It was an outstanding weekend of action at the European Youth Trials in Baku, Azerbaijan, where Russia were the leading nation from 23 countries and Bence Halasz, of Hungary, was the individual star.

A shift in the balance of power in world multi-eventing might have just taken place over the weekend with the amazing rise of Great Britain’s Katarina Johnson-Thompson.

Pascal Martinot-Lagarde will have every right to feel on top of the world on Sunday morning - because that is exactly where he is.

As she stood on the podium in Moscow last summer at the IAAF World Championships, Serbian long jumper Ivana Spanovic had not just won a bronze medal.

In Moscow last summer, Croatia’s Ana Simic did not make the final of the high jump at the IAAF World Championships. Her best in qualifying was 1.88m and it meant an early exit from an event won by Russian Svetlana Shkolina.

We last left the Netherlands’s Nadine Broersen after her pentathlon title at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Sopot, a performance that allowed her to be voted as the European Athletics Athlete of the Month for March.