British Athletics Championships

Premier national championship in track and field

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

British Athletics ChampionshipsCurrent season, competition or edition:
2025 UK 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

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City  | Venue  | Year/s

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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, 2025

## Championships records

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### Men

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Event  | Record  | Athlete/Team  | Date  | Championships  | Place  | Ref.

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100 m |  |  |  |  |
9.90 w (+2.5 m/s) | Jeremiah Azu | 25 June 2022  | 2022 Championships | Manchester | [4]
200 m | 19.90 (+1.3 m/s) | Zharnel Hughes | 3 August 2025  | 2025 Championships | Birmingham | [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 | 65.93 m  | Lawrence Okoye | 2 August 2025  | 2025 Championships | Birmingham | [9]
5000 m walk (track)  | 18:41.23  | Callum Wilkinson | 24 August 2019  | 2019 Championships | Birmingham | [10]
10,000 m walk (track)  | 38:43.91 NR | Callum Wilkinson | 30 June 2024  | 2024 Championships | Manchester | [11]

### Women

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Event  | Record  | Athlete/Team  | Date  | Championships  | Place  | Ref.

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100 m | 10.96 (−0.9 m/s) | Dina Asher-Smith | 24 August 2019  | 2019 Championships | Birmingham  | [12]
200 m | 22.14 (+1.9 m/s) | Dina Asher-Smith | 3 August 2025  | 2025 Championships | Birmingham | [13]
400 m | 50.47  | Amber Anning | 30 June 2024  | 2024 Championships | Manchester | [14]
3000 m steeplechase | 9:22.05  | Elise Thorner | 2 August 2025  | 2025 Championships | Birmingham | [15]
High jump | 1.97 m  | Morgan Lake | 30 June 2018  | 2018 Championships | Birmingham  | [16]
Pole vault | 4.90 m NR | Holly Bradshaw | 26 June 2021  | 2021 Championships | Manchester  | [17]
Long jump | 7.05 m (+1.2 m/s) | Lorraine Ugen | 1 July 2018  | 2018 Championships | Birmingham  | [18]
Hammer throw | 72.96 m  | Anna Purchase | 2 August 2025  | 2025 Championships | Birmingham | [19]
Heptathlon | 5929 pts  | Jodie Smith | 25–26 June 2022  | 2022 Championships | Manchester  | [20]
| 100m H  | High jump  | Shot put  | 200m  | Long jump  | Javelin  | 800m

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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

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* List of British athletics champions

## References

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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. ^ "200m Final Results" (PDF). Microplus Informatica. 3 August 2025. Retrieved 3 August 2025.
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. ^ "Discus Throw Results" (PDF). Microplus Informatica. 2 August 2025. Retrieved 3 August 2025.
10. ^ "First National Senior record for Callum Wilkinson" (PDF). enfieldleague.weebly.com. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
11. ^ "10000m Race Walk Result" (PDF). Microplus Informatica. 30 June 2024. Retrieved 30 June 2024.
12. ^ Jon Mulkeen (25 August 2019). "National championships round-up: records broken at British and Swiss Championships". IAAF. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
13. ^ "200m Final Results" (PDF). Microplus Informatica. 3 August 2025. Retrieved 3 August 2025.
14. ^ "National championships round-up: Nugent and Thompson impress in Jamaica". World Athletics. 30 June 2024. Retrieved 2 July 2024.
15. ^ "3000m Steeplechase Results" (PDF). Microplus Informatica. 2 August 2025. Retrieved 3 August 2025.
16. ^ Jon Mulkeen (1 July 2017). "Ugen and Asher-Smith set championship records to win British titles". IAAF. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
17. ^ "Fajdek throws 82.82m in Poznan, Gong gets 20.39m world lead in Chongqing". World Athletics. 27 June 2021. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
18. ^ Jon Mulkeen (1 July 2017). "Ugen and Asher-Smith set championship records to win British titles". IAAF. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
19. ^ "Hammer Throw Results" (PDF). Microplus Informatica. 2 August 2025. Retrieved 3 August 2025.
20. ^ 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.

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