British athletes will compete against the best the continent has to offer at the 2022 European Championships.
This is only the second time Europe has been brought together to contest medals in a wide range of sports, after Glasgow and Berlin hosted athletics, aquatics, cycling, golf, artistic gymnastics, rowing and triathlon in 2018.
This year Munich will welcome a star-studded roster of competitors in four new disciplines in beach volleyball, canoe sprint, sports climbing and table tennis, while Rome will separately hold the aquatics events.
At the Olympiastadion, after missing the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham through injury to focus on her Munich mission, Dina Asher-Smith will be hoping to defend both her European titles in the 100m and 200m.
World bronze medallists Laura Muir, Zharnel Hughes and Matthew Hudson-Smith also return as champions.
Olympic silver-medallist Keely Hodgkinson will be gunning to upgrade her two second-place finishes in the World Championships and Commonwealth Games.
Similarly, newly crowned 1500m world champion Jake Wightman will fancy himself to better his Birmingham bronze over that distance when he goes in the 800m.
Two athletes who won’t be competing are Commonwealth and former world heptathlon champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Olympic bronze medallist Holly Bradshaw, who picked up a hamstring injury when her pole snapped in Eugene that ruled her out of the Commonwealth Games.
While the athletics action commences midway through the Championships on August 15, cyclists will be spearheading proceedings on Thursday.
Britain’s most successful female Olympian Laura Kenny will not be leading the charge on the track after pulling out, but Tokyo 2020 team pursuit silver medallists Josie Knight and Neah Evans head the endurance squad in her absence.
Double Commonwealth medallist Sophie Capewell and Olympic silver medallist Jack Carlin are the ones to watch in the sprint races.
Olympic gold medallist Tom Pidcock will be riding high in the mountain bike event off the back of winning stage 12 of the Tour de France in July.
Joining him at the Olympiapark is Tokyo champion and BMX sensation Charlotte Worthington.
Further south in Rome, a 30-strong swimming team aim to continue a productive summer, while 14 British divers will go for glory at the Foro Italico.
Commonwealth champions Tom Dean, Ben Proud and James Wilby headline the swimming squad, with Adam Peaty and James Guy electing not to compete.
Jack Laugher and Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix may be at opposite ends of their careers, but both are sure to provide spectacular entertainment and world-class acrobatics.
As will the artistic gymnastics squad, fresh from a medal-laden run in Birmingham.
Jake Jarman made history as the first Englishman to win four golds at the same Commonwealth in 24 years and will hope to continue his fine form alongside a talented squad including the likes of multi-medallists Joe Fraser, James Hall and Giarnni Regini-Moran.
Olympic bronze medallist Alice Kinsella is also in attendance alongside Commonwealth team champion Ondine Achampong.
Britain’s rowers are hoping to repeat their 2021 European heroics when they topped the medal table with 12 in total, including five golds.
Imogen Grant and Graeme Thomas, two of 57 athletes selected, are in great form after taking singles golds at World Cup III.
And in the new-look men’s quad, Tokyo silver medallists Harry Leask and Tom Barras are looking to lay down a marker with crewmates Matt Haywood and George Bourne.
Elsewhere, spectators will witness the new and very watchable combined Boulder and Lead event in sports climbing, which will be making its Olympic debut in two years’ time.
World bronze medallist Hamish McArthur is someone to keep an eye on in this fast-paced and increasingly popular sport.