It is your turn to take the baton
The Meeting de Paris at Charléty Stadium was a perfect opporutinity for several European athletes to show – Paris 2020’s baton in hand – how impatient they are to compete on the same track during the European Championships in Athletics next August.
If like them, you are excited and want to be part of the event, don’t miss the opening of the tickets sales on 25 September for license holders of the European Federations and on 25 October for the general public.
- Kevin Mayer (FRA)
- Dafne Schippers (NED)
- Kojo Musah (DEN)
- Angelica Bengtsson (SWE)
- 4x100m (Carolle Zahi, Cynthia Leduc, Maroussia Paré, Sarah Mingas – FRA)
- Nelson Evora (POR)
- Sandra Perkovic (CRO)
- Pierre-Ambroise Bosse (FRA)

This is probably the only crown that misses in Usain Bolt’s trophies cabinet: the European champion’s gold. Well, obviously you would say!
However, the Jamaican is always ready to promote Athletics. We met him during a promotional event organized in Marseille and he agreed to pose with the Paris 2020’s baton in hand. And who knows if he won’t come to greet some of his former opponents in Paris in August 2020?