The focus of attention in February was indoors with six European Athletics Indoor Permit Meetings providing a prelude to the 2015 European Athletics Indoor Championships in the Czech Republic capital of Prague on 6-8 March.
European Athletics is consequently pleased to announce that athletes from 14 different Member Federations have been nominated for the February award.
At the end of each month, a panel of experts produces a short list of the outstanding athletes and performances achieved by European athletes during that month, which is then mailed to the European athletics media and thousands of fans who have signed up to receive news from European Athletics.
The European Athlete of the Month fan voting takes place through our Facebook page, while members of the media can cast their vote on our website.
Fans are also able to vote through the European Athletics mobile applications on iPhone and Android phones.
The public, media and a group of expert statisticians cast their votes for the European Athlete of the Month with each category counting as 33.3 per cent of the vote.
For example, the winner of each poll will be awarded 10 points, second 9 points, etc. and the athlete with the most points after the three different polls have been counted will be declared the winner.
In the unlikely event of a tie, Hansjörg Wirz, the president of European Athletics, will have the casting vote.
The voting will close on Monday 16 March at noon CET.
The European Athlete of the Month initiative was launched in January 2007 and is designed to recognise outstanding performers at all levels of the sport in Europe.
No athlete who has previously served a two-year doping ban can be nominated for the European Athlete of the Month.
MEN
Abraham Tadesse SUI (road running): ran a European-leading half marathon time of 1:00:45 to get an impressive win over a high quality international field at the Barcelona Half Marathon on 15 February; he also took 40 seconds off his previous personal best.
Adam Helcelet CZE (multi-events) fourth in the 2013 European Indoor Championships heptathlon, he won his heptathlon national title in Prague on 7-8 February with a European-leading tally of 6164 points, his score including four indoor personal bests.
Adam Kszczot POL (800m): the two-time European Athletics Indoor Championships 800m gold medallist and current outdoor champion over the distance ran a 2015 European-leading 1:45.77 at the IAAF Indoor Permit meeting in Stockholm on 19 February.
Chijindu Ujah GBR (60m): still only 20, the 2013 European Junior Championships 100m gold medallist sped to a time of 6.53, the second fastest time by a European this winter, in London on 1 February.
David Storl GER (shot put): the two-time world champion launched his implement out to a European-leading 21.26m to win his national title in Karlsruhe on 21 February, his first meeting since the end of last summer because of knee surgery in the autumn.
Dimitri Bascou FRA (60m hurdles): clocked a 2015 European-leading time and personal best of 7.48 to win the national title in Aubiere on 21 February; after failing to get a medal at the last two European Indoor Championships, he is now the big favourite in Prague.
Homiyu Tesfaye GER (1500m): fifth in the European Athletics Championships last summer, the 21-year-old ran a world-leading national record of 3:35.71 in Vienna on 14 February and then improved to 3:34.13 in Stockholm on 19 February.
Krisztian Pars HUN (hammer): the reigning Olympic and European champion started his 2015 campaign with a 78.02m in South Africa and then threw 78.42m, both world-leading marks, the latter when winning at his national winter championships in Budapest on 21 February.
Mo Farah GBR (3000m/two miles): the reigning double Olympic, European and world champion set a two miles world best of 8:03.40 in Birmingham on 21 February and also clocked a world-leading and national record of 7:33.1 over 3000m in the same race.
Nelson Evora POR (triple jump): now 30, and after several years of injury problems, the 2008 Olympic champion returned to form at his national club championships in Pombal on 22 February and bounded out to a European-leading mark of 17.19m.
Pavel Maslak CZE (400m): the 2014 world indoor champion was unbeaten in five races this month, clocking a 2015 world-leading 45.27 at his national championships in Prague on 22 February, the third fastest performance ever by a European runner.
Renaud Lavillenie FRA (pole vault): the reigning Olympic and European champion won all four of his meetings this month, three of them higher than six metres, including a world-leading 6.02m clearance in Berlin on 14 February.
WOMEN
Alina Talay BLR (60m hurdles): the 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships silver medallist is the dominant European hurdler this winter, twice running a European-leading time and personal best of 7.88 and she posted five times better than any other European hurdler.
Aníta Hinriksdóttir ISL (800m): the 2013 European junior champion broke the European junior indoor record when she ran 2:01:77 to win her national championships in Hafnarfjördur on 8 February, taking 0.08 off a mark which had stood since 1987.
Antonella Palmisano ITA (3000m walk): the 2010 IAAF World Race Walking Cup junior winner clocked a personal best and world-leading 12:05.68 at her national championships in Padova on 21 February.
Dafne Schippers NED (60m): the multi-talented 2014 European Athlete of the Year won all four of her races this month and sped to a European-leading time of 7.09, in Berlin on 14 February, a time only beaten by one other sprinter in the world this winter.
Jenny Meadows GBR (800m): now 33, the 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships gold medallist won all four of her races this month, including a 1:59.85 outing at the European Athletics Indoor Permit Meeting in Torun, Poland, on 3 February.
Kamila Licwinko POL (high jump): the 28-year-old 2014 world indoor champion went over a world-leading height and national record of 2.02m at her national championships in Torun on 21 February and also jumped 2.01m in Moscow earlier in the month.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson GBR (jumps): set a UK absolute high jump record of 1.97m in Sheffield on 14 February and then leapt a British indoor record and European-leading long jump mark of 6.93m at the IAAF Indoor Permit meeting in Birmingham a week later.
Martina Ratej SLO (javelin): the 2014 European Athletics Championships finalist opened her 2015 season in outstanding fashion when she threw a world-leading distance of 65.75m to win at her national winter throwing championships in Ptuj on 28 February.
Nikolía Kiriakopoúlou GRE (pole vault): twice improved the national record and 2015 European-leading mark this month, going over 4.76m in Stockholm on 19 February and then 4.80m in Birmingham two days later for second place on the 2015 world lists.
Seren Bundy-Davies GBR (400m): the 20-year-old made an impressive improvement when she clocked a European-leading time of 51.72 in Birmingham on 21 February, faster than her outdoor best, to become the third fastest performer in the world indoor this winter.
Sifan Hassan NED (1500m): the 21-year-old 2014 European champion ran a world-leading time and national record of 4:00.46, more than two second faster than ever before indoors in Stockholm on 19 February.
Yana Maksimava BLR (multi-events): now 26, the 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships silver medallist put together a personal best tally and world-leading total of 4742 points for the indoor pentathlon at her national championships in Gomel on 6 February.