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A further 43 athletes added to the British team for the European Athletics U20 Championships

A further 43 athletes have been added to the British team for the European Athletics U20 Championships which will take place in Tallinn, Estonia between the 15-18 July, adding to the 22 athletes selected last month, bringing the team total size to 65.

Among them are Charlie Carvell and Brodie Young who will join Edward Faulds in the men’s 400m. Faulds won the trial so confirmed his selection last month and will be joined by the pair in both the individual and 4x400m relay.

Carvell, third at the trials last month, has clocked a best of 46.64 this year to top the UK U20 rankings, while Young has posted a time of 46.85 which he ran on his way to second place at the trials. In the European U20 rankings, Carvell is ranked fifth, with Faulds in sixth and Young in eighth.

In the men’s 1500m, Kane Elliot and Henry McLuckie are ranked third and fourth in the European U20 rankings so far this year, so have earned the call-up to the British team alongside Joe Ewing. Elliot moved to fifth on the UK U20 all-time list with a time of 3:40.65 at Sportcity in May.

Eleanor Colbourn and Stephanie Moss are ranked seventh and eighth in Europe in the women’s 800m, and they will compete for a British team for the first time.

Ethan Hussey leads the names in the men’s 800m and sits fourth in the current European rankings – third without the injured Max Burgin in action. Henry Johnson and Daniel Joyce will also compete in the event.

In the field, Zara Obamakinwa and Taia Tunstall join the previously selected Samantha Callaway in the women’s discus. Tunstall has thrown a PB of 51.01m at a meet in Loughborough earlier this year, while Obamakinwa holds a career best of 51.69m from 2020.

Team Leader, Trevor Painter, said, “The European Athletics U20 Championships are an important opportunity for these athletes as they continue their development through the pathway. We have picked a strong team who will be looking to step up as they take on the best in Europe, so I look forward to seeing how they perform next week.”

The full British team for the European Athletics U20 Championships, Tallinn, Estonia (athletes selected in the second wave are highlighted in blue):

Women:

100m:

Joy Eze (Michael Donnelly, Gateshead)

Aleeya Sibbons (Coral Nourrice, Newham and Essex Beagles)

Eve Wright (Ryan Freckleton, Shaftesbury Barnet)

200m:

Success Eduan (Anita Richardson, Sale Harriers Manchester)

Sophie Walton (Trevor Williams, Horwich)

400m:

Mary John (Alan James, Woodford Green Essex Ladies)

800m:

Eleanor Colbourn (Joanne Day, Harrogate)

Stephanie Moss (Trevor Painter, Sale Harriers Manchester)

3000m:

Megan Keith (Ross Cairns, Inverness)

5000m:

Phoebe Anderson (Wayne Vinton, Herne Hill)

Alice Garner (Mick Woods, Aldershot Farnham and District)

Ellen Weir (Anne Hegvold, Hercules Wimbledon)

100m Hurdles:

Mallory Cluley (Lorna Boothe, Blackheath and Bromley)

Lily Parris (Julie Benterman, Chelmsford)

Pole Vault:

Sophie Ashurst (Andy Ashurst, Sale Harriers Manchester)

Gemma Tutton (Richard Pilling, Lewes)

Long Jump:

Funmi Olajide (Geraldine Heapy, Thurrock)

Triple Jump:

Temi Ojora (Nick Newman, Windsor Slough Eton and Hounslow)

Shot Put:

Nana Gyedu (John Hillier, Blackheath and Bromley)

Discus:

Samantha Callaway (David Callaway, Newham and Essex Beagles)

Zara Obamakinwa (Mark Chapman, Blackheath and Bromley)

Taia Tunstall (Stuart Carlaw, Harrow)

Javelin:

Elizabeth Korczak (Bob Willows, Brighton and Hove)

Hammer:

Kirsty Costello (Chris Bennett, Kilbarchan)

Charlotte Payne (Paul Dickenson, Reading)

Heptathlon:

Abigail Pawlett (Joe Frost, Stockport T&F)

4x100m Relay:

