When Belgium’s Pieter-Jan Hannes crossed the line in first place in Belgrade last December in the under-23 race at the SPAR European Cross Country Championships, it completed a magnificent few months for the young athlete.

Ivan Ukhov and Svetlana Shkolina are taking steps towards to the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Prague.

With just 122 days remaining until the beginning of the Prague 2015 European Athletics Indoor Championships, 70 percent of all tickets have already been sold.

When the Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk stages the European Cup Race Walking in May, Lyudmyla Olyanovska knows she will have the spotlight on her - and her countdown could not have started better.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson has seen her emotions swing from the highs of success to the lows of injury despair this year.

October is traditionally a transition month after the end of the summer track season and before the main part of the winter cross country season.