Silesia to join Kraków and Małopolska in staging 2023 European Games Tuesday, 9 March 2021
Silesia is to help organise the 2023 European Games and athletics poised to be added to the programme after the European Olympic Committees (EOC) held talks with officials from the region.
Silesia is to join Kraków and the Małopolska region in staging the Games, although any hosting agreement has yet to be officially confirmed.
The 55,000-capacity Silesian Stadium is being lined up to host track and field events and Andrzej Krasnicki, President of the Polish Olympic Committee (PKOI), said he was hopeful of including athletics on the programme in the near future .
WORLD / CROSS-BORDERS By Reuters Published: Mar 08, 2021 06:33 PM World Athletics has marked International Women s Day with a series of pledges to further advance the role of girls and women in the sport under the campaign slogan WeGrowAthletics.
The world governing body says it is focusing on three core areas of the sport - empowering women in leadership positions, breaking with traditions and shining a spotlight on women s stories across its platforms.
Lisanne de Witte of The Netherlands and Marit Dopheide of The Netherlands exchange sticks in the Women s 4x400m Relay final during the European Athletics Indoor Championships 2021 at Torun Arena on March 7, 2021 in Torun, Poland Photo: VCGWorld Athletics appointed its first female vice president in 2019 and increased female Council representation to 30 percent and says it is committed to making that 40 percent by 2023 as well as an equal balance by 2027.
Saturday, 6 March 2021
Spain’s Oscar Husillos earned European indoor 400 metres gold in Poland tonight - three years after he had seen victory in a European indoor record of 44.92sec disappear through disqualification for lane infringement at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham.
Husillos just managed to hold off a strong Dutch challenge from Tony Van Diepen and Liemarvin Bonevacia in a season’s best of 46.22, his expression swiftly changing from agonised effort to relieved joy in the spectator-free Torun Arena.
But if Dutch ambitions were thwarted in the men’s 400m there was no holding the Dutch phenomenon Femke Bol as she lived up to all expectations to win the women’s 400m final, improving her European 2021 best time by 0.01 second as she clocked a personal best of 50.63.
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Ukraine s long jumper Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk has won the gold medal at the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Toruń, Poland.
Her result was 6.92 meters, which became the world s record of the current season.
Read alsoBekh-Romanchuk wins second silver medal for Ukraine at World Athletics Championships in Doha (Photo, video) After a brace of silver and bronze medals dating back to 2013, Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk won an outstanding women s long jump final in dramatic fashion with a final effort of 6.92m, the furthest seen this year, bettering the lead held by Germany s world champion Malaika Mihambo by four centimetres, European Athletics wrote on March 6.