European Athletics Indoor Championships 2015: Events Schedule, Live Stream, More

The 2015 European Athletics Indoor Championships gets under way on Thursday in Prague, with some of the continent's finest athletes set to descend on Czech Republic's capital for four days of intense competition.

The host squad is set to include 46 athletes—27 men and 19 women—the largest team at the event, including home favourites Pavel Maslak (400m) and hurdler Petr Svoboda.

The British team of 39 includes skipper Lawrence Clarke, going for gold in the 60m hurdles, and pentathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson.

Read on for all the details ahead of the event at Prague's O2 Arena.

Dates: March 5-8

Time: First event (shot put) begins on March 5 at 3:30 p.m. GMT, final event (4x400m) begins at 4:55 p.m. on March 8

Live Stream: Available via EurovisionSports.tv, BBC iPlayer and Eurosport Player

Schedule: Full event schedule available via Praha2015

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Johnson-Thompson is the clear front-runner for the pentathlon gold in Prague, having broken British records in indoor high jump and long jump in recent weeks, and she now sits at the top of the world heptathlon rankings.

She may well look to break Jessica Ennis-Hill's British record in the coming few days, with performance director of British Athletics Neil Black clearly confident she can perform, per Giles Richards in The Guardian:

"I don’t want to put any pressure on Kat but she has got high expectations so I would be very surprised if it [the record] isn’t a target."

The pentathlon takes place on Friday, and Johnson-Thompson will face a challenge to be even the top Brit, with the talented Morgan Lake set to compete.

The British team had also been set to include long-jumper Greg Rutherford, before the Olympic gold medallist withdrew himself from the competition, per BBC Sport:

However, in-form 800m runner Jenny Meadows will be competing in Prague, the 33-year-old currently topping the European rankings along with various team-mates, per WorldRunning.com's Steven Mills:

Dutch hopes will be high for Dafne Schippers in the women's 60m sprint, the 22-year-old star having taken gold in the 100m and 200m at the European Athletics Championships in August.

Svoboda and Clarke will be going head-to-head in the 60m hurdles, the former set to be a real home favourite considering his long injury troubles since picking up a European Indoor title in 2011 in Paris.

The hosts also have a significant favourite in the shape of Maslak in the 400m, the defending champion from 2013 seemingly very confident, per Praha2015:

With huge quality on show from all over Europe, proceedings in Prague are set to be highly competitive, intense and rewarding.

The Olympics is now drawing closer, and each athlete will be looking to Rio 2016, but for now, for all those competing in Prague, there should be only one goal: winning a European Indoor title.