Richard Kilty has revealed he is basking in the glory of being a world gold medallist that nobody could have predicted.

A first group of national team leaders from the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Italy and Germany praised the facilities ahead of the European Athletics Team Championships in Braunschweig which will be held from 21-22 June.

Adam, the spray painting lion, has been chosen to help promote the 2016 Amsterdam European Athletics Championships.

If Sopot did not go quite as planned for Russia's Sergey Shubenkov, he is hoping that the summer months of 2014 might see him join two exclusive clubs.

This was one of the nicest stories from the European Cup Winter Throwing in Leiria, when Portuguese shot putter Marco Fortes took second place with 21.01m on Sunday 16 March, only his second throw above 21m in his career.

European Athletics recently organised a two-day sponsors’ workshop for its International Partners, hosted by Le Gruyère at its headquarters in the Swiss town of Gruyères.