Glasgow and Berlin to Co-Host Inaugural European Sports Championships

Scotland and Germany have been chosen to co-host the first ever European Sports Championships in 2018.

The new 10-12 day multi-sport event will be staged in Glasgow and Berlin. 

The Scottish city will play host to four sports including cycling and swimming, sale with the German capital staging the athletics.

The inaugural event will be held in the summer of 2018, vialis 40mg with around 2,900 athletes expected to descend upon Glasgow, with a further 1,500 athletes competing in Berlin.

Jamie Hepburn, Minister for Sport, Health Improvement and Mental Health, said: “Last summer Scotland showed the world what a tremendous job it can do when it comes to staging major sporting events, with the Commonwealth Games and the Ryder Cup both hugely successful.

“As part of the legacy of those events, we want to attract even more top class sport to Scotland, and the European Sports Championships is certainly in that category.”

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