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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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Eurohold Bulgaria AD is a leading energy and financial group operating mainly in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (CESEE). It is listed on the Bulgarian and Warsaw Stock Exchange. Eurohold owns Euroins Insurance Group AD (EIG), one of the largest insurance groups in the region. EIG provides a full range of insurance products, serves over 4 million customers in 13 countries and has over 3000 employees.

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Joma Sport is the most important Spanish sports brand, with the highest sales volume worldwide, and is among the top ten global brands. It was founded by Fructuoso López in 1965, and it is present in more than 140 countries.

It is present in multiple sports and at the Olympic Games Paris 2024 Joma equipped 15% of the participating athletes. Within athletics, it sponsors important national and international athletes. Furthermore, it is the technical sponsor of national federations and marathons in different parts of the world.

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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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Toyo Tires is one of the world's largest tire manufacturers. Toyo Tire Corporation was founded in 1945 in Osaka, Japan. In 1975, the manufacturer opened its European headquarters in Germany. The product range includes winter, summer and all-season tyres for motor vehicles as well as van tyres and special off-road products. The philosophy of Toyo Tires is to combine driving pleasure with top performance. This is reflected in each of the products, as well as in its close partnership with European Athletics.

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The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has been the Official Broadcast Partner of European Athletics since 1981. During this 40-year partnership, the outstanding collaboration between both organisations has always been focused on developing European Athletics into a more attractive product for television, spectators and athletes. Through its operational department Eurovision Services, the EBU is continuously working to promote athletics by offering the most comprehensive coverage of European Athletics events all over Europe.

Conica has been developing and manufacturing innovative seamless flooring solutions for sports, games and leisure for over 40 years and is one of the world's market leaders and innovation drivers in this field.  The user-oriented requirements for technical and sports functional performance as well as usability while guaranteeing the health aspects of the material itself, and for the user, are the focus of Conica's product development.  Conica is part of the Serafin group of companies based in Munich, Germany.

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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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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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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.

