The first-ever edition of this event takes place in Brussels and Leuven on April 12-13 with club runners and elite athletes on the same start line
There are now less than five months to go before the European Running Championships starts in Brussels and Leuven in Belgium.
A Unique Opportunity: Run with Elites at the European Championships
For the first time, the European Championships is open to all, too, with ordinary runners having a unique opportunity to run alongside the elites over distances that range from 10km, to half-marathon, and the full marathon.
The marathon starts at the Royal Palace in Brussels and follows a scenic course through to Leuven. The half marathon and 10km set off from Leuven and cross the city and wider surroundings.
Uniquely, the net finish time of the top 25 runners per country, including elites, will be added up and this will form the basis for the country ranking per competition and gender. The country with the lowest aggregate time in each race and gender category is declared the winner.
European Athletics President Dobromir Karamarinov says: “The European Running Championships symbolizes my vision of a sport that is for everyone. Young and old, male and female, fast and slow, big and small, elite and amateur will all compete together and simultaneously in mass marathon, half marathon, and 10km races, with global and national ranking places on offer.
“For too long, athletics has been seen as a rarefied activity, the preserve of only the super-fit and the super-gifted. All children, and a growing number of adults across our continent, take part in athletics, in the form of recreational running, every day. Yet many of them do not think of themselves as athletes. I am determined to bridge this gap.”
The venue for the next event in 2027 has been decided as well with Belgrade holding the event on April 18 of that year in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of the city’s marathon.
Register for the Brussels-Leuven 2025 event here.
Final Teams Confirmed for the 2025 UEFA European Under-21 Championship
The 2025 UEFA European Under-21 Title qualifying bunch stage finished on Tuesday, with 12 groups having booked their last competition openings close by as Slovakia and six additional acquiring places in November’s end-of-the-season games European.
Qualifying started in Walk 2023 however most groups started off their missions last September. The nine gathering victors and the three best other participants (not including results against 6th set groups) have qualified straightforwardly for the last competition from 11 to 28 June 2025.
In September’s games Netherlands and Spain both fixed capability as gathering victors. Denmark, Britain, Germany, Portugal and Ukraine went along with them in the main arrangement of October matches and on the last day France, Italy, Poland, Romania, and Slovenia guaranteed their spots in Slovakia European.
The six other participants not straightforwardly qualified – Belgium, Croatia, Czechia, Finland, Georgia, and Norway – will advance to the November end-of-the-season games for the last three finals spots. The last competition draw is in Bratislava on 3 December.
Unbeaten Italy crushed San Marino 7-0 and won 3-0 in Norway in September to expand their lead at the top and they secured ahead of all comers by drawing 1-1 with Ireland on the last day. Four days sooner, Norway leveled in the added chance to attract 1-1 Ireland and keep alive their expectations of runner-up and afterward beat Türkiye 5-1 to go into the end of the season games in front of Ireland on a no-holds-barred record European.
Unbeaten Spain qualified in September with wins in Scotland and Hungary and wrapped up by beating Mata to end on 28 focuses from ten games. Belgium won 2-0 in Scotland to move into altogether second, three focuses in front of their rivals. That demonstrated to the point of procuring a gloss-over place for Belgium as although they lost 1-0 at home to Hungary, Scotland were beaten 3-2 in Kazakhstan European.
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