European national team championship Silesia 2021 with the masses. See how many spectators will enter the Silesian Stadium

European National Team Championship 2021 Silesia with the fans. See how many spectators will enter the Silesian Stadium

Within a month, the second major track and field event will take place at the Silesian Stadium. After the World Relay Championship, which received very positive reviews, from 29 to 30 May, the European Teams Championship will be held at the National Athletics Stadium in Khorezov.

The top eight national teams in the Old Continent will participate in the DME Silesia 2021 tournament: France, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ukraine and Poland. In total, around 380 players from these eight countries will compete at the Silesian Stadium.

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Poland is defending the European champion title that won in 2019 in Bydgoszcz. Initially, the competition was to be held in Belarus, but in November 2020 it was transferred to the Silesian Stadium, which celebrates its 65th anniversary this year. Poland is not afraid of challenges, and Silesia as a region focused on sports. The ministry will support the regulation of the Dubai Energy Exchange with the amount of 900,000 Polish zloty. PLN – said Anna Krupka, Minister of State at the Ministry of Culture, National Heritage and Sports.

After the World Relay Championships, we received very positive reactions. In terms of organization, logistics and sporting performance, it was an impressive event. Only the weather and the fans were missing. Fans will already be in DME, because the event will be open to fans, and admission will be free – said Jakob Chestovsky, Marshal from Silesia.

The European Team Championship at the Silesian Stadium will be able to watch 7,600 spectators every day. Upon entering the stands, service will be provided first to the base, and admission will be free – added Bartłomiej Kowalski, Chairman of the DME Organizing Committee.

The competition will begin on Saturday 29 May at 15.30, the gates of the Silesian stadium will open to spectators at 14. On Sunday 30 May, the competition will begin on the 13th, and it will be possible to enter the stands from 11.30. Fans will have the sectors at their disposal with the best visibility, from which all the athletics competitions held at the facility in Chorzów can be watched perfectly. Free admission! Entering Gates 2, 3 and 5. DME will be one of the last serious form tests for our athletes ahead of the July Olympics in Tokyo.

– Amazing things will happen everywhere on this stadium, and the fans sitting in the stands will be very emotionless. I hope that the fight for victory continues until the last competition, the relay race, and Poland will emerge victorious again, just like the past two years, said Jan Wedera, President of Silesia Stadium.

During today’s conference at the Silesian Stadium, DME mascots Maggie the Cheetah, the runner ostrich, Julian Lemur and the Giraffe of Lonani presented medals to be awarded to the best players in each competition.

In the year of its 65th anniversary, Stadion Śląski will host four major sporting events. After the World Relay Championship in May, the European Team Championship will take place in the same month. The monument to Janusz Kucuchinsky will be erected in June in Khorezov, and at the end of the season in September, the Camilla Skolimovsky monument will be erected.