European athletes cheated out of world titles will be retrospectively presented their medals at an official ceremony at the upcoming European Championships in Amsterdam.

The president of European Athletics, Svein Arne Hansen, confirmed that only gold medallists will be publicly awarded their titles and that so far two athletes from the 2009 World Championships in Berlin would be presented on July 6, the first day of the European Championships.

“It’s a very important signal,” Hansen told. “On the first day, on July 6 we are going to reallocate and present the gold medals. It’s too much to go down to all the medal winners because that would mean a lot of changes for us. But on the first night we will give all the gold medals from Berlin 2009.”

 

 

Trond Nymark (NOR)

 

 

 

 

 

Olive Loughnane (IRL)