With five medallists from the Paris Olympics, two reigning European champions from Roma 2024 and three world leaders in the line-ups, the men’s field events promise to be among the highest quality competitions at the Madrid 2025 European Athletics Championships 1st Division.
The event will be streamed live on the European Athletics website courtesy of the Eurovision Sport platform.
Here’s a closer look at the men’s field events…
Jumps
Apeldoorn 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships silver medallist Jan Stefela of Czechia is the only athlete in the field who has cleared 2.30s in the men’s high jump this year.
But Italy’s bronze medallist on that occasion, Matteo Sioli will be a dangerous rival alongside Ukraine’s Dmytro Nikitin and the experienced German Tobias Potye, a 2.34m specialist who placed fifth at the Budapest 2023 World Athletics Championships.
Greece’s reigning Paris 2024 bronze medallist Emmanouil Karalis should stamp his authority in the men’s pole vault as he belongs to the exclusive 6.00m club having set a lifetime outdoor best of 6.01m last month in Shaoxing and an overall best of 6.05m achieved in landing silver at the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing in March.
The Greek star shared the gold medal in Apeldoorn 2025 with the fast improving Menno Vloon of the Netherlands while France’s Thibaut Collet, 5.91 this indoor campaign, will be another to watch.
In what should be one of the highlights over the weekend, Greece’s double Olympic champion Miltiadis Tentoglou will face Nanjing 2025 World Indoor Championships gold medallist and world leader (8.37m) Mattia Furlani of Italy plus decathlete Simon Ehammer of Switzerland, who is joint second in the world this year with a best of 8.34m.
The trio were the medallists at a sensational competition at Roma 2024, where gold medallist Tentoglou set a championship best of 8.65m, silver medallist Furlani leapt to a world U20 record of 8.38m and Ehammer stretched out to a world-class 8.31m. Watch out too for Sweden’s Tobias Montler, holder of a season’s best of 8.25m.
The triple jump looked set to be a fierce showdown between Italy’s reigning Nanjing and Apeldoorn 2025 champion Andy Diaz and Portugal’s current Paris 2024 and Apeldoorn 2025 silver medallist Pedro Pablo Pichardo.
But with the 29-year-old Italian withdrawing, the field is open for Pichardo to secure maximum points.
Throws
Italy’s Leonardo Fabbri is the overwhelming favourite in the men’s shot put. In addition to be the world leader this outdoor season, thanks to a 22.31m effort set earlier this month (8), the 28-year-old won gold at the Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships.
Great Britain’s Scott Lincoln holds a season’s best of 21.09m marginally ahead of Poland’s Konrad Bukowiecki (21.07m) while the Apeldoorn 2025 European Indoor Athletics Championships silver and bronze medallists Wictor Petersson (Sweden) and Tomas Stanek (Czechia) should also be in the mix.
The men’s discus promises to be a thrilling three-horse battle between Sweden’s Daniel Stahl, Great Britain’s Lawrence Okoye and Germany’s rising star Mika Sosna.
The 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games champion Stahl is fresh from his first 70m throw of the season last week in Turku while Okoye and Sosna exceeded that mark for the first time in Ramona in April with respective heaves of 70.76m and 70.05m, a national record for the Briton.
In a contest worthy of a major championships final, no fewer than four throwers hold impressive season’s bests beyond 80m in the men’s hammer.
France’s Yann Chaussinand (81.91m), Germany’s Merlin Hummel (81.23m), Hungary’s Bence Halasz (80.97m) and Ukraine’s Mykhaylo Kokhan (80.73m) are all standing in the top-six of this season’s world lists. Halasz and Kokhan got silver and bronze respectively at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games and at Roma 2024.
Germany’s Julian Weber launched the 2025 season in style last May with a stunning performance in Doha where he won and set a massive lifetime best to surpass the 90m barrier for the first ever time courtesy of a 91.06m throw.
The Munich 2022 European Athletics champion is the hot favourite ahead of Poland’s Marcin Krukowski (SB of 84.39m), Portugal’s 2021 European U23 silver medallist Leandro Ramos (81.94m), Spain’s Manu Quijera (81.46m) and Finland’s Toni Keranen (81.20m).