Athletics governing bodies

http://www.iaaf.org/

The International Association of Athletic Federations (IAAF) is the world governing body for track and field.  The website provides world news, calendars and results, world rankings, statistics and extensive links.

                                 http://www.ukathletics.net/

As the national governing body for athletics, UK Athletics oversees the development and management of the nation’s favourite Olympic sport, from grassroots right through to podium.  The website provides up-to-date news, topical features, results and records and administrative information.

http://www.seaa.org.uk/

The South of England Athletic Association (SEAA) is the regional governing body for many the sport in the South of England. Their website contains latest fixtures, association news and major championship results for the area. 

http://www.england-athletics.net/

England Athletics has superseded the Amateur Athletic Association of England as the governing body for athletics in England.

http://www.england-athletics.net/

South West Athletics is a territory of the new England Athletics.  The website contains extensive news, views and results of athletics in the South West and information on regional administrators

http://www.dorset-athletics.freeserve.co.uk/

Dorset County Athletics Association administers athletics in Dorset as a component county of South West Athletics.  It provides details of road races and the road race league and gives contact information for each affiliated club.

Schools Associations

http://www.esaa.net/

The English Schools Athletic Association (ESAA) is the governing body for school athletics in England.  The site provides fixtures, standards and results for schools competition

http://www.dsaa.org.uk/

The Dorset Schools Athletic Association (DSAA) is responsible for providing all Dorset school children with the opportunity to compete against each other in Track and Field Athletics and Cross-country events and also to represent the county at regional and national events.  Dorset and South-West Schools Track and Field Championship results.

National websites

http://www.british-athletics.co.uk/

British Athletics is an unofficial website providing access to a wide range of other athletic website.  It also provides news and views and includes a directory of British athletic clubs in each English county and Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland as individual countries.

http://www.basclub.org.uk/

The aim of the British Athletics Supporters Club is to encourage support for athletics at all levels, including support of national teams at home or abroad. The club strives to promote interest in, and provide information about the sport of Athletics, and create opportunities for athletes, supporters and coaches to meet. It also assists in the development of athletics in association with the various governing bodie

http://www.britishmilersclub.com/

The British Milers Club (BMC) is the premier middle distance athletics club in the country. Through its racing programme, training courses and coaching articles BMC aims to improve the world standing of UK middle distance running

http://www.runtrackdir.com/

The UK Running Track Directory contains comprehensive details on all the 600+ tracks in the UK including location maps via "Multimap" and "Streetmap".  It includes the latest track certification details.  Also included is a UK Athletics Club Website Directory

Records and rankings

http://www.gbrathletics.com/

The gbrathletics website provides comprehensive lists of World and UK records and alltime lists plus medallists in major championships

http://www.tilastopaja.net/static_html/euro30top06.htm

tilastopaja.net provides a comprehensive world rankings and results service.  Some data are only viewable via a password protected members' area.

http://www.athleticsdata.com/

Athleticsdata is produced by Tim Grose and a team of UK statisticians.  It contains current UK rankings and enables leading athletes to check their own rankings and annual progression.  Several Dorchester AC athletes are usually listed.  Check yourself out.

http://www.powerof10.info/

Powerof10 is a UK Athletics initiative.  It provides UK rankings for both genders and all events at both national and regional level.  Athletes can check out their own performances for the year. Several Dorchester athletes on the regional list.

Local Clubs

http://www.weymouth-athletics.org/

The website of Weymouth St Pauls Harriers & Athletic Club

http://www.wimborneac.co.uk/

The website of Wimborne Athletic Club

http://www.pooleac.co.uk/

The website of Poole Athletic Club

http://home.freeuk.net/poolerunners/index.html

The website of Poole Runners

http://www.bournemouthathleticclub.co.uk/

The website of Bournemouth Athletic Club

http://www.yeovilolympiads.com/site4/

The website of Yeovil Olympiads Athletic Club

http://www.egdonheathharriers.co.uk/

The website of Egdon Heath Harriers

Athletic Leagues

http://www.swathletics.com/

Results, rules, fixtures and administrative information for the South West Athletics League (SWAL)

http://www.natyal.co.uk/

 Results, rules, fixtures and administrative information for the UKA Young Athletes League

http://www.wessexleague.com/

Website of the Wessex Cross Country League.  Most pages still under construction.  Results available.

Local organisations

http://www.activedorset.org/site/index.php

The aim Active Dorset County Sports Partnership is to get more people involved in physical activity and raise activity levels by 1% per annum, over the next 15 years, to reach the national 50% target by 2020.  Includes an athletics page with news and results. Includes access to a periodic newsletter with a broad spectrum of features 

http://www.beachfit.co.uk/

Beachfit is a new concept in athletic activity providing training in sportshall type activities on the golden sands of Weymouth beach.  Run by Layla Hawkins and supported by Dorchester and Weymouth Athletic clubs 

Athletic magazines

http://www.athletics-weekly.com/

The website of Athletics Weekly, advertised as "the world's only devoted weekly track and field magazine"

http://www.thecoach-online.co.uk/

The Coach is a dedicated magazine for track and field coaches that aims to respond to current trends in coaching and to advance sound training principles and practices

http://www.trackandfieldnews.com/

Track and Field News is an American athletics magazine advertised as "The bible of the sport since 1948"