Zurich 2014 Diary: Lemaitre looks at record in medals, as do others, by Alfons Juck, EME News

2010 European 10,000 meters: Thompson leads Farah, Meucci, photo by PhotoRun.net

The 22nd European Championships will start on Tuesday, August 12 in Zurich, and Alfons is writing about the medals and the upcoming battles!

Lemaitre for record in medals

ZURICH (SUI): All is set for the 22nd edition of European Championships at famous Letzigrund Stadium from next Tuesday. The whole elite of top European athletes is competing in 47 events. Some special duels like Lemaitre vs Gemili in 200 m, Rutherford vs Reif in long jump, Pars vs Fajdek in hammer or Hassan vs Aregawi in women 1500 m will be the headliners. World stars to be mentioned Bohdan Bondarenko in high jump, Renaud Lavillenie in pole vault, Robert Harting and Sandra Perkovic in discus or Barbora Spotakova in javelin. On the other hand some totally open events like men triple jump and decathlon or women 800 m. From European leaders 2014 all are competing but Pavel Maslak in the 400 m, Anna Chicherova in high jump and Katarina Johnson-Thompson in heptathlon. Missing also marathon leaders Aliaksandra Duliba of Belarus and Mo Farah is not running the marathon but track events. New championships records could be expected in men high jump and discus and women javelin and hammer. Christophe Lemaitre could attack the position of the athlete with most medals, he is now having 5 and most by any men is 6. Also Mo Farah with 4 medals could jump on top of this ranking. The event is also qualification for IAAF Continental Cup in September in Marrakech, top two will qualify but must be from different countries. And something special: every winner will get a build your onw European Champion knife sponsored by Victorinox.

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Larry Eder

Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys.

Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."

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