World Indoor 4x400m relay champion Perri Shakes-Drayton (coach: Chris Zah) has confirmed her participation in both the Glasgow and Birmingham indoor legs of the 2013 British Athletics Series this winter, running her first ever individual 400m flat indoor races. Shakes-Drayton will start her 2013 campaign at the … [Read more...]
Gorecka leads UK Euro Charge
Emelia Gorecka will attempt to win a fourth consecutive under 20 women’s medal after being selected as part of a 36-strong GB & NI team for the SPAR European Cross Country Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, on Sunday 8 December. … [Read more...]
Farah, Ohuruogu named Athletes of the Year
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. … [Read more...]
Athlete of the Year Voting
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 Athletics Facebook page. … [Read more...]
British victories in Oslo
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 of her season’s best. The World Indoor bronze … [Read more...]
New 800m Relay Record
There was a new British record in the women’s 4x800m as the GB & NI team also performed strongly in the women’s 4x400m and men’s 4x100m at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia, USA, today. … [Read more...]
Partridge and Samuels selected for Worlds
British Athletics have announced two athletes selected to represent the GB & NI team in the marathon at the 2013 IAAF World Championships in Moscow, Russia, in August. … [Read more...]
Team for World Cross Champs
After topping the medal table at the European Cross Country Championships in December, a 23-strong GB & NI team has been named for the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland on Sunday 24 March. … [Read more...]
UK World Cross Trials
The UK’s best cross country runners will battle it out for a place on the GB & NI team for the IAAF World Cross Country Championships as they line up at the World Cross Country Trials & Inter County Championships inc. McCain Challenge final at Birmingham’s Cofton Park on Saturday. … [Read more...]
Partridge sets PB in Bath Half
Bath Half-Marathon, March 3 IAAF World Championships marathon representative Susan Partridge (John Montgomery) finished a very close second in a PB 70:32 to go of the McCain Power of Ten half-marathon rankings Alyson Dixon (self-coached), who also ran for Britain in Daegu in 2011, took a minute off her personal best … [Read more...]