For the next 11 days, Munich will be the ‘Mecca’ of European sports as it plays host to the second edition of the European Championships, featuring nine sports and 4,700 athletes in venues across the city.

The iconic Olympic Park celebrates its 50th anniversary since it hosted the 1972 Olympics and has since hosted a plethora of major international competitions with the likes of the FIFA World Cup, multiple UEFA Champions League finals and numerous World and European Championships across a variety of sports, being the highlights.

These championships offer the chance to plenty of sports to be a part of one of the biggest sporting events of the year as broadcasters from across Europe will be covering every minute of the event.

That’s why sports like sport climbing, table tennis and canoe sprint have joined the event to increase their audience and media attention that they wouldn’t have if they chose to stage their championships on their own.

One of the sports that is returning to this multi-sport event after the first successful edition is rowing. Four years ago was hosted in the Strathclyde Country Park in Scotland and is back again this year in Munich.

Annamarie Phelps, former Olympian for Great Britain and chair of European Rowing, said: “It makes a big difference to the sort of audiences we get. We will get people crossing over from other sports to watch rowing and it really does give our athletes a unique stage to shine on.

“We have some of the best stadia in the world - we are usually in very natural, beautiful lakes, this time we’ve got a man-made course but it’s one that really works with nature and it’s famous for its integration with the nature."

Phelps also added that even though the venue is not located in the city and away from the Olympic Park, she hopes that the general atmosphere of the championships will draw people out to watch rowing.

The British team enters the rowing competition with a 57-strong squad that features Tokyo medalists Oliver Wynne-Griffith and Tom George in the men’s pair, as well as half the men’s quad silver medal crew of Harry Leask and Tom Barras.

This year’s championships will also feature para sport categories, a first for the multi-sport event, as Paralympic champions Oliver Stanhope and Giedre Rakauskaite will be joined by their new teammates James Fox and Ellen Buttrick in the chase of the European title.

The multi-sport European Championships Munich 2022, featuring Athletics, Beach Volleyball, Canoe Sprint, Cycling, Gymnastics, Table Tennis, Triathlon, Rowing, Sport Climbing, takes place 11th-21st August on the 50th anniversary of the Olympics Games in the German city. Follow online at bbc.co.uk/sport