With the Sportshall UK Final taking place in Stoke-on-Trent this Saturday 6th April, a special episode of the England Athletics Podcast has been published, looking at the history of Sportshall Athletics. Sportshall is an indoor form of track and field for children between the ages of four and 16. Created by George Bunner, the first competition took place in 1976, with the aim of providing a safe and warm environment for young athletes to train, especially in winter. This heritage project, in conjunction with The Athletics Museum sees George's sons Tom and Ivan Bunner reflect on their experienc ..read more

This episode features a round-up of the action from the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow as host Alex Seftel talks to athletes including pole vault gold medallist Molly Caudery, who won the title with a best clearance of 4.80m. Caudery was the youngest member of Team England's Commonwealth Games squad in 2018, before winning a silver medal in Birmingham in 2022, while coached by her dad Stuart, who explains his emotion following his daughter's success. World 1500m silver medallist Hannah England, world 200m champion Dafne Schippers and Athletics Weekly journalist Tim Adams provi ..read more

This episode features a round-up of the action from the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow as host Alex Seftel talks to athletes including pole vault gold medallist Molly Caudery, who won the title with a best clearance of 4.80m. Caudery was the youngest member of Team England's Commonwealth Games squad in 2018, before winning a silver medal in Birmingham in 2022, while coached by her dad Stuart, who explains his emotion following his daughter's success. World 1500m silver medallist Hannah England, world 200m champion Dafne Schippers and Athletics Weekly journalist Tim Adams provi ..read more

Abi Pawlett discusses what it means to make the British squad for the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow, where she will be competing in the pentathlon after setting a big personal best recently as part of an England Athletics team in Tallinn. Host Alex Seftel also catches up with UK indoor 1500m champion Georgia Bell, who will compete in Glasgow after returning to athletics following a five-year break from the track. UK indoor medallists Laviai and Lina Nielsen, Owen Heard, Thomas Hewes and Kevin Santos also feature ..read more

In the latest episode of the England Athletics Podcast, world 400m hurdles semi-finalist Chris McAlister joins host Alex Seftel to reflect on his career to date. The 27-year-old discusses how he combines athletics with being a government civil servant and describes his enjoyment of his training group led by coach Marina Armstrong. England Athletics CEO also comes on to tell us what we have to look forward to ahead of a bumper 2024 season which will be headlined by the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games ..read more

Commonwealth Youth Games gold medallists Maddie Down and Phoebe Gill join Team Leader Scott Grace and podcast host Alex Seftel to reflect on their experience in Trinidad and Tobago. England won 24 medals to top the athletics table in August, with Down sealing T38 100m and long jump gold and Gill winning the 800m ..read more

England Athletics Chair Gary Shaughnessy and CEO Chris Jones join the podcast to reflect on the 2023 season. They discuss how all levels of the sport can benefit from an excellent World Athletics Championships and Commonwealth Youth Games, before talking about priorities for the future of athletics including supporting clubs and competition providers experiencing rising costs. Chris also visits Vale of York Athletics Community to hear of their ambition to grow one of the nation's newest clubs ..read more

This podcast is a World Para Athletics Championships special, with three of the nation's accomplished stars - wheelchair racer Karé Adenegan, sprinter Tom Young and high jumper Jonathan Broom-Edwards - talking everything from challenges they have overcome to best career moments and achieving more recognition. This episode also marks the announcement of England Athletics' team for the Commonwealth Youth Games, which for the first time ever will include para athletes. Our Team Leader for the Games, Scott Grace joins along with Welsh Athletics CEO James Williams and England Athletics Head of Tale ..read more

In this final episode of the Coaching Voices series, Olympic coach Tom McNab describes his memories of watching great athletes and what he has learned from them. Referencing discussion from the ten other coaches he has interviewed during the past year, the author and former athlete tells Alex Seftel how coaching has developed during his time in the sport and how it could change in future. He also pays tribute to Dick Fosbury, who died earlier this year in March, and reminisces about his role as Technical Director of the famous film Chariots of Fire ..read more

In this latest Coaching Voices special episode, host Tom McNab talks to former international cross-country coach Hamish Telfer about his career in athletics. Hamish coached the likes of Olympians Liz Yelling and Spencer Duval as part of World University Cross Country Championships teams ..read more