There is a feast of live athletics on European Athletics channels this week. They will be featuring the Bergen 2025 European Athletics U23 Championships on 17-20 July. As well as action from two World Athletics Continental Tour meetings in Luzern (15) and Liege (16).
Plus, Bergen 2025 will also be broadcast across ten European territories. Bergen will feature some of the world’s most exciting talent. This will include multiple European medallists, like Angelica Topic, Adriana Vilagos (both Serbia), Henriette Jaeger (Norway), Niels Laros (the Netherlands), Engla Nilsson (Sweden), Saga Vanninen (Finland) and Bozhidar Saraboyukov (Bulgaria).
The European Athletics U23 Championships will be streamed in its entirety through the European Athletics website. The stream is courtesy of Eurovision Sport, where additional live streams will be available. The event will be accompanied by expert English-language commentary provided by Ellen Ellard and Alex Seftel.
Over 250 hours of coverage will be broadcast:
- Austria – ORF Sport+
- Bulgaria – BNT 3
- Finland – Yle TV2
- Israel – The Sports Channel
- Norway – NRK1/NRK2
- Poland – TVP SPORT
- Slovakia – SKSTVR
- Spain – Teledeporte
- Sweden – SVT
- Ukraine – Suspilne sport, UA PBC Regional network
Live results and a live blog will also be available to view on the European Athletics website (registration sign-up required). Keeping fans informed and up to speed on every event as it happens.
There will also be extensive coverage of the European Athletics U23 Championships on the European Athletics website. Plus all of European Athletics’ social media channels, as well as daily highlights on the European Athletics YouTube channel.
Mahuchikh, Kambundji, Kitaguchi and more in action
Nearly all of the top Swiss athletes will be in action on home soil. They will include at the Spitzen Leichtathletik Luzern on Tuesday, July 15. Including European indoor and outdoor champion Angelica Moser in the pole vault. And European 10,000m champion Dominic Lobalu in the 1500m.
European indoor champion Ditaji Kambundji and European outdoor bronze medallist Jason Joseph headline the 100m hurdles and 110m hurdles, respectively. Joseph will face combined events star Simon Ehammer. He will also face reigning European U20 champion Enzo Diessl of Austria in the 110m hurdles.
Reigning world and Olympic champion Haruka Kitaguchi from Japan is also due to compete in the javelin at the World Athletics Continental Tour Silver meeting. Live streaming is available on the European Athletics website from 8.00 pm CEST (geoblocking in Switzerland).
World record-holder Yaroslava Mahuchikh is the star name in action in the high jump. She will be competing at the Meeting International d’Athletisme de la Province de Liège 2025 in Belgium on Thursday (16).
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Mahuchikh has spent most of the ensuing three years based in the town of Heusden-Zolder, situated to the east of Brussels.
Mahuchikh hasn’t been at her unbeaten best so far this summer. Still, the 23-year-old, who was crowned female European Athlete of the Year at last year’s Golden Tracks award ceremony, returned to winning ways last month. She cleared 2.00m for victory in June’s European Athletics Team Championships in Madrid.
Multiple major relay medallist and 2018 world U20 champion Jonathan Sacoor has entered the men’s 400m. While, Lisanne de Witte, who was part of the Dutch gold medal-winning 4x400m team at the 2023 World Athletics Championships, faces top Belgians Helene Ponette and Imke Vervaet. They are racing in the women’s 400m at the World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze meeting.
World and European indoor 60m bronze medallist Patrizia Van Der Weken from Luxembourg has also entered the women’s 100m. Live streaming on the European Athletics website from 7.30 pm CEST (geoblocking in Belgium).
