All news on the topic: UK Athletics

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Geoff Capes, Britain’s greatest shot putter and two-time World’s Strongest Man, dies at 75
Geoff Capes, who competed for Great Britain in the shot put at three Olympic Games, won two Commonwealth titles and twice won the World’s Strongest Man competition, has died aged 75.
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Denise Lewis stands down as UK Athletics president 'to protect' BBC punditry job
Dame Denise Lewis was appointed as the new president of UK Athletics back in December, but she has now decided to "temporarily step away" from the role amid concerns about her punditry work for the BBC
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Gladiator Giant's seven meals a day and the wife he pays to cook
The new series of Gladiators has started and there are 16 new faces to get to know. The fresh crop of strong men and women include Giant, a firefighter turned bodybuilder from the Midlands
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World Athletics in new 'conversations' with Netflix as rugby suffers doc blow
Seb Coe: “The feedback we’ve had from Netflix is interesting, They were genuinely shocked by the universality, the global nature of our sport. We are in conversation with them about an extension to that series at some stage”
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UK Athletics announce record losses but stay afloat due to Nike kit deal
The deficit is more than double the loss posted in 2021-22 and comes just two years after UKA had cash reserves of £2.2million
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British ultra-marathon runner banned for 12 months - after using car during race
Tracking data showed she was not running for 2.5 miles of the event and then the 47-year-old, who represented Scotland in the 2014 Commonwealth Games, was then stripped of her medal
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Ultra-marathon runner banned for travelling in a car mid-race and claiming medal
Ultra-marathon runner Joasia Zakrzewski claimed a trophy during the 2023 GB Ultras Manchester to Liverpool race but has now been banned for 12 months after an independent panel intervened
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Liz McColgan's fellow Olympic runner husband dies suddenly aged 56
Olympic long-distance runner John Nuttall has tragically died at the age of 56 after suffering a heart attack on Thursday morning, his wife Liz McColgan has confirmed
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Sprinter 'feared' for Team GB partner's safety during police stop and search
International athletes Ricardo Dos Santos and Bianca Williams say they were racially profiled when Met Police officers searched and handcuffed them in July 2020 after stopping them while driving home to west London
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Don't stop believing, Ennis-Hill tells Hodgkinson after another silver medal
“I wanted to come here to get gold. Three silvers now surely means that one point I’m going to get gold - that it’s a matter of when not how"
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Sally Gunnell sends message to Keely and Co 30 years on from her world title
Track legend reveals hidden story of her 1993 world title win in Stuttgart and tells Budapest-bound Brits to win the mind game
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Neita in 'shape of life' ahead of quest for glory at World Championships glory
Britain's 200 metre champion sprinter says she is ready to challenge for global medals and make a name for herself, insisting "anything is possible"
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Zharnel Hughes sets sights on world glory after all-weather sprint masterclass
Fastest man in world this year bossed the 100m on water and the 200 on dry land to make major statement ahead of Budapest World Champs
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Zharnel Hughes and Dina Asher-Smith crowned British champions in Manc monsoon
CJ Ujah makes 100m final at British Championships but can finish only fifth behind new national record holder
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Lance Armstrong labelled 'hypocrite' for debating "fairness" of Trans athletes
Lance Armstrong, the disgraced American cyclist who was stripped of seven successive Tour de France titles, took to social media to tease a conversation on transgender participation on sports
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Buckner calms fears UKA may go bust - and says Olympic funding is ring-fenced
“It’s a bit like a hard season, you’ve got to work your way through it. We’re going to be okay. I’m optimistic I’ll be in front of you for a few years yet. But I’m not jumping around”
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Chris Thompson says track and field must learn from 'Glastonbury' of athletics
All roads lead to Highgate for Night of 10,000m PBs and UKA boss Jack Buckner admits: "It would be great to see more innovation like this across the sport"
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Race organisers hit back at marathon runner's claim they knew she used a car
Event organisers have denied Joasia Zakrzewski's claim they knew she had used a car for part of an ultra-marathon where she finished third and was awarded a trophy
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Ultra-marathon runner breaks silence after using car during race to claim medal
Joasia Zakrzewski is facing calls to be banned after she used a car to complete part of her ultra-marathon but has admitted she made a "massive error accepting the trophy"
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British marathon runner is disqualified after travelling in a car during race
Joasia Zakrzewski, who represented Scotland in the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, hit the headlines following a controversial ultra-marathon race on Good Friday
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Olympic star Laura Muir flies back to UK after fall-out with long-term coach
The Scottish 1,500-metre star won silver in 2020 Tokyo Olympics and is one of Britain's biggest athletics medal hopes ahead of next year's Games taking place in Paris
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Bolt: 'We need to make athletics more exciting - people don't want to watch'
'If you don't have a superstar that stands out like I did, then it's going to be hard to draw the big crowds and draw that attention that you want'
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Legendary athlete Dick Fosbury dies after “changing the high jump forever”
American Dick Fosbury, the man who changed the face of the high jump discipline forever and won a gold medal at the 1968 Mexico Olympics, has died at the age of 76
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Keely Hodgkinson primed to carve a fresh path of destruction at European Indoors
The British 800 metres track star likens herself to a tornado because she fancies the idea of causing a bit of damage
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Dashcam footage shows policeman 'grabbing' Olympic sprinter in stop and search
Ricardo Dos Santos has revealed he has four outstanding complaints against the Metropolitan Police after being stopped and searched in an incident that took place in the early hours of the morning last summer
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