by ukadmin | Feb 28, 2013 | Europe, Featured, Indoor, News, Pre-event, Track
The European Indoor Championships get underway in Gothenburg, Sweden, tomorrow with a 28-strong team representing GB & NI. Holly Bleasdale (Dan Pfaff, Scott Simpson) will go into the pole vault with a European leading mark of 4.77m set at the British Athletics...
by ukadmin | Feb 20, 2013 | Europe, Featured, Indoor, News, Pre-event
Reigning European 800m Indoor Champion Jenny Meadows (coach: Trevor Painter) has been announced as the captain for the GB & NI team for the European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden on 1-3 March. Meadows, who made her competitive comeback last weekend at...
by ukadmin | Sep 25, 2012 | Europe, Featured, Half Marathon, News
UKA has today named three athletes who will compete for the Aviva GB & NI team in Kavarna, Bulgaria at the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships. Gemma Steel (John Nuttall), Susan Partridge (John Montgomery) and Caryl Jones (George Edwards) will all toe the line...
by ukadmin | Jul 16, 2012 | Europe, Featured, News, Track, Youth
The 2012 IAAF World Junior Championships came to an end in Barcelona with one last evening session that brought some very satisfactory results to the Aviva Great Britain & Northern Ireland team. Jessica Judd (coach: Jeremy Freeman) and Jennifer Walsh (Deborah...
by ukadmin | Jul 12, 2012 | Europe, Featured, News, Track, Youth
An inspired performance by Adam Gemili (coach: Micheal Afilaka) brought the Aviva Great Britain & Northern Ireland team its first gold medal of the 2012 IAAF World Junior Championships in Barcelona (10-15 July). The Blackheath & Bromley athlete delivered a...
by ukadmin | Jul 1, 2012 | Europe, Featured, News, Parathletics, Track
Jonnie Peacock (coach: Dan Pfaff) created a huge shock overnight (30 June) running 10.85 seconds (+0.7m/s) for the T43/44 100m at the US Paralympic Track & Field Trials, a World Record mark that eclipses the times set by South African `Blade Runner’ Oscar...