Backstraight Boys (& Girl) Athletics Chat

Send us Fan Mail The Diamond League bangers keep on coming!!! We review and dazzling Monaco meeting with world leading performances from stars likes of Emmanuel Wanyonyi, Julien Alfred, Nina Kennedy, Miltiadis Tentoglu, Collen Kebinatshipi and more.  The Brits were on fire as well. Kimani Jack and Jake Wightman both placing 2 with impressive showing. We also answer the question ‘What’s going on wi...

Send us Fan Mail We're joined by Sprint Queen Amy Hunt to fill us in on her hectic year since Tokyo Silver and what her plans are for a jam packed 2026.  Please enjoy, please subscribe and please let us know what you think on all our socials.  Thanks for listening and follow us on Social Media at  Insta - (@BackstraightBoysPodcast). Email - backstraightboyspod@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail After a hugely enjoyable UK Champs and Euro Trials we’re joined by hurdles legend and friend of the pod Colin Jackson to review all the action and get the lowdown on Ja’Kobe Tharp’s new 110h WR.  With 7 championship records and a whole host of amazing performances Team GB looks to be in great position for the upcoming European Champs at the same stadium.  We chat to some of the we...

Send us Fan Mail With a very slight lull in the non stop Diamond League schedule we're joined by oldskool T&F bestie Jamie McGann from the TrackCastic podcast to relive all the amazing action from Rome, Stockholm and Oslo. There were historic wins and shocking losses, old timers proving they've still got it and literal children beating all comers. Audrey, Mondo, Cooper, Noah, Henriet...

Send us Fan Mail We're Back for more Chat  with our All Time Favourite Athletes (UK Edition - Part 2). As you can imagine our short little extra episode turned into an hour long celebration of all our 21st Century faves. From Golden doubles and involuntary roly polys to walking wonders and missing knighthoods we laugh our way through 25 years or Britain's best!!! Hope you enjoy it as muc...

Send us Fan Mail Bayo snuck away from his Spanish holiday to make a surprise trip to Morocco and his first ever non European Diamond League meeting in Rabat.  It was definitely worth the wait as the top performance came thick and extremely fast. The Brits did well with the likes of Max Burgin and Matt Hudson Smith shining whilst local legend Soufiane El Bakkali did what he always does and ended th...

Send us Fan Mail The season is in full swing with Diamond Leagues and Gold Meets coming thick and fast.  We catch up with all the best performances of the year including two historic throws from Jessica Schilder in the Shot Putt and teenage phenomenon Yan Ziyi in the Javelin. There’s lots more on the way with the Hypo-Meeting in Götzis and Rabat DL this weekend    Please enjoy, please subscribe an...

Send us Fan Mail The very first BackChat is here, and inevitably we're chatting about our All Time Favourite Athletes (UK Edition - Part 1). From relays masters, local butchers and teenage prodigies turns out we had WAY too much to discuss so this only covers our first two decades of obsession. More coming your way very soon!!! Send in your questions for future episodes to backstraightboyspod...

Send us Fan Mail They’ll be no more long waits for your Backstraight fix as every week the boys will now be answering your questions on BackChat your weekly Backstraight Bonus. Ask anything you like and you may win a prize!!!  Either DM your questions to Instagram or email us on backstraightboyspod@gmail.com.  #ComingSoon  Please enjoy, please subscribe and please let us know what you think on all...

Send us Fan Mail This week we’re joined by British sprint legend Adam Gemili to discuss an electrifying World Relays from Gaborone, Botswana.  There was lots at stake for the African nation as WA took this meet to the continent for the very let first, time but they exceeded all expectations with a slick and thrilling weekend of relay action. The timing couldn’t have been better with the home team...

Send us Fan Mail  We're back and still in shock following Sabastian Sawe's jaw dropping World Records at The London Marathon. Not only was he the first man to break 2 hours, but 3 men went under the previous WR and Tigst Assefa broke the women's only WR as well. What a race!!!! We also catch up on all the news from the last few weeks covering transfers of allegiance, Gout Gout, Mara...

Send us Fan Mail The GB Golden Girls and ever dependable Mr Kerr did Team GB proud at the World Indoors.  And so did Bayo. With Jody is sunning himself in Argentina Bayo had to interview the stars  in Toruń solo for the very first time. Luckily he was up to the job and on this review episode you’ll hear from Keely, Molly, Georgia, Josh, Tom, Chase, Luvo and MORE!!!  We also discuss the single most...

