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The 2024 British Athletics Championships (sponsored by Microplus Timing) [1] is the national championships in outdoor track and field for athletes in the United Kingdom, which also served as a qualifying event for the 2024 Summer Olympics. [2] The event was held on the 29 and 30 June 2024 at the Manchester Regional Arena.
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 ...
The 2021 British Athletics Championships were held between 25 and 27 June 2021 at the Manchester Regional Arena. [1] Manchester has the rights to host the Championships from 2020 until 2022. [2] Due to COVID-19 pandemic related capacity limits, the number of fans were limited to 1,500 per day. [3]
In addition to the variations that traditionally occur for EAD events, there was a change in the athletics program in relation to the Gold Coast 2018, which was the reduction of the distance of race walking events from 20 km to 10 km.The athletes entered for the 10 km march had to meet the following Minimum Participation Standards between 1 ...
The event was used to determine British qualifiers for the 2022 World Athletics Championships. [1] The Championships were broadcast on the BBC Sport website. [2] The British title for the 10,000 metres event was held in May 2022 at the Night of the 10,000m PBs event.
In April 2023, UK Athletics confirmed that the 2023 British Athletics Championships would be held in Manchester on 8 and 9 July. [1] The Championships were used as the main qualification method for the 2023 World Athletics Championships in August 2023; [2] competitors qualified automatically for the World Championships if they finished in the top two in the event, and reached the competition's ...
UK Athletics was founded in 1999 as a successor to the British Athletics Federation, [3] which had collapsed for financial reasons. Prominent among the reasons was the cost of the legal bills in the Diane Modahl contract dispute case.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the planned inaugural season of the league did not take place in 2020. As a result of uncertainty surrounding the pandemic measures for the 2021 season, the league's organisers decided on a makeshift structure which would, among other benefits, cut down on the amount of travel needed.