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Volunteer Awards evening 2024: Yorkshire and Humberside

The Regional Volunteer Awards are underway and join us as we celebrate the winners from the Yorkshire and Humber region.
Sara Willhoit at Vertical Kilometre end

Trofeo Nasego World Cup Mountain Race

An England Team travelled to Italy for the Nasego World Cup weekend which involved two races; on the Saturday it was a VK (Vertical Kilometre) which climbs 1000m over a distance of 4.2km, the following day it’s a classic 21.5km up and down race. They also competed as part of a Three Nations competition with Scotland and Northern Ireland.
World Para Athletics Championships - Dan Pembroke

Dan Pembroke demolishes world record! Days 6-7 at the Paralympic Games

Days six and seven at the Games saw Dan Pembroke break the world record and become Paralympic champion with Anna Nicholson claim bronze.
Rafi Solaiman at England Champs

Para-athletics factoid: Frame Running

Frame Running (previously called RaceRunning) is a relatively new para-athletics event - announced by World Para Athetics (WPA) as an official track discipline in 2017. Frame Running is for athletes with severe coordination and balance impairments such as cerebral palsy and the wheeled frame enables the legs to propel the athlete while helping to aid balance. Athletes can be classified into categories T71 and T72. Events range from 60m to 1500m.
International Starter Margaret Werrett at Paris Paralympics with athlete

Margaret Werrett: officiating journey started by inspirational teacher

Following on from our other interviews with those playing a vital officiating role in Paris, we spoke with Margaret Werrett just before she left England for France. Margaret has been a Technical Official for over 40 years and took her International Starter exam 10 years ago. But what got her ‘started’ in the first place? As is the journey for many athletes, coaches and indeed officials, it began with an inspirational PE teacher. Although an athlete at school and university, Margaret wanted to follow in the footsteps of her PE teacher Charlie Meldrum who had spent time explaining the role and was keen to answer her questions about starting.
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.
Jonathan Broom-Edwards at Tokyo Paralympic Games

Jonathan Broom-Edwards: Reigning Paralympic champion hoping to leap high in Paris

We recently caught up with Jonathan at our Senior Championships in Birmingham as he made final preparations ahead of the upcoming Paralympic Games.
Opening ceremony at Croydon's new throws cage

Member Elected Director announcement

After the closing of the Member Elected Director nominations process, only one person has been nominated and will be confirmed at the AGM.
Holly Archer

England team selected for Copenhagen Half Marathon

England Athletics is delighted to announce the athletes selections to represent England at the 2024 Copenhagen Half Marathon on 15 September.
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?