President Svein Arne Hansen praised this weekend’s European Athletics Team Championships before saying he would ask his Event & Competition Commission to look at restructuring the competition to make it even more appealing for spectators and tele...

The Czechs put in most of the hard graft on the first day but the overnight leaders extended their advantage at the top of the leaderboard to gain promotion back to the Super League ahead of hosts Greece and the Netherlands.

Their nerves could not really settle until the final hour but in the end Russia achieved their aim as they won the Super League of the European Athletics Team Championships on home soil in Cheboksary today.

Ivet Lalova lit up an outstanding first day of the Second League of the European Athletics Team Championships in Stara Zagora by breaking the championship’s 100m record in front of her home crowd.

Maximum points from the first two events set the tone of the afternoon in Heraklion as the Czech Republic finish the first day of competition with a commanding tally of 185 points ahead of Greece and Portugal with 164 points and 153 points respectively...

It is all about the squad, because that is the essence of the European Athletics Team Championships, and make no mistake that was on Frenchman Christophe Lemaitre’s mind as he won the 100m in the Super League in Cheboksary this afternoo...