The 2023 British Indoor Athletics Championships were the national indoor

track and field Track and field (or athletics in British English) is a sport that includes Competition#Sports, athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name used in North America is derived from where the sport takes place, a ru ...

competition for British athletes, held on 18 and 19 February 2023 at

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. The competition served as a qualification event for the

2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships The 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held from 2 to 5 March 2023 at the Ataköy Athletics Arena, Ataköy Arena in Istanbul, Turkey, the first time the event took place in this country although the venue did stage the 2012 IAAF Worl ...

Background

The 2023 British Indoor Athletics Championships were held on 18 and 19 February 2023 at

. In the United Kingdom, they were shown on

BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current sta ...

television and online. The championships were used as a qualification event for the

, though many athletes who had already qualified for that competition chose not to compete at the British championships.

Highlights

Ellie Baker Ellie Baker (born 3 June 1998) is a British athlete specialising in the 800 metres and 1500 metres. She won silver medals in the 800 m at the 2019 European Under-23 Championships and 2017 European U20 Championships. Baker competed for G ...

won the 1,500 metres event in a championship record time of 4:06:73. The previous record had been held by

Zola Budd Zola Budd (also known as Zola Pieterse; born 26 May 1966) is a South African Middle-distance running, middle-distance and Long-distance running, long-distance runner. She competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics, 1984 Olympic Games for Great Britain ...

since 1986. The 60 metres races were won by

Reece Prescod Reece Prescod (born 29 February 1996) is a British sprinter. He won the silver medal in the 100 metres at the 2018 European Championships and bronze for the 4 × 100 m relay at the 2022 World Championships. Prescod is a two-time British ...

and

Daryll Neita Daryll Saskia Neita (born 29 August 1996) is a British sprinter. She won a silver medal in the 200 metres at the 2024 European Championships along with bronze in the 100 metres at the 2022 European Championships, 2022 Commonwealth Games and i ...

respectively. Both athletes qualified for the European Indoor Championships as a result. Mary Elcock won the women's

triple jump The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down the tr ...

event on countback, after tying for the best distance in the event.

Jazmin Sawyers Jazmin Sawyers (born 21 May 1994) is a British track and field athlete and sports presenter who competes in the long jump, representing Great Britain and England at the Commonwealth Games, England. In 2023, she won her first major senior title ...

won the

long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ...

event, seven years after her last British title at the event. Aled Davies finished fifth in the able bodied

shot put The shot put is a track-and-field event involving "putting" (throwing) a heavy spherical Ball (sports), ball—the ''shot''—as far as possible. For men, the sport has been a part of the Olympic Games, modern Olympics since their 1896 Summer Olym ...

event, and broke his own world record for F42 classification athletes in the event. The men's 60 metres para event was won by Kevin Santos, and the women's competition was won by Faye Olszowka.

Results

Men

Women

References

External links

Results
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British Indoor Athletics Championships The British Indoor Athletics Championships is the annual national championship in indoor track and field for the United Kingdom, organised by UK Athletics. Eight track and five field events for both men and women are contested, with athletes being i ...

Sports competitions in Birmingham, West Midlands