How to get there

Click on the map for a detailed road map of the area and directions. Enter postcode B42 2LR as the destination to find detailed directions from your own home. Travel directions are simple: Take the M6 to junction 7. Follow the A34 to Birmingham. The track is approximately 3 miles from junction 7.
Please contact the stadium staff about disabled access facilities - you can find details from the Alexander Stadium website as shown above.

Sky TV

If anyone has any problem with their being shown on TV, they are advised not to take part - it is not possible to prevent any particular person from being in camera view.

Event Locations

Some events on Friday will be run concurrently - the back straight will be used to run some of the sprint and hurdles heats at the same time as other events on the front straight. Because of the size of the Championships, it is impossible to hold all field events within the arena. The Hammer and most Discus throws will be held in the fields adjacent to the Stadium. See the FAQs page for further details about this.

Timetable of Events

All competitors will be issued with the full printed programme which will be on sale at the Championships. It is the ESAA policy not to publish the full programme on the website - sales of programmes with the sponsors' advertising they contain are a major source of income without which the Championships could not be held.

Please see the FAQs page for further details and answers to many other Frequently Asked Questions about the Championships and the timetable.

Official Accreditation

• Competition areas - restricted to accredited athletes taking part in events, officials, and accredited photographers
• Warm-up area - restricted to accredited athletes with an event within 30 minutes, and accredited team stewards
• Marshalling area - restricted to accredited athletes with an event within 20 minutes
• Athlete's stand - restricted to accredited athletes, and accredited team stewards

Tickets

This year, we will be issuing wrist bands, not paper tickets. Anyone without a wrist band, or one that is damaged, will be refused access to the stadium and will have to buy another wristband.

Wristbands are required for entrance to any area. They give access to all the public areas including the main stand (overlooking the finish straight), the Nelson Stand (overlooking the start bend), all ground viewing areas around the track, and external throwing areas. There are no reserved seats, and there are no ground-only wristbands. There are no concessionary wristbands: parents, teachers, club coaches, personal coaches etc. all require a valid wristband for admission.

Wristbands can be bought on the day, BUT WITH CASH ONLY. There will not be any facility on site to pay by card.

Prices

Wristbands can be ordered and paid for in advance by credit/debit cards but they will not be posted - all wristbands must be collected from Alexander Stadium. See www.athletics-uk.net/esaa/ticketsales for details of how to order, and when to collect wristbands.

Competition Rules

Permissible Clothing

7. In all Championships competitors must wear at least vest and shorts (or equivalent clothing) in registered County Colours which are clean and so designed and worn, as not to be objectionable even if wet. All visible clothing must conform with registered County colours.

To deal with some specific queries therefore: Cropped bra tops are not vests by definition and therefore not permitted. Vests by definition must reach the waist at least. Shorts or briefs (in county colours) are the norm for girls. Similarly cycle type lycra shorts, as long as they are shorts and not leggings, are permitted, but only if they are in the registered County colours (not just an approximation of the colours). Leggings by definition covering the leg below the knee, and body suits, are not vests or shorts and are therefore not permitted. The main problems in the past have been the wearing of cycle type shorts that are not in County colours, and worn under the correct coloured shorts but clearly visible. This especially applies to the boys where the cycle type shorts are longer that the County shorts. However, if the shorts are the lycra type and do not cover the knees then these are allowed, as long as they are in the registered County colours (ie. the same colour as the County colours, not an approximation to them). The pictures here indicate the sort of clothing that will result in athletes not being allowed to compete.

With the meeting being televised this year, County team managers have been warned that ESAA will 'pull' athletes from an event if incorrectly attired.

Results

PLEASE DO NOT TRY TO CONTACT US during the competition days. This is for a number of reasons:

1. We won't have time to read or respond to mails during the days and evenings of the competition - we will be 150% occupied in running the event results systems and ensuring that the live TV is maintained with up to the second information.
2. We are running from relatively slow mobile phone internet connections - any messages sent to us will simply clog up our ability to update results.
3. The sort of queries we get are usually in the form
   • when will the results be published?
   • did our bart/lisa/kyle/wendy get into the final?
   • Which semi-final is our bart/lisa/kyle/wendy in?

Facilities

The Pole Vault will be located in the main arena on the back straight, along with Javelin, Shot, and Long/Triple Jump and High Jump competition sites. Discus and Hammer will be located in the fields outside the main Stadium. Vaulting poles will not be provided. Starting blocks will be provided for those events where they are permitted and only these starting blocks will be allowed. Starting blocks may be used by Senior Boys and Senior Girls in all rounds, and in Finals only by Juniors and Intermediates.