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With the Apeldoorn 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships less than 50 days away, the indoor season steps up in pace with three streamed World Athletics Indoor Tour events taking place this weekend.&nbsp;
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<li dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.european-athletics.com/competitions/european-athletics-indoor-championships-2025/qualifying-system" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Road to Apeldoorn 2025</a>&nbsp;</li>
</ul>
This is our guide to how and where to watch and a look at some of the big names in action across the weekend.&nbsp;
<h3 dir="ltr">Sparkassen Indoor Meeting - Dortmund (World Athletics Indoor Tour Bronze)</h3>
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<li dir="ltr" role="presentation">When: 18 January</li>
<li dir="ltr" role="presentation"><a href="https://eurovisionsport.com/explore/sport?id=EBU-Home-Athletics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Live streaming on Eurovision Sport</a> from 3.05pm CET (local time)</li>
<li dir="ltr" role="presentation"><a href="https://www.sparkassen-indoormeeting.de/en/competition/athletes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Start-lists</a></li>
<li dir="ltr" role="presentation">Live results link to follow</li>
</ul>
Olympic shot put champion Yemisi Ogunleye and European long jump champion Malaika Mihambo are two of the headline acts on home soil at the Sparkassen Indoor Meeting in Dortmund.&nbsp;
Ogunleye faces double European silver medallist Jorinde Van Klinken from the Netherlands in the shot put while Mihambo, who followed up her European long jump title in Rome with Olympic silver in Paris, takes on a field including Laura Raquel Muller.
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Muller won at the Helmut-Kornig Arena last year ahead of Mihambo with a still-standing outright lifetime best of 6.81m.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Another highlight from last year&rsquo;s meeting was Georgia Bell winning the 1500m in 4:03.54 in a breakthrough year which culminated with the Brit winning Olympic bronze in Paris in a national record of 3:52.61.
<h3 dir="ltr">StarPerche - Bordeaux (World Athletics Indoor Tour Bronze)</h3>
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<li dir="ltr" role="presentation">When: 18 January&nbsp;</li>
<li dir="ltr" role="presentation"><a href="https://www.european-athletics.com/home/streaming/onedaymeetings/82" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Live streaming on the European Athletics website</a> (geo-blocked in France) from 7.00pm (local time)</li>
<li dir="ltr" role="presentation"><a href="https://www.starperche.fr/les-resultats" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Live results</a></li>
</ul>
European U23 champion Marie-Julie Bonnin faces a strong Italian contingent including Roberta Bruni and Sonia Malavasi at the fifth edition of the StarPerche on Saturday.
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French pole vaulters Baptiste Thierry, who has the best season&rsquo;s best in the field with 5.61m, faces teammate Valentin Lavillenie and up-and-coming Chinese vaulter Haoyang Song in the men&rsquo;s pole vault.&nbsp;
<h3 dir="ltr">CMCM Indoor Meeting - Luxembourg (World Athletics Indoor Tour Silver)</h3>
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<li dir="ltr" role="presentation">When: 19 January</li>
<li dir="ltr" role="presentation">Live streaming on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfjMgkGq6ik" target="_blank" rel="noopener">European Athletics YouTube channel</a> from 4.00pm CET (local time)&nbsp;</li>
<li dir="ltr" role="presentation"><a href="https://clubee-storage-prod.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/5963/files/application/6787ddbc339e3.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Start-lists</a></li>
<li dir="ltr" role="presentation"><a href="https://live.fla.lu/cm/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Live results</a>&nbsp;</li>
</ul>
European 400m champion and Olympic silver medallist Natalia Bukowiecka will make her season&rsquo;s debut at the CMCM Indoor Meeting but the Pole will drop down in distance to make a rare appearance in the 200m.
Bukowiecka, who broke Irena Szewinska&rsquo;s legendary Polish 400m record last year with 48.98, will face local hero Patrizia Van Der Weken who is due to contest both the 60m and 200m.
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Van Der Weken won the 60m at last year&rsquo;s meeting in a fast 7.09 which remains both her lifetime best as well as the national record.
Reigning European outdoor pole vault champion Angelica Moser from Switzerland is another of the star international names in action in the Coque Arena. Moser won at this meeting last year with a 4.60m clearance.&nbsp;
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Other expected highlights include the men's 60m hurdles featuring leading Poles Jakub Szymanski and Damian Czykier and the women's long jump featuring reigning European U20 champion Plamena Mitkova from Bulgaria against former European U20 champions Maja Askag from Sweden Milica Gardasevic from Serbia.&nbsp;
Olympic 4x400m silver medallist Alex Haydock-Wilson from Great Britain has also been confirmed for the 400m.&nbsp;
Steven Mills for European Athletics