Send us Fan Mail Two in a week!!! 🤯 Bayo’s off to Toruń for the World Indoors so we’ve invited our OG track bestie and 2004 WI 800m bronze medalist Jo Mersh to join us all the way from New Zealand.  We cover all the events that we’re most looking forward this week in Poland including discussion about Mondo, Keely, Yulimar and more!!!   Please enjoy, please subscribe and please let us know what yo...

Send us Fan Mail It's been a while. Huge apologies for our two month absence but we're back with a banger. For our 200th Episode we are celebrating the long awaited arrival of our new passports with an Irish Athletics Special. We're determined to be the best new fans possible so have invited Irish athletics luminaries from all generations to give us tips. King of the Irish Athletico...

Send us Fan Mail A new year is upon us and we meet up with some of our Athletico besties to take a look at what’s coming up in 2026. With Champs galore, exciting events and favourite athletes to cheer on we chose our highlight of the upcoming season and make some random prediction for a jam packed T&F calendar.   Please enjoy, please subscribe and please let us know what you think on all our s...

Send us Fan Mail The gang’s all here and we’re joined by LOADS of Backstraight’s nearest and dearest to review a jam packed 2025. From Apeldoorn to Tokyo with a detour through Götzis and Zurich we try and  remember it all as we highlight our favourite moments of the year 🤩 Big thanks to Jaz and all our special guests.   Please enjoy, please subscribe and please let us know what you think on all o...

Send us Fan Mail We’re joined by Heptathlon sensation Abigail Pawlett to chat about her stunning 2025 season and how that fall at the WC’s is motivating her into 2026   Also JAZ IS BACK to tell us all about her post Tokyo adventures and how Team GB has lost out on another Heptathlon star   We all discuss the recent news and gossip in the track world from Olympic timetables to potential drug scanda...

Send us Fan Mail We’re joined by 400h star Seamus Derbyshire to talk about his breakout season, surprise relay success and how being his authentic self has rejuvenated his career.  We also fill you in on our guest appearance at The British Athletics Supporters Club annual get together and bemoan the inevitable mess that is World Athletics AOY award 🙄   Please enjoy, please subscribe and please le...

Send us Fan Mail After a lot of hand wringing about Team GB's showing in Tokyo we've decided to look on the bright side and celebrate some of our positive performances.  We're joined by World Champ finalist Scot Lincoln to celebrate his great season,  recent move to Australia and potential new Sumo career. We also discuss Femke Bol's shock move to the 800m and propose the idea...

Send us Fan Mail Thought we'd take a breather after returning from Tokyo before dropping our review pod. Not that we've been slacking, we've been rewatching every last minute of the action if course!!! You miss so much in the stadium.  We're joined by one of the very few people we can be certain has followed everything as closely as we have broadcasting legend and honorary Back...

Send us Fan Mail Better late than never, right??? Sorry for the delay but we’ve been having some Japanese adventures before finally dropping our update of the last weekend.  There was lots of drama over the last two days including relay mishaps, surprise shared medals and lots and lots of rain ☔️  We’ll be back very soon with a full Champs review and hopefully some special guests.   Please enjoy,...

Send us Fan Mail Sorry we're late guys, but I'm sure you'll appreciate that after the exploits of Friday we we got a bit delayed in our podcasting responsibilities. There was a fantastic turn out for our afternoon meet up and beers before we headed to the stadium and continued the partying. Rai and Femke claimed more 400h GOLD whilst Noah 4peated in the 200m and MJW did the sprint d...

Send us Fan Mail See you tomorrow x  Please enjoy, please subscribe and please let us know what you think on all our socials.  Thanks for listening and follow us on Social Media at  Insta - (@BackstraightBoysPodcast). Email - backstraightboyspod@gmail.com

Send us Fan Mail Who better to join us on a history making day of 400m running that the one lap Legend Christine Ohuruogu? We discuss Sydney McLaughlin - Levrone’s jaw dropping run in 47.78,  second fastest time in history. Keshorn Walcott also make history winning a World title 13 years after winning the Olympics back in London 2012 whilst  Collen Kebinatshipi became Botswana’s first ever WC. TJ...

Send us Fan Mail Olympic 1500m finalist and host of The Running Channel podcast Andy Baddeley joins us to celebrate a well deserved Silver medal from Eugene ‘22 Champ Jake Wightman 🥈  Please enjoy, please subscribe and please let us know what you think on all our socials.  Thanks for listening and follow us on Social Media at  Insta - (@BackstraightBoysPodcast). Email - backstraightboyspod@gmail....