofmann defeats Vetter for a winning comeback in Offenburg

Olympic silver medallist Jakub Vadlejch broke through the 90 metre-line for the first time in his long career in the Doha Diamond League on Friday (13) to become only the second Czech thrower to achieve this feat after world record-holder Jan Zelezny.
While the windy conditions in Doha proved challenging for a lot of the athletes and even forced the postponement of the pole vault featuring world record-holder Armand Duplantis, the javelin throwers certainly benefited from the conditions.
With the pole vault now to be contested indoors tomorrow, the javelin was moved to the top end of the stadium so the throwers would be throwing with the wind. And in a competition of the highest vintage, two throwers surpassed 90 metres and three of the top four came away with lifetime bests.
World champion Anderson Peters from Grenada laid down an early marker with 88.96m in the first round which went unchallenged until the fourth round when Vadlejch took the lead with 89.87m to eclipse his lifetime best of 89.73m which dates back to the 2017 World Athletics Championships in London.
But then the fireworks began. Peters broke through the 90 metre-line for the first time in his career with 90.19m in the fifth round before the equanimeous Vadlejch followed suit, taking the lead again with his fifth round throw of 90.88m to break uncharted territory.
With the field whittled down to the top three throwers for the sixth round finale, Vadlejch was to throw first but the Czech - just minutes after breaking 90 metres for the first time - was reduced to a last round throw of 85.50m.
But with the very next throw of the competition, Peters launched a howitzer of a throw which sailed through the night sky in Doha before piercing the turf at a massive 93.07m to take the victory and break into the world all-time top-10. It was also within a metre of Thomas Rohler&rsquo;s fabled meeting record of 93.90m.
Behind Peters and Vadlejch, Germany&rsquo;s Julien Weber took third with 86.09m while Leandro Ramos added more than two metres to his Portuguese record in fourth with 84.78m.
In his first significant competition since 2019, Rohler was limited to just two valid throws, the best of which was 72.51m for seventh.
Full results <a title="" href="https://doha.diamondleague.com/programme-results-doha/#baseFrame#__athSchedule#ScheduleInit#Doha2022_SCHEDULE_JSON" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.