2020 British Athletics Championships
Dates4–5 September
Host cityManchester, United Kingdom
VenueManchester Regional Arena
The Manchester Regional Arena, showing the running track, high jump apparatus and an empty stand.
LevelSenior
TypeOutdoor

British Athletics Championships

The 2020 British Athletics Championships (known for sponsorship reasons as the Müller British Athletics Championships)[1] was the national championship in outdoor track and field for athletes in the United Kingdom. The championship took place on 4–5 September 2020, having been postponed from June 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2]

Background

Holly Bradshaw in a Great Britain t-shirt draped in a British flag.
Pole vaulter Holly Bradshaw won her eighth British pole vault title at the 2020 championship.
Portrait of Imani-Lara Lansiquot.
Imani-Lara Lansiquot won her first 100m title at the 2020 championship.

The championship was originally scheduled for 20–21 June 2020, but in April 2020 it was postponed until 8–9 August due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[3] In June 2020, the event was postponed again, to 4–5 September 2020.[3][4] The championship was held at the Manchester Regional Arena, as part of a three-year agreement to hold the event in Manchester from 2020 to 2022;[5] from 2008 to 2019, the championships had been held at the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham.[6] The entire event was held behind closed doors, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[4] The stadium contained cardboard cut outs of some fans.[6] The event was originally intended as a qualifying event for the 2020 Summer Olympics. After the Olympics were postponed until 2021, the 2021 Championships were used as the Olympic qualifying event.[3][4]

Almost 500 athletes competed at the championship.[1] Notable athletes missing from the championship included Dina Asher-Smith, Mo Farah, Katarina Johnson-Thompson, and Laura Muir.[6] Farah instead competed at the Diamond League event in Brussels, where he broke the one hour run world record.[7] Muir instead competed in the World Athletics Continental Tour's Kamila Skolimowska Memorial event in Poland, where she won the 1500 metres race.[8]

Highlights

In the men's pole vault event, Harry Coppell broke the British national record by clearing a height of 5.85m.[9] In the women's 3,000 metres steeplechase, Aimee Pratt set a record time at the British Athletics Championships.[10] On 5 September, seven stadium records were set during the Championships.[10] Hannah Taunton set the world record in the 5,000 metres T20 event, and Aimee Pratt set the year's fastest time in the 3000m steeplechase event.[11]

The men's 800 metres event was won by Daniel Rowden in a sprint finish with Jake Wightman, who finished second.[10][12] Holly Bradshaw won her eighth British pole vault title.[12] In the absence of Dina Asher-Smith, 22-year old Imani-Lara Lansiquot won the women's 100 metres race, which was her first British title.[13]

Results

Men

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres[14] Harry Aikines-Aryeetey
Sutton & District		 10.35 SB Ojie Edoburun
Shaftesbury		 10.43 Tommy Ramdhani
Bexley		 10.44
200 metres[15] Andrew Morgan-Harrison
Kingston upon Hull		 20.69 James Williams
Liverpool		 21.01 Joe Ferguson
Leeds		 21.16
400 metres[16] Alex Knibbs
Amber Valley		 46.65 PB Niclas Baker
Crawley		 46.81 SB Toby Harries
Brighton		 47.00
800 metres[17] Daniel Rowden
Woodford		 1:45.94 SB Jake Wightman
Edinburgh		 1:46.26 Yusuf Bizimana
Victoria Park		 1:47.94 PB
1500 metres[18] George Mills
Brighton		 3:51.39 Neil Gourley
Giffnock		 3:51.54 Joshua Lay
Rugby		 3:51.60
5000 metres[19] Marc Scott
Cambridge & C		 13:32.98 SB Jack Rowe
AFD		 13:37.85 PB Tom Mortimer
Stroud		 13:43.47 PB
110 metres hurdles[20] David King
Plymouth		 13.58 Cameron Fillery
Woodford		 13.83 Miguel Perera
Harrow		 14.68 SB
400 metres hurdles[21] Alastair Chalmers
Guernsey		 49.66 PB Chris McAlister
Thames Valley		 50.54 Efe Okoro
Birchfield		 50.98
3000 metres steeplechase[22] Phil Norman
Woodford		 8:32.51 SB Mark Pearce
Shaftesbury		 8:33.61 PB Daniel Jarvis
Bedford		 8:39.70 PB
5000 metres walk[23] Callum Wilkinson
Enfield		 19:25.94 SB Luc Legon
Bexley		 22:20.12 PB No other finishers
Long jump[24] Reynold Banigo
Sale		 7.81 Jack Roach
Newham		 7.60 Shandell Taylor
Havering		 7.45 SB
High jump[25] Joel Clarke-Khan
Worcester		 2.18 PB William Grimsey
Woodford		 2.15 SB Sam Brereton
Birchfield		 2.15 PB
Triple jump[26] Nathan Douglas
Oxford		 15.80 SB Sam Trigg-Petrovic
Erme Valley		 15.59 Jonathan Ilori
Blackheath		 15.17
Pole vault[27] Harry Coppell
Wigan		 5.85 NR Adam Hague
Sheffield		 5.20 Ethan Walsh
Shaftesbury		 5.05 SB
Shot put[28] Scott Lincoln
York		 19.65 Lewis Byng
Stratford-upon-Avon		 16.66 George Hyde
West Cheshire		 16.55 PB
Discus throw[29] Nicholas Percy
Shaftesbury		 59.74 George Armstrong
Newham		 58.48 SB Dan Greaves
Charnwood		 54.90
Hammer throw[30] Craig Murch
Birchfield		 73.24 SB Chris Bennett
Shaftesbury		 68.84 Chris Shorthouse
Birchfield		 67.26
Javelin throw[31] James Whiteaker
Blackheath		 75.99 Daniel Bainbridge
Shaftesbury		 70.50 Tom Hewson
Andover		 68.49 SB
10,000 metres Postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic[32]

