The fans at the Super League of the European Athletics Team Championships in Braunschweig will see some of the biggest stars in the sport because this event is so much a path to glory.
Nine Olympic or World champions will be in action this weekend while 15 winners from last year's European Athletics Team Championships Super League in Gateshead went on to make the podium at the IAAF World Championships in Moscow a few weeks later.
It is now less than two months until these competitors will be at the European Athletics Championships in Zurich in August and how many will be successful there after winning their event in Braunschweig?
History says quite a few of them and here is the recent roll of honour:
GATESHEAD WINNERS WHO MEDALLED IN MOSCOW
GOLD
5000m: Mo Farah (GBR)
High jump: Bohdan Bondarenko (UKR)
Long Jump: Aleksandr Menkov (RUS)
Shot Put: David Storl (GER)
Discus: Robert Harting (GER)
Hammer: Pawel Fajdek (POL)
Javelin: Christina Obergfoll (GER)
SILVER
Pole Vault: Renaud Lavillenie (FRA)
Shot put: Christina Schwanitz (GER)
Discus: Melina Robert-Michon (FRA)
BRONZE
110m hurdles: Sergey Shubenkov (RUS)
Javelin: Dmitriy Tarabin (RUS)
100m hurdles: Tiffany Porter (GBR)
Triple Jump: Olha Saladuha (UKR)
4x400m relay: GBR women
CURRENT OLYMPIC AND WORLD CHAMPIONS COMPETING IN BRAUNSCHWEIG
OLYMPIC CHAMPIONS
Pole Vault: Renaud Lavillenie (FRA)
Long Jump: Greg Rutherford (GBR)
Discus: Robert Harting (GER)
Shot Put: Tomasz Majewski (POL)
Javelin: Barbora Spotakova (CZE)
WORLD CHAMPIONS
Shot Put: David Storl (GER)
Discus: Robert Harting (GER)
Hammer: Pawel Fajdek (POL)
1500m: Abeba Aregawi (SWE)
21st June 2014 10:00