Euro Cross Country Championships – A thrilling, nail-biting women’s senior race was won in a sensational sprint over the final strides by Gemma Steel as she beat her Great Britain teammate Kate Avery in a duel that you could not take your eyes off. We were...
Jo Pavey (coach: Gavin Pavey) leads the finalists for the Sunday Times & Sky Sports Sportswoman of the Year awards which are to be held on Wednesday 19 November in London. Athletics have finalists in four of the categories which is a fine reward for a very...
Great South Run – Gemma Steel (coach: John Nuttall) ran a superb race on the south coast but was narrowly beaten in a sprint finish by Ethiopia’s Belaynesh Olijira. Great South Run Steel ran a 4:54 mile for the fifth mile of the race which split the field up,...
Tiffany Porter (coach: Rana Reider) recorded a new national record in the women’s 100m hurdles in a time of 12.51/0.7. This took 0.04 seconds off the old mark set by Jessica Ennis-Hill. Porter was second in the race behind the American, Dawn Harper-Nelson but her new...
There was medal success at the World Mountain Running Championships for Great Britain & Northern Ireland in Casette di Massa, Italy, as the senior women’s team ran to silver and the junior men’s team secured the bronze. Emma Clayton (coach: Andrew Henderson) led...
