Ignite: A European Athletics Series
This is Ignite, a narrative podcast series from European Athletics telling the personal stories of athletes as they count down to the Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships. Throughout this series we will hear the first-person narratives from the likes of Keely Hodgkinson, Femke Bol, Katarina Johnson-Thompson, Zharnel Hughes, Yaroslava Mahuchikh and many more. If you want to see these stars in action in Rome this summer, visit: https://roma2024.vivaticket.it/ Ignite is a HWY61 production for European Athletics
Episodes
After emerging on talent show The X-Factor, Grace's career has taken many turns, leading her to reocrd the official song for the European Championships in Rome.
She'll be performing "Illuminate" at the closing ceremony.
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Ignite is a HWY61 production for European Athletic...
She's been one of Great Britain's shining lights in track and field ever since bursting onto the heptathlon scene as a teenager. And now at 31 years old, Katarina Johnson-Thompson's career is reaching its zenith as she embarks on the final frontier - winning European and Olympic gold.
The Liverpool-born star has stood atop the podium at the Commonwealth...
When the continent's elite athletes arrived at the European Championships in Berlin in 2018, they would have been hoping for personal success that would catapult their careers to new heights.
But what we saw instead was something on a whole other level as Berlin became a Championships for the ages. The likes of Mondo Duplantis and Jakob Ingebrigtsen announced th...
He was just 18 and the world of athletics was blown away by this unassuming teenager who not only took the field by storm that unforgettable night, but has since gone onto to define his sport and send all records before him tumbling.
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Fast forward to Roma 2024 and the Ukraine star is the athlete her rivals all wa...
Since then he's added Olympic gold to his record and defended his European titles in Munich in 2022. But it hasn't mean Ingebrigtsen has avoided challenges from a British team determin...
From the pain of Amsterdam 2016 when injury impacted his competitive spirit, to bouncing back to be crowned Euroepan champion for the 100 metres in Berlin 2018, Hughes is a man full of character and endeavour.
His success has been defined by effort and application, utilising a friendship ...
And Dutch 400-metre sensastion Femke Bol is no different, despite her dominance on the track. Bol has broken world records and stunned those competing against her, but to do it all she needed to defeat those inner thoughts that made her question if she had the ability to do it at all.
How does one do that? Where does the ...
The reigning 800 metre European champion is fully aware that she enters the arena with all eyes on her, but remains unfazed by what lies ahead.
But how did she get here? What are the challenges she faced? And who inspired the British athlete to lace...
This is his story, told in his words.
Liemarvin was a late adopter of track and field, training on the single athletics in Curacao before earning a scholarship to move overseas and start building his career.
The Olympics was Liemarvin's dream. He's worked hard, sacrificed and dedicated himself to achiev...
To the concern of her rivals, Thiam says she's only now entering her peak. So can she go all the way at the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games? Can she becoem the first heptathlete to defend her Olympic crown since 1992?
From competing ...
From the tracks of Norway to the Land of the Rising Sun in Tokyo, Japan for the 2020 Olympic Games, can he make another mark on history?
This is his story, told in his words.
It's the process that has helped deliver the talented German a European and world crown in long jump. And now she's chasing Olympic gold at Tokyo 2020.
With the whole world watching, can she succeed on the biggest stage?
This is her story, told in her words.
The Norwegian sensation has gone on to be a leading figure in middle distance running ever since and now, along with brothers Filip and Henrik, is chasing glory at the Olympic Games in Tokyo.
How did this youngster discover his talent at a such young age? Is it Norwegian nature or nuture that has deli...
Evelyn Jahl first came closest in 1976 and 1980, but her back to back victories went unmatched for 36 years... until Sandra Perkovic won in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, adding to her gold from London 2012.
Now the woman they call the "Discus Queen" is ready to beat Jahl's record and take her third consecutive gold i...
He hasn't looked back since, smashing world records and dominating the pole vault. Now the Swede from Lafayette, Louisiana has his eyes set on another world record and gold at Tokyo 2020.<...
Sports journalist Peter Sanderson has spent years tracking Europe's brightest track and field athletes up close and personal as they matured to reach Tokyo 2020.
Now the delayed Olympics are upon us, we finally get to hear their personal stories on the road to glory, featuring Mondo Duplantis, Sandra Perkovic, Jakob Ingebrigtsen...
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