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4th Aug 2025
George Mills to focus on just the 5000m in Tokyo
The British 5000m record-holder tells AW that "it's a smart decision" to not double up in the Japanese capital George Mills has revealed that he will just focus on the 5000m at next month's World Athletics Championships in Tokyo (September 13-21). The Brit, who took almost seven seconds off Mo Farah's 14-year-old British 5000m record (12:53.11) with 12:46.59 at the Oslo Diamond Leag...
3rd Aug 2025
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Home comforts help Asher-Smith to 200m gold
Former world champion breaks championship record to land UK title, then reveals she has left US set-up under coach Edrick Floreal to make London return Dina Asher-Smith revealed she has left her US-based coaching set-up under coach Edrick Floreal and will be making her preparations for next month’s world championships from her home town in London....
3rd Aug 2025
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Lake hits double figures with high jump success
National record-holder racks up her 10th UK outdoor title in Birmingham as Jazmin Sawyers continues impressive comeback Morgan Lake’s fine recent form continued as she won her 10th consecutive national outdoor high jump title (she has seven indoors) at the UK Athletics Championships on Sunday (August 3). Her first Diamond League victory, achieved in London last...
3rd Aug 2025
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Zharnel Hughes completes impressive sprint double in Birmingham
After 100m victory on Saturday, Hughes runs 200m championship record of 19.90 at the Novuna UK Athletics Champs at the Alexander Stadium on Sunday Zharnel Hughes showed the kind of form that should get him in the medal mix at the World Championships in Tokyo next month. One day after...
3rd Aug 2025
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Max Burgin powers to 1:43.92 win over 800m at UK Champs
Middle-distance runner continues fine summer as Josh Kerr impresses over 5000m, Neil Gourley wins 1500m and Phil Norman wins exciting steeplechase battle Fans of Max Burgin always have their heart in their mouth due to his injury-hit history. But fresh from a 1:42.36 PB in London two weeks earlier and after looking so relaxed in his heat at these Novuna UK Athletics Championships, t...

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AW has been the bible of the sport since the 1940s and is still the No.1 choice for the true running and athletics fan, designed to keep you informed about all the best news, comment, event reports and results from Britain and around the world.

In the summer AW offers the very best in-depth coverage of the track and field season focusing not only on the major championships, such as the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Commonwealth Games and World Championships, but also the best in schools and grassroots club athletics.

The spring and autumn seasons concentrate on road racing, including the big events such as the London Marathon, while the long winter campaign looks toward the cross country season and the exciting indoor scene.

Alongside our unrivalled coverage of all the top events, AW also offers a sharp and detailed news service focusing on elite and up-and-coming athletes and the issues which rage within the sport.

We provide all the important fixtures as well as the most comprehensive service of results from around Britain and the rest of the world.

AW provides detailed features focusing on the top names in the sport as well as its highly regarded coaching, performance and nutritional advice, product reviews and plenty of debate and opinions via our letters column and web forum.

