Prague was chosen as the host of the Championships on the European Athletics council meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria in May 2012. The other candidate city was Istanbul, Turkey. Previously, Prague hosted the 1967 European Indoor Games, the forerunner of the European Athletics Indoor Championships. It was the first time since the 1978 European Athletics Championships that Prague hosted a major athletics championships.
The athlete, who won a bronze medal at the European Indoor Championships in 2015, underwent an out-of-competition doping test on 23 April 2023 ...Athletics Championships on February 2024, in Istanbul.
