European Championships 2018 live on BBC Sport

The first ever multi-sport European Championships will run from 2-12 August and BBC Sport will be live from the host cities of Glasgow and Berlin to bring this new and exciting sporting concept on TV and online.

Bringing together existing individual European Championships for each sport into one co-ordinated multi-sport, the eleven-day event which will see the sporting elite of Europe partake in athletics, swimming, cycling, rowing, triathlon, gymnastics plus a brand new European Golf Team Championships which will see mixed teams for the first time.

Hazel Irvine, Clare Balding and Gabby Logan lead the BBC’s TV coverage across BBC One and BBC Two, with both channels showing up to twelve hours of coverage a day combined.

Steve Cram, Andrew Cotter, Steve Backley, Colin Jackson, Jeanette Kwakye and Paula Radcliffe will be live in Berlin to provide expert commentary for the European Athletics Championships, while back in the BBC’s main studio base in Glasgow, Michael Johnson, Denise Lewis, Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill, Toni Minichiello and Mark Butler will also provide their comment and analysis.

Matt Baker, Beth Tweddle, Christine Still and Craig Heap will be on hand to offer expert analysis during the gymnastics events which will see eight action-packed days and 600 gymnasts take part, including five-time Olympic medallist Max Whitlock.

Covering the European Aquatics Championships, which will include synchronised swimming and diving, will be Rebecca Adlington, Mark Foster, Andy Jameson and Adrian Moorhouse, as well as Leon Taylor, Kat Downes and Andrea Holland, as over 1,000 of the leading stars in European Aquatics compete.

The European Rowing Championships are heading to Scotland for the first time ever and Katherine Grainger, Garry Herbert and James Cracknell will join presenter Sir Matthew Pinsent to discuss the races as the rowers compete at Strathclyde Country Park.

Scotsman and Olympian Sir Chris Hoy will be part of the commentary team for the cycling events, where four different disciplines will be taking place in the same city simultaneously for the first time ever. Joining Chris on commentary duties will be Simon Brotherton and Chris Boardman, with Jill Douglas reporting live from all of the cycling events.

The European Triathlon Championships will see Matt Chilton and Annie Emmerson over every run, cycle and splash, while Eilidh Barbour takes to the green to present the European Golf Team Championships, taking place at the PGA Centenary Course at Gleneagles.

All TV coverage will also be streamed live online via the BBC Sport website meaning sports fans will never have to miss a minute of the action as over 4,500 athletes compete during the eleven days.

BBC Radio 5 live will be live throughout the European Championships and Sonja McLaughlan will present the coverage on the station with Mike Costello, Allison Curbishley and Daley Thompson on the BBC Radio 5 live commentary team in Berlin.

There will be live coverage in the evenings on 5 live and 5 live sports extra as well as regular updates and reports throughout the day.

Viewers can keep on top of all the European Championship news with BBC Sport’s extensive digital service, including video streams, highlights, on demand clips, a dedicated live text page and news stories on the BBC Sport website and app.

A HD video stream will also be available, offering alternative live action and long form highlights of outstanding finals on BBC Sport Online via connected TV or mobile and BBC iPlayer, or by pressing Red.

The first edition of the new multi-sport competition will have more than 4,500 of the continent’s best athletes competing in seven sports.

Aquatics events, rowing, gymnastics, cycling, triathlon and golf will take place in Glasgow, while Berlin hosts athletics.

Olympic stars such as Adam Peaty, Laura and Jason Kenny, Katarina Johnson-Thompson, Max Whitlock and Alistair Brownlee are set to compete for Great Britain.

Visit the BBC Sport website for a full TV, radio and online coverage listings, plus details of each day’s key events.

BBC presenter Hazel Irvine will be hosting the morning and early daytime coverage throughout the championships. She said:

“To have such a massive sporting event take place in my native Scotland, in addition to Berlin, is just brilliant. I’m excited to follow the highs and lows over the course of the Championships and ultimately find out who will be crowned the best in Europe in their field. I am particularly looking forward to seeing the golf at Gleneagles – with the likes of four-time major winner Dame Laura Davies pairing up with the hugely exciting talent Georgia Hall, it’s going to be a memorable event.”

Clare Balding, who will take over for the afternoon and evening presenting shift on BBC One or BBC Two, said:

“The European Championships will be a hugely exciting new event and we really are spoiled to have thousands of sporting stars competing in so many different events in Glasgow as well as the top athletes taking each other on in Berlin. It’s brilliant to be part of a brand new sporting concept like this and I think it’s going to be really fast-paced event and a chance for the sporting elite of Europe to show us the best of themselves.”

Gabby Logan will present the BBC’s coverage of the athletics events. She comments:

“There will be so much going on across the seven different sports and with such an array of talent competing, it will be fantastic to watch familiar faces and new talent from across Europe fight for the podium positions. The sprint events certainly catch the eye – Britain have a number of highly-talented youngsters led by Dina Asher-Smith who has been running brilliantly this season, so I think she’s in a strong position for the 100 and 200m in Berlin.”

Commenting overall on the BBC’s coverage of the inaugural multi-sport European Championships event, Barbara Slater, Director of BBC Sport, said:

“This brand new multi-sport event hosted on home soil and in Berlin is a brilliant way to continue the already stellar summer of free-to-air-sport.

“The BBC will be there to capture the electric atmosphere as the Championships showcase some of Europe’s most talented sportspeople.”

Watch comprehensive live TV coverage on BBC One, BBC Two, Red Button, Connected TVs, online and the BBC Sport app. There is also extensive coverage on BBC Radio 5 live and sports extra.

Live action of each session will be available in the UK via mobile, tablet and desktop, with highlights of key events clipped up to download each day.

In addition to BBC Sport’s free-to-air coverage, Eurosport will also broadcast extensive coverage of all the events from the 2018 European Championships across TV and online via Eurosport Player.

For more information about the 2018 European Championships, including event guides and schedules, visit the official website – europeanchampionships.com.

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