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‘Last Call’ tickets promotion for the Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships

One week before the start of the Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships, scheduled from 7-12 June, the special ‘Last Call’ promotion has been extended. All tickets and packages for all the stands of the Olympic Stadium are on sale at 40% discount here.

The Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships will open on 7 June with a special promotion dedicated to young people: school students will in fact be able to buy tickets at the symbolic price of 1 Euro to follow at the Olympic Stadium, in the Curva Sud, Curva Nord and Distinti Sud stands, both sessions (morning and evening) of the first day of competition.

The promotion will also be valid for people accompanying students at the stadium, whether relatives or teachers.

The morning session on 7 June will open at 9.35 a.m. with the discus throw qualifiers, then there will be space for many other disciplines: shot put, hurdles, 1500m, 800m, 3000 steeplechase, triple jump and long jump qualifiers, as well as the first Heptathlon competitions.

In the evening session, the first medals of the Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships will be awarded, starting with the women’s 20km race walk, with a course designed around the Stadio dei Marmi and the Fountain of the Sphere culminating inside the Olympic Stadium.

The other scheduled finals will be the women’s discus throw, the women’s shot put, the mixed 4×400 relay and the women’s 5000m, while the sprinters will compete in the men’s 100m qualifiers.

The spectacular challenges of Roma 2024 will fill six consecutive days of competition until 12 June, with over 1559 European athletes representing 48 different countries competing in 24 different disciplines. 

Credit photo: Grana\FIDAL

By Admin EAC Roma2024

Nine world champions headline final entries for Roma 2024

The final entries for the Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships which take place from 7-12 June have been published and are available to view (tickets and packages on sale here).

The entry-lists are headed by nine individual gold medallists from the 2023 World Athletics Championships: Jakob Ingebrigtsen (1500/5000m), Karsten Warholm (400m hurdles), Gianmarco Tamberi (high jump), Armand Duplantis (pole vault), Miltiadis Tentoglou (long jump) and Daniel Stahl (discus) on the men’s side and Femke Bol (400m hurdles), Yaroslava Mahuchikh (high jump) and Katarina Johnson-Thompson (heptathlon) on the women’s side.

In total, 34 individual champions from the Munich 2022 European Athletics Championships will be looking to add to their title hauls in Rome including Croatia’s Sandra Elkasevic who is seeking a record seventh successive European title in the discus.  

At the time of writing, the entry-lists also feature six athletes who lead the 2024 world lists in their respective disciplines: world record-holders Duplantis (6.24m, pole vault) and Mykolas Alekna (74.35m, discus) along with Ingebrigtsen (3:29.74, 1500m) Brits Keely Hodgkinson (1:55.78, 800m) and Molly Caudery (4.86m, pole vault) and Germany’s Max Dehning (90.20m, javelin).

The oldest athlete entered for Roma 2024 is 44-year-old French discus thrower Melina Robert-Michon, born 18 July 1979, who is contesting her seventh European Athletics Championships while the youngest entrant is 16-year-old Romanian 400m hurdles Alexandra Stefania Uta, born 6 October 2007,, the bronze medallist at the 2023 European Athletics U20 Championships.

A late addition to the decathlon entry list is the world record-holder and 2017 and 2022 world champion Kevin Mayer – also a three-time European indoor heptathlon champion – who does not have the entry standard but has received a wildcard for Roma 2024.

“The French Athletics Federation requested a wild card for Kevin Mayer which the European Athletics Executive Board carefully considered,” explained European Athletics President Dobromir Karamarinov

“We recognised that Kevin is a two-time world champion in the decathlon, most recently in 2022, and the current world record-holder. Given his exceptional achievements, there was considerable merit in granting this wild card.

“European Athletics knows that it will add great interest for the public when they see a global star and world record-holder like Kevin competing at Roma 2024 and we are happy to welcome Kevin,” he added.

Link to entry list

By Admin EAC Roma2024

Foro Italico Park is open to everyone during Roma 2024 with a Medal Plaza

The countdown to the Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships is almost over. From 7-12 June, the top athletes of the continent will compete at the Olympic Stadium and at the Foro Italico Park (tickets and packages on sale here).

An amazing setting for an inclusive event that will allow sports fans and families to follow the Italian and international champions up close and meet them every day at the Foro Italico Park.

The Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships will be also a big opportunity to enjoy an area rich in history and charm, renovated by Sport e Salute for the benefit of citizens, families, and young people, and that will remain free for the public and accessible to all.

