7th March 2015 08:15
The men's 400m is the event the hosts have been waiting for ever since the countdown began to the championships and this evening at 7.30pm the 02 Arena will hush for a second and then explode into a cacophony of noise as the final begins.
It will surely be the biggest buzz of the whole weekend as local hero Maslak looks to retain the gold medal he won in Gothenburg two years ago and he is the clear favourite after the heats and semi-finals on Friday.
He sailed through both races, winning his heat in 47.23 and his semi in the quickest time combined of 46.46, slowing down on both occasions.
It could be quite night on the track for the Czech Republic as Denisa Rosolova, the 2011 champion, aims to regain the women's title. She also looked impressive in the qualifying rounds and was second overall in the semis in 52.48, in which she won her heat, while the quickest time came from Ukraine's Nataliya Pyhyda in 52.44.
Renaud Lavillenie has been in sensational form this indoor season with his own world record of 6.16m looking under threat but first the Frenchman must focus on winning his fourth consecutive European indoor gold.
But it was a close run thing that he made the final as he needed three attempts at 5.70m to qualify.
Yet it is likely we will see him back to his best this afternoon though Jan Kudlicka, of the Czech Republic, is one of those ready to make a big challenge for gold.
The women's high jump is the chance for Poland's world indoor champion Kamila Licwinko to win outright gold after sharing the title with Russian Mariya Kuchina in Sopot last March.
Kuchina is in the final too and while her season's best is 1.99m, Licwinko is top of the world rankings with 2.02m. But the pair will know that Spain's Ruth Beitia, the defending champion, remains a big threat.
The men's triple jump could be quite a story with Portgual's Nelson Evora chasing gold - seven years after he won the Olympic title in Beijing and in the women's long jump, Serbia's Ivana Spanovic, the silver medallist at last summer's European Athletics Championships in Zurich, could win her first major gold.
The night will end with the men's 3000m final, a wide open race where Türkiye's Ali Kaya will surely play a big part.
The morning session is very much a time to go Dutch.
In the men's heptathlon, the Netherlands' Eelco Sintnicolaas begins the defence of his crown while in the women's 60m, his teammate Dafne Schippers, the female European Athlete of the Year, will try to confirm her sprint double in Zurich with another world class showing.
It is also the start of the men's 60m which includes Great Britain's world indoor champion, Richard Kilty.