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The second day of the inaugeral European Athletics Off-Road Running Championships was all about France. In the trail running event over 47.7km of arduous and undulating terrain, their men won silver and bronze in the individual race and their women topped that that by taking gold and silver on Saturday (2).
Not surprisingly, France also got the top spots in the respective team competitions to augment their medal haul.
The only exception to a French clean sweep of the medals was Belgium&rsquo;s Maximilian Drion du Chapois, who had tears of joy in his eyes of as he crossed the men&rsquo;s trail race finish line. &ldquo;I cannot believe it yet,&rdquo; the Belgian runner said, right after the race to the waiting media. &ldquo;I had hoped for a top 10 finish, but this medal, and the victory, came so unexpected.&rdquo;
Drion du Chapois covered the course, which included 2550m of vertical gain in 3:43:01, winning from France&rsquo;s Arnaud Bonin by 54 seconds, the latter clocking 3:43:55, with Bonin&rsquo;s compatriot Thomas Cardin third in 3:45:42.
The Belgian tactics were superbly astute. He started slow and was in 16th place at the early 3.5km marker and then moved up to tenth place at 12 kilometres.
&ldquo;That was what I wanted,&rdquo; he explained. The soon-to-be champion picked up the pace from the halfway point started to overtake runners who had started more ambitiously. At Pernada after 31.8km, he was in second spot, but running together with the Spanish local favourite Zaid Ait Malek, who eventually slipped back to fourth over the final 15km.
Arnaud Bonin moved up to challenge Drion du Chapois at 40 kilometres and the pair duelled for the next five kilometres before the Belgian broke away with two kilometres to go.
This important international success for Drion du Chapois was perhaps even more surprising given that Maximilian does not compete in road races or cross country events in winter but prefers ski mountaineering instead. &ldquo;But it&rsquo;s actually the same sport, just with skis,&ldquo; he joked.
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Placing three in the top four &ndash; with Kevin Vermeulen just missing on an individual medal by 18 seconds &ndash; helped France to a comfortable team victory ahead of Spain and Italy.
Blandine L&rsquo;Hirondel less unexpectedly won the women&rsquo;s race on the same track.
The French athlete had been one of the big favourites for the title and it was clear she was taking the championships very seriously because she arrived in La Palma 10 days before the race.
However, the Frenchwoman had an operation on her abductors two months ago and subsequently had to rest for six weeks and so there was a question mark over her fitness. &ldquo;The French Federation had called me up before the operation and I wasn&rsquo;t sure I&rsquo;d be able to take part at all. But I started to feel more confident again during the first training sessions after the break. And now I&rsquo;m standing here as the winner. I am overjoyed,&rdquo; reflected L&rsquo;Hirondel.
L&rsquo;Hirondel clocked 4:11:22 and came home more than eight minutes clear of Spain&rsquo;s iNuria Gil, who was second in 4:18:16 with another French athlete Mathilde Sagnes third in 4:22:42.
Despite the huge gap over her nearest rival at the end, it wasn&rsquo;t all easy going for the winner. &ldquo;I had real difficulties at the start,&rdquo; said L&rsquo;Hirondel, who was 2019 world trail champion. &ldquo;And I didn&rsquo;t cope with the first uphill as well as I had wanted. The field was also really strong, and you can&rsquo;t take it easy for one minute around so many great athletes. So, I had to always push and push and push.&rdquo;
Great Britain&rsquo;s Eleanor Davis missed out on an individual medal in fourth place bu has some compensation as she led the British women to bronze in the team competition behind the winners France and hosts Spain.
The final day of the European Athletics Off-Road Running Championships on Sunday features the up and down races and eight full sets of medals are up for grabs for both men&rsquo;s and women&rsquo;s elite and U20 categories, in both the individual and team events.
Full results <a title="" href="https://elpaso22results.european-athletics.com/en/results/athletics/daily-schedule.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
Egon Theiner for European Athletics

France rules on the second day of the European Athletics Off-Road Running Championships