What’s on this weekend? Streamed events in Dortmund, Bordeaux and Luxembourg

European Athletics has pleasure in announcing that W&uuml;rth MODYF has renewed as an Official Partner for 2025-27. 
The renewal extends a relationship that started when W&uuml;rth MODYF became an Official Partner of European Athletics ahead of the Munich 2022 European Athletics Championships.
W&uuml;rth MODYF will continue to have the status of Official Partner in the product category of workwear clothing, and they will have a significant presence at the forthcoming European Athletics major events.
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<li style="font-weight: bold;">Birmingham 2026 European Athletics Championships</li>
<li style="font-weight: bold;">Valencia 2027 European Athletics Indoor Championships</li>
<li style="font-weight: bold;">Madrid 2025 European Athletics Team Championships 1st Division</li>
</ul>
As a top-tier Official Partner, W&uuml;rth MODYF will benefit from extensive core marketing rights that include worldwide product category exclusivity, brand exposure in European Athletics' digital and social media activities including marketing and content production as well as its communications channels, exposure on Eurovision&rsquo;s pan-European free-to-air broadcast coverage of the above events as well as exposure on the European Athletics live streaming service, track perimeter LED advertising, VIP ticketing and hospitality, and on-site fan engagement activities.
&ldquo;I am very pleased that European Athletics and&nbsp;W&uuml;rth MODYF&nbsp;will carry on working together again, and their commitment to continuing as an Official Partner is wonderful news to start 2025," commented European Athletics President Dobromir Karamarinov. "With major operational facilities in Italy, W&uuml;rth MODYF benefitted greatly from their involvement with European Athletics last summer during the Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships. We are looking forward to working in close partnership with them again during the next three years, especially during next year&rsquo;s European Athletics Championships in Birmingham, the flagship event in our portfolio,&rdquo; he added. &rdquo;Like European Athletics, W&uuml;rth MODYF&nbsp;are an organisation with a big footprint in Europe and we are looking forward to helping them reach their marketing goals which comes by being one of our partners,&rdquo; said European Athletics CEO Christian Milz.
&ldquo;A strong partnership with a high-profile and highly reputed company like W&uuml;rth MODYF continues to demonstrate the outstanding brand values of European Athletics and our sport," he added.<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/european-athletics/image/upload/v1736935694/mail.png">W&uuml;rth MODYF Group Spokesperson Melanie R&ouml;ger said: &ldquo;We are thrilled to announce that W&uuml;rth MODYF will continue as an Official Partner of European Athletics. Following our successful collaborations in Munich 2022 and Rome 2024, it became clear that extending this partnership was essential for further enhancing our brand visibility.
&ldquo;At W&uuml;rth MODYF, we share a deep passion for excellence, competition, fair play, equality, and personal development, values that are integral to European Athletics and are also the cornerstone of our corporate culture. We are excited to promote these values globally through exciting competitions.&rdquo; W&uuml;rth MODYF Group Head of Marketing Sarah Stievano&nbsp;commented: &ldquo;We eagerly anticipate being the Official Sponsor at the upcoming major events in Madrid, Birmingham, and Valencia.
&ldquo;Our international team is dedicated to not only showcasing the W&uuml;rth MODYF brand to visitors but also supporting the incredible staff behind the scenes&mdash;our heroes in the background &mdash;ensuring that every event runs smoothly and that athletes are able to perform at their peak.&rdquo;
W&uuml;rth MODYF is one of European Athletics Official Partners along with SPAR, Joma, Le Gruy&egrave;re, Eurohold and Toyo Tires. EBU/Eurovision Sport are a Broadcast Partner while Conica and Polanik are Preferred Suppliers. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; *****
About W&uuml;rth MODYF The first companies of W&uuml;rth MODYF Group were founded in K&uuml;nzelsau, Germany and Neumarkt, Italy in 1997 as an independent subsidiary of the W&uuml;rth Group and can look back on more than 27 years of experience in the field of workwear and safety footwear.
The W&uuml;rth MODYF Group currently has headquarters in six different countries with more than 450 employees in Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Norway and Portugal.&nbsp; Smaller sales units support W&uuml;rth MODYF&rsquo;s customers in Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, Czech Republic and Denmark.
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 and development of the sport across 51 Member Federations. It has the responsibility for staging many of Europe&rsquo;s most important athletics competitions including the European Athletics Championships, European Athletics Indoor Championships. European Athletics Team Championships, European Running Championships and SPAR European Cross Country Championships.