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4th Aug 2025
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Lutkenhaus stuns track world with Ryun-esque 800m run
The 16-year-old clocks 1:42.27 to finish runner-up to Donavan Brazier’s 1:42.16 in the US Champs in Eugene With perhaps the most stunning running performance in the world this the year, Cooper Lutkenhaus evoked memories of Jim Ryun’s teenage athletics exploits from half a century ago. Born on December 19 in 2008, Lutkenhaus is just 16 years and seven months old. But despite his limited years...
30th Jul 2025
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Why London will make the perfect 2029 World Champs host
British capital has tremendous track record of staging global athletics events but isn't a shoo-in when it comes to hosting 2029 event One of British athletics’ most underrated skills in recent years is winning bids to stage major events. Twenty years ago London spectacularly overturned the odds to beat favourites Paris for the right to stage the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics. Since then there have been multiple successful bids su...
27th Jun 2025
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When will a female run a sub-four-minute mile?
Faith Kipyegon, after clocking 4:06.42 for the mile, made it clear that she would one day attempt to break the four-minute barrier again Not if, but when. Off the back of Breaking4, that is the resounding message from both Faith Kipyegon and Nike. On an emotionally-charged night in Paris, the triple Olympic and quadruple champion fell short in her attempt to become the first ever female to break the four-minute mile, running 4:06.42 at Stad...
27th Jun 2025
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Breaking4 struggles to deliver despite Kipyegon's best efforts
Kenyan just about matches Sydney Wooderson’s 1937 world record of 4:06.4 during a valiant but ultimately doomed attempt to break four minutes for the mile Protected by a flotilla of pacemakers and powered by Nike’s latest shoes and apparel, plucky Faith Kipyegon gave it her best shot over the classic distance of one mile in Paris on Thursday (June 26). It wasn’t the 'moonshot' the organisers hoped for, but if you reach for th...
27th Jul 2025
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My greatest race: Andrea Lynch
British sprinter looks back on her 60m gold at the European Indoor Championships in Katowice in 1975 A silver medallist in Gothenburg 12 months earlier behind East Germany’s Olympic champion Renate Stecher, the Barbados-born Brit arrived in Poland with Commonwealth silver and an outdoor European bronze over 100m. There was a confidence this would finally be her time to...
27th Jul 2025
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A lap with Seamus Derbyshire
We talk to the British 400m hurdler who has made Tokyo a realistic target When Seamus Derbyshire crossed the line, he looked at the clock and couldn’t quite believe his eyers. “I screamed,” he tells AW, still a little in disbelief.  At the Josef Odlozil Memorial in June, the 25-ye...
17th Jul 2025
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The athlete's voice
Hannah England chats about life after competing, the art of commentary and how those in the thick of the action might help themselves Switching from the track to the commentary box has proved to be a smooth transition for Hannah England to make. The former middle distance international, a 1500m silver medallist at the 2011 World Championships, might have been retired since th...
14th Jul 2025
David Lenneman on the influence and impact of ASICS FrontRunner
We talk to David Lenneman – Global Team Captain of ASICS FrontRunner – on the power of community and the importance of mental wellbeing United by their passion for movement and defined by the diversity of those involved, ASICS FrontRunner is there to inspire others. What began as a single team in Germany 15 years ago has now grown into a global running...
6th Jun 2025
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WATCH: Track and Field Legends – Sally Gunnell
Tim Hutchings exclusively sits down with Olympic, world, European and Commonwealth 400m hurdles champion Sally Gunnell The duo talk through Gunnell's extraordinary career – from a farm in Essex to Barcelona 1992 – her mindset in the heat of competition and the feeling of winning so many gold medals across the globe. https://dai.ly/k6cYkXW0Caayy8DcLaQ    ...
30th Apr 2025
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WATCH: Insight into Blackheath and Bromley Harriers AC
Through the voices of athletes, coaches and those who work behind the scenes, get exclusive insight into Blackheath and Bromley Harriers AC Each person talks through their journey at Blackheath and Bromley Harriers AC, provides insight on what goes on and tells AW how much the club means to them. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/k7ctXcQBuPD6Y6CXEHs...
30th Apr 2025
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WATCH: Track and Field Legends – Peter Elliott
Tim Hutchings exclusively sits down with 1990 Commonwealth 1500m champion and Olympic 1500m/world 800m silver medallist Peter Elliott The duo talk through Elliott's remarkable career on both the domestic & global stage, his battles with Seb Coe, Steve Cram & Steve Ovett and his views on this era of middle-distance running. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/k4jV3JjJG914F6CXCJA...
29th Apr 2025
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WATCH: Insight into the University of Birmingham Athletics Club
Through the voices of the athletes, get exclusive insight into the University of Birmingham Athletics Club Some of Great Britain's finest young prospects talk through their journeys in athletics, why they decided to base themselves in Birmingham and the importance of the set-up in meeting their lofty goals. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/k1eozzc9QYzGCsCQ6vk...
20th Apr 2024
Different training inspirations that athletes can use
AW collaboration Do you consider yourself an athlete? You don’t have to be a professional who is making money doing what you love to call yourself an athlete; there are plenty of amateur athletes who are just as passionate about their sport and are always looking for ways to push themselves further and reach that next level of personal best. So much of your success can be traced back to your training ses...
18th Jul 2022
5 effective running tips after 40
Advice on how to run well and strong as you move into the masters age groups Running after 40 is an excellent way to boost cardiovascular health, minimize...
18th Jun 2022
Why athletes need to embrace sun protection
Spencer Duval from England Athletics offers advice on how to keep your skin safe this summer With athletes spending hours under the sun while training and competing, you’d think they would be used to protecting their skin? As it turns out, sun protection – in all formats – is often not seen by athletes as a necessity, in fact it can be unpopular or just forgotten about. Protective clothing can sometimes be restrictive, inhibiti...
7th Apr 2022
Train with the Greene machine
Former world 400m hurdles champion Dai Greene explains why he’s flippin’ pizzas and coaching recreational runners to support his ongoing athletics ambitions It is 11 years since Dai Greene won the world 400m hurdles title in South Korea and the Welshman turns 36 this week. Yet he is still going strong and is juggling a number of jobs in between his own training. One of these is an online coaching business which he has just set up...
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