The 1992

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was the national championship in outdoor

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for the United Kingdom held at Sheffield Hallam UCA Stadium,

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. It was the only time the city hosted the championships. The men's and women's

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events were dropped from the programme for this edition. The women's

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was also not contested after featured for the first time in 1991. It was the sixteenth edition of the competition limited to British athletes only, launched as an alternative to the

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, which was open to foreign competitors. However, due to the fact that the calibre of national competition remained greater at the AAA event, the UK Championships this year were not considered the principal national championship event by some statisticians, such as the

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(NUTS). Many of the athletes below also competed at the

1992 AAA Championships The 1992 AAA Championships was an outdoor track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Association (AAA), held from 27 to 28 July at Alexander Stadium in Birmingham, England. It served as the British trials event for the 1992 Sum ...

.UK Championships
GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2018-02-25.
NUTS. Retrieved 2018-02-25. Hammer thrower

Paul Head Paul Head (born July 1, 1965, in Forest Gate, Greater London) is a male retired male hammer thrower from England. Athletics career Head competed for Great Britain at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. A member of the Newham & Essex ...

and discus thrower

Jackie McKernan Jacqueline ("Jackie") McKernan (born 1 July 1965) is a retired Northern Irish discus thrower. She represented Great Britain and Northern Ireland at three Olympic Games (1988, 1992, 1996) and won silver medals at the Commonwealth Games in 1990 and ...

each won their fourth straight UK title.

Linford Christie Linford Cicero Christie (born 2 April 1960) is a Jamaican-born British former sprinter. He is the only British man to have won gold medals in the 100 metres at all four major competitions open to British athletes: the Olympic Games, the World ...

(100 m) and Paul Edwards (shot put) made it three consecutive wins.

Liz McColgan Elizabeth Nuttall (née Lynch, formerly McColgan; born 24 May 1964) is a Scottish former middle-distance and long-distance track and road-running athlete. She won the gold medal for the 10,000 metres at the 1991 World Championships, and a ...

repeated her victory in the 3000 m.

Marcus Adam Marcus Adam (born 28 February 1968) is an England, English retired sportsperson, who represented United Kingdom, Great Britain as both a Sprint (running), sprinter and a Bobsleigh, bobsledder. Competing in Athletics (sport), athletics, he won t ...

, the 200 m winner, was the only champion to reach the podium in two events, having also finished third in the 100 m. The main international track and field competition for the United Kingdom that year was the

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. The UK 100 m champion Linford Christie took Olympic gold in that event in

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and the UK men's 400 m hurdles champion Kriss Akabusi took an Olympic bronze. Akabusi and the top three in the UK 400 m ( Roger Black, Mark Richardson and

David Grindley David Allan Grindley (born 29 October 1972 in Hindley) is a British former 400 metres track and field athlete who reached the final of the men's individual 400 metres (where he placed sixth) and won bronze in the men's 4 x 400 metres relay ...

) all shared in a relay Olympic bronze, as did UK women's champions

Phylis Smith Phylis Smith (née Watt, born 29 September 1965) is a female former sprinter from Great Britain who won an Olympic bronze medal in the 4 x 400 metres relay in Barcelona 1992. In 1994, she won a European Championships bronze medal in the 400 me ...

and

Sandra Douglas Sandra Marie Douglas (born 22 April 1967) is a female English former athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres. She won a bronze medal in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. Career Douglas was born in Cheetham Hill, Ma ...

.Olympic Games (Men)
GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2018-03-06.
GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2018-03-06.

Medal summary

Men

Women

References

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