by ukadmin | Mar 17, 2014 | Awards, Featured, News, Track
Staging athletics meetings is complicated process and one of the trickier aspects is managing the technical officials. It’s a hard enough at local and regional meetings, but Britain’s Moira Gallagher has fulfilled this responsibility with aplomb at no less than the...
by ukadmin | Mar 12, 2014 | Featured, Indoor, News, Track
Katarina Johnson-Thompson (coach: Mike Holmes) was one of the stars of the final session at the IAAF World Indoor Championships after the multi-event specialist clinched silver in the long jump thanks to a personal best jump of 6.81m. There were further silver medals...
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 | 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 | Apr 27, 2013 | Featured, News, Track
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. The GB & NI women’s 4x800m team set a new British record of 8:13.46 as they...
by ukadmin | Feb 28, 2013 | Europe, Featured, Indoor, News, Pre-event, Track
The European Indoor Championships get underway in Gothenburg, Sweden, tomorrow with a 28-strong team representing GB & NI. Holly Bleasdale (Dan Pfaff, Scott Simpson) will go into the pole vault with a European leading mark of 4.77m set at the British Athletics...