2020 European half marathon leaders Callum Hawkins (coach: Robert Hawkins; club: Kilbarchan) and Charlotte Purdue (Nic Bideau; Aldershot, Farnham & District) have been added to the full 10-strong team for the rescheduled 2020 World Athletics Half Marathon Championships in Gdynia, Poland on October 17. 2019 World Athletics Championship marathon fourth…
Following the Government’s announcement at 12.30pm today, the Angling Trust is pleased that the government has not sought to place further restrictions on healthy outdoor activities such as angling. Through our ‘When We Fish Again’ campaign earlier in the year we demonstrated to ministers that by following sensible COVID-19 guidelines…
Please support the launch of the Women’s Sport Collective – an inclusive, collaborative network for women working in the sports sector. The not-for-profit network will provide a range of opportunities for women, at any stage of their career, to connect, learn, share and support each other. The Women’s Sport Collective…
New stats show the UK cares more about the environment than ever before – nearly 9 in 10 households ‘regularly recycle’ The theme for Recycle Now’s 17th annual Recycle Week is to thank the nation for continuing to recycle, despite all that has happened this year, under the banner ‘Together – We…
Hannah Lees – an England Athletics Coach in Running Fitness (CiRF – and her team of eight Leaders in Running Fitness (LiRF) have almost 650 grassroots runners on their database with 98% of those being female. With a focus on road and trail running from 5k to full marathons, all…
The election process for four members to join the UK Athletics Athletes’ Commission is now open and will run from Friday 18th September until Friday 2nd October 2020. All athletes that have competed for Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the last six years are eligible to vote and have been emailed…
Mitcham & Carshalton Rugby Club are delighted to reveal a number of key developments at the club since it had its season prematurely halted due the effects of COVID-19. After an unbeaten season 2019/20, which saw Mitcham gain promotion back into Surrey 4, win the Surrey 4 Chairman’s Cup, a Surrey T.R.E.D.S…
Following on from the elite women’s team announcement for the UCI Road World Championships in Imola last week, British Cycling has today confirmed the riders for the elite men’s time trial and road race events. Geraint Thomas will once again pull on the Great Britain Cycling Team jersey, contesting the…
This weekend saw the 9th edition of the Ultra-Trail Harricana™ take place in La Malbaie, Canada; the first sporting event to be held in Quebec since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. With the green light given from the local Ministry of Public Health, the organisers behind this year’s event…
“I feel like an expectant father waiting in the delivery room for the birth to happen,” declared Jacques Rogge, the then President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), in the hours leading up to the Opening Ceremony of the first-ever Youth Olympic Games, which were held in Singapore 10 years…
As James Baldwin sat behind the wheel of his McLaren 720S GT3, ahead of the opening race of the British GT Series, his career had already reached its latest milestone. But the race would soon exceed even his wildest expectations. On August 8, Baldwin and team-mate Michael O’Brien crossed the…
On the four-year anniversary of her golden final in Rio, Paralympic Champion and four-time World Champion Grace Clough MBE has announced her retirement from international rowing Since joining the GB para squad in 2013, Grace has been an integral member of the PR3 mixed coxed four. She became Paralympic Champion…
Since retiring from competitive diving, Olympic medallist Leon Taylor has become a huge advocate of physical and mental wellness and is now helping people all over the world to improve their health, happiness and performance through the Olympian & Paralympian Online Experiences available on Worldwide Olympic Partner Airbnb’s platform. BOOK…
Following World War I, the IOC selected Antwerp to host the 1920 Olympic Games. Organisers overcame many obstacles to deliver an edition of the Games that is still recognised for its lasting contributions to sport, gender equality, unity and peace. One hundred years later, as the entire world is fighting…
Thanks to Sport England for their support, which helps us share stories of these inspirational women – knocking down barriers and challenging the status quo for women and girls everywhere. Eleanor Oldroyd Game Changers first guest this season is Elly Oldroyd – one of Britain’s most respected sports broadcasters. If you…
Movement Strategies, a subsidiary of GHD and leading people movement and crowd dynamics consultancy, was commissioned by the SGSA (Sports Grounds Safety Authority) and EFL (English Football League) to assess the application of social distancing at professional football grounds, and this work has now been carried out. Two EFL grounds, Charlton Athletic FC’s Valley…
First inaugurated in 1938, the Helsinki Olympic Stadium will reopen on 22 August after an extensive modernisation and rebuild. While the four-year renovation project was carried out with great respect towards the Stadium’s original modernist architecture, new functionalities have been added and comfort and safety have been increased to match…
A world lead, a Championship record and seven stadium records were all set as 25 British champions were crowned at the 2020 Müller British Athletics Championships in Manchester. Aimee Pratt’s world lead, Championship and stadium record on route to the women’s 3000m steeplechase title led the star performances with Daniel…
G2, one of the world’s leading entertainment and esports brands, has agreed a major commercial partnership with the most fun snack brand around, PRINGLES® Germany. The deal will see PRINGLES® come on board as the presenting partner of G2 Esports’ talent search series Making The Squad. Currently in pre-production for its third…
British Athletics has today announced Christian Malcolm as the newly appointed Olympic Programme Head Coach. Malcolm, who since January 2019 has been Head of Performance and Coaching at Athletics Australia was appointed following an open recruitment process and will take up his post later this year. As Head Coach Malcolm…
Rounders England is excited to announce the appointment of Rhian Lilley as its new Development Director. An experienced leader in sports development within education, national governing bodies and local government, Rhian will play a pivotal role in the next phase of rounders development. Joining from The FA, where she led…
Earlier this summer, British Athletics ran a series of Let’s Talk About Race roundtables, bringing together voices from across the athletics community to discuss Race, and we can now provide an update regarding the next stage of activities. British Athletics will be hosting a series of focus groups for Athletes, Coaches, Officials…
Andy Murray battled from two sets behind to win a US Open thriller but had eyes on only one place at Flushing Meadows – the emergency ice bath. The former world No.1 toppled Yoshihito Nishioka in a five-set epic in his first Grand Slam appearance since January 2019 having twice…
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) today welcomed the addition of The Coca-Cola Company to its roster of Worldwide Paralympic Partners. Coca-Cola Japan was an existing Gold Partner of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, the highest tier of the domestic sponsorship programme. The agreement encompasses worldwide marketing rights to the IPC…
It was with great sadness that the Great Britain Cycling Team received the news that Liz Clarke-Saul passed away on Monday 20th July. Liz had an incredibly rare form of bone cancer called adamantinoma, and she was first diagnosed with this at the age of 12. At the age of…
Andy Bennett became the first angler to successfully defend his FishOMania title when he won Saturday’s £50,000 match at Hayfield Lakes, Doncaster with 40.1kg at the end of a gripping afternoon of fishing. In what was one of the most exciting afternoons FishOMania has enjoyed, the lead changed hands four…
Over 480 athletes have accepted their invitation to compete at the Müller British Athletics Championships 2020 at the Manchester Regional Arena from September 4-5 as athletics leads the way in welcoming Olympic and Paralympic sport back. The first major outdoor athletics meeting of the year, and one of the first…
Brazilian eSports competitors are most likely to cheat by using cheat codes, bots and hacks to gain an unfair advantage over opponents while playing online, new research reveals. The Cheating Countries study uses search volume data to analyse the incidence of cheat codes, bots and hacks used in popular video game…