Amy Hunt, Daryll Neita and Dina Asher-Smith may very well be preventing for European medals within the 200m on August 13 subsequent 12 months.
Thursday night on the European Athletics Championships in 2026 guarantees to be probably the greatest classes of the week, particularly for those who’re a fan of girls’s occasions.
Molly Caudery is prone to be flying residence British hopes within the pole vault remaining, whereas there are additionally ladies’s triple bounce and 3000m steeplechase finals.
The spotlight, although, may very well be the ladies’s 200m remaining with Brits similar to Amy Hunt, Daryll Neita and Dina Asher-Smith amongst these battling for gold.
Hunt loved a superb breakthrough run on the World Championships in Tokyo in September when she gained a shock silver behind Melissa Jefferson-Picket of the US.
On the final European Championships in Rome two years in the past, although, Neita got here inside inches of profitable the 200m title as she misplaced out by only one hundredth of a second to Mujinga Kambundji of Switzerland.
Then there may be Asher-Smith, the world champion in 2019 and present British record-holder.
Ladies weren’t at all times within the highlight at these championships. The inaugural European occasion in Turin in 1934 didn’t function any ladies’s competitions in any respect. On the second European Champs in 1938, the ladies’s occasions have been held in Vienna, two weeks after the boys’s competitors befell in Paris.
When ladies’s occasions have been lastly held on the similar venue as the boys – in 1946 in Oslo – there have been solely 4 ladies’s observe occasions, one among which was the dash relay, plus 5 discipline occasions.
How occasions have modified. Ladies’s athletics has boomed in recent times and steadily occasions that have been as soon as male-only have been added to the programme for ladies, similar to pole vault, hammer, steeplechase and 10,000m.
This implies Thursday August 13 within the Alexander Stadium will likely be a celebration of girls’s athletics with 4 sensible finals to sit up for.
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Thursday August 13 isn’t completely “girls’ night time”, although. There are after all some males’s finals together with the discus, 800m and conclusion of the decathlon.
That is why tickets for that session are a lot wanted. So hurry and e-book yours now.
Tickets are nonetheless accessible right here.
