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Lead Stories: Sunday, November 23, 2008

Moscow To Host ‘08
European Indoor Cup

Posted November 17th, 2007 at 11:33 AM by Martin Kennedy

Section: News & Results, Track & Field

The Russian capital city of Moscow has been awarded the right to host the 4th edition of the European Athletics Indoor Cup, which will be held on Saturday February 16, 2008.

It will be the first time Moscow has hosted a major athletics event since the successful IAAF World Indoor Championships took place in 2006, and will take place in the 5,000 seat CSKA Arena, which hosts the successful IAAF Indoor Meeting “Russian Winter” every January.

Eight teams will take part in each of the men’s and women’s competitions and will be led by the French men and the Russian women, who are the defending European Cup champions both indoors and outdoors.
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European Athletics Council discuss future Championships in Malta

Posted October 19th, 2007 at 8:27 AM by Martin Kennedy

Section: News & Results, Track & Field, Olympics

The 118th meeting of the European Athletics Council, was held in Malta this week, to discuss and finalise plans for an additional European Athletics Championships, that would take place in an Olympic year, and to decide on the new concept for the European Athletics Team Championships.

Following this, President Hansjörg Wirz, updated the Presidents and General Secretaries of the 50 European Member Federations on these decisions.

Additional European Athletics Championships:

The additional championships are scheduled to take place one month before the Olympic Games commence in London, in five years time.
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