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In her first marathon since 2024, and returning from a torrid time with injury, Lucy Reid is inside PB pace at halfway (72:46) at the Berlin Marathon.
64:57 for Jake Smith at halfway, also inside PB pace.
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The Commonwealth Games are underway! Olympic Champions Nina Kennedy 🇦🇺 (pole vault), Arshad Nadeem 🇵🇰 (javelin) & Thea LaFond 🇩🇲 (triple jump) were amongst the flagbearers at last night's Opening Ceremony.
📸: @james_athletics
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According to the entries on the @Glasgow_2026 website, Tom Keen - fresh from a 3:49.33 PB at the London Diamond League - has replaced Elliott Giles in the @EnglandAthletic team at the Commonwealth Games 🏴
📸 @james_athletics
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2:02.54 over 800m for two-time British 1500m Champion Sarah Calvert at the P-T-S Meeting in 🇸🇰.
📸 @james_athletics (from earlier this season)
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1:45.06 for Jack Higgins at the P-T-S Meeting in 🇸🇰. That is the second fastest 800m of his career, three days after winning the national race at the @London_DL on Saturday.
📸 @james_athletics
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Izzy Fry & Joe Wigfield won the British 10000m Championships in Loughborough yesterday, securing their spots at the European Championships in Birmingham in August.
🥇 Joe Wigfield
🥈 James Kingston
🥉 Max Milarvie
🥇 Izzy Fry
🥈 Poppy Tank
🥉 Hannah Irwin
📸 @James_Athletics
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🇬🇧 at the PUMA NITRO Lange Laufnacht in Karlsruhe 🇩🇪on 30 May:
800m: Callum Dodds, Henry Fisher, Guy Learmonth
1500m: Archie Davis, Tom Keen, Sam Charig, Callum Elson, James McMurray, Lyla Belshaw
5000m: Cari Hughes, Charlotte Dannatt
3000SC: Zak Seddon
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Plenty of 🇬🇧s at @sound_running (Sat 23):
800m: Jake Wightman, Josh Kerr, Tiarnan Crorken, Ellie Leather, Shannon Flockhart, Yusuf Bizimana
1500m: Ellie Baker, Gemma Finch
5000m: Katie Snowden, Adam Fogg, David Mullarkey, Eloise Walker
3000SC: Elise Thorner, Stevie Lawrence
Katie Snowden will debut over 5000m at the @sound_running LA Track Festival 🇺🇸 next Saturday (23 May).
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13:46.70 for Jack Kavanagh to win the 5000m at the KPMG Night of Records in Prague 🇨🇿 last night; just outside his PB of 13:44.95.
He'll make his 🇬🇧 debut at the European 10000m Cup in Italy next weekend.
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1:48.11 for Archie Davis to win the 800m at the @BritishMilers Gold Standard at Birmingham University last night. Also notable a solo 7:51.43 3000m PB for Joe Tuffin.
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Katie Snowden will debut over 5000m at the @sound_running LA Track Festival 🇺🇸 next Saturday (23 May).
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Ahead of his 🇬🇧 debut at the European 10000m Cup, Jack Kavanagh will race over 5000m at the KPMG Prague Night of PBs 🇨🇿 tomorrow. Ben McMillan also competes. Full start lists: irontime.cz/startovka3347/?t…
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Jake Heyward's last track race was the 2022 Diamond League final in Zurich. 1,331 days later - he is back 🔥 Fantastic to see, victory in 3:37.75 at the Payton Jordan Invitational
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Some fast times at the Seven Hills Record Run in 🇳🇱 at the weekend:
13:39 PB Charles Wheeler
13:53 Matthew Merrick
13:55 Jack Kavanagh
📸 @runoutofhell
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Marc Scott, George James, Abbie Donnelly, Charlotte Purdue and Natasha Wilson have withdrawn from the TCS London Marathon on Sunday 26 April.
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SportsShoes will stream the @scotathletics Indoor Invitational - featuring Keely Hodgkinson, Georgia Hunter Bell and many more - on Sunday.
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🇬🇧 at @Meeting_Lievin this evening:
800m: Keely Hodgkinson, Ben Pattison
1500m: Georgia Hunter Bell, Jemma Reekie
2000m: Revee Walcott-Nolan, Katie Snowden
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