Great Britain have named their squad to face Team Europe and the USA next month at the Great Edinburgh XCountry, a European Athletics Cross Country Permit Meeting, in the Scottish capital’s Holyrood Park.

Jorge Urena is now targeting a place on the podium at the Berlin 2018 European Athletics Championships after the Spanish multi-event exponent’s best year ever in the sport.

As part of our ongoing series, we have interviewed members of the European Athletics Young Leaders Youth Team. 

Budding Slovak distance runners between the age of nine and twelve came from across the country and converged on Samorin a day before the 2017 SPAR Cross Country Championships, to contest the final of a nationwide Kids Athletics project.

Following its successful introduction at the IAAF World Championships London 2017, the women’s 50km race walk has been added to the competition programme for the Berlin 2018 European Athletics Championships.

After benign conditions in Chia twelve months ago, sub-zero temperatures and a biting wind greeted the athletes in Samorin at the SPAR European Cross Country Championships. A record number of nations and athletes took part in the 24th edition of the an...

As the year heads towards its conclusion, and the last of the runners leave Samorin, so many will have one destination on their mind: Berlin 2018.

 

Tom Marshall, who was a late replacement for the injured Charlie Grice, led Great Britain to an historic gold medal in the inaugural mixed relay at the SPAR European Cross Country Championships in Samorin this afternoon.

 

Turkey won individual gold for the fourth year in a row as Kaan Kigen Ozbilen seized his chance to triumph in the most dramatic of men’s senior races at the SPAR European Cross Country Championships in Samorin. 

 

Turkey’s Yasemin Can gave herself the best possible birthday present as she became only the second woman to retain the senior women’s title at the SPAR European Cross Country Championships with another dominant performance.