World Athletics plans to launch a new competition for 2026 in order to maintain the profile and earning power of its elite performers.

Birmingham, which hosted a hugely successful Commonwealth Games this year, has been confirmed today as host for the 2026 European Athletics Championships following the withdrawal of the only bidding rival, Budapest.

This summer’s multi-sport European Championships in Munich recorded more than 750 million viewer hours across the nine participating sports on free-to-air TV and digital platforms.

Britain's European 1500 metres gold medallist Brian Hewson has died at the age of 89, it has been announced.

Ahmed Abdelwahed, who won silver in the men’s 3,000 metres steeplechase at the European Championships in Munich, has been provisionally suspended for the presence or use of meldonium.

The European Championships Management (ECM) is looking to develop a sports programme for the 2026 edition of the multi-sport European Championships which features all nine existing sports after the staging of Munich 2022.

Finnish Athletics high-performance director Tuomo Salonen has admitted the nation's COVID-19 precautions did not work at the Munich 2022 European Championships, as five athletes look to recover from the virus in time for the traditional athletics meeting against Sweden.

In a cast of tens of thousands of wonderful athletes, volunteers, Olympiapark, Local Organising Committee (LOC), federation staff, freelancers, service providers, police, ambulance, security services, and of course the 1.46 million people who attended a sporting or festival event as part of the Munich 2022 European Championships, it is difficult to single out any one person's contribution to what we have just witnessed. 

Karsten Warholm's 400m hurdles win at the European Athletics Championships in Munich attracted a viewing share of 63 per cent on the Norwegian television channel NRK, figures released by the European Championships Management (ECM) show.

Olympic gold medallist Artem Dolgopyat was among the individual apparatus winners in artistic gymnastics on the final day of the Munich 2022 European Championships, with Britons Jake Jarman and Joe Fraser also claiming victories.

Hungary won six gold medals on the final day of competition to top the canoe sprint and Para canoe medals table at the Munich 2022 European Championships.

The hosts finished top of the medals table at the home European Athletics Championships as its women’s 4x100m relay team won the last event here, bringing the German total of gold to seven - one more than Britain, who failed to get the baton round in what was effectively a sprint shoot-out for the overall bragging rights.

International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) President Marco Scolaris has claimed the sport's new Olympic format produced "a great show" at the Munich 2022 European Championships and is satisfied with its debut.

Latvia's Anastasija Kravčenoka and Tīna Graudiņa came from behind to beat Swiss defending champions Tanja Hüberli and Nina Brunner in the women's beach volleyball final at the Munich 2022 European Championships.