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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?
August 2024 performance round up graphic

August 2024: Performance round up

Whilst the world’s best athletes have been competing in Paris at the Olympic and Paralympic Games, there has also been lots of action at our two track and field internationals, on the roads and in the mountains. Look back on all these events in our August performance round up.
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.
Under-20 women's 4x400m medal winning team - Lima

GB & NI under-20 athletes soar in Lima, Peru

Last week the country's most promising junior athletes were in action in the Peruvian capital at the World Athletics Under-20 Championships.

Four in a row for Hannah Cockroft - Days 1, 2 & 3 at the Paralympic Games

The para athletics action kicked off in the Stade de France on Friday. Lots of British athletes have taken to the track or field to compete so far with a range of experience from Paralympic debutant Madeline Down to David Weir competing in his seventh Paralympic Games.
Didi Okoh at Loughborough International

Podcast #66: Didi Okoh & Jonathan Broom-Edwards on the Paralympics

In the latest episode of the England Athletics Podcast, Great Britain's Didi Okoh tells her story ahead of making her major championship debut in the 100m at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
England team for Home Nations 5k in Cardiff

England athletes claim podium success in Cardiff

16 England athletes took to the paths of Bute Park, Cardiff on Saturday 24 August to take on the other Home Nations and invited teams over 5km. They claimed both team and individual placings in the process.
Holly Bradshaw at Manchester International

Manchester International: the last roar

The penultimate England Athletics event, Manchester International, took place as we bid farewell to pole vaulting, Holly Bradshaw.
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.