THE FUTURE LOOKS ROSIE

BRITISH ATHLETICS EMBRACES EUROPE

JUST WHEN the United Kingdom is leaving the European Union

REBORN

FALL the British sprinters to enhance their reputations so far

FULL STRENGTH

WHEN it came to picking its team for next week’s

BRITISH ATHLETICS 2016 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM

MEN: 100m: James Ellington, Adam Gemili, Richard Kilty. 200m: Danny

BIGGEST BRIT TEAM FOR AMSTERDAM

BRITISH ATHLETICS has named its biggest ever squad for the

GB ATHLETES MUST REACH EURO FINAL

BRITISH ATHLETICS’ performance director Neil Black has heaped the pressure

WADA SUSPENDS RIO DRUG LAB

THE WORLD Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has suspended the Rio laboratory

ZIKA VIRUS HITS BAILEY-COLE

The mosquito-borne disease is one of the big fears hanging

POZZI EYEING UP RIO MEDAL FIGHT

ANDY POZZI says his form so far in 2016 has

DOYLE: ‘I NEED A PB AT OLYMPICS’

EILIDH DOYLE believes she will need to run a big

HAPPY HENRY WANTS DIP TIPS

A DELIGHTED Desiree Henry said she would look to improve

DASAOLU REAPING TRAINING REWARDS

JAMES DASAOLU says a switch back to the basics is

FOND FAREWELL FOR JUMPER TOMLINSON

BRITISH long jumping great Chris Tomlinson brought the curtain down

BRITISH YOUTHS HEAD TO TBILISI

NIAMH EMERSON and Sam Talbot headline a strong British team

OLYMPIAN TAKES ENGLAND CHAIR

OLYMPIAN Myra Nimmo has been announced as the new chair

MASTERS PRIZE

THE WORLD Masters Athletics biennial Track & Field Championships are

MARATHON DATE FOR BIRMINGHAM

THE INAUGURAL Birmingham International Marathon has been confirmed to take

‘RUNNER’ SEARCH FOR LONDON 2017

BRITISH record-holder Dina Asher-Smith and Paralympic champion Richard Whitehead helped

LEWIS BACKS ENNIS-HILL TO DEFEND HER TITLE

JESSICA ENNIS-HILL is the favourite to retain her Olympic heptathlon

EYE MAX

EXPERTS tell us that sports eyewear is essential not just

TIME YOUR PROTEIN INTAKE

PLANNING your protein consumption with precision could pay dividends according

LOADED SQUAT JUMPS FOR SPEED

ATHLETES who perform loaded half-squat jumps as part of their

TRAINER WOES

THE average Brit has two pairs of trainers, typically spending

PARALYMPIC SPRINTERS SLOWED BY BEND

PARALYMPIC sprinters wearing left-leg prostheses are slowed significantly more than

ENERTOR INSOLES

What: A new sports insole that provides orthotic support. It’s

FRONTLOAD YOUR CALORIES FOR LEANNESS, STUDY SAYS

CONSUMING most of your calories in the earlier part of

JOSEPHINE MOULTRIE

MY GREAT BRITAIN vest at the Edinburgh Cross Country in

BALANCED APPROACH

IT IS ALWAYS good for aspiring high jumpers to observe

THE EYES HAVE IT

The frame of these is light, strong and very durable

BRING ON THE EUROS

AMSTERDAM or the Netherlands has never previously staged a World

EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS: THE LEADING CONTENDERS

Key: w = wind assisted; A = at high altitude;

THE FINISH LINE

AGREAT long distance runner once said: “An athlete must run

RIO BOUND

THE BRITISH Championships served up its share of thrills and

ASHA IS DELIGHTED

FEW athletes looked so happy and relieved to win their

DINA AND DESIREE TRIUMPH

EMOTIONS overcame Dina Asher-Smith after she won the trial race

GAME, SET AND MATCH

EMILY DIAMOND was a promising tennis player as a teenager

OSKAN-CLARKE ON TOP

SHELAYNA OSKAN-CLARKE enjoyed a breakthrough last year when she was

MUIR SURGES TO THE GOLD

NO ONE could live with Laura Muir’s closing pace as

SCOTTISH FIRST THREE

THE huge success of Scottish athletics over the weekend was

DAVIES’ POLISH-ED WALK

BETHAN DAVIES did not arrive in Birmingham until 3am on

ONE-TWO HURDLES SISTER ACT

SPRINT hurdles siblings Tiffany Porter and Cindy Ofili won gold

DOYLE CONFIRMS CLASS

EILIDH DOYLE has matured into one of the most consistent,

BIRMINGHAM BITES ...

