A glittering cast featuring world and European champions as well as some of France’s standout athletes have been assembled for the Meeting de l’Eure in Val-de-Reuil, a World Athletics Indoor Tour Silver meeting, on Sunday 1 February.
The Meeting de l'Eure will be streamed live through the European Athletics website from 17.00 local time.
- Live stream (geoblocked in France)
- Live results
Werro to open her season in the 800m
Audrey Werro began what was a breakthrough 2025 season with victory on this track and the Swiss, who was crowned women’s Rising Star at the Golden Tracks awards night last October, opens her season at the same meeting on Sunday.
Werro will face strong opposition from the likes of home favourite Clara Liberman and Patricia Silva, both of whom won major indoor medals last year. Liberman won silver at the European Athletics Indoor Championships while Silva picked up a surprise bronze at the World Athletics Indoor Championships.
Werro just missed out on medals in both championships last year - in fact she fell in the European indoor 800m final - but the 21-year-old raced herself into formidable form through the summer, culminating with a victory in the Diamond League final in a Swiss record of 1:55.91 and a sixth-place finish at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.
In other middle distance action, European indoor 1500m champion Agathe Guillemot will be targeting her French indoor mile record of 4:25.99 set on this track last year.
Lining up alongside Guillemot will be the 2021 European indoor champion Elise Vanderelst from Belgium and Italy’s Gaia Sabbatini, twice a gold medallist in the mixed relay at the SPAR European Cross Country Championships.
World and European champions headline field events
Reigning European indoor and world outdoor champion Jessica Schilder from the Netherlands also opens her season in the shot put in Val-de-Reuil.
Schilder won last year with a meeting record of 19.85m, a mark she might be aiming to challenge at this year’s meeting. The field also includes Sweden’s Fanny Roos and Portugal’s Jessica Inchude, a two-time winner of the European Throwing Cup.
The focus of attention in the women’s triple jump will be on Cuba’s Leyanis Perez Hernandez who swept the world indoor and outdoor titles in 2025. Hernandez will also be making her season’s debut and the Cuban could have Patricia Mamona’s meeting record of 14.33m as a target.
European interest in the women’s triple jump will be provided by Slovenia’s Neja Filipic and Germany’s Caroline Joyeux who finished ninth and tenth respectively at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.
2022 European champion and 2023 European indoor champion Wilma Murto from Finland also competes for the first time this season in the pole vault.
Exciting sprint hurdles clashes in prospect
Fellow Finn and 2023 European indoor champion Reetta Hurske is part of a classy line-up in the women’s 60m hurdles.
Hurske has been in sharp early season form with a 7.92 season’s best, a time which was matched on Sunday by France's Laeticia Bapte who sped to victory at the Meeting de Paris Indoor.
In the men’s 60m hurdles, world and European indoor silver medallist Wilhem Belocian faces strong opposition from 2022 European champion Asier Martinez from Spain.
But the potential favourite based on recent form is Belgium’s Elie Bacari who will be looking to take some big scalps. The 22-year-old opened his season by improving his Belgian record to 7.50 to finish second behind Jakub Szymanski in Luxembourg earlier this month.
France’s Just Kwaou-Mathey will also be in action but the 26-year-old, who improved to 12.99 in the 110m hurdles last year, will be testing his flat speed in a non-international 60m.