UK Athletics is the governing body for the sport of athletics in the United Kingdom. Athletics, also known as track and field or track and field athletics, is a collection of sport events. ...
UK Athletics was founded in 1999 as a successor to the British Athletics Federation, which had collapsed for financial reasons.
As of January 2005 the chief executive of the organisation is the former middle and long distance runner David Moorcroft. David Moorcroft (April 10, 1953) was an English 1500 m and 5000 m runner whose career spanned the late 1970s and early 1980s. ...
Athletics in the UK is organised on a ‘federal’ basis.
For this purpose, athletics does not recognise the boundary changes that politicians have imposed in the last 150 years: there is no such county association as ‘London’, and Croydon is deemed to be part of Surrey.
The Surrey Athletics Association organise annual track and field and cross-country championships, and also recognise certain road races as county championships (eg the Dorking 10 and the Dysart 10K are the Surrey championships).
UKAthletics faces another potentially crippling legal fight after Perriss Wilkins announced plans to dispute his life ban for doping.
Wilkins, the UK discus record holder, is prepared to remortgage his house to fund an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in an effort to get his suspension overturned.
UK selectors claimed that Wilkins also previously lied about his age and even the spelling of his name.
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