N.U.T.S.

National Union of Track Statisticians

What's New

• NUTS Membership / Track Stats subscriptions for 2023 - renew or join here

Just published - British Athletics 2023

The 65th NUTS Annual, edited by Tony Miller, Stuart Mazdon and Peter Matthews Deep UK ranking lists for all age groups in 2022, top 12 merit rankings, all-time lists, results etc. The annual is now 467 pages and retains the indoor all-time lists, including for junior age categories. Price is £16 plus postage (£3.74 UK, other nations vary) For more information, and to order a copy, go to Lulu.com

Latest Edition of Track Stats

featuring: retrospectives of the major championships of 2022 in Eugene, Birmingham and Munich; pioneering US women at middle-distances; the first successes by Turkish and Armenian athletes; athletics stadia shared with speedway; England v France, 1925; athletes of the other Americas - Panama, Peru, Guatemala; David A. Jamieson, George McCrae, Rev. H.D. Rawnsley, Ron Hill, Harold Minshall, Eddie Conwell, Andrew Ferguson, Marise Chamberlain, Philip Morgan, W.P. Phillips

Scanned publications available to view or download as PDF files
NUTS Event Booklets Statistical histories of UK athletics by event, with amendments and updates	British Athletics Handbooks Essential supplement to the NUTS Annual for 4 years	A.A.A. Club Newsletter 19 scanned copies 1959 to 1970

• Sub-4 Chronicle updated by Bob Phillips as at 6 June 2021
• Who are the NUTS? - A visual presentation by Ian Tempest (4MB)
• Track Stats Index - 1980-2019

British top 1000 all-time performances at Topsinathletics.info

Rob Whittingham's compilation of very deep lists is in progress

A Difference In Times, by David Thurlow

David Thurlow interviewed more than forty former stars of British athletics, most of them Olympians, for "Track Stats". These are now collected in this profusely illustrated book. The candid and entertaining memories span the period between the 1920s and the 1970s. They include Sydney Wooderson, Dorothy Tyler, Derek Ibbotson, Sir Chris Chataway and Lord Terence Higgins. In many cases these were their last published interviews, a unique record of what it was like to compete when the sport was strictly amateur. With hindsight gained by earning their living in other fields, these likeable veterans give fascinating comments on the way the sport has developed. Fully indexed and with an introduction and afterword on the interviewer, David Thurlow.   Price is £9.99 plus postage (£2.99 UK, other nations vary) For more information, and to order a copy, go to Lulu.com Support independent publishing: Buy this book on Lulu.

• Sub-4 Chronicle updated by Bob Phillips as at 23 April 2019
• World Championships Heptathlon predictions, revised after day 1 - PDF Format, Excel Format
• WAAA Medallists since 1922 added to the AAA and National Championships pages
• Statistical Booklet Championship Updates to April 2017 (39 pages, 308KB) by Ian Tempest
• Walks booklet back in stock after selling-out. All purchasers may now pay by PayPal. A leaflet of updates and amendments is also available, Walks_updates_2016.pdf (155KB).
• Complete AAC, AAA and National Championships Medallists, 1866-2016

1866 and all that... by Peter Radford   The whole story of the world's first national athletics championships, with complete results. Available from the author for £6.36 inc p&p., contact

British Athletics 1866-80 by Peter Lovesey and Keith Morbey 254 A5 pages, with complete results of the AAC Championships 1866 to 1879, and painstakingly constructed yearlists for each year to 1880. For more information, and to order a copy, go to Lulu.com Support independent publishing: Buy this book on Lulu.