The Munich Olympiastadion built for the 1972 Games was of a revolutionary design inspired by the nearby Alps and those 20th Olympics certainly produced peak performances, as did the European Athletics Championships hosted in the same stadium 30 years later in 2002.
Two decades on this iconic arena stands ready to host the 25th edition of the European Athletics Championships, where some of the world&rsquo;s finest athletes are preparing to converge.
The anticipation is heightened by the fact that it will be four years since the last edition of these Championships took place, in Berlin, the pandemic sadly having put paid to the event scheduled for Paris two years ago.
As the prospect of the Munich 2022 European Athletics Championships looms closer, with the championships running from August 15-22, European Athletics is looking back and celebrating some of the high points of those two notable Munich events of 1972 and 2002.
To witness the next chapter of Munich athletics history in person, go to <a href="https://www.munich2022.com/en/tickets" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.munich2022.com/en/tickets</a> for ticket details
Munich Magic &ndash; Jackson rounds off 110m hurdles career with unique fourth European track gold
Nobody had ever won four successive European outdoor titles on the track until Britain&rsquo;s Colin Jackson achieved that feat in 2002 &ndash; eight years before the event switched from being quadrennial to biennial.
Jackson, then 35, employed his characteristic dip to ensure he earned gold in the men&rsquo;s 110m hurdles ahead in 13.11 after drawing clear of Latvia&rsquo;s 2000 European indoor champion Stanislavs Olijars over the final three barriers.
It was to prove the last medal of a towering senior career that had begun in earnest in 1986, when the Welshman, then 19, had won silver at the 1986 Edinburgh Commonwealth Games.
Two years later he earned silver at Seoul Games, and it seemed only a matter of time before he stood atop the Olympic podium although sadly &nbsp;&ndash; and too many suprisingly &nbsp;&ndash; that never happened.
By contrast, the European Athletics Championships became his go-to event to mine gold. At the 1990 edition in Split he ran 13.18 to claim gold ahead of his compatriot Tony Jarrett, who clocked 13.21.
Four years later in Helsinki Jackson retained his title under severe pressure from Germany&rsquo;s Florian Schwarthoff, winning in 13.08, only 0.04 slower than the Championship record he had set in the semi-finals, an effort he later explained had been made, &ldquo;to make the others think, &lsquo;Yeah. That&rsquo;s pretty quick.&rsquo;&rdquo;
He also expanded on his ambition of winning all four big titles &ndash; Olympic, world, European and Commonwealth. &ldquo;If I want to become one of the great UK athletes I think I will have to try and do that myself,&rdquo; he mused.
As things turned out, for all that he was the pre-eminent high hurdler in the world for several years, that proved beyond him because of his Olympic jinx. As he spoke, however, he was already world champion after having won in Stuttgart in 1993 in a world record of 12.91, a mark that would stand until 2006 and still remains the European record almost three decades later.
At the 1998 edition in Budapest Jackson hit his European peak as he set a Championship record of 13.02 that still stands. Had he not hit the eighth hurdle it might have been another sub-13 clocking.
&ldquo;I had to show I&rsquo;m still around and alive and ready to compete at the World Championships next year [and he was to go on and regain his world title in Sevilla],&rdquo; Jackson said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s been a long time since people were looking at me like they were here.&rdquo;
Four years on, Jackson had hoped to secure what would have been his third Commonwealth title, after previous wins in 1990 and 1994, on the home ground of Manchester but had to settle for silver after a surprise defeat by Shaun Bownes of South Africa.
Two weeks later Jackson arrived in Munich in a relaxed fashion despite that defeat. &ldquo;Before the race I was on the training track and feeling absolutely no pressure whatsoever,&rdquo; said Jackson. &ldquo;I was laughing and joking with my coach Malcolm Arnold and not giving a single thought to the possibility of a fourth European gold medal.&rdquo;
Reflecting on his Munich win after retiring from competition at the 2003 World Indoor Championships in Birmingham, where he finished fifth, Jackson said:&nbsp; &ldquo;This victory was more important to other people than to me. To me it was important to go and win it because it was the fourth time. I've felt this title was mine.&rdquo;

