Following Fredrik Samuelsson’s letter on field sizes to World Athletics (WA) and European Athletics (EA) in March 2021, the President and Chief Executive of European Athletics have now written in…
The Decathletes of Europe Decathlon 2022 Calendar is here! Check out the 2021 Decathlon, 2020 Decathlon, 2020 Heptathlon and 2019 Decathlon editions. Thank you to all the photographers who provided…
In March this year, hundreds of combined eventers came together as one voice to express their concerns at the downward trend in field sizes at major outdoor championships; from over…
The Championships have been delayed for a year, there will be few people in the stadium to watch, some big names are missing, and we weren’t sure they would ultimately…
What a strange path to the Olympics it has been. In any other Olympic year, after a brief respite following the major champs of the previous summer, the season is…
100M The first man to cross the line in the 2021 European U20 decathlon was Sweden’s Jacob Thelander in a huge PB of 11.09 in Heat 1 of the 100m,…
The conditions were great, Sofie Dokter was a revelation, the Germans weren’t messing and Saga Vanninen looked amazing. 100M HURDLES On the first day of the U20 heptathlon, like the…
Estonia, spiritual home of decathlon, where Janek Õiglane is on the commemorative stamp to celebrate the championships; where 2000 Olympic champion Erki Nool presented the medals to the European U23…
HEPTATHLON When we left the heptathlon at the end of Day 1, Adrianna Sułek had a lead of 150 points over Holly Mills, largely as a result of Holly’s lower…
The last time the European U23 championships took place, it was in the summer of 2019 in Gävle, Sweden. The decathlon was a showdown between the titans Niklas Kaul and…