Würth MODYF renews as a European Athletics Official Partner

The Apeldoorn 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships from 6-9 March celebrates just 50 days to go on Wednesday (15).&nbsp;
This winter&rsquo;s major European event is almost certain to feature more moments of Dutch brilliance, as has become customary with the passing of every indoor season.
And in front of capacity Dutch crowds, there is every likelihood of more golden shimmers among the mass of orange passion, to build on a proud history of the Netherland athletics team. Here&rsquo;s ten historic Dutch moments from the European Athletics Indoors Championships:
<h2>Trailblazer Nelli</h2>
Nelli Cooman is one of the iconic figures in the history of the European Athletics Indoor Championships, winning five consecutive women&rsquo;s 60m golds between 1985 and 1989 and rounding off her career by regaining the title in Paris 1994.
Her standout performance was in Madrid 1986 where she won in 7.00, a world record at the time and still the championship record.
A year later, she became the first woman to run 60m in under seven seconds, clocking 6.99 on her way to victory at the World Indoor Championships in Indianapolis, USA.
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<h2>Hurdles heroes in Birmingham</h2>
The Netherland celebrated a 1-2 in the men&rsquo;s 60m hurdles at Birmingham 2007, with Gregory Sedoc seizing the opportunity to win gold in his first ever international final in 7.63. Teammate Marcel van der Westen was 0.01 behind to win silver.
<h2>Van Hulst's 3000m hat-trick&nbsp;</h2>
Elly van Hulst was the standard bearer for female distance running in the Netherland in the 1980s and 1990s. She was particularly successful indoors, winning five European medals, including three 3000m titles in 1988, 1989 and 1990.
On the global stage, van Hulst also won the 3000m title at the 1989 World Indoor Championships in Budapest in a world record of 8:33.82, a mark which stood on the record books for 12 years.
<h2>Mellard leaps to best ever win</h2>
Cooman and van Hulst were not the only Dutch athletes to thrill the home crowds at The Hague 1989. In the men&rsquo;s long jump, Emiel Mellard produced a career-best win, taking gold with 8.14m. Dutch colleague Frans Maas added a cheery to the cake, claiming bronze with 8.11m.
<h2>Middle distance double in 1987</h2>
There was a rare Dutch middle distance double at the Lieven 1987 European Indoor Championships with Rob Druppers (pictured) and Han Kulker taking the men&rsquo;s 800m and 1500m titles in 1:48.12 and 3:44.79 respectively. &nbsp;
Druppers, silver medallist at the inaugural World Athletics Championships in Helsinki, also won silver at the following two editions in Budapest and The Hague.
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<h2>Hassan raises pace in Prague</h2>
Sifan Hassan has had one of the most celebrated careers of any female distance runner, winning global titles at every distance from 1500m to marathon.
Having landed her first international title over 1500m at the Zurich 2014 European Athletics Championships, she added the indoor crown at Prague 2015, front running to gold in 4:09.04.
<h2>Brilliant Bol sets template for success</h2>
More recently, Femke Bol has been at the forefront of Dutch brilliance on the boards. She won her first major senior title in Torun, taking the 400m in a national indoor record of 50.63.
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She returned a day later to run a brilliant last leg anchoring the Netherlands to the women&rsquo;s 4x400m gold in a championship record of 3:27.15 and setting the template for future indoor championships at European and world level.
Bol defended both of her titles in Istanbul 2023 before replicating this feat at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow where she lowered her world indoor record to 49.17 in the 400m final. The Dutch men's 4x400m also took gold in Torun 2021 and returned with bronze in Istanbul 2023.&nbsp;
<h2>Visser wins in Glasgow</h2>
Since her transition from combined events to hurdles, Nadine Visser has been a consistent contender on the international stage, and it was her success at the Glasgow 2019 European Athletics Indoor Championships that cemented her place over the barriers.&nbsp;
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The Dutch athlete blazed to gold in 7.87. Two years later, she brilliantly defended her title in a national record 7.77 in Torun 2021.
<h2>Schippers blitzes to 60m gold</h2>
Despite winning a 100m/200m double at the Zurich 2014 European Athletics Championships, Dafne Schippers was still keeping her options open for the heptathlon.
But soon after winning 60m gold in a world-leading 7.05 at the Prague 2015 European Athletics Indoor Championships to complete the set of individual European sprint titles, Schippers announced she would focus on sprinting.
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Just a few months later, Schippers won her first of two 200m titles at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing in a still-standing European record of 21.63.&nbsp;
<h2>High point for Amels</h2>
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Aged 31, Douwe Amels produced the performance of his life, clearing 2.31m at the Istanbul 2023 European Indoor Championships, equalling the national record of Wilbert Pennings and becoming the first Dutch athlete to win the men&rsquo;s high jump at the championships.
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Ten of the best: Great Dutch moments at the European Athletics Indoor Championships