Magic Munich - Jackson wins record fourth title on the track in 2002

The curtain has been raised on the inaugural European Athletics Off-Road Running Championships, a three day event combining both trail and mountain running for elite and non-elite athletes, and it was hats off for some of the greats of mountain running.&nbsp;
Including the European Mountain Running Championships, Swiss star Maude Mathys won a record fourth title in a row in El Paso on the Canary Island of La Palma. Italian Cesare Maestri triumphed in the men&rsquo;s race while German Lukas Ehrle and Norwegian Ida Waldal proved unbeatable in the U20 competitions.
&ldquo;This victory means a lot to me,&rdquo; Mathys stated after her race. &ldquo;It shows that I can compete at a very constant high level and that I can compete with younger athletes. It is difficult to stay on top all the time, therefore I&rsquo;m especially proud of today&rsquo;s gold medal.&rdquo;
However, it is a fact that Mathys was not really thinking about running to a record-breaking fourth mountain race title. Her principal consideration was remaining the best in her discipline both pre- and post-pandemic.&nbsp;
&ldquo;Today, it was like a new beginning, after the interruptions caused by Covid, with a new format of the European Championships.&rdquo; Mathys said and laughed: &ldquo;It was very important for me to show that I am still the Queen.&rdquo;
Her strategy was simple. And it worked. The Swiss athlete wanted to run with the best women until the middle of the race and then attack and create a gap, before going solo. But the start proved more difficult than anticipated and Mathys had to fight to keep up with Scout Adkin, who later placed fourth. &ldquo;I had expected it to be easier,&rdquo; she said.
However, her tactics finally paid off and shortly before the sixth kilometre, Mathys went all-in for a big gap, achieved it and was able to hold her advantage until the finish-line which she crossed in 51:41 with Austria&rsquo;s fellow three-time winner Andrea Mayr (52:15) and Christel Dewalle from France (52:32) coming in second and third, respectively.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Mathys will also take part in Sunday&rsquo;s up-and-down race to try for another medal. "it is possible and, if so, it will be a bonus. But I have to rest and show my best again," she said.
And winner of the men&rsquo;s race will also be seen again during these championships.
Cesare Maestri didn&rsquo;t celebrate his first medal today, but the first victory in his career so far. The Italian was European silver medallist in 2018 and the world silver medallist in 2019. And then came the pandemic. &ldquo;I thought the virus had stolen my best years,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But today, I achieved the success I have been waiting for such a long time &ndash; my emotions and my happiness are indescribable!&rdquo;&nbsp;
Maestri didn&rsquo;t really focus on a strategy as such because he had been dealing with muscle problems in recent days. But he realised in the first kilometre that he felt good and his legs were cooperating. &ldquo;I knew that it was very fast up to the sixth kilometre of the course and that suited me. Therefore I came with a gap into the last part of the course and had to defend my lead.&rdquo;&nbsp;
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And this he did with the style of a champion right up to the finish, which he reached in 44:48 before Dominik Rolli from Switzerland in 45:19 and Daniel Osanz from Spain in 45:26.
&ldquo;I haven&rsquo;t really begun concentrating on the up-and-down race as yet because I want to enjoy this moment. I will enter it in a relaxed manner and try to give it my best,&rdquo; he said.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
While the title winners in the elite class were two personalities who were expected to be in the mix, both winners of the U20 races were themselves surprised by their triumphs.&nbsp;
&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t expect to win here,&rdquo; said Norway&rsquo;s Ida Waldal. &ldquo;I approached the race very thoughtfully and got faster and faster the closer I got to the finish. After arriving there, I was really surprised &ndash; and happy.&ldquo;&nbsp;
Germany&rsquo;s Lukas Ehrle was also finding it hard to take in his success. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s my first big international race and I came to La Palma without any real expectations. Now I&rsquo;m standing here with a gold medal&nbsp; &ndash; I simply can&rsquo;t believe it!&rdquo; he said.
After the first day, Italy leads the medal table with three gold, two Silver and one bronze medal in front of Switzerland (1-3-0) and Spain (1-1-4) respectively.
Tomorrow, Saturday (2) sees the trail competitions on La Palma which will be <a title="" href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=european+athletics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">streamed live</a> from 8.45am CEST. Stay tuned!
Full results <a title="" href="https://elpaso22results.european-athletics.com/en/results/athletics/daily-schedule.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
Egon Theiner for European Athletics

