Three days after winning, then losing, steeplechase gold, Mahiedine Mekhissi-Banabbad came good in the Letzigrund Stadium to take the men’s 1500m title at the European Athletics Championships in Zurich this afternoon with an audacious last lap at...

He wore the number of the devil but he ran like a saint. Daniele Meucci won men’s marathon gold for Italy at the EuropeanAthletics Championships in Zurich this morning with a superbly timed effort that  was “all heart”.

With eleven track and field finals on the bill it will be a hectic afternoon in the Letzigrund Stadium on day six for the concluding session of the European Athletics Championships in Zurich.

Sandra Perkovic had a packed and appreciative Letzigrund Stadium crowd all to herself as she rounded off the action on Day 5, on which she claimed a third European discus title with a national record of 71.08m – the finest throw in the world sinc...

Two jumps. Three golds. One back-flip to celebrate. After winning Olympic gold and breaking one of the most iconic world records on the books, you might think Renaud Lavillenie would regard the 2014 European Athletics Championships as a relatively mino...