With exactly three months left until the European Athletics Championships in Zurich 12-17 August, Switzerland’s Lea Sprunger is expecting a performance of a live time, at the most important competition of her career in front of the home fans.

With the 2014 European Youth Olympic Trials (30 May-1 June, Baku, Azerbaijan) quickly approaching, the Team Manual for the event is now available under ‘Related Documents’.

Robert Harting will be chasing his own place in European Athletics history this summer - and he has started with a bang.

The medal record of Russian long-jumper Darya Klishina makes impressive reading, with a string of golds from 2007 to 2013.

Not long after producing the best outdoor high jump of his life, let alone attempting to break the European record, Russia’s Ivan Ukhov was back in his Doha hotel room, packing and preparing for his next challenge.

It  is the start of the IAAF Diamond League season in Doha on Friday evening - and ‘start’ could be the key word for two Europeans in what should be one of the races of the night.