Interviews

Interviews

We speak to the leading athletes in the sport

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Teenager Matthew McKenna makes his mark at 800m

The European under-18 champion talks about the year of his life so far and how it has changed his horizons
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Masters phenomenon Clare Elms looks back on her record-breaking year

The 60-year-old endurance athlete might dread the thought of having to talk about her running prowess, but her exploits have been impossible to ignore in 2024
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Age is no barrier for Dwain Chambers

The 46-year-old sprinter explains why he still enjoys racing after being voted AW masters male athlete of 2024
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Zharnel Hughes: "Now is the right time to join Grand Slam Track"

The British sprinter is aiming for a more successful 2025 season after a challenging year, as he joins Michael Johnson's ground-breaking new event
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Jenny Meadows: "We now know how Keely can get the world record"

Keely Hodgkinson's coaches believe that she is showing the form in training to potentially challenge both the world 800m indoor and outdoor records
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Hannah Cockroft: "I have to watch my back and hopefully experience will lead the way"

The British athlete became a nine-time Paralympic champion in 2024, but she is still searching for ways to keep herself ahead of the chasing pack
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Dan Pembroke: “Throwing 74.49m was the greatest moment of my life”

The British athlete's golden moment in 2024 may have put him way ahead of the competition but it hasn’t sated his appetite for fulfilling another dream  
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Keely Hodgkinson's route to success

Her coach Trevor Painter talks through the 12 races that shaped Hodgkinson’s 2024, leading to the promised land of Olympic glory
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Jake Norris: "We want that A standard so UK Athletics can't say no"

We speak to the British hammer champion who made big progress this year and plans to take on the world […]
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Julien Alfred on how she prepared to become Olympic 100m champion

The Olympic 100m champion opens up about equipping herself to be able to win sprinting's greatest prize
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David Stone: "I want Euro Cross to be the start of greater things to come"

The Brit won the under-23 race at the Liverpool Cross Challenge, qualifying him for the 2024 European Cross Country Championships in Turkey 
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Jessie Knight: “I’m ready to walk away”

After achieving Olympic redemption in Paris, the British 400m hurdler has wasted little time in leaving athletics behind to make the full-time switch to teaching
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