AW – Athletics Weekly Magazine  |  Nov 28 2019
DIGEST
6 Zara Hyde Peters fails to get out of the starting blocks
8 Jess Piasecki enjoys massive marathon breakthrough
9 Continental Tour consolation for Diamond League drop-outs
10 KJT and Gemili named BAWA athletes of the year
11 Scottish Athletics and BMC dish out annual awards
12 Dalilah Muhammad and Eliud Kipchoge are world athletes of 2019
13 Supermilers assemble at heritage event in Monaco
14 Callum Hawkins eyes ideal gift for his father and coach
15 British team for the Euro Cross announced
ACTION
16 BRITISH ATHLETICS CROSS CHALLENGE
Jess Judd and Ben Connor take senior victories at a muddy
Sefton Park in Liverpool as athletes chase selection for the
European Cross Country Champs in Portugal
THE BIG INTERVIEW
28 JAKE WIGHTMAN
After finishing fifth in the World Championships in Doha, the
1500m runner wants to make his mark at the Tokyo Olympics
next year, as he tells Euan CrumleySPOTLIGHT
32 JEAN PICKERING SCHOLARSHIPS
In the last of our six-part series, we profile one of the
Jean Pickering scholars, heptathlete talent Niamh Emerson
36 STAN GREENBERG
Former BBC athletics statistician and GB selector picks
some of his most memorable jumps moments from a
lifetime of watching the sport
PERFORMANCE
41 Warm-ups – latest training-related news
42 Cross-country training – David Lowes guides you through
the best preparation to race on mud and hills
44 Be nice to your coach – John Shepherd suggests athletes
ask their coach now and again how they are
46 Exercise and Parkinson’s Disease – masters athlete tells
us how she trains despite having the illness
RESULTS & FIXTURES
48 Results round-up includes the Irish Cross Country Champs,
South of the Thames race and Gloucester 10km
59 What’s On fixtures guide
REGULARS
38 BOOK REVIEWS
Bob Smith’s Newham & Essex Beagles’ memoirs of a team
manager have been posthumously published and they are
a terrific read
62 DIP FINISH
Elite athletes hit the parkrun circuit, while athletes are
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