Expect the 400m fireworks to fly at next summer’s European Championships in Birmingham.
Anyone who watched the London Athletics meeting earlier this year will have seen the fireworks fly when Matthew Hudson-Smith and Charlie Dobson go head-to-head on the 400m track.
And that great prospect awaits again at the 2026 European Championships in Birmingham.
The men’s 400m final will take place at the Alexander Stadium on the evening of Wednesday 12th August and should once again have all the makings of another truly memorable event.
Belgium’s 2024 world indoor champion Alexandre Doom won gold at the last European Championships in Rome, but Hudson-Smith, herself a two-time European champion (2018 and 2022), will have a point to prove after missing out on the podium at this year’s world championships.
The US-based Olympian and world silver medallist, who hails from Wolverhampton, also finished second at the Alexander Stadium in her last championship, at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, and would love nothing more than to finish first in her own backyard.
Dobson, who is behind Doom in Rome, will also be in the medal hunt and beat his compatriot in London back in July with a flying finish that took him to victory and a personal best of 44.14.
Great Britain’s ever-improving Sam Reardon will be inspired by the home crowd factor in a field that also features Hungary’s European champion Attila Molnar.
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