"Future Olympic champions" set for Tampere 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships
7th August 2025The Tampere 2025 European Athletics U20 Championships gets underway today (7) with a promise to "see future Olympic champions".
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).
At Wednesday's Official Press Conference, European Athletics President Dobromir Karamarinov said: “Mondo Duplantis started from these championships, as did many of our European champions. This is the natural step to the senior level, where we will see future Olympic champions."
Also at the press conference, some of the most exciting prospects set to compete over the next four days spoke of their excitement of what lies ahead.
World U20 shot put champion Jarno van Daalan is seeking to follow in the footsteps of elder sister Alida who won a shot and discus - also on Finnish soil - at the 2023 European Athletics U23 Championships in Espoo.
The championships get underway on Thursday (7) morning with the men’s decathlon 100m at 08:30 CEST (09:30 local time).
Day one from Tampere 2025 will see twice European cross country champion Innes FitzGerald take on the first step of a potential distance double in the women's 5000m final.
Here's what to look out for:
- Men's decathlon featuring world U20 silver and bronze Hubert Troscianka (POL) and Florian Vriezen (NED)
- European U20 record holder Innes FitzGerald going for gold in the 5000m
- Record chasing Armin Szabados (HUN) in the men's hammer
- Record breaking European U18 champion Michal Rada (CZE) in men's 400m hurdles
- 15-year-old sprints sensation Kelly Doualla (ITA) in women's 100m