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EXCLUSIVELY: HANSJÖRG WIRZ, PRESIDENT OF EUROPEAN ATHLETICS |
 It has been a moth and half since the end of the European Athletics Junior Championships in Novi Sad when the largest Vojvodinian town hosted the best young athletes, who achieved a series of great results and proved that they are truly the future of the ‘Queen of Sports’.
About the championships, as well as some other events planned for 2010 in Novi Sad, we talked with Hansjörg Wirz, President of European Athletics, in an exclusive interview the Swiss gave to the Novi Sad daily newspaper ‘Dnevnik’. |
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Take a look at photos from the competition. |
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‘Đačko Igralište’ Stadium in Novi Sad Opened for Citizens |
 The athletic track at the reconstructed ‘Đačko igralište’ stadium is now, when the European Athletics Junior Championships are over, available to athletes and recreational amateurs who are keen on running on tartan track. The citizens of Novi Sad can use ‘Đačko igralište’ stadium on workdays from 8am to 11am and from 5pm to 9pm, as well as on weekends from 8am to noon. Although most of the people have been seeking relief from heat at the Danube or swimming pools, there are still those inspired with sports spirit who exercise even during the hot summer days, so ‘Đačko igralište’ is full of amateurs from 6 pm. |
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 Novi Sad, 26th July – The highest number of medals at the European Athletics Junior Championships in Novi Sad, which closed today, was won by the national teams of Germany and Russia. The German athletes are taking home 25 medals all together (ten gold, eight silver and seven bronze), while the Russian athletes got 22 (nine gold, seven silver and six bronze medals). With one gold (Tatjana Jelača) and two silver medals (Ivana Španović and Mila Andrić), Serbia came tenth in the competition of 46 countries that took part in EJCH. |
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 Novi Sad, 26th July – The European Athletics Junior Championships in Novi Sad finished with Serbian national anthem ‘Bože pravde’ [Lord, Give Us Justice] after all! Tatjana Jelača has left the second placed Karolina Mor of Poland almost seven metres behind her, with the fantastic 60.35 m shot in the fifth series of the Javelin finals, winning gold. This is, also, the new senior record of Serbia.
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