British sprint record holder Zharnel Hughes has teamed up with Vita Coco and Greenhouse Sports to launch The CocoSpeed Programme. At Brunel University’s Indoor Athletics Centre, more than 50 schoolchildren from Greenhouse Sports’ programmes were put through a sprinting masterclass by 2024 Olympic medallist and Britain’s fastest man Zharnel Hughes, to launch the initiative. Inspired
The final Para Athletics team for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games has been announced by ParalympicsGB today. After 10 athletes were selected in the first wave of selection in June, 23 athletes join the squad to represent ParalympicsGB in the French capital next month. Among the names added to the team are multiple Paralympic medallists
Eilish McColgan would love nothing better than to win a medal at this year’s Paris Olympics – an interview with SportsBoom. But the 33-year-old Scottish running star has admitted she is just incredibly proud to have earned Team GB selection after knee surgery threatened to end her hopes of competing at an impressive fourth Olympics.
The British Olympic Association (BOA) has today announced the Team GB athletics squad for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games featuring a host Olympic, World and European medallists. Reigning individual Olympic medallists Keely Hodgkinson [women’s 800m], Josh Kerr [men’s 1500m], Holly Bradshaw [women’s pole vault] and Laura Muir [women’s 1500m] are all selected for the team
University of Bath sporting scholar Aleeya Sibbons anchored Great Britain & Northern Ireland to women’s 4x100m relay gold at the European Athletics U23 Championships in Espoo, Finland. The Architecture student, supported by a Santander Scholarship and coached by Colin Bovell in the University’s high-performance athletics squad, took the baton in the lead and finished with
Jessica Ennis-Hill has called on the world of sport to radically improve the support female athletes receive through pregnancy. Ennis-Hill became pregnant with her first child in 2014, two years after winning heptathlon gold at the London Olympics and she has described how she felt there was no roadmap within professional sport for athletes in
Swimmer Brodie Williams became the first University of Bath-based athlete to win gold at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games after another magnificent evening in the Sandwell Aquatic Centre. Williams, coached by David McNulty at the Team Bath Sports Training Village, produced an outstanding performance to take the 200m backstroke title by one-hundredth of a second
Libby Clegg announced her retirement from athletics after bowing out of the women’s T11 200m on a busy morning in Tokyo. The two-time Paralympic champion from Rio finished third in her heat alongside guide Chris Clarke and her time of 27.93 seconds was not enough to progress to the semi-finals. The 31-year-old was still pleased
Sophie Hahn equalled her own world record to lay down a serious marker on the track ahead of tonight’s women’s 100m T38 Paralympic final. The defending champion saw Colombia’s Darian Jiminez Sanchez erase her Paralympic record in the first heat, clocking 12.54 seconds. But the 24-year old responded in style, equalling her 12.38s time from
Teenager Keely Hodgkinson took stunning silver to win Team GB’s first women’s 800m medal since 2004 and break Dame Kelly Holmes’s British record. The 19-year-old unleashed her potent kick finish to come from fourth to second and finish in 1:55.88. She came home 0.67 behind USA’s Athing Mu, also 19, who won in a national
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