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• 50 Golden Moments: Backley defies odds to capture fourth title in Munich
  Steve Backley’s near misses at the Olympic Games against the great Czech Jan Zelezny have been well-documented and while his medal cabinet does lack a gold medal from a global championships, the Brit has the distinction of going unbeaten in his long and esteemed European Championships career. 
• Coe: "I didn’t want to end my career without a recognisable 800m title"
  With European Athletics celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2020, World Athletics President Sebastian Coe speaks exclusively and in-depth to European Athletics on his European Championships career which was bookmarked by gold medals in the 800m in both 1977 and 1986.
• Vetter launches a world lead of 91.49m in Turku
  Only 48 hours after improving his European lead with 87.36m at the German Championships, Johannes Vetter added nearly four metres to the world lead with his longest throw in two years at the Paavo Nurmi Games in Turku on Tuesday (11), a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold Meeting.