It was a year to remember for European Athletics, with golden performances and wonderful achievements as the true spirit of the sport shone through.

It was a year Nafissatou Thiam will never forget and she has been rewarded once more by being named as Belgium’s Sportswoman of the Year.

European Athletics President Svein Arne Hansen’s last international trip of 2016 was a visit to Minsk this weekend.

Ireland’s Fionnuala McCormack proved true to her word as she produced a superb performance to make it back-to-back victories in the IRIS Cross Cup in Brussels on Sunday.

Team Europe will face the world’s finest at the Great Edinburgh XCountry as Mo Farah headlines the British team for the long-standing fixture held at Holyrood Park on 7 January.

It's exactly 600 days left until the start of the Berlin 2018 European Athletics Championships to be held from 7-12 August 2018 as part of the first multi-sport 'European Championships' event.

Thousands of runners filled the streets for the second edition of the International Mersin Marathon on Sunday 11 December, a race which has been given a five-star certification rating by European Athletics Running for All.

When the gun fired for the senior women’s race in Chia on Sunday, Fionnuala McCormack made history with her very first stride.