Interviews

Interviews

We speak to the leading athletes in the sport

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Lynsey Sharp's mother of all comebacks

Former European 800m champion is delighted to make a return to the track following the birth of her son and a series of injuries but she says she now feels like a very different athlete
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Mark Richardson: my greatest race

The 400m runner looks back at the Bislett Games in Oslo in July 1998 when he beat Michael Johnson and won in a PB of 44.37 from the inside lane
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Laura Weightman on the comeback trail

A series of injuries resulted in Laura Weightman having to watch from the sidelines as her team-mates excelled at major champs but the European and Commonwealth medallist is confident of still making a mark
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Noah Lyles on a mission

World 200m champion wants to break new ground on the track but is also determined to change the profile of athletics and drag the sport into the future
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Olli Hoare looks forward to World Cross test

Commonwealth 1500m champion plans to use Saturday's big event in Bathurst to remind his sports-mad nation that they have athletes to shout about 
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The inside story of the Valencia 10km crush

AW speaks exclusively to four British athletes who reveal their distressing experiences at the start of the Valencia 10km
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Holly Bradshaw on beating the blues

Olympic pole vault medallist admits she struggled after the highs of Tokyo and explains why she wants to see athletes receiving help in dealing with the Games experience
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Hannah Alderson makes her mark in the marathon

Ten years after racing for Britain at the Euro Cross, the Bristol-based runner has reinvented herself as a marathoner and impressed on her debut in London
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Susan Wightman: my greatest race

The 1988 Olympian and mother of world 1500m champion Jake recalls recalls becoming the first British woman to break the 70min barrier for half-marathon at the Great North Run
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Ask the athlete: Alyson Dixon

British endurance athlete on racing at the Olympics, winning the world 50km title and her advice for budding marathon runners 
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Fast-improving Anya Culling has Commonwealth ambitions

After taking huge strides forward in the marathon, Anya Culling has set her long-term sights on qualifying for the 2026 Games in Victoria
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Olivia Breen and Emmanuel Oyinbo-Coker – para athletes of 2022

After both athletes shone at the Commonwealth Games stage they earned your votes in our end-of-year readers' choice poll
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