Athletics is a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking. The most common types of athletics competitions are track and field, road running, cross country running, and race walking.
The European Athletics Indoor Championships is a biennial indoor track and field competition for European athletes that is organised by the European Athletic Association. It was held for the first time in 1970, replacing the European Indoor Games, its predecessor event first held in 1966.
The European 10,000m Cup is an annual 10,000 metres race for European athletes which was first held in 1997. The competition is organised by the European Athletics Association and first began as the European 10000 Metres Challenge, after the event was removed from the European Cup programme. The competition has roots in the Iberian 10,000 metres Championships – a competition between Spanish and Portuguese athletes that was held between 1991 and 1996 – and the first five editions of the European 10000 Metres Challenge were held in the Iberian Peninsula. The event was first held under its current title in 2005. From 2018, the event has been held as the climax of the Night of 10k PB's event at Parliament Hill, London.
The European Combined Events Team Championships is an annual track and field competition for European combined track and field events specialists, with contests in men's decathlon event and women's heptathlon.
The European Champion Clubs Cup is an annual athletics competition between the European athletics clubs that are the reigning champions at national level.
Luxembourg competed at the 2012 European Athletics Championships held in Helsinki, Finland, between 27 June to 1 July 2012. 4 competitors, 3 men and 1 woman took part in 4 events.
Moldova competed at the 2012 European Athletics Championships held in Helsinki, Finland, between 27 June to 1 July 2012. 6 competitors, 2 men and 4 women took part in 5 events.
San Marino competed at the 2012 European Athletics Championships held in Helsinki, Finland, between 27 June to 1 July 2012. One male competitor took part in one event.
Cyprus competed at the 2012 European Athletics Championships held in Helsinki, Finland, between 27 June to 1 July 2012. 10 competitors, 8 men and 2 women took part in 11 events.
Slovakia competed at the 2012 European Athletics Championships held in Helsinki, Finland, between 27 June to 1 July 2012. 12 competitors, 7 men and 5 women took part in 9 events.
Montenegro competed at the 2012 European Athletics Championships held in Helsinki, Finland, between June 27 to July 1, 2012. 3 competitors, 2 men and 1 woman took part in 3 events.
Bosnia & Herzegovina competed at the 2012 European Athletics Championships held in Helsinki, Finland, between 27 June to 1 July 2012. 4 competitors, 3 men and 1 woman took part in 4 events.
Serbia competed at the 2012 European Athletics Championships held in Helsinki, Finland, between 27 June to 1 July 2012. 11 competitors, 7 men and 4 women, took part in 9 events.
Georgia competed at the 2012 European Athletics Championships held in Helsinki, Finland, between 27 June to 1 July 2012. Five competitors took part in five events.
Denmark competed at the 2012 European Athletics Championships held in Helsinki, Finland, between 27 June to 1 July 2012.
The AAA Championships was an annual track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Association of England. It was the foremost domestic athletics event in the United Kingdom during its lifetime. It was succeeded by the British Athletics Championships.
Aleksey Leonidovich Fyodorov is a Russian track and field athlete who specialises in the triple jump. A former champion at world and European junior level (under-19), he was the bronze medallist at the 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships.
Yasmina Omrani is a retired French-born Algerian track and field athlete who specialised in the heptathlon. Her personal best for the event is 5979 points and she also has an indoor pentathlon best of 4386 points.
