British Athletics have announced that Rob Denmark has joined the British Athletics Endurance Programme as a National Institute Coach. … [Read more...]
Mo Farah success at Birmingham Grand Prix
Mo Farah sets UK record at the Sainsbury’s Birmingham Grand Prix to cap off a successful 2014 season for British athletes after record medal hauls at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games and European Championships. … [Read more...]
Top of Zurich 2014
Five gold medals on the final day of Zurich 2014 competition ensured Great Britain & Northern Ireland topped the medal table with a British record of 23 medals at the 2014 European Athletics Championships. … [Read more...]
Jo Pavey takes Zurich 2014 Gold
Zurich 2014 - In a career that has spanned more than two decades, Britain’s Jo Pavey has won Gold at the European Athletics Championships to make history. … [Read more...]
Gemma Steel wins Beach to Beacon
CAPE ELIZABETH, Maine - Great Britain’s Gemma Steel outsprinted American distance running great Shalane Flanagan to join Bedan Karoki of Kenya on Saturday as champions in the 17th TD Beach to Beacon 10 Road Race in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. … [Read more...]
Morgan Lake double champion
Morgan Lake (coach: Eldon Lake, club: Windsor Slough Eton & Hounslow) was crowned double world junior champion on the final day of the IAAF World Junior Championships in Eugene, Oregon, as she added high jump gold to the heptathlon title she won earlier in the week. The British women’s 4x400m relay team also won … [Read more...]
Team for World Junior Championships
British Athletics has today announced a finalised team of 46 athletes for the IAAF World Junior Championships to be held in Eugene, Oregon on 22-27 July, with IAAF World Youth pole vault champion Harry Coppell (coach: John Mitchell) the most notable addition. … [Read more...]
A Laura success in Paris
On a night of world class athletics at the Meeting Areva Diamond League in Paris, Laura Muir (coach: Andy Young) and Laura Weightman (Steve Cram) stole the show from a British perspective, smashing their personal bests to move to number five and six on the 1500m UK all time lists. … [Read more...]
James Dasaolu wins at Diamond League
James Dasaolu (coach: Steve Fudge) got his 2014 outdoor season off to a flying start as he streaked away to win the ‘B’ 100m in 10.03 (-0.1m/s) at leg seven of the 2014 Diamond League in Lausanne. … [Read more...]
Dwain Chambers wins 100m title
Dwain Chambers (Rana Reider, Belgrave) made it a remarkable five in a row – his eighth title in all – as he stormed through to win the 100m, rounding off an electrifying third day of competition at the Sainsbury’s British Championships at Birmingham’s Alexander Stadium. … [Read more...]