{"id":649754,"date":"2026-06-21T00:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T00:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/649754\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T00:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T00:17:15","slug":"uk-athletics-championships-2026-amy-hunt-and-romell-glave-win-100m-titles-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/649754\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Athletics Championships 2026: Amy Hunt and Romell Glave win 100m titles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson continued to work on her first-lap speed<\/a> by competing in the 400m.<\/p>\n

Charlotte Henrich won her heat in a personal best of 51.20 but Hodgkinson’s time of 51.62 was enough for her to also qualify for Sunday’s final (16:06 BST).<\/p>\n

Matthew Hudson-Smith, the 2024 Olympic 400m silver medallist, won his heat in 45.24 to become the fastest qualifier for the men’s final (15:48 BST).<\/p>\n

One of the stands has been named after the US-based Wolverhampton native for the national and European Championships.<\/p>\n

“I love being here,” he said. “I put the bat signal out yesterday, ‘I’m back in Birmingham!’ Everyone wanted to see me.<\/p>\n

“I just want to go out, but I’ve got a job to do, then after I will go and see people.”<\/p>\n

Joel Clarke-Khan shed tears of joy after equalling his personal best to win the men’s high jump.<\/p>\n

After winning three outdoor British titles between 2020 and 2023, Clarke-Hunt endured an injury-plagued 18 months<\/a> with toe problems.<\/p>\n

But after claiming the national indoor title in February, the 26-year-old continued an impressive year by jumping 2.27 metres in Birmingham.<\/p>\n

“That is something I’ve dreamed about forever really,” he said. “It’s been a really long journey back from 2022. I’m just over the moon to be here today like this.<\/p>\n

“I’ve been working so hard for this moment. The 2.27 really makes me believe that I’m back to where I’ve been before, so I’m really excited for the future.”<\/p>\n

Marcia Sey set a championship record of 12.65 to win the 100m hurdles while Elise Thorner lowered her own championship record in the 3,000m steeplechase to 9:16.95.<\/p>\n

Lawrence Okoye was a dominant winner of the men’s discus with a championship record of 68.81m and Stephen Mackenzie set a Scottish-record 8.15m in the men’s long jump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson continued to work on her first-lap speed by competing in the 400m. Charlotte…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-649754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}