UKA and the London Marathon today announced a funding partnership which will further enhance the successful UKA Endurance Programme and help to produce world class British distance athletes.

London Marathon have agreed to an annual investment up to £150,000 which will be added to UKA’s existing significant investment into the Endurance Programme, which has been developed over the past year under the leadership of Ian Stewart.

The funding will be used to help finance altitude training camps in Iten, Kenya and Font Romeu, France, both established altitude training centres which are proven to have physiological benefits for endurance athletes. Font Romeu has long been the European base for Paula Radcliffe, whilst Iten is host to many of the world’s leading distance athletes. (more…)

Welsh Shot putter Ryan Spencer-Jones made his intentions for the Delhi games clear as he threw a new personal best and Commonwealth Games qualifying mark of 17.92m at the UWIC Inter-University match on Sunday 7th March. The measure handsomely beat the qualifying criteria, set at 17.75m, and is testimony to the state of form of Spencer-Jones, who has now improved his personal best from 2009 (16.79m) on three occasions indoors in 2010 – 17.32m in January, 17.57m in February and now 17.92m in March.

Ryan is coached by Welsh Javelin record holder Nigel Bevan, who also coaches Discus champion Brett Morse. Bevan represented Great Britain at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, and competed for Wales at the 1990 and 1994 Commonwealth Games.

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