Darren Ritchie MSc

Jumps and Combined Events Manager at England Athletics, UKA Level 4 performance coach, MSc in Performance Coaching. GAIN member

[England Athletics @EnglandAthletic]

Last weekend, we travelled to the Canary Islands for the Fuerteventura International Combined Events Championships 🤩

There were many fantastic performances with qualifying standards met for this year’s European U18 and World U20 championships. 🗞

https://t.co/9AQP7RNeSf

[IanHodge8 @ian_hodge8]

In typical fashion.. @Ellen_Barber finishes the Gotzis Heptathlon with a pb 800m 2:09.39 for a total of 6169 points- up from 6037.. moves her to 11th all time ahead of the likes of @tessasanderson and @morgan_a_lake

[IanHodge8 @ian_hodge8]

Super trike jumping at Bedford. Sean Atafo adds 56cms to his pb with 16.07m (0.0).. World u20 standard. Harley Henry also a standard for Eugene with a pb 15.93m and Tito odunaike 15.79m - a Euro u18 standard.

[IanHodge8 @ian_hodge8]

Encouraging results from our next generation of Heptathletes today with Lucy Fellows 21, scoring 5618, Katie chapman 22, 5586, seren Rodgers 21, 5575 and Eden robinson 19, 5558.

[England Athletics @EnglandAthletic]

TEAM ANNOUNCEMENT 📣

We're delighted to share the strong team of athletes selected to represent England at Loughborough International on 17 May 2026. We wish them the best of luck as they look to retain the title from last year! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🎉

Read more ⬇
https://t.co/zWoJvrjIhi

[England Athletics @EnglandAthletic]

Our outdoor championships are fast approaching! 🏆

Here's everything you need to know about each of our upcoming championships ⬇
https://t.co/LCCQIx19BP

[EnglandJumps @Englandjumps1]

Competition opportunity - 32nd BIGish Jumps & Throws Fest. For more information and entries, go to https://t.co/FrVTqKUJ6T

[England Athletics @EnglandAthletic]

📆 Save the date 📆

Join us on 22 November at the Hilton Hotel, NEC for this year's Competition Conference. If there is anything specific you would like to be included in the agenda, then submit your suggestions to [email protected].

[England Athletics @EnglandAthletic]

📢 Loughborough International is back on 17 May! And we're looking to give the best senior and para athletes the opportunity to compete for England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

If you are interested, find out more and express your interest here ⬇
https://t.co/ltX244A43p

[Scott Simpson @Scott_Simpson_]

Very proud to say that after this week I’ve now assisted 6 different athletes to 13 Major Championship medals.

CWG 🥈🥈🥉
Euro Indoors 🥇🥈🥉
Euro Outdoors 🥉🥉
World Indoors 🥇🥇🥈🥉
Olympics 🥉

Delighted to work with some special people and to help make dreams a reality 🩷

[England Athletics @EnglandAthletic]

🗓 Two weeks to go until the age group changes come into effect. Are you feeling prepared for the changes? Here are our top tips: https://t.co/OyspN056so

If you still have any questions, sign up for our drop-in session next Tuesday 24 March: https://t.co/uiTAX7r4Rr

[IanHodge8 @ian_hodge8]

Not to be at 5.77m for Owen heard but a fine comp (Olivia mctaggart won Womens vault with 4.64m) on a top class day for the event with six comps and many PBs. Congrats to prime organiser Kate rooney.

[British Athletics @BritAthletics]

Thea Brown wins her first British pentathlon title 👏

Her score of 4320 clinches the crown ahead of Ellen Barber and Lily Holt 💪

[British Athletics @BritAthletics]

Sammy Ball takes victory in the men's heptathlon 👏

He wins with a score of 5849, to finish ahead of Callum Newby and Adam Hoole 💪

[England Athletics @EnglandAthletic]

Are you a current or recently retired athlete? Passionate about improving athlete experience? Motivated to help drive positive change across athletics in England? 🌟🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

We are looking for four new members to join our Athlete Panel!

Apply now ⬇
https://t.co/bDwfxjxXce

[IanHodge8 @ian_hodge8]

After a spell of moderate form 21 yr old Gemma Tutton of Sussex vaults PBs of 4.48m and 4.52m out in North Carolina to move to No 5 on GB all time list and achieve CWG standard for England.

[British Athletics @BritAthletics]

Pentathlon PB for Pawlett 🔥

Abi Pawlett cruises to a pentathlon PB at the Copernicus Cup with 4675 points to finish second 👏

That included PBs in the 800m, long jump and high jump ✨

[IanHodge8 @ian_hodge8]

Cracking jumping from Molly palmer : 6.68m today at Cardiff - pb by 17cms . U.K. lead and exceeds the comm games standard for England by 3cms.

[UKA News @UKA_News]

The webinar will explain the selection process for:

Loughborough International
Mannheim Gala
European Athletics U18 Championships
World Athletics U20 championships

2026 selection policies can be found here: https://t.co/IB1G9VL3Y9

[UKA News @UKA_News]

Our International Age Group Championships Webinar will take place on Monday 9 March at 20:00 pm for athletes, parents and personal coaches.

Sign up now: https://t.co/uslyOeDFIz