Mo Farah breaks European Half-Marathon record in Lisbon

Congratulations to Mo Farah who has won the Lisbon half-marathon in a new European record time of 59 minutes 32 seconds ahead of Kenya's Micah Kogo.

In the process, the double Olympic (10,000m and 5,000m) champion became the first Briton to break 60 minutes - knocking 20 seconds off the record set 14 years ago by Spain's Fabian Roncero.

This comes on the back of his only world record - the two-mile indoor mark he set at the Birmingham Grand Prix last month:

Mo Farah running 8:03.40 for his 2-mile world record, NIA, Birmingham, Feb 2015

Oh, to have been in sunny Lisbon to capture it, but instead was shooting this morning at an overcast and decidedly chilly Woodburn Road stadium in Sheffield #gottalovethesport

All the best for a great season Mo - hope to catch you again at the Anniversary Games in London.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson breaks UK Women's High Jump Record

The Sainsbury’s British Athletics Indoor Championships saw a number of exciting head to heads as British Indoor titles were won, but the biggest highlight of Saturdays performances was undoubtedly a British Women's High Jump record performance by 2013 World Championship fourth placer Katarina Johnson-Thompson.  She simply turned on her high-jumping afterburners as she went on to clear 1.96m to surpass the national record of 1.95m shared by Dianna Davies, Jessica Ennis, Debbi Marti and Susan Moncrieff.
 

Silver-medallist Nisbet not only managed a PB, but her 1.87m clearance marked a Scottish National indoor record for the athlete already bound for the Commonwealth games as part of Team Scotland.

Liverpool Harrier Johnson-Thompson is in sizzling form this year, having already gained several PBs at the Northern Indoor Championships in January and is expected to compete in the pentathlon in Poland and will compete at the Dutch Championships next week in a bid to qualify for the event.  But in Sheffield, Johnson-Thompson - whose previous best in the high jump was 1.89m - eclipsed Olympic heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill's high jump best by two centimetres.  "It's a proud moment. I can't believe it," she said.  "I knew I was in good form because I had a good session in Loughborough last week and had a really good high jump session."

See more photos from the event at: Andy Chubb Photography

BRITISH GAS SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS 2013

These were held at Ponds Forge from 26th-30th June 2013.  There was a large number of records (English, Welsh, Scottish as well as British and the occasional World!) broken over the 5 days and many swimmers posted times that qualified them for the World Championships coming up in Barcelona.

A selection of the best photos that I took at the event can be found at: http://www.peverilphoto.com/section665568_579191.html