Germany finished the year with three throwers ranked inside the top four on the 2016 world lists - and six inside the top-15 - and their stable of throwers are already showing excellent early season form.

It was the fourth round of the Olympic javelin final in Rio de Janeiro last summer which changed Sara Kolak’s life.

European Athletics Athletes Commission Chair Periklís Iakovákis will join the European Athletics Council as an ex-officio member.

The European 10,000m Cup is one of the feel-good events on the athletics calendar – because the competitive nature shows the outdoor season is well and truly underway.

A “Ticket & Hotel” travel package for the Berlin 2018 European Athletics Championships is on offer until 22 March 2017.

‘Refugee ScART’ is a humanitarian aid project founded by the Spiral Foundation Onlus in the summer of 2011 and was involved in the Belgrade 2017 European Athletics Indoor Championships.