by ukadmin | Nov 22, 2013 | Awards, Featured, News
Mo Farah (coach: Alberto Salazar) and Christine Ohuruogu (Lloyd Cowan) have been named Male and Female British Athletes of the Year following a total of over 15,000 public votes on the British Athletics Facebook page. Katarina Johnson-Thompson (Mike Holmes) was...
by ukadmin | Nov 12, 2013 | Awards, Featured, News
Following another successful year for the GB and NI team, British Athletics has today announced the shortlists for the annual British Athletics Athlete of the Year Awards. For the first time ever, fans will be able to vote in the six categories by visiting the British...
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 14, 2013 | Featured, Masters, News
Brazil’s capital is hosting both the World Football Cup and the Olympics, but down in the Rio Grande Do Sul Porto Alegre is ready and now receiving 4,500 athletes from 83 countries for the biennial World Masters Athletics Track and Field Championships that run from...
by ukadmin | Jun 14, 2013 | Featured, News, Track
There were two British victories this evening at the ExxonMobil Bislett Games in Oslo, the sixth leg of the IAAF Diamond League. Shara Proctor (coach: Rana Reider) led the women’s long jump from the very first round as she leaped to 6.89m, just two centimetres short...
by ukadmin | May 16, 2013 | Coaching, Featured, News
British Athletics has confirmed that Head Coach Peter Eriksson will be leaving his post at the end of June, having asked to be released from his contract in order to return to Canada to be with his family. Eriksson led the Paralympic programme to a third place finish...