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.

Following a successful 2025 event, the date for 2026 is confirmed as Sunday 31 May and will take place at Paula Radcliffe Athletics Track, Loughborough University, LE11 3TU.

Download 2026 selection policy (PDF 330kB) Buy tickets for 2026 event

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

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Events

• Shot Put and Ambulant Shot Put
• 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.

Timetable

Implement drop	Call-up	Warm-up	Start	Event	Gender
8:00	8:50	9:00	9:20	Discus	Men
9:20	10:10	10:20	10:40	Discus	Women
10:28	11:18	11:28	11:48	Javelin	Women
11:36	12:26	12:36	12:56	Javelin	Men
12:38	13:28	13:38	13:58	Hammer	Men and Women
12:52	13:42	13:52	14:12	Shot Put	Men and Women
14:10	15:20	15:30	15:30	Seated Shot	Men and Women

Start lists

This is a closed competition to selected athletes only. England team athletes will be up against throwers from other nations - in the past these have included Switzerland, Sweden and Italy.

• Read England Athletics team announcement
• Read Welsh Athletics team announcement
• Read Scottish Athletics team announcement

Roster results on the day

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

Prizes

The organising committee and the team leaders will 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 will 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.

The male and female event winners will receive:

• Neuff rucksack, lanyard and £25 voucher  
• SiS drink bottle and hydration tablets  
• Eleiko goodies

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 will receive £500 from the Ron Pickering Memorial Fund and more Eleiko goodies.

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.

Athlete development

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

• Jabez Berry (GB& NI) – 4th at Euro U20
• Harriet Court (GB & NI) – 6th at Euro U20
• Cian Crampton (IRL) – 6th at Euro U20
• Jacob Foord (GB & NI) – 11th at Euro U20
• 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
• Anna Gavigan (IRL) – 8th at Euro U23
• Giada Borin (SWI) – 23rd at Euro U23

Records and 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	Cian Crampton 56.90m
U18 women	Annabel Amadin 15.13m	Caoimhe Gallen 57.90m	Harriet Wheeler 47.21m	Nubia Evans-Shields 44.86m Bebe Jackson 22.67m (F44)
U20 men	Isaac Delaney 16.51m	Kai Barham 70.58m	Michael Allison 72.34m Michael Jenkins 32.44m (F38)	Teddy Gannon 55.82m 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
U23 men	Jephte Vogel 17.42m Fabio Zamparelli 13.89m (F20)	Owen Merrett 61.36m	Ben East 72.38m	Dillon Claydon 51.25m
U23 women	Teddy Tehoudja 14.23m Freya Howgate 7.62m (F37)	Charlotte Payne 69.28m	Dawn Russell 45.14m	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 2026 we will celebrate 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 and 2025 events. Prospective sponsors for 2026 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.