Alyson Bell (Billy Glasgow, Giffnock North), Success Eduan (Anita Richardson, Sale Harriers Manchester), Joy Eze (Michael Donnelly, Gateshead), Trinity Powell (Kes Salmon, Manchester Harriers), Aleeya Sibbons (Coral Nourrice, Newham and Essex Beagles), Sophie Walton (Trevor Williams, Horwich) and Eve Wright (Ryan Freckleton, Shaftesbury Barnet)

Men:

100m:

Toby Makoyawo (Peter Griffiths, Windsor Slough Eton and Hounslow)

Jeriel Quainoo (Ryan Freckleton, Blackheath and Bromley)

Ethan Wiltshire (Jake Awe, Marshall Milton Keynes)

200m:

Louie Hinchliffe (Rudolph Paul Hohn, Sheffield and Dearne)

Jason Kalala (Nat Senior, Victoria Park and Tower Hamlets)

Derek Kinlock (Paul Weston, Croydon)

400m:

Charlie Carvell (Stuart Hamilton, Telford)

Edward Faulds (James Wright, Rugby and Northampton)

Brodie Young (James McMenemy, Airdrie Harriers)

800m:

Ethan Hussey (Andrew Henderson, Leeds)

Henry Johnson (Lynn Cooper, Houghton Harriers)

Daniel Joyce (Peter Venus, Tynedale)

1500m:

Kane Elliot (William Sharp, Falkirk)

Joe Ewing (Carol Sharp, Edinburgh)

Henry McLuckie (Geoff Watkin, Aldershot Farnham and District)

3000m:

Will Barnicoat (Windsor Slough Eton and Hounslow)

Alex Melloy (Mark Vile, Cambridge and Coleridge)

Duncan Robinson (Dudley Walker, Giffnock North)

5000m:

Alastair Marshall (Derek Easton, Central)

Osian Perrin (Andrew Walling, Menai)

3000m Steeplechase:

Alex Alston (Simon Goodwin, Bedford and County)

Kristian Imroth (Stephen Murphy, Shaftesbury Barnet)

110m Hurdles:

Joseph Harding (Laura Turner-Alleyne, Basildon)

400m Hurdles:

Adam Booth (Graeme Gourlay, Poole AC)

Pole Vault:

Lazurus Benjamin (Matt Cullen, Sale Harriers Manchester)

Reuben Nairne (Brian Donaldson, Glasgow City)

High Jump:

Sam Brereton (Fuzz Caan, Birchfield)

Dominic Ogbechie (Marius Guei, Highgate)

Long Jump:

Brad Davies-Pughe (Jake Awe, Shaftesbury Barnet)

Triple Jump:

Bera Ajala (John Scott, Edinburgh)

Daniel Falode (Guy Spencer, Cambridge Harriers)

Javelin:

Thomas Holmes (Mark Bradford, Andover)

4x100m Relay:

Joseph Harding (Laura Turner-Alleyne, Basildon), Jason Kalala (Nat Senior, Victoria Park and Tower Hamlets), Derek Kinlock (Paul Weston, Croydon), Toby Makoyawo (Peter Griffiths, Windsor Slough Eton and Hounslow), Henry Nwoke (Mike Sweeney, Liverpool), Jeriel Quainoo (Ryan Freckleton, Blackheath and Bromley) and Ethan Wiltshire (Jake Awe, Marshall Milton Keynes)

4x400m Relay:

Charlie Carvell (Stuart Hamilton, Telford), Alex Cooper (Grant Barker, Birchfield), Reuben Henry-Daire (Paul Herrington, Reading AC), Edward Faulds (James Wright, Rugby and Northampton), Samuel Reardon (Nigel Stickings, Blackheath and Bromley), Nabil Tezkratt (Gladys Bird, Woodford Green Essex Ladies) and Brodie Young (James McMenemy, Airdrie Harriers)

A further two athletes added to the British team for the World Indoors

Emily Borthwick and Amelia Strickler have both received invitations to compete at next week’s World Athletics Indoor Championships, and these have been accepted by UK Athletics.

Borthwick, the Wigan & District athlete, has been in scintillating form in 2022, clearing a personal best of 1.95m in the high jump, and finishing second in the World Indoor Tour series. European and Commonwealth finalist, Strickler will compete in the women’s shot put where she will join Sophie McKinna in the field.