Olympic champions led a disappointing list of big names who

LAKE FINDS JUMP FORM

UNTIL last weekend, Morgan Lake had endured a frustrating summer

BRADSHAW IS POLES APART

HOLLY BRADSHAW has been to hell and back with injuries

SAWYERS’ SELECTION

JAZMIN SAWYERS rose to the occasion with a lifetime best

IT’S TITLE NO.5 FOR SAMUEL

TWO years ago, Laura Samuel jumped a lifetime best of

WALLADER’S GOLD

BIRMINGHAM was a bittersweet experience for Rachel Wallader as she

LALLY SECURES SELECTION

JADE LALLY won her fifth national title and booked her

BLAIR’S FINEST DAY

JO BLAIR has enjoyed a memorable season so far. Last

BIRMINGHAM BITES ...

Her grandmother, Valerie Webster, was seventh in the long jump

HITCHON STAMPS MARK

WITH a victory margin of more than six metres, Sophie

DASAOLU KEEN TO GET FASTER

JAMES DASAOLU is looking forward to building on his wind-assisted

GEMILI WANTS RIO MEDAL

ADAM GEMILI says he will head into the Olympics aiming

MATT’S TALE OF TWO TRIALS

TWELVE months on from the devastation of having to miss

GILES SPRINGS A SHOCK

UNTIL the beginning of last year, Elliot Giles’ PB was

GRICE GOLD AS RIVAL TAKES FALL

CHARLIE GRICE and Chris O’Hare were the two athletes with

BUTCHART BURST WINS

DESPITE winning in emphatic style, Andrew Butchart admitted he was

MULLETT HALFWAY TO RIO

ROB MULLETT will head to the European Championships seeking a

A POZZI-TIVE PERFORMANCE

IN THE four years since reaching the last Olympics, Andrew

RODGER SHOCKS GREEN

EXPECTED to be a close affair this did not disappoint

BOSWORTH IS READY FOR RIO

TOM BOSWORTH was one of the few athletes last weekend

GRABARZ IS ON A HIGH

FOUR YEARS after winning bronze in London 2012, Robbie Grabarz

LUKE IS A CUT ABOVE RIVALS

LUKE CUTTS found 5.40m enough to clinch his place on

GARDINER HOLDS ON

IN THE absence of Greg Rutherford, it was his predecessor

DOUGLAS DISCOVERS FORM

WINNER Nathan Douglas blamed rustiness for falling short of the

LINCOLN AIMS HIGH

SCOTT LINCOLN believes he can gain the Olympic qualifier despite

PERCY CAN’T STOP WINNING

NICK PERCY completed a hat-trick of titles on successive weekends,

THROWERS YET TO GAIN OLYMPIC PLACE

NICK MILLER missed out on the chance to assure himself

MORTIMORE COMES OF AGE

FORMER teenage prodigy Matti Mortimore is finally realising some of

RESULTS

Senior men: 100 (3.0): 1 J Dasaolu (Croy) 9.93; 2

OVERSEAS

DESPITE too many absentees, it was a good British Championships,

TRACK & FIELD

M35 men: 400: 1 P Davey (Ashf, M40) 55.2; 2

MULTI-TERRAIN

EMMA HOLT repeated her 2015 victory, taking 17 seconds off

ROAD

Overall: 1 J Wade (AFD) 33:50; 2 D Eckersley (K&P)

STARTER FOR 10

1 Which 39-year-old set a British women’s marathon record at

IT’S BERIAN VS NIKE

BORIS BERIAN has won a high-profile, David and Goliathstyle sponsorship

KNOCK-OUT ACTION

EXMOUTH National Park will stage a unique knock-out style test

STEP FORWARD, RETRO RUNNING

GARRET DOHERTY has won the world ‘retro running’ title three