What is AW?
AW — Athletics Weekly — is the British athletics magazine of record, founded by Jimmy Green in 1945 and published continuously since: eight decades of championship coverage, rankings and the UK sport's institutional memory, now monthly in print with a daily website.[1] [2]
What does it cover?
British and world athletics from grassroots to the Olympics — results, rankings, coaching and history — with an archive reaching back to the immediate post-war sport.[1] [2]
Why does it matter?
For British and Commonwealth athletics, AW is the standard dedicated-press citation, its 80-year archive documenting every era of the modern sport.[2]
References
- AW — official site. Accessed August 2026.
- Wikipedia — Athletics Weekly (background). Accessed August 2026.