The British ultra-distance runner ran an astonishing 278.622km in France, Adrian Stott reports. Sarah Webster has set a women's world 24-hour record in winning the IAU World 24-hour Championships in Albi, France (October 19). The world record has been broken at the past three IAU World Championships and Webster continued that trend with a ph...

National titles were up for grabs on the south coast as Marc Scott and Verity Ockenden led the charge in Portsmouth. After last year’s storm-enforced cancellation, the much-loved Great South Run came back bigger and better for its 35th anniversary, with over 25,000 runners taking to the flat and fast streets of Portsmouth. Among the weekend...

Great Britain's 10km and 200m runners enjoyed a highly successful Thursday as the action resumed in Madeira after a rest day. Together with successes in the long jump, weight pentathlon, shot put and javelin throw, Great Britain won what is believed to be an unprecedented 23 golds on a single day as well as many silvers and bronzes. Britain n...

Britain’s top distance runners set for head-to-head clash in Portsmouth, with tough weather conditions expected to add to the challenge. Some of Britain’s best endurance runners will go head-to-head on the south coast this Sunday (October 19) as the UK Athletics 10-Mile Championships return to the AJ Bell Great South Run in Portsmouth. No...

City-based road events in Birmingham will include both the marathon and race walks. With less than 300 days to go until the 2026 European Athletics Championships, organisers have confirmed that road events will be part of the programme in Birmingham. There will be two race walks over the half-marathon and marathon, occurring on the morning of...

The Bingley athlete clocked a course record in 1993 and it has survived attacks from runners such as Mo Farah, Emile Cairess and Joe Wigfield over the last three decades Richard Nerurkar was a world class athlete on all surfaces – track, road and cross-country. He finished fifth in both the 10,000m at the 1991 World Athletics Championships and...

Another extraordinary day for Great Britain at the European Masters Championships in Madeira as they leapfrog Germany in the medal table On day four of the European Masters Championships (October 12), British 1500m runners exceeded the haul of the 400m runners the day before as they won an astonishing nine golds in the discipline. Golds went...

An extraordinary day for Great Britain in the 400m at the European Masters Championships in Madeira John Wright, Stephen Peters, Gavin Stephens, Colin Spivey, Virginia Mitchell, Tracey Ashworth and Kathleen Stewart all struck gold over 400m on day three of the European Masters (October 11), while there were also steeplechase golds for Lisa Thoma...

Great Britain move up to second in the medal table behind Germany in Madeira On the second day of competition in the European Masters Championships on Friday, British hurdlers were in great form winning four golds in the first track finals at the magnificent Estádio do Centro Desportivo da Madeira. They also won golds at 10,000m, the walks a...

Hannah Cockroft led the way with three gold medals, while there were many first time world medallists in New Delhi Great Britain and NI finished seventh in the medal table with 25 medals – seven golds, five silvers and 13 bronzes – at the 2025 World Para Athletics Championships (September 27-October 5). Out of the 33 British athletes that...

There are first time winners in both the men's six-stage and women's four-stage ERRA National Road Relays at Sutton Park ENGLISH ROAD RUNNING ASSOCIATION NATIONAL ROAD RELAYS, Sutton Park, West Midlands, October 4 It was all change in the senior races as there were first time winners in both men’s and women’s events whils...

After choosing to retire earlier this year, the former British 100m champion reflects on his decision to stop competing at 29. During the summer, Reece Prescod announced his retirement from international athletics after more than a decade in the sport - a career that saw him...