Gold rush in Tampere on record-setting day at European Athletics U20 Championships
10th August 2025Giant Dutch athlete Jarno van Daalen completed a superb throws double and Czechia's Michal Rada blasted to a 400m hurdles gold in a championship record on a monumental day at the European Athletics U20 Championships in Tampere on Saturday (8).
A pre-competition text from Mondo Duplantis lifted Sweden's Axel Rogö to greater heights as he won gold in the men's pole vault. Plus Croatia's Vita Barbic and Germany's Nova Kienast both left it late to win the women's javelin and hammer competitions respectively.
Norway and Great Britain won distance running doubles, though it was not without plenty of drama and controversy.
Conor Kelly won Ireland's first gold in the men's 400m and Alexandra Stefania Uta landed Romania's first title of Tampere 2025 in the women's 400m hurdles. Italy's Diego Nappi and Germany's Judith Bilepo Mokobe won the 200m titles, as Great Britain's Charlotte Heinrich won the women's 400m.
There was also a world lead set by Spain's Sofia Santacreu as she retained her European U20 title in the 10,000m race walk.
World U20 champion Jana Koscak made a brilliant start to the heptathlon to lead overnight by over 200 points.
Tampere 2025 is being streamed in its entirety through the European Athletics website courtesy of Eurovision Sport, where additional live streams will be available, and will be accompanied by commentary in English, French, German (AI translated) and Dutch (AI-translated).
Relays finals, FitzGerald double attempt, Koscak heptathlon bid among thrilling climax on final day
Day four will see Tampere 2025 come to a resounding climax with 18 finals and the conclusion of the heptathlon....
Here's what to look out for:
- Men's and women's 4x100m and 4x400m finals including 100m winner Kelly Doualla (ITA)
- Fascinating men's 1500m final including 3000m winner Håkon Moe Berg (NOR and European U18 champion Filip Toul (CZE)
- Innes FitzGerald (GBR) trying to complete a distance double in the 3000m
- Women's pole vault including world U18 best holder Allika Inkeri Moser (EST)
- Heptathlon conclusion including world U20 champion Jana Košcak (CRO)
- Men's 10,000m race walk with world U20 bronze medallist Giuseppe Disabato (ITA)
- Men's and women's sprint hurdles semi finals and finals
- Men's and women's high jump, men's triple jump and women's long jump finals
- Closely matched men's javelin and women's shot put finals