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.

PURSUIT OF POSSIBILITY

AW - Athletics Weekly Magazine

PICTURE THIS LATE DRAMA FOR LLOPIS IN ISTANBUL

AN EXCLUSIVE CLUB • UKA is opting to follow swimming's example in a bid to find greater success on the world and Olympic stage, but will the approach stop vital opportunities for athletes?

SELL, SELL, SELL • Former Telegraph athletics correspondent Ben Bloom says athletes and agents need to work with, rather than against, the media if athletics is to survive and grow its profile

SOMETHING TO BE TRULY SAVOURED • We have to be careful not to make the extraordinary feats of these world record-breakers seem like everyday achievements, writes Katharine Merry

PAULA DUNN MY GREATEST RACE • Northern Championships, Manchester, 1986 100 metres, 1st place, 11.4 seconds

RISING STAR OSCAR SCHOFIELD • Georgie Heath speaks to a teenager who has swapped modern pentathlon for record-breaking

BUDAPEST WELCOMES THE WORLD • Get the best seats in the house with an official 2023 World Athletics Championships hospitality experience

TALKING POINTS FROM TURKEY • Istanbul managed to squeeze a memorable European Indoor Championships into a tightly packed weekend of action

TWO GREAT SCOTS • It’s 30 years since Yvonne Murray and Tom McKean swept to gold at the World Indoor Championships in Toronto. Steve Smythe looks back on the careers of pair of top-class athletes who are perhaps underappreciated

CAPTAIN FANTASTIC • Over the next 24 pages, we explore how the mental side of sport plays such a crucial role. We start with a gold medal-winning moment from Jazmin Sawyers which proved just how powerful a change in mindset can be

THE SCIENTIST • Euan Crumley meets Marco Airale, the man who is guiding some of Britain's top sprinting talent through a mixture of precision and obsession

What the athletes say about Marco

A question of BALANCE • There’s nothing wrong with giving it everything, writes Verity Ockenden, but it can be damaging to pursue big goals without making sure you’re keeping on an even emotional keel

STOP TRYING TO WIN • Chartered psychologist Dr Josephine Perry takes Georgie Heath through her approach and advice when it comes to helping athletes of every level

Older, slower, BETTER • Richard Askwith, author of a new book about running in later life, looks at what motivates ageing athletes to keep going - and finds that the high achievers of...