A year on from just missing out on promotion to the Super League, the multi-eventers from the Czech Republic have made it this time after a brilliant victory in Ribeira Brava, Portugal.
At the end of two days of intense competition, Russia are the European Cup Combined Events Super League champions after beating their rivals, and the dreadful weather, in Torun on Sunday.
Russia just hold the ascendancy in the team competition after a superb first day at the European Cup Combined Events Super League in Torun where the Netherlands are taking individual honours.
June saw Germany regain their position as the continent’s premier athletics nation at the European Athletics Team Championships on home soil in Braunschweig.
As a defending champion, the pressure is always there. But for Poland’s Karolina Tyminska, it will go up a notch or two at this weekend’s European Cup Combined Events Super League.
With a bit more than a month left before the start of the European Athletics Championships in Zurich, plenty of promising results poured in from European athletes at the Diamond League event in Lausanne on Thursday evening.