The European Athletics Head Office would like to take the opportunity to wish President Hansj rg Wirz a happy 70th birthday.

Two years after finishing third at the European Cup 10,000m, Germany s Sabrina Mockenhaupt is the champion. Her winning performance came on a superb night of athletics in Pravets, Bulgaria, on Saturday which showed experience counts for everything.

It is the 14th staging of the Memorial Primo Nebiolo in Torino on Saturday evening and while the women's 100m hurdles sees the arrival of one of the best in the world, it is an Italian who could give the home crowd a great deal to cheer about.

Spain and Great Britain defend their European Cup 10,000m titles in Pravets, Bulgaria, on Saturday evening, 12 months after their team victories in Bilbao.

It was a night of shocks in Rome on Thursday at the fifth IAAF Diamond League meeting of the season.

The memory of Italian sprinting legend Pietro Mennea will be honoured in Rome on Thursday evening with the Golden Gala Diamond League meeting named after him.

Krisztian Pars, the Olympic champion, produced another superb performance to make it almost a year without defeat as the hammer event lived up to all expectation at the 18th International Miner's Day meeting in Velenje.

The month of May saw the 2013 European Cup Race Walking, the first of the summer's European Athletics Classic Permit Meetings, and many fine performances from European athletes in the first four of the 2013 IAAF Diamond League meetings.

Christophe Lemaitre strengthened his position at the top of the European Athletics 200m rankings with victory in Montreuil on Monday night - as fellow Frenchman Teddy Tamgho was left with food for thought despite his best triple jump since he returned ...

Primoz Kozmus will have the chance to gain a semblance of revenge on Tuesday when he faces the man who replaced him as Olympic champion.