During the six days of the Championships, outside the Olympic Stadium, the ‘Fontana della Sfera’ (Sphere Fountain) square will be transformed into the ‘Medal Plaza’ of Roma 2024, where medal-winning athletes will be awarded every day. The award ceremonies will be held twice a day in the Medal Plaza (starting at 6 p.m. and around 11 p.m.), while the award ceremonies for the half-marathon on 9 June will take place inside the stadium at the end of the race. 

The Medal Plaza will be the heart of the Roma 2024 Fan Village and will be open free for all, even for those who do not have tickets for the European Athletics Championships.

On 7 June, after the first morning session scheduled from 9.35 a.m., the Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships will officially start at 6 p.m. with the Opening Ceremony in the Medal Plaza. It will be a show full of energy, including music, dance and visuals show. 

This will be followed (18.35) by the women’s 20km racewalk final. All fans will be able to enjoy the challenge of the race walkers outside the stadium on an inimitable course: the athletes will start from the Viale del Foro Italico, then run 19 laps around the Fontana della Sfera square and the Stadio dei Marmi, before ending the race inside the Olympic Stadium, which will only be accessible to ticket holders. The following day, in the evening session on 8 June, the men will then compete on the same course in the men’s 20km race walk final.

The Stadio dei Marmi, restored and renovated with a new athletics track, will be the main warm-up area for the athletes, and many of them have already said that “it is the most beautiful stadium in the world’. During the European Athletics Championships it will be possible to closely follow the training sessions of the champions surrounded by statues.

The totally redeveloped Sphere Fountain will also come back to life and it will start working again as a real fountain. Another historical symbol of Foro Italico will become the centre of a village open to all, operating during the European Athletics Championships from 9 a.m. until midnight, for a total of 90 hours. An area with more than 800 square metres of food & beverage services, refreshment and shopping areas, but that’s not all: in the Fan Village a dedicated sports practice area will be set up for athletes and young people, thanks to the collaboration between Sport e Salute, FIDAL and sports clubs. In the Village there will also be spaces dedicated to art and body painting, to innovation, thanks to the ‘Sport and Innovation Made in Italy’ project curated by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and to health-care, through the ‘Sport is Health’ campaign conducted in cooperation with the Italian Ministry of Health.

Among the 50 stands of the Fan Village of Roma 2024 there will also be points dedicated to the merchandising of Karhu, the Official Supplier of the European Athletics Championships, and other sponsors and partners of the event including Fastweb, Unicredit, Net, Humangest, Le Gruyere and Wurth.

RDS will be the official radio of the Roma European Athletics Championships and with its speakers will bring energy and passion to the Medal Plaza, which will be animated with lots of music, games and fun, creating a festive and engaging atmosphere.

On 12 June, during the last evening session of Roma 2024, the British singer-songwriter Grace Davies will perform in two different moments on the Medal Plaza stage with the official song of the Championships, ‘Illuminate’, accompanied by the dancers, and with her other song ‘Roots’, appointing everyone to the Birmingham 2026 European Athletics Championships.

By Admin EAC Roma2024

Ten days to go until Roma 2024 with the largest Italian team ever

“There have never been so many Italian athletes at the European Athletics Championships. In the coming days we will officially announce the team for Roma 2024 but we can already confirm that our national team will have more than 100 athletes for the first time”. This was announced by FIDAL and EuroRoma 2024 Foundation President Stefano Mei with 10 days to go until the European Athletics Championships, scheduled to take place at the Olympic Stadium and the Foro Italico Park 7-12 June.

In the meantime, ticket sales continue: until 9 a.m. on Thursday, 30 May, all tickets and packages are on sale here with a 40% discount, while children from all schools in Italy, together with their carers, will be able to buy tickets for the symbolic price of 1 euro to follow the morning and evening sessions of the opening day on 7 June.

Stefano Mei spoke at the end of the morning training session of the relays of the Italian national athletics team at the Stadio dei Marmi, that will be the main warm-up area for the Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships.

The Italia team, which will be officially defined shortly, had been a maximum of 101 athletes in the previous edition in Munich 2022, then dropped to 98 due to three defections before the start. This time it will go further. And if it is also partly the result of the increase in specialities over time, it is above all thanks to the broadening of the base that has taken place in the last three years for Italian athletics.