The maximum length of spike for all track events is 6 mm, and 9mm for the field events.

Throwing equipment will be provided for all events. Competitors may use their own implements, subject to the implement being approved by the Field Referee. (ESAA Track and Field Competition Rule 29). Please note that any individual athlete may submit no more than two implements for approval. All personal equipment should be adequately insured. The ESAA insure all equipment during the actual competition but this is not a ‘blanket cover’ for the whole championships.

Entry List of Athletes

Every effort is made to be accurate when typing athletes' names but inevitably some mistakes occur from time to time as names are passed on via many different people before they reach us. Names of all athletes nominated by their County are published here.

Please check that the spelling of names is correct as this information appears in the programme, on TV, on the scoreboard, on tee-shirts, and in the results.

If you find any error, please use the 'contact us' button on the main menu and give the correct spelling together with your County, age group, and event - but please only do this once. Corrections will be noted and our event files will be modified accordingly, but because of the high volume of other mail we get in the run up to the Championships we don't have time to acknowledge each mail individually and we don't have time to update everything online immediately. Any corrections received by Saturday evening 27th June should be in time to be included in the programme and on teeshirts. Corrections received after that time are too late for the programme and teeshirts, but will be included in the results / scoreboard / TV displays.

Please DO NOT CONTACT US REPEATEDLY about spelling changes - we don't have time to reply, and we don't have time to update every single file immediately. We get many hundreds of emails at this time of year so please don't overload us with repeated queries. All our files are updated just once to account for all queries received, that might be many days from now.

Click your County to view your team - teams shown in grey haven't declared their team yet.
Avon,    Bedfordshire,    Berkshire,    Buckinghamshire,    Cambridgeshire,    Cheshire,    Channel Islands,    Cleveland,    Cornwall,    Cumbria,    Derbyshire,    Devon,    Dorset,    Durham,    Essex,    Gloucestershire,    Gtr Manchester,    Hampshire,    Hereford & Worcestershire,    Hertfordshire,    Humberside,    Kent,    Lancashire,    Leicestershire,    Lincolnshire,    London,    Merseyside,    Middlesex,    Northamptonshire,    Northumberland,    Norfolk,    Nottinghamshire,    North Yorkshire,    Oxfordshire,    Shropshire,    Somerset,    Staffordshire,    Suffolk,    South Yorkshire,    Surrey,    Sussex,    Warwickshire,    West Midlands,    West Yorkshire,    Wiltshire,   

Not Selected for your County team?

Over 1700 athletes are entered in the National Championships each year, but at least 2 or 3 times that number will probably be disappointed not to have been selected. PLEASE don't contact us to complain that you, your Bart, Lisa, Kyle, or Wendy, didn't make your County team. Team selection is entirely in the hands of each County Team Manager and the ESAA has no say in how or why teams are selected as they are. Sorry...but we simply cannot respond to hundreds of e-mails - please read the FAQs page which answers all the frequently asked questions.

In particular, please note that teams are strictly limited in the number of athletes they can select, and that ESAA entry standards are for guidance to team selectors - they are not trigger points for automatic selection. A full explanation of selection procedures and limitations is given in the FAQs page.

Team Travel Arrangements

Accommodation

Athlete accommodation is normally in hotels or University Halls of Residence, supervised by their team managers - the exact location will be contained in the the letter which will be sent to each team member by the County Team Manager. These facilities are not open to the general public / friends / family. Athletes must remain with their team at all times - failure to comply with this rule will lead to disqualification from this event, and possibly future events too.

Official Merchandise

www.sportserve.co.uk

ESAA event tee-shirts, sweatshirts, and other items will be available at the event from our official supplier Sportserve. After the event you can contact them via their website.

Photographs

Photographs of ESAA events are published in the athletics press, local media, on this website, and this year on live TV. All ESAA photographs are taken in accordance with the guidelines relating to photos in schools published by the Information Commissioner with regard to the Data Protection Act 1998. Photographs and videos can be taken by the public from public areas for personal use only. They may not be published in any form (including personal or club websites) without written permission from the ESAA.

Photographers at ESAA events wishing to publish photos in the media or in any other form (eg. internet websites), or wishing to use them for anything other than personal use must be officially registered and accredited by the ESAA. A list of officially accredited photographers will be published on this website shortly after the event along with their contact details. Access to competition areas for the purpose of taking photographs is restricted to ESAA accredited photographers only. This rule will be strictly enforced. It is not possible to prevent photographs of any particular individual from appearing in the media, nor on TV since the event is to be televised live. If this is a problem for you, you are advised not to take part in the event. If any parent wishes a particular picture of their child appearing on this website to be removed please contact us and we will do our best to resolve any problem.