Poland will be looking for their third consecutive title on home soil at the European Team Championships First Division at the Slaski Stadium in Chorzow from Friday through Sunday, (June 23 to 25).
The Polish team won the past edition of the European Team Championships beating Italy by just 2.5 points.
Poland will be led by two of their individual European champions in Munich: Pia Skrzyszowska (women’s 100 metres hurdles) and Wojciech Nowicki (men’s hammer throw). A total of 12 individual European champions from Munich will be competing in Chorzow. The other continental champions in action are Femke Bol from the Netherlands (400 metres), Yemaneberhan Crippa from Italy (5000 metres), Gianmarco Tamberi from Italy (high jump), Topi Raitainen from Finland (3000 metres steeplechase), Pedro Pablo Pichardo from Portugal (triple jump), Julian Weber from Germany (javelin throw), Jessica Schilder from the Netherlands (shot put), Elina Tzengko from Greece (Javelin throw) and Wilma Murto from Finland (pole vault).
Five individual European champions will also compete in the second and third Divisions. Yaroslava Mahuchik (high jump) and Maryna Beck Romanchuk will represent the Ukraine in the second division. The other continental gold medallists from last year competing in the second division are Filip Mihaljevic from Croatia (shot put) and Bianca Ghelber from Romania (hammer throw).
Luiza Gega from Albania will double up in the 3000 metres steeplechase (the distance where she won the European gold medal in Munich) and in the 5000 metres.
Women’s 100 metres hurdles:
Skrzyszowska won the 100 metres and the 100 metres hurdles at the past edition of the European Team Championships in 2021 in Chorzow. This year she will run only the 100 metres hurdles. The Polish hurdler won the European Championships final in Munich in 12.53. She improved her indoor PB in the 60 metres hurdles with 7.78 but was forced to miss the European Indoor Championships in Istanbul last March due to a harmstring injury. She ran 12.84 in Turku and 12.87 in Poznan in her first two 100 metres hurdles races of this outdoor season.
Skrzyszowka will face Reetta Hurske from Finland, who won the European Indoor gold medal in Istanbul and set the national 100m hurdles record clocking 12.70 this season, and two-time European Indoor champion Nadine Visser from the Netherlands.
They will be joined by Ditaji Kambundji from Switzerland and Laeticia Bapté from France, who both clocked a seasonal best of 12.78…
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