European Athletics

No stopping Niels Laros. 😤 2022 Euro U18 Champs 🥇 1500m 🥇 3000m 2023 Euro U20 Champs 🥇 1500m 🥇 5000m 2025 Euro U23 Champs 🥇 800m 🥇 5000m Six major titles and in four different events! 🥵 #Bergen2025

🧠 Personal reflection 🤖 Building an AI-app 💪 Best season to date German hammer-thrower, Merlin Hummel is the latest athlete to sit down for our exclusive column piece. 🗣️

Balkan Championships coming up. 🫡 📍 Volos 🇬🇷 🗓 26-27 July Watch both days live on our YouTube channel from 5.30pm CEST!

The rise and rise of Kate O’Connor continues! 📈 🥉 2025 European Indoors 🥈 2025 World Indoors 🥇 2025 World University Games Irish record of 6️⃣4️⃣8️⃣7️⃣ points to win the World University Games heptathlon title! ✌️ #RhineRuhr2025

World U18 best! 🚨 Allika Inkeri Moser 🇪🇪 clears 4️⃣.5️⃣2️⃣m in the pole vault at the European Youth Olympic Festival in Skopje! 🥇 She only turned 17 in March! 😳

Niels doing Niels things. 😏 After winning 5000m gold, Niels Laros 🇳🇱 won the 800m title the following day! 🐐 #Bergen2025

Sub-50 seconds! 🤯 Henriette Jaeger 🇳🇴 shatters a 20-year-old championship record to win European U23 400m gold in #Bergen2025! 🔥

What a championships! 🙌 1️⃣2️⃣ championship records fell in #Bergen2025! 🤯 Men 400m – 44.82 Jonas Phijffers 800m – 1:44.06 Francesco Pernici 400mH – 48.01 Owe Fischer-Breiholz 4x100m – 38.43 – France 4x400m – 3:02.02 – Spain 3000m SC – 8:20.17 – Maciej Megier Women 400m…

Sub-44 anchor leg. 🔥 Individual 400m winner Jonas Phijffers 🇳🇱 was timed at 43.79 on the last leg of the 4x400m final. #Bergen2025

Kings of Spain! 🇪🇸👑 Championship record and European U23 record in the men’s 4x400m in #Bergen2025! 🔥

VAMOS ESPANA! 🇪🇸❤️‍🔥 Championship record AND European U23 4x400m record! 🔥 #Bergen2025

🏆 Championship record 🇪🇺 European U23 record 3️⃣:2️⃣6️⃣.5️⃣2️⃣ for Great Britain to win the women’s 4x400m in #Bergen2025! ✌️

Vamos Espana! Ines Lopes 🇪🇸 wins European U23 discus gold with 5️⃣8️⃣.2️⃣0️⃣m! 💿 Spain’s third gold medal of the day in #Bergen2025! 🥇🥇🥇

Saga Vanninen’s combined events medal haul. 👑 🥇 2021 European U20 🥇 2021 World U20 🥇 2022 World U20 🥇 2023 European U23 🥈 2024 World Indoors 🥇 2025 European Indoors 🥇 2025 World Indoors 🥇 2025 European U23 And she’s still only 22! #Bergen2025

🇫🇮 Finnish record 🏆 Championship record Saga Vanninen 🇫🇮 retains her European U23 heptathlon title with 6️⃣5️⃣6️⃣3️⃣ points. She smashes the previous national record of 6404 points which was set in 1991! 🙌 #Bergen2025

Championship record AND European U23 record smashed! 🥵 3️⃣8️⃣.4️⃣3️⃣ for France in the men’s 4x100m in #Bergen2025! The previous records stood at 38.70. 👀

Back-to-back 4x100m golds for GB! ✌️ 🥇 2023 🥇 2025 Title defended and championship record beaten! ❤️‍🔥 #Bergen2025

Sub-43 seconds! ❤️‍🔥 Great Britain wins European U23 4x100m gold in a championship record of 42.92! 🔥 #Bergen2025

Is there any distance he can’t do? 🥵 Niels Laros 🇳🇱 completes an unprecedented 800/5000m double at the European U23 Championships! 🥇🥇 #Bergen2025