What a year! 🙌 12 RECORD BREAKING moments in 2024! 🔥

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The Pied Piper of Norway.
Look at that time.
Sanna Borger!
That is absolutely huge.
What an upset, what a surprise.
What a wonderful performance from Bolle.
Oh, poetry in motion.
Oh, huge, huge.
But he looks as though he's in a really serious place.
That's what we call a wind-up, I think.
Calling for silence.
This would be a world lead, though.
One attempt.
Loping in.
Ira at 2.34.
But he looks as though he's in a really serious plane
with his left foot.
What has happened there?
What's he doing?
I think his shoe has broken.
Ah, that's what we call a wind-up, I think.
Jamal Ghatanberi is going to carry on in this competition.
He's attempting 2.37.
He's only been higher than this twice in his career.
Oh, huge, huge.
The crowd go wild.
The bar was tickled, but it stays up.
He has absolutely delivered in front of his adoring home fans.
I've got a feeling now that really is it.
That'll be his fiancée.
I see lots of them on social media.
The Pied Piper of Norway.
Ingebrigtsen takes it there.
He's a master tactician.
He's a master at winding it up in the last 300 metres.
He does have fabulous finishing straight speed.
And he covers the last lap now, winning by 10 metres
and going away to make it a hat-trick of wins.
The Pied Piper of Norway comes round the bend into the straight.
And good, he looks beaten, as does Habsen alongside him.
Coming down the outside is one of the Italians,
and he's still looking really strong there.
It's Arreze down the outside.
Ingebrigtsen takes it there.
And it's Belgium taking the silver.
Ingebrigtsen on the accelerator
and also becoming the first middle-distance athlete in history
to win six gold medals.
This is quick. It's really quick.
He's taken almost a second of the European Under-18 best.
Begins to pull away.
Watch the clock. This is quick. It's really quick.
58.03.
It's a new championship best.
Radeba has produced the goods with a wonderful, wonderful performance.
But Rade is a long, long, long way ahead.
Over the penultimate hurdle now.
Looking so comfortable, so quick on the track.
He's now just racing against the clock.
What's he going to stop the clock at?
49.44.
He's taken almost a second of the European Under-18 best.
And the first to congratulate him after Vanya is his sister, Nina Radeba.
It will take a long, long time for any man of this age
to run quicker than 49.42.
We might have just discovered a new Karsten Warhol.
It's a magnificent goal.
She retains her title.
What a wonderful performance from Boll.
Boll is looking magnificent at this stage.
She's coming round.
They're at the 200 metre mark.
Behind her, it's really just a battle for the silver medal.
Peters is winning that battle at the moment as they come round the far bend.
Kloster also doing well.
The Norwegian in lane five, but it's Boll.
She's just pulling away from her rivals with every single step,
every single stride.
She's over the last barrier, and now she's just heading for home.
It's just a question of Boll versus the clock.
It's going to be 52.50.
She has taken 17 hundredths of her own championship record.
It's a magnificent goal.
She retains her title.
What a wonderful performance from Boll.
That is the quickest time in the world this year.
It is faster than McLaughlin-Levron over in the USA ran a couple of weeks ago.
That was a 52.70.
I think she and her team will be absolutely delighted with that time
and the manner of that run.
And I get the sense there's a little bit more in the tank.
That is absolutely huge from the Spaniard.
Diaz-Fortune, round number five, 17 metres and 96.
He's eight centimetres behind the leader, Pedro Pachado.
That is absolutely huge from the Spaniard.
What has he done here?
Pedro Pachado's 1804 was the 14th jump ever in history
over 18 metres.
Has he taken the lead of Pedro Pachado?
18 metres and 18?
A championship record and the third furthest jump in history.
Oh, look at that time.
Unbelievable.
And now Slovakia have the champion.
But it is Frick-Lever.
What a great start from the Slovak athlete.
And the crowd absolutely roaring her down the homestretch of this SMP Duflo Stadium.
Five metres in it between her and Kinga.
Look at that, that time.
Unbelievable.
12.87 for Frick-Lever.
That is a European under-18 best
by over a tenth of a second.
Unbelievable.
Can she replicate what she did in the heats and the semi and ignite this crowd?
They're away first time.
The crowd roared into life.
Frick-Lever is away.
No sign of nerves just yet.
Good run by Ndisi.
Oh, and she's fallen, but not Frick-Lever.
What's the clock?
12.98.
It's inside 13 seconds.
