The second version of this new occasion will go to the Serbian metropolis following the inaugural assembly in Belgium subsequent 12 months
The Serbian capital of Belgrade has been awarded the 2027 European Operating Championships, the second version of a championships which can make its debut in Brussels-Leuven in Belgium on April 12-13 in 2025.
The choice was made on the primary day of the European Athletics Council Assembly in Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia
Belgrade has a proud latest historical past of staging main occasions and is barely metropolis to have hosted the European Indoor Championships (2017), World Indoor Championships (2022), European Cross Nation Championships (2013) and the World Cross Nation Championships (2024).
The organisers of this European Championships, scheduled for April 17-18, 2027, would be the Belgrade Marathon and the Serbian Athletics Federation, below the patronage of the Metropolis of Belgrade and the Ministry of Sports activities.
The occasion can even coincide with a major milestone – the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the Belgrade Marathon.
The programme for the 2027 European Operating Championships incorporates a 10km, half marathon and marathon and organisers count on at the least 25,000 members throughout the three races, together with Europe’s elite distance runners who will contest for the mantle of European champion in each the person and staff occasions in every of the three races on the schedule.
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“We’re very happy to announce the 2027 European Operating Championships might be in Belgrade, a metropolis which has an distinctive report of staging well-organised in-stadium and out-of-stadia main championships,” stated European Athletics president Dobromir Karamarinov.
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