Athletics
Eric Shirley’s rise from rags to running royalty
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Sunday, 13 December 2020 11:29
Olympic steeplechaser first featured in AW in 1946 and still appears in our results today aged 91. But few are aware of his remarkable background Eric Shirley’s name first appeared in the pages of AW in February 1946, when the magazine was just three months old. Aged 16, he won the Middlesex youths’ cross-country title in Cranford and, amazingly, his…
Great moments – Coe vs Ovett in 1980
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Sunday, 13 December 2020 04:53
Our series on the greatest moments in the 75-year history of AW continues with the Moscow Olympics middle-distance clash of clashes IT is now 40 years since Seb Coe and Steve Ovett took part in the most talked about head-to-head in the history of the sport. Yet even though four decades have now passed since the Moscow Olympics of 1980,…
Quirk and Millington conquer the country at Podium XC
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Saturday, 12 December 2020 13:38
A small number of British elite runners raced cross-country in the north-west of England on Saturday Amelia Quirk and Ross Millington emerged as winners at the Podium XC in Lancashire on Saturday (Dec 12) as a number of leading British endurance runners enjoyed a rare chance to stretch their legs competitively on the mud. In a week that saw this…
Great moments – Saturday night fever
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Saturday, 12 December 2020 07:01
There has never been an evening quite like the one of August 4, 2012, when gold rained down on London. Read on as our series on the greatest moments in the 75-year history of AW continues Super just doesn’t seem like a strong enough word to properly do justice to the events which unfolded on August 4, 2012. The London…
In praise of the European Cross Country Champs
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Friday, 11 December 2020 10:34
Dublin was due to stage the 27th Euro Cross this weekend but after its cancellation due to coronavirus we take a jog down a particularly muddy memory lane to celebrate one of the best events on the calendar Exactly eight years ago I met up with AW photographer Mark Shearman and a group of hardcore cross-country fans at Luton Airport…
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Friday, 11 December 2020 02:21
Great moments – Bannister’s sub-four mile
Thursday, 10 December 2020 11:46
Sam Atkin comes of age with stunning track breakthrough
Thursday, 10 December 2020 06:33
English National is postponed
Thursday, 10 December 2020 01:40
World Indoors in Nanjing postponed to 2023
Thursday, 10 December 2020 01:57
Seb Coe impressed by British 800m men
Wednesday, 09 December 2020 03:36
Jake Wightman’s wise words
Tuesday, 08 December 2020 11:02
Great moments – long jump record-breakers
Tuesday, 08 December 2020 08:21
Supermilers of the 1940s
Tuesday, 08 December 2020 02:16
Seb Coe’s views on the shoes
Monday, 07 December 2020 04:44
Great moments – Zatopek’s zenith
Monday, 07 December 2020 09:26
Sam Atkin enjoys 10,000m breakthrough – weekly round-up
Monday, 07 December 2020 11:20
No cross country at Paris 2024
Sunday, 06 December 2020 02:40
Half-marathon record shattered in Valencia
Saturday, 05 December 2020 00:23
COROS sport watches
Saturday, 05 December 2020 01:00
AW silver jubilee issue – 1970
Saturday, 05 December 2020 06:36
Jamaine Coleman’s next chapter
Saturday, 05 December 2020 08:55
Yulimar Rojas and Mondo Duplantis are World Athletics’ athletes of 2020
Friday, 04 December 2020 11:54
Big Diamond League changes announced
Friday, 04 December 2020 09:36
Why getting in the swing has helped Mondo Duplantis
Friday, 04 December 2020 06:18