Defending champions Kariem Hussein and Martyn Rooney will have good reasons for smiling - with just four weeks to go until the European Athletics Championships in Amsterdam.

King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands will attend the opening ceremony of the European Athletics Championships on Tuesday 5 July 2016. The opening will take place at Museumplein in Amsterdam.

Anita Wlodarczyk hammered home another warning to her rivals as she triumphed in Saturday’s 51st PTS meeting in Samorin.

German javelin thrower Thomas Röhler and Dutch sprinting sensation Dafne Schippers have been voted European Athletes of the Month for May.

Poland’s Pawel Fajdek saved the best for last to rubberstamp his place at the helm of the world hammer rankings at the 16th European Athletic Festival in Bydgoszcz on Sunday.

Italy’s Daniele Meucci and Turkey’s Esma Aydemir, in front of her home crowd, won the individual titles at the 20th European 10,000m Cup in Mersin on Sunday evening.