Athletics in Britain is considered the No.1 Olympic sport. Everybody needs to look at athletics when the Olympic Video games schedules are revealed, as they have been just lately for Paris. Virtually 90% of the GB group that competes in athletics in 2024 is more likely to have competed on the English Colleges Championships. Not all may have been winners, however the expertise gained may have helped them on their solution to their biggest problem.
Wanting on the names of those that have competed on the Championships is sort of a who’s who of British athletics over the past century. From Daley Thompson (Britain’s first world champion – decathlon) to Jess Ennis (gold in heptathlon), from Dorothy Odam (Britain’s first Olympic medallist – excessive soar silver 1936 Olympics) to Robbie Grabarz (excessive soar silver, London 2012), from Mary Rand (the primary English Colleges athlete to go on to take Olympic gold – 1964 lengthy soar) to Greg Rutherford (gold in London 2012 lengthy soar).
It’s additionally attention-grabbing to notice how many individuals reached the highest of others sports activities by way of the English Colleges Championships, together with the Brownlee brothers (triathlon), Joe Bugner (boxing), Helen Glover (rowing), Lizzie Yarnold (the English Colleges’ first Winter Olympic champion – 2014 Skeleton) and on and on. Even that nice Welsh rugby participant, Sir Gareth Edwards, gained an English Colleges title whereas in school in Somerset!
In all, 14 Olympic golds have been gained by athletes who competed on the English Colleges Championships and 85% of all medals gained in athletics on the Olympics have been gained by English athletes who competed on the Championships.
Beneath that degree of excellence, English Colleges competitions entice 1,000,000 children to participate within the preliminary rounds of our competitions, with 2000 of them collaborating in every of our main championships, in monitor and subject and in cross nation.
English Colleges 2022 (Andy Cox)
Every year our championships value over 1 / 4 of 1,000,000 kilos to stage, most of which is to pay for lodging for the 2000 athletes who attend the two-day occasion and, with out a sponsor, we’re struggling to proceed to stage this main occasion on the sporting calendar. This yr we will probably be internet hosting the occasion on the venue of final yr’s Commonwealth Video games in Birmingham.
Having acquired very beneficiant particular person donations final yr to help staging our championships to compensate for the shortage of a serious sponsor, this yr we need to company sponsors as properly and asking them to sponsor an occasion on the Championship.
On the Monitor & Discipline Championships, over three age teams, we stage 100 occasions over two days, most of them with heats and finals. We would like corporations to sponsor an occasion and have their title related to that occasion.
English Colleges 2022 (Andy Cox)
The corporate title could be linked to the occasion within the programme and on the medals, in addition to an area being supplied within the programme to promote. We will even provide board house alongside the monitor at an additional value. We might additionally provide tickets for workers and automobile parking, in addition to the chance to be a part of the medal awards ceremony in your occasion.
The price for every occasion is £1100, with a particular provide of £3000 for 3 years, which would come with our Centenary Championship in 2025.
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