The 2021 British Athletics Championships was the national championships in outdoor track and field for athletes in the United Kingdom, which also served as the main qualifying event for athletics competitors for the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics. In addition, the Championships included a number of parasports events, with a total of 36 competitors in these competitions. On 29 June 2021, UK Athletics announced 65 athletes that would compete for Team GB at the Olympics, taking the total number of British athletics competitors at the Games to 72. In July 2021, four more athletes qualified for the Games based on their World Athletics rankings.
Mo Farah failed to attain the Olympic qualifying time for the 10,000m.
Dina Asher-Smith won the 100m event at the Championships, and also received Olympic places in the 200m and 4 x 100m relay events.
Pole vaulter Holly Bradshaw won her ninth British title and broke her own national record.
Adam Gemili
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Adam Ahmed Gemili is a British sprinter. He is the 2014 European champion at 200 metres, three-time European champion in the 4 x 100 metres relay, and part of the Great Britain team that won gold at the 2017 World Championships in the same event. He has finished fourth in the 200 m at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, and fourth and fifth in separate editions of the World Championships in the same event.
Gemili (second from the right) won his first and only senior major individual title with a 200 m victory at the 2014 European Athletics Championships in Zürich.
Gold British 4 × 100 m relay team at the 2017 London World Championships (L–R): Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake, CJ Ujah, Adam Gemili and Danny Talbot.