Jessica Ennis continued her build-up towards Olympic glory (Owen Humphreys/PA)
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Jessica Ennis won gold in the pentathlon at the World Indoor Championships in Doha on this day in 2010.
Ennis defied a foot injury to become the first British athlete to win the title following Kelly Sotherton’s silver medal two years previously.
Ennis said: “The injury was always at the back of my mind and I was always a little bit worried thinking about it.
Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk / REUTERS
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.
Will Poland top the medal table again in Torun 2021?
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Poland has emerged as a tour de force on the European stage over the last decade and the host nation will be aiming to top the medal table at the Toruń 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships for the third edition in succession from 4-7 March.
A mighty Polish team won seven gold medals in Belgrade 2017 before five gold medals sufficed for top spot in the standings in Glasgow 2019. And the strength in the Polish team was on display again later that year at the European Athletics Team Championships in Bydgoszcz – just 50 kilometres away from Toruń – where the Poles defeated the traditional athletics superpowers for their maiden title.
Monday, 1 March 2021
The old insult about fans with typewriters was not coined without reason. As a member of the press - I believe I may still use that term? - you are supposed to report the truth - I believe this concept still exists? - without bias. Or at least to try.
What tests that icy impartiality in the sporting arena is usually nationality, sometimes affinity, sometimes both. So it was understandable that there was a special exultation in the success of British high jumper Dalton Grant at the Paris European Athletics Indoor Championships of 1994.
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Glasgow eyeing 2024 World Indoor Athletics Championships bid Monday, 25 January 2021
The Glasgow Events Board has approved the development of a feasibility study, with the city eyeing a bid to host the 2024 World Indoor Athletics Championships.
It follows on from the city s hosting of the European Athletics Indoor Championships in 2019 at the Emirates Arena.
Later this year, a recommendation will be made on whether Glasgow should launch a bid, according to the
Glasgow Times. Hosting the World Indoor Athletics Championships in 2024 would build on Glasgow s success in hosting the European Indoor Athletics Championships in 2019, the European Championships in 2018 and the Commonwealth Games in 2014 as well as UEFA s Euro 2020 matches this summer and the Cycling World Championships in 2023, said a spokesman for Glasgow Life.