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Universal Relay team at Tokyo Paralympics

Paralympic factoid: universal relay

Our Olympic teams won a medal in every relay event. But did you know there is just one special relay event at the Paris Paralympic Games? It's called the Universal 4x100 relay and features four athletes (2 male and 2 female) with different classifications.
Jonnie Peacock at London 2012

Paralympic factoid: blade runners

Athletes with classification T/F 61 to 64 compete wearing lower limb prosthetic/s (blades). But even these need to be within the rules - it wouldn't be fair for a sprinter to have overly longer blades than their competitors! So how is this calculated and checked?
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Join our online research community and be rewarded for sharing your views

England Athletics have created a new online research community 'The Huddle' and we’d love you to join. This is a new online forum where members can give feedback on England Athletics’ initiatives and hot topics within the sport.
England Masters 5k team

England v Wales Masters race fast and furious

Friday evening saw the third of this year’s Master Road Internationals over 5km in Kingsley, Cheshire between England and Wales. This was the first time that both countries had put out an equal number of runners in each age group, showing the continued development of the programme.
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Statement on calendar year age group calculations

As the Home Country Athletics Federations (HCAFs) continue to outline the specific ways in which Age Group changes will be implemented in April 2026, England Athletics is again putting on record its commitment to not amending to calendar year age group calculations.

Carolyn Devereux: officiating is more than just the events

We spoke to Level 3 Track official from Avon; Carolyn Devereux to find out what she enjoys about officiating,  her last-minute call up for the World Indoors and her advice to someone thinking about joining the officiating community.
Chris Cohen at Doha Worlds 2019

What does the Technical Delegate at the Olympics do?

Chris Cohen was the first British official to be TD at an Olympics and a Worlds! Not a common role as it's generally reserved for major international events, but as a start to our new series of Competition Management roles (many of which are in place at Regional Level and above) Chris was kind enough to give a general rundown of what the Technical Delegate does.
Women's relay in Birmingham 2001

National Relay Championships: then and now

Elaine Larkins is Chair of Peterborough and Nene Valley Athletics Club, a former bronze medallist over 100 metres at the English Schools' AA and a gold medallist at the National Relay Championships in the 4x100m in 1971. And it’s that race, which saw four young athletes from Bury and Radcliffe AC fly to glory all those years ago and helped forge a lifelong passion for the sport.
Manchester International trophy

Manchester International: preview

After a successful championship season so far, the final weekend of the England Athletics programme gets under way with the return of the Manchester International.
Chris Jones by hammer cage

CEO Blog: August 2024

I would like to congratulate all the competing English athletes and team support staff for all that they achieved at the 2024 Olympic Games representing Team GB. And good luck to all the competing English athletes wearing a ParalympicsGB vest.