Mathys dominates with record-breaking fourth mountain running victory in El Paso

A near capacity crowd in the Stockholm Diamond League witnessed Armand Duplantis creating another chapter of pole vault history at home on Thursday (30) evening.
Duplantis achieved the highest ever pole vault clearance outdoors with a second attempt clearance at 6.16m, a dizzying height which the reigning Olympic and European champion made to look all too easy.&nbsp;
Once again, Duplantis is operating on a different level to the rest of his contemporaries and the Swede has surpassed the six metre-barrier in 10 of his 12 competitions in 2022 including back-to-back world records of 6.19m and 6.20m to conclude his indoor season.&nbsp;
Poor weather in his prior meetings this summer have limited Duplantis&rsquo; ability to match those vertiginous heights but the 22-year-old produced one of the finest vaults of his career last night and what a stage to do it!
&ldquo;It is extra special - I wanted to come here today and try to do something special. I felt I was in shape and that I have a great support here in Stockholm, where I live now so that means so extra more. I had a huge advantage of competing on my home turf,&rdquo; said Duplantis.
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At 22, Duplantis will be looking to complete the set of major titles at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon before he sets his sights on defending his title at the Munich 2022 European Athletics Championships in August.
Duplantis&rsquo; teammate and fellow Olympic champion Daniel Stahl had to settle for third in the discus behind the two outstanding youngsters Kristjan Ceh from Slovenia and Mykolas Alekna from Lithuania.
Ceh, a reigning two-time European U23 champion, broke the 70 metre-line again with 70.02m to surpass the 19-year-old Alekna who improved once again to 69.81m with his first throw, the longest throw ever achieved by a teenager by quite some distance.
Stahl, meanwhile, had to settle for third albeit with a solid 67.57m.
Femke Bol was at her brilliant best in the 400m hurdles as the Olympic bronze medallist approached her European record of 52.03 despite losing a fraction of momentum after clipping the last hurdle.
Bol&rsquo;s time of 52.27 was also a Diamond League record and a time that only the Dutchwoman herself has surpassed among European athletes. Once again, Bol ran out victorious by more than one second with Rushell Clayton from Jamaica a distant second in 53.90.
"It was a good race today but not perfect," assessed Bol. "In the end, I am very glad for this time. I do not remember everything from the race but I think the first five - six hurdles went really nice but I hit the last hurdle. I am used to that by now, so I can be happy I can still finish like this."

Duplantis delivers in Stockholm with a history-making 6.16m clearance

Jolanda Kallabis has been breaking all sorts of domestic records in recent years and now the up-and-coming German runner, who hails from Freiburg, is looking to make an impact internationally at the Jerusalem 2022 European Athletics U18 Championships from 4-7 July.
While most competitors will be new to this level of competition, Kallabis has some international experience to draw upon. At 16, Kallabis donned the German vest in the 1500m at the European Athletics U20 Championships in Tallinn last summer where she acquitted herself well, missing out on a place in the final by just one position.
But while Kallabis went to Tallinn mainly for the learning experience, the German will be heading to Jerusalem with clear ambitions: to win a medal.&nbsp;&nbsp;
&ldquo;The European U18 Championships were canceled last year. That's why I competed in the European U20 Championship. Since the competitors were three years older, I was eliminated in the 1500m heats. I want to go to the final this year. Internationally I'm well-placed, I want a medal,&rdquo; stated Kallabis.
Kallabis is ranked first in Europe at U18 level in the 1500m by more than three seconds with her recently set lifetime best of 4:14.08 but she will be focusing solely on her primary event - the 2000m steeplechase - in Jerusalem next week.&nbsp;
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Kallabis leads both the European and world U18 list in that event with 6:23.82 and if she was to prevail, she would emulate her father Damian who won the 3000m steeplechase title at the European Athletics Championships in 1998.
Kallabis combines her high school studies with five hours of running each week along with yoga sessions and strength and conditions training in the gym. Alongside her hard work, Kallabis also credits her sporting genes for her success on the track.
"We always ask ourselves that too. Somehow it's also because of my parents. They were both good runners. My father Damian was even a European champion. I grew up on the sports track, I've been doing athletics all my life. My mother Nina is my trainer, she knows me well, that fits perfectly," said Kallabis.
Kallabis&rsquo; range of talents is considerable. Not only does she lead the U18 list in the 1500m and 2000m steeplechase, she is even ranked fifth in the 400m hurdles and could have plausibly challenged for a medal in Jerusalem in that event.
But it was over 800 metres this winter where Kallabis made the domestic headlines. Three weeks before her 17th birthday, Kallabis smashed one of the longest standing and seemingly untouchable German records, clocking 2:04.57 to break the German indoor U18 record which had stood to East Germany&rsquo;s Hildegard Ullrich since 1976.
A few weeks later, Kallabis would go on to win the German indoor U20 title in the event, beating athletes up to three years her senior.
"In Erfurt I broke an indoor record in the 800m that was 46 years old. Then I became the German U20 champion in the 800m. The two are the strongest for me," said Kallabis on her proudest sporting achievements so far.
But even greater moments could follow in the days to come in the 2000m steeplechase in Jerusalem.&nbsp;
All four days of the European Athletics U18 Championships in Jerusalem will be streamed live through the European Athletics website from 4-7 July.

