AW - Athletics Weekly Magazine

AW has been the bible of the sport since the 1940s and is still the No.1 choice for the true running and athletics fan, designed to keep you informed about all the best news, comment, event reports and results from Britain and around the world. In the summer AW offers the very best in-depth coverage of the track and field season focusing not only on the major championships, such as the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Commonwealth Games and World Championships, but also the best in schools and grassroots club athletics. The spring and autumn seasons concentrate on road racing, including the big events such as the Great North Run and Virgin Money London Marathon, while the long winter campaign looks toward the cross country season and the exciting indoor scene. Alongside our unrivalled coverage of all the top events, AW also offers a sharp and detailed news service focusing on elite and up-and-coming athletes and the issues which rage within the sport. We provide all the important fixtures as well as the most comprehensive service of results from around Britain and the rest of the world. AW provides detailed features focusing on the top names in the sport as well as its highly regarded coaching, performance and nutritional advice, product reviews and plenty of debate and opinions via our popular letters column and web forum. Make sure you get AW to keep up-to-date with the sport’s latest.

KEEPING THE DREAM ALIVE

AW - Athletics Weekly Magazine

PICTURE THIS DOVER DIVES TO A RECORD

BOSWORTH BOWS OUT

HIGH STANDARDS • World Athletics sets athletes a stern challenge with Budapest 2023 marks

KINGS OF THE MOUNTAINS • Evans cements return from injury while Jornet creates more UTMB history

LAGGING BEHIND • Sport is in urgent need of implementing progressive policies to protect women athletes from abortion restrictions, writes Kate Seary

ASK THE ATHLETE WITH SPECIAL GUEST JENNY MEADOWS • You ask the questions, the athletics star provides the answers. This month we hear from the World Championships 800m medallist now guiding the career of the newly-crowned European champion Keely Hodgkinson

MY GREATEST RACE • European Championships, 110m hurdles final, Barcelona - July 30, 2010

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY • Verity Ockenden writes about the tightrope athletes are having to walk between online self-promotion and self-harm, plus why honesty is becoming the best policy when it comes to meeting the media

WHAT HAPPENS NOW? • Across the past few weeks, fans have flocked to the major championships and competitors have risen to the occasion, but how does athletics take advantage of all this attention?

WE CAN'T GO QUIETLY INTO THE NIGHT • This summer has provided a brilliant platform to build on. Now, as the season moves towards its close, Katharine Merry writes about ways of maintaining the momentum

TAKING A DIFFERENT TRACK • Former athlete Gareth Balch tells Jason Henderson how the marketing strategies of his company, Two Circles, are aiming to revitalise major athletics events in the UK

YOUR VIEWS

RAISING THE ROOF • Munich put on a splendid show to put the seal on this crazy summer

BACK FROM THE BRINK • After trying to take his own life, Matt Hudson-Smith finally reached out for help. He tells Euan Crumley how he has been able to turn things around to such an extent that he has won world, Commonwealth and European 400m medals this summer

COMPLETING THE HAT-TRICK • This summer offered a select number of athletes the unique opportunity to win individual World, Commonwealth and European medals in the same season. As well as Matt Hudson-Smith, another three managed it. Here, we look at how they achieved the feat

Other athletes to take medals at all three championships this summer

THE DEEPEST CUT •...