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2022 British Athletics Championships
The 2022 British Athletics Championships was the national championships in outdoor track and field for athletes in the United Kingdom, which also served as a qualifying event for the 2022 World Athletics Championships. Background The 2022 British Athletics Championships were held from the 24–24 June 2022 at the Manchester Regional Arena. The event was used to determine British qualifiers for the 2022 World Athletics Championships. The Championships were broadcast on the BBC Sport website. The British title for the 10,000 metres event was held in May 2022 at the Night of the 10,000m PBs event. The women's race was won by Jessica Judd, who qualified for the World Championships as a result. The men's competition was won by Italian Yeman Crippa, with Sam Atkin as the highest finishing Briton, and thus the British title winner. Highlights Daryll Neita won the women's 100 and 200 metres events, the first time since 2010 that a woman had won both races at the same British Athl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manchester
Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The two cities and the surrounding towns form one of the United Kingdom's most populous conurbations, the Greater Manchester Built-up Area, which has a population of 2.87 million. The history of Manchester began with the civilian settlement associated with the Roman fort ('' castra'') of ''Mamucium'' or ''Mancunium'', established in about AD 79 on a sandstone bluff near the confluence of the rivers Medlock and Irwell. Historically part of Lancashire, areas of Cheshire south of the River Mersey were incorporated into Manchester in the 20th century, including Wythenshawe in 1931. Throughout the Middle Ages Manchester remained a manorial township, but began to expand "at an astonishing rate" around the turn of the 19th century. Manchest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010 British Athletics Championships
The 2010 British Athletics Championships was the national championship in outdoor track and field for athletes in the United Kingdom, held from 25–27 June at Alexander Stadium in Birmingham. It was organised by UK Athletics. It served as a selection meeting for Great Britain at the 2010 European Athletics Championships. Results Men Women References Aviva European Trials and UK Championships Power of 10. Retrieved 2020-01-25. UK Athletics. Retrieved 2020-01-25. External linksBritish Athletics website British Outdoor Championships British Athletics Championships Athletics Outdoor British Athletics Championships The British Athletics Championships is the premier national championship in track and field held in the United Kingdom, and are organised by British Athletics. The event has doubled as the main trials meet for international team selection for maj ... Sports competitions in Birmingham, West Midlands 2010s in Birmingham, West Midlands {{Use dmy dates, dat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Payne
Charlotte Payne (born 20 March 2002) is a British hammer thrower, who won the hammer throw events at the 2022 and 2023 British Athletics Championships, and came second in the under-23s events at the 2022 European Throwing Cup and 2023 European Athletics U23 Championships. Payne is deaf, and holds the world record for a deaf woman in the hammer throw. Early life Payne was diagnosed as deaf at the age of three, and told that it would impact her balance. Payne started competing in sports at the age of six. After trying sprinting, long jump and shot put, she started competing in the hammer throw in 2013. Her first event was the Berkshire Championships, where she set a championship record. Payne is from Reading, Berkshire, England, and as of 2022, she lived in Cold Ash in Berkshire. Career Payne trains at Reading Athletic Club. She was selected for the 2020 European Throwing Cup, though the event was later cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. At the 2021 European Athletics U2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holly Bradshaw
Holly Bethan Bradshaw (née Bleasdale, born 2 November 1991) is a British track and field athlete who specialises in the pole vault. She is the current British record holder in the event indoors and outdoors, with clearances of 4.87 metres (2012 indoors) and 4.90 metres (2021 outdoors). Bradshaw won a bronze medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She also won bronze at the 2012 World Indoor Championships, gold at the 2013 European Indoor Championships, bronze at the 2018 European Championships, and silver at the 2019 European Indoor Championships. She also won at the 2018 Athletics World Cup. Coached by Scott Simpson, she has been consistently ranked among the world's best and has been ranked in the world top ten on the Track and Field News merit rankings four times (2012, 2013, 2016, 2017). Early life Bradshaw was involved in gymnastics from the age of six until she was 11, when she decided to try running. It was not until she was 17 that she tried pole vaulting for the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tade Ojora
Omotade Ojora (born 14 October 1999) is a British Hurdling, hurdler, who won the 110 metres hurdles events at the 2021 British Athletics Championships, 2021, 2022 British Athletics Championships, 2022 and 2023 British Athletics Championships. He has competed in US college athletics for USC Trojans, achieving National Collegiate Athletic Association All-American honours three times. Early life Ojora was born in Lagos, Nigeria on 14 October 1999. His ancestry is in the Ojora Royal Family of Lagos. At the age of 8, Ojora moved to the United Kingdom, where he attended Summer Fields School in Oxford. He later attended Eton College. In 2015, he came third in the 100 metres hurdles event at the English Schools' Athletic Association's National Championships. In 2018, he came second in the 110 metres hurdles event at the same championships. At Eton, he also played association football and rugby union. His sister Temi is a long jumper. College career Ojora started competing for USC Troja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Hudson-Smith
Matthew Hudson-Smith (born 26 October 1994) is a British track and field sprinter who specialises in the 400 metres. He holds, as of July 2022, the British record, running a personal best of 44.35 seconds for the distance set at Eugene, Oregon in the 2022 Diamond League meeting. He was the 2018 European Champion in 400 metres, and a member of the gold-winning teams in the 4 x 400 metre relay at the 2014 European Athletics Championships, with Great Britain and 2014 Commonwealth Games with England. In the summer of 2022 he won his first individual global medal, a bronze, in the 2022 World Championships, only the second British male after Roger Black to win a World Championships medal in the event. Weeks later, at his home track in Birmingham, United Kingdom he won the silver medal at the Commonwealth Games representing England, before retaining his European title at the 2022 European Championships event in Munich. By retaining his 400-metre European crown, he matched the achiev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Ohuruogu
