Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Karsten Warholm will spearhead Norway’s team for the Munich 2022 European Athletics Championships from 15-21 August, part of the wider multi-sport European Championships in the Bavarian capital from 11-21 August.

We talked to the two Ukrainian elite athletes Maryan Zakalnytskyy and Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk on what sport and the European Championships Munich 2022 mean to them in this time of turmoil.

Great Britain & NI will be sending their biggest-ever athletics team to the European Championships Munich 2022, Dina Asher-Smith, Jake Wightman and Keely Hodgkinson leading the charge.

Malaika Mihambo is not looking for an heir to the throne. The mission of the world-class long jumper is to defend her title. And this year the 28-year-old has three titles to defend. First at the German championships, then at the world championships in Eugene and three weeks later at her second European Championships on home soil in Munich.

Karsten Warholm is the latest sprint phenomenon and has stepped right into the imprint left by the retired superstar Usain Bolt. The Norwegian has pocketed the world record over 400 metres hurdles in July 2021, only to break it himself a month later in the Olympic final in Tokyo, to become the first person to go sub 46 seconds.

In the past, there was nothing for Thomas Röhler other than winning, either he finished the competition with a gold medal around his neck or did not stand on the podium at all. "That is javelin throwing. That's also a bit of an all-or-nothing mentality," the 30-year-old says today.

Europe’s top athletes are already hitting top form, including utter brilliance from a Ukrainian duo ahead of European Championships Munich 2022.

The schedule and the routes for the European Championships in marathon and race walking have been fixed. As usual, the classic road events will be held outside the athletics stadium. The city centre of Munich will offer the athletes the largest possible stage and underlines the aim of the organisers to offer easily accessible European Championships for all of Munich.

With track and field part of the multi-sport European Championships Munich 2022 alongside 8 other Olympic sports, it was announced Tuesday 10 November that the next standalone European Athletics Championships will be held in Rome in 2024.