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A "British (National) Record" was instituted by the British Amateur Athletic Board (BAAB) in 1948 for performances made in the United Kingdom, by athletes born in the British Commonwealth. This record type was discontinued in 1960 when the BAAB instituted "United Kingdom (National) Records" which defined performances made anywhere in the world ...
Record Athlete Date Meet Place Ref. Video 60 m: 7.03 Dina Asher-Smith: 25 February 2023 World Indoor Tour Final: Birmingham, United Kingdom [55] 200 m: 22.83 Katharine Merry: 14 February 1999 British Championships Birmingham, United Kingdom 300 m: 36.53 Lina Nielsen: 15 February 2025 Keely Klassic Birmingham, United Kingdom [56] 400 m: 50.02 ...
BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award winners Edition Year Winner Sport Second Sport Third Sport Ref. 1st 1954 Christopher Chataway (ENG) Athletics Roger Bannister (ENG) Athletics Pat Smythe (ENG) Show jumping [9] 2nd 1955 Gordon Pirie (ENG) Athletics: No record [10] — No record [10] — [6] 3rd 1956 Jim Laker (ENG) Cricket: No record [10 ...
For a career in which he has won 23 Olympic gold medals, 3 silver medals and 2 bronzes across 4 games, including a record breaking eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. [33] 2017 United Kingdom: Jessica Ennis-Hill: Athletics: For being one of only 12 British women to win an Olympic gold medal in athletics.
Sergey Bubka's 1993 pole vault world indoor record of 6.15 m was not considered to be a world record, because it was set before the new rule came into effect. Bubka's world record of 6.14 m, set outdoors in 1994, was surpassed 7 times indoors by two different men since 2000, most recently by Armand Duplantis in 2025 with a 6.27 m mark.
The List of British athletics champions (outdoors) covers four different competitions: the current British Athletics Championships , referred to as the UK Athletics Championships since 2023, which was founded in 2007, [ 1 ]
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg became the youngest person ever, at the age of 16, to be named Time’s Person of the Year in 2019.. Thunberg, now in her 20s, galvanized young people ...
This is the complete list of Commonwealth Games medallists in men's athletics from 1930 to 2022. In 1970, most track events converted from races measured in yards to near-equivalents measured in metres. The list below treats these as separate events, but includes a link from the metric event to its previous imperial equivalent.