Kallabis looking to follow in her father’s footsteps with steeplechase gold in Jerusalem

Welcome to the inaugural European Athletics Off-Road Running Championships which will be held in El Paso in the Canary Islands in Spain from 1-3 July!&nbsp;
All three days of the championships will be streamed live through the <a title="" href="https://www.youtube.com/user/EuropeanAthletics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">European Athletics YouTube channel </a>nd there will be live results on the European Athletics website.
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<li>Friday 1 July - from 8.45am local time (9.45am CEST)</li>
<li>Saturday 2 July - from 7.45am local time (8.45am CEST)</li>
<li>Sunday 3 July - from 8.15am local time (9.15am CEST)</li>
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This will be the first time that mountain and trail running medals will be showcased in the same place at the same time. In total, medals in 10 races will be decided, including uphill and up-and-downhill mountain races for seniors and U20s and a senior trail race which will be held over a distance of 47 kilometres. The full timetable can be found <a title="" href="https://directus.european-athletics.com/downloads/447a1a8e-687f-440e-8890-2091f945eda2/EAORCH2022%20-%20Timetable_20220510.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here </a>and a quick glance at the <a title="" href="https://directus.european-athletics.com/downloads/c616e72b-2cab-4cf1-991c-3082a99ad0e6/EORRC%202022%20Final%20Entries%20Athletes%20List%20By%20Event%20updated.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">entry lists</a> promises high-class and exciting events.
In the absence of the injured Henri Aymonod, who leads the world rankings, his Italian compatriot Cesare Maestri and Slovenian runner Timotej Becan, who are ranked eighth and fourth respectively, are arguably best placed to benefit. Great Britain&rsquo;s Jacob Adkin, who won the continental 2019 uphill title when it was part of the European Mountain Running Championships, should also be in the mix.&nbsp;
Maude Mathys will be the centre of attention in the women&rsquo;s race &ndash; but will the Swiss athlete be able to win this discipline for a record fourth time? Or will Austrian veteran Andrea Mayr, herself a four-time winner, or perhaps Italy&rsquo;s Francesca Ghelfi could get the better of her this time around?
Some athletes participating in the uphill event will also compete in the up-and-downhill. Mathys is one of those who could be doubling up although Italy&rsquo;s former world champion Alice Gaggi is among those who are unlikely to make it easy for her.&nbsp;
Scout Adkin, Jacob&rsquo;s older sister, will also run in both events, although her brother is focusing solely on defending his title in the uphill event.
All eyes will be on the two French athletes Audrey Tanguy and Blandine L&rsquo;Hirondel, Spain&rsquo;s Nuria Gil, and two runners from the Czech Republic - Barbora Macurova and Marcela Vasinova - in the inaugural women&rsquo;s trail running event.&nbsp;
Germany's 2016 Olympian Anna Hahner is also listed among the participants, meaning excitement will be guaranteed - very much like in the men&rsquo;s trail event, where Oriol Cardona from Spain, France&rsquo;s Arnaud Bonin and Thomas Cardin, and the Italians Luca Cagnati and Martin Dematteis are among others the favourites for the top spots.
What is still unclear is who will win the medals. But what is already certain is that El Paso will be the undisputed European highlight in this year&rsquo;s mountain and trail running calendar.

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