With 100 days to go until The Match Europe v USA Minsk 2019, which will be held in the Belarus capital on 9-10 September, European Athletics can announce that three global stars of the sport will be ambassadors for the event.
World and European champions Ramil Guliyev, Mariya Lasitskene and Ekaterini Stefanidi will help promote the event in their role as ambassadors over the next three months and the trio all had something to say about their involvement.
Turkey’s Ramil Guliyev has already been in fine form in the 200m and wants to continue to make an impact in the event which has bought him global and continental gold medals in 2017 and 2018. “I’ve talked about the fact that I want to be running under 20 seconds regularly this summer and I’ve done a quick check and no one has ever run under 20 seconds in Belarus so, in addition to getting maximum points for Europe and beating my US rivals, that’s a big target for me.”