“We have important numbers that show the technical investment made during the last seasons. I am sure that it will be an amazing event in the Olympic Stadium, driven by the great results that our Italian girls and boys are achieving, but also by the great international stars present, like Femke Bol, Armand Duplantis, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Karsten Warholm and many others.” said Mei.

Among the Italians involved in the training session at the Stadio dei Marmi was also the Olympic 4x100m relay champion Filippo Tortu: “This is the right setting for great satisfaction,” he said.

“In this stadium a few days ago I did one of the worst performances of my life, but I am arriving at the European Athletics Championships in a completely different spirit, to do well in the 200m and the 4x100m relay. Livio Berruti‘s race in Roma 1960 Olympic Games inspired me since I was a child: this is not the time to look for comparisons with the past but only to give the best of ourselves. It is the right opportunity to show again that we are a good team. We need the fan’s help to do our best.” said Tortu.

By Admin EAC Roma2024

Asher-Smith seeking Roma 2024 redemption

The European Athletics Championships have provided contrasting experiences for Dina Asher-Smith, and she is hoping Roma 2024 will provide another golden memory.

“I’m really excited for both the Europeans and the Olympics this year. It goes without saying both the Europeans and Olympics are big markers on my calendar this year,” she says, talking on European Athletics Ignite podcast series.

The British sprinter won her first senior title in Amsterdam 2016, racing to 200m gold, a distance she went on to become world champion at in Doha in 2019.

At Berlin 2018, she enjoyed an almost faultless championships, racing away with 100m, 200m and 4x100m titles. But at Munich 2022, as an athlete with huge ambitions, she was disconsolate to come away with 200m silver and eighth-place in the 100m, pulling up with cramp in the final.

Then having returned from last year’s World Athletics Championships in Budapest empty handed, placing eighth in the 100m final and seventh in the 200m, Asher-Smith took the bold step of switching from her long-time coach John Blackie in London to Edrick Floreal in Austin, USA.

And if her early season form is anything to go by, it has revitalised the effervescent Brit, who has chalked up numerous victories and leads the 2024 European list over 200m with a 22.29 clocking. She has also demonstrated her range extends beyond 200m with a 51.2 relay leg in the 4x400m at the Texas Relays. 

Looking to Roma 2024, she says: “It’s likely I’ll be just doing the 100m and the relay (4x100m). The last European Championships I did not have a good one. Long story. It’s done. 

“So, I am really excited for these Europeans, I have big goals for myself, very big aspirations of what I want to run, especially when I run the 100m and how I want to run and how I want to win it. 

“I love Rome, I love doing the Rome Diamond League. That stadium is beautiful with all the statues in the warm-up area. I think they just had it resurfaced, and the football stadium is so historic. 

“Rome is a beautiful city anyway. Everybody is really excited that the Europeans are in Rome. It’s going to be great.”

Twice an Olympian and six-times a World Athletics Championship participant, Asher-Smith is now a well-seasoned international athlete. But she has a special affection for the European Athletics Championships.

“It is one of our favourite championships because track and field is so popular and so loved in Europe,” she says. “When you are inside the stadium at a European Championships, the atmosphere can feel very much like a World Championships, with the passion of the fans and the calibre of the performances. It’s tough. To be a European Champion is not easy.”

And she is eager to get back to her best after the disappointments of Munich 2022. “I came off Eugene (2022 World Athletics Championships) running almost 10.7 and 21 in the semi and getting a global bronze,” she recalls.

“Then I had not a fab Munich. In hindsight, me and my team know why. I’m not going to go into the detail. At the time, living it and experiencing it didn’t really make sense for me because I was in like PB shape. End of story. Did not go the way I wanted it to, so this time I would like it to go the way I want it to.”

Credit photo: Getty Images

By Admin EAC Roma2024

School Day on 7 June: students enter the stadium for 1€

The Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships will open on 7 June with a special promotion dedicated to young people: school students will in fact be able to buy tickets at the symbolic price of 1 Euro to follow at the Olympic Stadium, in the Curva Sud, Curva Nord and Distinti Sud stands, both sessions (morning and evening) of the first day of competition.

The promotion will also be valid for people accompanying students at the stadium, whether relatives or teachers. 

And there is more: thanks to the new ‘Last Call‘ promotion from 9 a.m. this morning, it is possible to purchase all available ticket and season ticket types at a 40% discount. The ‘Last Call’ promotion will run for one week and will end at 9 a.m. on Thursday, 30 May. Detailed informations about on the ongoing promotions can be found here.

