British Athletics Championships

This article is about the post-2007 event. For the 1977–1997 event, see UK Athletics Championships.

British Athletics Championships

Current season, competition or edition: 2024 British Athletics Championships
Sport	Track and field
Founded	2007
Country	United 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. Since 2023 the Championships have been promoted as the UK Athletics Championships, but are fully a continuation of the British Athletics championships, and separate from the same-named championships held between 1977 and 1997. Since the collapse of the British Athletics Federation, UK Athletics and British Athletics have been brands owned and used by the same organisation.

The event was established in 2007,^[1] replacing the AAA Championships as the principal event on the domestic athletics calendar in the United Kingdom. The previous event named 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]

A number of events are not included, or included only sporadically, at the championships. The combined events of decathlon and heptathlon are usually, but not always, held separately, while the elite races at the Night of 10,000 metre PBs meet in Highgate has included the British championships in that event since 2016. The championships often feature shorter track based racewalking events as exhibition championships, but not the longer road based distances run at major championships. finally, relays tend not to held at the championships.

Editions

City	Venue	Year/s
Manchester	Manchester Regional Arena	2007, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
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]
400 m	44.36	Iwan Thomas	13 July 1997	1997 Championships	Birmingham
400 m hurdles	48.54	Alastair Chalmers	30 June 2024	2024 Championships	Manchester	[6]
3000 m steeplechase	8:18.65	Phil Norman	30 June 2024	2024 Championships	Manchester	[7]
Pole vault	5.85 m	Harry Coppell	4 September 2020	2020 Championships	Manchester	[8]
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	[9]
10000 m walk (track)	38:43.91 NR	Callum Wilkinson	30 June 2024	2024 Championships	Manchester	[10]

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	[11]
200 m	22.18 (-0.7 m/s)	Dina Asher-Smith	30 June 2024	2024 Championships	Manchester	[12]
400 m	50.47	Amber Anning	30 June 2024	2024 Championships	Manchester	[13]
3000 m steeplechase	9:29.67	Elizabeth Bird	29 June 2024	2024 Championships	Manchester	[14]
High jump	1.97 m	Morgan Lake	30 June 2018	2018 Championships	Birmingham	[15]
Pole vault	4.90 m NR	Holly Bradshaw	26 June 2021	2021 Championships	Manchester	[16]
Long jump	7.05 m (+1.2 m/s)	Lorraine Ugen	1 July 2018	2018 Championships	Birmingham	[17]
Hammer throw	72.02 m	Sophie Hitchon	1 July 2018	2018 Championships	Birmingham	[18]
Heptathlon	5929 pts	Jodie Smith	25–26 June 2022	2022 Championships	Manchester	[19]
	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

• List of British athletics champions

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. "400m Hurdles Result" (PDF). Microplus Informatica. 30 June 2024. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
7. "National championships round-up: Nugent and Thompson impress in Jamaica". World Athletics. 30 June 2024. Retrieved 2 July 2024.
8. "Pole Vault Results". UKA. 4 September 2020. Retrieved 5 September 2020.
9. "First National Senior record for Callum Wilkinson" (PDF). enfieldleague.weebly.com. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
10. "10000m Race Walk Result" (PDF). Microplus Informatica. 30 June 2024. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
11. Jon Mulkeen (25 August 2019). "National championships round-up: records broken at British and Swiss Championships". IAAF. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
12. "National championships round-up: Nugent and Thompson impress in Jamaica". World Athletics. 30 June 2024. Retrieved 2 July 2024.
13. "National championships round-up: Nugent and Thompson impress in Jamaica". World Athletics. 30 June 2024. Retrieved 2 July 2024.
14. "3000m Steeplechase Result" (PDF). Microplus Informatica. 29 June 2024. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
15. Jon Mulkeen (1 July 2017). "Ugen and Asher-Smith set championship records to win British titles". IAAF. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
16. "Fajdek throws 82.82m in Poznan, Gong gets 20.39m world lead in Chongqing". World Athletics. 27 June 2021. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
17. Jon Mulkeen (1 July 2017). "Ugen and Asher-Smith set championship records to win British titles". IAAF. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
18. Jon Mulkeen (1 July 2017). "Ugen and Asher-Smith set championship records to win British titles". IAAF. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
19. 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.