UK Athletics news

The government’s energy relief for swimming pools, leisure centres and gyms is scheduled to end on 31 March leaving thousands set for closure or service ... More

The sport and physical activity sector "hasn't done enough" to tackle persisting inequalities within the industry, according to a statement signed by more than 80 ... More

UK Sport has commissioned an independent review into UK Athletics (UKA), as part of what it calls a process to ensure the national governing body ... More

UK Athletics has appointed Nic Coward as its interim chief executive. Coward is a former general secretary of the English Premier League and CEO of ... More

UK Athletics has launched an independent review of its handling of the relationship it had with the high-profile Nike Oregon Project (NOP) and its coach ... More

Zara Hyde Peters will not take up her role as the next chief executive of UK Athletics as planned. The former international long-distance runner and ... More

Former international long-distance runner and British Triathlon chief Zara Hyde Peters OBE has been named the new CEO of UK Athletics. Her appointment brings to ... More

A number of leisure industry people have been recognised in this year's New Year Honours list. Sport Former England rugby captain and current chair of ... More

UK Athletics (UKA) chief executive Niels de Vos will step down at the end of September, following more than a decade in the role. During ... More

UK Sport is to deliver a "one-off" support deal to British Basketball, in order to help the troubled national governing body fulfil international fixtures scheduled ... More

British Athletics has announced that eight of the world's top athletics nations will compete in the first Athletics World Cup in London this summer. Athletics ... More

Grassroots sport in the UK has received a cash injection of £125m, as a result of the voluntary code of conduct on the broadcasting of ... More

As the 2017 sporting calendar draws to a close, an event impact study has measured the value to the UK of hosting the World Athletics ... More

Seven new trustees have been appointed to the board of the Women’s Sport Trust (WST) as it increases efforts to secure more coverage and funding ... More

Birmingham has beaten Liverpool in a two-horse race to be named the preferred candidate city for the UK’s bid to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games. ... More

Brendan Foster, the former Commonwealth 10,000m champion, has joined the team trying to bring the 2022 Commonwealth Games to Birmingham. Foster is the founder of ... More

The government’s Code for Sports Governance, which recommends at least a 30 per cent gender split on sports boards, has not gone far enough with ... More

Former National Express Group chief executive Richard Bowker has been confirmed as chair-elect of UK Athletics. Bowker – who is a non-executive director of London ... More

Former UK Athletics chief executive David Moorcroft has been appointed as executive director of the Coventry Sports Foundation – a charity he helped to found ... More

Sir Robin Young – the former permanent secretary of the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) – has been appointed as the co-chair of ... More

IAAF president Sebastian Coe, culture secretary John Whittingdale and Akira Shimazu, chief executive of Japan’s 2019 Rugby World Cup Organising Committee, will deliver keynote talks ... More

London 2017 – the wholly-owned subsidiary of UK Athletics – will see its role in delivering the 2017 World Championship scaled back following the appointment ... More

UK Sport-funded athletes should have a record of all their drugs tests available on a public database, says UK Athletics (UKA), which has made the ... More

Tribal Series, the mass-participation disability sport organisation established by Paralympian Sophia Warner, will launch four events in 2016, having registered interest from almost 2,000 people. ... More

Mayor of London Boris Johnson has appointed former Paralympic champion, Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson to the board of the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC). Already a ... More