A fusion of college football and F1 in Austin this weekend

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A Message from Ian Reid, Chief Executive, Birmingham 2022

As we draw to the end of 2022, I wanted to take the opportunity on behalf of the team at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Organising Committee to thank you for your fantastic support in helping make the Games so special.

A new generation is breaking through barriers for women's sport in India

With her cousins Geeta Phogat and Babita Kumari, being international wrestlers and Commonwealth Games medalists as well, India is celebrating a ‘new fighting spirit’ with wrestler Vinesh Phogat. Now, coming from a successful family of wrestlers, she is the first Indian woman wrestler to win Gold in both Commonwealth and Asian games.

A world championships bronze medallist in 2019, she was the first Indian woman to win gold at both the Commonwealth and Asian Games. For many of today’s young hopefuls her story is an inspiration, the latest among a growing number.

The 26-year-old, who comes from a small village in the northern state of Haryana (who has markedly fewer females than males), had an upbringing that was very different. Her uncle decided that all the family's daughters should take up wrestling - which attracted opposition and controversy.

Phogat recalls: "All hell broke loose in the village when my uncle starting training us girls in the early 2000s. People called him and us names. My sisters and I all had short cropped hair and so we would wear shorts in the village and practise.

"Ladies would come up to my mother and say 'tell your daughter to at least cover her legs'. My mother would also feel ashamed, but we fought back collectively. And the international medals proved everyone wrong."

Back then, only two decades ago, there were far fewer icons to watch out for. Now she is one of many modern figures showcasing the rising spirit of Indian sportswomen.

Phogat was six-years-old when she watched on TV as Karnam Malleswari won India's first Olympic medal in female competition: a weightlifting bronze at the Sydney Olympics. “The date is still etched in my memory too” she says, as it became a watershed moment for women's sport in India.

Since then four more Indian women have claimed Olympic success; boxer Mary Kom, wrestler Sakshi Malik, and badminton stars Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu.

It is a serious scene of concentration but there can be no doubt - something very uplifting is taking place in Indian sport.

A new Maldivian festival, expert-led wellness residencies, and a Bayern Munich football experience: Patina Maldives, Fari Islands unveils latest signature programming for Q3 2025

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A second former Yorkshire player makes racism claim

It has been reported that Rana Naved-ul-Hasan is a second player to allege racism at Yorkshire County Cricket Club. It follows chairman Roger Hutton, and several board members, who resign over the club's response to racism experienced by Azeem Rafiq.

The club has launched an investigation after the former player alleged he was subjected to repeated racial abuse.

A Short Break, A Big Upgrade: The Power of 10 Prepares for Relaunch

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A spectacular end to Dakar Rally Saudi Arabia

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A squad of five Brits are selected for the World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships

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A statement by UK Athletics confirming continued sport-wide commitment to tackle racial inequality

May 25 marked the first anniversary of the tragic murder of George Floyd in the USA.

This terrible event resulted in a global groundswell of anger, frustration and grief. Followed by contemplation, determination and then action.

On this day, one year on, UK Athletics once again reaffirms its commitment to zero tolerance of racism and all forms of discrimination.

In the weeks and months following 25 May 2020 UKA launched its Let’s Talk about Race Programme which led to 17 separate focus group sessions taking place throughout the summer, covering many aspects of UKA’s work and its impact on race.   The establishment of the RACEquality Network was a key outcome from these discussions.

The RACEquality Network monitors the outcomes decided within the “Let’s Talk about Race” programme and these are captured within the UKA Diversity Action Plan 2021-2024.  The network also supports race, religion and belief advocates with their initiatives as well as the Race at Work Charter commitment. 

However, these are not just the commitments of those individuals who are members of the RACEquality network. They are commitments that UKA has made as an organisation and will continue to deliver against.

The athletics family spoke loudly last year and UKA listened. Action was taken and we have continued with this commitment most recently by further increasing the diversity of our board, and we will continue to ensure we are representative of the sport and athletes we serve.

We would be delighted to hear from anyone else who wishes to work with and be a part of our newly formed RACEquality network.

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A stripped-back Commonwealth Games announced for Glasgow 2026

It has been revealed that track cycling and boxing are among the events that will be included in the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games.