And now Slovakia have the champion.
And Dasi was going really well in second place, but then she fell.
The relief, the joy
and the realisation that she has lived up to expectations.
Flinkamer's face will be on the front and back of all the Slovakian newspapers
tomorrow. What a performance.
Ireland take the inaugural Mixed 4x400m gold medal.
What an upset. What a surprise.
O'Donnell, Adeleke, Thomas Barr and Charlene Maudsley
who's been doing so well on the international circuit.
Rashida Adeleke in the space of about 50 to 100 metres
has taken Ireland up from about fourth to first.
And Adeleke has befit a woman running low 49 seconds,
starting to pull away from the rest of the field.
Well, we know Femke Boll can really do very, very well over the last 200 metres,
but she's got a massive amount of ground to make up.
But now Charlene Maudsley coming round on her shoulder
and the Italians as well.
Anna Mangione and it's Maudsley that's, well,
gold coming, making a lot of ground up.
She's going to probably get in the medals.
She's overhauled the Belgians, but it's Ireland gold.
Ireland take the inaugural Mixed 4x400m gold medal.
What an upset. What a surprise.
And all credit to Charlene Maudsley for that absolutely blistering
last lap of the track.
And so, so deserved for the Irish team.
Always come with big hopes, but don't always end up with medals.
First gold since 1998.
That is incredible.
We see the emotion coming out.
Such big delight from the Croatian.
What about Sandra Elgasiewicz?
She's now the one with the game face on inside the circle.
Great agility, great power.
And I'm sure a great ability to start off this competition off so well.
Well over 65 metres.
No one else had ever won six gold medals in the same event,
even coming into these championships.
That's her best this year.
67 metres and four centimetres.
What can she do here?
Gives it everything in the final round, just like we saw from a Tentoglu
in the long jump.
Doesn't have more, but another gold.
And now we see the emotion coming out.
The Waterworks, such big delight from the Croatian.
And this is really what it means when you have such a fabulous record as well.
Anything less than a gold just won't do.
And it's just wonderful just to watch these scenes,
just to follow her with the camera and see the emotion just pouring out now.
Oh, poetry in motion.
He's unbeaten this year.
He's got the gold medal.
Mondo Duplantis, first attempt at 6'10".
Oh, it's looking good.
He's over.
Oh, what a magnificent vault.
It was perfection from start to finish.
Oh, somebody get the gold crown, get his bank details.
Oh, my days. Poetry in motion.
That is quite simply sensational from Serena Sambamayela.
Forster, Visser, Lavin, Sambamayela then in lane five.
Skorohoska, defending champion, Semba, Kambunji and Husker.
So decent getaway from it.
Sarah Lavin, Sambamayela now in the blue of France,
chased down by Skorohoska and chased by Kambunji as well.
Tries to hold them off.
Kambunji trying to close, but gold for France.
And Serena Sambamayela in 12.31,
the fastest time in the world this year.
And a phenomenal performance taking the championship record
that had been held since 1986
by Jordana Dongova.
It's a tenth of a second of the European record,
also held by the Bulgarian.
That is quite simply sensational from Serena Sambamayela.
He could give it everything, and he has, and he has.
Very last attempt in the fifth round for the event leader,
Miltiades Tentoslu.
He's quick on the... Oh, what?
That is absolutely huge.
That is well beyond the 8.50.
That surely is a new championship record, which he already holds at 8.52.
8.65, a championship record, a personal best.
Just one centimeter shy of the Greek record.
8.65, he's got the gold medal.
He could give it everything, and he has, and he has.
Tie on the board, we're just waiting for confirmation,
but it is a valid jump.
He might have done it again.
We might, we might see another jump further than even 8.65.
He had no pressure on him, beaten his own championship record.
Has he done it again?
It's another 8.65.
Unbelievable.
And somewhere in Greece, there's a man called Luis
Tatsumas, breathing a big sigh of relief.
Gold goes to Battaglietti.
What a wonderful day for the young Italian.
Battaglietti with a small smile on her face.
She does it.
She completes the set.
Junior champion, under 23 champion,
and now senior European cross-country champion.
Battaglietti came so close last year, had to give way to Groffdale.
But today, gold goes to Battaglietti.
What a wonderful day for the young Italian.
And Klosterhaufen with a lovely return to form.
The German matches her silver medal for 2022.
She looks beside herself with joy.
She is the real deal in every respect, isn't she?
I mean, academically, very, very gifted.
And in running terms, super gifted.
