Posted by Tim Adams | | 0Laura Weightman at Zurich 2014 (Getty)An exclusive interview with the double European and Commonwealth medallist after she announced her retirementRetiring as a professional athlete is never easy, especially when that decision is essentially taken out of your hands.You know the day will eventually come but to move on when it’s not on your own terms can be a shock.Laura Weightman has had to go through those emotions.After announcing on social media (September 30) that she was retiring from the sport to protect her long-term health, Weightman opens up to AW about the...…Posted by Tim Adams | | 0Laura Weightman at Zurich 2014 (Getty)An exclusive interview with the double European and Commonwealth medallist after she announced her retirementRetiring as a professional athlete is never easy, especially when that decision is essentially taken out of your hands.You know the day will eventually come but to move on when it’s not on your own terms can be a shock.Laura Weightman has had to go through those emotions.After announcing on social media (September 30) that she was retiring from the sport to protect her long-term health, Weightman opens up to AW about the...WW…

Posted by Jason Henderson | | 0Innes FitzGerald (Gary Mitchell)Teenage distance runner tells AW about climate activism and her racing plans for this winter after winning BBC Green Sport AwardWhen Innes FitzGerald turned down the chance to run for Britain at the World Cross Country Championships in Australia earlier this year, the story blew up in the media. The teenager from Devon was dubbed the “Greta Thunberg of athletics” in newspaper headlines and she was inundated with interview requests. “It was quite overwhelming at the time,” she says.Since then she has decided to deal with...…Posted by Jason Henderson | | 0Innes FitzGerald (Gary Mitchell)Teenage distance runner tells AW about climate activism and her racing plans for this winter after winning BBC Green Sport AwardWhen Innes FitzGerald turned down the chance to run for Britain at the World Cross Country Championships in Australia earlier this year, the story blew up in the media. The teenager from Devon was dubbed the “Greta Thunberg of athletics” in newspaper headlines and she was inundated with interview requests. “It was quite overwhelming at the time,” she says.Since then she has decided to deal with...WW…

Posted by Jason Henderson | | 0Sam Harrison, Calli Thackery, Clara Evans, Abbie Donnelly (British Athletics)British half-marathon runner follows in the footsteps of father Carl by making the podium at the World Road Running Champs in RigaThirty years after her father won bronze at the World Half-Marathon Championships in Brussels, Calli Thackery finished a fine seventh in the women’s event at the inaugural World Road Running Championships in Riga on Sunday (Oct 1).“It’s 30 years to the day,” said the emotional 30-year-old after finishing first non-African home in a PB of 68:56.Her dad Carl...…Posted by Jason Henderson | | 0Sam Harrison, Calli Thackery, Clara Evans, Abbie Donnelly (British Athletics)British half-marathon runner follows in the footsteps of father Carl by making the podium at the World Road Running Champs in RigaThirty years after her father won bronze at the World Half-Marathon Championships in Brussels, Calli Thackery finished a fine seventh in the women’s event at the inaugural World Road Running Championships in Riga on Sunday (Oct 1).“It’s 30 years to the day,” said the emotional 30-year-old after finishing first non-African home in a PB of 68:56.Her dad Carl...WW…

Posted by Jason Henderson | | 0Mass race runners (World Athletics)World Road Running Champs begin with thousands tackling mass 5km run before Beatrice Chebet and Hagos Gebrhiwet later storm to glory on same courseIf Budapest was the most brilliant world championships of 2023, Bathurst the most brutal and Innsbruck-Stubai the most picturesque, then Riga proved the most inclusive with more than 13,000 runners rubbing shoulders with around 350 elite athletes on the streets of the Latvian capital.The action began at 10am on Sunday (Oct 1) as recreational runners streamed across the Stone Bridge...…Posted by Jason Henderson | | 0Mass race runners (World Athletics)World Road Running Champs begin with thousands tackling mass 5km run before Beatrice Chebet and Hagos Gebrhiwet later storm to glory on same courseIf Budapest was the most brilliant world championships of 2023, Bathurst the most brutal and Innsbruck-Stubai the most picturesque, then Riga proved the most inclusive with more than 13,000 runners rubbing shoulders with around 350 elite athletes on the streets of the Latvian capital.The action began at 10am on Sunday (Oct 1) as recreational runners streamed across the Stone Bridge...WW…

Posted by Jason Henderson | | 0Hobbs Kessler beats Callum Elson and Sam Prakel (World Athletics)British miler finishes runner-up to Hobbs Kessler at World Road Running Champs as Faith Kipyegon suffers shock defeat at the hands of Diribe Welteji in women’s mileCallum Elson is not your typical athlete. While most competitors at the World Road Running Championships were fine-tuning their preparations in races or training at altitude, he spent a week in early September lying on a sunbed for several hours a day in Greece.Outside of holidays, he enjoys chronicling his athletics exploits on social...…Posted by Jason Henderson | | 0Hobbs Kessler beats Callum Elson and Sam Prakel (World Athletics)British miler finishes runner-up to Hobbs Kessler at World Road Running Champs as Faith Kipyegon suffers shock defeat at the hands of Diribe Welteji in women’s mileCallum Elson is not your typical athlete. While most competitors at the World Road Running Championships were fine-tuning their preparations in races or training at altitude, he spent a week in early September lying on a sunbed for several hours a day in Greece.Outside of holidays, he enjoys chronicling his athletics exploits on social...WW…