The UK's best and most inclusive pathway throws competition. We are proud to be supporting the Ron Pickering Memorial Fund and Personal Best Foundation as our Official Charity Partners. In 2026 we raised an amazing £1049 from entry ticket sales and the raffle.

Following a successful 2026 event, the draft date for 2027 is confirmed as Sunday 23 May and will take place at Paula Radcliffe Athletics Track, Loughborough University, LE11 3TU.

Any potential sponsors who would like to support future events, please contact Nick Ridgeon.

Watch a roundup of the 2025 event below, or directly on YouTube.

Read England Athletics' 2026 report Read England Athletics' 2025 report Read England Athletics' 2024 report Read Athletics Weekly's 2024 report

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Events

• Shot Put, Ambulant Shot Put and Seated Shot
• Discus and Ambulant Discus
• Hammer 
• Javelin and Ambulant Javelin 

We are looking at potentially including long jump and high jump in future iterations of the event - please let us know if this is something you’d like to send athletes to compete in.

Roster results on the day

Any international federations who would like to send athletes to compete in future events, please contact Nick Ridgeon.

2026 prizes

The organising committee and the team leaders agree best male and female athletes for each of the 4 throws. The one key factor is that the athlete must have won their age group. The group also look at PB, SB and international championship selection standards. For clarity, the male and female event winners for shot put will be judged across both seated and ambulant shot put.

• Discus Men: Jacob McKinley (SCO), pb and 20cm off the world U20 standard
• Discus Women: Elkie Baker (ENG), pb and Euro U18 standard
• Javelin Men: Ben Clarke (ENG), consistent high performance
• Javelin Women: Lucy Bull (ENG), another Euro U18 standard
• Hammer Men: Gethin Brown (WAL), consistent high performance
• Hammer Women: Tegan Brown (ENG), pb and closing in on Euro U18 standard
• Shot put Men: William Richards-Baldwin (WAL), pb and close to Euro U18 standard
• Shot put Women: Ellis Thomas (ENG) , massive pb and another Euro U18 standard

At the end of the competition the organising committee and the team leaders will agree the outstanding male and female athletes from the 8 best male and female event winners. The outstanding male and female winners received £500 from the Ron Pickering Memorial Fund and Eleiko goodies.

• Men: Jacob McKinley (SCO)
• Women: Ellis Thomas (ENG)

The final prize is a bronze statue of Daley Thompson. It was donated by the Pickering family. The award is presented to the athlete whom the panel believes has delivered the most significant breakthrough performance relative to their previous best. In achieving this, the athlete will also have demonstrated conduct and sportsmanship that reflects the core values of England Athletics - fun, inspiration, integrity and inclusivity. The 2026 winner is Ellis Thomas.

Athlete development

Many athletes who have competed in this event have gone on to represent international teams:

Event	2025 teams	2026 teams
Shot	Theo Hanlon (IRL) - 11th at Euro U20 Ludvig Fredman (SWE) – 19th in qualifying at Euro U20 Mia Feer (SWI) - 19th in qualifying at Euro U23 Amy Kennedy (GB & NI) – 22nd in qualifying at World Student Games Alani Dumbuya (GB & NI) – 16th in qualifying at Euro U20 Amy Thompson (GB & NI) – 7th at the World Para Champs
Discus	Cian Crampton (IRL) – 6th at Euro U20 Jacob Foord (GB & NI) – 11th at Euro U20 Anna Gavigan (IRL) – 8th at Euro U23 Giada Borin (SWI) – 23rd at Euro U23
Hammer	Jabez Berry (GB& NI) – 4th at Euro U20
Javelin	Harriet Court (GB & NI) – 6th at Euro U20

Records and Results

2026 results 2025 results 2024 results 2023 results

RECORDS	Shot Put	Hammer	Javelin	Discus
U18 men	Lawson Capes 17.70m	Thomas Williams 72.82m	Tom Rutter 64.76m	Moyo Stumpenhusen 63.60m
U18 women	Ellis Thomas 16.45m Ellie Bowen 6.40m (F56)	Tegan Brown 58.88m	Lucy Bull 50.251m	Nubia Evans-Shields 44.86m Bebe Jackson 22.67m (F44)
U20 men	Isaac Delaney 16.51m William Sheehan 8.60m (F34)	Kai Barham 70.58m	Michael Allison 72.34m Michael Jenkins 32.44m (F38)	Jacob McKinley 57.80m Finlay Davidson 15.88m (F41)
U20 women	Cleo Agyepong 15.12m   Amy Thompson 7.97m (F41)	Angela McAuslan-Kelly 58.32m	Sophie Hamilton 50.30m	Giada Borin 48.88m Mia Lloyd 15.71m (F63)
U23 men	Jephte Vogel 17.42m Fabio Zamparelli 13.89m (F20)	Jabez Berry 65.24m	Ben East 72.38m	Mike Jenkins 57.80m
U23 women	Teddy Tehoudja 14.23m Freya Howgate 7.62m (F37)	Charlotte Payne 69.28m	Sophie Hamilton 46.81m	Anna Gavigan 49.10m Freya Howgate 20.03m (F37)

Heritage

In 2024 we displayed a Celebrating Shaun exhibit in the Athletics Pavilion, and in 2025 we focussed on Geoff Capes and in 2026 we celebrated Jean Pickering who was a European and Commonwealth long jump medallist.
All the memories and celebrations on the day are preserved on The Athletics Museum website.

Our Charity Partners

We are proud to be supporting the Ron Pickering Memorial Fund and Personal Best Foundation as our Official Charity Partners.

Our Sponsors

We are very grateful to our sponsors who supported the 2024, 2025 and 2026 events. Prospective sponsors for 2027 are asked to contact Nick Ridgeon.

Event information

Media

Chris Kirby Athletic Photography is the official photographer for 2026. You can buy images after the event from his website.