“We can’t wait to go at the Olympic Stadium to enjoy the enthusiasm and passion of young people, in the name of inclusion and participation, for the opening of the European Athletics Championships. This is a formidable opportunity to transfer the commitment, quality and excellence of our country and our territory to the whole world, as well as to confirm our skills in organising major events,” says Stefano Mei, president of FIDAL and of the EuroRoma 2024 Foundation.

The presence of thousands of children and young people will make the atmosphere at the Foro Italico Park and the Olympic Stadium magical, in a day that will be full of emotions for all lovers of athletics.

The morning session on 7 June will open at 9.35 a.m. with the discus throw qualifiers, then there will be space for many other disciplines: shot put, hurdles, 1500m, 800m, 3000 steeplechase, triple jump and long jump qualifiers, as well as the first Heptathlon competitions.

In the evening session, the first medals of the Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships will be awarded, starting with the women’s 20km race walk, with a course designed around the Stadio dei Marmi and the Fountain of the Sphere culminating inside the Olympic Stadium.

The other scheduled finals will be the women’s discus throw, the women’s shot put, the mixed 4×400 relay and the women’s 5000m, while the sprinters will compete in the men’s 100m qualifiers.

The spectacular challenges of Roma 2024 will fill six consecutive days of competition until 12 June, with over 1600 European athletes competing in 24 different disciplines. Tickets and season tickets are on sale here.

Credit photo: Grana\FIDAL

By Admin EAC Roma2024

Leonardo Fabbri hoping for gold medal and European record in Roma

“Trust me, it will be amazing. You cannot miss the European Athletics Championships in Rome, such a strong athletics team in Italy has never been seen.” Leonardo Fabbri invites all the fans at the Olympic Stadium for the upcoming Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships, scheduled 7 -12 June (tickets on sale here).

Fabbri won the silver medal in the shot put at the Budapest 2023 World Athletics Championships and the bronze medall at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow. Since a few days he is also the Italian record holder with a fantastic 22.95 in Savona, a performance that made him the second European shot putter of all times behind the German Ulf Timmermann (23.06 in 1988) and that allowed him to go beyond a legend of Italian athletics such as the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic champion Alessandro Andrei (22.91 in 1987), that was born in Florence like him and is a model for Fabbri.

“Overcoming Andrei for me is like a dream coming true. I started to compete in shot put when I was 12 years old” said Leonardo Fabbri, who will compete tomorrow at the Grifone Meeting in Asti to continue his preparation to Roma 2024. “Many people have always made comparisons between me and Andrei, with the performances he did as a child, with those he did as an adult, and I have always tried to match him. In many things I have succeeded, and I am proud of that because for me he is like a divinity. There is still one medal separating us, let’s see if in two months at the Olympics Games in Paris I can get close to him. I have thrown more than him but Alessandro Andrei will forever remain in the history of Italian sport for what he has done.”

In the last three competitions, between Modena, Savona and Lucca, Fabbri has exceeded the 22-metre mark nine times.

“I finally found continuity and lost several kilos, I no longer have the physical problems I had two years ago and now I can train every day. The technical gesture in the shot put is very stable and this allows me to throw regularly over 22 metres, even without being in my top condition: this is really important if you want to compete with the best athletes at international level.”

The Olympic Stadium awaits him for the qualification round at the Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships on the first evening session of competition scheduled on Friday 7 June and for the final on the following day, Saturday 8 June. “The first time I competed at the Olympic Stadium was at the 2019 Golden Gala meeting: I did really badly, but my international career started from there. I still laugh when I think about the athlete I was in 2019: I did 19 metres, I had little experience and I was very nervous. But it’s important to make mistakes: I’ve learnt a lot from that and I can’t wait to come back to Rome on 8 June to prove to myself that I’ve done a good work in these five years.”

The goal for Fabbri is to win the gold medal in the shot put, never won by any Italian thrower at the European Athletics Championships in the previous 25 editions since 1934. In indoor competitions, on the other hand, only three athletes have managed it in the past: his coach Paolo Dal Soglio in Stockholm in 1996, his training partner and Italian teammate Zane Weir in Istanbul in 2023 and Assunta Legnante in Birmingham in 2007.The gold medal is not the only hope for Leonardo: “The 11 centimetres that separate me from the European record is another goal. I already wanted to take the indoor record and unfortunately I missed it by 18 centimetres. Rome would be a wonderful opportunity to do so but I try never to think too much about it: I just go there, throw and have fun.”

