It’s the final night of the IAAF Diamond League in Brussels on Friday and for Frenchmen Pascal Martinot-Lagarde and Renaud Lavillenie, it will be an evening of celebration whatever happens.

European Athletics is deeply saddened to learn of the death of Croatia’s Ivan Ivancic at the age of 76.

Poland’s Piotr Malachowski will enter the final IAAF Diamond League meeting of the season in Brussels on Friday night ready to turn back the clock to the greatest summer of his career.

A number of gold medal winners from the European Athletics Championships in Zurich will line up for Team Europe at the IAAF Continental Cup to be held in Marrakesh, Morocco, from 13-14 September.

Recently crowned as the ‘European Sprint Queen’ at last month’s European Athletics Championships, Dafne Schippers of the Netherlands is a shining talent.

European Athletics last week opened the bidding process for a range of major events between 2017 and 2020, including its showpiece European Athletics Championships in 2020.