European Athletics Championships 2024: Who is competing, how to watch & key timings

Follow coverage of the European Athletics Championships on BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app from 7-12 JuneKatarina Johnson-Thompson will renew her rivalry with Olympic heptathlon champion Nafi Thiam at the European Athletics Championships in Rome before their anticipated battle for gold at Paris 2024.

"It's a title I haven't won, it's a title I would like to have. But as a heptathlete, I know so much can go right, so much can go wrong, so much can happen," Johnson-Thompson told"I’m feeling really motivated, probably more motivated than ever coming off the back of last year. Now I just want to put out a good performance."

When Johnson-Thompson beat American Anna Hall to world gold last summer it completed a remarkable turnaround in her career, with her first global triumph in 2019 preceding a career-threatening Achilles rupture and further injury heartbreak at the Tokyo Olympics. British team-mate Hodgkinson, 22, has come agonisingly close to global gold on three occasions in a stunning start to her senior career and will be the strong favourite to defend the European 800m title she won in Munich two years ago.

Jeremiah Azu is set to line up as the fast European man this year after clocking a personal best 9.97 seconds in May, as he looks to deny Olympic champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs on home soil.while world 1500m champion Josh Kerr and European 1500m champion Laura Muir are among those who chose not compete in the lead-up to the Olympics.

Fellow Norwegian Karsten Warholm chases a third successive men's 400m hurdles crown, and two-time European outdoor champion Armand Duplantis, who broke the world record for an eighth time in April, aims for the ninth major pole vault gold of his career.

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