The North Stand at Birmingham’s Alexander Stadium will likely be renamed to honour Nice Britain monitor star Matthew Hudson-Smith throughout August’s European Athletics Championships.
Olympic silver medallist Hudson-Smith, who has received 4 European titles, was born in close by Wolverhampton.
The 31-year-old attended a shock unveiling of the Matthew Hudson-Smith Stand, together with his household current, plus his first coach Sharon Morris, Workforce GB 4x400m crew coach Martyn Rooney and native dignitaries.
“It caught me off-guard strolling in to see the stand goes to be named after me, and it was a particular second to share it with my household,” stated Hudson-Smith.
“It is simply a sign of all of the laborious work I’ve put in and to get a stand named after me is the icing on the cake of an ideal profession and now I need to add extra to it at Europeans.”
Hudson-Smith has twice received particular person gold within the 400m on the European Championships, in Berlin in 2018 and in Munich in 2022.
He additionally received 4x400m gold in Zurich in 2014 and repeated the feat eight years later, whereas he additionally has three different podium finishes on the championships.
The Birchfield Harriers athlete missed out on Olympic 400m gold by four-hundredths of a second in a dramatic end at Paris 2024, however he was unable to succeed in the World Championship ultimate in Tokyo final yr.
He began his 2026 outside season final month with a second place within the 400m in the Diamond League at Rabat.
The European Athletics Championships, the primary to be held in the UK, will run from 10-16 August in Birmingham.