In Tuesday evening’s action from the Daegu Stadium, there was a silver medal for Jessica Ennis (coach: Toni Minichiello) in the heptathlon, whilst Dai Greene (Malcolm Arnold) was a class apart in qualifying for the men’s 400m hurdles final. … [Read more...]
UK Team for Daegu
UKA today announced defending World champions Jessica Ennis (coach: Toni Minichiello) and Phillips Idowu (Aston Moore) in a 67-strong squad as part of the Aviva Great Britain & Northern Ireland team for the 2011 IAAF World Championships in Daegu, South Korea on 27 August – 4 September. Strongly … [Read more...]
UKA Team for Mountain Running Champs
UKA Mountain Running Champions and Trials winners Steve Vernon (coach: Dave Turnbull) and Victoria Wilkinson lead a 15-strong Aviva Great Britain and Northern Ireland into the 10th European Mountain Running Championships in Bursa, Turkey (10 July). … [Read more...]
IAU World Trail Challenge UK Team
UKA Ultra Trail Championships winners Andy James and Kate Jenkins lead the ten-strong Aviva Great Britain and Northern Ireland team for the IAU World Trial Challenge in Connemara, Ireland on Saturday 9 July. … [Read more...]
UKA Select Marathon Team for Worlds
UKA selects Jo Pavey as one of eight athletes selected to represent the Aviva GB&NI team at the 2011 World Championships team following her impressive Virgin London Marathon debut. … [Read more...]
UKA World Cross Team 2011
European junior cross country champion Charlotte Purdue (coach: Mick Woods) - the youngest winner of the UK senior World Cross Trial in 20 years - will lead a 24-strong Aviva GB&NI team for the 39th IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Punta Umbria, Spain on Sunday 20 March 2011. The 19-year-old UK … [Read more...]
UKA Funding Annoucement
Following the conclusion of the IPC Athletics World Championships in New Zealand, which saw a record 38 medal haul for the Aviva GB & NI Team, UKA has named those athletes invited onto the World Class Performance Programme (WCPP) in the final phase of the selection process for 2010/11, the penultimate competitive … [Read more...]