This international competition is a stepping point for top young sportsmen whose aim is to succeed at big international competitions. Competitors from the past years include e.g. the current record holder in the pole vault,
Yelena Isinbayeva or the Czech pole vault jumper
Jaroslav Bába.
The biggest stars of this year’s championships will be the triple European champion from Barcelona – the French
Christophe Lemaitre,
Teddy Tamgho the French triple jumper who broke the indoor world record with his 17.90 metre long jump, or the current world number two in discus throwing Sandra Perkovič from Croatia.
As for young Czech sport stars, visitors can look forward to seeing the performances of the javelin thrower
Jakub Vadlejch, who qualified for the European Championships in Barcelona in 2010. Among other competitors will be the hurdler
Martin Mazáč, who qualified to the World Indoor Championships this year or
Kateřina Šafránková, the silver medallist from the 2008 World Junior Championships in the hammer throw.
The good name of the championships is supported by the four ambassadors
Šárka Kašpárková,
Denisa Rosolová,
Robert Změlík and
Jaroslav Bába.
You can find more information about the competition in
Ostrava-Vítkovice (map) here.