by ukadmin | Oct 17, 2013 | Featured, News, Parathletics, Track
UKA, the national governing body for British athletics, has announced the Olympic and Paralympic athletes that will be supported by the World Class Performance Programme (WCPP) for 2013- 2014. The selection of these athletes is based on their potential to win medals...
by ukadmin | Oct 29, 2012 | Featured, News
UK Athletics has today named Peter Eriksson as the newly appointed Olympic Head Coach. Eriksson, who will move on from his role as UKA’s Paralympic Head Coach with immediate effect, has worked for the governing body since January 2009. As Paralympic Head Coach he...
by ukadmin | Oct 15, 2012 | Featured, News
UKA has released the names of athletes who will receive support from the World Class Performance Programme (WCPP) for 2013, with a number of Olympic and Paralympic performers elevated to top level funding following successful Games performances. The WCPP selections,...
by ukadmin | Apr 27, 2012 | Featured, News, Track, USA
2010 World Junior Champion Sophie Hitchon (Derek Evely) continued her great start to the season by breaking her British hammer record for a second time in a week, and in doing so achieving the Olympic A standard. Hitchon threw 71.61m twice in the ‘pre Olympic...
by ukadmin | Feb 2, 2012 | Featured, Indoor, News
New world No. 1 Holly Bleasdale will step up her Olympic pole vault preparations at the Aviva Grand Prix in Birmingham on Saturday 18 February. The 20-year-old pole vault prodigy, who cleared 4.87m at a meet in Villeurbanne, France, last month to move to No. 2 on the...