The Government has today confirmed its support for bids to host the 2029 World Athletics Championships and the 2029 World Para Athletics Championships; setting out our ambition to see the sport’s pinnacle events return to the UK for the first time since the summer of 2017. A bid would aim…
Double Olympic cross-country mountain bike champion Tom Pidcock made a victorious return to the UCI Cross-Country Mountain Bike World Cup with a dominant ride through the field in his first XCO appearance of 2025 at Round 6 of the series in Pal Arinsal, Andorra. After recently finishing the Giro d’Italia grand tour…
The British Olympic Association (BOA) has today announced the 54 athletes selected to represent Team GB at the Skopje 2025 European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF). Running from the 20th – 26th July, Team GB’s young athletes, all aged between 13 and 18, will compete in 10 of the 15 disciplines on…
The British Record (rod-caught) Fish Committee (BRFC) met on 23rd June 2025 at the Natural History Museum, London. Present were: Stephen Mardlin MBE (Chairman), Andy Nellist (Vice-Chairman), James Maclaine (Scientific Advisor, Natural History Museum), Nigel Hewlett (Freshwater Scientific Advisor), Paul Edwards (Wales Game Angling Representative), Oliver Crimmen (Marine Specialist), Paul…
The year’s Christie Cup is set to host six men’s teams, including Manchester Select, Ashton RUFC, Aldwinians RUFC and GB Police. Women’s teams confirmed to play currently consist of GB Police Women’s, Leigh Miners, and the Salford Reds Development team. Chairman of Manchester Select and event organiser Chris Bamber said:…
After making a strong impression in 2024, Team Adaptive returns in 2025 with a new ambition: to build bridges, both human and sporting, between athletes with disabilities and some of the most recognisable figures in global trail running. With this goal in mind, the very first mentoring programme pairing adaptive…
The Great Britain & Northern Ireland team signed off their European Athletics Team Championships campaign with a string of determined displays, standout points and a welcome return for some of the squad’s top names — securing 5th place overall in the First Division. On her senior international debut Sarah Tait (Linda…
Over 100,000 children from schools across England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland took part in this year’s Olympic Day celebrations through a brand-new partnership between the Team GB Foundation and The Daily Mile Foundation. Held on the 23rd June each year, Olympic Day is an annual worldwide celebration of the Olympic Movement, aiming…
British Equestrian and the British Showjumping Selectors can today confirm the 10 jumping athlete and horse combinations that will be submitted to the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI) as our nominated entries for the FEI Jumping European Championship 2025, set to take place in A Coruña, Spain from 16–20 July. Nominated entries, listed in…
The Great Britain and Northern Ireland squad for the European Athletics Team Championships has been announced today. The top division of these Championships will take place in Madrid, Spain, on June 26-29. A strong squad of 42 athletes representing GB & NI will go up against 15 other countries across four days…
UK Athletics can announce the first athletes to represent the Great Britain and Northern Ireland squad for the World Para Athletics Championships in Delhi, India, between 26 September and 5 October. The first round of selection features seven Paris Paralympic gold and silver medallists. The performance objectives associated with this selection are for athletes to…
More than 100 of Britain’s most celebrated athletes have today written to the Prime Minister urging the UK Government to seize the golden opportunity to bring the World Athletics Championships back to London in 2029. In a powerful open letter published today, Olympic champions, global medallists and rising stars speak…
The “Guinness World Records 365: Sport” book is a hardback book that features a sporting record for every day of the year, including February 29th. It covers 150 years of sports achievements and features iconic figures like Muhammad Ali, Donald Bradman, Michael Jordan, and Simone Biles. The book is a compact, pocket-sized guide…
Athletic Ventures has today confirmed that this year’s London Athletics Meet, part of the Wanda Diamond League series, has officially sold out in record time, with every seat at London Stadium now filled for what promises to be one of the most electric atmospheres in global sport this summer. The…
100K: A REDESIGNED ROUTE FOR 2025 With just four months to go until the 4th edition of Nice Côte d’Azur by UTMB® (25–28 September 2025), organisers have unveiled a major update to the 100K route. The first 40km between Roubion and Brec d’Utelle has been completely reworked. This wilder and more technical…
Reigning Olympic and world champion Noah Lyles will race over 100m at the London Athletics Meet (Saturday 19 July). The US star – a triple gold medallist at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest over 100m, 200m and in the 4 x 100m relay – is a proven championship…
Our freshwater habitats are in crisis. This fact is no longer up for debate and is reflected in the public concern now focused on water pollution. Today, the Angling Trust launches the 2nd Annual Report from the Water Quality Monitoring Network (WQMN) — the nation’s largest regular citizen science water pollution initiative that is…
Multiple world champion Femke Bol (NED), a triple medallist at the 2024 Olympic Games, will compete in the 400m hurdles at the London Athletics Meet (Saturday 19 July), where she’ll be joined by fellow stars Molly Caudery (GBR) and Morgan Lake (GBR) in what promises to be a stellar day…
A team of 50 rising stars has been selected to represent Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the 2025 Loughborough International Athletics match on Sunday 18 May. The U20 squad features a mix of European U20 medallists, British champions and emerging talent, as they prepare to take on athletes representing Loughborough,…
The world of para dressage has lost one of its leading pioneers as the passing of Anne Dunham OBE was announced on Sunday, 11 May 2025, aged 72. In a career which spanned 23 years, five Paralympic Games and 32 championship medals, Anne was a trailblazer, tireless campaigner for her sport,…
Toyota (GB) has extended its gold partnership with ParalympicsGB through to Los Angeles 2028, continuing a relationship that will now span more than a decade. Toyota’s support has powered the groundbreaking Every Body Moves platform, which aims to empower disabled people to find a sport or physical activity that is right for…
Olympic Champion and women’s captain Hollie Pearne-Webb has announced her retirement from the sport she has spent over a decade competing in. Pearne-Webb is widely renowned as one of the best players England has produced, and she marked her place in people’s hearts by scoring the winning goal in the…
Emile Cairess (coach: Renato Canova, club: Leeds City) and Calli Hauger-Thackery (Nick Hauger, Hallamshire) have been selected to represent Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the marathon at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, taking place from 13–21 September 2025. Cairess earns selection following a series of exceptional performances, including…
The Great Britain and Northern Ireland team is all set for the World Athletics Relays in Guangzhou, China (10-11 May), which will be live-streamed on BBC Sport. At the start of a new Olympic cycle heading towards LA 2028, the squads are a mixture of experienced championship runners and developing…
The detailed routes for the Lloyds Tour of Britain Women, that will see the world’s top pro cyclists racing through and uniting communities across North Yorkshire, the Tees Valley, the Scottish Borders and Glasgow this June, have today been announced, along with a free to take part in Lloyds Tour…
The Groupama-FDJ cycling team is pleased to announce that Lewis Bower will join its WorldTour squad from June 1, 2025. After just over two years within the development structure, the New Zealand rider is now taking a new and important step in his career for the next two seasons, 2026 and…
On Sunday, for the 12th time, the world came together to run for those who can’t, as nearly a third of a million runners, wheelchair users and professional athletes around the globe participated in the Wings for Life World Run. A record-breaking 310,719 participants of 191 nationalities set off simultaneously in…
Tony Sach, a senior athletics official, has been permanently banned from officiating in UK Athletics events after a disciplinary panel found multiple allegations of misconduct—including sexual harassment and bullying—proved against him. Following a series of complaints from junior officials and peers, an independent disciplinary panel upheld nine charges ranging from…