Ellen Walshe wins gold in the 200m individual medley at the European Aquatics Championships

The Dublin swimmer makes it two individual medley golds in the European Aquatics Championships in Paris

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Kate O'Connor secures gold in the heptathlon at the European Championships in Birmingham.

The 25-year-old from Dundalk extended her collection to seven championship medals across the past 18 months.

Kate O'Connor has won a gold medal in the women's heptathlon at the 2026 European Athletics Championships in Birmingham.

French four-time Olympic gold medallist Léon Marchand won the 200m butterfly final at the European championships in Paris on Saturday, setting the world's best time of the year to claim his first continental title. Two years on from his exploits at the Paris Games, the 24-year-old returned to form in the French capital

Keely Hodgkinson suggests reason behind thousands of empty seats at European Athletics Championship  GB News

Ireland men’s and women’s teams into tonight’s 4x100m relay finals as Healy and O’Sullivan book 1500m final places

Update Britain hosting European Athletics Championships for first time in event's 92-year history; Amy Hunt claims Sprint gold double and Romell Glave wins 100m for Great Britain; Matthew Hudson-Smith claims gold for Britain in 400m; Keely Hodgkinson, Georgia Hunter Bell among other medal hopes Saturday 15 August 2026

The race walk events and marathons take place this weekend, with many road closures in place. Here's where the action will be and the best viewing spots to take it all in as Europe's best athletes compete

Werro, 22, won in 1:54.81s, taking more than half a second off Olga Mineyeva’s 1982 championship record

RTVE anchors appeared to skip Israeli hurdler Omri Shiff during athlete introductions at the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham.

Audrey Werro has stormed to the 800-meter title by holding off Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson down the home straight at the European championships

Everything you need to know as Europe’s biggest athletics stars descend on Birmingham to fight for continental titles

Keely Hodgkinson took the silver medal in the European Championships 800m final

The women's 800m was one of the most anticipated events of the European Athletics Championships, as it promised a thrilling three-battle between Keely Hodgkinson, Audrey Werro and Femke Broeders-Bol

Nairobi has defended its bid to host the 2029 World Athletics Championships – anchored by a historic, ironclad personal guarantee from President Dr William Samoei Ruto – before World Athletics’ top leadership headed by its President, Lord Sebastian Coe. The Nairobi 2029 Bid Committee had officially submitted its formal

Italian athlete Dariya Derkach won the gold medal in the women's triple jump at the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham Thursday night. The 33-year-old from Campania, who moved to Italy from her native Ukraine when she was a little girl, preceded Belgium's Saliyya Guisse who took silver and Bulgaria's Aleksa

Canadian superstar Summer McIntosh wins gold in the women's 400m individual medley and breaks the Pan Pacific Championships record.

Canadian superstar Summer McIntosh wins gold in the women's 400m individual medley and breaks the Pan Pacific Championships record.

AMY HUNT completed the European sprint double with a sensational 200 metres gold – as fireworks filled the skies over Birmingham. The Newark runner, 24, stormed to victory at Alexander Stadium in a time of 22.19 seconds on night four of the European Athletics Championships It matches the feat of British rival Dina Ashe

Britain loves sport yet ticket sales for the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham have been slow. Ed Warner wonders why. British sport has a capacity problem or a bandwidth one, depending on which way you want to look at it. Too many seats in too many venues with too few bums to fill them. Or…

2026 Pan Pacific Championships: Katie Ledecky dominates 1500m for Pan Pacs gold.