Menno Vloon from the Netherlands opened his season in good form with victory at the Univers Perche in Devoluy, a World Athletics Indoor Tour Challenger event, on Saturday (11) evening.
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<li dir="ltr" role="presentation">Watch again <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNgaAJdVVTM&amp;t=1s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a></li>
</ul>
Vloon cleared an early season world leading mark of 5.82m for victory over French pole vaulters Thibaut Collet (5.70m) and Baptiste Thiery (5.61m) on the road to the Apeldoorn 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships from 6-9 March.
Vloon, who holds the Dutch record with a 5.96m clearance, is yet to win a major medal in his lengthy international career but the 30-year-old will have an excellent chance of making the podium in Apeldoorn with world record-holder Armand Duplantis from Sweden unlikely to compete.
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Reigning European U23 champion Marie-Julie Bonnin cleared 4.51m to win the women&rsquo;s pole vault.&nbsp;
Reigning European outdoor champion Angelica Moser from Switzerland also cleared 4.56m for victory at home at the&nbsp;Stabhochsprung Stars in Frauenfeld, a World Athletics Indoor Tour Challenger event, on Sunday.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Italy&rsquo;s Olympic pole vault sixth-placer Elisa Molinarolo also cleared 4.60m on home soil in Padua on Sunday.
<h3 dir="ltr">Big 1500m lifetime best for Garcia in Sabadell</h3>
Former European 800m champion Mariano Garcia clocked an outright lifetime best in the 1500m at the Miting Catalunya, a World Athletics Indoor Tour Challenger event, in Sabadell on Friday (10) evening.
Garcia clocked a fast 3:35.87 for victory over former European indoor 3000m champion and frequent racer Adel Mechaal (3:36.75) while world U20 bronze medallist Alex Pintado set a Spanish U20 1500m record of 3:40.46 in fifth.
Other notable results included Elvin Josue Canales winning the men&rsquo;s 800m in 1:45.83, Marta Mitjans winning the women&rsquo;s 800m in a Spanish U20 record of 2:03.68.
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<h3 dir="ltr">Elsewhere around Europe&hellip;</h3>
Two-time European U20 cross country champion Innes FitzGerald from Great Britain clocked a fast 8:48.30 in a mixed 3000m in Cardiff on Sunday.
While this time won&rsquo;t be ratified for record purposes, FitzGerald&rsquo;s time was not only faster than Zola Budd&rsquo;s long-standing British indoor U20 3000m record of 8:56.13 but also Sofia Th&oslash;gersen&rsquo;s European indoor U20 record of 8:50.26.&nbsp;
Another outstanding talent Kelly Douala from Italy, who will be eligible for this year&rsquo;s European Athletics U20 Championships in Tampere, ran 7.27 in the 60m in Bergamo on Sunday. The 15-year-old broke both the Italian U18 and U20 records.&nbsp;
In Jamor, Portugal&nbsp;on Saturday (11), Portugal&rsquo;s Gerson Balde jumped an impressive 8.11m in the long jump.
T&uuml;rkiye&rsquo;s Omer Faruk Bozdag also set a national indoor 800m record of 1:47.01 in Istanbul on Saturday.
Steven Mills for European Athletics

