Jessica Ennis (Coach: Toni Minichiello) and David Weir (Jenny Archer) have been voted British Olympic and Paralympic Athlete of the Year for 2012 by athletics fans across the country. Ennis secured 48% of the vote, beating double Olympic Champion Mo Farah (Alberto Salazar) by just 4%, whilst Weir also collected 48% of … [Read more...]

Spain’s Kilian Jornet and American Hillary Gerardi battled the worst of the weekend’s weather in the Scottish Highlands to triumph in the Salomon Glen Coe Skyline race yesterday (Sunday). Kilian Jornet and Hillary Gerardi win Salomon Glen Coe Skyline 2018 In rain and strong winds, 200 athletes from across the world … [Read more...]

Slovakia – Turkey’s Yasemin Can gave herself the best possible birthday present as she became only the second woman to retain the senior women’s title at the SPAR European Cross Country Championships with another dominant performance. Can, who is 21 tomorrow, retained her gold from Chia by equalling the biggest … [Read more...]

The Great Britain and Northern Ireland team enjoyed six victories as the British Athletics Grand Prix returned to Birmingham’s National Indoor Arena, in arguably the world’s finest indoor event this afternoon. Mo Farah (coach: Alberto Salazar), Nigel Levine (Linford Christie), Holly Bleasdale (Dan Pfaff/Scott Simpson), … [Read more...]

On the last day of the IAAF World Indoor Championships Birmingham 2018 (1 to 4 March), historic athletics artefacts from the ancient Olympic Games to the modern era will be donated to help establish the IAAF Heritage collection. IAAF Heritage collection to be launched in Birmingham The IAAF Heritage Memorabilia … [Read more...]

The IAAF World Championships London 2017 will rightfully see the reallocation of a number of world championship medals including two golds. These upgrades follow the disqualification of the results of the original medallists after their sanction for anti-doping rule violations. Jessica Ennis receives Daegu 2011 Gold … [Read more...]

Minimum Doping Ban – As of the 1st January, 2015, drug cheats in sport will now face a minimum of a four year ban under the new rules which have come into effect. There have been calls for the term to be revised and with  changes to the World Anti-Doping Code, which unifies anti-doping rules [...] UK – Drugs in … [Read more...]

Jodie Williams voted women’s 2011 European Athletics Rising Star British sprint sensation Jodie Williams is the 2011 winner of the women’s European Athletics Rising Star award presented by MONDO. The world junior champion burned up the track in the women’s 100m final at the European Athletics Junior … [Read more...]

Christophe Lemaitre, the 22-year-old French sprint sensation and Europe’s fastest man this year, will run in London for the first time ever as he takes on a host of global Olympic contenders over 200m at the Aviva London Grand Prix in Crystal Palace on Saturday 14 July. Lemaitre, who this evening will defend his … [Read more...]

The Great Britain and Northern Ireland team enjoyed six victories as the British Athletics Grand Prix returned to Birmingham’s National Indoor Arena, in arguably the world’s finest indoor event this afternoon. Mo Farah (coach: Alberto Salazar), Nigel Levine (Linford Christie), Holly Bleasdale (Dan Pfaff/Scott Simpson), … [Read more...]