European Athletics Championships: day three from Birmingham – live

Key events

Hudson-Smith was second in his semi-final last night. I reckon he’ll pull it out of the bag tonight, though. Jonas Phijffers of the Netherlands was the victor.

There are four golds on offer this evening: women’s hammer, men’s 400m, women’s 400m hurdles, and the men’s 100m hurdles.

Matthew Hudson-Smith will be in action the men’s 400m at 8.50pm.

Britain's Matthew Hudson-Smith in the 400m semi-final. Photograph: Hannah McKay/Reuters

The solar eclipse, as you might expect, is also visible in Birmingham. Fans at the venue are getting a bit distracted.

Watching the solar eclipse during the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham. Photograph: Tolga Akmen/EPA

Spectators in the stands watch the solar eclipse. Photograph: Hannah McKay/Reuters

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In just over an hour, meanwhile, the women’s hammer throw final will begin.

Katrine Koch Jacobsen of Denmark competes in the women’s hammer throw qualification. Photograph: Michael Steele/British Athletics/Getty Images

Leo Neugebauer of Germany leads the men’s decathlon after the shot put that took place earlier today. He has 2819pts. Jeff Tesselaar (Netherlands) is currently in silver-medal position (2690pts). Sander Skotheim (Germany) is in bronze with 2638pts.

Leo Neugebauer of Germany. Photograph: Adam Vaughan/EPA

The men’s high jump is due to start in five minutes or so.

For good measure here are Sean’s reports from Monday:

And Tuesday:

On Marcell Jacobs’ right arm there is a tattoo of the Roman colosseum and a gladiator: a reminder of his fighting spirit and what Italy’s capital means to him. But in the swirling bearpit of a European championships 100m final, the former Olympic champion’s body dramatically broke down.

That was the first shock. The second was the sight of two Britons, Romell Glave and Jeremiah Azu, blasting through to take gold and silver.

Obviously, you are going to be fully focused on this blog, but you can also follow all things eclipse here:

Preamble

What is occurring at the European Athletics Championships on Wednesday evening, otherwise known as day four, session six?

This is clearly a job for the official timetable (all times BST):

18.40 Decathlon high jump A+B (men)
19.45 Hammer throw final (women)
19.55 110m hurdles semi-final (men)
20.20 200m semi-final (women)
20.40 Triple jump Q A+B (men)
20.50 400m final (men)
21.08 400m hurdles final (women)
21.22 400m decathlon heats (men)
21.47 110m hurdles final (men)

People will be running fast, jumping high, throwing hammers and doing assorted other stuff famously associated with this great sport. Let’s get it on.

Evening session starts at 18.40 BST/19.40 CET.