Weekend roundup | Vloon clears early season world lead of 5.82m 

Sweden&rsquo;s Andreas Almgren had the race of his life to slice no less than 11 seconds from the European 10km record at the 10K Valencia Ibercaja by Kiprun race on Sunday (12).
Twelve months ago, the Swede &ndash; the World Athletics U20 Championships 800m bronze medallist a decade ago in 2014 &ndash; came to this race on Spain&rsquo;s Mediterranean coast unsure of his form and ability over the distance but surprised himself with sixth place in a national record of 27:20. This time around, he exuded confidence from the start and it showed from gun to tape.
&ldquo;Last year, I didn&rsquo;t know what to expect but I felt so fresh after 7km that I had a very fast finish. It set me up for a good year which included running under 27 minutes for 10,000m on the track [26:57.87 in California last March]&rdquo; said Almgren.
&ldquo;This time, I came here with a plan and a target: to stay with the leaders and to run as close to 27 minutes as possible or under as I had some very good sessions in recent weeks."
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&ldquo;As far as the European record was concerned [owned until Sunday by France&rsquo;s Etienne Daguinos with 27:04 from Lille last November] I knew it was going to be a big fight with Dominic [Lobalu from Switzerland] as he wanted to achieve the same things as me."
So, it proved.
In a thrilling three-way sprint finish over the final half-kilometre, with Lobalu and Kenyan surprise package Vincent Langat battling with Almgren for supremacy, the Sweden dug deep and with his arms pumping like a sprinter finally moved in front over the final 100 metres.
<h3 class="MsoNormal">New territory for Lobalu as well</h3>
Lobalu, the Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships 10,000m winner and former European 10km record-holder when he ran 27:13 in Valencia last year, was second in a national record of 26:54 while Langat was one second further back.
&ldquo;I might have lost the race but I&rsquo;m so happy with my performance. It was a strange race as we didn&rsquo;t have any pacemakers and we were slow over the first three or so kilometres but then the Ethiopian guys started to work hard at the front. &ldquo;At the same time, I was struggling slightly between three and six kilometres but then I started to feel better after we went over the second bridge (just before the 7km checkpoint) and then I just relaxed,&rdquo; reflected Lobalu.
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Into the bargain, Almgren and Lobalu move up to 11th and 12th on the world all-time list for the event. The absence of an assigned pacemaker, who had dropped out through illness the day before the race, combined with the runners having a breeze in their faces for the first three kilometres meant a large group of leaders went through the halfway point in a relatively sedentary 13:43.
However, with the wind now on his back, Almgren flew through the second 5km in a mere 13:10.
Behind the two Europeans on the podium there were a host of national records further down the list of finishers.
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Finishing fifth, Isaac Kimeli got his first Belgian senior record when he took a massive 38 seconds off the former mark held Simon Debognies since 2023. &ldquo;I was looking for a place on the podium but with a kilometre to go I started to slip away from the leaders but, nevertheless, I&rsquo;m really happy with my time,&rdquo; commented the man who has won U20, U23 and senior medals at the SPAR European Cross Country Championships.
In April, he will be going in search of another individual senior continental medal at the European Running Championships in Brussels-Leuven.
&ldquo;Leuven is my hometown, and I definitely want to do well at those championships. I still have bad memories of the European Cross Country Championships in Brussels in 2023, when many people expected me to medal at home but I couldn&rsquo;t deliver,&rdquo; added the affable Belgian, modestly skirting over the fact that he was an integral member of the squad that took the senior men's team gold medals on that occasion.
<h3>Olympic heroes Farah and Treacy lose their records</h3>
Great Britain&rsquo;s Rory Leonard finished 15th in 27:38 on Sunday but what is highly likely to create some headlines is the fact that he took six seconds off a national record held jointly by a certain Sir Mo Farah and Paris 2024 marathon fourth-placer Emile Cairess.
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Immediately following Leonard home was 2016 European 5000m champion Ilias Fifa, whose time of 27:41 was a three-second improvement on the Spanish record of Abdessamad Oukhelfen in the same race last year. In addition to Farah, another venerable Olympic medallist, albeit of an earlier vintage, to be deprived of a national record was Ireland&rsquo;s 1984 Olympic Games marathon silver medallist John Treacy whose time of 27:46 from 1985 was improved upon when Efrem Gidey finished 20th in 27:43. Adding to the plethora of national records in Valencia, Filmon Tesfu sliced 14 seconds off the Dutch standard with 27:45 in 21st place.
In contrast the men&rsquo;s race, the women&rsquo;s contest was predominantly an East African affair with Kenya&rsquo;s Hellen Ekalale Lobun upsetting the odds and beating several runners which much better credentials when winning in 29:31.
Slovenia&rsquo;s 2019 European U20 5000m champion Klara Lukan was the first European home in 12th place, her time of 31:08 just four seconds shy of her national record set last November in Milan.
Great Britain&rsquo;s 2021 European indoor 3000m gold medallist Amy-Eloise Neale was the next European home when finishing two places behind Lukan and clocking a personal best of 31:16, which is also faster than she has ever run on the track.
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Andreas Almgren breaks European 10km record in Valencia

Jakob Ingebrigtsen is targeting yet more continental success at the Apeldoorn 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships from 6-9 March.
The Norwegian, who won his third senior title at the SPAR European Cross Country Championships in his most recent competitive outing last month, is planning a brief indoor season with the European Athletics Indoor Championships in the centre of his plans.
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Ingebrigtsen has already accrued five gold medals at the European Athletics Indoor Championships and if he was to defend his 1500m and 3000m titles in March, he would become the joint most successful male athlete in championship history alongside Soviet sprinter Valeriy Borzov who won seven gold medals between 1970 and 1977.
Ingebrigtsen won the 1500m and 3000m titles at both the 2021 and 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships along with 3000m gold and 1500m silver when he was still a junior in Glasgow 2019.&nbsp;
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Thanks in no small part to Ingebrigtsen's exploits, Norway topped the medal table for the first time in European Athletics Indoor Championships history in Istanbul two years ago, winning four gold medals in total.
Aside from Ingebrigtsen&rsquo;s exploits, Karsten Warholm won gold in the 400m while Sondre Guttormsen clinched victory in the pole vault.&nbsp;