Glasgow and Scotland were promoted to a television audience of more than 1.4 billion during the staging of last year’s inaugural European Championships, it has been claimed.

International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) President Thomas Weikert has revealed he has "doubts" about the European Games concept and suggested the sport could split from the event to join the rival multi-sport European Championships.

Berlin’s staging of the athletics as part of last year’s inaugural multi-sport European Championships added around €150 million (£128 million/$168 million) to the German economy, as well as generating huge benefits in terms of projecting the city, according to a new report.

Munich is set to bid for the 2022 edition of the multi-sport European Championships.

The recently concluded European Championships proved "hugely popular” with television audiences, according to the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), with viewers in the ten key European markets tuning in for a total of more than 567 million hours.

The German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, already planning a potential bid for the 2032 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, today announced an interest in staging the next multi-sport European Championships in 2022.

The Berlin 2018 European Athletics Championships were the "best ever", according to European Athletics President Svein Arne Hansen.

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Russia’s Artur Dalaloyan claimed the vault and parallel bars gold medals as men’s artistic gymnastics action concluded here today at the Glasgow 2018 European Championships with the apparatus finals.

Russia's Aleksandr Bondar reigned supreme to re-capture his men’s 10 metres platform crown as diving competition concluded today at the Glasgow 2018 European Championships.

Spain and Sweden were crowned winners of the men’s and women’s team golf tournaments as five days of action drew to a close here today.

Italy’s Matteo Trentin clinched men’s road race gold in a sprint finish from a reduced breakaway at the conclusion of a challenging European Championships course here today.

Iceland were crowned winners of the inaugural mixed team golf European Championships at Gleneagles today.

Russia were crowned men’s team gymnastics champions for the third consecutive European Championships after holding off the challenge of Britain today.