2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships | |
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Organisers | EAA |
Edition | 38th |
Dates | 6–9 March |
Host city | Apeldoorn, Netherlands |
Venue | Omnisport Apeldoorn |
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Level | Senior |
Type | Indoor |
Events | 26 |
Official website | EAA LOC |
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The 38th European Athletics Indoor Championships will be held from 6 to 9 March 2025 at the Omnisport Apeldoorn arena in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. The multi-use, multi-sport venue can hold a maximum capacity of 5,000 spectators. It will be the third time that the Netherlands will have staged the continent's top indoor competition after Rotterdam 1973 and The Hague 1989. It will be also the third time in a decade that the country will host a major European Athletics event after the outdoor 2016 European Athletics Championships in Amsterdam and 2018 European Cross Country Championships in Tilburg. The four-day competition will feature 13 men's and 13 women's athletics events over three morning and four afternoon sessions. [1]
On 6 May 2022, the European Athletic Association (EAA) chose Apeldoorn at its 164th Council Meeting held in Munich. [2] The organization of the event is a partnership of local athletics clubs, the municipality of Apeldoorn, the Province of Gelderland, TIG Sports and the Royal Dutch Athletics Federation (Atletiekunie). [3] In March 2024 former athlete Dafne Schippers was appointed tournament director. [4]
Jamile Samuel is a Dutch athlete sprinter, who specialises in the 100 and 200 metres. She won three bronze medals at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics, thus establishing herself as the third-fastest female runner under the age of 20 in the world. She won a gold medal with the Dutch women's 4 × 100 m relay team at the 2016 European Championships in Amsterdam.
Dafne Schippers is a Dutch retired track and field athlete who competed in sprinting and the combined events. She holds the European record in the 200 metres with a time of 21.63 seconds, making her the sixth-fastest woman of all time at this distance. She also holds the Dutch records in the 100 metres and long jump, and shares the Dutch records in the 60 metres indoor and 4 × 100 metres relay.
Nadine Broersen is a Dutch track and field athlete, specializing in the heptathlon and high jump. She was the 2014 World Indoor pentathlon champion. Broersen competes for the track and field club AV Sprint in Breda.
Maureen Koster is a Dutch middle-distance runner who competes in track and cross country running events. She won the bronze medal in the 3000 metres at the 2015 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Prague.
Nadine Visser is a Dutch track and field athlete who competed in the combined events until 2017 and specialises in short hurdling since 2018.
Anouk Vetter is a Dutch track and field athlete who competes in the combined events.
Naomi Sedney is a Dutch sprinter. She has been most successful as the anchor of the Dutch Relay team and is co-holder of the national record 4 x 100 m relay. In 2022 her younger sister Zoë Sedney joined her in the Dutch Relay team.
Douwe Jorn Amels is a Dutch track and field athlete who specialises in the high jump. He won the gold medal at the 2023 European Indoor Championships, becoming the first Dutchman ever to win gold in the event and the first Dutch high jump medallist at these championships since 1977. Amels claimed also gold at the 2013 European Under-23 Championships.
This article discusses the participation of the Netherlands at the 2018 European Athletics Championships. Netherlands was represented by 45 athletes at the 2018 European Athletics Championships in Berlin, Germany, 6–12 August 2018.
The Dutch Indoor Athletics Championships is an annual indoor track and field competition organised by the Royal Dutch Athletics Federation, which serves as the national championship for the sport in the Netherlands. Typically held over two to three days in February during the Dutch winter, it was first added to the national calendar in 1969, supplementing the main outdoor Dutch Athletics Championships held in the summer since 1910.
Femke Bol is a Dutch track and field athlete who competes in hurdling and sprinting. She specialises in the 400 metres hurdles, where she is the 2023 World Champion, and in the 400 metres, where she is the 2024 World Indoor Champion and the short track world record holder. In the 4 × 400 metres relay, she is the 2023 World Champion and the 2024 World Indoor Champion with the Dutch women's team.
Zoë Frederique Sedney is a Dutch athlete who competes in the hurdles, 100 metres, 200 metres, 400 metres and 4 × 100 metres relay. Sedney won two gold medals at the 2017 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival. As a senior in 2021, she competed in both the European Indoor Championships and the Summer Olympics. In 2022, she became part of the 4 × 100 metres Dutch relay team, competing together with her older sister Naomi Sedney.
Diane van Es is a Dutch middle- and long-distance runner. She won the bronze medal in the 5000 metres at the 2021 European Under-23 Championships.
The 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held from 2 to 5 March 2023 at the Ataköy Arena in Istanbul, Turkey, the first time the event took place in this country although the venue did stage the 2012 World Indoor Championships for which this 7000-seater was specifically built. The four-day competition was held during the centenary year of the Republic of Turkey, and featured 13 men's and 13 women's athletics events over three morning and four afternoon sessions.
Sofie Dokter is a Dutch track and field athlete who specialises in the multi-event disciplines heptathlon and indoor pentathlon, in which she was a bronze medalist at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships.
Cathelijn Peeters is a Dutch track and field athlete who competes in hurdling and sprinting and previously competed in the combined events and hammer throw.
The 2022 Dutch Athletics Championships was the national championship in outdoor track and field for the Netherlands. It was held 24–26 June 2022 at the Sportpark Orderbos in Apeldoorn. It was organised by local organisation AV'34 and the Royal Dutch Athletics Federation. The competition was held before the public again, following closed events in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 10,000 metres races were held separately at the Golden Spike Leiden meet on 11 June.
The 2023 Dutch Indoor Athletics Championships was the 52nd edition of the national championship in indoor track and field for the Netherlands, organised by the Royal Dutch Athletics Federation. It was held on 18–19 February at the Omnisport Apeldoorn in Apeldoorn. A total of 24 events were contested over the two-day competition.
Sven Jansons is a Dutch track and field athlete. He is a national champion in long jump and indoor heptathlon.