Renaud Lavillenie starts as a strong favourite to take his third successive European pole vault title, while Olympic and Commonwealth champion Greg Rutherford will hope to add another major title to his name and tops the long jump entry list courtesy of his 8.51m British record. The triple jump looks wide open, with Lyukman Adams, Yoann Rapinier, Benjamin Compaoré and Aleksey Fyodorov all over 17m.
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Lisa Ryzih from Germany, Ekaterini Stefanidi from Greece and Anzhelika Sidorova from Russia are the only three European pole-vaulters to have cleared 4.70m outdoors this year.
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