By Admin EAC Roma2024

Jacobs thrills crowds at Roma Sprint Festival

Olympic and European 100m champion Marcell Jacobs gave a thrilling glimpse of what was to come at the Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships, which take place 7-12 June.

The Italian icon took part in the Roma Sprint Festival on Saturday (18) at the immaculately renovated Stadio dei Marmi, which will be the warm-up track for next month’s showpiece event. 

And Jacobs did not let down the hordes of home fans who came to support their hero as he scorched to a season’s best of 10.07 (+1.1m/s) to win the 100m.

“The race went quite well but there were always some errors at the start. If I had started like in the warm-up there would have been another race. I still missed that part, but I’m happy with it. 

“And then I’ve had some sort of allergy for two days. I finished the race unable to breathe, it took me a while to recover, but everything was fine. I’m very happy to have raced in this environment, the support from all the fans was incredible, I had a lot of fun. 

“For us athletes, cheering is fundamental, the more they support us, the more we are able to bring out the best in ourselves. Now we are all looking forward to the European Championships in the Olympic Stadium,” said Jacobs. 

In addition to Jacobs‘ success at the all-marble arena, the crowd were treated to some brilliant 200m victories by European bronze medallist Filippo Tortu, who won the men’s race in 20.72 (+0.7m/s) and Zaynab Dosso, the World Indoor 60m bronze medallist who set a personal best of 23.10 (0.4m/s). 

Credit photo: Grana\FIDAL

By Admin EAC Roma2024

A new tickets promotion is open in the weekend

With 20 days to go until the start of the Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships, scheduled from 7-12 June, it’s coming a new ticketing promotion. Starting at midnight today, during the weekend it will be possible to buy tickets and packages with a 40% discount. (Click here to buy your tickets).

The ‘Sprint Festival’ promotion is valid for all tickets and packages on sale and will remain open for 48 hours, until midnight on Sunday 19 May.

The promotion was launched today during the Roma SprintFestival 2024 press conference, which took place at the Olympic Stadium and was attended by FIDAL and EuroRoma 2024 Foundation President Stefano Mei, Sport e Salute CEO Diego Nepi Molineris, Roma Councillor Alessandro Onorato and the Italian star Marcell Jacobs.

“The SprintFestival is a very important step towards the Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships. From midnight we will start an important promotion on tickets, the European athletics fans will be able to take this opportunity for two days,” said Stefano Mei.

Marcell Jacobs, Filippo Tortu, Zaynab Dosso and the other sprinters will be competing tomorrow afternoon at the Roma SprintFestival 2024 on the renovated track of the Stadio dei Marmi, that will be become the main warm-up area for the Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships.

The Roma SprintFestival 2024 will be a special preview of the great challenges between the European stars of athletics, who will compete from 7 June at the Olympic Stadium for six consecutive days of competition. There will be 147 medals up for grabs during the Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships and the best Italian and European athletes have already confirmed their participation: from the Italian champions Marcell Jacobs, Gianmarco Tamberi, Larissa Iapichino, Leonardo Fabbri and Mattia Furlani, to the big European stars as Armand Duplantis, Femke Bol, Keely Hodgkinson, Karsten Warholm and many others.

By Admin EAC Roma2024

Special discounts for train travel to Rome with Frecciarossa

Frecciarossa is the Official Train of the Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships, to be held from 7-12 June at the Olympic Stadium and the Foro Italico Park. Thanks to a special promotion dedicated to athletics fans who will travel to Rome on the Frecce trains will be much cheaper during the great sporting event. 

In fact, the Special Events offer will allow passengers to purchase tickets for travel on the Frecce with discounts of up to 80% on the base price by using the code “ROMA2024”. 
 
The promotion will be valid for travel in Italy with destination Rome from 6 to 12 June 2024 and for travel with origin Rome from 7 to 13 June 2024.  
 
For validating the offer it will be necessary to show the ticket for the Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships on board the train at the ticket inspector’s office.
 
The offer can be used on board of “Frecciarossa”, “Frecciargento” and “Frecciabianca” trains in the service levels Business, Premium, Standard, in 1st and 2nd class.
 
For all other informations, consult the web-page dedicated to the promotion.