A super six medals for Novuna GB & NI team at the 2026 European Cross Country Championships

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A winner a true sport, and a gentleman – that was Gianluca Vialli

As people were still trying to get their heads around his passing, former Sampdoria team-mate Graeme Souness was in tears as an interview with him was cut short during Gianluca Vialli tribute. They were both at the opposite ends of their respective football careers, but, even so, the impact that the young, thoughtful, Italian had the then 31-year-old medal-laden Scottish international will, as he said himself, remain with him for ever.

A World Champion at 9 and his name is Tani

At eight-years-old, Tanitoluwa Adewumi was already a ‘Champion’ after winning the K-3 New York State Chess Championship after playing the game for only one year.

The Nigerian-born schoolboy, who began playing the game just to pass the time whilst sitting in his father’s shop in Abuja, was beating all before him from the get-go.

It was after his father, Kayode, who ran a print shop in his homeland and accountant mother, Oluwatoyin, took him and his brother, Adesina Austin, immigrated to the United States – having (being Christians) sought religious asylum amid the political turmoil being undertaken back home by the Boko Haram organisation.

Whilst being homeless in a foreign country, his parents making it one of their priorities to maintain the education of their children, Tani was enrolled into an elementary school and, as during his early days there, he was introduced to a chess club by one of the teachers and in 2018 he played in his first tournament.

In 2019 Tani competed in the Annual New York State Scholarship Championships where he was graded eighth out of 74 competitors – with a large number of whom were from well-to-do families and could afford private tuition.

His youthful, aggressive style of play would get learned academics making scientific studies of his application to the game.

Leading YouTube chess stream ‘agadmator’ took time to publish and analyse his game.

Legendary former World Champion, Garry Kasporaov, heaped massive praise on the achievement by a refugee immigrant in America.

And, back in his native Nigeria, Abike Dabiri, the Senior Special Assistant on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora to the president, Muhammad Buhari, called Tani; “a pride of the nation”.

Back in the US, he was getting attention throughout, which includes invites to meet former president Bill Clinton and being interviewed on some of the country’s leading broadcasting organisations – all keen to find out more about the enigma that is Tanitoluwa Adewumi.

Furthermore, he was getting funding support – the likes of which would set him, and his family, up educationally and wellbeing-wise from then on.

A total in excess of $254,000 was raised, with offers of accommodation, for him and his family, on-going education, chess books and even cars were pouring in - in droves.

There is now even a trust called the ‘Tanitoluwa Adewumi Foundation’ which is set up to help other children who are in similar situations to him.

With the ambition to becoming the youngest ever chess Grandmaster, three of Hollywood’s leading film companies are trying to outbid each other for the rights to tell his story.

His autobiography; ‘My Name Is Tani’, is already out in book stores.

 

A2B Radio Cars supporting local cricket club

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Aamilah Aswat makes history over the jumps at Kempton

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Absent Afcon qualifiers teams to forfeit games

Any national team unable to play in upcoming qualifying matches for the 2022 Africa Cup of Nations due to Covid restrictions will be deemed to have lost the game 2-0, new guidelines say.

 

The guidelines, put out by the Confederation of African Football (Caf), also say a team will be considered to have lost 2-0 if it is unable to field the minimum number of players required - 11 plus four substitutes.

 

Normally, squads for these qualifying matches would be much larger, but some national team managers have expressed concern about their ability to get players, especially those based in Europe, to play in Africa amidst fears they could get Covid.

 

During the last break, Crystal Palace's Jordan Ayew and Liverpool's Naby Keita both contracted the virus while on international duty.

 

The Gambia coach Tom Saintfiet has complained that Polish side Gornik Zabrze have so far said that Alasana Manneh will not be allowed to join up with the Scorpions.

 

The guidelines also say that all matches must be played behind closed doors, although national FAs can ask for special permission to have fans in.

 

Abu Dhabi to host 2026 Gran Turismo World Series opener for the first time in the Middle East

For the first time in the Middle East, Abu Dhabi will host the Gran Turismo World Series 2026 opening event, scheduled for 28th of March 2026 at the Space42 Arena.