On an official visit to Moscow on Monday, European Athletics President Svein Arne Hansen and IAAF President Sebastian Coe met with Russian Olympic Committee President Alexander Zhukov.

The countdown is very much on for the next major event of 2015 when the SPAR European Cross Country Championships take place in Hyères on Sunday December 13.

European Athletics was well represented at the Lausanne Marathon on Sunday 25 October, with six staff members running the 10km as part of a team.

 

The return of Russia’s Yelena Isinbayeva will become one of the athletics stories of next year.

European Athletics recognised the 19 winners of its 2015 Women’s Leadership Awards during the Golden Tracks ceremony in Lausanne on 17 October.

The World Broadcaster Meeting for the Amsterdam 2016 European Athletics Championships took place 26-27 October, with International Broadcasters from across Europe in attendance.