Renaud Lavillenie will not compete again before he bids to win the world title for the first time.

A high class field of some of Europe’s leading high jumpers will sharpen up their preparations for the world championships when they compete in Eberstadt this weekend.

European Athletics is proud to support the 2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games taking place in Los Angeles from 25 July to 2 August.

It was a weekend consumed by national championships - and a weekend to remember for so many.

European Athletics President Svein Arne Hansen praised the local organisers of the European Youth Olympic Festival after attending a spectacular Opening Ceremony in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Sunday evening.

A year ago in Zurich, when Dafne Schippers achieved the 100m and 200m double at the European Athletics Championships, she was undecided whether to become a sprinter or stay as a heptathlete.