Athletics
Sam Atkin video interview
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Athletics
Tuesday, 15 December 2020 08:39
US-based British distance runner talks about his stand-out 10,000m in California, his goals for 2021 and why his biggest fan is the reigning Miss Great Britain Born in Grimsby and based in Idaho, Sam Atkin made a name for himself this month with a sizzling 10,000m breakthrough run of 27:26.58. Improving his PB by more than two minutes, it lifted…
Great moments – Kelly Holmes’ dream double
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Athletics
Monday, 14 December 2020 07:33
Part of a series on the greatest moments in the 75-year history of AW, Dame Kelly Holmes casts her mind back 16 years to the pinnacle of her career – the 800m and 1500m victories she achieved at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games Wide-eyed and with arms outstretched in a picture of shock and sheer elation, Kelly Holmes had achieved…
Fry and Crowe-Wright win PB5K – weekly round-up
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Monday, 14 December 2020 13:10
Highlights from a busier weekend in athletics On what proved to be a busier weekend for events in the UK, the Podium XC also took place and a report on that action can be found here. Other recent highlights are below. PB 5km Winter Series, Ardingly, Sussex, December 13 Despite 15mph-plus winds on the predominantly flat exposed Showground, there were…
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,…
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Saturday, 12 December 2020 13:38
Quirk and Millington conquer the country at Podium XC
Saturday, 12 December 2020 07:01
Great moments – Saturday night fever
Friday, 11 December 2020 10:34
In praise of the European Cross Country Champs
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
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