Athletics Performance Programme
Brunel’s Athletics has a proud history of helping to produce some of Great Britain's finest athletes who have gone on to compete at the Olympic Games.
Brunel's Olympic production line began at the London Games of 1948 with Les Lewis in the 4 x 400m relay and most recently saw Montell Douglas, Laura Turner (both 100m and 4 x 100m relay), Emma Ania (4 x 100m relay), Kelly Sotherton and Julie Hollman (both heptathlon) represent Team GB in Beijing and rising star Perri Shakes-Drayton compete over 400 hurdles in London 2012. In between those Games the University has produced a steady stream of Olympians and British Record breakers including Alan Pascoe, Kathy Smallwood-Cook, Brian Hooper and Iwan Thomas.
Brunel University's Athletics Performance Programme (APP) and Sports Scholarship Awards are comprehensive support packages for student athletes. Both programmes are now well established and are bearing fruit as shown by the many successful performances in the 2012 BUCS Indoor & Outdoor Athletics Championships.
The current crop of Brunel's student athletes looking to represent Great Britian this year and beyond include:
Andre Wright - 100/200m
Dannish Walker-Khan - 200m
Joanna Rowland - Heptahlon
Ashley Bryant - Decathlon
Shanice Harrison - 200m
Melissa Courtney - 1500m
Matt Bergin - 3000m
Mark Cryer - Decathlon
Nathan Fox - Triple Jump
Kola Adeoyin - Triple Jump
Michael Puplampu - Triple Jump
Maral Feizbakhsh (Germany) - 400m
Brunel's excellent athletics facilities are also the training base for many of today's finest British athletes and several international athletes including:
Nigel Levine - 400m
Richard Strachan - 400m
Conrad Williams - 400m
Luke Lennon-Ford - 400m
Margaret Adeoye - 200/400m
Mark Lewis-Francis - 100m
Greg Cackett - 100m
Rion Pierre - 100m
Richard Kilty - 100m
Nicola Sanders - 400m
Martin Brockman - Decathlon
Nick Leavey - 400m
Tom Druce - 400m
Joe Ive - Pole Vault
Yamile Aldama - Triple Jump
Trecia Smith (Jamaica) - Triple Jump
Brunel is also very fortunate to be a chosen training venue for the world's greatest athlete Usain Bolt and the current World Champion & Olympic Silver medalist over 100m Yohan Blake.
For any athletics related enquiries please email richard.ashe@brunel.ac.uk
