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Full entry lists. https://www.european-athletics.com/news/final-entries-published-for-apeldoorn-2025-european-athletics-indoor-championships

Vik leaves the world in no doubt of his thoughts on crossing the line 33rd.

And off we go with 187 guys!

Sad news: Gene Hackman is dead. Always one of my favourites in the 70s & 80s. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14442071/Gene-Hackman-wife-Betsy-Arakawa-dead-Santa-Fe-home.html?ico=comment-anchor#comments

Bruna 74th

@brunamoura41.85 down! From Sundling that is, so maybe 25 secs or so off top 30. Beating plenty of European countries with winter sports history. Also beating plenty of yesterday's top 20. Second though, so don't know how the sprint team gets selected.... pretty good, but not cracking the top 30.

Del Rio into the Top 10! Think might break some hearts here. Diggins slipping towards the edge of the cliff.....

Already a big time from Sundling; Diggins not so convincong.

Bruna goes at 10:16 local time. 120 Starters!

Seemingly at least a couple of weeks out, so maybe back before the end of the season.

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Wait a sec, Ireland cannot be a new quota because they have a pile of legit World Cup points, surely?

I've posted the full British team for Appeldoorn in 't other thread.

Like I said, full-scale team, pretty much everyone qualified and who wants to go. Women 60m Joy Eze (Michael Donnelly, Gateshead) Amy Hunt (Marco Airale, Charnwood) Bianca Williams (Linford Christie, Thames Valley) 400m: Amber Anning (Chris Johnson, Brighton & Hove) Poppy Malik (Grant Barker, Harrow) Ama Pipi (Tony Lester, Enfield & Haringey) 800m Isabelle Boffey (Luke Gunn, Enfield & Haringey) Grace Vans Agnew (Jon Bigg, Brighton Phoenix) Erin Wallace (Trevor Painter, Giffnock North) 1500m Georgia Hunter-Bell (Trevor Painter, Belgrave) Ava Lloyd (Trevor Painter, Wigan & District) Revee Walcott-Nolan (Thomas Dreissigacker, Luton) 3000m Melissa Courtney-Bryant (Rob Denmark, Poole AC) Innes FitzGerald (Gavin Pavey, Exeter) Hannah Nuttall (Helen Clitheroe, Charnwood) Long Jump Alice Hopkins (Linford Christie, Oxford City) High Jump Morgan Lake (Yannick Tregaro, Windsor Slough Eton & Hounslow) Pole Vault Molly Caudery (Scott Simpson, Thames Valley) Shot Put Serena Vincent (Mike Winch, City of Portsmouth) Pentathlon Jade O’Dowda (John Lane, Newham & Essex Beagles) 4x400m Relay Amber Anning (Chris Johnson, Brighton & Hove) Hannah Kelly (Les Hall, Bolton) Poppy Malik (Grant Barker, Harrow) Emily Newnham (Nick Dakin, Shaftesbury Barnet) Lina Nielsen (Tony Lester, Shaftesbury Barnet) Ama Pipi (Tony Lester, Enfield & Haringey) Men 60m Jeremiah Azu (Helen James, Cardiff) Romell Glave (Michael Afilaka, Croydon) John Otugade (Tom McNab, Shaftesbury Barnet) 400m Alex Haydock-Wilson (Dai Greene, Windsor Slough Eton and Hounslow) Efekemo Okoro (Felipe Siqueria, Birchfield Harriers) 800m Justin Davies (Martin Rush, Team Bath) Jack Higgins (Mark Hookway, Tonbridge) Thomas Randolph (Craig Winrow, Tamworth) 1500m Elliot Giles (Jon Bigg, Birchfield Harriers) Neil Gourley (Stephen Haas, Giffnock North) Thomas Keen (Mark Vile, Cambridge & Coleridge) 3000m Adam Fogg (Cory Leslie, Coventry) George Mills (Thomas Dreissigacker, Brighton Phoenix) James West (Helen Clitheroe, Tonbridge) 60m Hurdles Daniel Goriola (Tony Jarrett, Blackheath & Bromley) Triple Jump Efe Uwaifo (Daniel Hooker, Harrow) Shot Put Scott Lincoln (Paul Wilson, City of York) 4x400m Relay Alastair Chalmers (Matt Elias, Guernsey) Seamus Derbyshire (Alex O’Gorman, City of Stoke) Josh Faulds (James Wright, Rugby & Northampton) Alex Haydock-Wilson (Dai Greene, Windsor Slough Eton and Hounslow) Efekemo Okoro (Felipe Siqueria, Birchfield Harriers) Lee Thompson (John Henson, Sheffield & Dearne) 4x400m Mixed Relay Comprised of existing relay selections

Did not mention - top 10 also for biathlete Samuel Maes

Too bad - that happened to Justyna Kowalczyk Torino 10km.

Yellow cards are an absolute joke here. There was one big long straight with only a single track pressed so naturally the top 10 guys had to go outside the bollards or lose huge chunks of time.

Savart 4th at the Finish!!

And goes top 10!

Bad course design - good faster skiers have no choice but to leave the barriers to get past slow naive ones. Already looking good. Wow into 3rd! also looking at Top 10! And hey,if we can get both & in the Climbing, we can get both & here!

Ok here comes . Should really have been.doing WCs, but.....

Alireza holds big early lead! needs to work on his broken pole drills. Mallett seems to know his business, nice fluent style.

skier is Jenny Axisa Eriksen, so I'm guessing another father & national mother. Good for her, top 20.

Bruna DNF - did not look good at 2km. Skis were slipping all over the place.

& both looking good.