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CEO Chris Jones at Cross country relays

CEO Blog: November 2024

As we move toward the end of another calendar year of athletics and running, England Athletics CEO Chris Jones gives his thoughts on what we’ve seen in 2024, where the sport is, and what’s to come.
Tyri Donovan at England Champs

Podcast #69: Tyri Donovan overcoming injury to become national champion

In the latest episode of the England Athletics Podcast, Tyri Donovan describes how he recovered from a serious injury to have his best ever season this year.
Trevor Painter and Jenny Meadows reciving their 2024 Hall of Fame trophy

Trevor Painter and Jenny Meadows: The importance of the team behind the athlete

Trevor Painter and Jenny Meadows, were recently inducted into the England Athletics Hall of Fame as recognition for their work with Keely, and Olympic bronze medallists Georgia Bell and Lewis Davey. We caught up with them during the evening to find out more about their training group, the M11 Track Club, and what the accolade means to them.
Official Anouska Johnson with start team

Anoushka Johnson: an athlete and official seeing both sides on race day

Officials are an essential part to ensuring competitions can run. But officials are not just there out of necessity, they also help athletes to have a positive competitive experience. Anoushka Johnson is an endurance and track and field official who brings her experience as an athlete to encourage those competing.  
kids trying funetics at Lewisham

Supporting Mo Farah to get kids moving this World Children's Day

On World Children’s Day, Sir Mo Farah personally delivered a letter addressed to the Prime Minister, signed by Hannah Cockroft MBE, Keely Hodgkinson, and other key Olympians and Paralympians
Fran Blackett fell running race image

Fran Blackett: Fell running makes me feel so alive

Many people are intimidated by the navigation skills required to take part in fell running, a barrier that keen fell runner, Fran Blackett, is working to overcome to empower everyone to get involved. We recently caught up with Fran on her love for fell running and the work she is doing to encourage other women to get into the sport.
Safeguarding Adults week

Safeguarding Adults Week

This week (18-22 November) marks the Ann Craft Trust’s Safeguarding Adults Week, which aims to raise awareness of important, but often sidelined, safeguarding issues. Safeguarding - protecting the welfare of those who take part in our sport - is of primary importance to England Athletics, with numerous measures in place to ensure that children and adults within our sport are provided with a genuinely safe and welcoming environment in which to flourish.
Georgia Bell at British Indoors

English athletes advance to UK Athletics programmes

We are delighted to share that a total of 14 athletes have now moved on to UKA-funded programmes from the England talent pathway.
Redway Runners and Fitmums and Friends

Double King's Award recognition for Fitmums and Friends and Redway Runners

We are delighted to share that two England Athletics affiliated clubs, Fitmums and Friends and Redway Runners have been granted the prestigious King's Award for Voluntary Service!
Blurred legs running past England Athletics banner

Latest update on the Age Group change implementation process

As part of the second phase of the age group change implementation process, England Athletics - on behalf of the Home Country Athletics Federations - recently hosted a webinar for competition providers designed to offer a further chance to ask questions, provide feedback and clarify the content of the September transition information.