• Olympic Games Form Guides for Men (561KB) and Women (619KB)
• Statistical Booklet Career Progression Updates to 1 Jan 2016 (15 pages, 110KB) by Ian Tempest
• Iolanda Balas career record, including 154 wins in a row
• Minutes of the 2015 NUTS AGM - this year's AGM is at 6:30pm on Friday 6 May 2016 in the Offices of the London Playing Fields Association at 73 Collier Street, London, N1 9BE
• More scanned editions of NUTS Notes added
• World Championships Form Guides for Men (366KB) and Women (367KB)
• Heptathlon Booklet 2012-2015 Update includes 2015 indoor season
• Statistical Booklet Championship Updates to 2014 (34 pages, 120KB) by Ian Tempest
• 2015 Subscription Details with the option for overseas members to pay by PayPal
• New Athlos Web-site, a digital archive of early athletics publications in collaboration with the British Library
• NUTS Notes Archive 1959-1981 - PDF Versions of most editions of NUTS Notes
• For The Glory Of Sport - e-book by Bob Phillips
  The story of the Commonwealth Games from 1930 to 2014
• Stan Greenberg's Commonwealth Lists as at 23 July 2014
• World Top-20 Merit Rankings Women 2013 by Stuart Mazdon
• World Merit Ranking Spreadsheets Women 2013 by Stuart Mazdon
• Sub-4 Alphabetic Register as at 27-Apr-2014
• British Athletics 2014 now available
• Introduction to the NUTS Resource Register and an appeal for contributions
• Notes on the NUTS Library by Ian Tempest
• Revised edition of "3:59.4 The Quest For The Four Minute Mile", by Bob Phillips now available as an e-book
• "The Past is a Foreign Country" a history of Scottish Athletics has been published by SATS
• World Top-20 Merit Rankings Men 2013 by Stuart Mazdon
• World Merit Ranking Spreadsheets Men 2013 by Stuart Mazdon
• Score any decathlon on any tables 1912-1984
• Men's Decathlon, Pentathlon and Indoor Heptathlon World Records scored on all later tables
• Statistical Booklet Career Marks Updates (13 pages, 192KB) by Ian Tempest
• Statistical Booklet Championship Updates (30 pages, 107KB) by Ian Tempest
• Hammer Booklet Update 13 pages by Ian Tempest now includes 2013 results
• Form Guide for Moscow 2013 (42 pages, 530KB)
• Further corrections to The AAA Championships 1880-1939, Historical Series Booklet No.7
• New book by Kevin Kelly - Robert Sadler and the lost Copenhagen Running Grounds
• New book by Warren Roe - Sydney Thomas 1868-1942 World Champion Harrier
• Minutes of the 2012 NUTS AGM - this year's AGM is at 6:30pm on Friday 17 May 2013 in the Offices of the London Playing Fields Association at 73 Collier Street, London, N1 9BE
• New books by Michael Sheridan - British Athletics 1951 and 1952
• Amendments to All British Olympic Results, originally in Track Stats Vol.50 No.3
• Photos from 2012 Historians meeting
• Minutes from 2012 Historians meeting
• Index of London 2012 TV Coverage by IAAF TV on YouTube

About The NUTS

The organisation was founded in January 1958, based on the same lines as the A.T.F.S., and similarly devoted to the collection and dissemination of statistics in Track & Field Athletics. The first comprehensive U.K. annual lists were published in Athletics Weekly at the end of 1958, and these formed the basis of British Athletics 1959, which was published by the British Amateur Athletics Board.

As the authoritative compendium on U.K. athletics statistics, and widely known as "The N.U.T.S. Annual", British Athletics has been produced each year since 1959. The title was changed to U.K. Athletics from 1974-1982 (when published by the N.U.T.S.), reverting to its original name from 1983 (once again under the aegis of the B.A.A.B.). The Annual was published by Umbra Software Limited from 1993 to 2010 and by the NUTS themselves from 2011.

All-Time lists for both senior and junior age-groups have been produced at regular intervals, and there has also been a thriving Bulletin, originally entitled N.U.T.S. Notes but now known as Track Stats, and in its 52nd year of publication. Follow the menu for information about publications.

The organisation is governed by its own Constitution under an Executive Committee comprising Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer, and a minimum of 8 other members. These officers, who are all voluntary, are elected each year.

How To Join

Membership includes subscription to the NUTS quarterly magazine Track Stats. Members may also purchase copies of the British Athletics annual at a reduced rate.

A membership application form is available as an Adobe Acrobat document.

For more information about membership of the organisation, please contact the Membership Secretary, whose details are listed below.

Progressive British All-Time Top Tens

Spreadsheets are available that complement the series of articles in Track Stats.

Members-only pages

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History

Founding members (31 January 1958)

N.U.T.S. OFFICERS (1958 to date)