UK Athletics is the governing body for the sport of athletics in the United Kingdom.
UK Athletics was founded in 1999 as a successor to the British Athletics Federation, which had collapsed for financial reasons.
Following Great Britain's worst performance at a European Athletics Championship for twenty years, CEO and former long distamce runner David Moorcroft announced on 24 August 2006 that he would step down from his position at UK Athletics: "I am convinced that I am taking the right decision at the right time." The results in Gothenburg (not one individual gold medal being obtained) were the latest in a string of disappointing medal hauls at major championships with the London 2012 Olympics looming large on the horizon[1].
On 9 January, 2007 businessman Ed Warner was named chairman[2]. The president remains Lynn Davies, the former British Olympic champion long jumper.