The first European Athletics Championships to be held in Great Britain are under way at Alexander Stadium in Birmingham.

The Championships take place from 10-16 August, with Britain’s team of 94 athletes chasing top spot in the medals table.

Among the British stars on show are reigning 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson, Dina Asher-Smith, local boy Matthew Hudson-Smith, Katarina Johnson-Thompson, Amy Hunt, Georgia Hunter Bell and team captain Jake Wightman.

Global stars competing include Sweden’s Armand Duplantis, Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Greece’s Miltiadis Tentoglou, Italy’s Marcell Jacobs, Ukraine’s Yaroslava Mahuchikh and the Netherlands’ Femke Broeders-Bol.

Athletes from 49 nations are competing for 50 gold medals – including a mixed 4x100m relay for the first time – and there are 10 world champions and seven Olympic champions taking part.

The BBC will bring you comprehensive coverage of the championships on BBC One, BBC Two, BBC iPlayer, Radio 5 Live, the BBC Sport website, the BBC Sport app and the BBC Sport social media channels including YouTube.

Hunt is targeting a British record four gold medals at these championships in a bid to become “iconic”.

The confident 24-year-old won 100m gold on Monday and is aiming to follow that up by winning the 200m title on Thursday, the women’s 4x100m relay on Saturday and the mixed 4x100m relay on Sunday.

“Yes, I am looking to be iconic,” she told BBC Sport. “I want to do what nobody has ever done before.

“I think this is the perfect place to do it. I am an East Midlands girl, and I am from Newark.

“This is the closest I am ever going to get to a home crowd in my entire career.”

Team-mate Asher-Smith won three gold medals at the 2018 Europeans in Berlin.

Hudson-Smith, who has a stand at Alexander Stadium named after him, wrote his name in history as the joint-most decorated European male athlete of all-time by claiming a dominant 400m gold on Wednesday.

Storming down the home straight to rapturous cheers inside the stadium where he trained as a junior, Hudson-Smith won the title for a third time following triumphs in 2018 and 2022.

The 31-year-old secured his eighth medal at the championships to equal French sprinter Christophe Lemaitre’s record medal tally for men.

His fifth gold medal overall also brought him level with Roger Black and Sir Mo Farah as the British men to have won most European titles.

Hudson-Smith, who could have a chance of winning another medal in the men’s 4x400m relay on Sunday, is one gold medal behind Asher-Smith’s British record of six European golds.

Asher-Smith has won six European golds and two silvers from four championships and could overtake the record of seven golds to become the most successful athlete in the history of the competition.

Two athletes jointly hold that record – Croatian discus thrower Sandra Elkasevic (formerly Perkovic) and Jakob Ingebrigtsen, who picked up his seventh title with men’s 5,000m victory on the opening night in Birmingham.

Asher-Smith finished sixth in her opening event, the women’s 100m, but is expected to compete for two further medals – the women’s 200m and either the mixed or women’s 4x100m relay.

The 30-year-old could also draw level with fellow sprinter Irena Szewinska of Poland as the most-decorated European athlete of all time. Szewinska won a total of 10 medals from 1966-1978.

Of other current athletes, Dutch star Femke Broeders-Bol has five golds and a bronze from just two championships.

Arguably the most-anticipated event for British fans is Hodgkinson’s 800m battle with Audrey Werro and Femke Broeders-Bol.

Hodgkinson, 24, sat out the Commonwealth Games and comes into the championships after winning the London Diamond League meeting in July.

However, she faces two tough opponents in her quest for another title.

Swiss star Werro, 22, beat Hodgkinson in June and has twice run faster than the reigning Olympic champion this season, edging closer and closer to the 43-year-old world record of one minute 53.28 seconds.

Broeders-Bol, the 26-year-old world 400m hurdles champion, has moved up to 800m and finished just behind Hodgkinson at London Stadium as she makes rapid strides in her new event.

The women’s 800m heats took place on Tuesday morning, the semi-finals are on Thursday morning at 12:10 and the final is at 21:45 on Friday, 14 August.

You can watch live coverage of every session on either BBC One or BBC Two as well as iPlayer, the BBC Sport website and the BBC Sport app.

Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds will be in Birmingham to bring you daily live commentary, while the BBC Sport website and app will feature live text, reports, analysis, video clips and a medal table.

