British Athletics Championships
SportTrack and field
Founded2007
CountryUnited Kingdom

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 major events in which Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete, including the Olympic Games, the IAAF World Championships in Athletics and the European Athletics Championships. Only British athletes may formally compete, though in some circumstances British club-affiliated foreign athletes may take part as guests.

The event was established in 2007,[1] replacing the AAA Championships as the principal event on the domestic athletics calendar in the United Kingdom. A previous event, the UK Athletics Championships had nominally been the national championship, but in effect took second billing to the "triple A's". The creation of the British Athletics Championships as the main national championship and selection event, brought the governance of the elite level of the sport and team selection firmly under the new national body for the sport, moving away from the Amateur Athletic Association of England, which had served that role since 1880.[2] A 2001 British Championship in women's 3000 metres steeplechase was held as a one-off at Scotstoun Stadium, due to the growing popularity of the event among women and its absence from the AAA Championships programme (the event was added a year later).[3]

Editions

City Venue Year/s
Manchester Manchester Regional Arena 2007, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Birmingham Alexander Stadium 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

Championships records

Men

Event Record Athlete/Team Date Championships Place Ref
100 m
9.90 w (+2.5 m/s) Jeremiah Azu 25 June 2022 2022 Championships Manchester [4]
200 m 20.05 (+2.0 m/s) Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake 26 June 2022 2022 Championships Manchester [5]
Pole vault 5.85 m Harry Coppell 4 September 2020 2020 Championships Manchester [6]
Discus throw 65.72 m  Juan Martínez Brito (CUB) 13 July 1985 1985 Championships London
5000 m walk (track) 18:41.23 Callum Wilkinson 24 August 2019 2019 Championships Birmingham [7]

Women

Event Record Athlete/Team Date Championships Place Ref
100 m 10.96 (-0.9 m/s) Dina Asher-Smith 24 August 2019 2019 Championships Birmingham [8]
200 m 22.25 (+1.3 m/s) Daryll Neita 9 July 2023 2023 Championships Manchester [9]
3000 m steeplechase 9:30.73 Aimee Pratt 5 September 2020 2020 Championships Manchester [10]
High jump 1.97 m Morgan Lake 30 June 2018 2018 Championships Birmingham [11]
Pole vault 4.90 m NR Holly Bradshaw 26 June 2021 2021 Championships Manchester [12]
Long jump 7.05 m (+1.2 m/s) Lorraine Ugen 1 July 2018 2018 Championships Birmingham [13]
Hammer throw 72.02 m Sophie Hitchon 1 July 2018 2018 Championships Birmingham [14]
Heptathlon 5929 pts Jodie Smith 25–26 June 2022 2022 Championships Manchester [15]
100m H (wind) High jump Shot put 200m (wind) Long jump (wind) Javelin 800m
13.57 (+3.2 m/s) 1.77 m 11.67 m 24.80 (+3.4 m/s) 6.11 m (+2.2 m/s) 42.39 m 2:21.15

See also

References

  1. ↑ AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists. NUTS. Retrieved 2018-02-25.
  2. ↑ Memorandum submitted by the Association of British Athletic Clubs - THE DEMISE OF BRITISH ATHLETICS FROM GRASS ROOTS TO ELITE. Parliament. Retrieved 2018-02-25.
  3. ↑ UK Championships. GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2018-02-25.
  4. ↑ "Jeremiah Azu wins UK 100m title in wind assisted 9.90". thenational.wales. 26 June 2022. Retrieved 9 July 2022.
  5. ↑ Evelyn Watta (27 June 2022). "Daryll Neita completes sprint double with dominant 200m win at UK Athletics Championships in Manchester". olympics.com. Retrieved 9 July 2022.
  6. ↑ "Pole Vault Results". UKA. 4 September 2020. Retrieved 5 September 2020.
  7. ↑ "First National Senior record for Callum Wilkinson" (PDF). enfieldleague.weebly.com. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
  8. ↑ Jon Mulkeen (25 August 2019). "National championships round-up: records broken at British and Swiss Championships". IAAF. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
  9. ↑ "National championships round-up: Jackson clocks 10.65, Warholm blazes to 46.76". World Athletics. 9 July 2023. Retrieved 12 July 2023.
  10. ↑ "Bolingo breaks Belgian best, Rojas leaps world-leading 14.71m". World Athletics. 6 September 2020. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
  11. ↑ Jon Mulkeen (1 July 2017). "Ugen and Asher-Smith set championship records to win British titles". IAAF. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
  12. ↑ "Fajdek throws 82.82m in Poznan, Gong gets 20.39m world lead in Chongqing". World Athletics. 27 June 2021. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  13. ↑ Jon Mulkeen (1 July 2017). "Ugen and Asher-Smith set championship records to win British titles". IAAF. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
  14. ↑ Jon Mulkeen (1 July 2017). "Ugen and Asher-Smith set championship records to win British titles". IAAF. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
  15. ↑ Evelyn Watta (27 June 2022). "Daryll Neita completes sprint double with dominant 200m win at UK Athletics Championships in Manchester". olympics.com. Retrieved 9 July 2022.
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