AW – Athletics Weekly Magazine AW July 2022 Zurück Ausgabe

The 116-page bumper July issue of AW is packed with everything you need to know about the forthcoming World Athletics Championships in Oregon and the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

We take a walk through Track Town, USA, to discover more about Eugene's history and heritage with the sport and to find out if the links between the host city and track and field are still as strong as they once were, while Olympic medallist turned presenter Katharine Merry outlines why there's so much at stake for this 18th staging of the World Championships.

AW resident statto Steve Smythe crunches the numbers on every single event in Oregon to pick out which athletes you should be keeping a particularly close eye on and to identify who will be in the fight for the medals. Stuart Weir also speaks with Allyson Felix, the First Lady of American athletics, about her remarkable career.

When it comes to the Commonwealth Games, we profile Max Burgin – rising star of the 800m – who will be racing for Team England, while Sammi Kinghorn tells us what it's like to compete in front of a home crowd.

We hear from some of the greats of the past, too, as Bob Weir talks to Jason Henderson about his amazing throwing feats and former world record-holder Filbert Bayi writes about his gold medal-winning run from 1974 which changed the nature of middle distance running.

There's also our performance section which, as usual is full of the latest news, coaching advice, training pointers and kit reviews, while Sally Gunnell travels back to 1993 to recall the greatest race of her career and multiple Olympic and world champion Michael Johnson is the man answering your questions for Ask the Athlete.