There will also be coverage on BBC Sport’s social media platforms, including YouTube.

Gabby Logan and Jeanette Kwakye will present the BBC TV coverage with Steve Cram, Andrew Cotter, Steve Backley, Colin Jackson and Paula Radcliffe commentating on the action.

London 2012 Olympic champions Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill and Greg Rutherford plus Hodgkinson’s coach Jenny Meadows will also provide analysis.

All times BST. Times are subject to late changes.

Morning session

TV: 10:30-13:15 on BBC One

Hodgkinson is back on the track as the women’s 800m reaches the semi-finals stage at 12:10, while there’s also the women’s 400m semi-finals and day two of the decathlon.

Evening session

TV: 19:00-20:00 on BBC Two and 20:00-22:00 on BBC One

Radio: 19:30-22:00 on 5 Live & Sounds

Schedule (finals in bold):

18:35 Men’s decathlon javelin throw (Group A)

19:35 Men’s decathlon javelin throw (Group B)

19:40: Women’s triple jump final

19:50: Women’s pole vault final

20:05 Men’s 200m semi-finals – GB’s Zharnel Hughes and Ebuka Nwokeji

20:30: Women’s 3,000m steeplechase final – GB’s Elise Thorner is the fastest European this season

20:45: Men’s discus final

21:10: Decathlon 1500m – final event

21:28: Men’s 800m final – GB’s Max Burgin and Ben Pattison among medal contenders

21:50: Women’s 200m final – could there be a British 1-2-3 with Olympic silver medallist Hunt, two-time European champion Asher-Smith and British champion Success Eduan all in good form?

Morning session

TV: 10:30-13:15 on BBC One

Olympic silver medallist Johnson-Thompson starts her bid to win a first European heptathlon title with the 100m hurdles from 10:35.

World record holder Duplantis begins his quest to win a fourth European pole vault title in a row from 10:50, while the men’s and women’s 4x400m relay heats take place at 11:05 and 11:35.

World silver medallist Wightman is the one to watch in qualifying for the men’s 1500m from 12:05.

Evening session

TV: 19:00-20:00 on BBC Two and 20:00-22:00 on BBC One

Radio: 20:30-22:00 on 5 Live & Sounds

Schedule (finals in bold):

19:35 Heptathlon shot put

19:45: Women’s 10,000m final – GB’s Megan Keith, Izzy Fry and Poppy Tank

20:00: Men’s high jump final – GB’s Joel Clarke-Khan and Kimani Jack topped their respective qualifying groups

20:30: Women’s discus final

20:40: Men’s 400m hurdles final – Norway’s Karsten Warholm is aiming for his fourth European title

20:55 Heptathlon 200m

21:25: Men’s 200m final

21:45: Women’s 800m final – Hodgkinson bids to retain her title

Morning session

BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport website: 07:30

The men’s and women’s half-marathon and marathon race walks take place around the city streets before BBC coverage starts

TV: 10:00-13:30 on BBC One

The heptathlon continues with the long jump and javelin, while Hunter Bell is in action in qualifying for Sunday’s 1500m final and Jazmin Sawyers seeks to make the long jump final.

The sprint relay teams also take to the track for the qualifying rounds.

Evening session

TV: 19:15-22:00 on BBC One

Radio: 21:00-22:00 on 5 Live & Sounds

Schedule (all finals):

19:45: Heptathlon 800m – final event

20:01: Men’s javelin final

20:07: Women’s high jump final

20:10: Women’s 400m final

20:17: Men’s triple jump final

20:25: Men’s 10,000m final – GB’s Scott Beattie, Andrew Butchart, David Mullarkey & Joe Wigfield

21:07: Men’s 1500m final

21:33: Men’s 4x100m relay final

21:48: Women’s 4x100m relay final

Morning session

TV: 07:25-10:35 on BBC One

The women’s and men’s marathons take place on the streets of the city from 07:30 and 08:10 respectively.

Evening session

TV: 19:00-21:00 on BBC One

Radio: 2030-2200 on 5 Live & Sounds

Schedule (all finals):

19:30: Men’s pole vault

19:55: Women’s javelin

20:05: Women’s long jump

20:35: Mixed 4x100m relay

20:50: Men’s 3,000m steeplechase

21:13: Women’s 1500m

21:33: Women’s 4x400m relay

21:48 Men’s 4x400m relay