Ben Pritchard continues to set the standard in PR1 rowing. The British athlete won the final at the 2026 World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam on Saturday, successfully defending the world title he claimed in Shanghai last year. Up against a field led by Australia’s Erik Horrie and Ukraine’s Roman Polianskyi, Pritchard never allowed the result to come into serious doubt. His latest victory further underlines his status as the leading rower in the class since winning Paralympic gold in Paris in 2024. Read more Read More
Matthew Brennan has continued his outstanding start to the Vuelta with another stage victory. The 21-year-old British rider claimed Stage 5 on Wednesday, securing his second win of his maiden Grand Tour. Perfectly supported by Visma-Lease a Bike in the closing kilometres, Matthew Brennan once again underlined why he is regarded as one of the leading prospects in British cycling, becoming the second-youngest rider in history to record at least two stage wins at the Vuelta. Read more Read More
The Aachen 2026 World Championships provided a major boost for the United Kingdom ahead of the 2028 Olympics, with Charlotte Fry, Rosalind Canter, Laura Collett and Harry Charles among the British riders who enjoyed an exceptionally successful week. The United Kingdom qualified all three of its Olympic teams — dressage, eventing and showjumping — for the 2028 Olympics, with each team also finishing on the podium. It was an outstanding overall performance, further strengthened by individual medals across all three disciplines. Only three other nations can already boast three qualified teams: the United States, automatically qualified as the host nation, alongside Belgium and Germany. In terms of results, however, the United Kingdom and Germany are the only two nations to have placed all three of their teams on Read more Read More
Joe Fraser, Uzair Chowdhury and the entire British delegation made their mark at the Men’s European Gymnastics Championships in Zagreb. With four gold medals, one silver and four bronze, the United Kingdom finished top of the medal table with nine podium finishes in total. Only the Russians collected more medals overall, although they won just two titles. After a more frustrating week for the women’s team, despite Eli Cardelli’s junior beam bronze and several fourth-place finishes, the response from the British gymnasts was emphatic. Read more Read More
This summer, Lucy Bull and Edward Scott delivered two rare British results in the javelin at the European U18 Championships in Rieti. Bull won the women’s title with 56.60m, while Scott claimed silver in the men’s competition with 70.02m. Two medals which, on their own, are obviously not enough to herald a revival of British javelin. Yet they raise a broader question in an event where many of the leading throwers of recent years have come from countries in which cricket plays a major role : does the United Kingdom finally have a generation capable of beginning to close the gap ? Read more Read More
