The 2022

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was the national championships in outdoor

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for athletes in the United Kingdom, which also served as a qualifying event for the

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Background

The 2022

were held from the 24–24 June 2022 at the

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. The event was used to determine British qualifiers for the

. The Championships were broadcast on the

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website. The British title for the

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event was held in May 2022 at the Night of the 10,000m PBs event. The women's race was won by

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, 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 Athletics Championships. Neita missed the qualifying time for the 200 metres event at the 2022 World Athletics Championships by 0.01 seconds; her times at these Championships were excluded from the qualification criteria as both races had a large tail wind. Jeremiah Azu won the men's 100 metres event, and both Neita and Azu's victories were considered upsets, as

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and Reece Prescod were considered the favourites for the events. Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake won the men's 200 metres event in a championship record time of 20.05 seconds. Victoria Ohuruogu, the sister of former Olympic gold medallist

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, won the 400 metres event.

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won the men's 400 metres race in a British Championships record time of 44.92 seconds. Tade Ojora won the men's 110 metres hurdles event for the second consecutive year, but also missed out on qualifying for the World Championships due to a large tail wind. In the field events,

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won her tenth pole vault championship. Charlotte Payne won the

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event with the third best throw by a British woman in history.

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won her eighth British

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title, and

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won her fifth British

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title. Elliot Thompson, the son of

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, won the decathlon event. It was his first British title. The 400 metres wheelchair events were won by Nathan Maguire and

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respectively. Melanie Woods and Eden Rainbow-Cooper finished second and third respectively in the women's race.

Results

Men

Women

Parasports – Men

Parasports – Women

Notes

References

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