Women

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres[33] Imani Lansiquot
Sutton & District		 11.26 Kristal Awuah
Herne Hill		 11.34 Amy Hunt
Charnwood		 11.35
200 metres[34] Hannah Williams
Herts Phoenix		 23.83 Georgina Adam
Loughborough		 24.06 Rebecca Jeggo
Colchester		 24.51 SB
400 metres[35] Laviai Nielsen
Enfield		 51.72 SB Jessica Turner
Amber Valley		 52.57 PB Yasmin Liverpool
Coventry		 53.21
800 metres[36] Keely Hodgkinson
Leigh Harriers		 2:03.24 Isabelle Boffey
Enfield		 2:04.73 Ellie Baker
Shaftesbury		 2:04.80
1500 metres[37] Laura Weightman
Morpeth		 4:09.76 Jessica Judd
Blackburn		 4:12.35 Katie Snowden
Herne Hill		 4:14.00
5000 metres[38] Jessica Judd
Blackburn		 15:37.52 SB Verity Ockenden
Swansea		 15:41.19 SB Amelia Quirk
Bracknell		 15:43.35 PB
100 metres hurdles[39] Cindy Ofili
Woodford		 13.16 Lucy-Jane Matthews
Birchfield		 13.20 PB Heather Paton
Birchfield		 13.60
400 metres hurdles[40] Jessie Knight
WSE&H		 55.80 Lina Nielsen
Shaftesbury		 56.99 SB Hayley McLean
Shaftesbury		 57.79
3000 metres steeplechase[41] Aimee Pratt
Sale		 9:30.73 SB Rosie Clarke
Epsom & Ewell		 9:46.31 SB Hannah Nuttall
Charnwood		 10:25.43 PB
5000 metres walk[42] Gemma Bridge
Oxford		 22:51.15 PB Bethan Davies
Cardiff		 23:46.04 SB Jasmine Nicholls
Leicester		 24:52.89 PB
Long jump[43] Jazmin Sawyers
Stoke		 6.69 SB Abigail Irozuru
Sale		 6.53 Rebecca Chapman
Cardiff		 6.14
High jump[44] Morgan Lake
WSE&H		 1.80 Jodie Smith
WSE&H		 1.80 PB Emily Borthwick
Wigan		 1.77
Triple jump[45] Naomi Ogbeta
Trafford		 13.44 Shanara Hibbert
Woodford		 12.86 Angela Barrett
Thames Valley		 12.72 SB
Pole vault[46] Holly Bradshaw
Blackburn		 4.35 SB Sophie Cook
Birchfield		 4.25 Sophie Ashurst
Sale		 3.70 SB
Shot put[47] Sophie McKinna
Great Yarmouth		 17.88 SB Amelia Strickler
Thames Valley		 17.47 Serena Vincent
Portsmouth		 15.60
Discus throw[48] Kirsty Law
Sale		 57.95 PB Jade Lally
Shaftesbury		 57.20 Shadine Duquemin
Shaftesbury		 52.52
Hammer throw[49] Jessica Mayho
Birchfield		 65.47 SB Charlotte Payne
Reading		 63.92 PB Alice Barnsdale
Kingston upon Hull		 62.05 SB
Javelin throw[50] Freya Jones
Southampton		 53.12 SB Emma Hamplett
Birchfield		 51.80 SB Bethany Moule
Neath		 51.27 PB
10,000 metres Postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic[32]

Parasports – Men

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres ambulant[51] Zac Shaw 11.31s SB Thomas Young 11.32s Ola Abidogun 11.50s SB
400 metres wheelchair race[52]  Brent Lakatos (CAN) 50.22s SB Nathan Maguire 51.55s SB Dillion Labrooy 55.17s SB

Parasports – Women

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres ambulant[53] Sophie Hahn 12.80s SB Simran Kaur 13.35s SB Ali Smith 13.52s SB
400 metres wheelchair race[54] Hannah Cockroft 1:00.19 Samantha Kinghorn 1:02.20 Melanie Woods 1:02.90 PB

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