Selection time is closing in for many nations ahead of next month's SPAR European Cross Country Championships and Fionnuala Britton showed the fine form she is in with victory on home soil at the weekend.

European 1500m champion Sifan Hassan from the Netherlands opened her season with a commanding victory on home-soil at the Warandeloop Cross Country in Tilburg on Sunday.

It was in Tilburg a year ago that Sifan Hissan showed her talent when she won the International Warandeloop Cross Country.

France’s Renaud Lavillenie had a nearly perfect year in 2014, he broke the pole vault world record in February and won European gold in August, he was named European Athletics' male European Athlete of the Year in October and on Friday, he won th...

What a comeback it’s bound to be for Sweden’s Susanna Kallur who’s first race is scheduled for the Karlsruhe meeting on 31 January according tp aftonbladet.se. The same venue where she set her 60m world hurdles record in 2008.

It has been the finest year of Jo Pavey’s career and now she is celebrating further recognition.