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Celebrating the recent success of Backside to Trackside across Essex and Hertfordshire

Backside to Trackside, supported by England Athletics, is not your typical “couch to 5k” programme. It brings together professional coaching, group support and specialist facilities to build a sense of community and belonging that helps guide its participants through a FREE nine-week course.
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July 2026: performance round up

Headlined by the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, July saw outstanding performances from English athletes at every level. From two England Athletics Championships in Bedford to the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and the Snowdon International Mountain Race to the masters 5k race in Shrewsbury, let’s look back on the action in our July performance round up.
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Commonwealth Games 2026, Morning Session, Friday July 31: Keeping calm and collected

Team England’s athletes successfully negotiated a tricky morning session that involved re-runs and re-measurements. For the decathletes that involved the 110 Hurdles first thing and the always tense pole vault just before lunch and a Games record that wasn’t in the discus. Fortunately, it was all much calmer for the long jumpers. It was a case of, job done qualify and return to the hotel for the England trio. And finally, there was a little bit of – potentially unwanted – history as the T54 1500 metres final had to be re-run. Fortunately, for the winner, the result was the same.
Jonnie Peacock at the Commonwealth Games

Jonnie Peacock on the importance of inclusive athletics opportunities

The Commonwealth Games are one of the most inclusive major sporting events. As the Games are in full flow, we caught up with former Paralympic champion and TNT presenter at the Games, Jonnie Peacock on his highlights so far, the integrated nature of the Games and how important such opportunities are for para sport.
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England Athletics Age Group and Junior Para Championships 2026, powered by Citroën: Signing off in record-breaking style

Judging from the performances in Bedford at the England Athletics Age Group and Junior Para Championships, one thing is for sure: England’s athletes are progressing nicely. With each generation times and distances improve. Here's how the action unfolded on day two.
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England Athletics Age Group and Junior Para Championships 2026, powered by Citroën: The start of a new age

The England Age Group Championships is always about development and building for an exciting future, so it was really encouraging to see the standard of performances on show in Bedford this weekend.
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The National Relay Championships 2026

England Athletics is proud to work with Birchfield Harriers on the National Relay Championships for the third year in a row. The event will be hosted on Sunday 23 August 2026 at the prestigious Alexander Stadium, a week after the European Championships have taken place.
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Ready, Set, Glasgow podcast episode 3: Dan Greaves on seven Paralympics, Aston Villa and meeting HM The Queen

Paralympic, world, European and Commonwealth champion Dan Greaves is the second guest on the England Athletics Podcast's "Ready, Set, Glasgow" series, inspired by the upcoming Commonwealth Games.

funetics Multi Challenge becomes the official School Games athletics format for primary school children

England Athletics is delighted to announce that funetics Multi Challenge (fMC) has been adopted as the official summer athletics format within the Youth Sport Trust School Games offer for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 pupils.
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June 2026: Performance round up

As we are gearing up for a huge summer of athletics, June was filled with some fantastic performances from English athletes. From the best of British at the 2026 Novuna UK Athletics Championships to the top of the crop in the masters half marathon and 3000m, there’s lots of action to look back on in our June performance round up.