Christine Ijeoma Ohuruogu , MBE (born 17 May 1984) is a British former track and field athlete who specialised in the 400 metres, the event for which she is a former Olympic, World and Commonwealth champion. The Olympic champion in 2008, and silver medalist in 2012, she is a double World Champion, having won the 400 m at the 2007 and 2013 World Championships. She has also won six World championship medals in the women's 4 × 400 m relay as part of the Great Britain and Northern Ireland team and bronze Olympic medals with the women's 4 × 400 m relay at the 2008 Beijing Games and the 2016 Rio Games, her final Olympics. Ohuruogu shares with Merlene Ottey and Usain Bolt the record for medalling in most successive global championships – 9 – between the 2005 World Championships in Athletics and the 2016 Summer Olympics. Ohuruogu's personal best time of 49.41 seconds, set at the 2013 World Championships, beat the UK record set by Kathy Cook in 1984 by 0.02 seconds, simultaneousl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria Ohuruogu
Victoria Ohuruogu (born 28 February 1993) is an English Running track, track Sport of athletics, athlete who competes in the 400 metres. She won the silver medal in the event at the Athletics at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, 2022 Commonwealth Games. Career She trained with her sister Christine Ohuruogu. In March 2014, Victoria competed in the senior team relay alongside her sister Christine Ohuruogu at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships, World Athletics Indoor Championships in Sopot, Poland. At the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, Ohuruogu won the bronze medal as a member of the women's 4 x 400 metres relay team. At the 2022 European Athletics Championships, 2022 European Championships, she was part of women's 4 x 400 m quartet than ran the second fastest time ever by a British women's team of 3:21.74. Personal bests * 200 metres – 23.62 (-0.4 m/s, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 2022) * 400 metres – 50.50 (Munich 2022) ** 400 metres indoor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake
Nethaneel Joseph Mitchell-Blake (born 2 April 1994, London) is a British sprinter who specialises in the 200 metres. He was the 2013 European Junior Champion and his personal best of 19.95 seconds ranks him as the second-fastest in Britain of all-time in the event. He is only the second Briton, after Adam Gemili to break both 10 seconds for 100 metres and 20 seconds for 200 metres. Part of the Great Britain 4 x 100-metre relay team that won the World title in 2017, he won his first major individual honour, a silver medal, in the individual 200 metres at the 2018 European Athletics Championships before claiming another relay title running for Great Britain, the eventual gold medalists, in the heats of the 4 x 100 metres.On 18 February 2022 it was announced that Nethaneel and his teammates CJ Ujah, Zharnel Hughes and Richard Kilty would be stripped of their 4 × 100 metres relay 2020 Summer Olympics silver medals after the Court of Arbitration for Sport found CJ Ujah guilty of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reece Prescod
Reece Prescod (born 29 February 1996) is a British sprinter. He won the silver medal in the 100 metres at the 2018 European Championships and bronze for the 4 × 100 m relay at the 2022 World Championships. Prescod is a two-time British 100 m champion, and national champion over 60 metres indoors once. Career Reece Prescod qualified in first place at the GB trials to gain selection for the 2017 World Championships in Athletics, ahead of former World Championships finalist James Dasaolu. He competed in the men's 100 metres at the event, finishing seventh in the final. Having retained his British title in 2018, he finished second in the final of the 2018 European Athletics Championships, behind teammate Zharnel Hughes. Prescod broke the 10-second barrier in the 100 metres for the first time in 2018 and did it four times that year (including a wind-assisted 9.88 s at the Eugene Diamond League event in Oregon, U.S.). Statistics *Information from World Athletic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dina Asher-Smith
Geraldina "Dina" Rachel Asher-Smith, (; born 4 December 1995) is a British sprinter. She is the fastest British woman on record. She won a gold medal in the 200 metres, silver in the 100 metres and another silver in the 4×100 m relay at the 2019 World Championships, breaking her own British records with further records which still stand. Aged 24, Asher-Smith was the first Briton to win three medals at a World Championships. She earned a bronze in the 200 m at the 2022 World Championships. As part of 4×100 m relay teams, she won medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics and 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and also at the 2013 and 2017 World Championships. Asher-Smith won the 2013 European Junior 200 m title and the 2014 World Junior 100 m title. In July 2015, she became the first British woman to run under 11 seconds for the 100 m. She then broke Kathy Cook's 31-year-old British 200 m record when finishing fifth at the 2015 World Championships. In this di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremiah Azu
Jeremiah Azu (born 15 May 2001) is a Welsh sprinter. Career He competed in the 2022 British Athletics Championships where he won the 100 metres in a wind-assisted time of 9.90 seconds. He has won multiple championships in the junior athletics categories. In his first senior international appearance, he won the bronze medal in 100 metres at the 2022 European Athletics Championships, and a gold in the 4x100 metre relay at the same competition. In 2023, competing in the 100 metres in the 2023 European Athletics Team Championships, as part of the 2023 European Games, he won a European Games bronze medal. He is the current holder of the Welsh 100m national Record with a time of 10.04 seconds. Personal life Azu was born in the Netherlands, and raised in Wales. He is of Ghanaian descent. Competition record Personal bests Outdoor *100 metres – 10.04 (+1.0 m/s, Espoo 2023) *100 metres – 9.90 (+2.5 m/s, Manchester 2022) *200 metres – 20.96 (+0.3 m/s, Loughborough ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
