Following yesterday’s first half of the European Athletics Team Championships review from 2013, here is the second half of interesting facts that took place over the weekend of 22-23 June.

Over the holidays, European Athletics looks back on our major events in 2013. To begin with, here is the first half of a two-part review of the 2013 European Athletics Team Championships.

The organisers of the 33rd edition of the Osaka International Women s Marathon, an IAAF Silver Label Road Race, have announced that Ukraine s reigning champion Tetiana Gamera-Shmyrko will defend her title on 26 January.

It has become a annual tradition that the IAAF publishes its ‘End of the Year Reviews on the IAAF website: www.iaaf.org. The 2013 series, which is composed of 10 event category reviews, will begin on Monday.

Thailand dominated the athletics events at the 27th edition of the South East Asian (SEA) Games, which end after five days of competition in the city of Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, on Thursday (19).

The last IAAF Cross Country Permit meeting of 2013 will again be the traditional finale to the year in this discipline, the Iris Lotto Crosscup in Brussels, and the focus of attention on Sunday (22) will be Belgium s newly crowned SPAR European Cross C...