WHERE TO WATCH ISTANBUL 2023
The European Athletics Indoor Championships Istanbul 2023 take place from March 2nd – 5th and RTE SPORT will bring you comprehensive live coverage across the 4 days.
It promises to be another hugely exciting championships with seven reigning Olympic champions from Tokyo 2020, as well as 18 individual gold medallists from the Munich 2022 all set to take their place.
The seven Olympic champions due to compete are: Lamont Marcell Jacobs (60m), Karsten Warholm (400m), Jakob Ingebrigtsen (1500/3000m), Miltiadis Tentoglou (long jump) and Pedro Pichardo (triple jump) on the men’s side and Malaika Mihambo (long jump) and Nafissatou Thiam (pentathlon) among the women.
Ireland will have fifteen athletes, including a relay team, taking to European competition across the busy 4 days.
The Irish team includes twice European Indoor 800m medallist Mark English, World Indoor 60m Hurdles finalist Sarah Lavin, Commonwealth Games Hepathlon medallist Kate O'Connor and recent national 60m record breaker Israel Olatunde. The Women's 4x400m relay team is included as one of only six qualifying nations and will compete in a straight final.
RTE Schedule:
Thursday March 2nd
- Live on RTE News Channel & RTE Player
Friday March 3rd
- Morning session live on RTE News Channel
- Afternoon session on RTE2 from 4pm
Saturday March 4th
- Morning session on RTE News Channel
- Afternoon session RTE One from 3.30pm (crossing to RTE News Channel at 5.40pm for Men's 60m Final)
Sunday March 5th
- Morning session on RTE News Channel
- Afternoon session live on RTE 2 from 4pm
David Gillick will be trackside in Istanbul to get all of the post event reaction.
See RTE listings HERE.
European Athletics will also be live streaming all the action from Istanbul 2023 via their 'ALL ATHLETICS' platform HERE.
Athletics Ireland will be posting the latest updates and results across all of our social media channels throughout the week.